Donald Trump's description of Black America offends many African Americans

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... and my dick is bigger than yours.

Yeah, but I can piss higher up the rope than YOU can!!

Mommy!! He said bad things about me!!!

WTF cares?

 

[katsteve2012]

What happened to you two?

Nothing happened, and I speak only for me. Today is Sunday and family dinner was more important than going back back and forth on an anonymous message board with a complete stranger.

Bottom line, my parents marched in the civil rights movement in the south in the 1960's, and what I recall is that when the civil rights act was passed, it was white southern bigots on both sides of a corrupt political system that begrudgingly compiled with the law.

Nothing changed immediately, and both sides were eventually forced to act in accordance with the law of the land, and it was a slow and painful process. After the law was passed, black citizens did not magically wake up the next day to a different set of surroundings.

In spite of what you have been taught to recite, and all of the noble intentions of the Repubicans of the the past that you have been trained to post, the southern strategy was a turning point in party ideology, and todays Republicans are not the party that you trained parrots have been trained to describe.

That so called "anti slavery" party ceased to exist more than 50 years ago. Even THAT party was led by a president (Lincoln) who fundamentally believed that black citizens were inferior.

Not the Great Emancipator: 10 Racist Quotes Abraham Lincoln Said About Black People - Page 2 of 5 - Atlanta Black Star

Futhermore, to take a page out of the book of some of the racist bigots who post here, I ABSOLUTELY agree, that no one living today has been a slave nor has anyone living today been a slave holder......that being said,
NO ONE here today is one of the anti slavery, anti Jim Crow Republicans from yesteryear either.

They are just as dead as the former slaves and slave holders.

You can't have it both ways.

That party died and reinvented itself over 50 years ago, and to deny that truth is disingenuous at best.

On the subject of gay marriage, and planned parenthood, for one I do not care who marries who or who chooses not to have children, that is their business.

What I do care about is MY children and grandchildren having the right to choose their lifestyle without interference.

Southern strategy - Wikipedia

 

[katsteve2012]

What happened to you two?

Nothing happened. And I speak only for myself. Today is Sunday and family dinner was more important than going back back and forth on an anonymous message board with a complete stranger.

Bottom line, my parents marched in the civil rights movement in the south in the 1960's, and what I recall is that when the civil rights act was passed, it was white southern bigots on both sides of a corrupt political system that begrudgingly compiled with the law.

Nothing changed immediately, and both sides were eventually forced to act in accordance with the law of the land, and it was a slow and painful process. After the law was passed, black citizens did not magically wake up the next day to a different set of surroundings.

In spite of what you have been taught to recite, and all of the noble intentions of the Repubicans of the the past that you have been trained to post, the southern strategy was a turning point in party ideology, and todays Republicans are not the party that you trained parrots have been trained to describe.

That so called "anti slavery" "anti Jim Crow" party ceased to exist more than 50 years ago.

Even THAT party was led by a president,(Lincoln) who fundamentally believed that black citizens were inferior.

Not the Great Emancipator: 10 Racist Quotes Abraham Lincoln Said About Black People - Page 2 of 5 - Atlanta Black Star

Futhermore, to take a page out of the book of some of the racist bigots who post here, I ABSOLUTELY agree, that no one living today has been a slave nor has anyone living today been a slave holder......that being said,
NO ONE here today is one of the anti slavery, anti Jim Crow Republicans from yesteryear either.

They are just as dead as the former slaves and slave holders.

You can't have it both ways.

That party died and reinvented itself over 50 years ago, and to deny that truth is disingenuous at best.

On the subject of gay marriage, and planned parenthood, for one I do not care who marries who or who chooses not to have children, that is their business.

What I do care about is MY children and grandchildren having the right to choose their lifestyle without interference.
Southern strategy - Wikipedia

 

[katsteve2012]

... and my dick is bigger than yours.

Yeah, but I can piss higher up the rope than YOU can!!

Mommy!! He said bad things about me!!!

WTF cares?

Well gee Beav, no one in their right mind really cares. This forum is nothing but entertainment.

 

[GWV5903]

Nothing happened, and I speak only for me. Today is Sunday and family dinner was more important than going back back and forth on an anonymous message board with a complete stranger.

I understand, makes sense...

Bottom line, my parents marched in the civil rights movement in the south in the 1960's, and what I recall is that when the civil rights act was passed, it was white southern bigots on both sides of a corrupt political system that begrudgingly compiled with the law.

I grew up in Houston form the late '50's and into the '70's, I saw the racism from Democrats, not Republicans. I'm not telling you it didn't take place with Republicans, I know it did. What I'm telling you is the majority of people in my environment wouldn't put up with it...

Nothing changed immediately, and both sides were eventually forced to act in accordance with the law of the land, and it was a slow and painful process. After the law was passed, black citizens did not magically wake up the next day to a different set of surroundings.

Agreed, I believe there were more who wanted it to happen than were forced. I had a number of friends who were black, hispanic and Jewish. Each of them could tell a story of discrimination, but for the most part they were taught to respect everyone for who they were and their character...

