Roosevelt's New Deal: Anti-Black Legislation

[Pheonixops]

Yes, indeed....

...the Railway Labor Act was amended in 1934. It forced employers to negotiate wieth certified union representatives, but, of course, nearly all railroad unions banned black membership.

And here is the best part: when blacks tried to form their own unions, the National Railroad Adjustment Board ruled that they couldn't represent the blacks, and only the white unions had a monopoly.


Even the Supreme Court piled on in 'Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks vs UTSEA,' ruling that no judicial review was possible.

So what's your main point regarding FDR?

1. This, from chapter two of "Demonic," by Coulter:

The mob characteristic most gustily exhibited by liberals is the tendency to worship and idolize their political leaders. Le Bon explained that mobs can only grasp the “very simple and very exaggerated.” Their chosen images must be absolute and uncompromising… As Le Bon says, the “primitive” black-and-white emotions of a crowd slip easily into “infatuation for an individual.” Liberals worship so many political deities that they must refer to them by initials, just to save time- FDR, JFK, RFK, MLK, LBJ, and O.J. Ever hear a conservative get weepy about “RWR” or refer to something as hokey as “Camelot”? Passionate adoration are the primitive emotions of a mob, sentiments generally associated with women, children, and savages, according to Le Bon.


a. "The question of unused quota places is important because when American Jewish refugee advocates privately asked the Roosevelt administration, in the 1930s, to permit more immigration, they were told nothing could be done,..."
David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies: Welcome

b. "Japanese-American internment was the relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of about 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast..."
Japanese American internment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



2. "So what's your main point regarding FDR?"

That he doesn't deserve to be idolized.

Thanks for your answer. I guess Coulter missed all of the idolatry and deification of Ronald Reagan by so-called conservatives and the conservative talking heads. The same can be demonstrated regarding Palin as well. It's sort of like the pot calling the kettle black.

 

[rightwinger]

1. During the “old” Supreme Court, often referred to as the Lochner era, the court struck down laws that favored monopolies as violations of the “privileges and immunities” clauses of the 5th and 14th amendments. This meant that blacks (or any other less preferred group) had a powerful weapon in dealing with racial discrimination in the market place: the right to work for lower wages.


2. Up until the New Deal. The National Recovery Act (NRA…1933) established codes that required the payment of set wages for certain industries. And who established the codes? The same union-business folks who saw to the exclusion of blacks in the first place.

a. Set wages reduced an employer’s incentive to hire blacks.
Sitkofff, “A New Deal for Blacks,” p. 330-335.
Since there was no economic advantage in it, why engender the hostility of white workers?

b. Many employers either dismissed black workers and hired whites in their place, or eliminated the lower level jobs held by blacks because the mandated wages were above the value of the job.
Wolters, “Negroes and the Great Depression,” p. 122-123.



3. Section 7a of the NRA certified unions as exclusive bargaining agents. It became a vehicle to push Negroes out of an industry, and/or to make the union totally white. The black press referred to the act as “Negroes Ruined Again,” and “No Roosevelt Again.”
Williams, "Race & Economics," chapter five.



4. In 1935, the Supreme Court ruled the NRA unconstitutional. New Dealers mourned…but blacks cheered. Not for long- section 7a of the NRA became section 9 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), called the Wagner Act (1935). Sure enough, unions became the sole collective bargaining unit. The Act banned company unions, and allowed barring non-members from employment. Wagner had dropped the anti-discrimination clause in order to gain union support. Most New Dealers thought that discrimination against blacks was an acceptable cost of economic recovery.
Sitkoff, Op.Cit., p.52.

a. Interesting to note the difference between the Roosevelt Court, and the ‘Lochner’ Court, in which Peckham wrote for the majority: “In the Court’s view, the hour limits therefore violated the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, which says no state may “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Lochner Isn

b. In two NLRB cases, in 1945, first the board ruled that a bargaining agent must represent all employees fairly (Lazarus & Brother)….then turned around and decided that segregation and exclusion of blacks from union membership was not an unfair labor practice (Atlanta Oak Flooring).




5. New Deal legislation was devastating for blacks. In 1930, the unemployment rate was 6.13% nationally…but only 5.17% for blacks. 1930 was the last year more whites than blacks would be unemployed. Vedder and Galloway, “Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America,” table 1.3, p.8.

What were Republicans doing for blacks in the 1930s?

And you'd like to restrict the discussion to the '30's because of this?


Regarding the Republican Party, historians report that while Democrats were busy passing laws to hurt blacks, Republicans devoted their time to passing laws to help blacks. Republicans were primarily responsible for the following Civil Rights legislation:

1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2. The 13th Amendment
3. The 14th Amendment
4. The 15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6. The Civil Rights of 1866
7. The Enforcement Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of 1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
11. The Freeman Bureau
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1957
13. The Civil Rights Act of 1960
14. The United State Civil Rights Commission

And gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following
legislation

15. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
17. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
18. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
19. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
20. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
21. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
22. Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
23. Civil Rights Act of 1983
24. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988

Programs By Republicans & their Supporters include:

a. Many of our key traditional Black Colleges are named after Republicans Colleges
b. The Freedman Bureau
c. Historians say that three whites that opposed the Democrat's racist practices, including the lynching of blacks, founded and funded the NAACP

Dr. Martin Luther King was a Republican because:
The Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950's and 1960's, over the objection of Democrats.

Republicans founded the HCBU's and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.

Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.

Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.

Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.

Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.

Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960's.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.

Republican and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.


http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Was_the_democratic_party_associated_with_the_KKKmore: Was the democratic party associated with the KKK

Try to stay on topic with your cut and pastes

Your OP referred to actions FDR took in the 30s. I asked what Republicans did for blacks in the 30s to put the topic in historical perspective

Try again

 

[rightwinger]

FDR could not include blacks because the populace of the USA was not willing to allow forced integration. The social adherance to equal but seperate was deeply entrenched in the minds of American citizens. Lynching were still occurrung in the '30's which is a fine example of societies pariah status for blacks.

