Let me get this right, it is the Democrats with a legacy of racism

[Skip Reming]

In today's SJW society, it seems like all the dems want to name call republicans as racist, bigot, homophobes but is this all kind of hypocrisy?

NOTE: If you cannot read an argument with supporting evidence then gtfo now
NOTE 2: I am claiming dems are the most racist in policy and action


First off, Abraham Lincoln was a republican and he started the civil war and that ended slavery, right?

What about the KKK? What is their story???


The first Klan flourished in the Southern United States in the late 1860s, then died out by the early 1870s. It sought to overthrow the Republican state governments in the South during the Reconstruction Era, especially by using violence against African American leaders. With numerous chapters across the South, it was suppressed around 1871, through federal enforcement. Members made their own, often colorful, costumes: robes, masks, and conical hats, designed to be terrifying, and to hide their identities.[

In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired restoration of white supremacy. Its purposes were political, but political in the broadest sense, for it sought to affect power relations, both public and private, throughout Southern society. It aimed to reverse the interlocking changes sweeping over the South during Reconstruction: to destroy the Republican party's infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore racial subordination in every aspect of Southern life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan

Oh, but surely in post civil rights movement the dems have not hung out with the clan?

What about Robert Carlyle Byrd?

Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr.; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was a United States Senator from West Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. Senator from 1959 to 2010.

ok, but is seems he was in the KKK also
In the early 1940s, Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to create a new chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Sophia, West Virginia
I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times
n 1946, Byrd wrote a letter to a Grand Wizard stating, "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation."

But he denounced them in a book so he was obviously not a racist, then right????

Byrd was the only senator to vote against the appointing of both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas to the United States Supreme Court, the only two African-American nominees.

Sure it had nothing to do with race and he had some other reason every other senator could not find. Got it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd

Civil Rights Act of 1964
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
But surely the dems would show how not racist they are on this act? Right???

The original House version:[20]
Democratic Party: 152–96 (61–39%)
Republican Party: 138–34 (80–20%)
Cloture in the Senate:[21]
Democratic Party: 44–23 (66–34%)
Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)
The Senate version:[20]
Democratic Party: 46–21 (69–31%)
Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)
The Senate version, voted on by the House:[20]
Democratic Party: 153–91 (63–37%)
Republican Party: 136–35 (80–20%)

Ok, so higher % of Republicans voted for it. But it is not like some dems tried to ruin it, right???

Filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd
Byrd was a member of the wing of the Democratic Party that opposed desegregation and civil rights imposed by the federal government. However, despite his early career in the KKK, Byrd was linked to such senators as John C. Stennis, J. William Fulbright and George Smathers, who based their segregationist positions on their view of states' rights in contrast to senators like James Eastland, who held a reputation as a committed racist.[citation needed]
Byrd joined with Democratic senators to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1964,[32] personally filibustering the bill for 14 hours, a move he later said he regretted.[33] Despite an 83-day filibuster in the Senate, both parties in Congress voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Act, and President Johnson signed the bill into law.[34] Byrd also opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 but voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1968. In 2005, Byrd told The Washington Post that his membership in the Baptist church led to a change in his views. In the opinion of one reviewer, Byrd, like other Southern and border-state Democrats, came to realize that he would have to temper "his blatantly segregationist views" and move to the Democratic Party mainstream if he wanted to play a role nationally.
-ooooh, they did

But what about the Jim Crow laws that are institutional racism???

Jim Crow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

Origins of Jim Crow laws
During the Reconstruction period of 1865–1877, federal law provided civil rights protection in the U.S. South for freedmen, the African Americans who had formerly been slaves, and former free blacks. In the 1870s, Democrats gradually regained power in the Southern legislatures, having used insurgent paramilitary groups, such as the White League and Red Shirts, to disrupt Republican organizing, run Republican officeholders out of town, and intimidate blacks to suppress their voting. Extensive voter fraud was also used. Gubernatorial elections were close and had been disputed in Louisiana for years, with increasing violence against blacks during campaigns from 1868 onward. In 1877, a national Democratic Party compromise to gain Southern support in the presidential election resulted in the government's withdrawing the last of the federal troops from the South. White Democrats had regained political power in every Southern state.[3] These Southern, white, Democratic Redeemer governments legislated Jim Crow laws, officially segregating black people from the white population.

ughhhhh, oh you dems

ok, but Lyndon Johnson, right??? Surely he is untainted???

