"Those who cannot remember the
past are condemned to repeat it."
-George Santayana
past are condemned to repeat it."
-George Santayana
The Democratic Party gave us the Ku Klux Klan, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws and other repressive legislation which resulted in the multitude of murders, lynchings, mutilations, and the intimidation of thousands of black and white Republicans.
On the issue of slavery: historians say the Democrats gave their lives to expand it, the Republicans gave their lives to ban it.
On the issue of slavery: historians say the Democrats gave their lives to expand it, the Republicans gave their lives to ban it.
The Democrats
- Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
- Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
- Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.
- Democrats fought to keep blacks in slavery and away from the polls, and they started the Ku Klux Klan to terrorize them.
- Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a "Keagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.
- Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
- Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.
- Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
- Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
- Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.
- Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
- Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
- Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
- Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
- Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
- Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
- Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox "brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
- Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
- Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
- Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
- Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
- Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
- Democrat President Bill Clinton's mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.
- Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
- Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
- Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
- Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
- We can add Democrat Sen.Harry Reid for finding " a light skinned" man without "a negro dialect" to the list
- And Democrat Bill Clinton for saying that President Obama would be fetching coffee.
- Regarding the Republican Party, historians report that while Democrats were busy passing laws to hurt blacks, Republicans devoted their time to passing laws to help blacks. Republicans were primarily responsible for the following Civil Rights legislation:
1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2. The 13th Amendment
3. The 14th Amendment
4. The 15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6. The Civil Rights of 1866
7. The Enforcement Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of 1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
11. The Freeman Bureau
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1957
13. The Civil Rights Act of 1960
14. The United State Civil Rights Commission
And gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following
legislation
15. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
17. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
18. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
19. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
20. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
21. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
22. Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
23. Civil Rights Act of 1983
24. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988
Programs By Republicans & their Supporters include:
a. Many of our key traditional Black Colleges are named after Republicans Colleges
b. The Freedman Bureau
c. Historians say that three whites that opposed the Democrat's racist practices, including the lynching of blacks, founded and funded the NAACP
Dr. Martin Luther King was a Republican because:
The Republicans
- Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950’s and 1960’s, over the objection of Democrats.
- Republicans founded the HCBU’s and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.
- Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
- Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
- Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
- Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
- Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
- Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960’s.
- Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
- Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
- Republican and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.
- We can add the first African American Congressman was a Republican
Reprinted from Open Letters Blog
H/T to UCV
Excelsior! keep up the good work Phil
ReplyDeleteYes you can be proud of the ancient history of the Republican party however more recent history is quite different. Since 1900 there have been only 3 blacks republican congressmen and you have Nixon's Southern Strategy after the civil rights acts. Do you deny that the segregationist democrats in the South became republicans?
ReplyDeleteDo u mean the son of Al Gore Sr.?
ReplyDeleteOr the youth that was Fulbright's Intern?
Or The West Virginia Senator?
Or that Senator from Nevada?
Oh, they are all Dems.
Who was it that replaced plantations with projects?
When was the last time black unemployment was lower than white unemployment?
Oh yeah, right before the Dems introduced a minimum wage. Listen to Zo
http://yankeephil.blogspot.com/2010/01/zo-is-backing-me-up.html
During the election of 1876, one of the most corrupt,sadly both candidates were devoutly honest The Republican R.B Hayes promised the South that he would end Reconstruction.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Wallace was a serial campaigner who was bored with governing and preferred theater. Standing before the state house was a useless gesture by his own admission. Years after the attempt to kill him he ran for governor against the arch segregationist Emory Folmer. He apologized to black people and they voted him in.
Huey Long, the King Fish of La went to war with the Klan and gave blacks the most security they had in decades.
Blacks voted Republican because of Lincoln. Both white and black politicians tricked blacks and told them who to vote for. The black politicians were payed off and the black voters got nothing.
F.D.R, his wife and Truman tried to pass anti_lynching laws, but failed. Elenor drank from a blacks only water fountain. a gesture unheard of at that time. Truman desegregated the army.
Justice Black joined the Klan, like many others, so their businesses would not be devoid of customers and was considered a practical act which
he regretted. His decisions showed no ant-black bias.Violent retribution was also a part of not joining or speaking out.
J.F.K was a Conservative Democrat who was very cautious, was afraid of another squeaker in 1964. He supported Dr. King, but was worried a march might cost him the election.
L.B.J saw the suffering of Blacks and the impoverished. He was from Texas. Historically he was about the most concerned about Black civil rights. Lincoln was willing to do anything to save the Union. Blacks were freed because the South forced his hand due to their hatred of him.
Thomas Jefferson freed his slaves in his will, but his relatives over turned it in court. This helped lead to the tightening of manumission laws.
Robert .E. Lee, related to the Custis family, had plantations across the South. He fought for Va. not for slavery. Owning slaves embarresed him, but he knew not what to do with them.
President James Monroe founded Liberia as a black homeland.
Etc...Etc...Geoff
I know it is not Repubilcans that are asking me to check off the box that says Caucasian. I keep looking for the box that says simply "American." I don't care if you are pink, white, green, blue, or whatever. Paraphrasing MLK Jr. It is your content, not color that defines you.
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