--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 8/1/05 7:59:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Al Gore, Sr., > > who was one of those who spent his life fighting > > for equality for blacks, was: "the segregationist > > Al Gore, Sr.," as if he'd spent his life doing > > precisely the opposite. > > He did. > > _Project 21 New Visions: Blacks "Gored" By a Lie: Al Gore Sr., the > GOP and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - May 1999_ > (http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21NVDavisGore599.html)
All this says is that Gore voted against the Civil Rights Act, which we know already, and that he offered an amendment to it that would keep funds from being withdrawn from schools that didn't desegregate fast enough, which is consistent with the reason he voted against it--he was afraid schools and other public institutions wouldn't be able to desegregate as quickly as the act demanded and would lose federal funding as a result (which would hurt blacks more than whites, of course, since the black institutions had less funding to begin with). So this adds not a thing to your case, sorry. The poor chap who wrote this has drunk the right- wing Kool-Aid right along with you and Shemp, ignoring Gore's long history of fighting for blacks and painting him as a racist because of that single vote. Either he hasn't bothered to look up Gore's record, or he's being deliberately deceptive. The point, of course, was to smear Al Gore, Jr.; this was published in 1999, right before the presidential campaign. This is how right-wing propaganda works, folks. You cannot trust anything they say. (Not that the left has never engaged in distortion, but the right is completely out of control these days.) 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/