Lyndon Johnson acting as Senate majority leader blocked the GOP’s 1956 civil-rights bill, and gutted Eisenhower’s 1957 Civil Rights Act. Democratic senators filibustered the GOP’s 1960 Civil Rights Act.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/383357/setting-record-straight-jim-crow-john-fund
- what are those? republican civil rights bill a decade earlier????

Well, what about Bill Clinton? He did no wrong?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage_discrimination
In 1993 President Bill Clinton made changes to the Community Reinvestment Act to make mortgages more obtainable for lower and lower-middle-class families. In 1993 the Federal Bank of Boston issued a report entitled “Closing the Gap: A Guide to Equal Opportunity Lending." The 30 page document was intended to serve as a guide to loan officers to help curb discriminatory lending
^ This is good, right??? Giving loans to people based on race and not credit?? Oh, almost forgot this last part
Minorities willingly entered sub-prime mortgages in far greater numbers than whites and represented a disproportional percentage of foreclosures

Ok, but that is so old, what about Bernie?

Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders said that "when you're white you don't know what it's like to be living in a ghetto."
^ speaking like an SJW brings out your racism in the subtlest of ways.

What about people saying that dems us free giveaways to get minority votes???

Welfare/free gift baskets/Government assistance
http://www.dailyrepublic.com/opinio...ebunk-gop-myth-of-why-blacks-vote-democratic/

Jeb Bush said “Our message is one of hope and aspiration. It isn’t one of division and ‘Get in line, and we’ll take care of you with free stuff.’ ”
- basically non white males vote for dems for free shit

Is it food stamps? According to the Department of Agriculture, 25.7 percent of food stamp users are black, while 40.2 percent are white. So this isn’t it.
It’s not Medicaid, either. According to the Henry J. Kaiser Foundation, 41 percent of non-elderly Medicaid users are white and 21 percent are black.
It has to be Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, which we commonly call welfare. But the benefits are divided roughly evenly between whites, blacks and Hispanics. And the rolls have gone down in the past two decades

^ oh, okay so whites get more of a percentage in some cases and I am sure this guy thinks 50% of USA is white and 50% black and then in the next paragraph he thinks 33% are white, 33% black, and 33% hispanic


2010 Census data
Non-Hispanic White 63.7 %
Non-Hispanic Black 12.2 %
Non-Hispanic Asian 4.7 %
Non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native 0.7 %
Non-Hispanic Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 0.2 %
Non-Hispanic some other race 0.2 %
Non-Hispanic two or more races 1.9 %
Hispanic or Latino 16.3 %




Illegal Immigration
- dems don't want to accept illegals just for votes, right???


Medina previously served as a member of Obama’s National Latino Advisory Council and as honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America. As such, he used the platform of an America’s Future Now! Conference in 2009 to outline a plan for long-term Democrat rule through blanket amnesty.
“We reform the immigration laws; it puts 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually voters. If we have eight million new voters who care about, and will be voting, we will be creating a governing coalition for the long term.”
http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/...ntally-reveals-democrats-really-want-amnesty/

In conclusion, the democratic party has always been the racist party. In the old days they relegated blacks to second class citizens, and today they want to keep everyone from achieving regardless of race so they can give them handouts, and once dependent on these handouts they will get their votes.

Dems want amnesty for illegals and more foreign immigration from places like Syria not because they care or are fighting racism, but purely for votes.

The last thing Dems want is to see blacks or any of us to be is successful because if we are, we don't want to give the gov half our shit to give to someone else.

 

[Jack V Savage]

Not reading all that shit, but there was a great piece on the history of black voting in NY Mag today:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/pragmatic-tradition-of-black-voters.html

I recommend the whole thing, but here's a bit of it:

No community in the United States is more aware of the power of its enemies than African-Americans. For most of American history, the franchise itself was denied to black voters, who leveraged their precious vote for whatever they could. That did not mean holding out for politicians who would treat them as equal human beings, but merely supporting the less-bad party. In the first half of the 19th century, writes Daniel Walker Howe, “wherever black men had the power to do so, they voted overwhelmingly against the Democrats” — despite lacking anything like a racially egalitarian party to support. The emergence of the Republican Party in the middle of the century provided a vehicle for African-Americans to exercise more leverage. When neither party offered any positive inducement, as they deemed to be the case in 1916, black civic leaders stayed neutral.

