repiglicans and tea-baggers, with their racist supporters, will twist this into a liberal assault on white people. They will use it to promote fear and ignorance, to divide the people of our nation, making us more vulnerable to political and economic manipulation by those who control Congress for their own gain. They are already using these tactics to prevent any congressional action on amending the 1965 Voting Rights Act, to block real immigration reform and in ongoing budget negotiations. The fanatical right wing and their racist allies fear the one thing Rev Martin Luther King alluded to in his I Have A Dream speech at the 1963 March On Washington (Monday, 28JUL13 was the 50th anniversary), that THE PEOPLE, UNITED, WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED! We are still marching, more and more of us, to make his dream a reality. From Mother Jones, and check out the NY times article & voting rights act map. As a side note, I have lived in Virginia since April 1986 and have seen the racism that is still alive here, though I also see more and more people rejecting racism. Though I live in Virginia, home is still Scandia, PA. I am still a Yankee, and I am very ashamed Pennsylvania is listed as one of the most prejudiced states in the nation....
Posted on: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 22:07:35 +0000
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