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From: mjk@tty3b.UUCP (Mike Kelly)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Jesse and Farrakhan
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Date: Sat, 30-Jun-84 12:01:10 EDT
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Subject: Re: JESSE/FARRAKHAN
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The Senate voted 95-0 to repudiate Farrakhan.  I wonder if the Senate
ever "repudiated" any of the Southern segregationists (some of whom
are now members of that hallowed body.)

Then Reagan gets on TV to say that there is no room in the Republican
Party for bigots  -- implying, of course, that there IS room in the
Democratic Party for bigots, such as Farrakhan.  While I certainly won't
argue that the Democratic Party has made plenty of room for bigots (mostly
of the more right-wing variety, though), it stretches the imagination
to claim that the Republican Party hasn't its share.  Consider the Nixon
Administration, for example, starting at the top.  Consider Nixon's
appointments to the Supreme Court (or attempted appointments -- those were
too much even for the Senate to swallow.)  Consider Nancy Reagan's remark
about how nice it was to see "all these white faces" at a fundraiser during
the last campaign.

Racial bigotry runs very deep in America, and it certainly isn't found only
in one of the parties.  It shows Reagan's massive misunderstanding of the
problem that he thinks the Republican Party is somehow 'clean'.

Mike Kelly