MSNBC falsely labels racist Dem. Ala. Gov. George Wallace as a Republican (lawyer, 9/11)

[fitzy24]

I don't know what party he belonged to, I just respect that he changed his racist ways.

[Icy Tea]

Its MSNBC, don't expect facts, truth or even relevance.

[gomexico]

Originally Posted by urbanlife78

Wallace was also apart of the American Independent Party, which was a right wing party that was for segregation. So I can see how the mistake was made, he was basically a Republican with a Democrat cover.

Yes. Present day American Taliban would find a friend in Gov. Wallace ... as he then behaved.

[pknopp]

Serious.......which of their 7 viewers caught this?

[Glitch]

Just a little historical reminder of who the bigots in this nation truly are:

• May 1866: The Ku Klux Klan was formed in Pulaski, Tennessee by ex-confederate Democrats.
• July 30, 1866: New Orleans’ Democratic government ordered police to raid an integrated GOP meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150. Also in 1866, 94 percent of GOP senators and 96 percent of GOP House members approved the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing all Americans equal protection of the law. Every congressional Democrat voted “No.”
• April 1867: Former confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest organizes the Men of Justice, the Pale Faces, the Constitutional Union Guards, the White Brotherhood, and the Order of the White Rose under the Ku Klux Klan and becomes the first Grand Wizard.
• April 20, 1871: The GOP Congress adopted the Ku Klux Klan Act, banning the pro-Democrat domestic terrorist group.
• Feb. 8, 1894: Democratic President Grover Cleveland and a Democratic Congress repealed the GOP’s Enforcement Act, thus denying black voters federal protection.
• Jan. 26, 1922: The House adopted a GOP bill to make lynching a federal crime. Filibustering Senate Democrats killed the measure.
• Aug. 17, 1937: Republicans opposed Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt’s Supreme Court nominee, Sen. Hugo Black, D-AL, a former Klansman who defended Klansmen against race-murder charges.
• Sept. 24, 1957: Eisenhower deployed the 82nd Airborne Division to desegregate Little Rock’s government schools over the strenuous resistance of Democratic Gov. Orval Faubus.
• July 2, 1964: Democratic President Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act after former Klansman Robert Byrd’s 14-hour filibuster and the votes of 34% of Senate Democrat majority failed to scuttle the measure.

I can certainly understand why Democrats would be ashamed of their past, as they should be, but that does not change history. Wallace was another stereotypical bigoted LIBERAL Democrat, and no amount of revisionist history will change that fact.

[urbanlife78]

Originally Posted by Glitch

Just a little historical reminder of who the bigots in this nation truly are:

• May 1866: The Ku Klux Klan was formed in Pulaski, Tennessee by ex-confederate Democrats.
• July 30, 1866: New Orleans’ Democratic government ordered police to raid an integrated GOP meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150. Also in 1866, 94 percent of GOP senators and 96 percent of GOP House members approved the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing all Americans equal protection of the law. Every congressional Democrat voted “No.”
• April 1867: Former confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest organizes the Men of Justice, the Pale Faces, the Constitutional Union Guards, the White Brotherhood, and the Order of the White Rose under the Ku Klux Klan and becomes the first Grand Wizard.
• April 20, 1871: The GOP Congress adopted the Ku Klux Klan Act, banning the pro-Democrat domestic terrorist group.
• Feb. 8, 1894: Democratic President Grover Cleveland and a Democratic Congress repealed the GOP’s Enforcement Act, thus denying black voters federal protection.
• Jan. 26, 1922: The House adopted a GOP bill to make lynching a federal crime. Filibustering Senate Democrats killed the measure.
• Aug. 17, 1937: Republicans opposed Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt’s Supreme Court nominee, Sen. Hugo Black, D-AL, a former Klansman who defended Klansmen against race-murder charges.
• Sept. 24, 1957: Eisenhower deployed the 82nd Airborne Division to desegregate Little Rock’s government schools over the strenuous resistance of Democratic Gov. Orval Faubus.
• July 2, 1964: Democratic President Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act after former Klansman Robert Byrd’s 14-hour filibuster and the votes of 34% of Senate Democrat majority failed to scuttle the measure.

I can certainly understand why Democrats would be ashamed of their past, as they should be, but that does not change history. Wallace was another stereotypical bigoted LIBERAL Democrat, and no amount of revisionist history will change that fact.

Who here is denying any of this? Also what happened during 1965-2013? Sounds like a big gap in history you are missing.

[Sco]

A Southern Democrat of that era is essentially no different than a Tea Party Republican of today.

[SourD]

Originally Posted by Sco

A Southern Democrat of that era is essentially no different than a Tea Party Republican of today.

That's your excuse is all that is. Own it, it is your to own and always will be.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by Sco

A Southern Democrat of that era is essentially no different than a Tea Party Republican of today.

Please tell this man that as he is a leader of the Tea Party in Southern MD:



or this guy, another of the leaders:



They would likely disagree.

One should look at what Wallace said about losing his first race for Governor and his solution.


As a note, I try to stay away from the Tea Party folks here. They don't know how to win elections and don't wish to learn.

[carterstamp]

Wallace was a dixiecrat.