In spite of what you have been taught to recite, and all of the noble intentions of the Repubicans of the the past that you have been trained to post, the southern strategy was a turning point in party ideology, and todays Republicans are not the party that you trained parrots have been trained to describe.

I wasn't taught to recite anything, I was taught to think and learn how to succeed, nothing else. I was middle class at best and I was able to meet some of the more influential Republicans of modern time. The moderates that you claim were the ones behind "The Southern Strategy" didn't have a clue there was a "strategy" to begin with...

That so called "anti slavery" party ceased to exist more than 50 years ago. Even THAT party was led by a president (Lincoln) who fundamentally believed that black citizens were inferior.

No it didn't, and your fooling yourself if you think the Democrats have anything positive for the Minority Voter, list 10 benefits the DNC has provided for the minority community...

Futhermore, to take a page out of the book of some of the racist bigots who post here, I ABSOLUTELY agree, that no one living today has been a slave nor has anyone living today been a slave holder......that being said,
NO ONE here today is one of the anti slavery, anti Jim Crow Republicans from yesteryear either.

Very true, but history is the best predictor of the future, and Democrats suck on their past, slavery, KKK, Planned Parenthood and now Gay Marriage...

They are responsible for all of these atrocities and nothing can change that fact!

They are just as dead as the former slaves and slave holders.

You can't have it both ways.

And they continue to keep blacks slaves to the system, how is it that blacks are 12% of the population but they receive 35% of the abortions? 78% of PP clinics are in minority communities? These are the facts, why doesn't the so called leaders of the black community teach a different way to live?

That party died and reinvented itself over 50 years ago, and to deny that truth is disingenuous at best.

Just because you say it doesn't make it true. How is it that a Republican POTUS sends more aid to Africa for AIDS than all of the previous Democrat POTUS's combined? This is a fact that most either chose to ignore or haven't a clue...

What I do care about is MY children and grandchildren having the right to choose their lifestyle without interference.

You are right about one thing, Gay Marriage is a choice, God has nothing to do with it, marriage is between a man and a woman, procreation can only happen between opposite sexes...

Somehow we have managed to pervert this as well...

 

[GWV5903]

White people are the party of JIm Crow and KKK.

This much is true in the DNC and there are Republicans with the same beliefs, but it was White Republicans who started the fight to end slavery...

So you will vote for a White Women for POTUS?

Pretending whites werent racist in both parties is a fools mission

Agreed, but pretending Republicans didn't start the fight to end slavery is just as foolish...

I will laugh at and observe with amusement as you try to convince not only others but yourself.

Your hatred of the White Race only destroys yourself...

Yep. I will be exercising my vote and voting for the person that will do the least damage to my aspirations. Looks you are not smart enough to realize that a non vote is helping the person I least desire reach office.

Republicans didnt start the fight to end slavery. Both parties did that and it was to punish the south and not for something noble. I'm not going to even mention that back then the republicans were todays Dems.

I dont hate the white race. I pity you. It must suck to be recessive and frightened about your ongoing and accelerated absorption back into the human gene pool.

I understand you will never let go of your hatred...

• In 1857, a Democratically controlled Supreme Court delivered the Dred Scott decision, declaring that blacks were not persons or citizens but instead were property and therefore had no rights.

• The 13th Amendment to abolish slavery was voted for by 100% of the Republicans in congress and by 23% of the Democrats in congress.

• Not one Democrat either in the House or the Senate voted for the 14th amendment declaring that former slaves were full citizens of the state in which they lived and were therefore entitled to all the rights and privileges of any other citizen in that state.

• Not a single one of the 56 Democrats in Congress voted for the 15th amendment that granted explicit voting rights to black Americans.

• In 1866 Democrats formed the Ku Klux Klan to pave the way for Democrats to regain control in the elections.

• George Wallace was a Democrat.

• Bull Connor was a Democrat.

• In the 19th century, Democrats prevented Black Americans from going to public school.

• In the 20th and 21st century Democrats prevented Black Americans trapped in failing schools from choosing a better school. In fact Democrats voted against the bill by 99%.

• Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, Literacy tests, white only primaries, and physical violence all came from the Democratic Party.

• Between 1882 and 1964, 4,743 individuals were lynched. 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites. Republicans often led the efforts to pass federal anti-lynching laws and Democrats successfully blocked those bills.

• Though both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were signed into law under Democrat President, Lyndon Johnson, it was the Republicans in Congress who made it possible in both cases – not to overlook the fact that the heart of both bills came from the work of Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

• In the 108th Congress, when Republicans proposed a permanent extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, it was opposed by the Congressional Black Caucus (composed only of Democrats).

• Following the Civil War, Frederick Douglass received Presidential appointments from Republican Presidents Ulysses Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, and James A. Garfield. Democratic President Grover Cleveland removed Frederick Douglas from office but Republican President Benjamin Harrison reappointed him.