Every era has to be looked at from the perspective of the people of that era. Keep in mind, women had only gotten the vote ten years before. FDR brought about societal change but he could only move so fast

Thank you for bringing up Women's Suffrage....another Republican cause.


1. It was a Republican who introduced what became the 19th Amendment, women’s suffrage. On May 21, 1919, U.S. Representative James R. Mann (1856-1922), a Republican from Illinois and chairman of the Suffrage Committee, proposed the House resolution to approve the Susan Anthony Amendment granting women the right to vote. The measure passed the House 304-89—a full 42 votes above the required two-thirds majority. 19th Amendment — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts

2. The 1919 vote in the House of Representatives was possible because Republicans had retaken control of the House. Attempts to get it passed through Democrat-controlled Congresses had failed.


3. The Senate vote was approved only after a Democrat filibuster; and 82% of the Republican Senators voted for it….and 54% of the Democrats.


4. 26 of the 36 states that ratified the 19th Amendment had Republican legislatures.
See chapter four of Prager's "Still The Best Hope."


Ain't history great?

Makes me yearn for the good ole days when we had liberal Republicans

 

[PoliticalChic]

What were Republicans doing for blacks in the 1930s?

And you'd like to restrict the discussion to the '30's because of this?


Regarding the Republican Party, historians report that while Democrats were busy passing laws to hurt blacks, Republicans devoted their time to passing laws to help blacks. Republicans were primarily responsible for the following Civil Rights legislation:

1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2. The 13th Amendment
3. The 14th Amendment
4. The 15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6. The Civil Rights of 1866
7. The Enforcement Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of 1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
11. The Freeman Bureau
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1957
13. The Civil Rights Act of 1960
14. The United State Civil Rights Commission

And gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following
legislation

15. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
17. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
18. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
19. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
20. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
21. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
22. Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
23. Civil Rights Act of 1983
24. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988

Programs By Republicans & their Supporters include:

a. Many of our key traditional Black Colleges are named after Republicans Colleges
b. The Freedman Bureau
c. Historians say that three whites that opposed the Democrat's racist practices, including the lynching of blacks, founded and funded the NAACP

Dr. Martin Luther King was a Republican because:
The Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950's and 1960's, over the objection of Democrats.

Republicans founded the HCBU's and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.

Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.

Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.

Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.

Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.

Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960's.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.

Republican and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.


http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Was_the_democratic_party_associated_with_the_KKKmore: Was the democratic party associated with the KKK

Try to stay on topic with your cut and pastes

Your OP referred to actions FDR took in the 30s. I asked what Republicans did for blacks in the 30s to put the topic in historical perspective

Try again

I keep explaining this to you, but that cerebral hardening of yours seems to require this repetition: again....you don't get to dictate how I answer or post.

Jot it down somewhere....

You see, you suggested that Republicans were not benefactors of black Americans...and I don't feel my answer should be restricted by your "1930's" specification.


So....I will treat your demands in the same way drivers in Italy treat red and green lights: as merely a suggestion.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Every era has to be looked at from the perspective of the people of that era. Keep in mind, women had only gotten the vote ten years before. FDR brought about societal change but he could only move so fast

Thank you for bringing up Women's Suffrage....another Republican cause.


1. It was a Republican who introduced what became the 19th Amendment, women’s suffrage. On May 21, 1919, U.S. Representative James R. Mann (1856-1922), a Republican from Illinois and chairman of the Suffrage Committee, proposed the House resolution to approve the Susan Anthony Amendment granting women the right to vote. The measure passed the House 304-89—a full 42 votes above the required two-thirds majority. 19th Amendment — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts

2. The 1919 vote in the House of Representatives was possible because Republicans had retaken control of the House. Attempts to get it passed through Democrat-controlled Congresses had failed.


3. The Senate vote was approved only after a Democrat filibuster; and 82% of the Republican Senators voted for it….and 54% of the Democrats.


4. 26 of the 36 states that ratified the 19th Amendment had Republican legislatures.
See chapter four of Prager's "Still The Best Hope."


Ain't history great?

Makes me yearn for the good ole days when we had liberal Republicans

Everything is perspective.

It is the Democrat party that has done the lateral movement to the Left so very far that you misjudge the Republicans as representing centrist Americans.

 

[rightwinger]

And you'd like to restrict the discussion to the '30's because of this?


Regarding the Republican Party, historians report that while Democrats were busy passing laws to hurt blacks, Republicans devoted their time to passing laws to help blacks. Republicans were primarily responsible for the following Civil Rights legislation:

1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2. The 13th Amendment
3. The 14th Amendment
4. The 15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6. The Civil Rights of 1866
7. The Enforcement Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of 1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
11. The Freeman Bureau
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1957
13. The Civil Rights Act of 1960
14. The United State Civil Rights Commission

And gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following
legislation

15. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
17. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
18. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
19. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
20. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
21. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
22. Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
23. Civil Rights Act of 1983
24. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988

Programs By Republicans & their Supporters include:

a. Many of our key traditional Black Colleges are named after Republicans Colleges
b. The Freedman Bureau
c. Historians say that three whites that opposed the Democrat's racist practices, including the lynching of blacks, founded and funded the NAACP

Dr. Martin Luther King was a Republican because:
The Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950's and 1960's, over the objection of Democrats.

Republicans founded the HCBU's and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.

Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.

Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.

Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.

Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.

Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960's.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.

Republican and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.


http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Was_the_democratic_party_associated_with_the_KKKmore: Was the democratic party associated with the KKK

Try to stay on topic with your cut and pastes

Your OP referred to actions FDR took in the 30s. I asked what Republicans did for blacks in the 30s to put the topic in historical perspective

Try again

I keep explaining this to you, but that cerebral hardening of yours seems to require this repetition: again....you don't get to dictate how I answer or post.

Jot it down somewhere....

