Hours after the announcement of a Senate deal to save judicial filibusters, Congress of Racial Equality chief Roy Innis told WWRL Radio's Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter: "The filibuster is bad and it's wrong and it's evil .
"People don't realize how bad the filibuster has been in terms of the rights of black people in this country. We were delayed from getting our rights because of the filibuster for over a century."
The CORE chief then proceeded to give the New York radio audience a history lesson in the way the parliamentary maneuver has been exploited.
"The filibuster started in 1841 with John Calhoun in the secessionist state of South Carolina," noted Innis. "And John Calhoun was a Slave-ocrat, a Democrat-Slave-ocrat. Calhoun was vice president of the United States under Andrew Jackson - another Slave-ocrat. Democrat, Slave-ocrat - the same thing."
Innis noted that the Republican Party was started in 1856 "specifically for one purpose - to end slavery."
You GO, Roy Innis!!! Bravo! 'Bout time someone said something about this filibuster.. and its ensuing "compromise"....
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