Posted on 12/20/2021 6:58:20 AM PST by Red Badger
You can’t do anything anymore without some leftist wingnut calling you a racist. In fact, everything is racist now; statues, sports mascots, all Republicans, and even a rock. The term has been abused so much that it’s losing its meaning. So, as a refresher on what is, and is not, racism, let’s play a little game of racist trivia.
Who started the Civil War in an attempt to retain slavery – under the moniker of “state’s rights”? The Confederacy started the war when it bombarded Fort Sumpter, under the orders of its President — Jefferson Davis. Prior to secession, Davis was a senator from Mississippi – a Democrat.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking support for slavery is something in the distant past of the Democrat party. Senator Ron Wyden recently prevented the passage of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. The Uyghurs are a mostly Muslim ethnic group in China, and are being held as slaves by their own government. The act would have represented the United States taking a stand against the use of slaves by the Chinese government to manufacture products. That would be slave labor which allegedly benefits the Nike corporation – a large donor to Senator Wyden. And Senator Wyden is of course a Democrat. I’m sure Ilhan Omar will be demanding Senator Wyden’s removal from all committee assignments – that’s her thing now.
While we’re talking about slavery, who led the fight to end the practice in America? Abraham Lincoln was the President of the Union that fought against the Confederacy to end slavery. President Lincoln also issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves to be free men. He was the first President who belonged to the Republican party. Shortly after the end of the war, Lincoln was murdered by John Wilkes Booth – a Democrat. Ulysses S. Grant was the general that commanded Union forces in the war against slavery. He later became President and championed equal rights for freed slaves in the south. Grant was also a Republican.
Which political party supported poll taxes in the United States? Poll taxes have taken a variety of forms throughout history, but in the deep south, they were a scheme to prevent newly freed slaves from voting. To be eligible to vote in some states, citizens were required to pay a tax, which was unaffordable for many of the poor. Being recently freed, former slaves tended to be poor. However, poor whites were “grandfathered in” and were exempt from the poll tax. Poll taxes were implemented just after the 15th Amendment was ratified in 1870 — giving blacks the right to vote.
Various versions of the tax remained in effect until the 25th Amendment rendered them unconstitutional in 1964. The party that supported poll taxes was also the party that fought to keep slavery – the Democrat party
Which party advocated racial segregation? That would again be the Democrats. In fact, segregationist southern Democrats even had their own club which they called the Dixiecrats – harkening back to the antebellum glory days of the south. The Dixiecrats were racist – and proud of it. George Wallace famously said, “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” He was the Governor of Alabama – also a Democrat.
Which party does the Ku Klux Klan identify with? Surprise, that would be the Democrats as well. The KKK emerged after the Civil War to keep the freed slaves in their place. Members of the KKK were the jack-booted morons doing the dirty work of the Democrat party long before BLM or Antifa came along. The Klan even had members in Congress – and they were all Democrats. In fact, Joe Biden was even pals with a few of them. Biden actually delivered the eulogy for Senator Robert Byrd – who at one time had been an Exalted Cyclops (yes, that’s a real title) of the KKK.
Joey Softserve said Senator Exalted Cyclops was one of his mentors – imagine that.
The membership of the KKK has been waning for years. Not to fear, the Democrat party still has a militant wing – only now they wear black hoodies rather than white robes. I’m still trying to find out if Antifa has an Exalted Cyclops.
Who Interred citizens of Japanese descent during World War II? Japanese-Americans were held as prisoners by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt – a Democrat. The United States was also at war with Germany and Italy, but only Americans with Japanese ancestry were arrested. Was there any reason those of Asian heritage were singled out – other than the fact that they weren’t white?
Which party was instrumental to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? It was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson – a Democrat. But it would have never passed without the help of Republicans. A number of Democrats, led by the aforementioned Robert Byrd, had vowed to prevent its passage. They objected to the anti-segregation components of the act, and used the filibuster for 60 days to block the bill. The bill only passed when a hand full of Democrat leaders received overwhelming help from Republicans to push the bill through. When the bill eventually passed, most Democrats voted against it, and most Republicans voted for it. Don’t mistakenly think that President Johnson was some kind of pioneer leading his party out of racism. He was a well-known racist himself. He signed the bill for political rather than ideological reasons. As Ronald Kessler reported in his book, Inside the White House: The Hidden Lives of the Modern Presidents and the Secrets of the World’s Most Powerful Institution, President Johnson said, “I’ll have those n*****s voting Democrat for two hundred years.” That was offensive, even in his day, but those were his words. Judging by voting patterns of the past 60 years, he may have been right.
Which party has fought to limit the educational options for poor and minority children? That has been done by the preferred party of the teacher’s unions – the Democrats. The Dems have consistently worked to block programs for school vouchers – which would allow children from underprivileged families to seek alternatives to public education. Unfortunately for the poor, thou shalt not divert dollars away from public school systems. You don’t suppose the unions being big-time donors to the Democrats has anything to do with it, do you?
