Boca
Governor
Thanks...I didn't know that. Were there reparations? There should have been.
HIgh School textbook calls Trump racist and mentally unstable!!!
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Saddest part of it was that people who lived near the Pacific coast were forced out. The farmers there took advantage and paid as little as they could get away with for farmland.
Rumor had it that the Alioto family made a killing...bastards. They owned most of Fisherman's Wharf in SF at one time.
Cars owned by the Japanese were confiscated by the army.
The area known as the "Western Addition" was declared slums and confiscated by the city. It was where JapanTown was. Theft, pure and simple.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html
Reagan signed a reparations bill in 1988.
The payments were authorized by the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, but $1.25 billion for the program wasn't allocated by Congress until last October. Congress approved $500 million for 25,000 payments in fiscal 1990, the same amount the following year and the remainder beginning in October, 1992.
That was based on estimates that about 65,000 internees were alive in 1988, but Bratt said his office had found about 70,000, nearly three-quarters of whom live in California.
PS My neighbor's grandfather fought with the 442nd in Italy. He was wounded and awarded the Bronze star....I met him once before he passed away in 2008. Sad story. The guy was a hero and his family lost everything.
EatTheRich
President
The fact that there are still plenty of racist conservatives in the Democratic Party has little to do with where the KKK now stands. Facts:
1. Former Grand Wizard David Duke was elected to office as a Republican.
2. A newspaper editorial this year called for the Klan to ride again to stop Democrats and “Democrats in the Republican Party.”
3. The Klan publicly celebrated Trump’s election.
4. The Klan took part in 2017’s Unite the Right rally which was organized by pro-Trunp rightists and praised by Trump.
5. The Klan newspaper was the only national newspaper to endorse Trump for president in the general election.
Nostra
Governor
David Duke is the best ya got?
Someone who's only office he held was as a LA STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE in the late 80's to early 90's?
I'll see your David Duke, and raise you a Robert KKK Byrd......Grand Kleagle of the KKK who served in DC as the Democrat Senate Majority Leader until 2010 when he went toes up.
Someone who's only office he held was as a LA STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE in the late 80's to early 90's?
I'll see your David Duke, and raise you a Robert KKK Byrd......Grand Kleagle of the KKK who served in DC as the Democrat Senate Majority Leader until 2010 when he went toes up.
EatTheRich
President
FYI, he repudiated the Klan and its racial politics before ever being elected to office, and was Senate majority leader for 2 years in the 1980s. He also received a 100% rating from the NAACP in his penultimate term in office.
In 1964 when the civil rights act came up for a vote there were 10 republicans from southern states in the House and 1 in the Senate.
The original House version:
- Southern Democrats: 7–87 (7–93%)
- Southern Republicans: 0–10 (0–100%)
- Northern Democrats: 145–9 (94–6%)
- Northern Republicans: 138–24 (85–15%)
- Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5–95%) (only Ralph Yarborough of Texas voted in favor)
- Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0–100%) (John Tower of Texas)
- Northern Democrats: 45–1 (98–2%) (only Robert Byrd of West Virginia voted against)
- Northern Republicans: 27–5 (84–16%)
So all Southern republicans voted against the civil rights act as did almost all Southern Democrats.
Since then there are now more than 100 republicans from those states in the House and 26 in the Senate.
The KKK was made up of Southern conservatives. Back then they were democrats. That changed after 1964 and those conservatives became republicans. Ask yourself how many KKK members voted for Obama. How many republicans of color are in Congress? How many Jews?
More lies.
1. Duke was elected by a razor thin margin and all Republicans have denounced him, including president Trump.
2. Provide a link to this "editorial". I dare you.
3. The Klan celebrated? Where? Provide proof.
4. Proof of Klan participation and official organization by Trump required. Now.
5. Klan newspaper? The one Trump has also denounced? Did Trump ask for their endorsement? Praise it? Thank them? NO.
Your silly list changes nothing. The Democrats started the KKK, and the KKK is not a Republican organization.
Ten Republicans and 87 Democrats. Proves our point.
EatTheRich
President
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/02/19/media/alabama-newspaper-klan-trnd/index.html
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ku-klux-klan-parade-north-carolina-donald-trump-celebration-president-elect-white-supremacists-alt-a7410671.html?amp
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/local/ku-klux-klan-leader-found-guilty-for-firing-gun-at-charlottesville-rally/2018/05/08/d4229ec6-522b-11e8-9c91-7dab596e8252_story.html
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.revealnews.org/article/in-chat-rooms-unite-the-right-organizers-planned-to-obscure-their-racism/amp/
“Bring your MAGA hats if you’ve got ’em,” Kessler wrote in a June post.
Link to Trump condemning The Crusader?
The Robert Byrd who left the Klan in the early 1950s? Ok, I'll throw in Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond....
Nostra
Governor
Democrats filibustered the CVA.
A higher percentage of Republicans in both the House and Senate voted for it after breaking the Dem filibuster.
Your post only proves the South finally rejected YOUR racist party.
Nostra
Governor
When were they members of the KKK?
10 SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS
87 SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS
Now there are more than 100 republicans from the South in the House. The Klan switched sides. Why else did they show up to march with the Unite the Right people in Charlottesville?
The "PRO-WHITE" right.....
So it doesn't matter that they were racists to you, eh?
James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served for 48 years as a United States Senator from South Carolina. He ran for president in 1948 as the States Rights Democratic Party candidate, receiving 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes. Thurmond represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 until 2003, at first as a Southern Democrat and, after 1964, as a Republican.
Your selective memory at play again...
A year earlier, President John F. Kennedy told a nationwide audience that the Act was a necessity. A prior bill, the Civil Rights Act of 1957, was important but it had a limited impact and it was difficult to enforce. It also had survived a 24-hour filibuster from Senator Strom Thurmond...a democrat who switched to the republican party after 1964.
"a higher percentage"? If there had only been one and he'd voted for it would have been 100%, but it would still be meaningless. More democrats voted for than republicans did.
And that was 1964. The party wasn't racist. The people of the South were. Now that they are voting republican it is pretty idiotic to claim they rejected the democratic party for any reason other than the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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redtide
Mayor
so sad that you believe thatNo kidding...FDR was the father of vote buying? He didn't need to buy votes, he was running against Hoover. We were at the very worst of the depression. 25% unemployment.
Popular vote was 23 million to 16 million. Electoral was 472 to 59.
In 1936 it was about the same. Landon got 8 Electoral votes to FDRs 523.
Nostra
Governor
Where is the evidence he was a racist in your post?
Nostra
Governor
Um, Robert KKK Byrd, Al Gore Sr.
Thurmond got fed up with the racist Dimwinger party and left......the Racists Byrd and Al Gore Sr stayed with the racist party.
Are you actually saying Thurmond, after filibustering the 1957 civil rights bill and the 1964 civil rights bill changed parties because the republicans were LESS racist?
Now that is funny.....
PS...more democrats than republicans voted for the 1964 bill. A democratic president signed it into law.
