Missing the Point

If Thomas998 really knew his history, he would know that more Democrats voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than voted against it. If Tommy998 really knew his history, he would know that Wallace physically blocked African American students Vivian Malone and James Hood as they attempted to attend classes at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.

Thomas998 thinks he knows, but the simple truth is Tommy998 doesn't know and he doesn't know he doesn't know. He's entitled to his own opinion, but he's not entitled to his own facts IF he had ANY.

A strong states’ rights advocate -- conservative leanings -- Wallace stood in front of the door (surrounded by national news media) and announced his resolute opposition to the integration of the school. “I stand here today, as governor of this sovereign State, and refuse to willingly submit to illegal usurpation of power by the Central Government,” he said.

Kennedy responded by federalizing the Alabama National Guard and ordering 100 troops to escort the students into the campus. When the troops arrived, Wallace stepped down. Hood and Malone–whose future-brother-in-law Eric Holder became the nation’s first African-American attorney general–enrolled.

Wallace’s support for segregation insensed Kennedy who later that night gave a momentous and historic speech on civil rights, a moment seen by many historians as one of the turning points in the civil rights movement.

In his televised address to the nation, Kennedy quickly pivoted from the news of the day and Wallace’s segregationist tactics to make an emotional and reasoned plea for all Americans to embrace the civil rights movement.

“The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated,” he said. “If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who will represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place?”

“One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free,” Kennedy continued. “They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.”

Kennedy outlined plans for federal legislation to help bring an end to segregation. Despite the opposition, Kennedy moved forward. Within a week of the address, he began working with Congress on civil rights legislation. Months later, after Kennedy’s assassination, then-President Lyndon Johnson picked up the civil rights cause, leading to the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The simple truth is when Democrat Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the racists turned Republican red. They abandon the Democratic Party and found a permanent home in the Republican Party.

Johnson suspected that would happen. He was proven correct.

But passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the paramount objective, and Johnson and the Democratic Party were willing to take that risk to pass the Civil Rights Act.

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According to Republican conspiracy theorists and Republican soothsayers who can see through the concrete walls of the White House and hear statements spoken from other worlds,Lyndon Johnson said, "I'll have those N*****s voting Democratic for 200 years." It's never been proven that Lyndon Johnson actually spoke those words. They're false propaganda.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-voting-democratic/

"The blacks in America have been viewed by the Democratic leaders as pawns to be used and abused, not really embraced as equals" ~thomas998

For a reply to that, I'll refer to more modern times. Andy Griffith would oblige me to do that.

Democrats nominated an African American, Barack Obama, to run for president of the United States twice; Democrats elected an African American, Barack Obama, president of the United States twice.

When has the Republican Party ever nominated an African American to run for president of the United States? Never. When has the Republican Party ever elected an African American president of the United States? Never.

On August 6, 2012, Donald Trump tweeted. "An 'extremely credible source' has called my office and told me that Barack Obama's birth certificate is a fraud."

Section 1 of Article Two of the United States Constitution sets forth the eligibility requirements for serving as president of the United States: "NO person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President."

If Republican legislators had PROOF that Barack Obama is a fraud, those same Republican legislators violated the United States Constitution by not enforcing Section 1 of Article Two of the United States Constitution by not impeaching Obama.

Obama. Nominated twice. Elected twice. Remained in office for eight years. NEVER IMPEACHED.

WHY NOT?

Because in those eight years Obama was in office, Republicans never had any evidence that Obama is not a natural born American citizen...no evidence, no proof, no impeachment. That never stopped Republicans from making eight years of FALSE ALLEGATIONS.