Palestinians Win Statehood Upgrade at U.N.

[Ash_F]

137. If I take you implication to be correct, that is literally as a bad as the "states rights" people...

...who wish to revise the history of the civil war. I don't know if you are just ignorant of the timeline or what, but that is a pretty gross argument to make on DU.

First of all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Anti-Apartheid_Act
That was 1986. "President Ronald Reagan vetoed the law but was overridden by Congress (by the Senate 78 to 21, the House by 313 to 83)". Attitudes were gradually changing through the 60s all the way up to that.

Here is a NYT article that was written that day with some surprisingly admirable quotes from several Republican leaders, and a less than admirable one from the likes of Jesse Helms, of course. I highly recommend reading it.
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/03/politics/03REAG.html

Now today is not quite as big as the second of October 1986. That day is further down the road, maybe another 5-10 years. But it is a good day.