New Deal progressivism allowed northern blacks to form an influential bloc within the Democratic Party. Initially, they were overwhelmed by the power of white Southerners — who, under Roosevelt, even blocked such tepid measures as anti-lynching laws — but eventually prevailed to turn the Democrats into a pro-civil-rights party. (African-Americans multiplied their voting power by engaging in social activism, which was itself calculated to divide their enemies from middle America.) That pragmatic tendency was on display in 2008, when black voters were slow to embrace Obama’s candidacy, waiting until he had demonstrated the ability to win over white Iowans before committing to him.

 

[Handsomebwonderfull]

In today's SJW society, it seems like all the dems want to name call republicans as racist, bigot, homophobes but is this all kind of hypocrisy?

NOTE: If you cannot read an argument with supporting evidence then gtfo now
NOTE 2: I am claiming dems are the most racist in policy and action


First off, Abraham Lincoln was a republican and he started the civil war and that ended slavery, right?

What about the KKK? What is their story???


The first Klan flourished in the Southern United States in the late 1860s, then died out by the early 1870s. It sought to overthrow the Republican state governments in the South during the Reconstruction Era, especially by using violence against African American leaders. With numerous chapters across the South, it was suppressed around 1871, through federal enforcement. Members made their own, often colorful, costumes: robes, masks, and conical hats, designed to be terrifying, and to hide their identities.[

In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired restoration of white supremacy. Its purposes were political, but political in the broadest sense, for it sought to affect power relations, both public and private, throughout Southern society. It aimed to reverse the interlocking changes sweeping over the South during Reconstruction: to destroy the Republican party's infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore racial subordination in every aspect of Southern life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan

Oh, but surely in post civil rights movement the dems have not hung out with the clan?

What about Robert Carlyle Byrd?

Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr.; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was a United States Senator from West Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. Senator from 1959 to 2010.

ok, but is seems he was in the KKK also
In the early 1940s, Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to create a new chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Sophia, West Virginia
I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times
n 1946, Byrd wrote a letter to a Grand Wizard stating, "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation."

But he denounced them in a book so he was obviously not a racist, then right????

Byrd was the only senator to vote against the appointing of both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas to the United States Supreme Court, the only two African-American nominees.

Sure it had nothing to do with race and he had some other reason every other senator could not find. Got it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd

Civil Rights Act of 1964
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
But surely the dems would show how not racist they are on this act? Right???

The original House version:[20]
Democratic Party: 152–96 (61–39%)
Republican Party: 138–34 (80–20%)
Cloture in the Senate:[21]
Democratic Party: 44–23 (66–34%)
Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)
The Senate version:[20]
Democratic Party: 46–21 (69–31%)
Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)
The Senate version, voted on by the House:[20]
Democratic Party: 153–91 (63–37%)
Republican Party: 136–35 (80–20%)

Ok, so higher % of Republicans voted for it. But it is not like some dems tried to ruin it, right???

Filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd
Byrd was a member of the wing of the Democratic Party that opposed desegregation and civil rights imposed by the federal government. However, despite his early career in the KKK, Byrd was linked to such senators as John C. Stennis, J. William Fulbright and George Smathers, who based their segregationist positions on their view of states' rights in contrast to senators like James Eastland, who held a reputation as a committed racist.[citation needed]
Byrd joined with Democratic senators to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1964,[32] personally filibustering the bill for 14 hours, a move he later said he regretted.[33] Despite an 83-day filibuster in the Senate, both parties in Congress voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Act, and President Johnson signed the bill into law.[34] Byrd also opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 but voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1968. In 2005, Byrd told The Washington Post that his membership in the Baptist church led to a change in his views. In the opinion of one reviewer, Byrd, like other Southern and border-state Democrats, came to realize that he would have to temper "his blatantly segregationist views" and move to the Democratic Party mainstream if he wanted to play a role nationally.
-ooooh, they did

But what about the Jim Crow laws that are institutional racism???

