[SunkenCiv]

Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. of Illinois said: "before the Civil War, the Democratic slave masters used to hold anti-black conventions." What? ...We thought the Republican Party was the Party of Slavery, didn't we? There are thousands of black Americans who actually believe that. (Even a black woman in New York City believes that Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat.) The Republican Party was formed in the 1850's for the purpose of abolishing slavery and polygamy. The Republican National Committee website says: "The Republican Party was born in the early 1850's by anti-slavery activists and individuals who believed that government should grant western lands to settlers free of charge."

[justiceseeker93]

Dummycrats are generally ignorant when it comes to American history. That's why their politicians think they can reinvent history that doesn't portray them in a favorable light - and not have to pay a political price.

Come to think of it, "revisionist" history is a staple of just about every totalitarian movement of the 20th and 21st centuries.