You see, you suggested that Republicans were not benefactors of black Americans...and I don't feel my answer should be restricted by your "1930's" specification.


So....I will treat your demands in the same way drivers in Italy treat red and green lights: as merely a suggestion.

I have a right to expect you to stay on topic....especially when you established te topic of Roosevelts policies towards blacks in the 30s

Now, I know you were able to sweet talk professors with your cut and paste antics. But, we at USMB have a higher academic standard

 

[rightwinger]

Thank you for bringing up Women's Suffrage....another Republican cause.


1. It was a Republican who introduced what became the 19th Amendment, women’s suffrage. On May 21, 1919, U.S. Representative James R. Mann (1856-1922), a Republican from Illinois and chairman of the Suffrage Committee, proposed the House resolution to approve the Susan Anthony Amendment granting women the right to vote. The measure passed the House 304-89—a full 42 votes above the required two-thirds majority. 19th Amendment — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts

2. The 1919 vote in the House of Representatives was possible because Republicans had retaken control of the House. Attempts to get it passed through Democrat-controlled Congresses had failed.


3. The Senate vote was approved only after a Democrat filibuster; and 82% of the Republican Senators voted for it….and 54% of the Democrats.


4. 26 of the 36 states that ratified the 19th Amendment had Republican legislatures.
See chapter four of Prager's "Still The Best Hope."


Ain't history great?

Makes me yearn for the good ole days when we had liberal Republicans

Everything is perspective.

It is the Democrat party that has done the lateral movement to the Left so very far that you misjudge the Republicans as representing centrist Americans.

Actually, you had both Republicans and Democrats who were liberal. Same with Conservatives. Many of the social issues of the time were fought among religious or geographic lines rather than by political party

 

[PoliticalChic]

So what's your main point regarding FDR?

1. This, from chapter two of "Demonic," by Coulter:

The mob characteristic most gustily exhibited by liberals is the tendency to worship and idolize their political leaders. Le Bon explained that mobs can only grasp the “very simple and very exaggerated.” Their chosen images must be absolute and uncompromising… As Le Bon says, the “primitive” black-and-white emotions of a crowd slip easily into “infatuation for an individual.” Liberals worship so many political deities that they must refer to them by initials, just to save time- FDR, JFK, RFK, MLK, LBJ, and O.J. Ever hear a conservative get weepy about “RWR” or refer to something as hokey as “Camelot”? Passionate adoration are the primitive emotions of a mob, sentiments generally associated with women, children, and savages, according to Le Bon.


a. "The question of unused quota places is important because when American Jewish refugee advocates privately asked the Roosevelt administration, in the 1930s, to permit more immigration, they were told nothing could be done,..."
David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies: Welcome

b. "Japanese-American internment was the relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of about 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast..."
Japanese American internment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



2. "So what's your main point regarding FDR?"

That he doesn't deserve to be idolized.

Thanks for your answer. I guess Coulter missed all of the idolatry and deification of Ronald Reagan by so-called conservatives and the conservative talking heads. The same can be demonstrated regarding Palin as well. It's sort of like the pot calling the kettle black.

What you misstate is that we on the Right never advanced the great man, Ronald Reagan, nor Governor Palin as God, or godlike....



1. The New York Time’s Judith Warner reported, “Many women- not too surprisingly – were dreaming about sex with the president [Obama]”. Sometimes a President Is Just a President - NYTimes.com

2. “…the Obamas are not just a beacon of hope, inspiration and “demigodlikeness,” Ibid.

3.. NBC’s Matt Lauer noted that “people” have called Obama “ ‘The Savior,’ ‘The Messiah,’ ‘The Messenger of Change,’ “ Today Show, NBC, October 20, 2008.

4. Andrea Mitchell- “but Obama is a rock star!" …” NBC’s Andrea Mitchell during MSNBC’s live coverage of the Democratic convention, July 27, 2004

5. “Obama seemed the political equivalent of a rainbow — a sudden preternatural event inspiring awe and ecstasy....” Time’s Joe Klein, October 23, 2006 cover story, "Why Barack Obama Could Be the Next President."

6. “…especially in Iowa, cradle of presidential contenders. Around here, they’re even naming babies after him."
— ABC Nightline co-anchor Terry Moran, Nov. 6, 2006


7. Obama is moving his audiences not just politically, but emotionally. Even some political commentators who’ve seen it all can’t help but gush.... — CBS’s Tracy Smith on the The Early Show, February 14.

8. "It’s almost hard to remain objective because it’s infectious…” — NBC reporter Lee Cowan in an MSNBC.com video about the Obama campaign posted January 7.



9. Co-host John Roberts: "I want to just stipulate at the beginning of this interview, we are declaring a Reverend Wright-free zone today. So, no questions about Reverend Wright....Is that okay with you?" Barack Obama: "Fair enough. That sounds just fine."— CNN’s American Morning, May 5.


10. Host Howard Kurtz: "Are journalists rooting for the Obama story?"
The Politico’s John Harris, referring to the Washington Post: "It wouldn’t surprise me that there’s some of that....A couple years ago, you would send a reporter out with Obama, and it was like they needed to go through detox when they came back — ‘Oh, he’s so impressive, he’s so charismatic,’ and we’re kind of like, ‘Down, boy.’"— Exchange on CNN’s Reliable Sources, January 13.


11. "I think there is a problem, though, with the media gushing over him too much. I don’t think he thinks that he’s all that, but the media does. I mean, the [Democratic convention] coverage after, that I was watching, from MSNBC, I mean these guys were ready to have sex with him."
— HBO’s Bill Maher on Real Time, August 29.


12. Chris Matthews: "If you're in [a room] with Obama, you feel the spirit moving." Book Monitor (Current Edition)

13. George Stephanopoulos rhapsodized, "We have not seen this kind of combination of star power and brain power and political muscle this early in a cabinet in our lifetimes."
George Stephanopoulos: Obama Cabinet Unparalleled in 'Brain Power' | NewsBusters.org

14. Time's Nancy Gibbs who opened this week's cover story by comparing Obama with Jesus: “Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope...” In the November 17 issue.

