Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 07, 2013

I wonder where the uninformed spouses came from to continue the family for 148 years.

I would like to point out that this is a comic strip, so the standards of logic surrounding plot points are not quite as high as we hold for literature, cinema, or even television.

Are you implying either that slavery was an institution that benefited the slave?

Do you really think that my fellow progressives’ vision of the positive role a gov’t could play in society is in the distribution of free food, clothing and shelter?

When you go in for a colonoscopy, how does the doctor manage to get the lens in there with your head in the way?

If civil rights were left up to public opinion, as many conservatives want, there still would be slavery in several southern states, as many conservatives want.

For free? Only if the work they did had no value. Unfortunately that’s the way a lot of business owners think these days.

mississippi, an american version of apartheid south africa.

There is still slavery they just call it minimum wage now.

Trudeau has given the Trolls plenty of fodder today!

Really, Mr. Trudeau? Is this ALL you have left to comment on Pretending that ONE state failing to ratify the 13th amendment banning slavery, makes it any LESS the law of the land?? If so, then your ignorance of American constitutional law is truly stunning!

Unfortunately slavery remains alive and well in the US today. Many young, female, migrants are smuggled into the US to work as domestic slaves in US households.

Worst slave ever. Spoken by the man who was fondling his AR-15.

Love it! Mississippi has the lowest literacy in the US. Its no coincdence that its heavily “Christian” as well! Evil redneck bible thumpers!

It was only recently that Mississippi ratified the 13th amendment banning slavery— that wasn’t fabricated for a comic strip! That is real. And that is enough reality to make this strip poignant here. The rest is poetic license. Good stuff GT.

All of the democrats that voted against the Civil Rights Amendment immediately switched to the GOP…

Mississippi receives $2.73 in US federal government money, paid by the rest of us, for every dollar they put in. Typical red state Repub hypocrites.Can’t we sell this worthless province?

I can’t speak for the other Southern States but my home state of Georgia was quite split on the civil rights movement. The entire state was almost all “Blue”. However, in the 60’s these were “Dixiecrats” led by Senator Herman Talmadge. Talmadge had a reputation for looking out for the people of the state. Truth is, he was looking out for his wallet and bank account. The folks of Georgia back then were quite vocalabout their opposition to the Civil Rights Movement. It became the base for the Civil Rights Movement since Dr. King was from Atlanta. Now, most of those Dixiecrats are Republican. And, the younger generations have become split by whether they are urban or rural. Thing is, more of Georgia is Urban now. They are finally getting it and so are the other southern states. A little at the time. The economny we have been forced to live under has been the greatest equalizer ever. Black and White Americans are faced with the thriftiness and industriousness of immigrants. These new and son tobe new Americans are teaching us how to survive by keeping families together where everyone contributes what they can. Instead of fighting resolved battles(my apologies to Doug Hall) why don’t we pull together as a country and unite against the economy. Pull together as families, as neighborhoods, as towns, as states and as a Nation.

Through the efforts of a good old Southern Democrat, Lyndon Johnson, the southern Democratic party was brought from the 19th into the 20th century. The 19th being the time Republicans want to retreat.

I’ve said this many times before but it always bears repeating. I no longer try to have a rational discussion with right-wingers in 21st Century America. I can get a more sensible discussion from a bag of hammers.

Who, exactly, are “they”?

“End the “War on[some] Drugs” with Harm Reduction the cure.”……………………………………………...Some laws do much more harm than good. ‘Just because it’s ‘the law’ doesn’t make it good, and just because it’s ‘unlawful’ doesn’t make it bad.

Oh Sarge, you’re always good for a laugh.

The “Democrats” who opposed the Civil Rights Act and were KKK are the Republicans of today.

From your comment, the only problem you seem to have with slavery is that the slaves were free loading off the poor white plantation owner

I have no problem with Republicans. As long as they stay with their current philosophy, they will never win another national election, thus keeping the country safe for freedom for all, not just wealthy white males.

Hey!! Even Jon Stewart had the guts to apologize for his ignorance about this! It’s bad enough being a little blue dot in a freaking red state without all this too.

Since I am not a mind-reader, I have no idea why certain Democrats who opposed the Civil rights act switched to the Republican Party. What I do know is that LBJ could never have gotten it passed, without the support of Republicans. LBJ said that the Democrats had lost the South for at least a generation, precisely BECAUSE of their opposition to the Civil Rights Act! Yes, in the 1964 election, several Southern states voted for Goldwater, because Conservatives found their home in the GOP & Goldwater was a conservative.

No, I never said any such thing about slavery. Slavery was & is completely wrong, and it needed to be abolished ASAP. I DID mention the “Liberal Plantation,” because they tend to keep blacks & other minorities dependent on government programs for the rest of their lives, in order to “succeed” in life!

Oh, to have this comic go back to be relevant, but I guess that’s out of the question.

Makes you wonder if it will take 50 years or longer for so many states to understand that people are people, and that nobody is a slave, even the yet to be born.

Let’s look at the actual numbers. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were enacted at the behest of President Lyndon Johnson, a southern Democrat, with bipartisan support from Democrats (mostly, but not exclusively, outside the South) and most Republicans.

The 1964 Act passed the Senate with the support of 46 Democrats and 27 Republicans; 21 Democrats and 6 Republicans opposed final passage. In the House, 153 Democrats and 136 Republicans supported the Senate version of this bill; 91 Democrats and 35 Republicans opposed it.

