Posted on 05/22/2014 9:44:33 AM PDT by Nachum
Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) told NewsOne Now host Roland Martin Wednesday evening that the recently-announced Benghazi select committee, which just gained five Democratic members, was redolent of the efforts to intimidate black politicians during the Reconstruction.
I seem to remember our history, Clyburn said. After reconstruction, when people of color gained political presence throughout the south, they drummed up all kinds of things, indictments and accusations, they drove these people out of the south. Some went to Chicago, some came here to Washington D.C. And I see the same kind of efforts to discredit this president and this administration.
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If I didnt know the history of this country so well, I might not be as concerned as I am [about the Benghazi select committee], Clyburn continued. I am concerned because I see us revisiting those same kinds of things that led to the end of Reconstruction at the end of the 1890s.
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Mighty thoughtful of you crip
We are grateful I promise
Problem is....Obama and company are imposing Reconstruction phase II on all of us now...not just Dixie
Our culture now exists to bring whites....to heel.....especially Christians
This can be expected from the members Pelosi placed on the committee. Deflect and blame others while protecting Obama and Hillary.
Wow! Committee hasn’t even met the first time, and already the dhimmicraps are tossing out the race card.
Again, people... It’s not about color or ethnicity. It’s about lame-brained, left-tard, progressive, socialist policies and politics that are destroying this once great nation.
Listen up, a$$hats.
What a stupid person he is. Reconstruction was a very difficult time for everybody, but actually, it was the Republicans, particularly from the North (the Carpetbaggers) who were trying either to ameliorate or to benefit from it, either personally or politically. They got a lot of the Freedmen into power (I’m not saying this was good, just telling you the historical situation), and while there was corruption, a lot of the efforts were aimed at rebuilding.
The Dems were actually the ones who despised blacks so much that they couldn’t tolerate them being in any position of responsibility. Then somehow they took them over, rewrote history, and are now sacred among the black population. You can’t be considered really “black,” I gather, unless you’re a Dem.
C’mon, Clyburn, is that the best you can do ? Why don’t you just call them Nazis, you know you want to.
Everything is about “race” to this guy. Well...for all DEMS I guess.
This kind of crap just irritates the hell out of me.
Wrong or right, things like reconstruction, affirmative action or welfare were never intended to be a way of life.
Any democrat who wants to see racism, need only look in the nearest mirror.
His desperation of playing the race card shows just how worried the dims are about these hearings.
He’s right....after all,the ambassador *was* white.
They played the race card? I can't believe it.
Who would have ever thought that Clyburn and the Demon Ratz would play the race card.
Didn't see that coming.
Let me get this straight. The Benghazi investigation is actually an effort to end some sort of Reconstruction.
This genius just needs to point out all of the valuable structures that the current Reconstructers have erected.
Not likely to see Mau-Mauing on the Committee itself but the audience will be stacked with disruptors.
We even had a handful of Black men playing professional baseball (roughly 70 years before Jackie Robinson) and serving in both Houses of Congress before the end of Reconstruction morphed into the beginning of Jim Crow.
OMG, it’s the Night Riders all over again!
Clyburn and his fellow travelers reek of desperation. Their fear has the odor of defeat.
I think the Dems are really scared of something they think will come out. Some of the things they have said is over the top, even by Dem standards...
Clyburn is a much better demagogue than historian!
Benghazi, VA, IRS scandal, Marxist _resident in the White Hut...
...the kinds of things that led to the Secession in 1860-61.....will cross the Reconstruction bridge after WE WIN.
Show me ONE that does not love the race card.
When it is all you have to go with and it works so well, why not?
’ Reconstruction ‘ was one of the worst events to ever blight U.S. history . It was a period of unparalleled corruption and created an extended depression and poverty in the South that only recently has ended . It had nothing to do with altruistic ‘reconstruction’ , but was a blatant cynical effort to utterly subjugate a large segment of the American population and steal all that they still had , all that the carpetbaggers could grab with both hands . There was not a noble thing about .
Robert E. Lee later said that “ If I had known what was going to happen , I would have not surrendered “
It might have helped if he’d also fought more effectively on certain occasions . The wrong side won in 1865.
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