Disgusting… Think Progress Blames Conservatives For Dem’s Poll Taxes and Jim Crow Laws
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, March 28, 2011, 5:53 AM
Another top KKK member is running for office as a democrat this year.
The KKK, as you know, was founded as the the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party.
The Ku Klux Klan assassinated many Republicans including Republican Representative James M. Hinds (December 5, 1833—October 22, 1868) of Little Rock. Hinds represented Arkansas in the United States Congress from June 24, 1868 through October 22, 1868.
But, once again, facts don’t matter to today’s “progressive” movement.
Think Progress today is hoping to rewrite history and blame the violent democrat policies on conservatives.
Here’s the claim:
– JIM CROW SOUTH: In the Jim Crow South, historian Leon Litwack writes, “respectable” Southern whites justified their support for measures to disenfranchise African-Americans “as a way to reform and purify the electoral process, to root out fraud and bribery.” In North Carolina for example, conservatives insisted that literacy tests and poll taxes — which disenfranchised tens of thousands of African-Americans — were necessary to prevent “voter fraud.”
Disgusting. The poll taxes were set up by southern democrats to prevent blacks from voting. For liberals today to blame their sins on Republicans is sick and twisted.
These Soros lackeys are not honest people. They will stop at nothing to push their agenda.
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Militant Conservative commented:
MLK was aRepublican.
Al Gore Sr. voted against the civil rights act, so did Senator Byrd.
powder is dry
Joe College commented:
“The KKK, as you know, was founded as the the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party.”
Well put, and true!
Haek commented:
Notice they sandwich quotes from a historian around the false statement to give it an air of legitimacy.
richardporter commented:
Are you implying that Southern Democrats during the era of Jim Crow were not conservative? Then tell me why Nixon successfully recruited much of the Southern Democrats also know as the Nixon Southern Strategy into the Republican fold!
Talk about revisionist history!
Jack commented:
If that were the case, why were blacks overwhelmingly Republican in those days? Why was Fredrick Douglass a Republican? Rewriting history and they get away with it because Republicans are spineless!
mmc commented:
http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=134
All you need to know to set record straight ….Leon lies
Militant Conservative commented:
#4 March 28, 2011 at 9:30 am
richardporter commented:
Book for you to order. Written by a black preacher to teach his own sons the truth.
“Whites, Blacks and racist Democrats”
Quick easy read and all events are footnoted for you unbeleivers.
Wise up, your lies have run thier course. Your done.
Powder is Dry.
Hedgehog commented:
Not only does this distort history in an effort to keep blacks voting in lock step, it lays the ground for opposing any attempt to reduce vote fraud as an effort to “disenfranchise” minorities. What crap!
Militant Conservative commented:
Obama is one and done. Ten states have passed a birth certificate law for candidates that run for office in that state.
Can’t win if you cannot run in the state.
powder is dry.
Larkin commented:
Evil is as evil does.
Where is the mealy-mouthed establishment media shining a light on it?
They are nothing but evil enablers after all.
ohio commented:
Slave economics, race repression, Jim Crow, lynch mobs, fire hoses, bombed out churches, white robes and burning crosses, that is the Democratic Party’s history.
Never put yourself in the position of trying to defend their history. It’s theirs, let them own it, let them defend it, let them explain it away. They are forever trying to re-write history, and if that was my history I’d try to re-write it too. Don’t make it easy for them. Just throw it right back on them. It’s theirs.
Khan Krum commented:
This is just like the sham the left pulled off linking the Nazis to the American right wing. In reality, the National Socialists were leftists.
Rhymes With Right commented:
Actually, it really does need to be “Democrats” rather than “conservatives”, given that today’s “conservatives” stand for an entirely different set of principles from the conservatives of that earlier era. Indeed, many of those conservatives” fall into the category of “progressive” — indeed, it was a future member of Woodrow Wilson’s Cabinet who ginned up a coup that overthrew the elected government of one North Carolina city and slaughtered a number of its black citizens lest electoral results that favored blacks and Republicans be allowed to stand.
http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu/archives/144740.php
http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu/archives/179479.php
silentcal_rox commented:
yeah, guys like george wallace, lester maddox, william fullbright, ross barnett, al gore senior.thgsed damed repupublics! aw! wait a minute they were’t republicans!!!!!!
