This article has a great list with references.
1. Democrats voted to keep Africans Americans in slavery, opposing the 13th Amendment which officially freed the slaves. Only four Democrats voted for it.
2. Republicans also passed the 14th Amendment which granted slaves U.S. citizenship; Democrats voted against it.
3. Republicans also passed the 15th Amendment which gave slaves the right to vote. Not a single one of the 56 Democrats in Congress voted for it.
4.Furthermore, Republicans passed all of the Civil Rights laws of the 1860s — including the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 following the Civil War.
5. The Republican Party itself was founded as the “anti-slavery party” in 1854. The party subsequently gave us President Abraham Lincoln and ultimately, the Emancipation Proclamation which led to the liberation of slaves.
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“The Democratic Party identified itself as the ‘white man’s party’ and demonized the Republican Party as being ‘Negro dominated,’ even though whites were in control.”
The Democratic Party was responsible for passing Jim Crow laws
The Democratic Party was responsible for .. Black Civil Codes that forced Americans to utilize separate drinking fountains, swimming pools, and other facilities in the 20th century.
the 1957 Civil Rights Act while in the U.S. Senate. Sen. Al Gore, Sr., D-Tenn., also opposed it.
That’s nice and all but again, constantly mentioning the DEMS are the party of KKK and a BYRD is not really an effective argument against what is going on right now with these domestic terrorists groups who are fronting as saviors of the country against Nazis with cover and support from the entire political establishment including the GOP.
This is a freedom of speech issue too and apparently it’s perfectly okay to use violence against anyone conservative and again, the GOP think this as well.
POTUS has been a HUGE factor in fundraising and donations to the GOP and they refuse to support him, and now they hate us as well.
And then LBJ came along and figured out you can get more votes and make some nice money for yourself and friends if you patronized certain groups.
And statues are of Democrats in many cases, no Republican that’s for sure.
President Trump, Mr Bannon, they opened this can of worms, please blow them out of the water with truth in their own subject matter with a medium the other brainwashed 50% of the population can’t miss it. I don’t know how to accomplish that, but perhaps between Breitbart and O’KEEFE you all can do it!
I am a pumped Freeper and very optimistic...anyone reading this, pick yer head up!
These aren’t Democrats.
Do you see Nancy Pelosi out there busting heads?
I’m sure there will be a Special on CNN highlighting this story, and specifically the Racist History of the Democrat Party. I’ll go check.
And then the Republicans nominated that idiot Goldwater for President. Goldwater was against Civil Rights. The nation elected LBJ and wound up with the Great Society which is in fact destroying the USA. Somebody needs to mention that it was the Republicans who went for the idiot Goldwater.
If one points this out, the answer is that these Democrats are all Republicans now.
There was some sort of magical pole shift that happened in 1972.
They seriously believe the “Southern Strategy” abrogates all this history of Democrat enslavement and oppression of blacks. That is was today’s Republican’s under the name Democrat who did it.
These are irrational, hysterical and crazy people who think they are the best and brightest and rational and sane.
Democrats FAVOR removing the Civil War Confederate statues because it IS the history of the Democrat Party in the USA. Democrats were advocates of segregation until LBJ in 1965.