Posted on 08/31/2016 4:46:14 PM PDT by Starman417
It has become de rigueur in democrat circles to paint the Republican Presidential candidate as a racist every four years, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Lets get this straight. Calling Hillary Clinton a bigot has reporters asking every Republican in sight if Donald Trump has gone too far. But the Clinton campaign releases a video saying Mr. Trump is the candidate of the Ku Klux Klan and its all okey-dokey?Indeed. Mr. McGurn offers us examples of classic democrat tactics:Then again, Mr. Trump has already been likened to Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. Small wonder theres a collective ho-hum when Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine says Mr. Trump is peddling KKK values.
This is what Democrats do.
In 2000, for example, an NAACP ad recreated the gruesome murder of James Byrd to imply that then-Gov. Bush was sympathetic to lynching black men. Over footage of a chain being dragged by a pickup truck, Mr. Byrds daughter says, So when Gov. George W. Bush refused to support hate-crimes legislation, it was like my father was killed all over again.There is great irony in this. Historically, democrats have kept blacks in chains- not Republicans. Democrats created the Ku Klux Klan. They resisted the 13th Amendment: When John McCain ran in 2008, Barack Obama warned that Republicans would scare people by saying, You know, he doesnt look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills. The McCain campaign fired back, accusing Mr. Obama of playing the race card from the bottom of the deck. Funny thing: All those reporters always hearing dog whistles from Republicans somehow didnt hear this one.
In 2012, when Mitt Romney went to the NAACP and told them face-to-face about his opposition to ObamaCare, the stories were all about how he was really just trolling for the racist vote. Vice President Joe Biden put it more explicitly, telling a largely African-American audience that if Mr. Romney were to win, hed put yall back in chains.
Fact: The Republican Party was founded primarily to oppose slavery, and Republicans eventually abolished slavery. The Democratic Party fought them and tried to maintain and expand slavery. The 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, passed in 1865 with 100% Republican support but only 23% Democrat support in congress.democrats continued to resist equal rights for blacks through the 50's:
Fact: In the 1950s, President Eisenhower, a Republican, integrated the US military and promoted civil rights for minorities. Eisenhower pushed through the Civil Rights Act of 1957. One of Eisenhower's primary political opponents on civil rights prior to 1957 was none other than Lyndon Johnson, then the Democratic Senate Majority Leader. LBJ had voted the straight segregationist line until he changed his position and supported the 1957 Act.Hillary's self-described mentor Robert Byrd was a Grand Kleagle in the KKK. In 1945 Byrd is quoted as saying
I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side ... 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.But the handwriting was on the wall. Blacks were going to see equality. They were going to become a force in voting. It was only then that democrats, led by Lyndon Johnson, decided they'd cash in.
Lyndon Johnson was a racist. In his first twenty years as a lawmaker Johnson opposed every single civil rights issue. He made frequent use of colorful racist language:
There's no question that Lyndon Johnson, despite championing the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and signing it into law, was also a sometime racist and notorious vulgarian who rarely shied away from using the N-word in private. For example, he reportedly referred to the Civil Rights Act of 1957 as the "n*gger bill" in more than one private phone conversation with Senate colleagues. And he reportedly said upon appointing African-American judge Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court, "Son, when I appoint a n*gger to the court, I want everyone to know he's a n*gger."Doris Kearns Goodwin quoted Johnson:
"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again."
Adam Serwer:
Lyndon Johnson said the word n*gger a lot.It is also claimed that Johnson bragged:In Senate cloakrooms and staff meetings, Johnson was practically a connoisseur of the word.According to Johnson biographer Robert Caro, Johnson would calibrate his pronunciations by region, using nigra with some southern legislators and negra with others. Discussing civil rights legislation with men like Mississippi Democrat James Eastland, who committed most of his life to defending white supremacy, hed simply call it the n*gger bill.
Then in 1957, Johnson would help get the n*gger bill passed, known to most as the Civil Rights Act of 1957. With the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the segregationists would go to their graves knowing the cause theyd given their lives to had been betrayed, Frank Underwood style, by a man they believed to be one of their own. When Caro asked segregationist Georgia Democrat Herman Talmadge how he felt when Johnson, signing the Civil Rights Act, said we shall overcome, Talmadge said sick.
"I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for 200 years."Snopes asserts that this is unproven, but given the balance of his words is quite believable. Even Snopes admits:
"it wouldn't have been entirely out of character"No it would not. Without any doubt Johnson knew of the burgeoning power of the black vote and wanted to own it. They secured it, but what have democrats done for blacks?
The Democratic Party's line is that black Americans need their "help" to get by in a racist world. Here's an alternate theory: Buying into the Democratic Party's philosophy and accepting "help" has been one of the biggest reasons that black Americans lag behind white Americans. Black males are 6 times as likely to be in prison as white males and black Americans make up 49% of the homicide victims in America. 71.6% of all black Americans are born out of wedlock and black Americans are almost twice as likely to drop out of high school as white Americans, both of which help explain why the black poverty rate is almost 2 1/2 times the white poverty rate.democrats have been willing assistants in the destruction of the black family:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
Yeah, and blacks still have not caught on...
It’s the Democrat way - Use people.
Tim Kaine says Mr. Trump is peddling KKK values.
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TIMMAY! hasn’t had anything interesting to say since he was Mayor of Richmond.
Democrats are using illegals as they used blacks 60 years ago...
And the MSM is fully supporting it.
Trump did a fine job today in Mexico, yet all MSM reports how horrible he was and how they all hate him
Freebies paid for by we the workers is how they roll.
> blacks still have not caught on...
Too many have and they like their freebies.
we see it in their leaked emails.
yet blacks and hispanics will still en masse vote democrat. if sheets byrd was alive and running for president they’d vote for him.
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