Chrome Dome discusses seggies

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002496940

Oh my.

Stinky The Clown (45,634 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

"Seggies"

I just had the misfortune to surf past Matthews' show on MSNBC. He had on a guy who wrote a book about LBJ. They were discussing the tale of how Johnson was warned that if he pushed the Civil Rights Act he would lose all the powerful Democratic Southern senators. Johnson said "If that's the price, then so be it" or something to that effect.

Matthews then read a list of the senators. Lots of big, famous names.

"Seggies, all" said Matthews.

And then he went on blabbering, repeating the word "seggies" and adding his definition: segregationists.

Seggies????

Really?

I have *never* heard that term. Ever. And how casual it sounds. A stupid, silly word applied to such a terrible chapter in our history.

Seggies?

Come on, Matthews. This is bad, even by your low standards.

It's pretty low to be anti-seggie, but live in a seggie neighborhood too, though.

ithinkmyliverhurts (1,657 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

1. No doubt.

Why not "filthy segregationists." Or just "segregationists." "Seggies" just make them seem so frat-boyish. I guess I should expect no less.

I think I've only rec'd maybe 1 or 2 posts since I've been here. I find it an odd gesture. But for this one I will partake in the absurdity.

Control-Z (6,013 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

2. Someone used the word lame on one of yesterday's programs. My son was shocked and said as much. Coming from him it really means something. He's 20.

Cirque du So-What (7,346 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

3. First time I've ever heard the term 'seggies' and I've lived a long time - a good deal of it spent reading and learning about atrocities like segregation. Sounds like a way to gloss over the ugly details with what they think is a 'cute' euphemism for a horrible practice.

madinmaryland (47,429 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

4. **** the seggies. They have been and continue to drag this nation down.

**** THEM. Whether they are called teabaggers [sic] or seggies, they are all just racists and the "I got mine, **** everyone else" crowd.

**** THEM

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madinmaryland

4. **** the seggies. They have been and continue to drag this nation down.

**** THEM. Whether they are called teabaggers [sic] or seggies, they are all just racists and the "I got mine, **** everyone else" crowd.

**** THEM

Another word for "seggies" is "liberals," and you're one of them, primitive.  If obvious by how often liberals political observations bring up race, when to those of us who are conservatives race is never even a consideration.

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They needed Republicans to pass the Civil Rights Act, even Al Gores Father voted against it.

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They needed Republicans to pass the Civil Rights Act, even Al Gores Father voted against it.

"I’ll have those n*****s voting Democratic for the next 200 years” Lyndon B. Johnson

"These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.” — LBJ

“This civil rights program about which you have heard so much is a farce and a sham–an effort to set up a police state in the guise of liberty. I am opposed to that program. I fought it in the Congress. It is the province of the state to run its own elections. I am opposed to the anti-lynching bill because the Federal Government has no business enacting a law against one kind of murder than another…(And) if a man can tell you who you must hire, he can tell you who not to employ. I have met this head on.” Austin, Texas May 22, 1948 quoted in Quotations from Chairman LBJ

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They were discussing the tale of how Johnson was warned that if he pushed the Civil Rights Act he would lose all the powerful Democratic Southern senators. Johnson said "If that's the price, then so be it" or something to that effect.

Not because he gave a damn about black people, DUmbass, he did it for political capitol and his presidential position was more important than some lowly senators. Obama is doing the same thing to his fellow Dim congress members.