15. Liberal beliefs were summarized by “Harold Koplewicz, president of the Child Mind Institute, a center for psychiatric research and clinical care in Manhattan, remembers watching Obama at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Fund Dinner in 2008, when the then-senator was a candidate. “It was truly extraordinary how much we expected Obama to do,” he says. “He was going to end war, end the recession, improve education, improve our image to the world, and provide universal health care. Whether or not he could actually do it wasn’t important. It was the belief in him that was.” Why Do American Voters Think Like Small Children? -- New York Magazine

16. Even going back to Andrew Jackson, father of the Democratic Party, we see the same kind of language used: “Was Jackson a rock star? Yes,… “He appeared to feel as a father surrounded by a numerous band of children,” one newspaper said, “happy in their affections and loving them with all a parent’s love.” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/theater/24meacham.html More “staggering” crowds of admirers!

17. Today? Still mobs: the Hollywood celebrities pledge Go to 3:54: "I pledge to be a servant to our president and all mankind." Creepy? [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51kAw4OTlA0]Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher's I Pledge Video - YouTube[/ame]

18. “Elena Kagan ’81 … watched Walter Cronkite usher in the news that Democratic candidate Elizabeth Holtzman had lost the race for one of New York’s Senate seats. And then she sat down and wept.” Reserved passion: Kagan

19. “Time's Margaret Carlson …introduced Hillary to the nation in January 1992 as an "amalgam of Betty Crocker, Mother Teresa and Oliver Wendell Holmes," a woman who "discusses educational reform....then hops into her fuel-efficient car with her perfectly behaved daughter for a day of good works." Guest Comment on NRO

20. Lance Morrow in Time magazine, July 12, 1999, about Hillary: “Hillary as a new archetype (somewhere between Eleanor and Evita, transcending both) at a moment when the civilization pivots, at last, decisively—perhaps for the first time since the advent of Christian patriarchy two millenniums ago—toward Woman.

21. Obama won a Nobel Prize based on his first twelve days in office.

22. “The moment was vintage Obama - emphasizing his zest for inquiry, his personal involvement, his willingness to make the tough call, his search for middle ground. If an Obama brand exists, it is his image as a probing, cerebral president conducting an exhaustive analysis of the issues so that the best ideas can emerge, and triumph.” Obama and oil drilling: How politics spilled into policy

23. BARACK OBAMA has been voted the sexiest politician in the world. Barack Obama voted world's sexiest politician - Daily Record [Ann Coulter referred to him as a ‘big-eared beanpole.’ The horror!]


Yechhh!

I need to take a shower after that.




But....just to prove how out of touch you post was...I double dog dare you to find comparable references to Reagan.....

Go ahead. I'll wait.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Try to stay on topic with your cut and pastes

Your OP referred to actions FDR took in the 30s. I asked what Republicans did for blacks in the 30s to put the topic in historical perspective

Try again

I keep explaining this to you, but that cerebral hardening of yours seems to require this repetition: again....you don't get to dictate how I answer or post.

Jot it down somewhere....

You see, you suggested that Republicans were not benefactors of black Americans...and I don't feel my answer should be restricted by your "1930's" specification.


So....I will treat your demands in the same way drivers in Italy treat red and green lights: as merely a suggestion.

I have a right to expect you to stay on topic....especially when you established te topic of Roosevelts policies towards blacks in the 30s

Now, I know you were able to sweet talk professors with your cut and paste antics. But, we at USMB have a higher academic standard

Don't whine...you're not getting your way.


But you can have some prunes and Geritol....

 

[PoliticalChic]

Makes me yearn for the good ole days when we had liberal Republicans

Everything is perspective.

It is the Democrat party that has done the lateral movement to the Left so very far that you misjudge the Republicans as representing centrist Americans.

Actually, you had both Republicans and Democrats who were liberal. Same with Conservatives. Many of the social issues of the time were fought among religious or geographic lines rather than by political party

I yearn for the Coolidge-Davis election campaign....the last time both parties ran conservatives.

 

[Pheonixops]

1. This, from chapter two of "Demonic," by Coulter:

The mob characteristic most gustily exhibited by liberals is the tendency to worship and idolize their political leaders. Le Bon explained that mobs can only grasp the “very simple and very exaggerated.” Their chosen images must be absolute and uncompromising… As Le Bon says, the “primitive” black-and-white emotions of a crowd slip easily into “infatuation for an individual.” Liberals worship so many political deities that they must refer to them by initials, just to save time- FDR, JFK, RFK, MLK, LBJ, and O.J. Ever hear a conservative get weepy about “RWR” or refer to something as hokey as “Camelot”? Passionate adoration are the primitive emotions of a mob, sentiments generally associated with women, children, and savages, according to Le Bon.


a. "The question of unused quota places is important because when American Jewish refugee advocates privately asked the Roosevelt administration, in the 1930s, to permit more immigration, they were told nothing could be done,..."
David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies: Welcome

b. "Japanese-American internment was the relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of about 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast..."
Japanese American internment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



2. "So what's your main point regarding FDR?"

That he doesn't deserve to be idolized.

Thanks for your answer. I guess Coulter missed all of the idolatry and deification of Ronald Reagan by so-called conservatives and the conservative talking heads. The same can be demonstrated regarding Palin as well. It's sort of like the pot calling the kettle black.

What you misstate is that we on the Right never advanced the great man, Ronald Reagan, nor Governor Palin as God, or godlike....



1. The New York Time’s Judith Warner reported, “Many women- not too surprisingly – were dreaming about sex with the president [Obama]”. Sometimes a President Is Just a President - NYTimes.com

2. “…the Obamas are not just a beacon of hope, inspiration and “demigodlikeness,” Ibid.