Jim Crow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

Origins of Jim Crow laws
During the Reconstruction period of 1865–1877, federal law provided civil rights protection in the U.S. South for freedmen, the African Americans who had formerly been slaves, and former free blacks. In the 1870s, Democrats gradually regained power in the Southern legislatures, having used insurgent paramilitary groups, such as the White League and Red Shirts, to disrupt Republican organizing, run Republican officeholders out of town, and intimidate blacks to suppress their voting. Extensive voter fraud was also used. Gubernatorial elections were close and had been disputed in Louisiana for years, with increasing violence against blacks during campaigns from 1868 onward. In 1877, a national Democratic Party compromise to gain Southern support in the presidential election resulted in the government's withdrawing the last of the federal troops from the South. White Democrats had regained political power in every Southern state.[3] These Southern, white, Democratic Redeemer governments legislated Jim Crow laws, officially segregating black people from the white population.

ughhhhh, oh you dems

ok, but Lyndon Johnson, right??? Surely he is untainted???

Lyndon Johnson acting as Senate majority leader blocked the GOP’s 1956 civil-rights bill, and gutted Eisenhower’s 1957 Civil Rights Act. Democratic senators filibustered the GOP’s 1960 Civil Rights Act.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/383357/setting-record-straight-jim-crow-john-fund
- what are those? republican civil rights bill a decade earlier????

Well, what about Bill Clinton? He did no wrong?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage_discrimination
In 1993 President Bill Clinton made changes to the Community Reinvestment Act to make mortgages more obtainable for lower and lower-middle-class families. In 1993 the Federal Bank of Boston issued a report entitled “Closing the Gap: A Guide to Equal Opportunity Lending." The 30 page document was intended to serve as a guide to loan officers to help curb discriminatory lending
^ This is good, right??? Giving loans to people based on race and not credit?? Oh, almost forgot this last part
Minorities willingly entered sub-prime mortgages in far greater numbers than whites and represented a disproportional percentage of foreclosures

Ok, but that is so old, what about Bernie?

Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders said that "when you're white you don't know what it's like to be living in a ghetto."
^ speaking like an SJW brings out your racism in the subtlest of ways.

What about people saying that dems us free giveaways to get minority votes???

Welfare/free gift baskets/Government assistance
http://www.dailyrepublic.com/opinio...ebunk-gop-myth-of-why-blacks-vote-democratic/

Jeb Bush said “Our message is one of hope and aspiration. It isn’t one of division and ‘Get in line, and we’ll take care of you with free stuff.’ ”
- basically non white males vote for dems for free shit

Is it food stamps? According to the Department of Agriculture, 25.7 percent of food stamp users are black, while 40.2 percent are white. So this isn’t it.
It’s not Medicaid, either. According to the Henry J. Kaiser Foundation, 41 percent of non-elderly Medicaid users are white and 21 percent are black.
It has to be Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, which we commonly call welfare. But the benefits are divided roughly evenly between whites, blacks and Hispanics. And the rolls have gone down in the past two decades

^ oh, okay so whites get more of a percentage in some cases and I am sure this guy thinks 50% of USA is white and 50% black and then in the next paragraph he thinks 33% are white, 33% black, and 33% hispanic


2010 Census data
Non-Hispanic White 63.7 %
Non-Hispanic Black 12.2 %
Non-Hispanic Asian 4.7 %
Non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native 0.7 %
Non-Hispanic Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 0.2 %
Non-Hispanic some other race 0.2 %
Non-Hispanic two or more races 1.9 %
Hispanic or Latino 16.3 %




Illegal Immigration
- dems don't want to accept illegals just for votes, right???


Medina previously served as a member of Obama’s National Latino Advisory Council and as honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America. As such, he used the platform of an America’s Future Now! Conference in 2009 to outline a plan for long-term Democrat rule through blanket amnesty.
“We reform the immigration laws; it puts 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually voters. If we have eight million new voters who care about, and will be voting, we will be creating a governing coalition for the long term.”
http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/...ntally-reveals-democrats-really-want-amnesty/

In conclusion, the democratic party has always been the racist party. In the old days they relegated blacks to second class citizens, and today they want to keep everyone from achieving regardless of race so they can give them handouts, and once dependent on these handouts they will get their votes.

Dems want amnesty for illegals and more foreign immigration from places like Syria not because they care or are fighting racism, but purely for votes.

The last thing Dems want is to see blacks or any of us to be is successful because if we are, we don't want to give the gov half our shit to give to someone else.

