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Posted on 04/20/2008 5:28:14 AM PDT by paltz
Interesting Facts about Democrats and Republicans » Carnell Knowledge by Chris Arnell
After The Civil Rights Act was passed Democrat President Lyndon Johnson praised Republicans for their overwhelming support.
The Republican Party was formed by anti-slavery activists to combat the pro-slavery Democrats
The Ku Klux Klan was formed by radical Democrats who opposed equality for blacks.
In 1935 Democrats defeated an Anti-Lynching Bill supported and put forward by Republicans.
The 1924 Democrat National Convention in New York was host to one of the largest Klan gatherings in American history. Dubbed the “Klanbake convention”, a minority of delegates attempted to condemn the presence of the Klan but was rebuked by the Klan supporting Democrat Majority.
On April 20, 1871 the Republican Congress enacted the Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic Party-Affiliated terrorist groups.
Ronald Reagan, a Republican, made history on November 2, 1983 by signing into law Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a National Holiday. This is the first and only Federal Holiday that recognizes a Black American.
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posted on
04/20/2008 5:28:14 AM PDT
by
paltz
To: paltz
Another fact about The Republican and Democrat parties. The Democrat party is replete with socialists. The GOP has been desperate over the years to expand its voter base that it has gone to the extreme of appeasing those who are not Conservative. The result is the GOP’s incremental march towards the socialist left to the point where the Democrats and Republicans are essentially one party at the expense of Conservatism.
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posted on
04/20/2008 5:35:15 AM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
To: paltz
All true, but the rinos are too stupid to push the truth and democrats are to deceptive to stop pushing lies they teach in the corrupt public schools.
Psalms 2
1. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2. The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,
3. Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
4. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
5. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. (7 year prophecied triulation)
6. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.(1000 year rule of the Son of God, Christ Jesus, on the earth.)
7. I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my son; this day have I begotten thee.
8. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
9. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
10. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
11. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12. Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
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posted on
04/20/2008 5:39:22 AM PDT
by
kindred
(I am now a third party conservative, GOP be damned.)
To: paltz
After The Civil Rights Act was passed Democrat President Lyndon Johnson praised Republicans for their overwhelming support. About 90% of Republicans supported the Civil Rights Act, while a majority of Democrats filibustered it.
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posted on
04/20/2008 5:54:35 AM PDT
by
Always Right
(Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
To: paltz
[After The Civil Rights Act was passed Democrat President Lyndon Johnson praised Republicans for their overwhelming support.
The Republican Party was formed by anti-slavery activists to combat the pro-slavery Democrats
The Ku Klux Klan was formed by radical Democrats who opposed equality for blacks.
In 1935 Democrats defeated an Anti-Lynching Bill supported and put forward by Republicans.
The 1924 Democrat National Convention in New York was host to one of the largest Klan gatherings in American history. Dubbed the Klanbake convention, a minority of delegates attempted to condemn the presence of the Klan but was rebuked by the Klan supporting Democrat Majority.
On April 20, 1871 the Republican Congress enacted the Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic Party-Affiliated terrorist groups.
Ronald Reagan, a Republican, made history on November 2, 1983 by signing into law Martin Luther King Jr.s birthday as a National Holiday. This is the first and only Federal Holiday that recognizes a Black American.]
With this election, the rino GOP will join with the socialist left and become the one democrat party, even if McCain wins as he is a democrat anyway you look at him and the issues he supported in the past.
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posted on
04/20/2008 5:55:21 AM PDT
by
kindred
(I am now a third party conservative, GOP be damned.)
To: paltz
- Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
- Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
- Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
- Democrats supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
- Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
- Democrats opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
- Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.
- Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a "Keagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.
- Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
- Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.
- Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a yellow dog than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
- Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
- Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.
- Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
- Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
- Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
- Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
- Democrats supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
- Democrats supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
- Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
- Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protestors were fighting.
- Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox "brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
- Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
- Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
- Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
- Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
- Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
- Democrat President Bill Clinton's mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.
- Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
- Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
- Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
- Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
- Southern Democrats opposed desegregation and integration.
Democrats opposed:
1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2. The 13th Amendment
3. The 14th Amendment
4. The 15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6. The Civil Rights of 1866
7. The Enforcement Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of 1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
11. The Freeman Bureau
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1957
13. The Civil Rights Act of 1960
14. The United State Civil Rights Commission
And gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following
legislation:
15. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
17. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
18. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
19. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
20. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
21. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
22. Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
23. Civil Rights Act of 1983
24. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988
Programs By Republicans & their Supporters include:
1. Many of our key traditional Black Colleges are named after Republicans Colleges
2. The Freedman Bureau
3. Historians say that three whites that opposed the Democrat's racist practices, including the lynching of blacks, founded and funded the NAACP
The Republicans:
- Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950s and 1960s, over the objection of Democrats.