3.. NBC’s Matt Lauer noted that “people” have called Obama “ ‘The Savior,’ ‘The Messiah,’ ‘The Messenger of Change,’ “ Today Show, NBC, October 20, 2008.

4. Andrea Mitchell- “but Obama is a rock star!" …” NBC’s Andrea Mitchell during MSNBC’s live coverage of the Democratic convention, July 27, 2004

5. “Obama seemed the political equivalent of a rainbow — a sudden preternatural event inspiring awe and ecstasy....” Time’s Joe Klein, October 23, 2006 cover story, "Why Barack Obama Could Be the Next President."

6. “…especially in Iowa, cradle of presidential contenders. Around here, they’re even naming babies after him."
— ABC Nightline co-anchor Terry Moran, Nov. 6, 2006


7. Obama is moving his audiences not just politically, but emotionally. Even some political commentators who’ve seen it all can’t help but gush.... — CBS’s Tracy Smith on the The Early Show, February 14.

8. "It’s almost hard to remain objective because it’s infectious…” — NBC reporter Lee Cowan in an MSNBC.com video about the Obama campaign posted January 7.



9. Co-host John Roberts: "I want to just stipulate at the beginning of this interview, we are declaring a Reverend Wright-free zone today. So, no questions about Reverend Wright....Is that okay with you?" Barack Obama: "Fair enough. That sounds just fine."— CNN’s American Morning, May 5.


10. Host Howard Kurtz: "Are journalists rooting for the Obama story?"
The Politico’s John Harris, referring to the Washington Post: "It wouldn’t surprise me that there’s some of that....A couple years ago, you would send a reporter out with Obama, and it was like they needed to go through detox when they came back — ‘Oh, he’s so impressive, he’s so charismatic,’ and we’re kind of like, ‘Down, boy.’"— Exchange on CNN’s Reliable Sources, January 13.


11. "I think there is a problem, though, with the media gushing over him too much. I don’t think he thinks that he’s all that, but the media does. I mean, the [Democratic convention] coverage after, that I was watching, from MSNBC, I mean these guys were ready to have sex with him."
— HBO’s Bill Maher on Real Time, August 29.


12. Chris Matthews: "If you're in [a room] with Obama, you feel the spirit moving." Book Monitor (Current Edition)

13. George Stephanopoulos rhapsodized, "We have not seen this kind of combination of star power and brain power and political muscle this early in a cabinet in our lifetimes."
George Stephanopoulos: Obama Cabinet Unparalleled in 'Brain Power' | NewsBusters.org

14. Time's Nancy Gibbs who opened this week's cover story by comparing Obama with Jesus: “Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope...” In the November 17 issue.

15. Liberal beliefs were summarized by “Harold Koplewicz, president of the Child Mind Institute, a center for psychiatric research and clinical care in Manhattan, remembers watching Obama at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Fund Dinner in 2008, when the then-senator was a candidate. “It was truly extraordinary how much we expected Obama to do,” he says. “He was going to end war, end the recession, improve education, improve our image to the world, and provide universal health care. Whether or not he could actually do it wasn’t important. It was the belief in him that was.” Why Do American Voters Think Like Small Children? -- New York Magazine

16. Even going back to Andrew Jackson, father of the Democratic Party, we see the same kind of language used: “Was Jackson a rock star? Yes,… “He appeared to feel as a father surrounded by a numerous band of children,” one newspaper said, “happy in their affections and loving them with all a parent’s love.” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/theater/24meacham.html More “staggering” crowds of admirers!

17. Today? Still mobs: the Hollywood celebrities pledge Go to 3:54: "I pledge to be a servant to our president and all mankind." Creepy? [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51kAw4OTlA0]Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher's I Pledge Video - YouTube[/ame]

18. “Elena Kagan ’81 … watched Walter Cronkite usher in the news that Democratic candidate Elizabeth Holtzman had lost the race for one of New York’s Senate seats. And then she sat down and wept.” Reserved passion: Kagan

19. “Time's Margaret Carlson …introduced Hillary to the nation in January 1992 as an "amalgam of Betty Crocker, Mother Teresa and Oliver Wendell Holmes," a woman who "discusses educational reform....then hops into her fuel-efficient car with her perfectly behaved daughter for a day of good works." Guest Comment on NRO

20. Lance Morrow in Time magazine, July 12, 1999, about Hillary: “Hillary as a new archetype (somewhere between Eleanor and Evita, transcending both) at a moment when the civilization pivots, at last, decisively—perhaps for the first time since the advent of Christian patriarchy two millenniums ago—toward Woman.

21. Obama won a Nobel Prize based on his first twelve days in office.

22. “The moment was vintage Obama - emphasizing his zest for inquiry, his personal involvement, his willingness to make the tough call, his search for middle ground. If an Obama brand exists, it is his image as a probing, cerebral president conducting an exhaustive analysis of the issues so that the best ideas can emerge, and triumph.” Obama and oil drilling: How politics spilled into policy

23. BARACK OBAMA has been voted the sexiest politician in the world. Barack Obama voted world's sexiest politician - Daily Record [Ann Coulter referred to him as a ‘big-eared beanpole.’ The horror!]


Yechhh!

I need to take a shower after that.




But....just to prove how out of touch you post was...I double dog dare you to find comparable references to Reagan.....

Go ahead. I'll wait.

I hope I gave you enough time to "shower":

Stonekettle Station: The Deification of Ronald Reagan

 

[Ravi]

Yes, indeed....

...the Railway Labor Act was amended in 1934. It forced employers to negotiate wieth certified union representatives, but, of course, nearly all railroad unions banned black membership.

And here is the best part: when blacks tried to form their own unions, the National Railroad Adjustment Board ruled that they couldn't represent the blacks, and only the white unions had a monopoly.


Even the Supreme Court piled on in 'Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks vs UTSEA,' ruling that no judicial review was possible.

So what's your main point regarding FDR?

