Democrats & Republicans In Their Own Words (Civil Rights)

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[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

[chevydude26]

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

[SunkenCiv]

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[justiceseeker93]

No question that the overall Republican record on rights for blacks - from the inception of the Republican Party c. 1854 until this very day - is clearly superior to that of the Democrats.

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.

[ml/nj]

The Solid South was a political concept I remember hearing about when I was young.

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

[Recovering_Democrat]

bttt

[justiceseeker93]

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.)