Lol. Look up the solid south strategy. It explains the political inversion that happened in the 1960's

Basically republicans are racist now. Before 1960's it was the democrats

 

[Higus]

Skip, I thought about just responding with the Billy Madison clip, but tried to make it through your poorly organized, incoherent rambling in order to give it the response it frankly doesn't deserve. There are flaws to point in every piece of evidence provided, but I'll start with the most obvious one: The dynamics between party position and race flipped when Nixon became president and employed the Southern Strategy. When people claim Republican racism, they are referring to modern Republicans. It's telling that you completely omit Regan from your timeline.

Now to modern political parties, your evidence is based on legislation Bill Clinton signed into office under a republican controlled congress, an out of context Bernie Sander's quote, and an editorial that shows a poor understanding of statistics.

For the welfare and migrant arguments, I'll skip your simplistic strawman version of liberal welfare and migration policies are and simply restate the main point you missed from the editorial you linked:

There are two obstacles to Republicans wooing blacks.
The first is what Republican Colin Powell called a “dark vein of intolerance” in the party.
On NBC’s “Meet the Press” recently, Powell added, “I’m not calling the party racist . . . there’s some in the party who practice a level of intolerance that is not good for the party and is not consistent with American values.”
Number two is that blacks trust the federal government more than state governments, and Republicans believe the opposite. Blacks have a history of states curtailing their rights, blocking their advancement and failing to protect them.
Federal courts struck down separate but equal schools and federal troops enforced it. Federal civil rights legislation passed to ensure blacks’ American citizenship birthright.
A states’ rights, weak federal government party platform is a tough sell to a people with a horrendous history under states’ rights.
Or they can keep deluding themselves that it’s free stuff.

In short, you present (poor) evidence that the Democratic party is racist, but do not present evidence that the modern Republican party is less racist.

 

[Deleted member 196663]

If you don't have a legit claim of racism, you should be using other words. That's how I feel about your argument. There are better, more accurate words for you to choose, but you pick racism for effect. You are claiming dems today as being racist just because they offer shit for their votes, which is what every fucking politician around the world does. That is not racism, that's politics. I'm really not even sure what your angle is.

 

[Handsomebwonderfull]

Skip, I thought about just responding with the Billy Madison clip, but tried to make it through your poorly organized, incoherent rambling in order to give it the response it frankly doesn't deserve. There are flaws to point in every piece of evidence provided, but I'll start with the most obvious one: The dynamics between party position and race flipped when Nixon became president and employed the Southern Strategy. When people claim Republican racism, they are referring to modern Republicans. It's telling that you completely omit Regan from your timeline.

Now to modern political parties, your evidence is based on legislation Bill Clinton signed into office under a republican controlled congress, an out of context Bernie Sander's quote, and an editorial that shows a poor understanding of statistics.

For the welfare and migrant arguments, I'll skip your simplistic strawman version of liberal welfare and migration policies are and simply restate the main point you missed from the editorial you linked:



In short, you present (poor) evidence that the Democratic party is racist, but do not present evidence that the modern Republican party is less racist.

Lol. Pretty much. Republicans have even been caught in a the t cuts saying they want voter ID laws to cut down on minorities voting

 

[Skip Reming]

In short, you present (poor) evidence that the Democratic party is racist, but do not present evidence that the modern Republican party is less racist.

So, the jim crow laws, kkk, having a senator in t\he KKK, and filibustering the civil rights act is not racist? Ok

If you don't have a legit claim of racism, you should be using other words. That's how I feel about your argument. There are better, more accurate words for you to choose, but you pick racism for effect. You are claiming dems today as being racist just because they offer shit for their votes, which is what every fucking politician around the world does. That is not racism, that's politics. I'm really not even sure what your angle is.

See above. My final point is that immigration is not about being not racist, it is about getting votes. now, my other points are stronger but I felt like putting in all the stuff.
The dems did not just go from super racist to not racist at all.

Lol. Pretty much. Republicans have even been caught in a the t cuts saying they want voter ID laws to cut down on minorities voting

do they? proof?
If this were true is it worse than the Jim Crow laws? Staring the KKK?


The KKK was democratic and used voter fraud to win. That is why they are against ID to vote. I believe minorities are perfectly capable of getting government ID. Do you think they are not?