1. This, from chapter two of "Demonic," by Coulter:

The mob characteristic most gustily exhibited by liberals is the tendency to worship and idolize their political leaders. Le Bon explained that mobs can only grasp the “very simple and very exaggerated.” Their chosen images must be absolute and uncompromising… As Le Bon says, the “primitive” black-and-white emotions of a crowd slip easily into “infatuation for an individual.” Liberals worship so many political deities that they must refer to them by initials, just to save time- FDR, JFK, RFK, MLK, LBJ, and O.J. Ever hear a conservative get weepy about “RWR” or refer to something as hokey as “Camelot”? Passionate adoration are the primitive emotions of a mob, sentiments generally associated with women, children, and savages, according to Le Bon.


a. "The question of unused quota places is important because when American Jewish refugee advocates privately asked the Roosevelt administration, in the 1930s, to permit more immigration, they were told nothing could be done,..."
David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies: Welcome

b. "Japanese-American internment was the relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of about 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast..."
Japanese American internment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



2. "So what's your main point regarding FDR?"

That he doesn't deserve to be idolized.

OJ, WTF?

Those you listed used their middle initial or middle name as part of their identity. Reagan did not.

My goodness what a silly girl you are....

George Washington owned slaves as did many of our presidents.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Thanks for your answer. I guess Coulter missed all of the idolatry and deification of Ronald Reagan by so-called conservatives and the conservative talking heads. The same can be demonstrated regarding Palin as well. It's sort of like the pot calling the kettle black.

What you misstate is that we on the Right never advanced the great man, Ronald Reagan, nor Governor Palin as God, or godlike....



1. The New York Time’s Judith Warner reported, “Many women- not too surprisingly – were dreaming about sex with the president [Obama]”. Sometimes a President Is Just a President - NYTimes.com

2. “…the Obamas are not just a beacon of hope, inspiration and “demigodlikeness,” Ibid.

3.. NBC’s Matt Lauer noted that “people” have called Obama “ ‘The Savior,’ ‘The Messiah,’ ‘The Messenger of Change,’ “ Today Show, NBC, October 20, 2008.

4. Andrea Mitchell- “but Obama is a rock star!" …” NBC’s Andrea Mitchell during MSNBC’s live coverage of the Democratic convention, July 27, 2004

5. “Obama seemed the political equivalent of a rainbow — a sudden preternatural event inspiring awe and ecstasy....” Time’s Joe Klein, October 23, 2006 cover story, "Why Barack Obama Could Be the Next President."

6. “…especially in Iowa, cradle of presidential contenders. Around here, they’re even naming babies after him."
— ABC Nightline co-anchor Terry Moran, Nov. 6, 2006


7. Obama is moving his audiences not just politically, but emotionally. Even some political commentators who’ve seen it all can’t help but gush.... — CBS’s Tracy Smith on the The Early Show, February 14.

8. "It’s almost hard to remain objective because it’s infectious…” — NBC reporter Lee Cowan in an MSNBC.com video about the Obama campaign posted January 7.



9. Co-host John Roberts: "I want to just stipulate at the beginning of this interview, we are declaring a Reverend Wright-free zone today. So, no questions about Reverend Wright....Is that okay with you?" Barack Obama: "Fair enough. That sounds just fine."— CNN’s American Morning, May 5.


10. Host Howard Kurtz: "Are journalists rooting for the Obama story?"
The Politico’s John Harris, referring to the Washington Post: "It wouldn’t surprise me that there’s some of that....A couple years ago, you would send a reporter out with Obama, and it was like they needed to go through detox when they came back — ‘Oh, he’s so impressive, he’s so charismatic,’ and we’re kind of like, ‘Down, boy.’"— Exchange on CNN’s Reliable Sources, January 13.


11. "I think there is a problem, though, with the media gushing over him too much. I don’t think he thinks that he’s all that, but the media does. I mean, the [Democratic convention] coverage after, that I was watching, from MSNBC, I mean these guys were ready to have sex with him."
— HBO’s Bill Maher on Real Time, August 29.


12. Chris Matthews: "If you're in [a room] with Obama, you feel the spirit moving." Book Monitor (Current Edition)

13. George Stephanopoulos rhapsodized, "We have not seen this kind of combination of star power and brain power and political muscle this early in a cabinet in our lifetimes."
George Stephanopoulos: Obama Cabinet Unparalleled in 'Brain Power' | NewsBusters.org

14. Time's Nancy Gibbs who opened this week's cover story by comparing Obama with Jesus: “Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope...” In the November 17 issue.

15. Liberal beliefs were summarized by “Harold Koplewicz, president of the Child Mind Institute, a center for psychiatric research and clinical care in Manhattan, remembers watching Obama at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Fund Dinner in 2008, when the then-senator was a candidate. “It was truly extraordinary how much we expected Obama to do,” he says. “He was going to end war, end the recession, improve education, improve our image to the world, and provide universal health care. Whether or not he could actually do it wasn’t important. It was the belief in him that was.” Why Do American Voters Think Like Small Children? -- New York Magazine

16. Even going back to Andrew Jackson, father of the Democratic Party, we see the same kind of language used: “Was Jackson a rock star? Yes,… “He appeared to feel as a father surrounded by a numerous band of children,” one newspaper said, “happy in their affections and loving them with all a parent’s love.” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/theater/24meacham.html More “staggering” crowds of admirers!

