Posted on 07/25/2020 6:24:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Democrats are dismantling anything in America that has ever been connected with slavery. Statues are felled, school names are changed, and institutions are rebranded. Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, and others are gone because of their connection with enslaving blacks.
Rep. Louis Gohmert from Texas has been paying attention, and he’s gotten the message. The new rule is that slavery, which ended in America over 150 years ago, is so wrong that anything associated with slavery must be banned. Gohmert introduced a “privileged resolution calling on Congress to ban any political party or organization that has held a public position supportive of slavery.” As his official statement makes clear, the only thing still operative in America that meets this metric is the Democrat party:
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Gohmert has mastered Alinsky’s Rule 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
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Can we bask them with hammers and throw them into the river?
I’ve been an early supporter of Gohmert being Speaker in a Republican-lead House. This clinches it.
Love louie
He needs to go further and add what happens in democrat run cities today to his resolution.
Republicans should Double Down on this and DEMAND NO Products made in any way with Slave Labor be imported in to the USA.
Apple Nike,...
The Republicans definitely need people of fortitude to step forward and lead the party. Time to run the RINOs out.
Hear hear!
Rinos include the out of work campaign staff workers who conglomerated to the Lincoln Project. Their staff payroll consumes 89.3% of their budget. Out of work indeed.
The Republicans definitely need people of fortitude to step forward and lead the party. Time to run the RINOs out.
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Yes, time for some LEADERSHIP to arise from the Phoenix of the R party as WE will be needing an OUTSTANDING candidate not only for 2024 but I do NOT believe Pence is the natural choice to step into #1 (Remember GHWB) and we definitely do NOT want to start a ‘Trump Dynasty’.
Guess it will be very important to see who PDJT starts ‘currying up to’ and hopefully he is looking for a strong successor, and not allow a ‘weaker version of himself’ to take the reins and ruin his legacy.
And don’t forget our ‘great press’ who allowed BO to ‘blame’ W for his 8 years of downward trends and then immediately be allowed to trash his successor on day one.
Like the cartoon points out...pics of all the 30/40 year club in D Politics ‘bragging’ about their years of ‘Gov Service’ then blaming PDJT for ALL the countries ills.
What is the difference between Klansman and a Democrat? The Klansman *understands* that there is no difference.
So, instead of arguing with your liberal associates, simply climb onboard the cancel culture and insist on the banning of all things Democrat due to their continued support of slavery, their role in the Confederacy, their creation of the KKK, and opposition to the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Louie is fearless, kill them where they live!
Looks like 3 of those guys could easily ‘pass’; another two could probably get away with it in certain areas. Only two wouldn’t be able to ‘pass’ at all.
Bush was dumb. He never mentioned that the congress was democratic from 2007-2010 when the worst occurred. He deserves the hate for being dumb.
Hiram Rhodes Revels was a Republican U.S. Senator, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War. He became the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress when he was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican to represent Mississippi in 1870 and 1871 during the Reconstruction era.
During the American Civil War, Revels had helped organize two regiments of the United States Colored Troops and served as a chaplain. After serving in the Senate, Revels was appointed as the first president of Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Alcorn State University) and served from 1871 to 1873 and 1876 to 1882. Later in his life, he served again as a minister.
At the time, as in every State, the state legislature elected U.S. senators: they were not elected by popular vote until the passage of the 17th Amendment in 1913. In 1870, Revels was elected by a vote of 81 to 15 in the Mississippi State Senate to finish the term of one of the state’s two seats in the US Senate, which had been left vacant since the Civil War. Previously, it had been held by Albert G. Brown, who withdrew from the US Senate in 1861 when Mississippi seceded.
When Revels arrived in Washington, D.C., southern Democrats in office opposed seating him in the Senate. For the two days of debate, the Senate galleries were packed with spectators at this historic event. The Democrats based their opposition on the 1857 Dred Scott Decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that people of African ancestry were not and could not be citizens. They argued that no black man was a citizen before the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, and thus Revels could not satisfy the requirement of the Senate for nine years’ prior citizenship.
Supporters of Revels made arguments ranging from relatively narrow and technical issues, to fundamental arguments about the meaning of the Civil War. Among the narrower arguments was that Revels was of primarily European ancestry (an “octoroon”) and that the Dred Scott decision should be interpreted as applying only to those blacks who were of totally African ancestry. Supporters said that Revels had long been a citizen (as shown by his voting in Ohio) and that he had met the nine-year requirement before the Dred Scott decision changed the rules and held that blacks could not be citizens.
The more fundamental argument by Revels supporters was that the Civil War, and the Reconstruction Amendments, had overturned Dred Scott. Because of the war and the Amendments, they argued, the subordination of the black race was no longer part of the American constitutional regime and, therefore, it would be unconstitutional to bar Revels on the basis of the pre-Civil War Constitution’s citizenship rules. One Republican Senator supporting Revels mocked opponents as still fighting the “last battle-field” of that war.
US Senator Charles Sumner (R-Massachusetts) said, “The time has passed for argument. Nothing more need be said. For a long time it has been clear that colored persons must be senators.” Sumner, a Republican, later said,
“All men are created equal, says the great Declaration, and now a great act attests this verity. Today we make the Declaration a reality. ... The Declaration was only half established by Independence. The greatest duty remained behind. In assuring the equal rights of all we complete the work.”
On February 25, 1870, Revels, on a party-line vote of 48 to 8, with Republicans voting in favor and Democrats voting against, became the first African American to be seated in the United States Senate. Everyone in the galleries stood to see him sworn in.
Sumner’s Massachusetts colleague, Henry Wilson, defended Revels’s election, and presented as evidence of its validity signatures from the clerks of the Mississippi House of Representatives and Mississippi State Senate, as well as that of Adelbert Ames, the military Governor of Mississippi. Wilson argued that Revels’s skin color was not a bar to Senate service, and connected the role of the Senate to Christianity’s Golden Rule of doing to others as one would have done to oneself.
U.S. Senator
Revels advocated compromise and moderation. He vigorously supported racial equality and worked to reassure his fellow senators about the capability of African Americans. In his maiden speech to the Senate on March 16, 1870, he argued for the reinstatement of the black legislators of the Georgia General Assembly, who had been illegally ousted by white Democratic Party representatives. He said, “I maintain that the past record of my race is a true index of the feelings which today animate them. They aim not to elevate themselves by sacrificing one single interest of their white fellow citizens.”
He served on both the Committee of Education and Labor and the Committee on the District of Columbia. (At the time, the Congress administered the District.) Much of the Senate’s attention focused on Reconstruction issues. While Radical Republicans called for continued punishment of ex-Confederates, Revels argued for amnesty and a restoration of full citizenship, provided they swore an oath of loyalty to the United States.
Revels completed the unfinished term of Jefferson Davis who was the former president of the confederacy.
LOUIE, LOU-AYE— WO-HO-UH. Worth singing about!
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