• Very few today know that in 1808 Congress abolished the slave trade. Although slavery still had not been abolished in all the states, things definitely were moving in the right direction.

• By 1820, most of the Founding Fathers were dead and Thomas Jefferson’ party (the Democratic Party) had become the majority party in Congress.

• In 1789, Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance that prohibited slavery in a federal territory. In 1820, the Democratic Congress passed the Missouri Compromise and reversed that earlier policy, permitting slavery in almost half of the federal territories.

• In 1850, Democrats in Congress passed the “Fugitive Slave Law”. That law required Northerners to return escaped slaves back into slavery or else pay huge fines.

• Because the “Fugitive Slave Law” allowed Free Blacks to be carried into slavery, this law was disastrous for blacks in the North; and as a consequence of the atrocious provisions of this Democratic law, some 20,000 blacks in the North left the United States and fled to Canada.

• The “Underground Railroad” reached the height of its activity during this period, helping thousands of slaves escape from slavery in the South all the way out of the United States and into Canada – simply to escape the reach of the Democrats’ Fugitive Slave Law.

• In 1854, the Democratically controlled Congress passed another law strengthening slavery: the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Even though Democrats in Congress had already expanded the federal territories in which slavery was permitted through their passage of the Missouri Compromise, they had retained a ban on slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska territory. But through the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Democrats repealed those earlier restrictions, thus allowing slavery to be introduced into parts of the new territory where it previously had been forbidden.

• Following the passage of these pro-slavery laws in Congress, in May of 1854, a number of the anti-slavery Democrats in Congress – along with some anti-slavery members from other political parties, including the Whigs, Free Soilers, and Emancipationists, formed a new political party to fight slavery and secure equal civil rights for black Americans. The name of that party? They called it the Republican Party because they wanted to return to the principles of freedom and equality first set forth in the governing documents of the Republic before pro-slavery members of Congress had perverted those original principles.

• One of the founders of the Republican was U.S. Senator Charles Sumner. In 1856, Sumner gave a two day long speech in the U.S. Senate against slavery. Following that speech, Democratic Representative Preston Brooks from South Carolina came from the House, across the Rotunda of the Capitol, and over to the Senate where he literally clubbed down Sumner on the floor of the Senate, knocked him unconscious, and beat him almost to death. According to the sources of that day, many Democrats thought that Sumner’s clubbing was deserved, and it even amused them. What happened to Democrat Preston Brooks following his vicious attack on Sumner? He was proclaimed a southern hero and easily re-elected to Congress.

• In 1856, the Republican Party entered its first Presidential election, running Republican John C. Fremont against Democrat James Buchanan. In that election, the Republican Party issued its first-ever Party platform. It was a short document with only nine planks in the platform, but significantly, six of the nine planks set forth bold declarations of equality and civil rights for African Americans based on the principles of the Declaration of Independence.

• In 1856, the Democratic platform took a position strongly defending slavery and warned: “All efforts of the abolitionists… are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences and all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people”.

• It is worth noting that for over a century and a half, Democrats often have taken a position that some human life is disposable – as they did in the Dred Scott decision. In that instance, a black individual was not a life, it was property; and an individual could do with his property as he wished. Today, Democrats have largely taken that same position on unborn human life – that an unborn human is disposable property to do with as one wishes.

• African Americans were the victims of this disposable property ideology a century and a half ago, and still are today. Consider: although 12 percent of the current population is African American, almost 35 percent of all abortions are performed on African Americans. In fact, over the last decade, for every 100 African American live births, there were 53 abortions of African American babies. Democrats have encouraged this; and although black Americans are solidly pro-life with almost two-thirds opposing abortion on demand, a number of recent votes in Congress reveals that Democrats hold exactly the opposite view, with some 80 percent of congressional Democrats being almost rabidly pro-abortion and consistently voting against protections for innocent unborn human life.

You must be one of those guys that deny the Southern Strategy even though the GOP has admitted on at least 2 occasions that I know of. It must hurt for you to be that ignorant of history.

The fool who believes the so called "Southern Strategy" is true believes the moon was made of cheese...

Do your own research, quite relying on the bigots who spread hatred...

 

[Asclepias]

White people are the party of JIm Crow and KKK.

This much is true in the DNC and there are Republicans with the same beliefs, but it was White Republicans who started the fight to end slavery...

So you will vote for a White Women for POTUS?

Pretending whites werent racist in both parties is a fools mission

Agreed, but pretending Republicans didn't start the fight to end slavery is just as foolish...

I will laugh at and observe with amusement as you try to convince not only others but yourself.

Your hatred of the White Race only destroys yourself...

Yep. I will be exercising my vote and voting for the person that will do the least damage to my aspirations. Looks you are not smart enough to realize that a non vote is helping the person I least desire reach office.

Republicans didnt start the fight to end slavery. Both parties did that and it was to punish the south and not for something noble. I'm not going to even mention that back then the republicans were todays Dems.

I dont hate the white race. I pity you. It must suck to be recessive and frightened about your ongoing and accelerated absorption back into the human gene pool.

