Posted on 02/17/2008 8:03:54 PM PST by neverdem
I occasionally hear someone on television, usually a leftist, talking about what a terrible injustice slavery was. No doubt about that.
I wish that once — just once — one of them would mention the fact that the Republican Party was formed to end slavery, while the Democratic Party fought tooth and nail to keep slavery in place.
Just once, I wish someone would mention that the so-called “radical” Republicans were called “radical” because they wanted to give blacks their full rights way back in the Civil War days. But who fought them? You got it.
Lincoln had selected Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, as his compromise running mate, but after Lincoln was assassinated, Johnson and the Democrats thwarted black rights, particularly in the South. Not until nearly one hundred years later did African Americans finally get the rights that Republicans had tried to give them immediately following the Civil War.
At that point, Democrat LBJ decided to take another strategy against blacks: make them as dependent as possible on government. And man did it ever work. It destroyed the black family, but it got blacks to vote 90+% for the rats.
They pitched Catholics off, now it’s the blacks turn because they are courting Hispanics.
They rely on stupidity, class envy, and no historical memory..
I’m one of those “traitors” the author speaks of. My family is huge, yet as far as I know, I am the only conservative Republican in the herd. Black sheep, as always, I guess.
I’d send this article to family, but they wouldn’t read it. If Thomas Sowell can’t convince them, no one can. I’m pretty sure they’re all voting for Obama with glee, and following the Pied Piper over the cliff.
Doesn’t seem to matter how many facts I present to them, they just cannot see that they’re inside the plantation fence, and I’m outside - a free man.
“....the Republican Party was formed to end slavery, while the Democratic Party fought tooth and nail to keep slavery in place.
Just once, I wish someone would mention that the so-called “radical” Republicans were called “radical” because they wanted to give blacks their full rights way back in the Civil War days. But who fought them? You got it.”
Boy, I wish I could get my liberally brainwashed family to understand that part of our history. If they would just digest it, it would probably break their programming, but no, they wouldn’t dare inspect the data.
The most key part of their indoctrination is; “Do Not Look”.
btt
Getting them to recognize that part of history would be a good start, but after reluctantly conceding that history, “liberals” often then just throw out some red herring.
The most common one is that the racist southern Dems all became Republicans in the past three or four decades. It is true that many southern Dems obviously switched parties to become Republicans, but what is not true (as far as I know, at least) is that southern Republicans are racists. I don’t see them trying to reinstate Jim Crow laws.
But of course we all know the modern liberal definition of a racist: anyone that they cannot compete with in a rational debate.
And vice-versa. Pretty much tit for tat.
But that's just another racist Republican talking...oh, wait!
I changed my registration this week, so I can vote in our June Dem primary, to have a little fun at their expense.
Some people prefer chains to freedom.
As the sky pilots teach us, “The sweet by and by will provide freedom. We shall all languish in our suffering for a little while longer. Let massa pay for our bread and our shelter. We are his burden. Over Jordon we will sing for joy in heaven while our oppressor benefactors burn in the fires of hell.”
Submitting oneself to slavery is the ultimate expression of racism. I would die a free man rather than submit to slavery.
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This is a splitting hairs type of thing to write of me but...those African Americans always had rights -- those rights were granted to us by our Creator, not by government. It's just that government was infringing on those God-given rights that it had no business infringing upon to begin with.
http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock200502180737.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States
“Although African Americans were sometimes able to defend their communities, white militias were more heavily armed and had more military experience. In the 1870s, Democrats regained power through affiliated militia terrorism of black and white Republicans, assassination of community leaders and political activists, and intimidation and restriction of voters at the polls. Even after the Democrats regained power throughout the South, between 1880 and 1951 the Tuskegee Institute recorded lynchings of 3,437 African-American victims, as well as 1,293 white victims. Southern states completed disfranchisement of African Americans about the turn of the century. Their white Democratic representatives comprised such a powerful voting block in Congress that they consistently defeated Federal bills against lynching. “
It is disgusting the Senator Byrd has the position that he has. But Democrats are not ashamed of their ignorance, they revel in it. I suppose they rely on the argument that those “Democrats” became Republicans after the Civil Rights Vote in the 1960s.
If only the DBM would report the facts and blacks would listen, the dims would never win another election. I've sent this type of reports to black friends, and they still vote straight (D) in every election.
So its a wash?
Democrats have almost entirely become the party of Margaret Sanger, the racist eugenicist founder of Planned Parenthood, an organization that has carried out Sanger’s evil intentions to exterminate blacks.
Thanks for the ping!
What is a wash?
Thanks for the links.
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