Are you saying your ancestor was a liberal? The conservatives were on the other side of the battlefield during the Civil War.Oh, we know how fair and blameless you right wing konservatives are. Your history is replete with honesty, fairness, and caring for others. Too bad you had to kill or enslave millions to make way for the angels among you to project a more benevolent side to your violence.Cops that kill black people with cause walk...cops that kill black people otherwise get crucified. Your problem is that you try and make the Michael Browns and Trayvon Martin's of the world into "victims" when reality is...they were thugs who were violently assaulting others.
Oh, please...spare me the drama queen rants, JQ! My family history includes an ancestor that lost an arm leading black troops in the Civil War. My "history" is actually filled with people who believed strongly that slavery was a bad thing and that blacks should have equal rights.
And if you believe that blacks should have equal rights, you are an oddball among Republicans. GOP leadership is doing it's best to keep blacks from voting at all. That certainly doesn't speak to your belief in equal rights for Blacks if you align yourself with such scoundrels.
I'm saying my ancestor was an abolitionist not a liberal! I'm amused that you naively think that the Democratic Party has somehow "been there" for blacks over the past forty years, JQ! The truth is that Democrats have used the black vote to stay in power and have given little to nothing BACK to the black community in return! You want to whine about the enslavement of blacks? I've got news for you...LBJ put blacks on a "welfare plantation" way back in the 60's and they've been there ever since! That wasn't a Republican strategy...that was a Democrat making the statement: "These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference... I'll have them ******* voting Democratic for the next two hundred years"." You want to REALLY know why the black community is in the state they are in? It has very little to do with conservatives...it's because liberals like you have screwed them over for decades!