Democrats Are Trying to Erase Their Vile Past

What the hell are wrong with you guys? Can none of you read? The last three post of been responding to poor comprehension. SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVES were the party of racist at ALL times and they were mostly democrats until the later part of the 20th century. I never said different! This isn't rocket science guys, the southern states that are now republicans were those nasty racist bigoted states you're feigning democratic hate for right now.

 

Don't tell them that. They already know it.

But you have to understand that the bigots out there need a self serving narrative that reinterprets events through the narrow lense of modern partisan politics.

The Democrats are not trying to "erase" their past. They know what being a Southern Democrat was in the years before the Civil Rights Act.

But the party changed, which is what the conservatives here (and the promoters of this dishonest portrait of history) are trying to either hide or ignore.

 

republicans are proving who the past really belonged to by their support of the flag

 

It's hilarious how ignorant of history some folks can be. Parties are fluid, the Democrats today are further left than even a decade ago, and the GOP has tilted even more to the right. The whole "KKK r DemoCraps!!" argument is especially funny. Go ask a current member where they stand politically.

 

The question that stumps the "The GOP is the same GOP today as it was from Lincoln to Eisenhower" folks....


Who was Strom Thurmond and why did he become a Republican?

 

by the logic of the OP, the Republicans burned The South.

 

What decade was that? For the past 40 years, Democrats have been leading the charge against racism.

 

The KKK was started by Democrats and the Civil Rights act was passed by a Republican congress and it was blue dog Democrats who fought against it. Lincoln and M.L.King were republicans. Byrd and Wallace were democrats.

 

Of course not--it is etched in stone on the side of appropriately enough named Stone Mountain.

 

The information is easy to get in both cases. Southern conservatives voted against civil rights and spread the KKK in the south.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

 

Please link to some proof of that.

 

I already posted the civil rights link. Do you honestly want me to explain the civil war and Jim Crow to you?



The 15 states whose legislatures have not ratified the Equal Rights Amendment are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, and Virginia.



Next time do your own homework or I will just ridicule you.

 

Republican's that support the Confederate flag.

 

Yeah, I get it. Republican's are valorous and just. They care and no one else does. If only people would listen to Republican's, everything would be better. Heart of an eagle, soul of a patriot... Yes, I get it...

 

Is The Democratic Party Proud of its History of Slavery & Segregation?
The Audacity of Whitewashing History​

By: Dan McLaughlin
September 13th, 2014


Democrats Whitewash History

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Being a Democrat not only means never having to say you’re sorry, but also means getting to pretend that history never happened. The Democrats’ official party website(http://www.democrats.org/about/our-history) is proof of that, as its section on “Our History” declares, with all the chutzpah of the proverbial defendant who murders his parents and begs the court’s mercy on grounds of being an orphan, that:

For more than 200 years, our party has led the fight for civil rights, health care, Social Security, workers’ rights, and women’s rights. We are the party of Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, FDR, and the countless everyday Americans who work each day to build a more perfect union. Take a look at some of our accomplishments, and you’ll see why we’re proud to be Democrats.​

It would be hard to offer a more tendentious reading of American history than this.

Look: if you read American history, and the history of the major political parties, you will find much that is both good and bad in their histories on the issues of race and civil rights. No serious, honest adult would claim that either party has had a historic monopoly on virtue or vice on race. I would argue that, if the Republican Party’s history since its founding in the 1850s is compared to that of the Democratic Party over the same period, the GOP’s history on issues of equal rights before the law stands up favorably against that of the opposing party – and that the GOP is at worst roughly equivalent with the Democrats over any period of a decade or more that you might choose to examine. But I do not deny that Republicans have not always been in the right on every related issue over the years.

