Weird Liberal Head Show #196: Civil Rights Breakthrough

[Weird Liberal Head]

Run time: 08:03 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEEsou5pbJg   Posted on YouTube: October 19, 2010 By YouTube Member: WeirdLiberalHead Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 19, 2010 By DU Member: Weird Liberal Head Views on DU: 322

 
Weird Liberal Head reports that the Pentagon has told military recruiting stations that they can hire qualified gay and lesbian candidates. (I wonder if the conservatives will support our military?...)
The only minority the Grand Chinese Republican Tea Party protects and gives rights to is the rich, our most powerful minority, indeed, the most powerful group in this country.
The same people who oppose civil rights for gays and immigrants now are the exact same people who opposed civil rights for African-Americans.
We are one people. Civil Rights affects all of us. It affects conservatives too, such as Dick Cheney, who now supports gay marriage.
Abraham Lincoln did not want to free the slaves and give them rights: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause." He freed the slaves anyway, and tried to give them more rights.
Lyndon B. Johnson risked his political career and the his entire political party for civil rights for African-Americans: ""We have lost the South for a generation".
I hope President Obama follows the example of Lyndon B. Johnson rather than Abraham Lincoln, this one time.
Do not give up the struggle for gay rights, and civil rights for minorities and the oppressed in general. If I am called a socialist or a communist or wanting social justice, then so be it. But conservatives, know this: I will fight for your Second Amendment rights as I fight for gay rights, immigration reform, and a woman's right to choose.
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DUers- if the Democrats win, we will be in a much stronger position to legalize gay marriage. Tell that to the moderates and undecideds. If they ask why we want that, ask them if they are against equality.

[herbm]

1. I live here in central Texas and the one paragraph history book bio of LBJ misses the boat by a mile

LBJ was not a nice guy who probably had one opponent killed. He was a polital wind indicator. Other than he was the epidomy of 'anybody' can become President (despite his use of chicanery to win elections), he was a shadow of JFK's social agenda. He was the flag bearer by default. He was more Wallace than Kennedy.

[Weird Liberal Head]

2. I'm not saying LBJ was a great guy...

...he wasn't that great of a president, especially on things such as Vietnam, and his Great Society failed, but I have to give him credit for civil rights. Just like gay marriage today, civil rights in 1964 was very controversial, but LBJ was willing to risk it.
I'm not saying Obama should be like a Southern conservative Democrat. I'm saying he should follow LBJ's example on Civil Rights, instead of waiting until it's more convenient like Lincoln, a northern liberal Republican, did.

[herbm]

3. He wasn't pro civil rights, he just staked out a position that opposed his opponents stance.

Wallace decided (his quote) to "never be out-N####ed" in his next election attempt - he had been too 'moderate' and LBJ took the opposite tack. His racial openess was a poltical gambit.