Posted on 07/21/2020 10:23:05 AM PDT by rxsid
EXCLUSIVE: New York Times Owners Descended From Slave-Holding Family, Published Pro-Lynching Articles Claiming Republican Party Committed Great Public Crime When Giving Blacks The Right To Vote
Writing in the New York Post this weekend, columnist Michael Goodwin explained The New York Times, under the leadership of Arthur Ochs, published an editorial in 1900 saying the Democratic Party may justly insist that the evils of negro suffrage were wantonly inflicted on them.
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The Political Future of the South, lamented the negro vote, referring to the horrors of negro rule, and blasted Republicans for promoting and passing legislation that went onto become the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which states that race, color, or previous condition of servitude cannot be used to stop someone voting.
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The Republican Party committed a great public crime when it gave the right of suffrage to the blacks, the Times roared on page six, calling barriers against negro suffrage a consequence of wiser counsel.
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One day prior, on May 9th 1900, the paper gave fawning coverage to the former Secretary of the Navy Hillary A. Herbert, who had convened a conference titled The Race Problem.
Herbert, a Democrat who served under President Grover Cleveland, said at the time that the black vote had brought weakness instead of strength, and the New York Times cribbed his speech for the headline which blasted: NEGRO SUFFRAGE A FAILURE.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenationalpulse.com ...
“they must go”.
hahahaha!
Bkmk
So is it OK now to demand that the Times be razed to the ground and its employees forced out of civil society????
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