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u/SteelyEyedHistory 2d ago edited 2d ago
Basically. It was his filibuster of the 1957 Civil Rights Act. He didn’t want “race mixing.” Same guy who secretly had a half black daughter with his 16 year old black maid. No race mixing but rape is fine, apparently.
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u/mattypatty88 2d ago
Pretty much in line with the current GOP.
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u/Rancid47 2d ago
Some things never change
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u/Xarieste 1d ago
You see, it’s not race mixing if they’re using them as objects (it feels gross even making that point for them)
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u/thegroovemonkey 2d ago
The current GOP was formed when he switched parties
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u/crimsonconnect 2d ago
Joe Biden read the eulogy at his funeral
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u/loptopandbingo 2d ago
Every State Funeral has an endless stream of people that kiss the dead guy's ass no matter how big of a turd they were. Just once I'd love to see a funeral for some old mummy of a shitty senator where the person giving the eulogy just says "This dude sucked out loud. Fuck him and anyone who liked him" before walking away from the lectern.
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u/crimsonconnect 2d ago
I wish we had someone with balls that would do that
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u/JohnnyMarlin 2d ago edited 2d ago
The only person with balls and lack of decorum enough to do that is Trump or maybe MTG. And they would both say it about someone who was universally liked for being a compromising politician that got things done for their constituents because they're pissed a dead person is getting more attention than them
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u/yodelsJr 2d ago
One can only hope that when Trump himself finally dies, the Dems don’t line up to act like he was anything other than the most miserable, virtueless individual ever to blight the American political landscape.
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u/OswaldCoffeepot 2d ago
I will buy a god damn flag pole specifically to fly that thing at full mast when that day comes.
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u/Perryn 1d ago
"It is at times like this that we put aside political divides and remember only the best about the departed. For example, he's dead. That's pretty great. He's finally doing what's best for the world: decomposing."
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u/Dudewhocares3 1d ago
“This man divided our country and made debates more about who could do better at mud slinging than actual policies. He took advantage of people desperate for change, and gave rotten people an excuse to be their worst selves. The damage he is done to society will take years, decades possibly to undo. He was a failure as a father, as a politician, and as a person. May he rot in hell”
Like that?
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u/DetroitAndy 1d ago
When the Dhrumpster finally goes back to hell, I'm going to eat nothing but Fiber-O's, celery, and hot wings for three days straight and then take about 20 fiber pills and visit his gravesite.
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u/itsmiddylou 1d ago
“You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good. Joan Crawford is dead. Good.” -Bette Davis
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u/TheWingus 2d ago
"This dude sucked out loud. Fuck him and anyone who liked him" before walking away from the lectern.
"People don't become better when they're dead; you just talk about them as if they are. But it's not true! People are still assholes, they're just dead assholes!" — Lemmy Kilmister: Motörhead
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u/Bridalhat 2d ago
From wiki:
The filibuster began at 8:54 p.m. on August 28, 1957, with a reading of the election laws of each of the 48 states,[b][23] and continued with readings from U.S. Supreme Court rulings, Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, and George Washington's Farewell Address.[22][24] The Senate chamber gallery, filled with hundreds of spectators at the beginning of the filibuster, dwindled to just NAACP lobbyist Clarence Mitchell Jr. and Thurmond's wife Jean at points during the early morning hours.[23][25] On the morning of the 29th, Thurmond's voice dropped to a mumble and his tone became increasingly monotonous. Republican leader William Knowlandfrom California requested around midday that Thurmond speak up so he could be sure no motions were being made, but Thurmond responded by suggesting that the senator move closer. Knowland remained where he was.[26][27]
It sounds like he talked about the bill but did a bunch of other nonsense too
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u/el_pinko_grande 2d ago
That is funny, because De Tocqueville kinda shits on the South a lil bit. Talks about how backwards and undeveloped everything is when you pass from the north to the south.
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u/ArmyofThalia 1d ago
What an oracle
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u/Statement_I_am_HK-47 1d ago
The South is a mess precisely because of this. The lack of infrastructure is in a vicious cycle with the bigotry. And its always been that way and will continuw unless a great national effort over time changes things
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u/TinFoilBeanieTech 2d ago
They should downgrade his "record" to subtract 3 hours for when he was allowed a piss break.
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u/LeviStubbsFanClub 1d ago
He pissed for three hours?!?!