The Conference Committee Report on the 1965 Act passed the Senate with the support of 49 Democrats and 30 Republicans; 17 Democrats and 1 Republican voted in opposition. In the House, 217 Democrats and 111 Republicans voted for passage; 54 Democrats and 20 Republicans opposed.

The more significant partisan shift came afterward. The abolition of Jim Crow laws and the (finally effective) enfranchisement of blacks led white Southerners who had traditionally voted Democratic to support George Wallace’s independent candidacy for President in 1968 and to support Republican candidates thereafter. The Republican Party became immediately competitive in Senate and House races in the South, although actually winning such elections took longer.

The Republican Party warmly embraced this shift of the racists. When Ronald Reagan in 1980 went to the Mississippi town where civil rights workers had been murdered and praised “state’s rights”, every Southerner then of voting age knew that that was an unvarnished appeal to segregationists.

Since I know trolls can’t be bothered to look things up, I have included the following definition:.1.The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices..This strip is satire; it exposes your stupidity and vices.And, you’re welcome.

Another observation about then-Governor Reagan’s 1980 Presidential campaign. The Ku Klux Klan endorsed Reagan, and Reagan, to his credit, repudiated the endorsement.

I remember the trenchant comment made at the time by Grand Dragon Bill Wilkinson, who observed that Reagan could not repudiate the Klan without repudiating the entire platform of the Republican Party.

Whoops, calimaghazi, you forgot BENGHAZI!!!Bleah!!!!

I think you confuse Conservatism and White Supremacy, a common error among liberals similar to every Conservative thinking that Liberalism = Communism. Both you and that theoretical conservative are blinded by your own propaganda.

Nice to hear a conservative respecting the President.

In another 30 or 40 years Mississippi may move into the 20th century. Of course their bigotry has kept them the poorest, or one of the poorest, states in the nation. Those two things are definitely related.

Do you have your library card?

Too late, the American people renewed his contract for another 4 years.

For once, I agree with you; “Facts are Facts. You can’t re-write history because it offends you today.” Of course, you then have to interpret those facts, and to do that you properly you have to both ensure you have all the relevant facts and have to apply some critical thinking.Good Luck!

As opposed to the FOX media propaganda you follow, from the company owned by an Aussie and a Saudi.

If you hate what Trudeau says so much, why do you bother reading his comic? Don’t you have an NRA meeting to go to? Or a Klan rally?

I find it pathetic that you support Rep West, who was forced to resign in disgrace from the military, who lost his election because every word out of his mouth discredited any claim to intelligence or worth that he may have had. And Justice Thomas, who may sit on the Supreme Court, but it is long been known that the sole work he does is to sign his name to whatever Conservative side argument, be it the majority ruling, or the dissenting argument. What a pair to point to for Republican “equality”.

We figure with your tenuous grasp of facts, you need to be reminded frequently. So can it yourself, bub.

Why did Governor Wallace feel as he did? History has shown that George Wallace was more of an opportunist than he was a racist. In 1948 he declined to join the Dixiecrat walkout at the Democratic National Convention. In 1958 he lost the Democratic primary for governor, a race in which the NAACP supported Wallace and the KKK supported then-Attorney General John Malcolm Patterson. Following that defeat, Wallace vowed, “I will never be outniggered again.”

Governor Wallace eventually repudiated his racist past, and he was elected governor in 1982 with significant black support.

Again, the Democratic Party of the late 50’s, early 60’s bears no resemblance to the Democratic Party of today. Try finding something from the 21st Century like this, and you find Republican/Tea Party zealots being the racist perpetrators.

Where slavery stopped mortgages took over

The 13th Amendment didn’t free the slaves. Abraham Lincoln didn’t free the slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation didn’t free the slaves.The slaves were freed in 1948 by the invention of the mechanical cotton picker.

You seem to enjoy the parade, you’re here all the time.

LOL!Even though we disagree, good to have you aboard.

There’s probably gonna be a lot of black people upset by this strip, but as a 62 yr old black woman, I thought it was hilarious.

Spoken like a true southerner – “up keep” – really? Who says that anymore?

I am going to give you a chance to explain your statement. Anne Smedingoff was killed in Afghanistan, not in Benghazi. But you choose to word your statement as if she was in Libya.Second, this was not an attack on diplomatic site. This was a press event at a boys school that was open to the public. It was a suicide attack.Here is a partial list of all attacks on US diplomatic missions going back to the Eisenhower Administration. By your standards, every President since Ike is a failure:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist_attacks_on_U.S.diplomatic_facilities#section2

Interestingly enough, a great number of these attacks took place when Reagan was President.

Just took another look at the list. By your standards, JFK and LBJ weren’t failures.

You still haven’t explained your statement. Taking into account the long history of attacks on US diplomatic sites, how is Obama a failure – and for the sake of argument – Reagan isn’t?How is a suicide bomber attack at a boys’ school in a remote part of Afghanistan Obama’s fault?

@ Redkaycei Repoc – Sorry, Lincoln was a Republican. It really can’t be much of a research challenge to dig that out.

@ Guard SGT – Unfortunately, that also describes your party, and not only the most extremists on the right either.

Fascism is not confined to one party or the other. It’s not an exclusively American problem, either.

Riiiight, because you don’t know ANY whites who get innumerable handouts from the government. Oh, wait. You do.