Posted on 11/25/2012 4:04:54 PM PST by LiberConservative
I'm conservative/libertarian. My family are all Obama 'Rats/moochers/OWS types. We had just watched the movie "Lincoln". I opined that it was good (and unusual) to see a Hollywood movie cast middle-aged, white, male Republicans in a favorable light. Yes, of course, the conversation immediately became about race. A few of my family said that at some point in history Republicans became and Democrats and vise-versa. I thought my head was going to explode. I am a huge fan of history and absorb it - especially the civil war. But I had never heard this before. Should I buy more duct tape?
Give them this little nugget.
That was posted during the 2008 election or close to it....
I am a conservative. I am a Republican.
Among other things, this means that—based on no evidence whatsoever—I have been called a racist exactly one million times.
* I have been called a racist as a collective slur of all Republicans, by hundreds of thousands of lefties from the media to academia to Hollywood, for the last half-century.
* I have been called a racist by Barack Obama.
* I have been called a racist in comment threads.
* I was recently called a racist in an email pursuant to this article—an article which had exactly jack.squat to do with race.
* I have been called a racist to my face. Never by a black person, but by more than one white liberal.
Well, I finally snapped back. You know I’ve snapped when I write in second person.
Do I feel bad about that? Not at all.
They’ve been making it personal—silencing all debate with a single word—for decades. To blazes with the rascals.
Print this out, and the next time it happens to you, either directly or indirectly, you tell ‘em this:
Oh stop it. Not one more word.
Stop trying to project your own racism upon us.
YOU, in fact, are the real racists.
Historically, your Party’s racism and atrocities are undeniable. Yours was the Party of Slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, and opposition to every piece of civil rights legislation the GOP tried to pass. The KKK is the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party . . . .YOUR Party.
But even today, your racism continues. Oh sure, you smile and say how much you support blacks and how many wonderful, “articulate” blacks you admire, but beneath that lie is a contempt you show with your every action.
It is YOUR boot on the throat of every person whom you’ve made into a government dependent.
The black family, once the equal in cohesion to the white family, is now rent asunder. Welfare rules you created and touted as humane for 40 years have driven black men and black women apart. Most black children now grow up without a dad in the home. The blood of the black family is on YOUR hands.
It is YOUR abortion mills that are bringing about a slow genocide of blacks in America.
Those are YOUR abortion mills, which are carrying on the work of YOUR hero, Margaret Sanger . . . the feminist, eugenicist, and nazi darling . . . you know, the one who wanted to make sure the word didn’t get out about her plan to “exterminate the negro.”
It is YOUR people who say that the drop in crime in the 90s was brought about by the abortion of what YOU called would-be criminal black babies.
It is you who think so little of black people that you constantly tell them, in word and in deed, that they are not able to compete on a level playing field. It is you who seek to drive this message home every chance you get. It is you who uses this lie to keep them on a plantation of government dependence and electoral vassalage.
All we want blacks to do is build familes, get rich, and participate in the building of a civil society . . . .just like what we want for everyone else. And you call US the racists?
Oh, and let’s go back in time, shall we?
The Republican Party fought—and its people died—to end Slavery.
Then, we fought and died to end segregation, and to bring voting and other civil rights to all the freed slaves.
Died? Yes, died. We died because YOU created the KKK to kill Republicans and blacks, and to take away the gains we were trying to make.
And you did a damn good job of it, too. You drove us out of the South.
We fought for civil rights for 100 years. You opposed our every effort.
You opposed our attempts to end segregation. You filibustered our civil rights bills. You even fought against us when we proposed anti-lynching legislation.
Your officials turned firehoses on people marching for freedom. Your governors stood in the doorways of schools to prevent little black girls and boys from entering.
It was a REPUBLICAN president who had to send the National Guard — the National Guard! — just so that these children could go to school.
Civil Rights did not become possible because you started supporting it. Civil rights became possible because you stopped standing in the way of it.
More of our politicians supported Civil Rights legislation than yours did. Yours filibustered it! It finally made it through because of the tireless efforts of the Republican minority leader.
Oh what, now you want to tell me that it was only the SOUTHERN Democrats who were the racists? Okay fine. Half of your party were slaveholding, segregationist, KKK-creating, Jim Crow upholding opposers of civil rights.
Gee, only half? You must be very proud.
Guess what, NONE of my party ever was. We didn’t stop fighting for civil rights until civil rights legislation was finally passed.
You wanna tell me that only half your party was bad? Fine. That half of your party controlled your attitude towards race from the foundations of this nation all the way up until the 1960s. That half of your party WAS the problem. Without them, we would have done away with segregation and poll taxes and lynchings 140 years ago.
Oh, and let’s look at the South. When Democrats controlled the South, it was a bastion of segregation. Now, Republicans control the South . . . and look! We didn’t bring back segregation and literacy tests for voting. It may not be perfect yet, but it’s not the segregated place you made it anymore.
