Posted on 06/27/2010 4:10:04 PM PDT by ttjemery
I watched Glenn Beck's "Founders weekly program" on Friday. Very interesting program about African Americans who actually served our country during The Revolutionary War. And other tid bits about other issues pertaining to other things dealing with African Americans during the history of the USA.
On the program was David Barton of Wallbuilders who really sheds better light to our (USA) history and has documents to prove what he is saying is true.
Well anyways, I came across this great article
"Democrats and Republicans:
In Their Own Words
A 124 Year History of Major Civil Rights Efforts
Based on a Side-by-Side Comparison
of the Early Platforms of the
Two Major Political Parties"
http://www.wallbuilders.com/resources/misc/CivilRightsPlatforms.pdf
And all I have to say is that the Democrat Party's Platforms for many years was the most racist ever. Actually the one USA President who really started to get things done for civil rights was "
Republican World War II hero Dwight D.
Eisenhower became President in this election.
Eisenhower determined to eliminate racial discrimination
in all areas under his authority. He
therefore issued executive orders halting segregation
in the District of Columbia, the military,
and federal agencies. Furthermore, he was the
first president to appoint a black American
Frederic Morrow to an executive position on
the White House staff."
Here also is some more interesting facts taken from the article
1. This was the first Republican platform, and
it contained only nine planks; however, six of
the nine set forth bold declarations of equality
and civil rights for African-Americans, based
on the principles enshrined in the Declaration
of Independence. This emphasis on racial justice
was the primary reason that the Republican
Party was formed.
2. Republicans won the election of 1860 and,
in accordance with this plank in their platform,
they begin to take action to end slavery. For example,
in 1862, they passed a federal law prohibiting
slavery in the federal territories a direct
affront to the 1857 Dred Scott decision in which
the U. S. Supreme Court had forbidden Congress
from ending slavery in any territory. In 1863,
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation
another act directly refuting the Supreme Court
decision. The Republican Congress had indeed
begun pursuing measures for the total and final
suppression of that execrable traffic. 3. In 1860 , the Republicans for the first time
in history had won the national elections and in 1861 therefore took control of the Presidency, House,
and Senate. They promptly passed a number of
civil rights laws, including laws abolishing slavery
in all U. S. territories and in Washington, D.C. They
also passed laws that began to open courts of justice
to allow African American participation.
Even though they had already aimed a deathblow
at this gigantic evil, they realized that progress
through such laws was too slow. They therefore
called for a constitutional amendment to give them
a single means to finally and totally end the evil.This
platform plank was the first official call by a political
party for what became the To read the rest http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978332656
I’ve had this debate with african american liberals...and they have been brought up with the brainwashed belief that somehow the whole south switched to Republican because of civil rights and that the north became democratic. So in their minds they justify the past atrocities by saying republicans became democrats and democrats became republicans...this i believe was some altered history that democratic leaders must have came up with...even though in 1968 most of the south went to Wallace and not Richard Nixon...then they cite the southern strategy as proof that all of a sudden the republican party embraced and welcomed in the racists...its beyond frustrating how they rationalize the past and twist it to make republicans bad no matter what
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I've heard this subject debated quite a bit, and the preponderance of the historical evidence over 156 years favors the GOP. For example, the Dems can say that it was LBJ that pushed the 1964 and 1965 Civil Rights Acts through a Dem Congress, but the GOP can counter that a significantly larger percentage of Republican senators and representatives voted for these bills than their Democratic counterparts. Also, there is no doubt that the Dems were the pro-slavery party in the years leading up to the Civil War and the party of Jim Crow in the period after Reconstruction.
Incidentally, although most blacks switched their allegiance from the GOP to the Dems during Roosevelt's New Deal era, Franklin Roosevelt himself not only snubbed the two greatest black celebrities of that era - sprinter Jesse Owens and boxer Joe Louis - but sicced his IRS on both of them, since both happened to retain loyalties to the Republicans.
Solid South refers to the electoral support of the Southern United States for the Democratic Party candidates for nearly a century from 1877, the end of the Reconstruction, to 1964, during the middle of the Civil Rights era. [More at the Wiki link above]ML/NJ
bttt
Yep. Speaking of the Solid South, here are the percentages of the vote for Roosevelt (essentially all white) in the 11 former Confederate states in the 1932 election vs. Hoover: South Carolina 98, Mississippi 96, Louisiana 93, Georgia 92, Texas 88, Arkansas 86, Alabama 85, Florida 75, North Carolina 70, Virginia 68, Tennessee 66. (I guess we can be thankful that those kinds of numbers are history.)
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