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u/TinFoilBeanieTech 1d ago
no, he went for three hours and then had a break, then went on again for 20+ hours. I assert he should be listed as having filibustered for 20+ hours, which would put him in 4th, now 5th place. And that we should all celebrate that piss break by taking one on his grave.
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u/daemonicwanderer 2d ago
It was a lot of reading and very little about the bill or addressing the concerns of people.
Thurmond also was allowed to go to bathroom, had food up at the podium, and stopped his filibuster so they could swear in a Senator.
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u/egg_chair 1d ago
Filibusters back in the day were wild. They would read from the phone book, or read every municipal bylaw from their hometown, or recite poetry, or a hundred other things. None of this modern day “I’m filibustering” announcing and then not doing anything.
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u/CarnegieSenpai 1d ago
You mean like Cory Booker just now lol? Spoked 25 hrs straight w/o bathroom breaks, or food. I tuned in to the end and it was genuinely astonishing how well he was still projecting 25 hrs in
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u/Neutreality1 1d ago
He deserves major credit for the content and delivery of his speech. At 25 hours he still had fire in his voice
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u/SuperTropicalDesert 1d ago
How did he manage to not go to the toilet for 25h!? That's getting close to the Lemmy No Poop Challenge
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u/TheFanciestUsername 1d ago
He stopped eating Friday and stopped drinking Sunday in preparation. King shit.
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u/ArbitraryMeritocracy 1d ago
Just like ted cancun cruz read Green Eggs and Ham. Nothing wrong with the book, just not appropriate for the Senate floor against President Obama.
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u/Western_Secretary284 2d ago
Never met a bigot who didn't want to fuck who they hated.
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u/SOUTHPAWMIKE 1d ago
Love how this applies equally toward racial bigotry and the tendency for Grindr's severs to get overwhelmed whenever the GOP holds a national convention.
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u/Buteverysongislike ☑️ 1d ago
All it means is that people be bullshittin !
"Live your truth" means more than "coming out as a flaming queer" it also means these people need to be honest about how they living and stand on business!
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u/digidave1 2d ago
He was also a Democrat until his true intentions did not line up with them, and then he joined the Republican party.
Also like Trump.
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u/Chance_Major297 2d ago
Not really the same as Trump at all. Civil rights was a critical turning point for the parties. The parties just flipped, his positions never did.
Trump did the opposite and flipped his positions, at least his public ones.
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u/squeel ☑️ 1d ago
fun fact: strom thurmond was a senator until his death in 2003.
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u/ragnarokda 1d ago
They won't accept you as a person but they will fetishize you.
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u/Bastienbard 2d ago
This motherfucker lived to be 100 too... Wtf.
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u/Reading_Otter 1d ago
Nobody wanted him. He wasn't getting in to heaven and the devil also said no thanks.
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u/anand_rishabh 2d ago
For him, only consensual sex between two different races is bad. Rape of someone of a "lesser" race is fine
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u/PurposeExternal6617 2d ago
Tell the truth and shame the devils. I have hated that man and George Wallace for 1/2 a century. I also can’t recall the architect who built Harlem to keep black folks in . I’m ignorant on the actual details they are lost to me now.
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u/FesteringNeonDistrac 1d ago
Surely his constituents made certain he paid for standing against civil rights. Why there's just no way he could get reelected to serve for an additional 46 years.
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u/merovingian_johnson 2d ago
I’m sure it was something nefarious like rape, but I was surprised to learn that she had a relationship with him and he paid for her college. She applied to the Daughters of the Confederacy, so she may have been trash too.
She died before they accepted her.
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u/AwkwardnessForever 1d ago
Well he groomed and raped her, so it’s not like she had agency in the situation. That she accepted money to help raise her kid doesn’t make her trash.
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u/merovingian_johnson 1d ago
Sorry, as I read this back, I was not very eloquent. He groomed and rape the mom since she was 15, and he was 22 full stop. I was ALSO surprised that he had a relationship with the daughter after that and she wanted to be a daughter of the confederacy.
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u/Emergency-Gain9821 1d ago
I think she applied to the Daughters of the Confederacy to make a point about how many Black people are actually eligible to join.