I understand you will never let go of your hatred...

• In 1857, a Democratically controlled Supreme Court delivered the Dred Scott decision, declaring that blacks were not persons or citizens but instead were property and therefore had no rights.

• The 13th Amendment to abolish slavery was voted for by 100% of the Republicans in congress and by 23% of the Democrats in congress.

• Not one Democrat either in the House or the Senate voted for the 14th amendment declaring that former slaves were full citizens of the state in which they lived and were therefore entitled to all the rights and privileges of any other citizen in that state.

• Not a single one of the 56 Democrats in Congress voted for the 15th amendment that granted explicit voting rights to black Americans.

• In 1866 Democrats formed the Ku Klux Klan to pave the way for Democrats to regain control in the elections.

• George Wallace was a Democrat.

• Bull Connor was a Democrat.

• In the 19th century, Democrats prevented Black Americans from going to public school.

• In the 20th and 21st century Democrats prevented Black Americans trapped in failing schools from choosing a better school. In fact Democrats voted against the bill by 99%.

• Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, Literacy tests, white only primaries, and physical violence all came from the Democratic Party.

• Between 1882 and 1964, 4,743 individuals were lynched. 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites. Republicans often led the efforts to pass federal anti-lynching laws and Democrats successfully blocked those bills.

• Though both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were signed into law under Democrat President, Lyndon Johnson, it was the Republicans in Congress who made it possible in both cases – not to overlook the fact that the heart of both bills came from the work of Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

• In the 108th Congress, when Republicans proposed a permanent extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, it was opposed by the Congressional Black Caucus (composed only of Democrats).

• Following the Civil War, Frederick Douglass received Presidential appointments from Republican Presidents Ulysses Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, and James A. Garfield. Democratic President Grover Cleveland removed Frederick Douglas from office but Republican President Benjamin Harrison reappointed him.

• Very few today know that in 1808 Congress abolished the slave trade. Although slavery still had not been abolished in all the states, things definitely were moving in the right direction.

• By 1820, most of the Founding Fathers were dead and Thomas Jefferson’ party (the Democratic Party) had become the majority party in Congress.

• In 1789, Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance that prohibited slavery in a federal territory. In 1820, the Democratic Congress passed the Missouri Compromise and reversed that earlier policy, permitting slavery in almost half of the federal territories.

• In 1850, Democrats in Congress passed the “Fugitive Slave Law”. That law required Northerners to return escaped slaves back into slavery or else pay huge fines.

• Because the “Fugitive Slave Law” allowed Free Blacks to be carried into slavery, this law was disastrous for blacks in the North; and as a consequence of the atrocious provisions of this Democratic law, some 20,000 blacks in the North left the United States and fled to Canada.

• The “Underground Railroad” reached the height of its activity during this period, helping thousands of slaves escape from slavery in the South all the way out of the United States and into Canada – simply to escape the reach of the Democrats’ Fugitive Slave Law.

• In 1854, the Democratically controlled Congress passed another law strengthening slavery: the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Even though Democrats in Congress had already expanded the federal territories in which slavery was permitted through their passage of the Missouri Compromise, they had retained a ban on slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska territory. But through the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Democrats repealed those earlier restrictions, thus allowing slavery to be introduced into parts of the new territory where it previously had been forbidden.

• Following the passage of these pro-slavery laws in Congress, in May of 1854, a number of the anti-slavery Democrats in Congress – along with some anti-slavery members from other political parties, including the Whigs, Free Soilers, and Emancipationists, formed a new political party to fight slavery and secure equal civil rights for black Americans. The name of that party? They called it the Republican Party because they wanted to return to the principles of freedom and equality first set forth in the governing documents of the Republic before pro-slavery members of Congress had perverted those original principles.

• One of the founders of the Republican was U.S. Senator Charles Sumner. In 1856, Sumner gave a two day long speech in the U.S. Senate against slavery. Following that speech, Democratic Representative Preston Brooks from South Carolina came from the House, across the Rotunda of the Capitol, and over to the Senate where he literally clubbed down Sumner on the floor of the Senate, knocked him unconscious, and beat him almost to death. According to the sources of that day, many Democrats thought that Sumner’s clubbing was deserved, and it even amused them. What happened to Democrat Preston Brooks following his vicious attack on Sumner? He was proclaimed a southern hero and easily re-elected to Congress.

• In 1856, the Republican Party entered its first Presidential election, running Republican John C. Fremont against Democrat James Buchanan. In that election, the Republican Party issued its first-ever Party platform. It was a short document with only nine planks in the platform, but significantly, six of the nine planks set forth bold declarations of equality and civil rights for African Americans based on the principles of the Declaration of Independence.

• In 1856, the Democratic platform took a position strongly defending slavery and warned: “All efforts of the abolitionists… are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences and all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people”.

• It is worth noting that for over a century and a half, Democrats often have taken a position that some human life is disposable – as they did in the Dred Scott decision. In that instance, a black individual was not a life, it was property; and an individual could do with his property as he wished. Today, Democrats have largely taken that same position on unborn human life – that an unborn human is disposable property to do with as one wishes.

