GOP NJ Gov. Christie says black leaders in 1950s-60s would have welcomed popular vote on their right

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GOP NJ Gov. Christie says black leaders in 1950s-60s would have welcomed popular vote on their rights
By John Aravosis at 1/31/2012 08:00:00 AM


Yeah, Rosa Parks would have preferred to have Alabamians vote on whether she should be permitted to sit in the front of bus in 1955. She'd have won that one, all right.

Is he insane? Does Governor Christie really think that the same southern states that banned inter-racial marriage would have approved of inter-racial marriage had they put it up to a popular vote? Hell, nearly half of Mississippi Republicans still think inter-racial marriage should be outlawed (that's more than the number who think it should be legal - it's been legal for over 40 years now), and that PPP poll is less than a year old. This is a pretty reprehensible lack of knowledge about history, let alone ignorance of the racism that still exists in our country today.

More from the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/nj-gov-calls-gay-state-lawmaker-numb-nuts-for-comparing-him-to-late-segregationist-governors/2012/01/30/gIQAUQM6cQ_story.html
http://gay.americablog.com/2012/01/gop-nj-gov-christie-says-black-leaders.html

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1. He's showing what a damn fool he is ... n/t

[WI_DEM]

2. So Fat Bastard actually thinks that in 1955 in Alabama had the mostly white

electorate gone to the polls and had a vote that black people be allowed to sit next to their precious white daughters and wives on a bus or at a lunch counter that the good people of Alabama would have voted for it?

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3. Newark NJ Mayor Cory Booker replys convincingly to Chritie's notion.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/newark-mayor-cory-booker-blasts-gov-christ

Five minutes, worth watching.

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4. Another GOP dumbass. And THIS is the GOP future?!?

[rurallib]

5. would there have been any individual state that would have passed

such a vote at that time? I was thinking on that yesterday.
To be honest, I doubt it could have gotten a majority anywhere.

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6. They had already had their civil rights voted down

Many, many times.

They seemed not to really like it all that much, huh?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

7. If only we had some way to ask a black leader from the 60's

(contemplative, beard-stroking thinking pose goes here, with harp music and picture-fade)

http://johnlewis.house.gov/

[Lawlbringer]

8. This is the exact argument I use against

Ron Paul supporters who have a boner for state's say on everything.

Do you think that Mississippi or Alabama would pass civil rights laws? Even today? I have a cousin in Kentucky who just 5 years ago had a cross burned on his lawn because he was dating a black woman. Can people really be so out of touch? Or is this what he intends?

[Dawson Leery]

9. There are three types of Republicans in the current party:

Corporate/Fascists, Theocrats, and Neo-Confederates.

[Warren Stupidity]

10. racial separation laws, for example marriage, routinely passed.

It was only the supreme courts intervention that abolished 'miscegenation' laws. Love v Virginia.