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Bill[_12_]

Keyser Soze wrote:
On 5/4/17 10:46 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 4 May 2017 15:47:15 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:

I don't think it was as much that they were kicked out as that they
just left in disgust.

They were kicked out at the '64 Dem convention.

You know Harry, they write this **** down. I was also alive in 64.

There were 50 or 60 deep south delegates who refused to sign the
platform. Two black delegates of over 60 who said they should have won
if they had their voter rights honored were seated as at large
delegates and that ****ed off more southerners but nobody was kicked
out.

White racist delegates from Mississippi and Alabama refused to sign a
pledge to support the Johnson-Humphrey ticket, were therefore refused
seating as delegates, and walked out. The refusal to sign the pledge
kicked them out. I watched that convention. You may call it what you
like, but the racists were kicked out.

Sounds like a dictatorship not a convention to chose a ticket. My way or
my way.