• African Americans were the victims of this disposable property ideology a century and a half ago, and still are today. Consider: although 12 percent of the current population is African American, almost 35 percent of all abortions are performed on African Americans. In fact, over the last decade, for every 100 African American live births, there were 53 abortions of African American babies. Democrats have encouraged this; and although black Americans are solidly pro-life with almost two-thirds opposing abortion on demand, a number of recent votes in Congress reveals that Democrats hold exactly the opposite view, with some 80 percent of congressional Democrats being almost rabidly pro-abortion and consistently voting against protections for innocent unborn human life.

You must be one of those guys that deny the Southern Strategy even though the GOP has admitted on at least 2 occasions that I know of. It must hurt for you to be that ignorant of history.

The fool who believes the so called "Southern Strategy" is true believes the moon was made of cheese...

Do your own research, quite relying on the bigots who spread hatred...

Evidently you didnt read my post correctly. The GOP admitted it on 2 separate occasions. You cant be that ignorant and still be able to breath. Are you really saying the GOP is lying on itself?

USATODAY.com - GOP: 'We were wrong' to play racial politics

RNC Chair Michael Steele Confesses to Race-Based Southern Strategy

 

[GWV5903]

This much is true in the DNC and there are Republicans with the same beliefs, but it was White Republicans who started the fight to end slavery...

So you will vote for a White Women for POTUS?

Agreed, but pretending Republicans didn't start the fight to end slavery is just as foolish...

Your hatred of the White Race only destroys yourself...

Yep. I will be exercising my vote and voting for the person that will do the least damage to my aspirations. Looks you are not smart enough to realize that a non vote is helping the person I least desire reach office.

Republicans didnt start the fight to end slavery. Both parties did that and it was to punish the south and not for something noble. I'm not going to even mention that back then the republicans were todays Dems.

I dont hate the white race. I pity you. It must suck to be recessive and frightened about your ongoing and accelerated absorption back into the human gene pool.

I understand you will never let go of your hatred...

• In 1857, a Democratically controlled Supreme Court delivered the Dred Scott decision, declaring that blacks were not persons or citizens but instead were property and therefore had no rights.

• The 13th Amendment to abolish slavery was voted for by 100% of the Republicans in congress and by 23% of the Democrats in congress.

• Not one Democrat either in the House or the Senate voted for the 14th amendment declaring that former slaves were full citizens of the state in which they lived and were therefore entitled to all the rights and privileges of any other citizen in that state.

• Not a single one of the 56 Democrats in Congress voted for the 15th amendment that granted explicit voting rights to black Americans.

• In 1866 Democrats formed the Ku Klux Klan to pave the way for Democrats to regain control in the elections.

• George Wallace was a Democrat.

• Bull Connor was a Democrat.

• In the 19th century, Democrats prevented Black Americans from going to public school.

• In the 20th and 21st century Democrats prevented Black Americans trapped in failing schools from choosing a better school. In fact Democrats voted against the bill by 99%.

• Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, Literacy tests, white only primaries, and physical violence all came from the Democratic Party.

• Between 1882 and 1964, 4,743 individuals were lynched. 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites. Republicans often led the efforts to pass federal anti-lynching laws and Democrats successfully blocked those bills.

• Though both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were signed into law under Democrat President, Lyndon Johnson, it was the Republicans in Congress who made it possible in both cases – not to overlook the fact that the heart of both bills came from the work of Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

• In the 108th Congress, when Republicans proposed a permanent extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, it was opposed by the Congressional Black Caucus (composed only of Democrats).

• Following the Civil War, Frederick Douglass received Presidential appointments from Republican Presidents Ulysses Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, and James A. Garfield. Democratic President Grover Cleveland removed Frederick Douglas from office but Republican President Benjamin Harrison reappointed him.

• Very few today know that in 1808 Congress abolished the slave trade. Although slavery still had not been abolished in all the states, things definitely were moving in the right direction.

• By 1820, most of the Founding Fathers were dead and Thomas Jefferson’ party (the Democratic Party) had become the majority party in Congress.

• In 1789, Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance that prohibited slavery in a federal territory. In 1820, the Democratic Congress passed the Missouri Compromise and reversed that earlier policy, permitting slavery in almost half of the federal territories.

• In 1850, Democrats in Congress passed the “Fugitive Slave Law”. That law required Northerners to return escaped slaves back into slavery or else pay huge fines.

• Because the “Fugitive Slave Law” allowed Free Blacks to be carried into slavery, this law was disastrous for blacks in the North; and as a consequence of the atrocious provisions of this Democratic law, some 20,000 blacks in the North left the United States and fled to Canada.

• The “Underground Railroad” reached the height of its activity during this period, helping thousands of slaves escape from slavery in the South all the way out of the United States and into Canada – simply to escape the reach of the Democrats’ Fugitive Slave Law.

