Posted on 02/09/2017 3:11:29 PM PST by NoLibZone
The day after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was rebuked while making a speech critical of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Sen. Ted Cruz blasted Democrats, saying their party is the one rooted in racism.
The Democrats are the party of the Ku Klux Klan, Cruz (R-Tex.) said in an interview on Fox News on Wednesday. You look at the most racist you look at the Dixiecrats, they were Democrats who imposed segregation, imposed Jim Crow laws, who founded the Klan. The Klan was founded by a great many Democrats.
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Yep, the Democrats haven’t been this mad at Republicans since we freed their slaves.
I wish our representatives would repeat this over and over.
Also, tell the people how many Dems/Repub voted for/against the Civil Rights Act of 64. If I remember correctly, more Repubs voted for it than Dems.
1. Republicans passed the 13 Amendment, which ended slavery.
2. Republicans passed the 14th Amendment, which made black people citizens.
3. Republicans passed the 15th Amendment, which gave black people the right to vote.
4. Republicans started Howard University for blacks. (White Republican Oliver Howard started Howard University)
5. Republicans started Spelman College for blacks. (White Republican John D Rockefeller put up the money to build Spelman
college, and in return that college was named after his wife Laura Spelman Rockefeller)
6. Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which gave blacks the right to buy and own property.
7. Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1871, to protect blacks from the Ku Klux Klan
8. Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which gave blacks the right to serve on a Jury
9. Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957
10. Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1960
11. Republican president Dwight Eisenhower sent in the Federal troops to escort black kids to school in Arkansas, this is
known as the Little Rock 9.
12. Republicans created 40 Acres and a Mule for blacks——Republican (Thaddeus Stevens) created a bill saying that black
people should get 40 acres and a mule.
13. Most Republicans voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
14. Most Republicans voted in favor of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
15. Republican president Ronald Reagan signed into law the bill making Dr. King birthday a national holiday.
16. Republican president George Bush Sr brought Federal charges against the 4 white police officers that beat up Rodney King.
17. Republican president George W Bush gave Africa 48 billion dollars in funding.
18. Republican president George W Bush has given more money to Africa than any other U.S. president.
19. In 1956 Republicans endorsed Brown VS Board of Education
20. Republican president Richard Nixon deseggregated public school
Why doesn’t someone bring up Sen. Robert Byrd, esteemed Democrat leader, who actually held a KKK office as a recruiter of new members?
Ted Cruz just parroting what Rush Limbaugh has said for years where most Cruzisms come from. Big deal.
The truth is, the Klan was started by Democrats but the 1920s “Invisible Empire” was indeed a more split amalgamation. Then, starting with the civil rights era, it reverted back to the Democrats. They have a complex history.
I actually agree with that.
And like I just said, Rush Limbaugh has been saying this for years, so now, Cruz is getting a big pat on the back from some as if he is the first one to ever say this. Many folks have.
But mainly Rush, Cruz does seem to say a number of things that I first heard on Rush.
How about that one saying, I don’t know who said it first; but about Obama not identifying terrorism as Islamic terrorism. Cruz said this but he didn’t come up with the original idea. Rush might not have either, I forget who did.
What do you think that KKK comment was all about? It was nothing more than red meet tossed to his fanboy base. It didn’t register with the Left, and most folks sitting at home were thinking, Wha?
He’s desperate. He overplayed his hand last year, and everyone is one to him. We have a few people who glommed on to him and now can’t be honest with themselves.
If we had all done what Tead did last year, Hillary would be president. How much grandstanding would he be doing now?
He would be doing a lot, because he would think he had a shot in 2020. Nope. He ended that last year.
At any rate, we can expect him to jump in front of every camera, glom on to every Trump action, and try to make it look like everything Trump is doing, Ted beat him to.
Ted is this year’s John McCain. How’s my hair boys?
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