Johns Hopkins University is Going to Need a New Name

DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

[Svartalfiar]

The Democratic Party was founded by supporters of slave owner Andrew Jackson, tracing its roots to slave owners Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. No Republican has ever owned a slave. The modern rat party does not support democracy, embracing election theft. Their dirty name has got to go.

First off, that's definitely incorrect. Second, are you trying to say that Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson would agree more with the Dems of today, versus the Repubs?

[Svartalfiar]

Hm. So did Hopkins found this school entirely on his own dollar? So is the school giving back 100% of their current networth to the Hopkins family as they scrub his name?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“No Republican has ever owned a slave.” False. Unless this is satire it should not be repeated.

Documentation, please, from each of you.

I did a search and came up with PolitiFact Rates Elder 'False' on Democrats and Slavery, But Elder Was Right by Larry Elder.

The burden of which is that Elder had been fact-checked on four points:

1. Republicans did not own slaves. Democrats owned slaves;
2. Democrats founded the KKK;
3. Democrats opposed the 13th Amendment that freed the slaves, Democrats opposed the 14th Amendment that made the newly freed slaves citizens, and Democrats opposed the 15th Amendment that granted them the right to vote; and
4. As a percentage of their party, more Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than did Democrats.

. . . and Elder claimed vindication on the last three but admitted that (1) was wrong - that there were records indicating that “at least ten" Republicans owned slaves. In contrast,

Historian Joseph T. Glatthaar, author of "Soldiering in the Army of Northern Virginia: A Statistical Portrait of the Troops Who Served under Robert E. Lee," estimates that in 1860, 4.9% of people living in slave states owned slaves.

The bottom line is that splitting hairs over the difference between ten (maybe even 12?) slave-owning Republicans and zero slave-owning Republicans only proves the point. Any way you slice it, the Republican Party wasn’t the home of the slave owner.

[Reeses]

are you trying to say that Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson would agree more with the Dems of today, versus the Repubs?

No, Democrats need to live up to their own rules and rename their party. They have nothing to do with what their name suggests. They are now the party of riggers.

[dfwgator]

Patrice Lumumba University

[dfwgator]

They’re as “Democratic” as the “German Democratic Republic” or the “Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea”.