• In 1854, the Democratically controlled Congress passed another law strengthening slavery: the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Even though Democrats in Congress had already expanded the federal territories in which slavery was permitted through their passage of the Missouri Compromise, they had retained a ban on slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska territory. But through the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Democrats repealed those earlier restrictions, thus allowing slavery to be introduced into parts of the new territory where it previously had been forbidden.

• Following the passage of these pro-slavery laws in Congress, in May of 1854, a number of the anti-slavery Democrats in Congress – along with some anti-slavery members from other political parties, including the Whigs, Free Soilers, and Emancipationists, formed a new political party to fight slavery and secure equal civil rights for black Americans. The name of that party? They called it the Republican Party because they wanted to return to the principles of freedom and equality first set forth in the governing documents of the Republic before pro-slavery members of Congress had perverted those original principles.

• One of the founders of the Republican was U.S. Senator Charles Sumner. In 1856, Sumner gave a two day long speech in the U.S. Senate against slavery. Following that speech, Democratic Representative Preston Brooks from South Carolina came from the House, across the Rotunda of the Capitol, and over to the Senate where he literally clubbed down Sumner on the floor of the Senate, knocked him unconscious, and beat him almost to death. According to the sources of that day, many Democrats thought that Sumner’s clubbing was deserved, and it even amused them. What happened to Democrat Preston Brooks following his vicious attack on Sumner? He was proclaimed a southern hero and easily re-elected to Congress.

• In 1856, the Republican Party entered its first Presidential election, running Republican John C. Fremont against Democrat James Buchanan. In that election, the Republican Party issued its first-ever Party platform. It was a short document with only nine planks in the platform, but significantly, six of the nine planks set forth bold declarations of equality and civil rights for African Americans based on the principles of the Declaration of Independence.

• In 1856, the Democratic platform took a position strongly defending slavery and warned: “All efforts of the abolitionists… are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences and all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people”.

• It is worth noting that for over a century and a half, Democrats often have taken a position that some human life is disposable – as they did in the Dred Scott decision. In that instance, a black individual was not a life, it was property; and an individual could do with his property as he wished. Today, Democrats have largely taken that same position on unborn human life – that an unborn human is disposable property to do with as one wishes.

• African Americans were the victims of this disposable property ideology a century and a half ago, and still are today. Consider: although 12 percent of the current population is African American, almost 35 percent of all abortions are performed on African Americans. In fact, over the last decade, for every 100 African American live births, there were 53 abortions of African American babies. Democrats have encouraged this; and although black Americans are solidly pro-life with almost two-thirds opposing abortion on demand, a number of recent votes in Congress reveals that Democrats hold exactly the opposite view, with some 80 percent of congressional Democrats being almost rabidly pro-abortion and consistently voting against protections for innocent unborn human life.

You must be one of those guys that deny the Southern Strategy even though the GOP has admitted on at least 2 occasions that I know of. It must hurt for you to be that ignorant of history.

The fool who believes the so called "Southern Strategy" is true believes the moon was made of cheese...

Do your own research, quite relying on the bigots who spread hatred...

Evidently you didnt read my post correctly. The GOP admitted it on 2 separate occasions. You cant be that ignorant and still be able to breath. Are you really saying the GOP is lying on itself?

USATODAY.com - GOP: 'We were wrong' to play racial politics

RNC Chair Michael Steele Confesses to Race-Based Southern Strategy

I read your post and the one thing I can discern, you need to work on your sentence structure...

I tend to form my opinion from what I read and try not to use articles to speak for me, but you obviously can't do that, so here are plenty of articles that dispute the "Southern Strategy"...

The Myth of ‘the Southern Strategy’

The Southern Strategy Myth and the Lost Majority | RedState

Nixon’s Southern Strategy: The Democrat-Lie Keeping Their Control Over the Black Community | Black Quill and Ink

Pat Buchanan - Nixon's 'Southern Strategy' and a Liberal Big Lie

Misunderstanding the Southern Realignment | RealClearPolitics

There, now do you feel better?

 

[Asclepias]

Yep. I will be exercising my vote and voting for the person that will do the least damage to my aspirations. Looks you are not smart enough to realize that a non vote is helping the person I least desire reach office.

Republicans didnt start the fight to end slavery. Both parties did that and it was to punish the south and not for something noble. I'm not going to even mention that back then the republicans were todays Dems.

I dont hate the white race. I pity you. It must suck to be recessive and frightened about your ongoing and accelerated absorption back into the human gene pool.

I understand you will never let go of your hatred...

• In 1857, a Democratically controlled Supreme Court delivered the Dred Scott decision, declaring that blacks were not persons or citizens but instead were property and therefore had no rights.

• The 13th Amendment to abolish slavery was voted for by 100% of the Republicans in congress and by 23% of the Democrats in congress.

• Not one Democrat either in the House or the Senate voted for the 14th amendment declaring that former slaves were full citizens of the state in which they lived and were therefore entitled to all the rights and privileges of any other citizen in that state.

