Here are specifics, not some right wing conspiracy web site:
Remember when the Democrats said asking for a photo id was keeping people from voting? Well if that is the case, why do all of the Democrat state conventions and their national convention ask for a photo id to gain entrance? Isn't that restricting people from participating in the conventions.
To get on an airplane you have to show a photo id. Isn't that restricting access to travel?
I could go on and on. For example, if the Dems aren't at all racists and are such wonderful protectors of minorities why did they elect Robert Byrd senate majority leader and minority leader multiple times? Robert Byrd was a Grand Cyclopes in the KKK. He filibustered the 1964 civil right bill, the longest filibuster in senate history. It to 20 Rep votes to help the Dems break the filibuster. You will never hear that little fact out of the mouths of these defenders of the minorities.
"I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."
тАФтАЙRobert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944
Paula Dean lost her TV show over something she said 20 or 30 years ago and your wonderful Woke jerks got her fired. How come the Woke morons don't hammer the wonderful Democrats for lionizing the racist Robert Byrd?
As I've stated in other comments, Lonesome, photo ID is not an issue with me -- I favor the issuance of a national photo ID for all citizens and legal residents. That would resolve both voting and employment issues.
As for you comment about Robert Byrd. I run into similar remarks from Republicans all the time, most of them too young to recall the party realignment that occurred after 1964 when LBJ signed the great civil rights laws. Prior to that, the Democratic coalition, which I opposed when I was young (I'm 78) included elements I could not align with: Southern Democrats, sometimes called Dixiecrats, corrupt big city bosses like Mayor Daley in my home town of Chicago, and many equally corrupt union bosses. All that changed in 1964. When moderate Northern Republicans supported civil rights and opposed Barry Goldwater, they were drummed out of the party. The Dixiecrats, as LBJ predicted, began leaving the Democratic Party and were welcomed by Goldwater ("Fish where the fish are") and Nixon's Southern strategy. Republicans have opened their big tent to the biased and bigoted ever since.
Evidence: William Buckley's mayoral campaign in 1965 spurred racial fears about crime. Ronald Reagan began his Presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi where the KKK killed voting rights workers, pledging to support "states' rights" -- buzz words for white supremacy. George H.W. Bush and the Willie Horton ads. I could go on. Now the South and those opposed to voting rights, women's rights, immigration reform, and the rights of sexual and gender minorities are predominantly Republican. These are facts.
Yes, Robert Byrd like many other Democrats, especially Southern Democrats, had belonged to the KKK and cast votes against the great Civil Rights laws. But he did not join Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and other Dixiecrats in joining the Republicans. Rather, he changed his views and joined the Democrats in voting far more moderately as he aged. He voted for a national holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. and ultimately won the praise and support of the NAACP:
"In the end, the political legacy of Robert Byrd went from admitting his former membership in the Ku Klux Klan to winning the accolades of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The group rated the senator's voting record as being 100% in line with their positions during the 203-2004 congressional session.
In June 2005, Byrd sponsored a bill allocating an additional $10 million in federal funds for the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C.
When Byrd died at age 92 on June 28, 2010, the NAACP released a statement saying that over the course of his life he тАЬbecame a champion for civil rights and libertiesтАЭ and тАЬcame to consistently support the NAACP civil rights agenda.тАЭ
Since 1964, the Democratic Party has taken huge strides to overcome its past ties to the KKK, the Jim Crowe era and its shameful role in advancing White supremacy. The Republican party, the party of my youth, the party of Lincoln, shamefully, has become the home of the most bigoted elements of our society, hell-bent on preserving White supremacy and resisting the extension of the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to all legal residents. The Preamble of the Constitution calls all of us to strive make our country "a more perfect union." The white, male, property-owning Framers who expressed that sentiment denied such rights to indigenous people, the enslaved, all women, and to white males who did not own property. We've come a long way, but we still have a long way to go.
I apologize. I regret succumbing to nitpicking. But ordinarily one should avoid separating a modifier from the object being described. Though I'm a lousy proofreader, I was an editor, working in scholarly book publishing for more than two decades. I published an article on the University of Chicago Press Manual of Style. Sometimes I can't help myself. Forgive me.
Check your punctuation, Lonesome. BTW, you still haven't responded to my original comment. Show me your evidence, please.
