1. Stuck On Stupid ~
None other than Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX):
Memo to Congresswoman Jackson-Lee:
There are NOT "two Vietnams." There is NO "North" and "South" Vietnam these days, and there hasn't been since your Democrat predecessors cut off funding to both the United States' war effort and to our then-allies, the Republic of South Vietnam, back in 1975. Abandoned by the United States, the Republic of South Vietnam fell to the communist North Vietnamese that very year, resulting in the former North and South Vietnam merging into one communist nation, officially known as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
How in the world can voters be so obtuse that they continue to re-elect nitwits like this to positions of power and "leadership." Were I a Texan, I'd be embarrassed. Hell... I'm a Californian, and this empty-headed dipstick embarrasses me. It's almost painful watching her demonstrate her ignorance.
2. Race-baiting ~
None other than...
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee --
...again.
When last we saw this nitwit, she was making a fool of herself on the floor of the House of Representatives. In an attempt to out-do her "nitwittery," we now find her jumping aboard "the Tea Party is racist bandwagon" at the just-concluded NAACP convention in Kansas City (side note: Isn't the very name of the NAACP -- the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- racist?), where she issued the following gem, comparing members of the Tea Party movement to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK):
… And I thank you professor very much. I’m going to be engaging you with those very powerful numbers that you have offered on what the tea party recognizes, uh, or is recognized as. Might I add my own P.S.? All those who wore sheets a long time ago have now lifted them off and started wearing...
[applause]
...uh, clothing, uh, with a name, say, I am part of the Tea Party. Don't you be fooled.
[voices: "That's right." more applause]
Those who used to wear sheets are now being able to walk down the aisle and speak as a patriot because you will not speak loudly about the lack of integrity of this movement. Don’t let anybody tell you that those who spit on us as we were walking to vote on a health care bill for all of America or those who said Congresswoman Jackson-Lee’s braids were too tight in her hair had anything to do with justice and equality and empowerment of the American people. Don’t let them fool you on that
[applause]….
Too bad the media ignores (and the schools don't teach...) the fact that the KKK was launched by, populated by, and a haven for, the Democrats, initially because they were unhappy about Republican President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, eh? The media (and textbooks) also conveniently ignore the fact that the KKK remained a Democrat "institution" in the South for the next one hundred years.
3. Excusing A Racist ~
The recently-deceased, longest-serving-Senator in U.S. history, Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) started his own chapter of the KKK in the early 1940s, became a "Kleagle" (recruiter) and, ultimately, and was unanimously elected to the position of "Exalted Cyclops" of his local Klan "unit."
At Byrd's memorial service, former President Bill Clinton, glossing over Byrd's affiliation with the Klan, eulogized,
I'll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollers of West Virginia, he was trying to get elected," Clinton said. "And maybe he did something he shouldn't have done, and he spent the rest of his life making it up. And that's what a good person does.An interesting take. If Byrd joined the Klan because he was "...trying to get elected," why was he a member of it for all of those years prior to being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1952?
Oh.
That's right.
Byrd was a Democrat.
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along...
4. Re-writing History ~
A tale of two passings --
The headlines of the passings of two racist Senators -- one Democrat, the other Republican -- by the New York Times, America's self-proclaimed "newspaper of record," is quite telling -- when Democrat Byrd recently passed away, the Times' headline was:
Robert Byrd, Respected Voice of the Senate, Dies at 92
When 100 year old Republican Senator, Strom Thurmond, passed away in 2003, the Times' headline read:
Strom Thurmond, Foe of Integration, Dies at 100
Media bias, anyone? Ya think?
And, how do the history re-writers defend the following from a letter written by Byrd to segregationist Senator, Theodore Bilbo (D-MS) in 1944:
I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.Or this, from 1947 correspondence by Byrd to Dr. Samuel Green, Grand Wizard of the KKK, in which he (Byrd) recommended a friend as a "Kleagle," urged promotion of the Klan throughout the nation, and wrote:
The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.Byrd hated Martin Luther King, suggesting to the FBI in early 1968 that he (Byrd) could give a speech condemning King on the floor of the Senate and adding that it was time that Dr. King...
...met his Waterloo.Imagine, if you will, that documentation was unearthed that a Republican had written or proposed such things...
The media's silence is, and has been, deafening.
The history re-writers don't defend Byrd's "...never fight... with a Negro by my side," his "...race mongrels" reference, his call for the "...rebirth of the Klan," or his "...time for Dr. King to meet his Waterloo" comments; they simply ignore them.
Byrd even filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1968, however, as he came to the realization that he would have to temper his segregationist views if he wanted to achieve prominence nationally. He claimed that he'd previously viewed segregation as a "states' rights" issue but now, as a Baptist, he saw the errors of his ways.
To this day, the late Republican Senator, Barry Goldwater, is vilified for having voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act; the media is oddly silent about the fact that Byrd, likewise, voted against that landmark legislation. In the 1950s and early 1960s, Goldwater had a strong
pro-civil rights record that included working with the Arizona NAACP to desegregate the Arizona school system. He was opposed to the 1964 Civil Rights Act solely on Constitutional grounds, because he felt it was an overreaching of Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce and an abridgement of the 10th Amendment.
Goldwater was a Constitutionalist.
Byrd's reason for opposing the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
Byrd was simply a racist. But, as a Democrat, he got, and continues to get, even in death, a pass.
During his 14 hour filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Byrd quoted from a book called The Mind of Primitive Man, by Franz Boas (sometimes referred to as Frank Boaz), in which Boas wrote that white people’s brains weighed a few grams more than black people’s brains, and that whites were therefore more intelligent. Byrd also claimed during his filibuster that the writers of the Declaration of Independence did not intend for their words about all men being "created equal" to be taken literally because the Founders must have understood that all men are not created equal; that the dark-skinned man is inferior. Byrd even quoted Leviticus, in the Bible, in an attempt to justify his racist stand on segregation:
"In Leviticus, chapter 19, verse 19, we find the words: ‘Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow they field with mingled seed.’ God’s statutes, therefore, recognize the natural order of the separateness of things."Again, imagine that some Republican was spouting or had spouted this kind of crap on the floor of the United States Senate... In death, do you suppose for a second that the New York Times would refer to such an imaginary Republican racist as the "Respected Voice of the Senate" in a headline? The mind boggles...
Recapping -- Goldwater was a Constitutionalist, Byrd was a segregationist/racist. Yet, history has now been re-written to teach that Byrd was a Constitutionalist; a Constitutional scholar, and that Goldwater was merely an eeeeeeevil racist.
You won't be hearing about any of this on the evening news, or reading about it in "America's newspaper of record" any time soon.
Robert Byrd lived a long and full life. He brought home so much pork that it seems like most of the public works projects in West Virginia were named for him before he was even dead. As noted, he was the longest-serving Senator in U.S. history. But... he was a racist bastard whose history of racism, solely because of the fact that he was a Democrat, is ignored by his "fellow travellers" on the left and their water-carriers in the "mainstream" media.
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