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(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).

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Honoring Dr. King - McCain's sorry record

by: Pam Spaulding

Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 07:30:00 AM EDT


John McCain is going to appear in Memphis today, on the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination. That's worthy of a brass balls award as the Arizona senator has a long history of opposing civil rights legislation, including the federal MLK holiday, something he voted against as a Congressman in 1983. He now says he "evolved" and regrets that vote.
In 1983, when I was brand-new in the Congress, I voted against the recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King. That was a mistake, OK? And later I had the chance to ... help fight for ... the recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King as a holiday in my state."
The good folks at Color of Change have a fact sheet up on McCain's civil rights record. It's questionable whether his evolution is occurring at even a glacial pace. Decide for yourself as you read the items below the fold.
Pam Spaulding :: Honoring Dr. King - McCain's sorry record
Arizona Governor Rescinded Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In 1987, One of newly elected Governor Evan Mecham's first acts in office was to rescind Arizona's recognition of the Martin Luther King Holiday. "Mecham strikes many voters as a simpleminded ideologue who is giving a bad name to the nation's second-fastest-growing state. After rescinding the Jan. 19 holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., Mecham defended the use of the term "pickaninnies" for blacks." Time 11/9/87]

McCain Said He Thought Governor Was Correct in His Decision
 According to the Huffington Post, "In 1983, McCain voted against passing a bill to designate the third Monday of every January as a federal holiday in honor of King. Four years later, then-Arizona Governor Evan Mecham rescinded Martin Luther King Day as a state holiday, saying it had been established through an illegal executive order by his Democratic predecessor.  McCain said he thought Mecham was correct in his decision." [Sam Stein, Huffington Post, 4/1/08]  

McCain Consistently Voted Against The Civil Rights Act Of 1990.
In 1990, McCain voted against a bill designed to address employer discrimination at least 4 times. According to the Washington Post, the "Civil Rights Act of 1990 is designed to overturn several recent Supreme Court rulings that made it much more difficult for individual employees to prove discrimination. The legislation, being fought by business, also would impose new penalties on employers convicted of job discrimination." [S 2104,
Vote #304, 10/24/90; Vote #276, Vote #275, 10/16/90; Vote #161, 7/18/90; Washington Post, 7/9/90  

McCain Defended Controversial Spokesman Richard Quinn, McCain's who called the MLK Holiday "Vitriolic and Profane." Richard Quinn, was a South Carolina "strategist" for McCain in the 2000 campaign. In a Partisan View column, Richard Quinn wrote, "King Day should have been rejected because its purpose is vitriolic and profane. By celebrating King as the incarnation of all they admire, they [black leaders] have chosen to glorify the histrionic rather than the heroic and by inference they spurned the brightest and the best among their own race. Ignoring the real heroes in our nation's life, the blacks have chosen a man who represents not their emancipation, not their sacrifices and bravery in service to their country; rather, they have chosen a man whose role in history was to lead his people into a perpetual dependence on the welfare state, a terrible bondage of body and soul."

Quinn has also advocated electing David Duke, and sold T-Shirts through his magazine celebrating Abraham Lincoln's assassination. [Partisan View, Southern Partisan, Fall, 1983; Partisan View, Southern Partisan, Winter, 1989, PFAW Release, 2/17/00] [Spartanburg Herald-Journal, 12/23/05; Vanity Fair, 11/04]  

McCain Defended Quinn as 'Respected' and a 'Fine Man."
Despite Mr. Quinn's writings and history of racial insensitivity, McCain defended him as a 'respected' and 'fine man' and refused to fire him. [Associated Press, 2/18/00; New York Times, 2/8/00]
The fact of the matter is that McCain brought this on himself, with his paper trail of cozying up to racists and his voting record. And to think it continues to this day as he courts religious (Hagee, Parsley) and homophobic bigots (the entire professional "Christian" set) for personal political gain. 

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"Brass balls" is generous
IMO it's an abomination.

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."

i hope these facts come to light by the democrats during this election season
the record speaks for itself and you can see the general trend.  every minority population should be outraged by the thought of a mccain presidency.  he panders to bigots because he is one.      