Here are specifics, not some right wing conspiracy web site:
Remember when the Democrats said asking for a photo id was keeping people from voting? Well if that is the case, why do all of the Democrat state conventions and their national convention ask for a photo id to gain entrance? Isn't that restricting people from participating in the conventions.
To get on an airplane you have to show a photo id. Isn't that restricting access to travel?
I could go on and on. For example, if the Dems aren't at all racists and are such wonderful protectors of minorities why did they elect Robert Byrd senate majority leader and minority leader multiple times? Robert Byrd was a Grand Cyclopes in the KKK. He filibustered the 1964 civil right bill, the longest filibuster in senate history. It to 20 Rep votes to help the Dems break the filibuster. You will never hear that little fact out of the mouths of these defenders of the minorities.
"I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."
тАФтАЙRobert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944
Paula Dean lost her TV show over something she said 20 or 30 years ago and your wonderful Woke jerks got her fired. How come the Woke morons don't hammer the wonderful Democrats for lionizing the racist Robert Byrd?
Is that specific enough for you?
As I've stated in other comments, Lonesome, photo ID is not an issue with me -- I favor the issuance of a national photo ID for all citizens and legal residents. That would resolve both voting and employment issues.
As for you comment about Robert Byrd. I run into similar remarks from Republicans all the time, most of them too young to recall the party realignment that occurred after 1964 when LBJ signed the great civil rights laws. Prior to that, the Democratic coalition, which I opposed when I was young (I'm 78) included elements I could not align with: Southern Democrats, sometimes called Dixiecrats, corrupt big city bosses like Mayor Daley in my home town of Chicago, and many equally corrupt union bosses. All that changed in 1964. When moderate Northern Republicans supported civil rights and opposed Barry Goldwater, they were drummed out of the party. The Dixiecrats, as LBJ predicted, began leaving the Democratic Party and were welcomed by Goldwater ("Fish where the fish are") and Nixon's Southern strategy. Republicans have opened their big tent to the biased and bigoted ever since.
Evidence: William Buckley's mayoral campaign in 1965 spurred racial fears about crime. Ronald Reagan began his Presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi where the KKK killed voting rights workers, pledging to support "states' rights" -- buzz words for white supremacy. George H.W. Bush and the Willie Horton ads. I could go on. Now the South and those opposed to voting rights, women's rights, immigration reform, and the rights of sexual and gender minorities are predominantly Republican. These are facts.
Yes, Robert Byrd like many other Democrats, especially Southern Democrats, had belonged to the KKK and cast votes against the great Civil Rights laws. But he did not join Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and other Dixiecrats in joining the Republicans. Rather, he changed his views and joined the Democrats in voting far more moderately as he aged. He voted for a national holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. and ultimately won the praise and support of the NAACP:
"In the end, the political legacy of Robert Byrd went from admitting his former membership in the Ku Klux Klan to winning the accolades of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The group rated the senator's voting record as being 100% in line with their positions during the 203-2004 congressional session.
In June 2005, Byrd sponsored a bill allocating an additional $10 million in federal funds for the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C.
When Byrd died at age 92 on June 28, 2010, the NAACP released a statement saying that over the course of his life he тАЬbecame a champion for civil rights and libertiesтАЭ and тАЬcame to consistently support the NAACP civil rights agenda.тАЭ
https://www.thoughtco.com/robert-byrd-kkk-4147055
Since 1964, the Democratic Party has taken huge strides to overcome its past ties to the KKK, the Jim Crowe era and its shameful role in advancing White supremacy. The Republican party, the party of my youth, the party of Lincoln, shamefully, has become the home of the most bigoted elements of our society, hell-bent on preserving White supremacy and resisting the extension of the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to all legal residents. The Preamble of the Constitution calls all of us to strive make our country "a more perfect union." The white, male, property-owning Framers who expressed that sentiment denied such rights to indigenous people, the enslaved, all women, and to white males who did not own property. We've come a long way, but we still have a long way to go.
I did check and it is correct with or without the comma. I thought it was petty to try and point out a punctuation error.
BTW everybody makes grammar, punctuation and spelling error from time to time.
If you are going to criticize me, criticize me on substance not grammar.
I apologize. I regret succumbing to nitpicking. But ordinarily one should avoid separating a modifier from the object being described. Though I'm a lousy proofreader, I was an editor, working in scholarly book publishing for more than two decades. I published an article on the University of Chicago Press Manual of Style. Sometimes I can't help myself. Forgive me.