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Rick Perry, civil rights, freedom ... and \\\"overtaxation\\\"

8/25/2011

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Perry was in Rock Hill, SC, when a reporter mentioned that this year was the 50th anniversary of a historic lunch counter sit-in. The Texas governor responded: 

""We've gone from a country that made great strides in issues of civil rights, I think we all can be proud of that. And as we go forward, America needs to be about freedom. It needs to be about freedom from overtaxation, freedom from over-litigation, freedom from over-regulation. And Americans, regardless of what their cultural or ethnic background is, they need to know that they can come to America and you got a chance to have any dream come true because the economic climate is gonna be improved." (from http://www.thegrio.com/politics/perry-compares-civil-rights-movement-to-tax-cuts-for-billionaires.php)


That's an interesting connection. 

I'm not saying conservatives don't "get it" when it comes to the civil rights movement. Charles Krauthammer: 'Black America’s righteous revolt against a century of post-emancipation oppression could have gone in many bitter and destructive directions. It did not. This was largely the work of one man’s leadership, moral imagination and strategic genius. He turned his own deeply Christian belief that “unearned suffering is redemptive” into a creed of nonviolence that he carved into America’s political consciousness. The result was not just racial liberation but national redemption.' 
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