Let these idiots exercise their right to free speech; be patient, allow them to finish, and then destroy them with the facts . . . . hopefully in front of a group of people. I find that form of mental gymnastics to be most entertaining, refreshing, and good for one’s soul!! dissing a lib a day keeps the commies away!!
Anti-Theist commented:
The Klan are not democrats, but they are Christian.
richardporter commented:
Dear Militant Conservative,
You’re missing the point I’m making. Of course most Southern Democrats during the Jim Crow era were racist – violently racist. My point is if they were not conservative then why did the vast majority of them flee to the Republican Party during the late sixties and seventies? Wouldn’t this imply they were conservative all along?
Tlaloc commented:
“The poll taxes were set up by southern democrats to prevent blacks from voting.”
Absolutely right, but of course you leave out that almost all the sourther racist dems switched to the GOP as part of Nixon’s Southern Strategy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
You’re absolutely right that 1860s dems were racist. Now can you explain why your party worked so hard to recruit those people? Enough so that between 1960 and 1968 the south went from dem stronghold to republican stronghold and blacks went from a population in play to a solid dem base.
Bonus points if you can manage to explain how the GOP driving away Latinos today isn’t a demographic nightmare for them down the road…
Chisum commented:
Are we talking about Senator Byrd? Because, if memory serves me, he died a democrat.
tarpon commented:
Some historians note that more white politicians were hung by the KKK Democrats than blacks.
History is your friend read and learn.
Hey who knew Jimmy Carter was a segregationist? Just look at an archive of his governor campaign.
bg commented:
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Capn Angus commented:
This discussion between Walter E Williams & Thomas Sowell is right on point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jv1Zae0sgo
bg commented:
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Runaway Slave
C.L. Bryant
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jerseyj commented:
Tlaloc, I’m fascinated by your analysis. So, the 1860′s southern dems were racist and, 100 years later, there was no change in demographics, attitude or values to account for their move to the republican party. Nope, they were still racists and therefore, by association, the republicans are racists.
You’re the perfect posterchild for solipsism.
Rob Crawford commented:
“My point is if they were not conservative then why did the vast majority of them flee to the Republican Party during the late sixties and seventies?”
They didn’t.
Hint: What party did the last Klansmen in the Senate belong to?
Second hint: When campaigning against Bobby Jindal, Democrats routinely emphasize his dark skin, Catholicism, and given name.
retire05 commented:
RichardPorter, perhaps you would like to name the Southern Democrats you claim fled to the Republican Party? Al Gore, Sr? Robert Byrd? John Tower?
You can try to twist history to fit the narrative of the left, but you cannot change history. And the history is that the KKK found its beginnings in the Democrat Party, the fact is that it was Democrats who opposed the CRA, the fact is that it is Democrats that continue to maintain the plantation mentality with its entitlement programs that have destroyed the black church, the black family and the black community.
I think Bill Clinton summed it all up nicely when he gave a eulogy for Robert Byrd; Byrd did what he did to get elected. That should tell you all you need to know about the left. Elected by any means, including using racism.
Chisum commented:
Bwahahahaha! ?The more things change THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME!
Powerful Illinois Democrats, State Police Covering Up Racial Incident?
http://biggovernment.com/driehl/2011/03/28/powerful-illinois-democrats-state-police-covering-up-racial-incident/
Rob Crawford commented:
“Enough so that between 1960 and 1968 the south went from dem stronghold to republican stronghold and blacks went from a population in play to a solid dem base. ”
In the real world, that switch didn’t happen until 15-20 years later.
Question: Which party, throughout its history, has supported policies that require government classifying people on the basis of their ancestry? Which party, throughout its history, has made threats of racially-motivated violence a part of its routine electoral strategy?
Hint: All that happened in the ’60s was the leftists took over the Democrats and swapped the colors around. Instead of ginning up poor, uneducated whites to riot and string up blacks, they took to ginning up poor, uneducated blacks to riot and string up whites, Asians, and others. Thus the LA riots, Cincinnati riots, the condition of Detroit, and the untouchable status of race thugs like Sharpton.
