Political Parties and Voting Against Minorities: 3K Byrd, Al Gore, Sr., Strom Thurmond (Democrats)

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• Thomas Jefferson, the first Democrat Party president, was a slave owner. Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican Party president, freed the slaves.
• The first meeting of the Republican Party was held in March of 1854 at a small church in Ripon, Wisconsin, where Alan Bovay rallied anti-slavery forces and adopted resolutions opposing the Kansas-Nebraska act.
• Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi took his seat February 25, 1870, as the first black United States senator. He was a Republican.
• On February 12,1909, the National Associations for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded. The call for the organizational meeting was issued on the 100^th birthday of Abraham Lincoln by 47 whites and six blacks.
• Woodrow Wilson received less than 7 percent of the black vote in 1912. The new Democratic Congress immediately enacted laws barring racial intermarriage in Washington, D.C., and Wilson went along. Signs bearing the words "whites only" and "Blacks only" began appearing above toilets and drinking fountains throughout the city. Jim Crow practices crept into federal agencies. The number of black presidential appointees dropped from 33 to 9.
• Presidents Harding and Coolidge, both Republicans, proposed commissions to bridge the divide between the races more than a generation before Bill Clinton was born. Harding told Cpngress in 1921 that such a body could formulate "if not a policy, at least a national attitude" that could bring the races closer together.
• Republican Rep. Leonidis Dyer of St Louis, Missouri, led efforts to make lynching a federal crime. Dyer first introduced his bill in 1918, the year the GOP regained control of the Congress. Several years later, when Republican President Harding was in office, Dyer reintroduced the bill to make lynching a federal crime and punishable by five years in prison and a fine of $5,000. It passed the house 230 to 119. The bill stalled in the Senate, where Democrats threatened to stop all other business from coming from the Congress unless the matter was dropped.
• The Ku Klux Klan nearly shut down the Democrat convention in 1924. Delegates settled on John W. Davis on the 103^rd ballot, breaking the deadlock between Klan-backed William McAdoo (Woodrow Wilson’s son-in-law) and New York’s Catholic Gov. Al Smith. There were enough Klan delegates and sympathizers in the hall to block a platform plank condemning the KKK.
• In 1937, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Democrat, nominated US Senator Hugo Black of Alabama to the Supreme Court. His appointment to the Supreme Court met strong opposition from the public and Republicans in the Senate because of his earlier membership in the Ku Klux Klan.
• In 1942 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9006, which stripped 120,000 Japanese-Americans of their political rights. Harold Ickes, Roosevelt’s Secretary of Interior, facilitated the use of an Indian Reservation as an internment camp for the Japanese-Americans. (Fifty years later, Ickes’ son became an advisor to both Bill and Hillary Clinton.) In 1988, President Ronald Regan, a Republican, signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. The Act was passed by the Congress to provide a Presidential apology and symbolic payment of $20,000 to the internees, evacuees, and persons of Japanese ancestry who lost liberty or property because of discriminatory action by the Federal government during World War II.
• >Growing up in Independence, Missouri, a bastion of Confederate sentiment three decades after the civil war, Harry S. Truman, a future Democrat president, had been taught to believe that African-Americans were racially inferior. One man is as good as another, a youthful Truman wrote, "so long as he’s honest and decent and not a nigger or a Chinaman.">
• The Confederate flag in South Carolina was raised above the statehouse in 1962 by Gov. Ernest Hollings in defiance of the Civil Rights movement. Today Hollings is a Democrat in the US Senate.
• The Congressional Quarterly of June 26, 1964 recorded that in the Senate, only 69 percent of Democrats (46 for, 21 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act as compared to 82 percent of Republicans (27 for, 6 against). >All southern Democratic senators voted against the act. This includes the current senator from West Virginia and former KKK member, Robert C. Byrd and former Tennessee senator Al Gore, Sr. The Act’s primary opposition came from the Southern Democrats’ 74 day filibuster.>
• In the House of Representatives, 61 percent of Democrats (152 for, 96 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act; 92 of the 103 Southern Democrats voted against it. Among Republicans, 80 percent (138 for, 34 against) voted for it.
• When former Klansman David Duke announced that he was running for the US Congress as a Republican, the GOP moved quickly to disassociate itself from Duke. The National Republican Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson declared, "There is no room in the party of Lincoln for a Klansman like David Duke." The Democratic Party made no effort to dissociate itself from the current senator from West Virginia and former KKK member Robert C, Byrd. On the contrary, Byrd is considered one of the Democrats’ elder statesmen.
• In a speech to the Progressive National Baptist Convention in 2000, Vice President Gore described his father’s commitment to the civil rights movement as a senator. "He supported the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and lost his next election. But his conscience won and he taught me that was more important than any election." Senator al Gore Jr. , did lose his re-election in 1970-to Rep. Bill Brock, a Republican form Chattanooga who had voted for the Voting Rights Act in 1965 as a member of the House. >Gore, Sr., as mentioned above, opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act-a decision he continued to defend even after he left office.>
• Eighty-two percent of the House Republicans backed the Voting Rights Act of 1965; in the Senate, 94 percent of the Republicans backed it. Seventeen southern Democrats voted against it’ including Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, a mentor to President Bill Clinton.
• While African Americans make up just 12 percent of the U.S. population, they account for 43 percent of the abortion victims. In other words if 1.5 million abortions are performed this year in America, 645,000 will result in the deaths of African-American children. While the Republican Party is overwhelmingly pro-abortion.
• Proposition 209, a constitutional amendment by initiative, was passed by the California electorate by a 54-46 percent vote on November 5, 1996. Proposition 209 is also known as the California Civil Rights Initiative because it restates the historic Civil Rights Act and proclaims simply and clearly: "The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group, on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting." Predictably, most Democrats apparently have forgotten that government cannot work against discrimination if government itself discriminates. But then as illustrated by the above facts, the Democratic Party has rarely worked against discrimination.

 

[Defiant]

Maybe you should send this to Armstrong Williams. And remind the RNC, so they can do some education on this subject. The idea that the GOP is the party of racism is one of those big lies that the liberal media has repeated so many times that it has become gospel. On a percentage basis, I would bet a lot of money that white democrats are far more likely to be racist--the union guys in the Northeast, the Southern lower class, and the limousine liberals who have never met a black, are those who consider them inferior. Most GOPers believe they should be treated equally, not favorably, and that they can compete if they are forced to.

[Chi-townChief]

Interesting stuff!

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correction to 2nd last point above: DEMOCRATIC Party is overwhelmingly pro-abortion.

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do you have a link for williams?

[Free State Four]

In all this broohaha over Lott, I have still been waiting for ANYONE to mention that Strom Thurmond was a member of the Democratic Party until 1964. Not a peep. Nada. Nothing.

[Malesherbes]

This will not be over until the Great Apologist, Bubba, apologizes to the whole world for the fact that Strom Thurmond was ever born.

[Defiant]

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