17. Today? Still mobs: the Hollywood celebrities pledge Go to 3:54: "I pledge to be a servant to our president and all mankind." Creepy? [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51kAw4OTlA0]Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher's I Pledge Video - YouTube[/ame]

18. “Elena Kagan ’81 … watched Walter Cronkite usher in the news that Democratic candidate Elizabeth Holtzman had lost the race for one of New York’s Senate seats. And then she sat down and wept.” Reserved passion: Kagan

19. “Time's Margaret Carlson …introduced Hillary to the nation in January 1992 as an "amalgam of Betty Crocker, Mother Teresa and Oliver Wendell Holmes," a woman who "discusses educational reform....then hops into her fuel-efficient car with her perfectly behaved daughter for a day of good works." Guest Comment on NRO

20. Lance Morrow in Time magazine, July 12, 1999, about Hillary: “Hillary as a new archetype (somewhere between Eleanor and Evita, transcending both) at a moment when the civilization pivots, at last, decisively—perhaps for the first time since the advent of Christian patriarchy two millenniums ago—toward Woman.

21. Obama won a Nobel Prize based on his first twelve days in office.

22. “The moment was vintage Obama - emphasizing his zest for inquiry, his personal involvement, his willingness to make the tough call, his search for middle ground. If an Obama brand exists, it is his image as a probing, cerebral president conducting an exhaustive analysis of the issues so that the best ideas can emerge, and triumph.” Obama and oil drilling: How politics spilled into policy

23. BARACK OBAMA has been voted the sexiest politician in the world. Barack Obama voted world's sexiest politician - Daily Record [Ann Coulter referred to him as a ‘big-eared beanpole.’ The horror!]


Yechhh!

I need to take a shower after that.




But....just to prove how out of touch you post was...I double dog dare you to find comparable references to Reagan.....

Go ahead. I'll wait.

I hope I gave you enough time to "shower":

Stonekettle Station: The Deification of Ronald Reagan

I'll dry off....


...but, ops, you didn't, no matter the title of the piece, come close to the quotes I provided.

Did you read the link?


It called Reagan...."The image of the lifeguard seems to represent what Reagan..."



...and then, 'no saint...'

Sure doesn't indicate we make god-like figures out of our politicians.


Seems to indicate that you went to a government school....true?

 

[Ravi]

What were Republicans doing for blacks in the 1930s?

And you'd like to restrict the discussion to the '30's because of this?


Regarding the Republican Party, historians report that while Democrats were busy passing laws to hurt blacks, Republicans devoted their time to passing laws to help blacks. Republicans were primarily responsible for the following Civil Rights legislation:

1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2. The 13th Amendment
3. The 14th Amendment
4. The 15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6. The Civil Rights of 1866
7. The Enforcement Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of 1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
11. The Freeman Bureau
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1957
13. The Civil Rights Act of 1960
14. The United State Civil Rights Commission

And gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following
legislation

15. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
17. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
18. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
19. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
20. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
21. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
22. Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
23. Civil Rights Act of 1983
24. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988

Programs By Republicans & their Supporters include:

a. Many of our key traditional Black Colleges are named after Republicans Colleges
b. The Freedman Bureau
c. Historians say that three whites that opposed the Democrat's racist practices, including the lynching of blacks, founded and funded the NAACP

Dr. Martin Luther King was a Republican because:
The Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950's and 1960's, over the objection of Democrats.

Republicans founded the HCBU's and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.

Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.

Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.

Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.

Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.

Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960's.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.

Republican and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.


http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Was_the_democratic_party_associated_with_the_KKKmore: Was the democratic party associated with the KKK

Try to stay on topic with your cut and pastes

Your OP referred to actions FDR took in the 30s. I asked what Republicans did for blacks in the 30s to put the topic in historical perspective

Try again

Here you go since she won't answer you.

The political realignment of black voters set in motion at the close of Reconstruction gradually accelerated in the early 20th century, pushed by demographic shifts such as the Great Migration and by black discontent with the increasingly conservative racial policies of the Republican Party in the South. A decades-long process ensued in which blacks were effectively pushed outside or left the Republican fold because of its increasingly ambiguous racial policies. By the end of this era, the major parties’ policies and a re-emergent activism among younger African Americans positioned blacks for a mass movement in the early and mid-1930s to the northern Democratic Party.167

Weakened to the point of irrelevancy, southern Republicans after 1900 curried favor with the political power structure to preserve their grasp on local patronage jobs dispensed by the national party. Therefore, southern white GOP officials embraced Jim Crow. Through political factions such as the “lily white” movement, which excluded blacks, and “black and tan” societies, which extended only token political roles to blacks, the party gradually ceased to serve as an outlet for the politically active cadre of southern African Americans.

Black Americans in Congress - The Negroes’ Temporary Farewell

 

[PoliticalChic]

So what's your main point regarding FDR?

1. This, from chapter two of "Demonic," by Coulter:

The mob characteristic most gustily exhibited by liberals is the tendency to worship and idolize their political leaders. Le Bon explained that mobs can only grasp the “very simple and very exaggerated.” Their chosen images must be absolute and uncompromising… As Le Bon says, the “primitive” black-and-white emotions of a crowd slip easily into “infatuation for an individual.” Liberals worship so many political deities that they must refer to them by initials, just to save time- FDR, JFK, RFK, MLK, LBJ, and O.J. Ever hear a conservative get weepy about “RWR” or refer to something as hokey as “Camelot”? Passionate adoration are the primitive emotions of a mob, sentiments generally associated with women, children, and savages, according to Le Bon.


a. "The question of unused quota places is important because when American Jewish refugee advocates privately asked the Roosevelt administration, in the 1930s, to permit more immigration, they were told nothing could be done,..."
David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies: Welcome

b. "Japanese-American internment was the relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of about 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast..."
Japanese American internment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



2. "So what's your main point regarding FDR?"

That he doesn't deserve to be idolized.

OJ, WTF?

Those you listed used their middle initial or middle name as part of their identity. Reagan did not.

My goodness what a silly girl you are....

George Washington owned slaves as did many of our presidents.

"...what a silly girl you are...."


AM NOOOOOOOOOTTTTTT!!!!!!

 

[PoliticalChic]

And you'd like to restrict the discussion to the '30's because of this?