Radegunda commented:
Jim, where in that statement does Litwack blame “Republicans”? It’s one thing to object to what may be implied by his use of the term “conservative,” and quite another to put words in his mouth. Making that kind of verbal leap really doesn’t do anything for your credibility.
eaglewingz08 commented:
Sorry, but there are conservatives in both parties, and racists in both parties. The problem is that liberals when they can’t tar republicans with the nasty policies of democrats, then just tar conservatives, without seeing that even the conservative republicans in the period 1860-1964 were against the racialist democrat policies.
Rob Crawford commented:
And how “racist” are Republicans?
Most Blacks of course still vote blue at the ballot box, but more and more of them are voting red with their feet. They are betting in massive numbers that southern Republicans will do a better job of helping their kids get good educations, police their communities more fairly… , offer more affordable housing and create a better business climate.
LUN.
Radegunda commented:
Rob Crawford — well put. It’s Democrats who are obsessed with race.
jorgen commented:
Their name is the result of typical leftist projection: they don’t think and therefore has to call themselves something that implies that they actually can think.
Rob Crawford commented:
Radegunda — it’s a purposeful smear, to say “conservatives” and imply modern conservatives have the same attitudes.
We’ve seen it a million times. Without race-hate, the Democrats would have faded into obscurity during Reconstruction.
lowdowndog commented:
My, how times have changed. Thanks to MLK and LBJ racist Democrats saw the error of their ways and became Republicans.
Auntie Em commented:
I could tell you some stories. Fortunately, the white democrats here in the South are ignorant and have very loose lips. It would be great if Big Government could send some reporters here. I could set them up with some interviews that would expose the democratic party for what it is. I need to start recording the stories they tell. They are liars, they sit in churches, serve as deacons, have murder in their hearts, and hold public office. They hate coloreds, mexicans, sand nigg**s (their words). They also hate whites who want everyone of those groups to prosper. I had one ( a teacher ) tell me that I was worthless and going against the Lord for defending a black preacher.
The democrats are the real reason the rest of the world hates America… not conservatives. The democrats are the reason that God is going to pour out His righteous wrath on this country. He did it with Obama, but more will follow.
Beef commented:
@#8: that’s it exactly.
This is first and foremost propaganda designed to attack contemporary efforts to fight democrat voter fraud by labelling it “racist”.
StrangernFiction commented:
We were involved in a rather dynamic kinetic military action with Germany less than 70 years ago, and now they are a member of NATO.
And beyond that Republican does not equal conservative. Trent Lott, Haley Barbour, Lindsey Graham, Lamaar Alexander……are not conservatives.
Somewhat Reasonable Voice commented:
Do you mean to tell me that the liberal, progressive, Satan party would lie?
I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!
Auntie Em commented:
Oh, and white democrats believe that the blacks were cursed by God and are meant to be treated as animals in this life. They are doing God’s work, they think. And nothing is going to stop them. Take a look around at the slums and the projects. Note the person in charge in those districts. Democrats. That is purposeful and planned. They are whipping them in a ‘politically correct’ and very profitable way.
gastorgrab commented:
When the Poll taxes failed to discourage Black Republicans who could afford it, another method was used. Benjamin Tillman (D), a ‘White Supremacist’ Senator from South Carolina, created the first form of campaign finance reform, the ‘Tillman Act of 1907′ …….. to diminish the influence of Black business owners in politics.
Auntie Em commented:
#36 March 28, 2011 at 11:10 am
StrangernFiction commented:
‘Scuse me, but…
Haley Barbour is a conservative. I know him and his family personally. They are good people. However, I am befuddled about his current talking points (global warming). He is testing the waters for a presidential run, so I can see your point, and I scratching my head on that one. We aren’t going to agree with the why’s and how’s of every person. I don’t always agree with my husband on his choices for our family, but God is the answer, not man. Barbour is a great governor, and I would not make the mistake of lumping him with the likes of Trent Lott, Lindsey Graham (puke) or many of the RINOs. He’s very strong on his convictions and I’ll never forget how he got Mississippi together after Katrina. He’s a leader and a friend.
Minitrue commented:
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
The KKK has always been a wing of the Republican party.
Militant Conservative commented:
#43 March 28, 2011 at 11:33 am
Minitrue commented:
Dunce
StrangernFiction commented:
#40 March 28, 2011 at 11:21 am
Auntie Em commented:
No worries, I am in a very small minority on what it means to be conservative. The political spectrum, or the Overton Window as Beck calls it, has moved so far left that people who are not philosophically all that conservative seem quite conservative. Barbour may well be quite socially conservative, but otherwise not so much. I’m not saying he’s a statist, but he’s no proponent of a federal government constrained as the Founders sought.
