Sharpton Doesn't Know Higher Percentage of Republicans Than Democrats Voted for Civil Rights Act
As Al Sharpton ridiculed Herman Cain on MSNBC's "The Last Word" Friday for saying blacks have been brainwashed into voting for Democrats, the reverend ended up proving the Republican presidential candidate's point.
Seconds after claiming, "What [Cain] does not have the right is to rewrite history by saying that blacks were brainwashed by becoming Democrats," Sharpton showed his ignorance of the subject by stating, "We went with a Party that stood up for the Civil Rights Act of '64 and Voting Rights Act of '65" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
AL SHARPTON, MSNBC: I think that I agree with both Goldie and Melissa. He had the right not to be involved. What he does not have the right is to rewrite history by saying that blacks were brainwashed by becoming Democrats, because when blacks became Democrats, my parents were Republicans. As I said, Dr. King's family was. I'm nine or ten years younger than Mr. Cain, and I joined the movement later on in the ’60s when I was still a teenager.
I don't begrudge him for not making my choice, but I do begrudge him for acting like we're brainwashed because we went with a Party that stood up for the Civil Rights Act of '64 and Voting Rights Act of '65. There's a reason blacks did not stay with the Republican Party. So I think when he stepped in to calling people brainwashed and totally discarded the fact that it was based on public policy that people made their political choices, and, in fact, changed their choices from the Party of Lincoln.
Not surprisingly, Sharpton's quite unaware of who voted for these pieces of legislation.
The House version of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was supported by only 61 percent of that Chamber's Democrats versus 80 percent of the Republicans.
More importantly, it was Republicans that ended a Democrat filibuster preventing a vote on this bill in the Senate. 82 percent of Republicans voted for cloture versus 66 percent of Democrats.
In the final Senate vote on the Act, 82 percent of Republicans voted "Aye" versus 69 percent of Democrats.
Quite contrary to what Sharpton and most liberals think, a greater percentage of Republicans than Democrats supported this Civil Rights Act.
The same is true for the Voting Rights Act of 1965 when 94 percent of Senate Republicans voted in favor of the bill versus 73 percent of Democrats. The final vote on the House's version was even more stark as only one Senate Republican voted against it compared to seventeen Democrats.
In the House, 82 percent of Republicans supported the bill versus 78 percent of Democrats.
No matter how you slice it, both of these landmark pieces of civil rights legislation had greater support from Republicans than Democrats.
Yet Sharpton has the nerve to say, "We went with a Party that stood up for the Civil Rights Act of '64 and Voting Rights Act of '65."
That Party would be the GOP, Reverend. Who's brainwashed and/or rewriting history now?
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→ Here comes You-Know-Who!
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 2:38pm.
He's gonna' tell us what a great "Champion of Civil Rights" Al Gore Sr. was.
In
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 3:21pm.
In 5...........4..............3.............2..................
....1....0 ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 7:14pm.
As anyone and everyone who reads posts at NB's knows, I have continually railed against any and all liberals or Democrats who do not represent what is great about, and in the best interests of, the United States of America.
Barack who?
(signed Jer)
:o)
MD
If you find someone stupid enough to bet on Big Al's compasion
Submitted by Avitar on Sun, 10/09/2011 - 12:04am.
I want to cover some of that action.
This website...
Submitted by zenman1661 on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 2:39pm.
does not have enough space to catalog all the things that Sharpton does not know or understand.
That's quite right
Submitted by Galvanic on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 2:53pm.
Sharpton is typical of the Leftists who make convenient assumptions, then retro-fit and twist facts to substantiate them.
Left media truly can be called PROPAGANDA
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 3:13pm.
Because it is A) Not the truth period quite often, or B) they twist the truth by ignoring HUGE parts that would change opinion 180 degrees the other way vs. what they choose to present.
Occasionally however, fortunately, Biden, Obama, Pelosi, & Reid sometime screw up and tell the truth. Like Biden saying recently they are in a BAD position.
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
Crazy Al needs to read NB so
Submitted by kg on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 2:42pm.
Crazy Al needs to read NB so he can gain some meaningful insight as well as an education he seems to have missed out on.
"DumbAssity of Dope"
That is if he actually knows
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 3:20pm.
That is if he actually knows how to read. "Resist we much" ring a bell? :-)
al not-so sharpton ...
Submitted by jmigyanka@msn.com on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 2:46pm.
.... is a race baiter whose cause ended in 1964. A useless POS nowadays and that explains his msnbc show.
Cognitive dissonance
Submitted by metaphorsbwithu on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 3:12pm.
All liberals suffer from it, and no matter how many times you give them the facts, they simply do not register.
And even if they do with some, they ignore them and go with the talking point because it's all they have.
STUPID
Submitted by gfrrman on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 3:24pm.
It is THE definitive word for these cretins. They ARE stupid and will remain so, because they have NO capacity to learn other than what they THINK they know now. They are incapable of anything more.....stoooooopid!!!
G
And sadly.......
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 3:18pm.
.........a high percentage of his viewers believed it, and will repeat it to others who know no different.
Make a list of things Sharpton DOES know. It will take ALOT less time than one of those he doesn't.