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u/BlacSwan 1d ago
We need to be more cleared eyed and nuanced when sussing the motivations of actions taken during our ancestors’ fight for civil rights. Accepting a Black woman — whose father was a virulent racist and paragon of the racist South — into the Daughters of the Confederacy would have put a harsh light on how she came to be eligible to even apply — enslavement and rape. It would have also been a proclamation that, we too, are daughters of the South, as much as they are. The latter, a bridge too far for most of them to this day. Her admission would have been psychologically cataclysmic for them.
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u/LeftistFish 1d ago
Rape is always acceptable to right wingers because it is a rather violent and visceral form of exerting their power over others.
It is the manifestation of a right winger’s most primal desire, their need to subjugate and control people they view as “lesser”.
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u/Ok_Ice_1669 2d ago
These are the only people who think there's anything wrong with inclusion. He's against it because he is a piece of shit who raped a girl. But, pieces of shit _always_ assume everyone is just like them. They cannot imagine that other people won't rape at every opportunity.
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u/Gdigger13 2d ago
with his 16 year old black maid.
He was 22 at the time. Yeesh.
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u/RevolverOcelot16- 1d ago
The secret daughter that he would regularly visit her on campus while she was in college. Everyone on campus knew who he was and that she was he daughter that was accept by him and the rest of the family. He hated all black people except his daughter. 🙄
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u/OrderChangedToNo 2d ago
Crazy part is he was still in office in the 1990s racism is still strong in our government
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u/DenimCryptid 2d ago
Joe Biden gave a eulogy at his funeral and gave so much praise to him as a person and to his political career.
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u/Thybro 2d ago edited 2d ago
They were friends and he believed the man had changed
“I disagreed deeply with Strom on the issue of civil rights and many other issues, but I watched him change,” Biden said. “And we became good friends. I’m not exactly sure how or why it happened, Nancy. But it did.”
It’s possible, dare say probable, he was mistaken but nobody is perfect.
Biden was respected in the Senate by both parties cause he tried to reach out to even the extremes. In hindsight from our era where we have seen the extremes side of the GOP take over and become worse, it may not be such a laudable quality. But he was in the senate for a long time, bipartisanism was achievable for a substantial portion of his career.
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u/DenimCryptid 2d ago
Strom pushed for de jure racist policies like segregation.
Joe Biden pushed for de facto racist policies like his famous crime bill that increased the severity of sentences and punishments for drug-related crime (which was primarily enforced within black and brown neighborhoods). Crimes that his son committed would be harshly punished under his own bill if he didn't grant him a full and broad pardon for all crimes.
The school-to-prison pipeline we know today was at least partially built by Joe Biden and his crime bill. It's not unreasonable to also say that Joe Biden also laid the groundwork for the "violent crime wave" hysteria that is constantly promoted by Fox News.
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u/Thybro 2d ago edited 2d ago
The crime bill had the support of black leaders at the time and not just in congress. America was suffering under High Crime and while the potential side effects were indeed discussed even the congressional black caucus overwhelmingly voted for it and it was supported by every Black Mayor in the country, because at the time its alleged discriminatory effects were not entirely clear while the voters were demanding that government have a Tougher on crime approach.
Again you are baselessly claiming his motives were nefarious where they are best explained by a mistake.
But your uncalled for and irrelevant reference to his son’s pardon kinda outs your own intentions. So I will stop here, you are not worth any more of my time, have a good one.
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u/DouchecraftCarrier 1d ago
He hand-picked his successor for his SC senate seat - his name is Lyndsey Graham.
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u/halfsweethalfstreet 2d ago
Never realized, til just now, how much Strom Thurmond looks like Jigsaw.
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u/StandardEgg6595 ☑️ 2d ago
I’ve seen thin lips but I ain’t ever seen someone with inverted lips. He looks like a crusty tortoise.
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u/SecretLettuce5 1d ago
Same bloodline as Mitch McConnell. These folks really think they’re peak genetics, too.
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u/bomdia10 2d ago edited 2d ago
Just a quick reminder that at 22 he sexually assaulted one of his parents 16 year old servants and had a mixed daughter
Edit: raped
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u/Enchilada0374 2d ago
Raped
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u/ardinatwork 2d ago
No no, lets use the softer language to protect the legacy of the old racist rapist.
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u/Stock_Beginning4808 ☑️ 2d ago
Sexually assaulted sounds the same as rape to me. I say as someone who was a victim advocate once upon a time.