Jack commented:
#43- Obviously you don’t know history or are trying to wishfully change it.
Minitrue commented:
Citizen, you have obviously never read your Orwell. Doubleplusungood.
Please report to Minilove posthaste
tarpon commented:
Minitrue So you saying it was Lincoln who formed the KKK, right after he freed the slaves? How about segregation and Jim Crow? Have you seen Jimmy Carters campaign poster art from his last governors race in Georgia.
The Democrat’s terror wing has been the KKK for a hundred years.
The real racists have always been the Democrats. Too bad KKK Byrd isn’t around ANYMORE. And BJ Clinton, at Byrd’s eulogy — well you had to join the KKK to get elected.
History is your friend and will bring you the real truth. May not make you happy, but the truth has no agenda.
Did you know in 1854 that the Democrats and their majority status, started the Civil War? Sure did, read the history of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which was the last straw, made America into a slave country by tipping the balance to slave states …. And spawned Lincoln’s run for the Presidency. Lincoln was the first modern Republican President, after abandoning the Whigs(Democrat lite party), which then just faded away.
decentAmerican commented:
As usual, the racist left is trying to deny the history that they themselves created. The demokkkrats are solely responsible for creating the most hateful group in American history. Sorry dems, the KKK is your baby, you will always have ownership of it. The racism has continued, withe the dems responsible for jim crow laws, filibustering the civil rights act, putting japanese in internmet camps, putting native americans on reservations, calling for clarence thomas lynching, calling herman cain a monkey. These are not isolated or fringe elements of the dem party…. This IS the Dem party.
Btw, the man who orgaized MLKs historic Dream speech? A black republican. THAT is OUR proud hostory.
Militant Conservative commented:
#49
Thats the lefts tar baby.
squeaky commented:
i don’t know if this has been up – louie read barack the riot act and now malik. a lot of people think barack is in their corner. they may have baracks back but if they think he’s going to watch theirs…….more like pick their pocket.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/you-should-have-listened-to-farrakhan-when-you-were-at-his-table-new-black-panthers-turn-on-obama-in-an-n-word-uncle-tom-tirade-content-warning/
befuddled commented:
“Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans.”
They talk about “Winning The Future” so they don’t have to talk about their past. Typical Pavlov’s dog response: liberals begin drooling and spouting off nonsense when confronted by those dread awful Republicans. What exactly did Republicans do to these people. Did they make them attend church services every Sunday. Did they force them to brush their teeth 3x a day. Did they once forget to tuck them in at night. Did they forget a birthday.
For goodness sake, get the hell off the plantation already.
mRed commented:
First of all the myth of Nixon’s Southern Strategy turned southerners Republican can be easily refuted by simply looking at the voting patterns after Nixon. Those that voted against the interests of blacks were members of both parties, but Republicans forced “Civil Rights” legislation on Democrats. Second, the left wants to ignore pesty little problems such as racist Bob “Call me Cicero” Byrd by inferring all southerners were and still are racists which is pure crap. The southern states are populated by good and bad people, just as in other parts of the nation. Lefties want to stand tall by referring to slavery, but unfortunately eradicating slavery in the south just a few years after it had been eradicated in the north isn’t really an argument, especially since the war was fought on many issues of larger concern to the population at that time.
Southerners became Republican because of modernization, industrialization and the resurrection of the economy through private enterprise. The south was devastated by the Civil War and then it was devastated even further by Reconstruction. Southerners were bitter, but more so by the continued economic repression foisted on them by northern Republicans generations after the war.
Southerners also became Republican because the Republican Party left the country clubs and spoke directly to the voters, both black and white and they then switched the south to Republican in 1984 with the re-election campaign of Ronald Reagan. Nixon’s Southern Strategy was far in the rearview mirror by then. I was there, in the campaigns and in the field and I saw the south shift and it was not because of Nixon’s Southern Strategy nor was it because of racism. It was because good people wanted change and they thought their blind allegiance to the Democratic Party no longer served them.
You want to see racism, go to Cleveland, Chicago, New York City and many other cities in both the south and the north and witness the racism of a federal government that treats minorities as governed best by reserving them to locales that are planned to be economically depressed to keep them dependent on the federal reservation.
