Black History and the Democrats

American Thinker.com ^ | February 9, 2022 | Richard Arrington

[Kaslin]

Black History Month was first an idea in the mind of Carter Woodson, the child of freed slaves. It was officially recognized by President Gerald Ford, a Republican, in 1976, some one hundred fourteen years after another Republican, Abraham Lincoln, issued the emancipation proclamation.

The Democrat Party has a long history of dividing the country along racial lines. In the recent past, Democrats made election-year promises to improve the African American’s life but soon forgot the promises after they received their votes. Today, African Americans and other people of color are recognizing that the Democrat’s mouths and hearts are often traveling in different directions.

In the leadup to our most recent presidential election, Democrats seized the Black Lives Matters (BLM) and Antifa demonstrations and riots as a crisis that they could use to smear the sitting president who had elevated the status of people of color.

Yvette Simpson, of the progressive political action committee, Democracy for America, in an article in June of 2020 said, “We only take action when something has happened and that action is generally temporary and changes when political wind changes and when political leadership changes.” She further stated that many of the protests are taking place in Democratic-run cities. Perhaps without knowing it, she revealed a long-hidden truth: the Democrat practice of; promise, get elected, and forget the promise.

During the riots, Democrats adopted an anti-police mantra to secure the African American vote. Following BLM’s leadership, they lined up in lockstep to defund the police and remove qualified immunity. But it was minority communities who sought more, not less police service. The impact was devastating. Officers retired or resigned in droves, recruiting was stymied, ambushes of officers reached a fever pitch, and violent crime, especially in Democrat-run cities, has broken records.

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Here is what Black History tells me every year when it is celebrated: most of the Black Community has learned absolutely NOTHING, they still remain slaves on the plantation......

“The democratic plantation really is worse than the plantation I grew up on.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTcViL8Udo0

[Jim Noble]

The Democrat Party has a long history of dividing the country along racial lines

Nonsense.

The country is divide along racial lines. It would be so if the Democratic Party had never existed.

But at least the Democrats know who their voters are and act on their behalf, unlike the GOP, who are profoundly confused about this and many other things.

[mewzilla]

It doesn't add up

Lauren Boebert: Nothing says "Democrat Priorities" like raising the price of insulin on Day 1 but making crack pipes free.

Melissa Tate: Trump offered black people the $500 Billion Platinum Plan to create 40 Black Wall Streets in 40 cities to bring entrepreneurship economic empowerment to black communities. Joe Biden's plan is to buy $30 million worth of crack pipes to promote "racial equity" in black communities.

I would like a better cite for that last one.