Posted on 02/03/2023 12:22:31 PM PST by cotton1706
McCarthy said he understood the Democrats’ desire to remove the symbols considering their own party’s history. According to McCarthy, each statue was of a Democrat. The sculptures had been approved by state legislatures that had been majority Democrats, and came from states that had civil rights histories that were spotty at best.
“I watched what the Democrats did, bringing Jim Crow laws to the South and going after black Americans,” McCarthy said.
He pointed out that the Republican Party started with Abraham Lincoln, the president credited with freeing the slaves in America. McCarthy pointed out that slavery, defended by Southern Democrats, was the issue that brought about the Civil War. He called the war the “greatest challenge ever to our Constitution.”
McCarthy said Joseph Rainey of South Carolina, the first black American elected to the House of Representatives, was a Republican.
He suggested that the statues remind the Democratic Party’s true history.
“If I was a Democrat, I wouldn’t be proud of their legacy, I wouldn’t be proud of their history, and I would want to change it, ” said McCarthy.
“There’s not one Republican you have to take down.”
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He said something that needed to be said. Maybe he was able to educate some of the low I.Q. people
I applaud him of that. The Democrats have to be reminded of their history every once in a while because the history books surely wont state the truth.
Very stupid to trod down this path.
Justifying the removal of statues and monuments is at the very heart of socialism.
” Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it “.
Speaker McCarthy seems be be retreating to his Frank Luntz days.
AMEN!
McCarthy’s history lesson is one I’ve soooo often wished someone would stick under the snout of every Demonrat who screeches “RACIST” in public while practicing it in private!
So, again I say AMEN,
and “Hallelujah”!
Well I agree with you on that.
But he was asked a snarky question from some apparently know-nothing reporter.
Republicans have NOTHING to be ashamed of regarding slavery and civil rights (Goldwater voted against the ‘64 civil rights bill because he believed a couple of provisions violated the Constitution).
But Democrats have EVERYTHING to be ashamed of regarding slavery and civil rights (until northern Democrats like Hubert Humphrey came along).
He pointed out that the Republican Party started with Abraham Lincoln, the president credited with freeing the slaves in America.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/college-plaque-in-land-of-lincoln-labels-abe-a-democrat
Abraham Lincoln was a “ Republican “.
He publicly stated that blacks were inferior to whites. He also wanted to send all persons of African descent back to Africa, or to central America, after the war.
Apparently, the majority of NEA educated citizens are not aware of these facts.
I am starting to warm up to the speaker........
Why do we always have a demoncrat hiding in the ranks? Kiss off.
Ditto !!!
Thanks for telling us, Karen.
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