You have the nerve to call me a racist? To call us racists? Why? Because I am a Republican? You have a lot of nerve. Or is it because I have white skin?
You’d better not be saying that, because that’s called blood guilt. That says that I’m guilty by nothing more than my biology. That idea was very popular in Germany in the 1930s, but I have to say, we don’t much appreciate it now.
Oh, and funny thing, that idea was also popular among YOUR ideological forebears for almost two centuries. Interesting that you’re pushing a similar notion here in 2011.
My ideological forebears fought and died to put an end to the injustices YOUR ideological forebears wrought. I am proud to follow in their tradition. I have NOTHING to be ashamed of.
For what your ideological forebears did . . . and for what you’re doing today . . . you might want to think about feeling a bit of shame yourself.
You are still capable of feeling shame, aren’t you?
Outsourcing jobs is a problem with the economics of profits. Unions hurt profits so I am in favor of shipping those manufacturing jobs overseas. Bringing in manufacturing jobs into right to work states, e.g., republican/red states means no unionization in most cases. These factories make more profit, but keep their prices high so as not to destroy the union plants whose profits are low; there is a reason the foreign car manufacturers did not go to the North or UAW states. The most profitable business model is to find a democrat monopoly like the MSM and counter with a FOX, or a GM plant and build Hondas. There is less competition, and your profit as the competitor is higher because you do not have overhead associated with the democrat social model. While GM is shipping jobs overseas from the Blue States, the Germans and Japanese are shipping jobs to the Red states. Should have been a campaign commercial on this.
The Democrats werer the party of slavery, then they were the party of Jim Crow, then they became the party of abortion and the destruction of the black family.
Your relatives are clueless.
Um, Arlen Specter switched parties and became a Democrat.
Yes, and Martin Luther King and Frederic Douglas were both Republicans. A higher % of republicans voted for the civil rights act of 1964 than did democrats.
Yes and no.
We gained come jobs in red states, but we also on balance outsourced a (bunch) more jobs than we gained.
So on balance we fell further behind. 16 trillion now.
No sign that will improve. Should get much worse in fact.
LBJ stopped Eisenhower from implementing his own Civil Rights Act in 1959. Can’t have a Republican get away with helping the Black folks you know. If I recall, LBJ was the Democrat.
Al Gore’s Father, Senator Al Gore Sr. and Bill Clinton’s “mentor” Senator J.W. Fulbright both voted against the Civil Rights Act. As I recall they were both Democrats.
Robert Byrd, well need I say more?
Very odd notion. The US was on the gold standard, which didn't let anybody "print the money," prior to the war. And there was essentially no demand by anybody to go to a different currency system.
The CSA and USA started printing money to help pay for the war.
IOW, paper money didn't cause the war, the war caused paper money.
Add to it that it was JFK’s justice department who wiretapped King, attempted to entrap him with hookers, and imprisoned him. It wasn’t until Kennedy saw how a political calculation to pander to this group and struck a deal with King’s family to get King out of jail in exchange for political endorsements. (and LBJ took it one step further and saw that creating a dependency class would keep people indebted to the Democrat part for, in his words, 200 years- using very Democrat language I won’t repeat here).
There was a point made by ol’ Zo, I believe, that I thought was good: for those who think there was some kind of party switch with regards to civil rights, just tell them this - that when the South was Democrat, it was racist as hell with slavery, Jim Crow, KKK, etc. As it became more Republican, it became less racist. Now that the South is no more racist than the rest of the country, they are mostly Republican. Therefore, we can conclude that the more Republican a region is, the less racist it is.
It’s a lie.
A couple of double tap head shots just might adjust their attitude, as it's obvious these people are dead, dumb and blind to the truth.
There are none so blind as those who will not see!
mark
Enjoy life...without them.
1.) Get out a complete roll of Duct Tape.
2.) Wrap your head tightly with the complete roll of Duct Tape.
3.) S-L-O-W-L-Y spell out the name of the political party in the 1960’s whose Leader made the following exhortation: “ ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU - - - - “
Liber? Liber C.? Stay with me pal! I’ve got an Ambulance on the way! Liber - - - ?
The so called change came about due to the changing economic factors in the South. Before the rise of the Sun Belt, the South was an economic backwater to the rest of the country. Southern Democrats were big supporters of the New Deal. They were big government supporters, remember segregation was big government. Roosevelt looked the other way on segregation in order to keep the South solidly within the New Deal coalition. When the northern unions chased many businesses into the Sun Belt, a rising professional and managerial class rose in the South. These folks were the ones to lead the GOP to prominence in the South. They were not the same statists as the segregationist Democrats were. They were against big government, knowing the basis of the economic success of the Sun Belt. Once this occurred, the political change came. The other factor was the political mobilization of evangelicals, and ironically Jimmy Carter was original motivator. Evangelicals strongly went to the polls for the first time as a block to support Carter in 1976. This backfired on the Democrats in that they quickly moved to the GOP as they were horrified by the liberal social policies of most of the Democrat Party.
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