--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
<snip>
> > Nope.  Because (as you know; we discussed this
> > in some detail) he wasn't voting against civil
> > rights, he was voting against the Civil Rights
> > Act.  He was afraid that under its provisions,
> > public institutions such as hospitals and schools
> > would not be able to desegregate fast enough and
> > would lose federal funding.  He was strongly in
> > favor of desgregation but thought the timetable
> > specified in the act did not provide enough time
> > for the switch to take place.
> 
> ...and I suppose while those Tennessee hospitals were "slowly" 
> desegregating, Al Senior would still readily partake of those 
> hospitals' services just so he could show Al Junior the evils of 
> segregation, right?

Did you have any intelligent comments to make, Shemp?





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