brainlessone: Bingo!
Martin Luther King, Jr. b.January 15, 1929
While the air is heavy with racially-charged insults and accusations flying between the Democrat frontrunners, the whole sorry episode is a stark reminder of the second Civil Rights movement, generally dated from about 1954 to 1968. We are reminded that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s struggle was against Democrats. Republicans had led the first Civil Rights movement from 1854 till 1877—an effort the Democrats killed, with great gusto. Republicans had also had fought valiantly to pass countless civil rights bills (sometimes successfully), anti-lynching laws and to overturn the wide array of Democrat-passed state laws that established segregation, poll taxes, whites-only primary elections and many other race-based concepts.
The 1964 Civil Rights Bill—the first civil rights legislation a majority of Democrats had ever supported—passed with far greater support of Republicans in Congress than Democrats. Same with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
It was a Republican federal judge, Frank Johnson, who in 1956 ruled in favor of Rosa Parks and who in 1965 ordered Democrat Governor George Wallace to permit MLK’s voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery.
At the 2000 Republican National Convention, Condoleezza Rice said:
"The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I."
On this day, January 15, in 1901, the Alabama Democratic Party called for a convention to write a new state constitution that would prohibit African-Americans from voting. Despite vocal opposition from Republican Booker T. Washington and other black, and white, Alabama Republicans and Republican civil rights activists from around the country, the Democrat state-sanctioned scam succeeded.
Democrats almost unanimously dominated Alabama's 1901 constitutional convention, and its chairman was of course a Democrat. In his opening address, he said:
"If we would have white supremacy, we must establish it by law—not not by force or fraud... The negro is descended from a race lowest in intelligence and moral precepts of all the races of men."
Alabama's African-American citizens would not vote in appreciable numbers again until the 1950s. Democrats and their allies in the media have worked diligently to hide a 140 years of official racism and racial politics practiced by their party from 1825-1964 and they have been largely successful. But there is enough history of their abuse to fill 35 years’ of daily calendar entries with examples of political efforts, social and racial slurs, and yes—all too often—terrorism, sponsored by or sanctioned by their party. It is a history that delayed racial integration and civil rights in our country for a full century.
"When in doubt, empty the clip."
AI
