The Truth About DemoKKKrat Racism (Part Two)

Next up, civil rights era Democrat racism. You'll never learn this in any history book.

This is a list of segregationist state governors in office during the Civil Rights era. Something to notice - they're all Democrat, with one exception – Strom Thurmond, and even he started as a southern Democrat. This is part of the Democrat legacy of racism and the historical record.

• Ross Barnett, Governor of Mississippi (Democrat).
• C. Farris Bryant, Governor of Florida (Democrat).
• Harry F. Byrd, Governor of Virginia (Democrat).
• Francis Cherry, Governor of Arkansas (Democrat).
• Jimmie Davis, Governor of Louisiana (Democrat).
• Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (Democrat).
• Marvin Griffin, Governor of Georgia (Democrat).
• Paul B. Johnson, Jr., Governor of Mississippi (Democrat).
• Robert F. Kennon, Governor of Louisiana (Democrat).
• Lester Maddox, Governor of Georgia (Democrat, American Independent).
• John McKeithen, Governor of Louisiana (Democrat).
• W. Lee O'Daniel, Governor of Texas (Democrat)
• John Malcolm Patterson, Governor of Alabama (Democrat)
• Strom Thurmond, Governor and U.S. senator from South Carolina (Democrat, States' Rights Democrat, Republican)
• John Bell Williams, Governor of Mississippi (Democrat)
• Fielding L. Wright, Governor of Mississippi (Democrat)

The 1964 Civil Rights Act Roll Call Vote: In the House, only 64 percent of the Democrats (153 yes, 91 no), but 80 percent of the Republicans (136 yes, 35 no), voted for it. In the Senate, while only 68 percent of the Democrats endorsed the bill (46 yes, 21 no), 82 percent of the Republicans voted to enact it (27 yes, 6 no). Again, these facts are a matter of historical record. The 1964 Civil Rights Act could not, and would not, passed without Republican support.

Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools, and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.

The Republicans also:

• Enacted civil rights laws in the 1950’s and 1960’s, over the objection of Democrats.
• Founded the HBCU’s (Historical Black College’s and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.
• Pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
• Fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
• Pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
• 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.

Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican, introduced legislation to give African Americans the so-called 40 acres and a mule and Democrats overwhelmingly voted against the bill. History reveals that Democrats lynched, burned, mutilated and murdered thousands of blacks and completely destroyed entire towns and communities occupied by middle class Blacks, including Rosewood, Florida, the Greenwood District in Tulsa Oklahoma, and Wilmington, North Carolina to name a few.

The light of history also reveals that it was Abolitionists and Radical Republicans such as Henry L. Morehouse and General Oliver Howard that started many of the traditional Black colleges, while Democrats fought to keep them closed. Many traditional Black colleges are named after white Republicans.

After almost exclusively giving Democrats their votes for the past 50-plus years, the average black American cannot point to one piece of civil rights legislation sponsored solely by the Democratic Party that was specifically designed to eradicate the unique problems that black community faces today.

The real record isn't pretty, is it liberals? Don't worry, I'm not done yet.

After the Civil Rights Act was signed in 1964, and President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act in 1965, black voters completed their wholesale change from being exclusively Republican voters to Democrats. Three factors come into play, but in no way does “party switch” play into it.

Kennedy and King:

The defining issues of the early 1960's were of equality and civil rights. Marches and protests were taking place across the country, and rightly so.

President John F. Kennedy, requests Senator Harris Wofford's aid in planting Kennedy firmly on the correct side of history concerning the Civil Rights movement. Upon a suggestion from Sen. Wofford, Kennedy places a phone call to Coretta Scott King, when her husband had been arrested and jailed. This call affected Martin Luther King Jr's father - a Republican and Richard Nixon supporter - so deeply, he very publicly threw his support to the Democrats, declaring he'd bring “a suitcase full of votes” along, which he did. When the father of the most famous and prominent Civil Rights leader switches sides, a great many will naturally follow.

Civil Rights Legislation:

The 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act were passed by a Congress wherein Democrats were the majority, and they were signed into law by a Democratic president. This had a powerful effect on public opinion.

The ironies involved were many. Both pieces legislation had essentially been authored by Republicans. As a percentage of the party, a greater percentage of Republicans voted for both bills than did Democrats. And a cadre of Democrats filibustered the 1964 bill in an attempt to prevent its passage. Al Gore Sr. was an active participant in this filibuster, as was the lifelong liberal Democrat, Robert “KKK” Byrd (an avowed and unabashed racist and former Klansman).

Simply put, both bills could not have been passed without the actions of Republicans, not to mention that both were just modern versions of civil rights legislation that Republicans had passed - and Democrats had systematically undone - 100 years earlier.

Last, but not least – The Southern Strategy:

Misguided, at best, just plain stupid, at worst; in the presidential election of 1960, the Nixon campaign decided to go after votes in the South. The South had been, from the beginning of the country, solidly Democrat, but fractures had begun to appear in this monolithic support, and the Nixon campaign felt they could make enough headway there to turn the tide. This was called the "Southern Strategy." Nixon's campaign and Republicans contended that they were appealing to traditional American values. Their Democrat opponents countered that they were appealing to underlying racism pervasive in the South.

Whatever the truth was, the Democrats' characterization of the Southern Strategy gained enough traction to have an effect. Ironically, there was still institutionalized racism in the South at that time, but it was still being expressed almost exclusively by Democrats. Southern Democrat governors, such as Faubus of Arkansas, Wallace of Alabama, and Barnett of Mississippi, were standing in doorways of schools, calling out the National Guard, and even closing them all down for a year to prevent their integration.

Here's the absolute, unvarnished truth – there was no “party switch,” no “ideology switch.” Face it – there was no switching anything, plain and simple. People will say that Republicans were “liberal” or “reformers” before, and after, the Civil War. That is an intellectually, not to mention historically, dishonest argument.

Here's the important part: The fact of the matter is that Republicans then, and conservatives now, favor strict interpretation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. You know, like the part that says “all men were created EQUAL.” (Do NOT turn this into a gender issue) I've read the Constitution – as far as I can recall, the rights and freedoms enumerated therein make no reference to skin color.

It's Republicans and conservatives that desire a color-blind society. We actually BELIEVE people should be judged by the “content of their character.” We don't care what your racial, ethnic, religious, or socio-economic background is. All that matters is that you believe in the Constitution the way it was written, and the way it was meant to be understood.

Liberals and Democrats do nothing BUT label people, turn them into hyphenated Americans, which leads to racism. Believing a people of a certain color can't succeed on their own merits is racism, hidden under the guise of compassion. Keeping a people beholden to a system that does nothing to actually help those people is stupid. Maintaining that system is pure evil. ~ Hunter