"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." George Washington
Welcome to the Slaughterhouse, America!!
By Nicholas Meyeres
Finally! The Democrats have stepped out of the dark ages of slavery and condemnation of skin color to elect the first black President, and follow suit with what the Republicans have been saying all along! This is particularly historic, not only because today is the day Barack Obama is Inaugurated as our 44th President, but because this is the day after we have paid homage to another great, black, REPUBLICAN leader- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oh come on, did it really come as any shock to you that MLK was a Republican in an era when nearly every black man and woman was a registered Republican? He was, after all, the man (Democratic) President Lyndon B. Johnson referred to in anger as “that nigger preacher” after Dr. King began protesting the Viet Nam conflict in 1967. Of course LBJ was never quite ‘on board’ with this whole ‘Civil Rights Movement thing’. When he was a then Senator of Texas he said, "These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness.” Ouch! Especially since I don't even think uppityness is an actual word.
Martin Luther King, Jr. is also the same person President John F. Kennedy (again, a Democrat) had his brother (then, Democratic Attorney General) Robert F. Kennedy undermine by wiretapping and investigating with help from the FBI because the good Doctor was suspected of being a Communist. Bobbie even said in 1961 about the plight of the black man, “I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes."
It is interesting to note that most people ignorantly laud President Kennedy as a proponent of Civil Rights, when in fact, he was not. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act while he was a senator, and after he became president, John F. Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King. Not to mention that well into the first two years into his administration, President Kennedy flat out ignored King’s requests for Civil Rights as many historians, including Civil Rights leaders and Dr. King himself would attest to later.
In fact, it was only AFTER television coverage of riots and several very public demonstrations that President Kennedy felt the need to introduce the 1963 Civil Rights Act. And let’s not forget it was a Republican (Ronald Reagan) who saw the value in Dr. King’s efforts as a man of integrity, honesty, conviction, and bravery; and signed into law the very bill that made Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday a national holiday.
But it wasn’t just during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s that the Democrats showed their true ‘colors'. The very simple truth of the matter is that the Democrat Party's sordid history during just this last century is a history wedded with bigotry and hatred stemming largely out of the liberal New Deal era up until our modern day- but it began well before even that!
Let’s hop in the Way-Back Machine, kids, and start at the birth of the Democratic Party at the hands of it’s founder, Andrew Jackson— who was coincidentally enough, a slave owner. Jackson said, “If blacks were given the right to vote, that would place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored Negro in the country upon an equality with the poor white man." What a way to start a party!
But it didn’t end there.
Every year after that, until the middle part of this last century, the Democrat Party’s own Party Platform consisted of language the likes of, "Instead of restoring the Union, it [the Republican Party] has, so far as in its power, dissolved it, and subjected ten states, in time of profound peace, to military despotism and Negro supremacy”. That was from 1868. And then, in 1948 when the party nominated Strom Thurman they said, "We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race."
One African-American pundit recently said of the Democrat Party, “It is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: Slavery, Secession, Segregation and now Socialism.”
It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in the bonds of slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. It was the Democrats who fought to prevent the passage of every single civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860's, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950's and 1960's. It was the Democrats who have had Klan members serve in elected capacity within the high ranks or the Party. And it was even the Democrats who started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks.
Of all the days in U.S. history, July 4th, 1924; the Democrat Party held their convention labeled the “Klanbake Convention.” While outside the convention on a field in New Jersey, one of the largest Klan gatherings was held in unison and in commemoration of the event itself. The convention was marked by speakers spewing racial hatred, celebrations of their platform victory in the Democrat Convention, and even ended in a cross burning.
As for Civil Rights; Democrat opposition to the Civil Rights Act was substantial enough to literally split the party in two. A whopping 40% of the House Democrats voted AGAINST the Civil Rights Act, while 80% of Republicans SUPPORTED it. Republican support in the Senate was even higher. Similar trends occurred with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was supported by 82% of House Republicans and 94% of Senate Republicans.
In fact, a calculation of 26 major civil rights votes from 1933 through the 1960's civil rights era shows that Republicans favored civil rights in approximately 96% of the votes, whereas the Democrats opposed them in 80% of the votes! These facts are often intentionally overlooked by left wing Democrats for obvious reasons, especially on this day of all days.
In 1865, the 13th Amendment emancipating the slaves was passed with 100 percent of Republicans (88 of 88 in the House, 30 of 30 in the Senate) voting for it. Only 23 percent of Democrats (16 of 66 in the House, 3 of 8 in the Senate) voted for it.
When Southern states were angered at the implementation of the 14th Amendment, Congress came back and passed the 15th Amendment in 1870, guaranteeing blacks the right to vote. Every single Republican voted for it; every Democrat voted against it.
And it was none other than the very first Republican President in the history of this great Nation to win the White House who made it all a reality for a black man to be President of the United States of America. On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States of America. And it was Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War by saying, “In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free,” while nearly every single Democrat at the time stood in defiance.
Stay tuned in 2 days for Part II!
