Suddenly Civil rights became a noble cause that the chest beating Democrats had been pushing all along and it was the Evil Republicans that were blocking it until then.


Sawz, please don't be an ass, if it isn't too late.

The Democrats I know, in 2010, tend to be humanistic, liberal, educated and compassionate folks; often the same folks who rode the buses, registered voters or stood in protest circles in the heat of the civil rights movement. I dunno what you were doing in those years or if you were even alive then, but we did what we could to turn around hatred and human intolerance. Do you even know the words to "We Shall Overcome"? Or do you not sing?

Now, back then, we didn't count it as a political football, but as an issue of individual ethics. Connors wasn't evil because he was a Democrat and your effort to drag today's polarization and ruthlessness, started by the Bush campaign more than any other, into the historic efforts of civil rights is completely misleading and disingenuous, sir.

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