The history lesson is silly, as I have already shown. The current democratic party, just like the current republican party, is far removed from their history. Only ignorant regressives ignore the reality that the name of a party is meaningless, you have to look at the current leadership to determine where a political party is at...not looking back to the past. The current president, a republican voted in twice by republican supporters, has supported amnesty programs for illegals, seen the spending and size of government increase, etc. etc. etc. The initial article was foolish in the point it was trying to make, but that is to be expected of right wingers in their attempt to run away from the reality of where racism is most alive...the deep, very red right wing south.
I'd guess this article had to be written after it was made public that Mr. Magoo voted against making MLK a holiday in Arizona. Iraq really does seem to be returning to normal with rockets hitting the green zone.
You have not shown that at all. What about the history lesson is inaccurate? Strawman. Not the main point of the article at all. Strawman, but thank you for pointing out that the current Republican President has supported amnesty programs for illegals - gee! What a racist he is! Strawman, but hey, let's see here, you can't be talking about Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Tennessee, as the Dems have seen victories in all of those states during the past four elections. Heck, in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee, the Dems have won two of the last four. Now, back to the question you continue to dodge and evade: What is racist about the Republican party again? p.s. Thanks again for acknowledging the history of the Democratic party and its support for slavery and bitter opposition to ending it and its legacy.
It has been shown, I can't help that you can't see it... The history lesson is not relevant to the claims that the dems are to blame for racism, it is factually and fundamentally an argument without foundation or supporting evidence when the view of history includes the past 40 years. In addition, the very existence of racism in this country predates both republican and democratic party. It is a hack article, poorly written with a weak argument at its core. Blame goes to those who have the power to stop something, and then don't do anything. In the past 40 years we had republican presidents from 1968 through 1976, then from 1980 to 1992, and now from 2000 to present. Republicans had/have the power and opportunity to end racism, but they did not... Republicans could have voted in black congressmen and senators in the states they control, but that has not happened. Fact is, Bush and his government and their failure to quickly help the poor black people of New Orleans during Katrina did nothing but reinforce the lack of concern for the poor blacks living there. The lack of a timely response to that disaster only increased the feelings that republicans don't care about the poor black of this country...which helps to keep the racist feelings alive. This administration dumps billions into Iraq, while the poverty level increases here at home, jobs are lost, racial tensions continue, and illegals are allowed to take the jobs away from Americans as they will work under the table. If anything, Bush has shown that he hates Americans as he has no problem with the continuation of poverty, crime, failing education, etc. Really, a stupid, stupid, stupid article.
WOW!! The Republican Party has had the power to end racism in this country!! Who woulda thunk?!? And how were they to do that? Why, apparently... Ah! I see!! You end racism by ignoring the democratic process and simply insert racial quotas! Presto! Racism solved!! ROFTLMAO!! Oh Zzzzzz, even by your minimalist standards, this is a new low in logic. Why didn't Bill end racism during his two terms? Damn those Dem states for not ensuring that all of their representatives were black! What the hell was wrong with them? Karl Rove must have sabotaged their efforts, yeah, that's it....him and Rush Limbaugh....and Sean Hannity... Fact is, there were failures across ALL levels of government - federal, state, city. But typical of left-wing moonbats suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome to blame everything on Bush. Ah, so the Repubs should prove themselves not to be racist by kicking out other races. Yeah, I can see how that will change people's minds... Yeah, he just hates Americans. He did, after all, plan and execute 9/11, and there's that oil pipeline running directly from Iraq to the basement of the White House now, etc., etc.....LOL! Boy have you totally lost it... Your responses are like watching a train wreck in slow motion, with each succeeding post of yours becoming increasingly bizarre. Please come back when you have something reasonable to present in terms of argumentation besides strawmen, revisionist history, and conspiracy theories.
Really??? You think the life of an avg Black american has improved dramatically??? hmmm....how so?...here's some sobering news for you...2/3rds of Black children in America are born into a single parent home...that is a mind blowing stat imo....what's even more disturbing is the fact the the number one killer of black men between 18 and 40 is not a disease....its other black men killing them.....and last week an article came out about the level of HIV infected black women....they are HUGE and growing....there is a real problem here that everyone is ignoring and instead they focus on wether a golf channel anchor shold lose her job for saying 'lynched"
Income, education, job opportunities, to name just a few. The statistics regarding education (dropout rates, percentage receiving 4-yr and grad degrees) are mindblowing (see Statistical Abstract of the United States). Same with poverty levels.
well then if that's the case and it has improved so dramatically maybe its time to start scaling back all the aid ??????
It was a Rebublican who nominated and fought for the apointment of the first black man to the Supreme Court. It was the Rebublicans who had the first African American as the Sec. of State, and the republicans too who had the first African American Woman serve in the same job.