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Blacks learning
Hillary Was AGAINST the Civil Rights Act of 1964
While a republican and "Goldwater Girl"


A March 12, 2007 article written by acclaimed Washington columnist Robert Novak sheds a very revealing light on the true sentiment of Hillary Clinton during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement. Clinton recently was found to have minimized the great and monumental strides taken by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by stating that it was Lyndon B. Johnson, then president, who should receive the credit for civil rights progress including the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
In an attempt to attract black support Hillary Clinton regularly shares her 'civil rights experience' during every speech given to blacks audiences. Novak writes of one such speech at Selma's First Baptist Church on the 42nd anniversary of the "bloody Sunday" freedom march there, where Sen. Clinton declared: "As a young woman, I had the great privilege of hearing Dr. King speak in Chicago. The year was 1963. My youth minister from our church took a few of us down on a cold January night to hear [King]. . . . And he called on us, he challenged us that evening to stay awake during the great revolution that the civil rights pioneers were waging on behalf of a more perfect union." But Novak's article states that there's a big problem with her statement.
The fact is, in 1963, the same period of time she speeks of at all black church appearances, not only was Hillary Clinton a republican, but she was also a staunch supporter of republican Senator Barry Goldwater, well known as a segregationist and one of the most vocal senators adamently against the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is why he lost in his presidential bid to Lyndon B. Johnson. Novak writes "...how then could she be a 'Goldwater Girl' in the next year's presidential election?" He continues, "...she described herself in her memoirs as 'an active Young Republican' and 'a Goldwater girl, right down to my cowgirl outfit.' (Hillary worked on Golwater's presidential campaign)
Novak adds, "As a politically attuned honor student, she must have known that Goldwater was one of only six Republican senators who joined Southern Democratic segregationists opposing the historic voting rights act of 1964 inspired by King. Hillary headed the Young Republicans at Wellesley College. The incompatibility of those two positions of 40 years ago was noted to me (Novak) by Democratic old-timers who were shocked by Sen. Clinton's temerity in pursuing her presidential candidacy." Novak adds, "What Hillary Clinton said at Selma is significant because it betrays her campaign's panicky reaction to the unexpected rise of Sen. Obama as a serious competitor for the Democratic nomination.

Clinton's plans were transformed by the advent of Obama, an African-American threatening the hard allegiance of black voters forged by Bill Clinton. On one hand, the Clinton campaign has attacked Obama and his supporters. On the other hand, she has sought to solidify her civil rights credentials.

While Clinton was re-inventing her past, her road to the White House is not going as planned. Instead of a steady procession to coronation at the Denver convention, she is involved in a real struggle against credible opponents led by Obama. No wonder she and her handlers were tempted to imply the existence long ago of a young lady in Chicago's suburbs who never really existed."

We greatly appreciate Mr. Novak's findings which bring one main thought to mind. Wake up Black America! DON'T BE FOOLED ! The fact is, Hillary was AGAINST the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that Dr. King died for. As a 'Goldwater Girl' she was even against Lyndon B. Johnson, the very person she now gives the credit to for Dr. King getting to the mountaintop. She has worked extremely hard to hide many truths about her past, including ordering that her 92 page college thesis that she wrote at Wellesley College be 'sealed' and unavailable to the public, an order forced upon the college by Bill Clinton while president, although all senior thesis' at Wellesley have been available for public reading for over 100 years, except one....Hillary Rodham Clinton's.
Reports have stated that information in her 'secret thesis' could be the 'Swift Boat' ammo to be used by the Republican Party against her should she become the nominee. (read more about 'secret thesis' at MSNBC)
In addition to re-inventing her past, the most obvious new Clinton strategy is to use 'token Negroes' like BET Founder Bob Johnson and Magic Johnson to name a couple, to attack and discredit Barack Obama, a tactic which many blacks find additionally offensive, calling these black Clinton cronies 'sell-outs'. Spread the word....share the facts. The Clinton's have been conning the black community for a long time and are NOT what they claim to be. I bet they go home at night, pour some wine, kick their feet up and just laugh like crazy about what big black suckers we are. But now, it's time to prove them wrong !
Greg Jones
Visit: http://www.Blacks4Barack.homestead.com/

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We have to wake up. In this country, race is always at the very core of every issue (political, social, economical). It is not very hard to trigger a race discussion in this country. This is a presidential election year, and the black vote is important. Does that not warrant the use of subtle "race card triggers"? White America has not dealt with Black/White issues strongly enough in this country. Therefore there is a level of discomfort when race is brought up. Did we really think that "no one" was going to be smart enough to trigger race card discussions in order to sabotage Obama's chances? Some of our older black leaders cannot bring themselves to give way to the new black leaders. I think there is a hint of envy by Rangel and Johnson (who are both fraternity brothers of mine - shame on you both). I believe Obama is black enough AND white enough, to be able to lead this country.

