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**Roorseprate** · 01-18-2006, 07:29 PM

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From "Best of the Web", by James Taranto

Ted Kennedy Backed Segregation
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=510887

Today's Harvard Crimson has an interesting historical footnote about Ted Kennedy:

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During his days as a student at Harvard, the youngest brother in the Kennedy clan garnered just one mention in The Crimson--a 1956 article
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=156690 about an inter-house debating event, according to an archive search.

The question at the debate was: "Resolved: That the Federal Government should compel the state of Alabama to grant equal educational opportunities to Negroes." Kennedy's Winthrop team took the negative side and won.

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That's right, Kennedy argued for segregation! Now of course a college debate is an intellectual exercise; people don't always agree with the positions they advocate. But if this were a Republican judicial nominee, is there any doubt that Kennedy would consider it disqualifying?

01-18-2006, 07:29 PM	#1
Roorseprate Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 659 Senior Member	Ted Kennedy backed segregation? http://opinionjournal.com From "Best of the Web", by James Taranto Ted Kennedy Backed Segregation http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=510887 Today's Harvard Crimson has an interesting historical footnote about Ted Kennedy: * QUOTE * During his days as a student at Harvard, the youngest brother in the Kennedy clan garnered just one mention in The Crimson--a 1956 article http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=156690 about an inter-house debating event, according to an archive search. The question at the debate was: "Resolved: That the Federal Government should compel the state of Alabama to grant equal educational opportunities to Negroes." Kennedy's Winthrop team took the negative side and won. * END QUOTE * That's right, Kennedy argued for segregation! Now of course a college debate is an intellectual exercise; people don't always agree with the positions they advocate. But if this were a Republican judicial nominee, is there any doubt that Kennedy would consider it disqualifying?
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