Jeff Sessions Quotes
I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.
Sessions, Jeff. Confirmation Hearings on Federal Appointments: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986, p. 5.
Moynihan was actually not the political originator of the "benign neglect" phrase which became so controversial. It had been first used by The Earl of Durham in his 1839 Durham Report on the English policy towards Canada.
Nixon, in his second attempt to win the Presidency was told by a small group of Southern Republican politicians that his support was wavering in the South. They had already left the Democratic Party in reaction to the Passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They were concerned because in order to try and capture some of the more liberal anti-war Democrats, Nixon had been making speeches advocating the vigerous enforcement of of civil rights and improving the lot of the Negro. But Nixon could not afford to lose his political base inb the south. Hence the promise which did not keep very long after he was elected President. Nixon was not a strong civil rights President, but he was totally without principles and had no political idiology he would sacrifice any of his political capital for. So once he was elected, he didn't want to offend the centerists whose support he needed for his legislatrive program so he did pay lip service to the prinicples of equality when he himself was anti-Black, andti-Semitic and prejudiced in many areas including against intelelctuals.
As enlightened and progressive that his views on Blacks were, he was amazingly racist when it came to Native Americans. See {588991}.
The Tea Party movement began as a ultra conservative / libertarian off shoot from the right wing of the Republican Party. However, it was really a loose amalgam of disparate groups and individuals. While some of the Tea Party enthusiasts were genuine conservatives and/or libertarians who were not racist and fascist, the fascist and racist elements of the nations—the extremists—were also attracted to the new movement would depart from the Republicans who they thought were too liberal and political. Williams and others rapidly exposed themselves and the hateful elements of the Tea Party.
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is an American politician and attorney who served as the 84th United States Attorney General from 2017 to 2018. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as United States Senator from Alabama from 1997 to 2017 before resigning that position to serve in the administration of President Donald Trump.