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hillary never said anything derogatory about martin luther king,listen to the entire comment rather then to take segments of what was said to blow her point out of context..... TWO EXTREMELY POWERFUL and INTELLIGENT BLACK AMERICANS BET FOUDER bob johnson and senior congressman rangel,were on point in defending hillary position,hillary hasnt mentioned race at any time,come on the clintons have been behind the black cause from day 1 all throo the 90s,incidently the clintons had the complete black vote until an oprah endorsed JR black senator entered the race,is it because obama is black?,now hillary is apparently cast aside and the support is given to barack HUSSIEN OBAMA based soley on his brown skin? now that race has been thrown into the frey all the little skeletons are poppin out,obamas own admission of past COCAINE use in obamas own book,in his own words,are being discussed everywhere,as is his past muslim practices,i honestly feel for obama its a big mistake because all of this race junk will only alientae WHITE VOTERS AND VOTE FOR HILLARY

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THE CLINTON MACHINE HAS DONE MORE FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS THEN ANY OCCUPANT OF THE WHITE HOUSE EVER

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I'm of the view that Mr. Rangle should not have used the word "STUPID".

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Barack Obama Video Pass it On


http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080115/VIDEO/80115026&oaso=news.rgj.com/breakingnews

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Iam really tired of all of the so called leaders calling namesto people that are so very intelligent and smart.i have noticed that when a black person run for any office we are some how doing it because he is black,well we have been voting for the white man because he is white,and we never had a qualified black man to run for the high office.now the white people are going to stick together come hell or high water,but we will not stick to gether for anything but to call each other names.now with Bob Johnson,i never cared for anyway,he think black people forgot what he did to Tavis,so he is not a good person to have indorse you because people dont give a dam or at least we dont, he must have forgot clinton smoked pot but he didnt inhale,at least obama told every one what he was about in his book so you people would not snoop and get the dirt and run with it,so i wonder why Bob Johnson didnt mention that. so all you charles Rangles,Bob Johnson,Magic Johnsons.John Lewis,stephenie Tubbs,sheila Jackson Lee and whom ever supports the clintons, that is your business but please dont dog the other canidates and call them stupid,they are running the game an you all and if we can let George Bush run this country for eight years no one should say anything about Barack not being qualified.so we will support Barack and every one that i can call and get to vote for him i will and all you other people that are in office by the people voting i hope they will think twice when your terns are up. Go Barack god bless you.

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I have always had a great deal of respect for Mr. Rangel until now. Rangel is a KKK sympathizer, a yes
ma'am man who should learn how to keep his mouth shut.
If he is so naive and so blind that he can not decipher the codes of racism then he is the stupid one. Let me give you a hint: When ever you hear a white man refer to a Black politician as: "This man" instead of Mr., or pose a question such as:"do you want this (man) to be president?" Especially if the person who says it is from the media,that means he or she is trying to tell white folks they should not vote for a Black men to be president. That's one of the racist KKK media codes.
Charles Rangel probably does'nt even consider himself as black. He looks more like a native American Who is acting black in order to get black votes anyway.
Shame on you Charles Rangel.

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With an African American running for office, this has apparently become a racial contest. I don't think he wanted it to be, nor did any of the other candidates, but the black population in general seems to have made it so. I'm afraid that may backfire, since after reading most of the comments, the black community comes off as anything but creating unity in the nation. Obama Barack wanted to do that, until it looked like Clinton might beat him. He, or his advisors then accused her of racism, and she (rightly or not) made the un-fortunate remarks that his backers called racial. I, for one, am sick of this kind of division. I have lived a long life and have seen much progress made by the black people, but there is still lots of prejudice against them. There is also a great deal of prejudice against the whites by the blacks. Someone once said "Can't we all just get along?" It's beginning to seem that we can't. Too bad, because real progress had been made, even if too slowly.

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No substance at all. So don't vote it is your decison

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