• Not a single one of the 56 Democrats in Congress voted for the 15th amendment that granted explicit voting rights to black Americans.

• In 1866 Democrats formed the Ku Klux Klan to pave the way for Democrats to regain control in the elections.

• George Wallace was a Democrat.

• Bull Connor was a Democrat.

• In the 19th century, Democrats prevented Black Americans from going to public school.

• In the 20th and 21st century Democrats prevented Black Americans trapped in failing schools from choosing a better school. In fact Democrats voted against the bill by 99%.

• Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, Literacy tests, white only primaries, and physical violence all came from the Democratic Party.

• Between 1882 and 1964, 4,743 individuals were lynched. 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites. Republicans often led the efforts to pass federal anti-lynching laws and Democrats successfully blocked those bills.

• Though both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were signed into law under Democrat President, Lyndon Johnson, it was the Republicans in Congress who made it possible in both cases – not to overlook the fact that the heart of both bills came from the work of Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

• In the 108th Congress, when Republicans proposed a permanent extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, it was opposed by the Congressional Black Caucus (composed only of Democrats).

• Following the Civil War, Frederick Douglass received Presidential appointments from Republican Presidents Ulysses Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, and James A. Garfield. Democratic President Grover Cleveland removed Frederick Douglas from office but Republican President Benjamin Harrison reappointed him.

• Very few today know that in 1808 Congress abolished the slave trade. Although slavery still had not been abolished in all the states, things definitely were moving in the right direction.

• By 1820, most of the Founding Fathers were dead and Thomas Jefferson’ party (the Democratic Party) had become the majority party in Congress.

• In 1789, Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance that prohibited slavery in a federal territory. In 1820, the Democratic Congress passed the Missouri Compromise and reversed that earlier policy, permitting slavery in almost half of the federal territories.

• In 1850, Democrats in Congress passed the “Fugitive Slave Law”. That law required Northerners to return escaped slaves back into slavery or else pay huge fines.

• Because the “Fugitive Slave Law” allowed Free Blacks to be carried into slavery, this law was disastrous for blacks in the North; and as a consequence of the atrocious provisions of this Democratic law, some 20,000 blacks in the North left the United States and fled to Canada.

• The “Underground Railroad” reached the height of its activity during this period, helping thousands of slaves escape from slavery in the South all the way out of the United States and into Canada – simply to escape the reach of the Democrats’ Fugitive Slave Law.

• In 1854, the Democratically controlled Congress passed another law strengthening slavery: the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Even though Democrats in Congress had already expanded the federal territories in which slavery was permitted through their passage of the Missouri Compromise, they had retained a ban on slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska territory. But through the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Democrats repealed those earlier restrictions, thus allowing slavery to be introduced into parts of the new territory where it previously had been forbidden.

• Following the passage of these pro-slavery laws in Congress, in May of 1854, a number of the anti-slavery Democrats in Congress – along with some anti-slavery members from other political parties, including the Whigs, Free Soilers, and Emancipationists, formed a new political party to fight slavery and secure equal civil rights for black Americans. The name of that party? They called it the Republican Party because they wanted to return to the principles of freedom and equality first set forth in the governing documents of the Republic before pro-slavery members of Congress had perverted those original principles.

• One of the founders of the Republican was U.S. Senator Charles Sumner. In 1856, Sumner gave a two day long speech in the U.S. Senate against slavery. Following that speech, Democratic Representative Preston Brooks from South Carolina came from the House, across the Rotunda of the Capitol, and over to the Senate where he literally clubbed down Sumner on the floor of the Senate, knocked him unconscious, and beat him almost to death. According to the sources of that day, many Democrats thought that Sumner’s clubbing was deserved, and it even amused them. What happened to Democrat Preston Brooks following his vicious attack on Sumner? He was proclaimed a southern hero and easily re-elected to Congress.

• In 1856, the Republican Party entered its first Presidential election, running Republican John C. Fremont against Democrat James Buchanan. In that election, the Republican Party issued its first-ever Party platform. It was a short document with only nine planks in the platform, but significantly, six of the nine planks set forth bold declarations of equality and civil rights for African Americans based on the principles of the Declaration of Independence.

• In 1856, the Democratic platform took a position strongly defending slavery and warned: “All efforts of the abolitionists… are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences and all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people”.

• It is worth noting that for over a century and a half, Democrats often have taken a position that some human life is disposable – as they did in the Dred Scott decision. In that instance, a black individual was not a life, it was property; and an individual could do with his property as he wished. Today, Democrats have largely taken that same position on unborn human life – that an unborn human is disposable property to do with as one wishes.

• African Americans were the victims of this disposable property ideology a century and a half ago, and still are today. Consider: although 12 percent of the current population is African American, almost 35 percent of all abortions are performed on African Americans. In fact, over the last decade, for every 100 African American live births, there were 53 abortions of African American babies. Democrats have encouraged this; and although black Americans are solidly pro-life with almost two-thirds opposing abortion on demand, a number of recent votes in Congress reveals that Democrats hold exactly the opposite view, with some 80 percent of congressional Democrats being almost rabidly pro-abortion and consistently voting against protections for innocent unborn human life.