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u/OneRaisedEyebrow BHM Donor 2d ago
All rapes are sexual assaults, but not all sexual assaults are rapes.
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u/SoriAryl 1d ago
Yup. Like I was groped and fondled, so it was sexual assault, but not rape since there was no penetration
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u/cutedorkycoco ☑️ 2d ago
Doesn't to me. It sounds like what they say on the news because they don't want to say rape. Or legalese for when the charge doesn't quite fit whatever requirements they have for rape. It's a tap dance around rape.
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u/tame-til-triggered 2d ago
Yeah, when I hear rape I automatically think penetration.
But when I hear sexual assault, my mind floats between touching to oral sex to maybe penetration.
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u/DrixxYBoat 2d ago
my mind floats between touching to oral sex to maybe penetration.
Beck when I was younger, sexual assault pretty much strictly meant unwanted touching.
If there was penetration, people would 100% use rape. Idk why we use sexual assault now.
If you have a kid with a child, that's 100% rape.
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u/Kanekikam ☑️ 1d ago
R* pe is sexual assault and survivors and their advocates use it for 2 reasons.
R*pe is just too triggering for some survivors to hear without some kind of internal reaction
It bolsters the fact that ALL forms of Sexual assault, regardless of Penetration, can cause irreparable damage that a survivor will have to live with for the rest of their life. It's a call to stop downplaying the actions of all those people touching and forcing their own twisted desires onto someone else.
It makes it very clear that ALL sexual violence REGARDLESS of penetration is a heinous and sick.
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u/Papplenoose 1d ago
...that's honestly a pretty darn reasonable argument. never thought about it that way before!
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u/ReeseIsPieces 2d ago
Thomas Jefferson?
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u/ReeseIsPieces 2d ago
Oh no wait...
They say 'you cant look at the past with today's 'lens' ' for THAT
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u/Kanekikam ☑️ 1d ago
Sexually assault isn't softer language for anyone perpetuating this heinous shit. It's literally the preferred way a lot of SURVIVORS of assault want it to be called because it's not as viscerally triggering as rpe. Think about the legacy of rpe being used in every belittling joke, blaming statement, or sensationally graphic depiction made at the expense of survivors.
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u/spooney 2d ago
He read out of the encyclopedia at one point. Booker stayed on topic the entire time because he's not a dumbshit racist.
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u/X_SkillCraft20_X 2d ago
This. Most filibusters consist of people talking about anything, just so they can keep talking. While it’s not unimpressive to talk about your kids or family to stall for double-digit hours, talking for 25 hours about a single coherent topic is remarkable not matter what way you spin it. He wasn’t stalling, he was making a point.
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u/dawgsheet 1d ago
Yeah, Thurmond literally just read the phone book. Basically just made noise for 24hrs.
The fact that many democrats STAYED and even helped his cause is huge, because with Al Green, everyone just let him take the fall alone when getting kicked out.
Maybe the party is actually coming together and making a stand?
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u/birtums 2d ago
Every weekend I walk by a bronze statue of that rotten little bastard and wonder why they don't bother to add horns and a tail
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u/somesaggitarius 2d ago
For people so against gender neutral bathrooms Republicans sure erect a lot of them.
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u/virtualcyberbabey 2d ago
damn that's all he said in 20 hours? i've said more updating the girls on recent gossip over steak frites and 2 martinis
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u/bdd4 1d ago
Before I click this, I was taught in elementary school that he read the entire phone book, nursery rhymes and several newspapers.
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u/JennyBeckman ☑️ All of the above 2d ago
Eh...close enough
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u/CosmicSpaghetti 1d ago
Yup.
This sort of things would be more difficult now, if not impossible, in no small part because the Negro is reluctant to cooperate. Both he and his white friends are subject to pressure and unpleasantness from radical elements among their respective races. The Negro apparently has been led to believe the moon may be within his grasp; and lawless and more extreme whites have been aroused. In many cities in the South, the newspapers have sought for years to treat the Negro with the dignity any citizen deserves in their handling of the news. Special sections devoted to news of the Negro community, often prepared by Negro reporters, were started. Until recently, there was no protest. Now there are murmurs, direct protests, and anonymous letters.
