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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
https://thenationalpulse.com ^ | 07.21.2020 | RAHEEM KASSAM

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.”


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To: justme4now
Yes indeed: New York must be renamed due to it's slave trading past "connection."
21 posted on 07/21/2020 4:07:25 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

“they must go”.

hahahaha!


22 posted on 07/21/2020 4:21:11 PM PDT by bitt (Let justice be done though the heavens fall - Fiat justitia ruat caelum)
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To: rxsid

Bkmk


23 posted on 07/21/2020 7:47:09 PM PDT by sauropod (I will not comply.)
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So is it OK now to demand that the Times be razed to the ground and its employees forced out of civil society????


24 posted on 07/22/2020 10:02:40 AM PDT by wildbill (The older I get, the less 'life in prison" means to me)
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