Not reading all that shit, but there was a great piece on the history of black voting in NY Mag today:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/pragmatic-tradition-of-black-voters.html

I recommend the whole thing, but here's a bit of it:

Then don't. So I see you copied and pasted with no opinion, are the dems or repubs the real racists?

 

[lfd0311]

Not reading all that shit, but there was a great piece on the history of black voting in NY Mag today:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/pragmatic-tradition-of-black-voters.html

I recommend the whole thing, but here's a bit of it:

And there has been no greater enemy in our nation's history to Black People than Democrats.

 

[electricfuneral]

Why so partisan skip?

 

[Losfer Words]

Southern Strategy

 

[Skip Reming]

Much more supporting evidence of my point

What party was MLK a member of? The man who more influential than anyone in ending segregation????
http://humanevents.com/2006/08/16/why-martin-luther-king-was-republican/

This is a great article and I want to post all of it but will not, you really should read this link

It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S’s: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.

It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950s and 1960s.

Given the circumstances of that era, it is understandable why Dr. King was a Republican. It was the Republicans who fought to free blacks from slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment). Republicans passed the civil rights laws of the 1860s, including the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 that was designed to establish a new government system in the Democrat-controlled South, one that was fair to blacks. Republicans also started the NAACP and affirmative action with Republican President Richard Nixon’s 1969 Philadelphia Plan (crafted by black Republican Art Fletcher) that set the nation’s fist goals and timetables. Although affirmative action now has been turned by the Democrats into an unfair quota system, affirmative action was begun by Nixon to counter the harm caused to blacks when Democrat President Woodrow Wilson in 1912 kicked all of the blacks out of federal government jobs.

During the civil rights era of the 1960s, Dr. King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the school house doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose vicious dogs. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools. President Eisenhower also appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation. Much is made of Democrat President Harry Truman’s issuing an Executive Order in 1948 to desegregate the military. Not mentioned is the fact that it was Eisenhower who actually took action to effectively end segregation in the military.

Democrats have been running our inner-cities for the past 30 to 40 years, and blacks are still complaining about the same problems.

We must demonstrate that the Democrat Party policies of socialism and dependency on government handouts offer the pathway to poverty, while Republican Party principles of hard work, personal responsibility, getting a good education and ownership of homes and small businesses offer the pathway to prosperity.

 

[Higus]

So, the jim crow laws, kkk, having a senator in t\he KKK, and filibustering the civil rights act is not racist? Ok

It's ironic that you ask for people to not comment unless they actually read your post, then the you respond by completely ignoring my first paragraph.

 

[Jack V Savage]

Then don't. So I see you copied and pasted with no opinion, are the dems or repubs the real racists?

Are you serious? Historically, of course, both parties were almost all racists, but up until the New Deal period, Democrats had it more central to their identity. Democrats then alienated their Southern racist bloc, but they didn't immediately go the GOP. Eventually, the GOP started courting them, and they now control the party. Meanwhile, blacks have become a hugely influential voting bloc within the Democratic Party.

 

[InvestigatorIL]

Spin it however you want ts... Most of the people in the groups listed above belong to the Republican party

 

[glennrod]

Spin it however you want ts... Most of the people in the groups listed above belong to the Republican party

Yeah, i doubt that pieces of shit like Azalea Banks, Spike Lee, and thousands of BLM supporters are Republicans somehow..

 

[InvestigatorIL]

Yeah, i doubt that pieces of shit like Azalea Banks, Spike Lee, and thousands of BLM supporters are Republicans somehow..

The people you listed are not racist so GTFO

 

[Execute]

I feel like every sheltered white kid goes into college with this same argument while ignoring context of history.

 

[glennrod]

The people you listed are not racist so GTFO

That's absurd..i guarantee that i can find more evidence of racism from them than i could from Trump...wanna bet on it?

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

Lol. Look up the solid south strategy. It explains the political inversion that happened in the 1960's

Basically republicans are racist now. Before 1960's it was the democrats

Before 1960 they both were

 

[InvestigatorIL]

That's absurd..i guarantee that i can find more evidence of racism from them than i could from Trump...wanna bet on it?

Nah. Why are you bringing up those people and Trump. I don't understand. Then you want to make bets? haha, you are a loon.

Lets bet on the percentage of actual KKK members (all 12 still left) and ask them if they are republican or democrat