If today’s Democrats had a shred of integrity and intellectual honesty, they would have some humility about their own history, rather than offering up the egregiously false claim that they have been on the side of the angels continuously for 200 years. 200 years ago, in 1814, our president was James Madison – a Democrat, a great man in other ways, but a slaveowner. At least four other Democratic presidents between then and the Civil War owned slaves, and the Democrats were the locus of national political support for slavery throughout that period. The Civil War was launched by Democrats who refused to accept the election in 1860 of an anti-slavery Republican president, for a variety of reasons but mainly due to slavery. Democrats reasserted control of Southern politics at the end of Reconstruction through a heavy application of terrorism by the Klu Klux Klan (in Mississippi in the 1870s, they basically murdered anyone suspected of voting Republican). For nearly a century after that, the supporters of Jim Crow were uniformly lockstep Democrats, many of them progressives – Woodrow Wilson, the only former citizen of the Confederacy to serve as President and the first progressive Democrat, introduced segregation throughout the federal government, and Franklin Roosevelt regularly received as high as 95% of the vote in Southern states. The 1924 Democratic Convention, in the race against the arch-conservative, pro-civil-rights reform Calvin Coolidge(http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...nds_revisionist_libertarian_smear_118787.html), was popularly known as the “Klanbake” for the heavy and vocal KKK presence; their nominee that year would go on to argue the losing, pro-segregation side in Brown v. Board of Education. And that’s before we discuss the federal role in housing discrimination, instituted by a New Deal agency in the 1930s(http://www.theatlantic.com/business...ng-policy-that-made-your-neighborhood/371439/) and finally undone by Republican Richard Nixon and his HUD secretary George Romney in the late 60s. Or the Davis-Bacon Act…(https://www.ij.org/davis-bacon-act-background) The politicians who fought for segregation in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s were uniformly Democrats like George Wallace (who won his last election in 1982, as a Democrat), Orval Faubus and Strom Thurmond (who left the Democrats when he gave up supporting segregation). Former KKK members in national life included Democratic Senator and Supreme Court Justice (appointed by FDR) Hugo Black, who sat on the Court until the 1970s, and Senator Robert Byrd, who was still in the Senate until his death in Barack Obama’s second year in office.

If you want to put these facts in some historical context, of course, we can talk about history and context.(http://www.redstate.com/diary/Dan_M...southern-strategy-myth-and-the-lost-majority/) But the Democrats’ official campaign website doesn’t do that – it never apologizes to African-Americans for the party’s history of supporting slavery and segregation, and actively celebrates the last 200 years of the Party’s history as an unbroken record of virtue in which “our party has led the fight for civil rights.” The only possible justification for this is the Democrats’ confidence that their own voters are completely ignorant of history.

(Excerpt)

Read more:
http://www.redstate.com/2014/09/13/democratic-party-proud-history-slavery-segregation/

Too many times I have read the mantra of the Democratic Progressive Party claiming that it is the Conservatives and GOP that were and are responsible for Slavery, Segregation, creation of the KKK, and the lynchings of Blacks, ethnic minorities, Catholic, Jews and Republicans. If we ever get to read the true history of America, we can find that it was not conservatives that insisted on slavery in the South, created the Confederate Flag, seceded and attacked the U.S., fought a Civil war to keep Slavery in the South, and maintain segregation, bigotry, racial, and ethnic bias all these years. IMO, the charade and smoke screen of Democrats should and must be exposed for what it truly is. Their propaganda of lies, deceit and perfidy must be exposed.

 

Conservative Democrats created the KKK

 

You'd better 'believe' that!! Amen!!

 

Because WWII has been over for a long time.

 

I don't regard this as hilarious at all.

In fact, the first time I heard a right winger push this misleading meme (it was Rush Limbaugh), I almost drove off the road.

This is one of the most dishonest and decietful political lies that exist in the catalog of right wing themes today.

It is a full on Orwellian attempt to rewrite history and portray a party that has had a dismal civil rights record over the last 30 years as a champion of civil rights.

 

We all know the history of the Democrats, Wehrwolfen. Virtually all of those Democrats jumped ship to the GOP after the Civil Rights era began. When Trent Lott said he voted for Strom Thurmond, Thurmond was running as a Democrat. Ironically, Thurmond's son Paul, a state senator from SC, gave a blistering speech calling for the removal of the battle flag. http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150623/PC16/150629748

 

I am not gonna search for it, but I think they banned the swastika too