Regarding the Republican Party, historians report that while Democrats were busy passing laws to hurt blacks, Republicans devoted their time to passing laws to help blacks. Republicans were primarily responsible for the following Civil Rights legislation:

1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2. The 13th Amendment
3. The 14th Amendment
4. The 15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6. The Civil Rights of 1866
7. The Enforcement Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of 1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
11. The Freeman Bureau
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1957
13. The Civil Rights Act of 1960
14. The United State Civil Rights Commission

And gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following
legislation

15. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
17. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
18. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
19. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
20. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
21. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
22. Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
23. Civil Rights Act of 1983
24. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988

Programs By Republicans & their Supporters include:

a. Many of our key traditional Black Colleges are named after Republicans Colleges
b. The Freedman Bureau
c. Historians say that three whites that opposed the Democrat's racist practices, including the lynching of blacks, founded and funded the NAACP

Dr. Martin Luther King was a Republican because:
The Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950's and 1960's, over the objection of Democrats.

Republicans founded the HCBU's and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.

Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.

Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.

Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.

Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.

Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960's.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.

Republican and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.


http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Was_the_democratic_party_associated_with_the_KKKmore: Was the democratic party associated with the KKK

Try to stay on topic with your cut and pastes

Your OP referred to actions FDR took in the 30s. I asked what Republicans did for blacks in the 30s to put the topic in historical perspective

Try again

Here you go since she won't answer you.

The political realignment of black voters set in motion at the close of Reconstruction gradually accelerated in the early 20th century, pushed by demographic shifts such as the Great Migration and by black discontent with the increasingly conservative racial policies of the Republican Party in the South. A decades-long process ensued in which blacks were effectively pushed outside or left the Republican fold because of its increasingly ambiguous racial policies. By the end of this era, the major parties’ policies and a re-emergent activism among younger African Americans positioned blacks for a mass movement in the early and mid-1930s to the northern Democratic Party.167

Weakened to the point of irrelevancy, southern Republicans after 1900 curried favor with the political power structure to preserve their grasp on local patronage jobs dispensed by the national party. Therefore, southern white GOP officials embraced Jim Crow. Through political factions such as the “lily white” movement, which excluded blacks, and “black and tan” societies, which extended only token political roles to blacks, the party gradually ceased to serve as an outlet for the politically active cadre of southern African Americans.

Black Americans in Congress - The Negroes’ Temporary Farewell

Not exactly....



The Ku Klux Klan was established after Southern Democrats lost the Civil War to the Republican Party. They were thought of as the "militant arm" of the Democrat Party and sought to kill former Black slaves, Irish slaves, Oriental Slaves & the Republicans who freed them all. The late Senator Robert Byrd recruited for the KKK and was a Senator from West Virginia.

And to add to that:

Our nation's top historians reveal that the Democratic Party gave us the Ku Klux Klan, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws and other repressive legislation which resulted in the multitude of murders, lynchings, mutilations, and intimidations (of thousands of black and white Republicans). On the issue of slavery: historians say the Democrats gave their lives to expand it, the Republicans gave their lives to ban it. "--The KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party.--"

The Democrats

Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.

Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.

Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.

Democrats fought to keep blacks in slavery and away from the polls, and they started the Ku Klux Klan to terrorize them.

Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a "Keagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.

Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.

Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.

Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.

Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.

Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.

Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.

Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.

Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.

Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.

Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protestors were fighting.

Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox "brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.

Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.

Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.

Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.

Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.

Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.

Democrat President Bill Clinton's mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.

Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.

Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.

Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.

Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Op.Cit.

 

[rightwinger]

I keep explaining this to you, but that cerebral hardening of yours seems to require this repetition: again....you don't get to dictate how I answer or post.

Jot it down somewhere....

You see, you suggested that Republicans were not benefactors of black Americans...and I don't feel my answer should be restricted by your "1930's" specification.


So....I will treat your demands in the same way drivers in Italy treat red and green lights: as merely a suggestion.

I have a right to expect you to stay on topic....especially when you established te topic of Roosevelts policies towards blacks in the 30s

Now, I know you were able to sweet talk professors with your cut and paste antics. But, we at USMB have a higher academic standard

Don't whine...you're not getting your way.


But you can have some prunes and Geritol....

You have been pinned down on a topic of your own selection

You chose to run away

What an act of academic cowardice.

 

[PoliticalChic]

I have a right to expect you to stay on topic....especially when you established te topic of Roosevelts policies towards blacks in the 30s

Now, I know you were able to sweet talk professors with your cut and paste antics. But, we at USMB have a higher academic standard

Don't whine...you're not getting your way.


But you can have some prunes and Geritol....

You have been pinned down on a topic of your own selection

You chose to run away

What an act of academic cowardice.

I understand your eternal need for remediation...but I have other obligations as well as the study that I do each day....


OK....what do you want???

 

[PoliticalChic]

I have a right to expect you to stay on topic....especially when you established te topic of Roosevelts policies towards blacks in the 30s

Now, I know you were able to sweet talk professors with your cut and paste antics. But, we at USMB have a higher academic standard

Don't whine...you're not getting your way.


But you can have some prunes and Geritol....

You have been pinned down on a topic of your own selection

You chose to run away

What an act of academic cowardice.

Oh....you're claiming that I was 'pinned down' because I chose to respond to the larger topic rather than your chosen time frame???

That's it?



Boob.


I destroyed your premise...i.e., that Republicans did not support black Americans.


Now...It is time, I believe, for you to don those horrid white orthopedic walking shoes, and matching belt, and waddle off, ‘else you may miss the ‘Early Bird Special’!




Do I have your permission to go now????

 

[elvis]

FDR could not include blacks because the populace of the USA was not willing to allow forced integration. The social adherance to equal but seperate was deeply entrenched in the minds of American citizens. Lynching were still occurrung in the '30's which is a fine example of societies pariah status for blacks.

Every era has to be looked at from the perspective of the people of that era. Keep in mind, women had only gotten the vote ten years before. FDR brought about societal change but he could only move so fast

**** that bullshit. He was a racist piece of shit.

Still pissed Japan lost the war, aren't you?