Thread by @VoteDarlene

I will be nice, but the person who’s running @BurgessOwens twitter account (yes, I know who you are) needs a history lesson. Seems you may be a bit miffed by my comment. So, let me break this down for you. Brooke was successful. He was, what was called a ‘Rockefeller’ Republican.

https://twitter.com/BurgessOwens/status/1597330190883225601

What happened to the Rockefeller Republicans? They got chased out of the party by the Goldwater Republicans. And who did Goldwater align with to win the Republican nomination for President? The John Birch Society, the Eagle Forum and later George Wallace. In other words

racist, anti-semites, and neo-Nazis. These groups would later align with Nixon and Reagan. The far-Right fanatics booed Nelson Rockefeller when he spoke at the GOP Convention in 1964 in California and wanted to fight great Jackie Robinson. Yes, Robinson was Republican, too. Did

you know that most African Americans were Republican because the GOP was the Party of Abraham Lincoln. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that Brooke was also a Republican. Brooke won his senate seat in 1966. LBJ was still president. LBJ would betray the South when he signed into

law three major pieces of legislation: The Civil Rights Act of of 1964, The Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Brooke co-wrote the Fair Housing Act. The South considered this a total betrayal by one of their own, a Southern Democrat. So, in the 1968

presidential election many Southerners did what they swore they would NEVER do. They vote for a Republican. You see, they voted for a Republican for the EXACT OPPOSITE reason African Americans did. However, by voting for Nixon in ‘68 they’d solidified the party flip that began

decades earlier under Truman. And what did Truman do that was so offensive to the Southern Democrats? He desegregated the military in 1948 after the brutal beating and blinding of Issac Woodard in South Carolina who’d just been honorably discharged and still in his uniform. LBJ’s

actions this switch-a-roo. What we think of as the Republican Party today was the Democratic Party prior to the ‘68 election. Dixiecrats, were southern racist segregationists who’d voted for Democrats in previous elections switched parties and started voting Republican.

In the 1968, President Lyndon Johnson announced he would not seek reelection. Republican Richard Nixon got the support of Goldwater coalition and defeated Democrat Hubert Humphrey. With this coalition the Republicans flipped the south and the rest…as they say…is history.

EVERYTHING and I do mean EVERYTHING that Edward Brooke stood for @RepBurgessOwens stands against.
Edward Brooke co-wrote the Fair Housing Act. Burgess Owens would vote to dismantle it. Brooke was the first to call on Richard Nixon to resign. Burgess Owens wears a MAGA hat and

has yet to denounce any of the many unethical and likely illegal things #TFG has said or done, including the latest scandal with two known anti-semites. Brooke fought attempts to close Job Corps, Office of Economic Opportunity and to weaken the

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Burgess Owens would call these things CRT and reverse racism. In 2008, Edward Brooke
endorsed for President the Senator from Illinois by the name of Barack Obama. What did Burgess Owens do? He wrote an anti-black book which got him

booked on FOX to tell predominantly White conservatives that everything they believe and say about black people are true and it’s not racism, but people like Barack Obama and John Lewis, and groups like the NAACP and the Democratic Party that’s destroying the black community.

So yes, Burgess Owens Twitter handler, I meant what I said on his page. If Edward Brooke was alive today you would not have tweeted about him, but rather he would have been an added name in Whiners, Weenies and Wimps.

I do commend you for exposing viewers of your page to black

people they would not have known about otherwise. But, it also says a hell of a lot about you, that the only way the people who fight for civil rights, civil liberties and social justice will be featured on that page is if they are dead.