- Republicans founded the HCBUs and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.
- Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
- Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
- Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
- Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
- Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
- Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960s.
- Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
- Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
- Republican and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.
The 1964 Civil Rights Act Roll Call Vote: In the House, only 64 percent of the Democrats, but 80 percent of the Republicans, voted for it. In the Senate, while only 68 percent of the Democrats endorsed the bill, 82 percent of the Republicans voted to enact it.
Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican that introduced legislation to give African Americans the so-called 40 acres and a mule and Democrats overwhelmingly voted against the bill.
During the Senate debates on the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, it was revealed that members of the Democratic Party formed many terrorist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan to murder and intimidate African Americans voters. The Ku Klux Klan Act was a bill introduced by a Republican Congress to stop Klan Activities.
History reveals that Democrats lynched, burned, mutilated and murdered thousands of blacks and completely destroyed entire towns and communities occupied by middle class Blacks, including Rosewood, Florida, the Greenwood District in Tulsa Oklahoma, and Wilmington, North Carolina to name a few.
History reveals that it was Abolitionists and Radical Republicans such as Henry L. Morehouse and General Oliver Howard that started many of the traditional Black colleges, while Democrats fought to keep them closed. Many of our traditional Black colleges are named after white Republicans.
After exclusively giving the Democrats their votes for the past 25 years, the average African American cannot point to one piece of civil rights legislation sponsored solely by the Democratic Party that was specifically designed to eradicate the unique problems that African Americans face today.
As of 2004, the Democrat Party (the oldest political party in America) has never elected a black man to the United States Senate, the Republicans have elected three.
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posted on
04/20/2008 6:05:04 AM PDT
by
coffee260
(coffee)
To: kindred
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posted on
04/20/2008 6:51:29 AM PDT
by
antisocial
(Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
To: paltz
Actually, there are a few errors in this. The famous anti-lynch bill debate took place in 1937-38. The bill was sponsored by Senator Wagner of New York, a New Deal Democrat. Southern Democrats opposed it, but Democrats from elsewhere overwhelmingly supported it. The bill failed because the Republicans joined the Southern Democrats in filibustering the bill to death.
Prior to the New Deal, blacks voted Republican (when they could vote at all) and the Democrats were indeed racist KKK types who were hostile to them. However, within two years of FDR launching the New Deal, blacks almost totally switched their allegiance to the Democrats. The lone black congressman as of 1932 was Oscar de Priest, a Republican who represented the south side of Chicago. In 1934, his black constituents threw him out of office, electing black Democrat Arthur Mitchell. No congressional district with a black voting majority has elected a Republican since.
Non-southern Democrats immediately picked up on this, and began pushing for anti-poll tax bills, anti-lynch bills, and, of course, a ton of welfare proposals. Southern Democrats didn't support those things, since blacks couldn't vote in the South due to various restrictions. Republicans didn't know what to do (as usual). For about two years they went around to black districts and reminded blacks of all the things you've mentioned, namely that Republicans freed the slaves, fought the KKK, etc. It fell of deaf ears because the black community was completely enamored with the New Deal.
Eventually, the GOP decided on a strategy that would at least cause the Democrats to perpetually argue among themselves. They would vote for Civil Rights bills in the House, but when the bill got to the Senate they would join with Southern Democrats and filibuster the bill to death. They would insist they were only filibustering because they felt the bill was so important it needed a long debate, or because they had some minor technical problem with it. Meanwhile the Democrats would be at each other's throats as the Yankee Dems accused their southern brethren of being KKK members and racists while the Southern Dems accused their Yankee brethren of trashing the constitution and creating a leviathan federal government.
This pattern was followed until the late fifties, when the rise of a national (and very liberal) TV news media put huge pressure on the GOP to side with liberal non-southern Dems and actually pass these bills, which for two decades had been killed in the Senate with GOP/Southern Dem filibusters. The GOP gave in, and that's how the three Civil Rights Bills in the sixties, plus Ted Kennedy's Immigration Act in 1965, passed.
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posted on
04/20/2008 7:52:14 AM PDT
by
puroresu
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