Jack commented:
First black congressmen were Republicans.
gastorgrab commented:
Oops! The leftists missed another page at Wikipedia:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klanbake
The 1924 Democratic National Convention, also called the Klanbake,[1] held at the Madison Square Garden in New York City from June 24 to July 9, took a record 103 ballots to nominate a presidential candidate. It was the longest continuously running convention in United States political history. It was the first major party national convention that saw the name of a woman, Lena Springs, placed in nomination for the office of Vice President. It was also known for the strong influence of the Ku Klux Klan. John W. Davis, initially an outsider, eventually won the presidential nomination as a compromise candidate following a virtual war of attrition between front-runners William Gibbs McAdoo and Al Smith.
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KKK platform plank
The second dispute of the convention revolved around an attempt by non-Klan delegates, led by Forney Johnston of Alabama, to condemn the organization for its violence in the Democratic Party’s platform. Klan delegates defeated the platform plank in a series of floor debates. To celebrate, tens of thousands of hooded Klansmen rallied in a field in New Jersey opposite of the convention building.[2] This event, known subsequently as the “Klanbake”, was also attended by hundreds of Klan delegates to the convention, who burned crosses, urged violence and intimidation against African Americans and Catholics, and attacked effigies of Smith.
Dave-O commented:
Which party today still treats Blacks as folks that need to “stay on the plantation?” And vilifies them for thinking for themselves? Which party today treats blacks as those worthy of judgement by the content of their character as opposed to the color of their skin?
Militant Conservative commented:
Here is why Obama is not going to win in 2012. The following states require the submission of your long form BC to qualify in the respective state: Arizona, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Connecticut, Indiana, Tennessee and Maine.
Put up or get out Obama.
powder is dry
PB-in-AL commented:
As a Southerner in the horrible place of racism called Alabama, I’d like to point out that the membership of the KKK during the times in question was just as prolific in the “tolerant” north as down here.
Sure the actions and video were down here in the south, but that’s simply because King and his folks, you know, like, lived here.
lyle commented:
The Democratic Party is the party of slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, and the KKK. Outraged democrats will deny this, until they educate themselves on the facts.
Then they will claim that, well, yeah, well, all those racist democrats fled to the Republican Party after the Civil Rights Act – Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, and did we mention Strom Thurmond?
But that’s not true, either. The vast majority of segregationist democrats, nearly 100 percent of them, including all of the most virulent, stuck by their party. Even a minimal review of their history proves it. Pick a name: Lester Maddox, Orville Faubus, George Wallace, Bull Connor, Al Gore Sr, William Fullbright… pick a name.
The popular shift to the Republican Party only started after the Klan was essentially destroyed in the early 70s. Thereafter, as the Deep South population and economy changed, and as the segregationist old guard died out, the South slowly became more Republican. But it took decades.
Then they will drop the claim that their Party was innocent and claim that it was conservatives who were to blame. They use hamster-cage circular logic to make this argument: since segregationism was an attempt to conserve an evil tradition, and Republicans are conservative, evil traditionalists, therefore Republicans are to blame for crimes that democrats actually committed. Rubbish.
Then they will pull out Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’. It’s more of the same, a dishonest trick that left-wing academics came up with, and that gullible fools have swallowed. If you remember 1972, or educate yourself on Nixon’s Southern Strategy, you will discover that they don’t know what they are talking about.
Then they will get angry, sputter, call you names, and run away.
gastorgrab commented:
Compare.
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Multiculturalism has a number of different meanings. At one level the term means the appreciation, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures, applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level, e.g. schools, businesses, neighborhoods, cities or nations. In this sense multiculturalism approximates to respect for diversity.
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Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law that justified systems of segregation. Under this doctrine, services, facilities and public accommodations were allowed to be separated by race, on the condition that the quality of each group’s public facilities was to remain equal.
SNAPTIE commented:
During the Reconstruction period of 1865–1877 federal law provided civil rights protection in the South for “freedmen” — the African Americans who had formerly been slaves. In the 1870s, white Democrats gradually returned to power in southern states, sometimes as a result of elections in which paramilitary groups intimidated opponents, attacking blacks or preventing them from voting. Gubernatorial elections were close and disputed in Louisiana for years, with extreme violence unleashed during the campaign. In 1877, a national compromise to gain southern support in the presidential election resulted in the last of the federal troops being withdrawn from the South. White Democrats had regained power in every Southern state.[5] The white, Democratic Party Redeemer government that followed the troop withdrawal legislated Jim Crow laws segregating black people from the state’s white population.Those Nasty Democunts were responsible voter suppression.
