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As this thread blows up, I should stress this isn’t remotely an exhaustive list — I did it quickly and I didn’t repeat years in which there were multiple filibusters on different civil rights issues. But it should still give a sense of the “racial history” in the filibuster.
The filibuster is a piratical obstruction of the Senate’s business in the name of white supremacy and nothing else. The Filibuster has been blocking an anti-lynching law for a CENTURY.
In 1918 the Anti-Lynching Bill was introduced in Congress. It still has not passed.
In 1923 the Equal Rights Amendment (#ERAnow) was introduced in Congress to secure full equality for women. It still has not passed.
The Treason of the Senate Get Rid of the Fillibuster
@GOP @GQP #ReligiousRight #BlackLivesMatter #DCStatehood #PRStateHood
Henry Clay tried to get rid of the filibuster in response to Calhoun’s innovation in 1841.
Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1874 Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1875
The Treason of the Senate was a series of articles in Cosmopolitan magazine by David Graham Phillips, published in 1906.
Nelson Aldrich tried to get rid of it to pass an anti-poll tax bill in 1891.
In the United States, and indeed in France, political power was guaranteed by financial incentives and the appointment of suitable candidates, in other words through bribery and corruption. Senator Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island was chosen by the secret elite to be the voice of “sound economics” in the Senate. A wealthy businessman and father-in-law of J.D. Rockefeller Jr., Aldrich was known as “Morgan’s floor broker in the Senate.” Shameless in his excesses, he used public office to feather his own very large nest.
The Meeting at Jekyll Island November 20, 1910–November 30, 1910
A secret gathering at a secluded island off the coast of Georgia in 1910 laid the foundations for the Federal Reserve System. From the outset they insisted on secrecy, operated in secret and ensured that their influence was airbrushed from history. They believed that white men of Anglo-Saxon descent rightly sat at the top of the racial hierarchy. Ruskin advocated that control of the state should be placed in the hands of a small ruling class. Social order was to be built upon the authority of superiors, imposing upon their inferiors an absolute, unquestioning obedience. He was repelled by the notion of leveling between the classes and by the disintegration of the “rightful” authority of the ruling class.
In November 1910, five bankers representing Morgan, Rockefeller and Kuhn Loeb interests, met in total secrecy with Senator Aldrich and the Assistant Secretary to the U.S. Treasury on Jekyll Island, an exclusive playground of the mega-rich off the coast of Georgia. Of the seven conspirators, five, Senator Aldrich, Henry Davison, Benjamin Strong, Frank Vanderlip and Paul Warburg, were members of The Pilgrims. The proposed “Federal Reserve System” was to be owned entirely by private banks, though its name implied that it was a government institution. Individuals from the American banking dynasties, including Morgan, Warburg, Schiff and Rockefeller, would hold the shares. Political control moved hand in glove with the Money-Power.
WHY WE WANT BITCOIN
It was to be a central bank of issue that would have a monopoly of all the money and credit of the people of the United States. It would control the interest rate and the volume of money in circulation.
The Federal Reserve System constructed on Jekyll Island had powers that King Midas could never have contemplated. The objective was to establish a franchise to create money out of nothing for the purpose of lending, get the taxpayer to pick up any losses, and convince Congress that the aim was to protect the public.
Filibuster against a pension for a black official, 1906 Filibuster against confirmation of a black official, 1909 Filibuster against anti-lynching bill, 1921 Filibuster against anti-lynching bill, 1922 Filibuster against anti-lynching bill, 1925 Filibuster against monument to black WWI veterans, 1926 Filibuster against anti-lynching bill, 1935 Filibuster against anti-lynching bill, 1938
Smith opposed a Federal minimum wage; he filibustered it in the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, saying “South Carolinians are willing to work for less than 50 cents/hour.”[12] Senator Ellison D Smith from the great state of South Carolina.
Filibuster against bill targeting racial discrimination in employment, 1945 Filibuster against Truman's civil rights proposals, 1948 Filibuster against Truman's civil rights proposals, 1949 Filibuster against Truman's civil rights proposals, 1950 Filibuster against measures to fight housing discrimination, 1954 Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1957
Eisenhower & Nixon tried to get rid of it to pass a civil rights bill in 1957.
The Southern Democrats became Republicans after LBJ passed the 1965 Civil Rights Act. That’s how racism took over the Republican Party. Reagan and Gingrich reinforced Racism.
Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1960 Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1962 Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1963 Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1964 Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1966 Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1968 Filibuster against bill targeting employment discrimination, 1972 Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1976 Filibuster against extension of Voting Rights Act, 1982 Filibuster against creation of MLK Day federal holiday, 1983 Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1984
All This explains why Rethuglicans want the new Jim Crow laws passed in 2021.