There is talk now about race becoming an issue in the presidential debate. Figures that the democrats would bring it up. I think a lot of people seem to think that Republicans are the racist ones. It’s the democrats that are the real racists. The Dems always act like they own civil rights. I just don’t get it. Clinton was out there the other day saying that it took Johnson to make the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. It took Republicans, plain and simple. Now people are complaining that Martin Luther King Jr. was slighted by this. If you go back and look at the legislation in 1964 then you’ll find some interesting facts.

Fact 1:
There was a filibuster going on in the senate to stop this bill. Was it the mean ole Republicans? No, it was 18 DEMOCRATS.

Fact 2:
It was finally passed on a vote of 73 yea to 27 nay. Care to guess how many of the 27 nays were democrats? 21 of the 27 were democrats.

Fact 3:
In the house the bill was passed 290 yea to 130 nay. Of the 130, 96 were democrats while 34 were republicans.
80 percent of the Republicans present were for it, 20 percent against.
61 percent of the Democrats present were for it, 39 percent against.

Now I’m not saying the Republicans are pure as the driven snow but lets keep things in perspective. It was a Republican President that finally made slavery illegal, not a Democrat. It was a Republican lead legislature that brought about the Civil Rights Act, not a Democratic.