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House Dem Eleanor Holmes Norton Compares Republicans To Racist Southern Democrats During Civil Rights Era…
At least she’s admitting she belong to the party of racism.
Via Mediaite:
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) used an appearance on Martin Bashir‘s MSNBC show Friday to criticize Republicans for their “intransigence” on the Affordable Care Act. But she did it in a unique way: by equating the modern-day GOP with Southern Democrats during the Civil Rights Movement. [...]
Norton indulged Bashir’s line of questioning, while at the same time reminding him that things weren’t so perfect back in the 1960s, and that then it was often Democrats standing in the way of change on civil rights issues. “The intransigence of Republicans today, particularly over issues that could be easily settled,” she said, “reminds me of the intransigence of the Southern Democrats, who refused to move on civil rights until they had to.”
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