Utah Democrats: Will the real Chris Buttars please stand up?
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The Deseret News: Anti-segregation ruling wrong, Buttars says
Salt Lake Tribune: Sen. Buttars says ruling against school segregation was wrong
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Utah Senate Site: Senator Buttars on KCPW
The State of the Beehive: Buttars and Brown v. Board
The Third Avenue: Buttars than Erza
For Senator Buttars the "R" in Republican must stand for being stuck in Reverse.
4 comments:
Actually, with your title, you are continuing with a misconception of what Lincoln thought of "blacks."
He had a solution to the problem, but lacked the political clout and will to impliment it.
He wanted to send all blacks back to Africa. Liberia is an example of a country made up of repatriated blacks.
He also didn't do much for the slave problem. His emancipation proclaimation freed slaves in the states that he had no control over. He didn't free any slaves in the "Northern" states (there weren't many compared to the South).
I always get a bit of a chuckle whenever I hear people proudly state that the Republican Party (of which I am a member) as "The Party of Lincoln." Few people know what his complete views were. Same with the Democrats and, "The Party of Jefferson."
Lincoln began his public career by claiming that he was "antislavery" -- issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves in those states that were in rebellion. He vigorously supported the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery throughout the United States, and, in the last speech of his life, he recommended extending the vote to African Americans.
In Lincoln's last public address, he recommended extending the right to vote to the African Americans who had fought for the Union. This expressed his belief that African Americans should be granted full political equality.
Last Public Address
April 11, 1865
"It is also unsatisfactory to some that the elective franchise is not given to the colored man. I would myself prefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers."
Wow! What well-educated and articulate comments!
Thanks for the pic, and for outing this legislator from Utah. We have our own kind of racists here in California, but not of this particular variety.
Disgusting.
Poignant picture, but it gives folks the wrong impression. A partially-expressed concern with the Supreme Court decision does not equate to supporting racism.
Its true that he left everyone hanging overnight, but today he clarified what he believes and what he was trying to say.
KCPW
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Vigilance
Readers of the Utah Amicus can find find a plethora of issues on which to disagree with Senator Buttars, but a desire on his part to return to the twisted years of segregation is not one of them.
He's human. He uttered an incomplete thought that gave people a false impression. He made an honest attempt to be accountable and make his position very clear the next day. Give the guy a break.
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