re: How can you claim to be inclusive when you call half of america backward?

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This is a disgusting lie. Southern politicians worked to suppress rights of blacks

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That's what I said, conservatives have worked to suppress rights of blacks. I didn't say ALL conservatives.

...or do you think it was liberals refusing to let blacks go to school with their kids?

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Northern conservatives were very much in favor of civil rights.

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"BOSTON — With Boston public school students back in class, we recall a very different start to school 40 years ago. Then, classes began a week late to give students, schools and the police extra time to prepare for the first day of court-ordered desegregation."

"Southie was ground zero for anti-busing rage. Hundreds of white demonstrators — children and their parents — pelted a caravan of 20 school buses carrying students from nearly all-black Roxbury to all-white South Boston. The police wore riot gear."

"I remember riding the buses to protect the kids going up to South Boston High School," Jean McGuire, who was a bus safety monitor, recalled recently. "And the bricks through the window. Signs hanging out those buildings, '**** Go Home.' Pictures of monkeys. The words. The spit. People just felt it was all right to attack children."

"I had no idea what to expect [with] this busing thing," Williams said. "I didn't know anything about South Boston. I didn't know anything about, you know, they didn't like us. I didn't know anything that was in store for us. But when we got there, it was like a war zone.

"I came back and I told my mom, and I'll never forget, I said, 'Ma, I am not going back to that school unless I have a gun.' At 14 years old. I am not going back to that school."

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