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To: freespirited

Especially the democrats who were the Slavery Party


7 posted on 10/18/2007 9:15:31 AM PDT by uncbob (m first)
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To: uncbob
Actually, this is an interesting tack - while divisive, it could be used to illustrate several key points that seem to have been lost to history, namely:

1. The Republican Party was founded explicitly to prevent the expansion of slavery to new territories and implicitly to abolish slavery everywhere.

2. The Democrat Party and the KKK ended Reconstruction and implemented Jim Crow laws to oppress free blacks for 90 years.

3. The 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights Acts proposed by Republicans were stopped by Democrats; and

4. the 1964 Civil Rights Act was opposed by nearly half of the Democrat senators, while 80% of Republican senators voted for it.

Ordinarily, I would oppose someone apologizing for something caused by others, but in this case, if it serves to highlight the complicity and duplicity of Democrats, I say: have at it!

119 posted on 10/19/2007 7:29:23 AM PDT by bt_dooftlook (Democrats - the "No Child/Left/Behind" Party)
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