Auntie Em commented:
#59 March 28, 2011 at 1:07 pm
lyle commented:
I would argue they (the old hardline democrats) moved to Chicago and created their headquarters.
lyle commented:
Auntie Em #61,
The Chicago machine was firmly entrenched long before that. And Democrat machines still dominated Southern cities and states long after the Klan was demolished.
gastorgrab commented:
The only thing that has changed in the Democratic party from 100 years ago is the interest group.
Instead of ‘White People’, they try to identify themselves by every other interest group imaginable. Today they use union goons to do the dirty work. Today they use Lesbian-Gay alliance to make their case. Today they use Hispanics, and Blacks, and Poor People, and Woman, and Left-handed People, and Cross-eyed people, and Dwarfs, the Disabled ………. but whatever you do, don’t mention the white people. That would tip their hands.
It is the politics of Identity for the Democratic Party, and it always has been. Despite the fact that the Constitution makes no mention of separate rights for any of these groups, the Democratic party emphasizes ‘differences’ that don’t really exist for the purpose of inciting envy between the groups. Everyone on their side is a “Victim”.
It’s methodology hasn’t changed in 100 years. It’s the same high school-type jealousies that we all thought we left behind. They divide and conquer. They separate into groups and then set the groups against each other.
The individual no longer matters. Their goal, despite the insistence of Democrats, seeks only to create a different set of rules for each of the separate groups IT has identified. The individual no longer gets to determine his own identity. Progressives will do that for them.
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bg commented:
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gastorgrab commented:
Damn! The left really should take a look at Wikipedia. Some of the people they are lying to might read this.
Now correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Woodrow Wilson a ‘Progressive’?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP#Fighting_Jim_Crow_and_disfranchisement
In its early years, the NAACP concentrated on using the courts to overturn the Jim Crow statutes that legalized racial segregation. In 1913, the NAACP organized opposition to President Woodrow Wilson’s introduction of racial segregation into federal government policy, offices, and hiring.
lyle commented:
gastorgrab #64
That’s exactly right.
The Republican Party was founded as the party of Abolition. It has always favored equal civil rights for all citizens. When Democrats were finally ready to vote for the Civil Rights Act, Republicans had been waiting for a hundred years.
The Democratic Party was the party of slavery and segregation. They have always favored quotas and preferences. Before the Civil Rights Act, those quotas and preferences favored whites over blacks and other minorities. After the Civil Rights Act, the party pivoted to endorse quotas and preferences for blacks and minorities over whites – affirmative action, in other words.
Democrats and their media changed the definition of ‘civil rights’ and rewrote their own evil and squalid history to make themselves appear virtuous. It is certainly easier than being virtuous when it really counts.
And as you point out, they haven’t really changed. It’s a matter of character. Their machines use union goons and anarchists and ‘peace’ activists instead of Klansmen, but the intimidation tactics they use are as old as their party.
RickS commented:
Racism runs deep in the blood of Democrats. Every single villain of the Civil Rights era–Faubus, Maddox, Connor, Wallace, etc.–was a Democrat. Violent racism: it’s what Democrats do.
Militant Conservative commented:
Learn history and all is revealed. This is why progressive revolutionaries kill teachers first.
Funny how the progressive left pushes an agenda that is self destructive.
Ironic, powder is dry
burt commented:
The last thing Democrats want is an educated population. The left send their retarded off to “normal schools” to become teachers. They want to re-educate the young people. If they young are stupid enough they will believe anything.
An American history question: Who was the leading democratic vote getter in the Presidential election of 1860? What did he do after loosing the election?
Hint: His name WAS NOT Douglas.
AZVic commented:
Jim Crow, formalized and federalized by progressive prez Woodrow Wilson, 1913.
Tom, Midland, TX commented:
Demonrats are evil. I grew up a Democrat, and saw the light when I started working, paying taxes, and earning my own way in life. The Demonrat Party is anti-Freedom and anti-American. The party of Sedition and Treason it is.