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Keyser Soze

On 5/5/17 11:21 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 5 May 2017 06:44:27 -0400, 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.

They still had their credentials. They just did not get to vote. It
was the same with the 60 black delegates who demanded to be seated
because they felt they should have been elected.

You also did not really "watch" the convention unless you were there.
The networks had a little bit of newsreel coverage but nobody really
wanted to miss Bonanza or General Hospital to see these things. They
also soft pedaled the problems at the convention and concentrated on
the speeches coronating LBJ when they did have televised coverage.
I was around then too and my parents were "all the way with LBJ".

"They just did not get to vote." That says it all.