Biden signs bill making lynching a federal hate crime
Yay, but how was lynching not a federal hate crime already? Forgive my ignorance, but how'd we let this go so long?
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redredred · M
I don’t know if this is figures in but for eight election cycles during the 20th century and late 19th century the democrat party refused to include an anti-lynching plank in the party election platform.
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@redredred The only reason active segregation ended in America was because of the bad images being shown on tv around the world about how the Jim Crow babies were oppressing Blacks. That showed the world that America was worse then the commies, which the US was in an active fight against by claiming to be the good guys.
redredred · M
@LordShadowfire the Republican Party was founded to end slavery and you’re wrong
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-party-platform-1944
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-party-platform-1944
LeopoldBloom · M
@redredred And your point? All of the racist southern Democrats are Republicans today.
It's pathetic when you have to go back 150 years to get to a time when your party wasn't full of racist pieces of shit. Now it's time to thump your chest and declare that Lincoln was a Republican.
The key word is "conservative," not "Democratic." Conservatives back then were racists, and they still are today, they just switched parties.
It's pathetic when you have to go back 150 years to get to a time when your party wasn't full of racist pieces of shit. Now it's time to thump your chest and declare that Lincoln was a Republican.
The key word is "conservative," not "Democratic." Conservatives back then were racists, and they still are today, they just switched parties.
redredred · M
@LeopoldBloom you mean like when that southern Republican racist Jo(k)e Biden filibustered Janice Rogers Brown, the first black woman nominated to the Supreme Court or when he argued against bussing?
LeopoldBloom · M
@redredred No, I mean Strom Thurmond, who left the Democratic party when they started making noise about giving equal rights to Black people.
Are you seriously saying busing was a good idea? If your children had been threatened with busing, you would have shown up with a shotgun to stop it.
Are you seriously saying busing was a good idea? If your children had been threatened with busing, you would have shown up with a shotgun to stop it.
redredred · M
@LeopoldBloom these are the facts even though you won’t read it.
- [ ] Once the Democrats had firmly failed to stop the Republican Civil Rights Act, of which 1964 was the last of several since the end of the civil war, they started pushing the "party switch" myth to claim the current Democratic Party was really the old Republican Party and thus they were the party that was responsible for ending slavery. There's even a school with a plaque with Abraham Lincoln on it, labeled a Democrat. They've been so successful at this lie that people believe that Republicans were responsible for "Jim Crow" segregation laws and refuse to believe the 1964 Civil Rights Act was Republican legislation the Democratic Party was solidly against.
The House passed the bill after 70 days of public hearings and testimony in a 290-130vote. The bill received 152 “yea” votes from Democrats, or 60 percent of their party, and 138 votes from Republicans, or 78 percent of their party.
It passed theSenatewith a 73-27 vote. About 82 percent of Republicans in the Senate voted for the bill, as did 69 percent of Democrats. TheamendedSenate bill was then sent back to the House where it passed with 76 percent support from Republicans and 60 percent support from Democrats.
Prior to this, Congress had passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first major civil rights legislation to be enacted indecades, which sought to protect the voting rights of black Americans. The bill passed theHousein a 286-126 vote. Only 51 percent of Democrats voted in favor of the bill, or 119 of their 235 members, compared to 84 percent of Republicans, or 167 of their 199 members.
The bill was then brought to the Senate where Thurmond, an ardentfoe of integration, filibustered the vote for a total of 24 hours and 18 minutes in protest—thelongest individual filibusterin history. Thurmond once said in aspeechthat “there’s not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the Negro race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes and into our churches.”
After the filibuster ended and a number of changes had been made, the billpassedin a 72-18 vote. The bill received 43 of 46 Republican votes, or 93 percent, and 29 of 49 Democratic votes, or 59 percent.
- [ ] Once the Democrats had firmly failed to stop the Republican Civil Rights Act, of which 1964 was the last of several since the end of the civil war, they started pushing the "party switch" myth to claim the current Democratic Party was really the old Republican Party and thus they were the party that was responsible for ending slavery. There's even a school with a plaque with Abraham Lincoln on it, labeled a Democrat. They've been so successful at this lie that people believe that Republicans were responsible for "Jim Crow" segregation laws and refuse to believe the 1964 Civil Rights Act was Republican legislation the Democratic Party was solidly against.
The House passed the bill after 70 days of public hearings and testimony in a 290-130vote. The bill received 152 “yea” votes from Democrats, or 60 percent of their party, and 138 votes from Republicans, or 78 percent of their party.
It passed theSenatewith a 73-27 vote. About 82 percent of Republicans in the Senate voted for the bill, as did 69 percent of Democrats. TheamendedSenate bill was then sent back to the House where it passed with 76 percent support from Republicans and 60 percent support from Democrats.
Prior to this, Congress had passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first major civil rights legislation to be enacted indecades, which sought to protect the voting rights of black Americans. The bill passed theHousein a 286-126 vote. Only 51 percent of Democrats voted in favor of the bill, or 119 of their 235 members, compared to 84 percent of Republicans, or 167 of their 199 members.
The bill was then brought to the Senate where Thurmond, an ardentfoe of integration, filibustered the vote for a total of 24 hours and 18 minutes in protest—thelongest individual filibusterin history. Thurmond once said in aspeechthat “there’s not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the Negro race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes and into our churches.”
After the filibuster ended and a number of changes had been made, the billpassedin a 72-18 vote. The bill received 43 of 46 Republican votes, or 93 percent, and 29 of 49 Democratic votes, or 59 percent.