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In an attempt to get the Kennedy Clan behind his wife’s presidential campaign in 2008, former Democrat president Bill Clinton remarked to Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) concerning Barak Obama: “A few years ago this guy would have been getting us coffee.” During that same presidential campaign, Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) said that Obama was “clean and articulate.” The ultra-liberal Los Angeles Times called Obama “the magic Negro.”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) had to apologize a few weeks ago for opining, during the campaign, that Barack Obama could win the White House because Obama was “light skinned…with no Negro dialect.” His recent apology included an admission that he thought that was a compliment to Obama. (And what is it then to non-light skinned Black Americans?)
During the debate over nationalizing health care, Senator Reid claimed that those who opposed the health care reform plan were the same as those who opposed ending slavery, those who opposed giving women the right to vote, and those who opposed the civil rights legislation of the 1960’s. Put aside for a moment the fact that the 19th Amendment and the civil rights legislation could not –and did not– pass without the votes from the Republicans in Congress; both were being blocked by the Democrats in Congress. But for any Democrat to associate Republicans with the Democrat-controlled slave-holding Confederacy is ludicrous. Evidently the Democrats are betting that Americans, Black and White, don’t know much about American history.
Everyone knows that it was President Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves but many don’t know he was a Republican, as was Ulysses S. Grant. Many don’t know that the first Black man to enter the White House—through the front door—was Booker T. Washington, and he was invited to lunch by President Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican. Democrat Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus blocked desegregation in Arkansas. The schools in the South were integrated by federal troops; the 101 Airborne was sent in to protect and allow the students entrance, on orders from President Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican. A higher percentage of Republicans in Congress voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than Democrats. (If not for the Republicans in Congress, the Civil Rights Act would not have passed at all.)
The first Affirmative Action program was started by President Richard Nixon, a Republican. Boston, that liberal bastion, was under court-ordered busing until the mid-1970s to integrate its school system because it refused to do so. Most Democrats will tell you that, as President, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy and Bill Clinton did wonderful things for Black Americans, but they talk in generalities. Name one specific thing that any of those men did for Black Americans. They did nothing—and they were all Democrats. (In fact, Kennedy, as a Senator, voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.)
In the mid 1850s the Republican Party was formed from a coalition of many smaller separate or splinter groups that had little in common except that they were all anti-slavery. Anti-slavery—that was the core, the unifying factor common to all the new Republicans. “Resolved…Republican electors…unite in the following declarations: That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom…we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to Slavery in any Territory of the United States.” Prior to the Civil War, the Democrats controlled the South and maintained the system of racism and legalized slavery. After the years of Reconstruction (1865-1877), the Democrats again controlled the South and maintained a system of de facto slavery that existed for almost another 100 years.
After Reconstruction there were no more Republicans in the South and Blacks were placed—by the Democrats—back into a position very much like slavery with the imposition of the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats used an assortment of tools to keep Black Americans segregated and disenfranchised. Despite the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, Black Americans would not get their civil rights for another hundred years. Socially, the races were kept segregated with separate and unequal public facilities throughout the South. Politically, Blacks were kept from voting or holding elected office through such things as the grandfather clause, literacy tests, poll taxes, White primaries, convoluted voter registration processes, and of course, violence and intimidation from the Ku Klux Klan (which has its origins in the Democrat Party).
Probably the most interesting of these is the White primary. It was called the “White” primary because only Whites were allowed to vote. This was accomplished by declaring the Democrat Party a private club with membership by invitation only. Naturally, no Blacks in the South were invited to join. Once the Republicans left the South after Reconstruction, there were few, if any, general elections because there were few Republican candidates to challenge Democrat candidates in the general elections. Therefore, most elections were decided in the Democrat primaries. Whoever won the Democrat primary would win the election because of the lack of a Republican challenger.
Probably the most interesting of these is the White primary. It was called the “White” primary because only Whites were allowed to vote. This was accomplished by declaring the Democrat Party a private club with membership by invitation only. Naturally, no Blacks in the South were invited to join. Once the Republicans left the South after Reconstruction, there were few, if any, general elections because there were few Republican candidates to challenge Democrat candidates in the general elections. Therefore, most elections were decided in the Democrat primaries. Whoever won the Democrat primary would win the election because of the lack of a Republican challenger.
The big losers in these elections were the Blacks in the South who would never get the opportunity to cast a vote because they could not vote in the Democrat primary because they were not “invited” to be members of the Democrat Party. Blacks in the South would not be guaranteed equal rights and the right to vote until the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965. (The Civil Rights Act was filibustered in the Senate by Democrats in an attempt to prevent is passage.)
In this country we frequently mark the milestones of the first Black American to be elected to this or that office. In fact, there were many Black Americans elected to public office throughout the South immediately after the Civil War—and they were all Republicans. But those Black Americans only held those offices while the Republicans were in control in the South during Reconstruction (1865-1877). Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce were both United States Senators representing Mississippi and both were Black. Fourteen Black men sat in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1869 and 1877. The South had a total of five Black Americans serving in the position of Lieutenant Governor during Reconstruction and one even served as acting Governor for a month in Louisiana.
Many served in the state legislatures and as Secretaries of State and Secretaries of Education, even as State Treasurer. And they were all Republicans. Other prominent Black Republicans include Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, Jackie Robinson, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Many served in the state legislatures and as Secretaries of State and Secretaries of Education, even as State Treasurer. And they were all Republicans. Other prominent Black Republicans include Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, Jackie Robinson, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you are a racist that means that you believe someone is inferior to you because of his race. The Democrats are more given to racism than are the Republicans. They are prejudiced against Black Americans and they show it with things like racial quotas and welfare programs. They are saying, loud and clear, that Black Americans are not good enough, not smart enough to succeed on their own. They are inferior and so we have to give them things that we know they could never achieve or obtain on their own. The Democrats have the same patriarchal and patronizing attitude toward Black Americans now as they did a couple hundred years ago. As Ambassador Alan Keyes, a Black Republican, once said, “The Democrats are keeping Black Americans in slavery today just as sure as they did 150 years ago.”
Black Libertarian Larry Elders, in his book, The Ten Things You Can’t Say in America, discusses the racism of both the Democrats and Blacks. On his ten things list, number one is: Blacks are More Racist than Whites, and number two is: White Condescension is as Bad as Black Racism. One of the issues Elders takes up in his book is how the Democrats and liberal Black leaders in America treat Black Republicans with loathing. Many Blacks and Democratic leaders call Black Republicans a variety of names trying to indicate that the Republicans do not treat Black Americans as equals, but as tokens. This is a classic case of projection; Democrats treat Blacks in their own party like this and so assume that every political party treats them in this same manner.
Cries of racism and victimization that result in quota-based hiring practices are the only means of getting ahead for Black Americans—or so the Democrats would have you believe. They don’t think Black Americans can get ahead any other way. The Republicans believe that the way to get ahead—for people of all colors and races—is hard work, education, and determination. And even though the Republicans are not racists, the Democrats will just keep saying it over and over until people believe it. To them the truth is irrelevant and facts don’t matter.
