Democrats Have Kept Racism Alive By Nina May Wednesday, April 2, 2008 There was a big problem with Barackâs 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 didnât 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. If he saw our movie he would be reminded of three young white men who worked with CORE who were murdered, just for doing the right thing. He would see the incredible sacrifices that white men, such as Senator Charles Sumner endured for the cause of liberty for oppressed slaves. He was attacked on the Senate floor by pro-slavery Democratic congressman, Preston Brooks, who stormed the Senate side of the Capitol and tried to beat Sumner to death with his cane because he dared to introduce yet another piece of anti-slavery legislation. Brooks received hundreds of canes from adoring fans, while Senator Sumner struggled for three years to survive. When he did, the first thing he did when he returned to the Senate was to re-introduce a bill that would abolish slavery. This man was a white Republican. Preston Brooks was a white Democrat. Race had nothing to do with their individual passion to destroy or preserve slavery. It was a passion born of moral values and an understanding of good and evil. That is the discussion today that pastors are supposed to be having and preaching and encouraging their flock to understand. Rev. Wright did not get the memo and gets an âFâ in Black history. For Obama and his pastor to preach the âaudacity of despair and racismâ is an affront to all the people who have given their lives through the years to see racism destroyed. But that death blow has always been deflected by the Democratic Party that has had a vested interest in class and race warfare to keep their power base motivated and returning to the polls. Barack says, âI have asserted a firm conviction that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds,â yet he sits week after week listening to sermons that say just the opposite. But those days are gone as we rip off the tacky, thin veneer of elitism and bigotry that has propelled them to power. It is ironic that in his speech he challenges the listener by saying, âWe canât accept politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism,â when he belongs to the very party that has always done that, to the point where the new liberal plantation has erected philosophical barriers around all blacks, condemning those who dare to challenge the liberal status quo and escape this manipulation and intimidation. They are called Aunt Jamima, like Condi Rice, or house Negroes like Colin Powell, or forced to endure high tech lynchings like Clarence Thomas. They have Oreo Cookies thrown at them like Michael Steele and are accused of acting white if they identify themselves as Republicans or conservatives. That is âthe racist spectacle we are not allowed to talk about.â When Blacks have to whisper at polling booths that they are Republican, for fear of reprisal from their liberal neighbors, then Barack really doesnât get the real conflict that is alive and well in this country, and why should he? He belongs to the party of the overseer of the philosophical plantation that intimidates and marginalizes Blacks that dare support conservative values or Republican ideas. So, if Barack was honest about his desire to âheal the nation,â he needs to learn American Black history, and take his pastor aside and tell him about it and challenge him to be more Christ-like when he preaches. If he knew real American Black history, he would not belong to the party of segregationists and bigots and would not have allowed himself to be sucked into that dark undertow of racial politics that has already robbed our nation of too many amazing blessings.
On matters of race, conservatives opposed integration and supported segregation, and from 1865 to the late 1940's, Democrats were conservatives on race. The big shift took place when Truman integrated the armed forces, a decision that sparked the rise of the Dixiecrats. The move in the South away from the Democratic party began. The move in the South away from the (national) Democratic party escalated in 1965, when Lyndon Johnson signed civil rights legislation. Ever since then, the Republican party has grown in the South, largely because they adopted the (psedo) racist party platform once held by the Democrats. On social matters, Democrats have become much more liberal since WW2, and Republicans, once progressive on race, have grown much more conservative.
Excellent post, hapaboy. Here is the problem. Book burning is too obvious, more insidious is to prevent the poplace from being able to read. That is what is happening in black america today. If one cannot read, one could publish, "How to Make a Billion Dollars In One Day", and not have to worry about it. At my job, I routinely leave my laptop open with my charts on it. Why? Because I know they can't read them anyway.
Of course not. This was part of the plan, IMO. Civil rights, and the French Revolution, for that matter was not led by the poor. It was led by the disenfranchised middles. These were people were had enough time and resources to get educated enough to know that they were being had. This never applies to the poor. Give the middles power of over the poor, but not enough to overtake the rich, and you have a winning formula. The black "leadership" is middle class. So, they keep their power by saying, "I'll fight for you against, the MAN." But , "the man" finances this situation. I admire the political chess being played here.
If the republicans aren't racists, then why don't we have any republican representatives in the congress and senate...why aren't they voting in black republicans? Could it be that the republican party in each state (especially the red states that vote republican) can't find a "qualified" or "electable" black candidate who would capture the imagination of the white/Hispanic/black republican voters sufficiently to be elected? LOL! http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/7-1-2002-21601.asp http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_12_34/ai_95914097 http://www.nationalblackrepublicans...es.PR-Reparations March1Mar07&tp_preview=true
To use your favorite word, but in proper context and without trying to evade or dodge: Strawman. This thread speaks to the history of racism in this country and the party that was primarily responsible for it. This is NOT about electing people of color by any given party, although that you decided to bring it up is noted, especially in light of the fact that if the Dems had had their way from the beginning, blacks would still be chattle and utterly unable to vote in the first place, let alone run for office. LOL! And I suppose all of the Republican blacks that have served or are serving in the Bush Administration are just Uncle Toms, huh?
The democrat party you speak of is not the same party as in the past (Republicans point this out all the time by pointing to the hawkish nature of Truman) just as the republican party today is not really the party of Lincoln, nor perhaps even of Ronald Reagan. For goodness, the party of Reagan is putting up John McCain for president? LMAO... Nearly all the hard right wing hates McCain because they believe he does not represent what they think of as the republican party nor papa Reagan's agenda... http://www.pubtheo.com/page.asp?pid=1218 ROTFLMAO... Leave it to the ancient history buffs to be oblivious to the present...
perhaps it has something to do with the fact the 90% of blacks vote for, and presumably run as, Democrats. Get yourself a red/blue state map, virtually, all the areas occurpied primarily by blacks are staunchly blue. AND ONE OTHER THING ........... BLACKS CAN'T RUN AS CONSERVATIVES WITHOUT BEING LABELED UNCLE TOMS BY THEIR OWN FRICKING KIND.... That, is the present, past and future. Again, somehow this becomes my fault, a conservative white man ... Why? Because no one can say such things and defend themselves without being run out town on a rail by Jesse Jackson, except of course Reverend Wright, who happens to be a Democrat and a racist bastard who the Left Is Now Defending!!!!!!!!!!! Case Closed ...