That was disgusting.
Submitted by NeoKong on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 3:23pm.
Lawrence O'Donnell disgraces himself with his offensive questions to Herman Cain, a black man who ain't on the plantation. So what does he do....? He surrounds himself with the sort of blacks he likes. The angry ones who don't like whitey and who are on the house payroll to go after Herman Cain to tear him down because he dared to say that black people should think for themselves and not follow obvious race hustlers like Sharpton.
Al Sharpton, Ed Schultz,
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 3:24pm.
Al Sharpton, Ed Schultz, brothers?
"Sharpton's quite unaware..."
Submitted by Rackie on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 3:34pm.
isn't that being a bit harsh? "They" can't be held to the same standard as "whites". After all, "they've" been so put upon for centuries.
"Lord forgive those who unaware against us for they know not what they don't know."
Intelligence not required
Submitted by hughglass on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 3:35pm.
RevAl, like RevJackson and Revwright proves that intelligence is not reqiured to preach to a Black congregation.
"Reverend" Al. . .
Submitted by rickbren on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 3:42pm.
. . . also doesn't know that it was the Democratics who started the KKK, and voted for segregation, and demanded that blacks move to the back of the bus. But, hey, they are the plantation folks now and can't stand that others (Cain, Thomas, Sowell, West, etc) who have moved to freedom. . .
When libs
Submitted by Bob K on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 3:48pm.
are told that, they always fall back on "the racist southern democrats back then" argument. It allows them to actually dismiss real, honest to goodness, historical facts.
"Secret" Knowledge
Submitted by Tregonsee on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 3:55pm.
This is one of three things which will get me shouting at the TV. The others are Al Gore claiming his father lost his senate seat over the Civil Rights Act when he voted against it, and some smug race baiter pointing out that the atomic bomb was only used against persons of color. The last is a hoot when I walk them through VE Day and the testing. What makes it so painful is how few Conservatives know to flatten them.
→ What's sad
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 4:10pm.
What's sad is all those willfully brainwashed, exultant in their 95% monolithic lemmingdom, cannot break free for fear those same hateful epithets they've hurled for years, will be shouted in their ears.
Is it not immensely more comfortable to continue an existence of lies than confront and throw off those doctrines that stir one into homogenous mush?
Is there any new thought brought forth from that monolith that has not first been filtered by the keepers.
Hmm...
Submitted by SgtCheeseNOLS on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 4:38pm.
Sounds like Al Sharpton has been...need I say it....brainwashed...
→ Al has the last laugh
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 6:43pm.
Even if somebody points it out to Al, who among his audience is really going to care that he's lying?
Pity the lemming monolith.
And in case anyone forgot
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 4:59pm.
we do know where the KKK was born? As a little reminder check out this link:
A Reminder
He also needs to read the
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 6:19pm.
He also needs to read the Southern Manifesto. It appears it was written by the KKK who was made up of Democrats. As a kid, even though they tried ot hide it, I knew a lot of men that were member of the klan. Guess what, my dad told me they were all Democrats. Frogeye Sigmon, Jake Smith, just to name a couple
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/sources_document2.html
My goldfish knows more than Sharpton
Submitted by Clericus on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 5:02pm.
What Sharpton doesn’t know would fill a football stadium, but it’s good enough to get on MSNBC. That alone is telling of the quality of programs the liberal media produces.
Does Sharpton know Abe Lincoln was a Republican ...
Submitted by SteveInTexas on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 5:02pm.
... as with all liberals and leftists, Sharpton doesn't know, or conviniently forgets, that Abe Lincoln was elected by white male Republicans, since only white males could vote at the time. And many of those same white male republicans gave their lives to establish the US constitution and individual rights, for blacks and later women as well, as the law of the land. The "I Have a Dream" speech is great with the exception that it doesn't credit the white male republicans that elected Lincoln, and then later gave their lives in support of Lincoln.
Sharpton is the rock bottom
Submitted by celator on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 5:26pm.
Sharpton is the rock bottom most ignorant person on television right now. Ignorant ranting is the only form of talking he knows.
You way, way oversimplified your
Submitted by coin of the realm on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 5:25pm.
analysis of the data used to support your argument that sharpton is a dope.
First of all, the percentage of yay/nay votes along party lines alone is somewhat misleading. No, it is misleading on it's face. The better way to look at that legislation's enactment voting is along geographic lines. North/South as it were. Not one Southern Republican voted for it and almost all the northern democrats voted for it. At that time the democratic party dominated the south and southerners where still very much racist. Even with that fact, some southern dems voted for it. Further, a larger percentage of northern dems voted for it than did their repub counterparts. Finally, it was a bill introduced by a dem from NY.
The original House version:
Southern Democrats: 7–87 (7%–93%)
Southern Republicans: 0–10 (0%–100%)
Northern Democrats: 145-9 (94%–6%)
Northern Republicans: 138-24 (85%–15%)
The Senate version:
Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5%–95%)
Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0%–100%)
Northern Democrats: 45-1 (98%–2%)
Northern Republicans: 27-5 (84%–16%)
Second of all, is there any common thread beyond the name that makes the republican party of the 60s like the current version?
