--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <snip> > > > Indeed. Right up into the 1960s, Democrats such as > > > segregationist Al Gore, Sr. were still against equal rights for > > > blacks. > > > > This, Shemp, as you know--because we discussed it > > at length on alt.m.t--is not true of Al Gore, Sr. > > At the risk of starting the entire discussion over again, you know > that Gore Sr. DID vote AGAINST the Civil Rights Act of the 1960s > and was an active segregationist who used to frequent Whites-only > establishments even while leaving his black aids behind to sit in > the car in came in. > > Your only defense to these facts was to tell me that AFTER he left > the U.S. Senate he transformed himself and became ashamed and > remorseful of his past actions.
This is WILDLY inaccurate. Go back and review the discussion, where I thoroughly debunked this right-wing slander. Here's a link to my first post on the topic; click "Show Options" and then "View Thread" to see the rest of the exchange: http://tinyurl.com/ath28 Just one excerpt, a quote from conservative reporter Bob Zelnick's book on Al Gore, Jr., published by the right-wing Regnery Press (Zelnick was fired from ABC because of the book, which was quite critical of Al Gore, Jr.). Here's Zelnick, referring to Gore Sr.: "The actions of Gore, [Sen. Estes] Kefauver, and, at the state level, [Gov. Frank] Clement, and their courage and decency on the civil rights issue, would be more a source of political trouble than benefit in Tennessee, though none of the three ever lost an election because of his position, at least until Gore's defeat in his 1970 campaign. Each reelection would be challenged and each man would be accused of being "out of touch" with sentiment in the state, or worse yet, a traitor to his region, his heritage, and his people. None of the three ever backed down. None ever engaged in racial demagoguery. None would ever require sympathetic chroniclers to explain that his conduct had to be judged in the context of his time and its political exigencies. Their courage would inspire later generations of southerners who sought to purge the region of its terrible racial heritage." To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
