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adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:
Senator Booker breaking Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest senate floor speech is gonna be awesome, not as an impressive feat of stamina or political determination, but because he’s a black man taking the record from a white racist.
Thurmond’s record was set in 1957, and his speech was an argument against civil rights. His position was that civil rights shouldn’t be federally guaranteed, but left to the states. (Sound familiar?)
This will be good history painting over awful history.