Who advocated for the reduction of reproduction among American minorities? That would be Margaret Sanger – the founder of Planned Parenthood. She was a staunch supporter of eugenics – the practice of improving the purity of the human race by limiting the reproduction of “inferior races.” Margaret herself wrote, “The mass of ignorant Negroes still breeds carelessly and disastrously, so that the increase among Negroes, even more than the increase among whites, is from that part of the population least intelligent and fit.” Given its founding, is it any coincidence that most Planned Parenthood clinics are in poor or minority neighborhoods? But sure, it’s all being done for women’s health – wink, wink. This really begs the question: if all symbols of past racism must be destroyed, why are Planned Parenthood clinics still standing? Oh, and what party did Sanger belong to? Nope, not the Democrats. She was a member of the Socialist party. The party of AOC and Bernie Sanders. The party the Democrats aspire to become.
Finally, which well-known political leader said the following things:
* Forced busing to desegregate schools would force his children to “grow up in a racial jungle.”
* Barack Obama is “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean.”
* “Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”
* “They’re used to being experimented on – the Tuskegee Airmen and others.”
* “Unlike the African-American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about things.”
Those statements all speak for themselves, and they were all uttered by Joseph Robinette Biden – the nominal empty-head of the Democrat party.
The next time someone calls you a racist for saying something offensive – like all lives matter – consider the source. They are probably a product of the Democrat party. The party of slavery, segregation, and white supremacy. So don’t fret, you’ve just been called a racist by a useful idiot doing the bidding of actual racists.
Joble Cause apologists in 3..2..1..
That picture reminds me of shutting off the water fountains to stop the spread of COVID. Makes as much sense as separate water fountains for whites and blacks.
I saw an ad on TV last night that showed an elderly black woman sitting in a chair and the voice-over says that she is more likely to be arrested than a white person. I don’t doubt that’s the case. However, the question that needs to be answered is “Why?” Other minority groups in the US experience substantially less racism than blacks. Why?
Racism is a learned behavior and the fact is, blacks cause a disproportionately high crime rate than non-blacks. This is especially true of violent crimes. Blacks have a problem in their culture and it’s a problem that blacks need to address, not whites. Where is the leadership in the black community that attempts to drive out the causes of crime in black neighborhoods? Whites aren’t the source of that problem, blacks are. Why haven’t the good people in the black community stepped up to take their neighborhoods back? My guess is that its fear of those bad blacks that run the neighborhood.
I don’t know what the solution is, but I know that it must start with blacks working to solve the problem and calling everyone else a racist is masking the problem, not working to fix it.
THANK YOU for providing this excellent summary of the history of the DEMOCRAT party.
I wish Mark Levin would do a show about this history, because I fear a good 60 to 70 percent of our population assume it belongs to the Republican party.
There is even more to this story of slavery and the demonkkkrap party. I would submit that today they are intentionally involved in human trafficking across our southern border for party political and economic purposes.
“This is a White Man’s Country, Let White Men Rule”
Who’s slogan was that?
Ever see the party platform from that party? The election before when McClellan ran? Posters from that party?
Good post, thanks.
To me, it is more than masking the problem. If there were anything real that I could do to help, calling me a racist at the outset, does not make we want to join in.
An Honest History of Black People and the Democrat Party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgRdSypvaPU
Interesting. Wonder if that has been corrected or not.
Good post.
Systemic racism in modern America is a fiction - the Left invents bogus problems - racism, wealth inequality, climate change, gun violence and pandemic - that can only be solved by socialism.
The idea is to get us to give up our Constitutional rights and let the tyrants of the Left govern us.
Since racism is a fiction, this constant attempt on FR to use the Democrat party’s racist past to blame racism on Democrats.
It’s stupid. All that does is breathe life into the false narrative of systemic racism being a real issue in America - which it is not.
This is like blaming climate change on Democrats who fly around in private jets. All you are doing is accepting their premise that there is man made climate change.
This is like blaming China for the “deadly pandemic” - all that does is feed the myth of the deadly pandemic - which serves only the tyrants who are fear-mongering it and exploiting those fears for power and profit.
A smarter tactic is to expose systemic racism as the myth that it is - blaming it on the Democrats requires that we are accepting that it exists. Which it does not.
Spot on!
Freemen, and Freedslaves FOUNDED the Republican party of Louisiana in 1865.
Get with the program! We’re not racists, we’re “White Supremacists”.
At yesterday’s Turning Point AmericaFest, Dennis Prager gave an excellent speech. The lie of systemic racism was covered in it. The speech is online at the Turning Point site.
https://www.tpusa.com/americafest/dennisprager-fullspeech
Actually Lincoln started the war by invading South Carolina’s sovereign territory with a heavily armed fleet of warships to try to force the North’s cash cows back in. The North was perfectly willing to support slavery effectively forever by express constitutional amendment.
We can't put all the blame on blacks, not by a long shot. As the article states white liberals have been working full time undermining the black community since the democratic party's founding.
From destroying the black family through abortion and welfare to the now popular defund the police and no bail the black community has been devastated.
White liberals are very much at the heart of the problem. But you are right it is up to the black community to address it.
STOP VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS.
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