“I’m surprised this hasn’t been posted yet, but I searched FR and couldn’t find it.
The despicable history of the Democratic Party in supporting slavery and the KKK must be heralded far and wide. And so also the Republican history of fighting them.
Rusty Humphries talked extensively about this book today — and I loved every second of it. We need more of that.
I am always amazed at people who are obsessed with the history of slavery and racism yet are apparently ignorant of the fact that, for many decades, the Democrats fought tooth and nail to keep them in place while the Republicans fought to end them.
Imagine how the political landscape could change if this history were widely known.”
Well a few years ago, PBS (of all networks) had a series about the Jim Crow era, and they touched on the facts that the kkk and democrats worked with eachother.
I would bring it up and the demoncraps I’d be debating would start in with the personal attacks, and calling the PBS series “lies and propaganda” while saying that Trent Lott and Strom Thurmond proves that Republicans are the racists, and that the parties shifted after the Civil Rights Act was passed because all the racists and klansmen joined the Republicans.
“I would bring it up and the demoncraps I’d be debating would start in with the personal attacks, and calling the PBS series “lies and propaganda” while saying that Trent Lott and Strom Thurmond proves that Republicans are the racists, and that the parties shifted after the Civil Rights Act was passed because all the racists and klansmen joined the Republicans.”
If I recall correctly, Michael Zak points out in his book that a greater percentage of Republicans than Democrats in Congress voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.