Web Rises As much as Slam Mitch McConnell for Claiming Filibuster ‘Has No Racial Historical past at All’

With more Democrats advocating reform or elimination of the Senate filibuster, Republicans are pushing back hard. Senate minority chairman Mitch McConnell last week threatened to do scorched earth against Democrats if they kill the filibuster. He was asked on Tuesday about the device that was used repeatedly during the Jim Crow era to block civil rights legislation.

The filibuster, McConnell told reporters, “has no racial history at all. None. There is no argument about this among historians. “

Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Chairman: The filibuster “has no racial history at all. None. There is no quarrel among historians. “

(This is extremely untrue.) Pic.twitter.com/8K44VydQNl

– The recount (@therecount) March 23, 2021

The 79-year-old, who has been the Republican Senator from Kentucky since 1985, is wrong – and many have used social media to explain how wrong he is.

Adam Jentleson, former deputy chief of staff to former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, wrote a book about the Senate and the filibuster. He supports killing it.

The filibuster is not racist, Senator McConnell argues today in the Senate. Take it from him. pic.twitter.com/3oHruYPQGH

– Adam Jentleson @ (@AJentleson) March 23, 2021

Good question. McConnell’s answer is wrong. His office is trying to clean it up, but he said what he said. For over a century it was generally understood that the filibuster was primarily dedicated to maintaining white supremacy and blocking civil rights. Here is Russell in 1949. https://t.co/A5GLiPDzbg pic.twitter.com/BRAfQrFV5c

– Adam Jentleson @ (@AJentleson) March 23, 2021

This is what others have to say:

The filibuster is a relic of Jim Crow and was used to block the advancement of civil rights. Read @AJentleson’s book KILL SWITCH and catch up on the story. Currently, McConnell has blocked the majority agenda, which reflects the will of most Americans. #EndTheFilibusterNow https://t.co/Jw9gWzHvDU

– Wajahat “He is Muslim” Ali (@WajahatAli) March 23, 2021

McConnell studies history in general and Senate history in particular. He certainly knows the racial history of the filibuster very well.

– Michael Rapoport (@rapoportmike) March 23, 2021

Mitch McConnell on the filibuster: “There is no racial history at all. None. “

The Filibuster Racial History: pic.twitter.com/k28LvReySC

– The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) March 23, 2021

Moscow Mitch McConnell ignored the Boulder mass shooting to lie that there is no racial history with the filibuster.

A reminder that he was posing for a picture smiling and standing right in front of a huge Confederate flag. It’s racist story.

– Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) March 23, 2021

Strom Thurmond’s 24-hour and 18-minute filibuster of the Voting Rights Act of 1957, the longest 1-person filibuster in history, is different. And I have more. https://t.co/6UUVki9g7c

– Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) March 23, 2021

McConnell: “The filibuster has no racial history.”

History:

Strom Thurmond Filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 – Wikipedia https://t.co/YHmlj4TVoV

– B 𝕊𝕥𝕖𝕨𝕒𝕣𝕥 💛💙✊🏾ImBlackEveryMonth (@ gimli0413) March 23, 2021

Mitch McConnell: Senate Filibuster “has no racial history”

History:
-Filibuster was used to stop the anti-lynch bill in 1922
– Strom Thurmond filibustered Civil Rights Act of 1957 for 24 hours
– In the 1870s and 1964, the only bills stopped by filibusters were civil rights bills

– Doug #DCStatehood Foote (@FooteSteppes) March 23, 2021

Mitch McConnell: The filibuster “has no racial history at all. None. There is no quarrel among historians. “Strom Thurmond. #MoscowMitch pic.twitter.com/SDzoG0swG1

– Ethos Wear Apparel (@EthosWear) March 23, 2021

McConnell can grab sand with his nonsense with no racial history regarding the filibuster.

– CydeDish (@Cyde_Dish) March 23, 2021

I read this Mitch McConnell quote that the filibuster has “no racial history,” and it took me seconds to find an article on Senate Dixiecrats from 1948 that threatens to filibuster a draft defense that it is for, it included racial segregation in the military. McConnell is full of crap. https://t.co/N2wmN3LB2v

– Mark Jacob (@ MarkJacob16) March 23, 2021

If McConnell doesn’t realize that the filibuster was intertwined with racist motives, that makes him a racist.

– Renee Jacobs (@ ReneeJa96696863) March 23, 2021