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JAMES SCHUMACHER's avatar

You're absolutely right but that shouldn't surprise anyone.

The DemocRATic Party has always been the party of slavery and I can prove it.

Who controlled Congress when the Jim Crow laws were passed?

When the Black Codes were enacted?

Who started the KKK?

Who kept the KKK running into the 60s?

DemocRATS.

In fact, during the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858, Senator Stephen Douglas (a Democrat) stated: “I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever”. Douglas became the Democratic Party’s 1860 Presidential nominee.

In 1862, President Lincoln (a Republican) signed the bill abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia. In Congress, 99% of Republicans had voted yes, 83% of Democrats had voted no.

Also in 1862, over unanimous Democrat opposition, a Republican Congress passed the Confiscation Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy “shall be forever free”.

In 1865, Republicans passed the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery unanimously – against near unanimous Democratic opposition. .

In 1866, a Republican Congress overrode Democrat President Johnson’s veto of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on African-Americans.

In 1866, the US House passed the Republican sponsored 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens, with 100% of Democrats voting no. The Senate passed the amendment with 94% of Republicans voting yes and 100% of Democrats voting no.

The 15th Amendment (granting the right to vote regardless of color) was passed by Congress in 1869 with 98% of Republican supporting it and 97% of Democrats opposing it.

The Democratic Party fought every piece of civil rights legislation from the 1860′s to the 1960′s that REPUBLICANS sponsored. Democrats even fought anti-lynching laws (it was called “The Klan Act”), and when the Democrats regained control of Congress in 1892, they passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned the civil right laws enacted by Republicans earlier.

Furthermore, it was Republicans who founded the NAACP and most of the historical black colleges.   It was Eisenhower, a Republican, who established the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, enforced the desegregation of the military, sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate the schools (using the 101st airborne), and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education (which ended school segregation).

The 1960 Civil Rights Act (signed into law by a Republican) had to survive a five-day filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats. Robert Byrd, a former KKK clansman who rose to the ranks of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops, conducted a 14-hour filibuster against the bill. He then voted unsuccessfully, along with 22 other Senate Democrats, including Al Gore Sr, against the act.

The 1964 Civil Rights Act (proposed by LBJ) passed the House with a higher percentage of Republicans supporting it than Democrats. Without Republicans the bill would have failed. In the Senate, almost a third of Democrats voted against the legislation (compared to just 18% of Republicans), and the man The NYTimes said was "instrumental" in getting the bill passed was a REPUBLICAN.

It was Senate Republican Everett Dirksen who overcame Democrat efforts to block the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Eventually, 94% of Senate Republicans voted for that legislation, while 27% of Democrats opposed it. Why did so many Democrats oppose it? For one thing, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 abolished literacy tests devised by Democrats to prevent blacks from voting.

Democrat Senator William Fulbright, who Democrats held in the highest esteem, was kept in office till 1974. Yet Fulbright was one of 99 Democratic Congressmen to sign the Southern Manifesto in 1957 declaring that states had the right to segregate the races (only 2 Republicans signed that).

In 1982, it was President Ronald Reagan who signed the 25-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act. And it was President George H. W. Bush who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1991.

Democrats kept Robert Byrd, who publicly was still using the N-Word in the 2000s, in the Senate until his death. They named him their "conscience” and the “soul” of the Senate. In Byrd's eulogy, Bill Clinton claimed Byrd only joined the KKK to get elected … which is demonstrably false. In 1952, he claimed that “After about a year [in the KKK], I became disinterested, quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization. During the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan." Nine years prior to 1952 would be 1943. But in 1946 Byrd wrote a letter to the group's Imperial Wizard stating "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see it's rebirth in West Virginia."

Bryd also lied when he claimed his membership in the Klan was about excitement and anti-communism. In 1945, he wrote a letter to segregationist Theodore Bilbo, the democRAT Senator from Mississippi, stating that that he would never fight in the armed forces "with a Negro by my side" and that "rather I should die a thousand times, and see old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."

DemocRATS are the party of slavery.

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Tom Calabretta's avatar

Robin Williams referred to lesbians as women in comfortable shoes. Good essay.

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