Thread by @HNIJohnMiller

Yo, how about some actual sourcing? Like the fact that it was a Democrat congressman, Howard Smith, who had been shutting down civil rights acts in committees and tried to do the same to the civil rights act of 1964? washingtonpost.com/archive/politi… It is called SOURCING.

"Often when he did not want to bring a bill out of his committee, he would leave town and go to his 170-acre farm in Fauquier County. Early in 1957 he resorted to this tactic to delay consideraton of President Eisenhower's civil rights proposal"

'"As he stood before the podium in the well of the House, Judge Smith peered over his glasses at his colleagues, hoping that this controversial sex provision would overload the bill and eventually kill it. "What harm will this do to the condition of the bill?" he asked'

The DEMOCRAT Congressman tried to amend the bill by adding 'sex' as a category of discrimination in order to gin up so much controversy it would kill the bill.

Furthermore, the Democrats had been killing civil rights bills REPEATEDLY in the past. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rig… In 1957 Stromm Thurmond, a Democrat from South Carolina, had the longest filibuster in history trying to kill that bill.

This is ALSO ignoring that Democrats held MASSIVE majorities for DECADES, and NOTHING had been done about Civil Rights. The last time the Republicans had even held a razor thing majority up to that point was in 1956 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/83rd_Unit…

You want to know the real reason that the Democrats were the ones who voted it in? Because at the local election level they were facing a MASSIVE backlash, losing city after city to a sudden upswell of Republican majorities who were demanding African Americans have civil rights

For example Mongomery Alabama, home of the bus boycotts kickstarted by Rosa Parks herself. The bus boycotts started in 1955, in 1956 there was a MASSIVE upswell of Republicans in Montgomery. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomer…

Before that Democrats had a MASSIVE lock on the local population. Regularly WELL over 90% in Presidential elections.

This upswell was happening in cities all over the South. Democrats gave up on Jim Crow laws and passed the Civil Rights act of 1964 because they were bowing to OVERWHELMING public pressure from the entire country.

Seriously @kanyewest you want thinking and you want free thought but you're just reposting all the same boring crap that has ever been said, no sourcing, no fact checking, NOTHING. Free thought means you gotta back up what you say.

Want further proof of what I'm saying? govtrack.us/congress/votes…

Republicans in the House voted for the Civil Rights act 136-35, 80%.

Democrats in the House? 153-94 (NINETY-FOUR), 63%.

govtrack.us/congress/votes…

In the Senate? 82% of Republicans (27-6) voted in favor of it. 69% Democrats.

WANNA KNOW HOW I HIT PAYDIRT?

I just got mass-reported into a limited account features.

How does that feel, @kanyewest, someone spreading ideas and facts under one of your tweets getting gagged by Twitter? I AINT FEELING THE LOVE BRUH