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Plessy V. Ferguson
Posted on 4/24/14 at 7:56 am
Posted on 4/24/14 at 7:56 am
Majority of the justices on this case were republican.
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Posted on 4/24/14 at 7:58 am to RollTide4Ever
And all of them are dead.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 7:59 am to RollTide4Ever
Which was something TOTALLY different in 1896. That was the time of Teddy Roosevelt and 40 years after a Republican freed slaves.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 8:00 am to RollTide4Ever
K?
Posted on 4/24/14 at 8:03 am to RollTide4Ever
I'm trying to understand the purpose of this thread
Posted on 4/24/14 at 8:04 am to Antonio Moss
Actually the Republicans haven't changed in that time. What has changed is the democratic narrative.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 8:05 am to RollTide4Ever
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Plessy V. Ferguson
Since we were discussing the unimpressive record of Clarence Thomas earlier this topic is fitting.
Thurgood Marshall argued & essentially overturned this embarrassing decision with his victory in Brown v. Board of Education.
I am a bit surprised they were GOP appointees.
What is the story behind their decision? Ideology?
This post was edited on 4/24/14 at 8:07 am
Posted on 4/24/14 at 8:08 am to Antonio Moss
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I'm trying to understand the purpose of this thread
an example of the "hasty generalization fallacy"?
Posted on 4/24/14 at 8:08 am to sugar71
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Since we were discussing the unimpressive record of Clarence Thomas earlier this topic is fitting.
How? Thomas wasn't close to being born when this decision was rendered.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 8:18 am to sugar71
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What is the story behind their decision? Ideology?
Much more circumstance than ideology. After the civil war, the GOP controlled the South through reconstruction and later, military reconstruction. Through these, the GOP extended civil rights to black despite overt and sometimes violent opposition from the Democrat party.
Finally, after tensions boiled over in several violent outburst, the GOP relinquished control of Southern states back to the Democrats (known as the Bourbons in LA) in exchange for the presidency in 1877. The Democrats immediately reinstated harsh oppressions on Southern blacks. In LA, for instance, black voters fell from 90% prior to the Bourbon
Rule to 5% afterwards. The Democrats also instituted Jim Crow Laws which forced segregation in both public and private facilities.
Plessy focused on the authority of states under the control of Democrats to force segregation in private enterprises. The SCOTUS held that so long as the facilities were "equal" their separateness was not an issue under the EP Clause. There was a lot of pressure for the Jim Crow laws to remain in place in 1896 due to the violent Democrat uprising experienced in the South towards the end of military reconstruction.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 8:30 am to RollTide4Ever
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Majority of the justices on this case were republican.
This is relevant only to historians. The parties back then had entirely different issues to contend with than they do today.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 8:35 am to foshizzle
But I was told the GOP was AA best friends back then. The one dissent vote was a Kentuckian by the name of John Harlan. The Lily White movement is also intriguing.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 9:52 am to RollTide4Ever
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Majority of the justices on this case were republican.
And...
Majority of the members of the KKK were Dems.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 9:57 am to udtiger
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And...
Majority of the members of the KKK were Dems.
Including a Supreme Court Justice who served up until the 1970s.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 10:00 am to udtiger
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Majority of the members of the KKK were Dems.
Anyone with even a limited understanding of American history knows the atrocities committed against black Americans by the Democrat party for generations.
Posted on 4/24/14 at 10:27 am to RollTide4Ever
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Plessy V. Ferguson
I notice this case is never mentioned when people discuss the importance of stare decisis. (sp?)
Posted on 4/24/14 at 10:38 am to Antonio Moss
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Anyone with even a limited understanding of American history knows the atrocities committed against black Americans by the Democrat party for generations.
And they continue to do so...yet still get 95%+ vote loyalty.
This post was edited on 4/24/14 at 10:39 am
Posted on 4/24/14 at 11:25 am to Antonio Moss
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Anyone with even a limited understanding of American history knows the atrocities committed against black Americans by the Democrat party for generations.
Still going on today, as LBJ & passage of CRA via GOP House & Senate in 60's was explained to me by a prominent black Republican Senator, "Democrats knew they'd have blacks in their hip pocket for 50 years."
It's all about control.
This post was edited on 4/24/14 at 11:28 am
Posted on 4/24/14 at 11:40 am to MisterSenator
Ed Brooke?
Posted on 4/24/14 at 11:46 am to RollTide4Ever
Good grief. What a pathetic thread.
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