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  1. mnsmkd

    mnsmkd said, 3 months ago

    you know, if “equal rights” were stressed in the north as much as the south, there’d be mo equity in the laws, decisions, etc.

  2. jack75287

    jack75287 said, 3 months ago

    The Whites only thing was the idea of the democrats by Woodrow Wilson

  3. Stipple

    Stipple said, 3 months ago

    Mindset is mindset regardless of party.
    Does Justice Scalia have an official party now that he is on the supreme court?

  4. Reppr

    Reppr said, 3 months ago

    Nice try, Ben, but that is not what was said.
    The old white segregationists are dead and gone. The south is full of black mayors and other elected officials. There is no going back. So the question is this: Why do we need the laws that addressed the situation that existed 60 years ago and have neither meaning nor bearing today?

  5. Bruce4671

    Bruce4671 said, 3 months ago

    @Stipple

    Think about it. What defines you politically? Isn’t it your ideology?

    ideology

    1. a body of ideas that reflects the beliefs and interests of a nation, political system, etc and underlies political action
    2. philosophy, sociol the set of beliefs by which a group or society orders reality so as to render it intelligible

    So did the beliefs held by Justice Scalia change because of his appointment to the court?

    So the answer is yes. His “beliefs”, his “ideology” define him and places him within the parameters of republican view points.

    This last dustup is manufactured to get YOU to hate. He only asked and gave an opinion that it may be time to review this law to see if it is still doing it’s intended task. AND do we as a nation still hold the same views that we did in the 50’s and 60’s and if not, then why are we using a law designed to change those views?

  6. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, 3 months ago

    @Reppr

    “Neither meaning nor bearing today?” Did you pay attention to the last election? Gerrymandering means that even with a million more Democratic votes, the Republicans kept the House.
    Low-income (and African-American) neighborhoods got shorter voting hours in some states.
    And in the case before the Supreme Court right now, there was clear evidence of discrimination THIS YEAR.
    No, sadly, it has meaning AND bearing. Instead, we are getting people claiming that it’s not fair to pick on the South. True. There’s racism in the North, too.

  7. d_legendary1

    d_legendary1 said, 3 months ago

    This is up there with Rand Paul’s “We need to get rid of the Civil Rights act because it discriminates businesses” type logic.

  8. David

    David said, 3 months ago

    @Reppr

    There is no going back
    The point of the comic is that the old racist south of segregation and voter suppresion is attempting a come back by removing a barrier to that racist segregationalist past.
    Do you actually believe that there is no significant racism remaining? For my evidence I point to the voter suppression efforts prior to the last Presidential election that were only stopped by the Voting Rights Act.

  9. parker for a minute

    parker for a minute said, 3 months ago

    @motivemagus

    absofreakinlutely it has meaning and bearing. thanks motive

  10. Wabbit

    Wabbit said, 3 months ago

    discrimination hasn’t been getting better, recently it’s gotten much worse! What does old Clarence think about all this?

  11. masterskrain

    masterskrain said, 3 months ago

    @Wabbit

    Clarence Thomas will have to ask Scalia to tell him what he is supposed to think about this, or ANYTHING!
    “Clarence, when you’re asked your opinion, on something I’ll Tell you what it is!”

  12. wbr

    wbr said, 3 months ago

    so sargent thinks blacks are too stupid or lazy to get there picture taken

  13. Tigger

    Tigger said, 3 months ago

    @motivemagus

    Yet you did not have a problem with the Democrats using gerrymandering in 2001 to redraw districts favoring Democrats.

  14. Tigger

    Tigger said, 3 months ago

    @David

    Please explain this to us, Mind you, this was a Democrat Governor who was Governor when his state was in the news over Civil Rights in his State of Alabama.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLLDn7MjbF0

    Yes, a Racist Democrat Governor.

    He was against Voting Rights for minorities, and he was a Democrat.

    Yes, Democrats are indeed racist.

  15. Uncle Joe

    Uncle Joe said, 3 months ago

    @Tigger

    I’ll see your George Wallace circa 1964 & raise you Rand Paul circa 2012… or have you forgotten his opposition to the Civil Rights Act?

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