Martin Luther King Junior, a great Republican

Southern Man said:
http://www.black-and-right.com/the-democrat-race-lie/
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Your link doesn't address the issue specifically. It details the timeline of the civil rights movement.

The link I provided was a quote from one of the most respected and renowned of Reagan's biographers. In other words, you have called it a lie and have done nothing but show that Reagan didn't completely undermine the civil rights movement.

Here are a few more links.

http://catherinemacivor.com/2009/04/11/reagans-revolution-stoking-white-racism/

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1953700

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/05/08/reagan_white_as_snow.php
 
Fact; you parroted: "Reagan never supported the use of federal power to provide blacks with civil rights." Yet on June 29, 1982, President Ronald Reagan signed a 25-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act.

In his own words upon signing:
Citizens must have complete confidence in the sanctity of their right to vote, and that's what this legislation is all about. It provides confidence that constitutional guarantees are being upheld and that no vote counts more than another. To so many of our people -- our Americans of Mexican descent, our black Americans -- this measure is as important symbolically as it is practically. It says to every individual, ``Your vote is equal; your vote is meaningful; your vote is your constitutional right.''
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http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1982/62982b.htm

Solitary PWNED
 
Southern Man said:
Fact; you parroted: "Reagan never supported the use of federal power to provide blacks with civil rights." Yet on June 29, 1982, President Ronald Reagan signed a 25-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act.

In his own words upon signing:

http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1982/62982b.htm

Solitary PWNED
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You find a quote from 1982 and claim it refutes the information linked earlier?

And you think that qualifies as "pwnd"?

In 1965 Reagan opposed the interference by the federal gov't.

"Reagan opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (calling it "humiliating to the South"), and ran for governor of California in 1966 promising to wipe the Fair Housing Act off the books. "If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes or others in selling or renting his house," he said, "he has a right to do so." "

From: http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/05/08/reagan_white_as_snow.php




Your claims depend on the idea that a politician never changed his stance based on his desire to win an election.
 
Fact; you parroted: "Reagan never supported the use of federal power to provide blacks with civil rights."

NEVER.
 
Southern Man said:
Fact; you parroted: "Reagan never supported the use of federal power to provide blacks with civil rights."

NEVER.
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I use as a source a biographer who studied Reagan. And you use a speech delivered by a politician.

Hmmmm
 
WinterBorn said:
You find a quote from 1982 and claim it refutes the information linked earlier?

And you think that qualifies as "pwnd"?

In 1965 Reagan opposed the interference by the federal gov't.

"Reagan opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (calling it "humiliating to the South"), and ran for governor of California in 1966 promising to wipe the Fair Housing Act off the books. "If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes or others in selling or renting his house," he said, "he has a right to do so." "

From: http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/05/08/reagan_white_as_snow.php




Your claims depend on the idea that a politician never changed his stance based on his desire to win an election.
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I think perhaps you ought to link the text of the speech instead of some blog that begins "Reagan was a mean, crazy old man with a withering contempt for most of the world’s people"......
 
WinterBorn said:
I use as a source a biographer who studied Reagan. And you use a speech delivered by a politician.

Hmmmm
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Wow, frankly I'm surprised by such a whimpering response. But then again, a real man would admit defeat gracefully.

The fact is that your "well respected" biographer is viewed a revisionist by those who new Reagan best. And my "source" is not a "speech by a politician", but an Act signed into law along with the historical statement by the very man that you are trying to denigrate.

Face it Solitary, you have been completely, thoroughly PWNED.
 
Southern Man said:
Wow, frankly I'm surprised by such a whimpering response. But then again, a real man would admit defeat gracefully.
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SM, when have you ever admitted defeat, even when you have been beaten like a redheaded stepchild?

lol
 
Southern Man said:
Not a change: consistency. Unlike you, I'm man enough to man-up. :)
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I have admitted when I was wrong on several occasions.

I have not seen anything to make me change what I have posted here. A politician changed his public tune in order to court the masses. Its not news.

George Wallace stood on the steps of the University of Alabama and argued against allowing blacks being allowed to enroll. 4 years later he carried the black vote. Its what politicians do.

I see nothing that Reagan did that showed a huge change. He signed a bill that was destined to pass, and stopped discussing state's rights when it came to civil rights laws. I posted several links showing the same thing, and I have seen nothing to challenge those.
 
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