The gays stole my lunch money

Why?
To begin separating and insulating himself from the forthcoming racist propaganda war to be waged by "outside" GOP groups, once Obama wins the nomination.  He knows he needs plausible deniability relative to what's coming in the general election campaign.

"Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain" -- Iowa state motto

"blacks have chosen a man"
quinn really knows how to layer the insults and inaccuracies.  i'm envisioning the majority black congress that "chose the man" and passed the king holiday law.  not!  it was a mostly white congress and an all white president that passed and signed that law.  same for the civil rights act and voting rights act.  but of course quinn can't admit that white people wanted to honor a black man as the symbol for a social change movement.

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now we know romney can't be v.p.
because romney so desperately wanted to look sympathetic to king that he lied about his dad marching with mlk in detroit.  he also recited a story of crocodile tears ("i pulled over the car and wept") when he heard that the LDS church finally allowed blacks to join as in 1978.  

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But.... they don't believe in evolution...
Thanks for posting this, Pam.  I am so tired of conservatives opposed to equality promoting themselves and their hateful agendas using the good name of MLK.

It's even worse--now McCain is lying
Read http://www.dailykos.com/ for a transcript of his answer to a reporter's questions as to why he didn't support an MLK Day.  He claims he didn't know enough "about this issue."  

Okay, people, McCain was 32 years old when MLK died and he didn't know King's importance?  I was in FIFTH GRADE and did a report about King as an American Hero that was on display at the school district's office (with other prize winners). I can still see the construction paper cover with a photo from Life Magazine of a stylized sculpted black hand reaching upwards.  My parents, European immigrants, THEY knew he was a great man.

 

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report


McCain's Shame
Whoever is the Democratic nominee, I could never vote for a man who made these unspeakably glib and ignorant comments in 1987 about what he heard from the U.S. while in captivity in Vietnam:

"They never gave us any meaningful news," McCain said. "They told us the day that Martin Luther King was shot, they told us the day that Bobby Kennedy was shot, but they never bothered to tell us about the moon shot. So it was certainly selected news."



"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report


Bad news versus good news for POWs
"They never gave us any meaningful news," McCain said. "They told us the day that Martin Luther King was shot, they told us the day that Bobby Kennedy was shot, but they never bothered to tell us about the moon shot. So it was certainly selected news."

= the enemy revealed information which reflected badly on my country (assassinations) but withheld information which indicated my country's prowess.

Taking note of this situation is neither glib nor ignorant.  It was simply reporting on what the enemy did (in addition to torture).  Sadly, McCain considers his "shame" to be that he finally broke under brutal physical torture and "confessed" to whatever it was his captors required.

Lev, it's pretty easy to find legitimate reasons in McCain's past and present which would make you say you would never vote for the man.  This wasn't one of them.


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Sorry, I can't agree.
His use of the word "meaningful" totally undercuts your very kind interpretation.   I used "glib and ignorant" in light of his word choice "meaningful."  He did not say "positive" or "pro-American."  He said "meaningful," and your interpretation won't convince me he meant something other than what the word says.  Sorry.

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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One more reason to not vote for McSame -
Every time I see this clip I get a very strong feeling that MLK has some sort of vision or premonition about his death. What a remarkable person he was.

You know Pam, since we are having this open discussion about race I wanted to ask you something. Why do you think that the rigid homophobic myths of the bible are so prevalent in the black christian churches? For that matter why is christianity so popular with blacks in the first place? After all it is the holy book of their oppressors and was used for justification of slavery, just as it is now being used as justification of homophobia. I mean, I understand about having a sense of community and generations of having that be the only spiritual outlet and adapting to it and all, but I'd really just enjoy hearing your take on the whole thing.


my less than academic guess on the homophobia
...is that it has something to do with the legacy of social emasculation of the black male (from slavery, Jim Crow, etc.). It robbed men of their self-determination and power, and this may have translated into the hypermasculinity as a response to this. In that world there is no room for homosexuality, which is seen as a weakness. Of course this always leads back to misogyny and assigning "weakness" to femininity. All of this is so buried deeply that it is perpetuated at a core level where it isn't thought about much at all.

As I'm not one with a degree in religion, I'd defer to theologians and cultural anthropologists out there who can delve more deeply into the topic of why Christianity was not rejected.


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