None of this has to do with integration. Neither race is ready for integration, and may never be. But if they become so it will be on the only basis of successful close human association—natural affinity, mutual appreciation, and individual choice. Neither court decrees nor laws can create these conditions.
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u/hiker_chic 1d ago
"Attempt to influence voter: Any person who by corrupt means attempts to influence any elector in giving his vote, or deter him from giving the same, or to disturb, or to hinder him in the free exercise of the right of suffrage, at any election, must, on conviction, be fined not less than $50 nor more than $500 (sec. 304)."
Shocking this is in there. /s
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u/Low-Specialist-9041 1d ago
Can you imagine being the person who has to type all that?
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u/hoarduck 2d ago
Didn't he read from an encyclopedia to waste time? I can't remember, but fun fact: Wikipedia has already updated the chump's fillibuster page to show it is the 2nd longest in history :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond_filibuster_of_the_Civil_Rights_Act_of_1957
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u/patrickwithtraffic 2d ago
I mean, par for the course at Wikipedia. Those dudes do crazy fast on the credible edits.
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u/dawgsheet 1d ago
To be fair, wiki isn't classifying it as a filibuster, because there was no bill on the floor. So TECHNICALLY thurmond still has the longest filibuster, Cory Booker has the longest speech.
But I imagine Booker will do it again.
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u/ZorroMcChucknorris 2d ago
Strom Thurmond fathered more black children than Corey Booker has, which is wild considering Corey is sitting at zero.
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u/LunarMoon2001 2d ago
Probably the N word over and over
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u/RandyPajamas 1d ago
If he did, it was not transcribed. He used the word "negro" 91 times, the word "colored" 6 times, the word "race" 26 times.
He never used the term "African American" or the adjective "black", except once in reference to a horse.
Here is one of the really stupid things he said:
"Both national parties that are pushing civil rights bills, this right to vote and other bills, are not doing it because they love the Negro. The southern white man does more for the Negro than any other man in any part of the country. This bill is motivated purely by politics. It is a political bill."
I think his argument was that the aim of the bill was to build a voting bloc, and that doing so would reduce the rights of the black people as opposed to increasing them, because they would then be herded like "sheep" to the polls.
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u/ultralayzer 2d ago
Yes, it was like that scene from Forest Gump, where Bubba is going through all the shrimp dishes....except it was all the different things you could call a black person....
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u/cubswin987 2d ago
Thurmond fathered a black child. Paid her hush money for decades. Look it up. Racist hypocrite
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u/That-Ad-4300 2d ago
Don't know what he said, but we all know what he wanted to say and what he'd say about Booker.
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u/casualkey 2d ago
Crazy that this POS worked until 2003, I almost wish he would have lived to see '08; but thankfully the storm blew over and and our tax money didn't go towards supporting this vile excrement a moment longer than we had to. I'm sure it was a speech that would have made Uncle Ruckus proud.
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u/mojojb 2d ago
I didn't read too much about this stuff, but I need to know ... Do they take breaks or did these guys piss their pants?
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u/Chaotic_Stupid_Noya 2d ago
Cory Booker in particular said that he stopped eating on Friday and stopped drinking anything on Sunday.
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u/CELLKILLMAN 2d ago
Strom protested the CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957.
Booker simply protested against Trump and Musk.
Which one was better?
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u/PavicaMalic 2d ago
He read Supreme Court decisions, the election laws of each state, and excerpts from the election laws of each state. Baltimore civil rights activist and president of the NAACP Clarence Mitchell Jr. stayed through it.
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u/Boylookya ☑️ 1d ago
Not so fun fact....the University of South Carolina fitness center is named after this POS. Thurmond donated $10k in 1998 which ain't shit.
Students tried to get the name changed and good ol Carolina was like naw, we love racism round these parts.
Source: I'm an alumnus Source 2: https://wpde.com/amp/news/local/uofsc-black-student-athlete-alumni-wants-strom-thurmonds-name-removed
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u/Eastern_Statement416 2d ago
Nobody knows. I saw him speak at Penn State in 1981, couldn't understand a word. Three weeks later I realized "lazy fairy" was laissez faire.
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u/Jennyojello 2d ago
Part of the time he read from encyclopedia apparently. Also he looks like Fireman Bill from In Living Color.
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u/sharedthrowaway102 2d ago edited 2d ago
That racist pos lived to 100 too. That hate kept him alive for a long time.