Third, you are obfuscating the then party affiliations of Afro-Americans with your misleading general percentage comparison. That is, many Blacks were republican then but later changed party affiliations bc the republicans started gaining ground in former democratic districts and they turned out to be worse than their displaced counterparts regarding issues that concerned black voters. So they switched.
Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws. Mayer Amschel Rothschild
"oversimplified---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 7:32pm.
my ass.
You spew Lib-Dim talking points, and utilize figures and statistics that only a liberal would think definitively counteracts the statistics given in the body of the article.
Fail.
And Sharpton, successful or not at wringing money out of MSNBC through his own inane program, is the epitome of dumb.
That you elect to neither see nor agree with that puts you in the same boat as Sharpton, intellect wise.
MD
Nice obfuscation,
Submitted by Clericus on Sun, 10/09/2011 - 9:31am.
but your numbers are meaningless and a non-comparison. The issue is percentage BETWEEN parties, not intra party breakdown. The intra percentage is irrelevant and whether in the north or south. It's a clever trick to make the Democrats look better, but it's meaningless.The bottom line is in the House, 80% of Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act, compared with only 61% of Democrats. In the Senate, 82% of Republicans supported the legislation, compared with 69% of Democrats. That's the context that matters.
No, they were not "worse than their displaced counterparts regarding issues that concerned black voters," it's just that blacks were taken by the lies and misinformation waged by Democrats. Furthermore, history in general contradicts your argument considering both Jim Crow and the KKK are Democratic creations. Did the Dems magically have a change of heart? Please. Blacks didn't see the Democrats' new PR makeover to re-brand themselves as looking out for blacks, which they unfortunately fell for. The fact is blacks have seen their lives and families shattered by their support of the Democratic Party. From unemployment to single mothers to crime, every social pathology has worsened, not improved, due to voting Democrat.
We all know.....
Submitted by GerryC on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 5:28pm.
Al Sharpton will say and do anything for a buck (he would never call it profit). How can this snail-mail university schooled "reverend" make a living other than by playing the race card. Twylana Brawny (sp?) ring a bell?
In his mind, a black person isn't black unless they "are" the brain-washed kind.
Much We?
Submitted by bigdaddy on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 5:33pm.
We Much!
I blame the Democrats
Submitted by pbthinker on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 5:57pm.
There are 3 things I blame the Democrats for. I blame them because it was a strategy to remove any blame from the Democrats and not give the Republicans credit for things.
The first 2 are the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Both bills will filibustered by Southern Democrats and, without Republican Votes, would not have gotten clouture. In those days, it required a 2/3 vote (67 Senators) to stop a filibuster so, even though there were a lot of Democrats in the Senate, they couldn't stop a filibuster of one of their own. Lyndon Johnson reportedly told Everett Dirksen that black people will never forget what the Republican Party did for them. Little did Dirksen suspect that the plan was to never give Republicans credit for what they did, but to consolidate their power using the black vote, which they did.
The final one is the Vietnam War. Most of us, who were there, know that the Johnson Administration got our troops in there in high numbers. They continued to increase those numbers all through the Johnson presidency. Also, those who fought there from 1965-1968, know the war was overtly political and handled by McNamara and Johnson from Washington D.C. and not by the Commanders on the ground. Once the Democrats lost the election, in 1968, they, with the assistance of the media, shifted the Vietnam war to be "Nixon's War" and tried to pin all the blame on him because we didn't pull out in 1969. It worked, only because the sycophant, Democrat loving media allowed it to happen.
Without the press in their hip pockets, the Democrats would never have been allowed to get away with these things. I don't trust the MSM and, until their final demise, which is coming soon, I will never trust them.
I think Sharpton knows the truth
Submitted by Nay on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 6:39pm.
I believe he knows he is lying.
I actually think so too
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 10:21pm.
There's no way someone who's been so focused on race could possibly not know.
So he's lying about it to his viewers makes him part of that brainwashing.
Al?
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 10:18pm.
http://www.black-and-right.com/the-democrat-race-lie/
if it wasnt for democrats
Submitted by Samshile on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 10:48pm.
we wouldnt have needed the civil rights acts
I'm sick to death of identity
Submitted by amyshulk on Sun, 10/09/2011 - 7:16am.
I'm sick to death of identity politics!!! Just admit the truth D's - you either believe you *deserve* to be treated like children, or you want to "stick it to the man" since the D's don't offer a coherent, logical, sensible platform - it's all emotion driven!!!
Ronald Reagan
Freddy's Fashion Mart
Submitted by Cleveland Steamer on Sun, 10/09/2011 - 9:03am.
Since when does the truth matter to Reverend Freddy's Fashion Mart? He is at liberty to say anything no matter the facts.
He fits perfectly at MSNBC: Marxist Socialist National Broadcasting Company.
Somewhere, Tawanna Brawley is smiling.
Nearly nailed it..
Submitted by MPH on Sun, 10/09/2011 - 11:03am.
But I think Thomas Sowell got closer to the mark:
"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling."
-- Thomas Sowell