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All Rise!
This mornins lesson is titled:
STOP LYING REPUBLICANS. YOU WANTED TO MAKE SLAVERY CONSTITUTIONAL!
Members of todays republican party spin a disingenuous tale about republican support for the Civil Rights and voting rights act. They tell about a democratic filibuster and will tell us that more democrats opposed these bills than republicans. These things are true. But they only tell part of the story. According to Merriam-Webster the definition of disingenuous is, “lacking in candor: giving a false appearance of simple frankness.” As it pertains to the Civil Rights Act, 153 democrats and 139 republicans voted in favor of the legislation in the house . In the senate, 46 democrats and 27 republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act. In the house, 221 democrats voted for the Voting Rights Act, 112 republicans did. In the senate, 47 democrats voted for the Voting Rights Act, 30 republicans did.
By 1964 there were blacks whose families had been republicans for almost 100 years. Despite loyal black support, Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater for president. Goldwater voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. His nomination was a slap in the face of black people. When we got civil rights, republicans decided that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, turned their backs on us and began letting southern white racists become part of the party. The history of the republican party is one of broken promises to black people.
All today’s republican establishment does for blacks is throw out Uncle Toms or Aunties and tell us they are the ones we should listen to. Black republicans that do not deny that racism exists are part of the party, but you will not see them on Fox News. We are not republicans because republicans took a knee on us. Now they want us to come back so they can implement policies that will put a chokehold on us. The republican party is anti-affirmative action, anti-civil rights, anti-voting rights, pro maintenance of the memory of the confederacy but we are supposed to run to the republican party because Abraham Lincoln freed slaves from the same confederacy republicans defend today.
On December 6, 2019 The House of Representatives passed H.R. 4, the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019, by a vote of 228-186. This bill was crafted to undue the damage caused by Chief Just Roberts who decided racism had ended with the decision in Shelby County v. Holder. There were 187 Republicans in the House of Representatives in 2019. 1 Republican voted for this bill, Brian Fitzpatrick from Pennsylvania.
So let’s review.
STOP LYING REPUBLICANS. YOU WANTED TO MAKE SLAVERY CONSTITUTIONAL!
This mornins lesson is titled:
STOP LYING REPUBLICANS. YOU WANTED TO MAKE SLAVERY CONSTITUTIONAL!
Members of todays republican party spin a disingenuous tale about republican support for the Civil Rights and voting rights act. They tell about a democratic filibuster and will tell us that more democrats opposed these bills than republicans. These things are true. But they only tell part of the story. According to Merriam-Webster the definition of disingenuous is, “lacking in candor: giving a false appearance of simple frankness.” As it pertains to the Civil Rights Act, 153 democrats and 139 republicans voted in favor of the legislation in the house . In the senate, 46 democrats and 27 republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act. In the house, 221 democrats voted for the Voting Rights Act, 112 republicans did. In the senate, 47 democrats voted for the Voting Rights Act, 30 republicans did.
By 1964 there were blacks whose families had been republicans for almost 100 years. Despite loyal black support, Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater for president. Goldwater voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. His nomination was a slap in the face of black people. When we got civil rights, republicans decided that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, turned their backs on us and began letting southern white racists become part of the party. The history of the republican party is one of broken promises to black people.
All today’s republican establishment does for blacks is throw out Uncle Toms or Aunties and tell us they are the ones we should listen to. Black republicans that do not deny that racism exists are part of the party, but you will not see them on Fox News. We are not republicans because republicans took a knee on us. Now they want us to come back so they can implement policies that will put a chokehold on us. The republican party is anti-affirmative action, anti-civil rights, anti-voting rights, pro maintenance of the memory of the confederacy but we are supposed to run to the republican party because Abraham Lincoln freed slaves from the same confederacy republicans defend today.
On December 6, 2019 The House of Representatives passed H.R. 4, the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019, by a vote of 228-186. This bill was crafted to undue the damage caused by Chief Just Roberts who decided racism had ended with the decision in Shelby County v. Holder. There were 187 Republicans in the House of Representatives in 2019. 1 Republican voted for this bill, Brian Fitzpatrick from Pennsylvania.
So let’s review.
- The republican party is the party of the Corwin Amendment that would have made slavery constitutional.
- The republican party is the party of the 1876 Compromise that ended reconstruction and paved the way for Jim Crow.
- 4 out of the 7 votes in for separate but equal in Plessy v. Ferguson were republican and that decision made Jim Crow national law.
- In 1964 the Republican party turned it’s back on blacks after nearly 100 years of black support.
- Today’s Republican Party is controlled by an Anti-Black base.
STOP LYING REPUBLICANS. YOU WANTED TO MAKE SLAVERY CONSTITUTIONAL!