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n2doc

(47,953 posts) Mon Jul 25, 2016, 07:45 PM Jul 2016

Monday Toon Roundup 1- Republican Reverberations

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Monday Toon Roundup 1- Republican Reverberations (Original Post) n2doc Jul 2016 OP

for Ike "championed civil rights" might be a bit strong Bucky Jul 2016 #1

My grandfather voted for Eisenhower because he started the desegregation of the kimbutgar Jul 2016 #2

Pretty sure that was Truman... Wounded Bear Jul 2016 #4

K&R madokie Jul 2016 #3

Thank you for the cartoons Gothmog Jul 2016 #5

Thanks! Dyedinthewoolliberal Jul 2016 #6

all toons planetc Jul 2016 #7

Loved the 'emperor with no clothes' one! LeftishBrit Jul 2016 #8

Bucky

(54,005 posts)

1. for Ike "championed civil rights" might be a bit strong

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Mon Jul 25, 2016, 07:53 PM

Jul 2016

He did some good things, but his record was mixed. Tons better than Trump. But Ike did not stand up to Joe McCarthy, authorized "Operation Wetback", and didn't move to enforce the 1954 Brown vs the Board decision until the crisis hit a fever pitch in 1957 in Little Rock.

kimbutgar

(21,142 posts)

2. My grandfather voted for Eisenhower because he started the desegregation of the

Reply to Bucky (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 25, 2016, 08:54 PM

Jul 2016

Military. He had no political experience but he was a successful general who knew how to get things done and work and delegate authority with people.

It's an insult to Ike to compare him to Cheeto.

Wounded Bear

(58,653 posts)

4. Pretty sure that was Truman...

Reply to kimbutgar (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 25, 2016, 09:15 PM

Jul 2016

On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981 establishing equality of treatment and opportunity in the U.S. military regardless of race. He appointed the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, two of whose five members were African American. In January 1949, the Fahy Committee (nicknamed after its chairman) met to hear concerns by armed forces' leaders about the new executive order, and both the Army and the Marine Corps leadership defended their practices of segregation. The Navy and the newly formedUnited States Air Force announced their intentions to follow the order. The USMC said that it had only one black officer among 8,200 white ones.[23]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States_Armed_Forces#1948_to_1960

Ike continued it, and had a fairly progressive platform. Not sure he did a lot for Civil Rights while he was in office. I think Kennedy really started that, and Johnson finished the CRA in Kennedy's honor, though he knew we'd be suffering for it indefinitely. We kind of still are, as we are still seeing the fruits of Nixon's Southern Strategy.