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« on: September 10, 2016, 04:04:18 PM »

Are you seriously trying to suggest that Hillary Clinton is or was against equal rights for African-Americans?

It is true that she was a member of the Goldwater Girls; she was a volunteer for his campaign as a 16-year-old student in 1964, partly due to her early politics being influenced by a conservative high school teacher she admired, and probably because of her father's political leanings.  He had run as an independent for Chicago Alderman and was defeated by Daley's corrupt Chicago Democratic machine, after which he switched to being a Republican.  

It is also a mistake to label Goldwater a racist or segregationist, though he certainly didn't refuse support from people who were.  Unlike the majority of people here, I can actually remember him running for President; I loved the AuH2O bumper stickers. Smiley  While he did oppose the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he did so on constitutional grounds, and had voted in favor of other civil rights legislation earlier in his career as a Senator.  He also did not campaign on overturning it in his Presidential run.

Clinton went on to be an active supporter of civil rights in college and later.  You can -- and probably should -- look up the details in any article about her.

I hope that your post was merely due to a lack of information (this is why it's not good to take facts in isolation) and not a deliberate attempt to mislead.
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