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(5,026 posts) Tue Oct 2, 2012, 01:28 PM Oct 2012

Rachel Maddow - Akin opens door to disagreeing with Civil Rights Act

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I can't wait to hear Akin answer that question about segregated lunch counters . . . Jack Rabbit Oct 2012 #1

How about water fountains, buses, schools, and housing? HopeHoops Oct 2012 #2

it has never been settled Enrique Oct 2012 #3

Jack Rabbit

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1. I can't wait to hear Akin answer that question about segregated lunch counters . . .

Reply to Galraedia (Original post)

Tue Oct 2, 2012, 03:11 PM

Oct 2012

. . . and I can't wait to hear deafening silence from Rinsed Penis the next day.

HopeHoops

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2. How about water fountains, buses, schools, and housing?

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Wed Oct 3, 2012, 11:31 AM

Oct 2012

I'm sure he'd have some choice answers for those questions too.

Enrique

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3. it has never been settled

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Wed Oct 3, 2012, 11:53 AM

Oct 2012

conservatives opposed Civil Rights legislation at the time, and that never changed. They just lost. But they didn't change their minds about it. If you listen to them talk on the radio, it is absolutely inconsistent with supporting the Civil Rights Act.

This is why they want to do away with education about the Civil Rights Era, they want people to think Civil Rights Movement was about warm-fuzzy, everyone like each other. It wasn't, it was about legislation, specifically federal legislation, and legislation which goes against their whole philosophy.

Same with Social Security and Medicare, by the way, both of which they opposed it bitterly at the time, and they still do, but covertly now.

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