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Harry Belafonte smears Colin Powell in a way that no Republican could ever do or would want to do, and he\u2019s applauded. None of this is to excuse or defend what Trent Lott said, which you cannot just brush aside.<\/emphasize> But there is a clear double standard on the race issue. Strom Thurmond was a Democrat when he held those segregationist views. Democrats ? including Algore\u2019s own father – stood in the way of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. More Republicans voted for it than Democrats, or it would\u2019ve failed. Republican president Dwight D. Eisenhower integrated the schools. <\/line>The stereotype of the GOP ? the Party of Lincoln ? as the segregationist, racist party may be one of the biggest political sleights of hand in history. Likewise, this is not a racist nation. A racist nation doesn\u2019t make Bill Cosby and Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan icons in their fields, nor does it elevate Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Rod Paige and so many other people of color to positions of national leadership. Yet for their success, such people are called sellouts ? or far worse. What\u2019s going on?<\/line><\/p>\n

We\u2019re not the ones saying that people of African decent can\u2019t be racist, or trying to defeat foes by throwing around the term at anyone whose ideas we fear. I rolled George W. Bush\u2019s comments condemning Lott, and I want you to hear them in the audio link below. I then asked, “How many of you out there think Trent Lott is a racist?” That\u2019s a fundamental part of this argument, because false inferences or accusations that someone is a racist are just as heinous as racism itself. <\/line> Wallace, Maddox, Connor ? all segregationists, all Democrats. The Kennedys secretly tapped Dr. Martin Luther King\u2019s phone calls to blackmail him. It was our first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, who wrote and issued the Emancipation Proclamation<\/a>, and we\u2019ve been fighting for equality and judging people as individuals rather than members of groups ever since. No, we\u2019re not the ones who benefit from racial strife. The other guys are.<\/line><\/p>\n

&lt;*ICON*>Read The Real Record on Race from the EIB Essential Stack of Stuff…<\/strong><\/line>&lt;a target=new href=”\/\/home\/folder\/byrd.member.html”>(Jewish World Review: Senator Robert Byrd, Ex-Klansman -Michelle Malkin)&lt;\/a><\/line>&lt;a target=new href=”\/\/home\/folder\/clintonsracistroots.member.html”>(RushLimbaugh.com: Bill Clinton\u2019s Racist Roots -11.08.01)&lt;\/a><\/line>&lt;a target=new href=”\/\/home\/folder\/civilrightslie.member.html”>(RushLimbaugh.com: Republicans Passed the Civil Rights Act -08.17.00)&lt;\/a><\/line>&lt;a target=new href=”\/\/home\/folder\/emancipation.member.html”>(RushLimabugh.com: The Emancipation Proclamation -01.01.1863)&lt;\/a><\/line><\/p>\n

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Harry Belafonte smears Colin Powell in a way that no Republican could ever do or would want to do, and he\u2019s applauded. None of this is to excuse or defend what Trent Lott said, which you cannot just brush aside. But there is a clear double standard on the race issue. 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