Democrats have kept racism alive

[Little-Acorn]

An excellent summary. No wonder Democrats keep dumbing down our schools, making it nearly impossible to reform them or fire incompetent teachers etc. People getting a good enough education to understand the impact of history, is the LAST thing they want.

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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/N...t_racism_alive

Democrats Have Kept Racism Alive

by Nina May
Wednesday, April 2, 2008

There was a big problem with Barack’s mea culpa speech in Philadelphia, defending his racist pastor, Jeremiah White. He failed to mention that over 300,000 white Americans gave their lives to end slavery. He didn’t mention that in 1854, abolitionists left the Democratic Party and founded the Republican Party specifically for the purpose of ending slavery and giving equal rights to all those who had been in bondage. And when he does mention the 3/5ths clause in the Constitution, he totally got it wrong, the way most Americans do. News flash . . . it was the abolitionists who insisted on it so that the slave holding states could not have their slaves counting as constituents so they could get more pro-slavery representation in congress. This is one of the most powerful battles fought by whites, to end slavery, which has been mischaracterized as being racist.

He needs to read the history of this battle for equality and realize that the party he embraces today was the party that voted against the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, while the Republicans supported them unanimously. He needs to acknowledge that the two dozen civil rights bills that were passed by the Republicans were overturned by the Democrats when they regained control of the House, Senate and White House at the end of the 19th Century.

It was at this time that the Democratic Party instituted Jim Crow laws. It was not whites that did this against blacks, it was bigoted, racist Democrats who would choose to divide a nation rather than give freedom to those they considered inferior. Had blacks been voting equally in both political parties, there never would have been literacy tests, poll taxes or other restrictions to voting. But because all blacks at this time identified with the party of Lincoln and were actually the ones starting Republican parties in southern states, and running and getting elected as Republicans, the Democrats knew that to kill a Black person was killing a Republican.

If he watched the award-winning documentary, Emancipation Revelation Revolution (ERRVideo.com), he would learn that the first Black Democrat, Barbara Jordan, was elected in the south in 1972, 100 years after Black Republicans had been running and winning for years. And it took a federal law to force redistricting in Texas to get her elected. He would be reminded that almost all the southern governors fighting integration, standing in school house doors, firing water canons at innocent people were all Democrats. And if his parents really were a part of the civil rights movement, he would realize that without whites fighting side by side to overturn laws that had been put in place by his very own party, it may have been another generation before the civil rights movement could happen.

It was not white versus black; it was racists, bigoted Democrats against blacks and whites who disagreed with them.

(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)

[Battleborne]

Just waiting with baited breath for darla,cypress,soco and toppy to dog pile on you again! Seems when a nerve is hit the dogs abandon the realative safety of their dirty little den...and commence with the four letter rants also known as rabies, masked as a diatribe!

[Little-Acorn]

Just waiting with baited breath for darla,cypress,soco and toppy to dog pile on you again! Seems when a nerve is hit the dogs abandon the realative safety of their dirty little den...and commence with the four letter rants also known as rabies, masked as a diatribe!

If you throw a stone into a pack of dogs, you can tell which ones it hit by observing who yelps the loudest. True especially of this board, I've found.