You must be one of those guys that deny the Southern Strategy even though the GOP has admitted on at least 2 occasions that I know of. It must hurt for you to be that ignorant of history.

The fool who believes the so called "Southern Strategy" is true believes the moon was made of cheese...

Do your own research, quite relying on the bigots who spread hatred...

Evidently you didnt read my post correctly. The GOP admitted it on 2 separate occasions. You cant be that ignorant and still be able to breath. Are you really saying the GOP is lying on itself?

USATODAY.com - GOP: 'We were wrong' to play racial politics

RNC Chair Michael Steele Confesses to Race-Based Southern Strategy

I read your post and the one thing I can discern, you need to work on your sentence structure...

I tend to form my opinion from what I read and try not to use articles to speak for me, but you obviously can't do that, so here are plenty of articles that dispute the "Southern Strategy"...

The Myth of ‘the Southern Strategy’

The Southern Strategy Myth and the Lost Majority | RedState

Nixon’s Southern Strategy: The Democrat-Lie Keeping Their Control Over the Black Community | Black Quill and Ink

Pat Buchanan - Nixon's 'Southern Strategy' and a Liberal Big Lie

Misunderstanding the Southern Realignment | RealClearPolitics

There, now do you feel better?

I must of touched a nerve. i can tell when you start critiquing sentence structure you have been emotionally scarred by the truth. Your silly comment about forming opinions from what you read is just that. Silly. You read articles dont you? These are direct quotes from party chairmen. GOP party chairmen admitting the southern strategy. So you can post all the links you want but you cant say they didnt admit to the Southern Strategy. Looks like you loose...again.

 

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Nothing happened, and I speak only for me. Today is Sunday and family dinner was more important than going back back and forth on an anonymous message board with a complete stranger.

I understand, makes sense...

Ok. This forum is nothing but entertainment, however on occasion an interesting conversation will surface.

Bottom line, my parents marched in the civil rights movement in the south in the 1960's, and what I recall is that when the civil rights act was passed, it was white southern bigots on both sides of a corrupt political system that begrudgingly compiled with the law.

I grew up in Houston form the late '50's and into the '70's, I saw the racism from Democrats, not Republicans. I'm not telling you it didn't take place with Republicans, I know it did. What I'm telling you is the majority of people in my environment wouldn't put up with it...

Nothing changed immediately, and both sides were eventually forced to act in accordance with the law of the land, and it was a slow and painful process. After the law was passed, black citizens did not magically wake up the next day to a different set of surroundings.

Agreed, I believe there were more who wanted it to happen than were forced. I had a number of friends who were black, hispanic and Jewish. Each of them could tell a story of discrimination, but for the most part they were taught to respect everyone for who they were and their character...

In spite of what you have been taught to recite, and all of the noble intentions of the Repubicans of the the past that you have been trained to post, the southern strategy was a turning point in party ideology, and todays Republicans are not the party that you trained parrots have been trained to describe.

I wasn't taught to recite anything, I was taught to think and learn how to succeed, nothing else. I was middle class at best and I was able to meet some of the more influential Republicans of modern time. The moderates that you claim were the ones behind "The Southern Strategy" didn't have a clue there was a "strategy" to begin with...

That so called "anti slavery" party ceased to exist more than 50 years ago. Even THAT party was led by a president (Lincoln) who fundamentally believed that black citizens were inferior.

No it didn't, and your fooling yourself if you think the Democrats have anything positive for the Minority Voter, list 10 benefits the DNC has provided for the minority community...

Futhermore, to take a page out of the book of some of the racist bigots who post here, I ABSOLUTELY agree, that no one living today has been a slave nor has anyone living today been a slave holder......that being said,
NO ONE here today is one of the anti slavery, anti Jim Crow Republicans from yesteryear either.

Very true, but history is the best predictor of the future, and Democrats suck on their past, slavery, KKK, Planned Parenthood and now Gay Marriage...

They are responsible for all of these atrocities and nothing can change that fact!

They are just as dead as the former slaves and slave holders.

You can't have it both ways.

And they continue to keep blacks slaves to the system, how is it that blacks are 12% of the population but they receive 35% of the abortions? 78% of PP clinics are in minority communities? These are the facts, why doesn't the so called leaders of the black community teach a different way to live?

That party died and reinvented itself over 50 years ago, and to deny that truth is disingenuous at best.

Just because you say it doesn't make it true. How is it that a Republican POTUS sends more aid to Africa for AIDS than all of the previous Democrat POTUS's combined? This is a fact that most either chose to ignore or haven't a clue...

What I do care about is MY children and grandchildren having the right to choose their lifestyle without interference.

You are right about one thing, Gay Marriage is a choice, God has nothing to do with it, marriage is between a man and a woman, procreation can only happen between opposite sexes...

Somehow we have managed to pervert this as well...