Ted Cruz reminds AOC her own Democratic Party founded KKK, wrote Jim Crow laws Senator says Dems also responsible for 'trapping millions of Black kids in failing schools'

Fox News ^ | 5/23/23 | Brianna Herlihy

[Libloather]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., invited her colleague from across the aisle in Congress, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to educate Twitter users on the history of America's diametrically opposed political parties, and his answer is unlikely what she expected.

**SNIP**

AOC inserted herself into the dialog by saying, "Why don’t you go ahead and tell people what happened to the parties after that, Ted."

Cruz took her up on the offer and responded in a tweet thread, saying, "Sure. – First, the Dem party founded the KKK. – Then the Dem party wrote Jim Crow laws. – Then the Dem party filibustered the Civil Rights Act."

"Today, the Dem party filibusters school choice – trapping millions of Black kids in failing schools. – Today, the Dem party pushes abolishing the police, which results in many more Black lives murdered. – Today, every Dem senator voted against my bill to stop DC from throwing 40% of Black kids out of schools bc of vax mandate," Cruz continued.

"The Republican Party was founded to oppose slavery. Our first Republican President was Abraham Lincoln, who won the Civil War and ended slavery. It was Republicans who voted for the civil Rights Act in a much higher percentage than racist Dems," he added.

"Today, we produced the lowest African-American unemployment EVER, under the Trump economic boom. – Today, we produced the lowest African-American poverty levels EVER, under the Trump economic boom," Cruz continued.

"Today, (in 2017) I passed the largest expansion of federal school choice EVER (making 529 plans cover K-12), over the objection of ever single Senate Dem," he said.

"Also, just two years ago, the Dem governor of Virginia had put the photo of A MAN DRESSED AS A KKK KLANSMAN on his personal yearbook page."

[Libloather]

Did the socialist bartender learn anything? Nope.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Squawd Chiefette not up to snuff on American History.

[DoodleBob]

As I wrote elsewhere, Progressives" virtue-signal anti-racism, but they consider blacks and anyone who isn't like them to be inferiors.

The far left progressives are actually lily white. Nearly seven-in-ten Progressive Left (68%) are White adults, making this group less racially and ethnically diverse than the other Democratic-oriented groups.

Yet, these Dems hold not only extremist views on race, but views more extreme than those held by more racially-diverse Dem groups.

They live in enclaves in cities, prefer going to museums over going to the range, and think religion is sophistry. Their policies and language all reek of a Superiority Complex.

I get Affinity bias. We all have it. I'd probably be rejected by an Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune and the feeling would be mutual.

But Erika Donalds' experience is worth remembering when dunderheads like AOC say WE are all haters. And while I haven't walked in Erika Donalds' shoes, I can tell you, when behind closed doors, and if "progressives" think you're "one of them," their mask slips and (using affluent code language) you see how they REALLY feel about the races.

Scratch a progressive, find a Klansman in a suit and tie or lab coat...or a bigot in Queens.

[Antihero101607]

𝘋𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨? 𝘕𝘰𝘱𝘦.

It doesn’t matter. All she needs to do is spew some absurdity or lie, and that lie is halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on. What’s worse is that lie is believed by many, some of which know better from past experience, yet they still buy into that lie.

[NTHockey]

Don’t forget the racist founder of the Democrat Party, Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears.or the darling of the Progressives, Woodrow Wilson, who resegregated the Navy

[ClearCase_guy]

My Liberal brother is convinced that the parties “switched places” sometime around JFK. All of those terrible racist things? KKK? Jim Crow? That’s actually the Republicans’ fault — because the parties “switched places”. The freeing of the slaves? That’s pretty much the Democrats — because the parties “switched places”. In his opinion, Democrats always win. Because they’re better than other people.

[21twelve]

The decline of the society in general, and of black society specifically, can be placed IMHO on Johnson and the “Great Society”. With the government replacing the man of the house as the chief bacon-winner.

“We’ll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.”

[TallahasseeConservative]

Your Brother is ignorant. Of the roughly 50 members of what were known as the “Dixiecrats” exactly three became Republicans. Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond and a legislator from Louisiana whose name escapes me. The rest stayed Democrats until the day they died like Robert Byrd.

[NorthMountain]

Democrats are pathological liars.

“Anti-racism” is racism. Read Kendi’s book if you doubt me.

“Anti-fascism” is fascism. Watch what Antifa actually says and does for proof.

[Ann Archy]

IF Blacks DEVER wake up to how the Democrats have RUINED their cities, their families, their education, their victimhood madness, and ALL the LIES that they have been told about Republicans, there will be BLOOD in the STREETS!!

[cnsmom]

Every democratic should be required to know these facts including Margaret Sanger and eugenics main goals.

[Dr. Ursus]

I,m amazed WILSON still gets a pass!

[metmom]

Thank you Senator Cruz.

[weezel]

I love it when someone tells me that crap. Switched? What did Republicans give the newly freed blacks after the Civil war? LIBERTY to go out and be their own man. Exactly the same as what we give them now.

And what did dim-0s give them? For the next 100 years they gave them share cropper shacks, and chittlings and poke salad. Cast off rags. And at the end of the season when it was time to settle accounts and see how much they made on their cotton? The rent on the shack was due, and the bill for the rags and chittlings came due and guess what? They didnt make enough cotton to cover their expenses and they then OWED the master more money!
THEN, 100 years later after keeping blacks from participating in America with their night riding enforcement branch, the KKK, lbj decided that he would rather pay for the blacks votes, than to keep them from voting altogether proclaiming, “I;ll have them n-——s voting demo for the next 200 years.

In the time since lbj bought them off, what has dim-0s given them? Instead of sharecropper shacks, they now house them in the projects, or crime riddled hoods. Instead of chittlins, they now get EBT cards. AND what have Republicans given them? STILL, LIBERTY to go out and be their own man.

And to this day dim-0s think that blacks are SO INFERIOR as to be unable to obtain a valid ID to vote with so we cannot ensure our elections are fair.

[epluribus_2]

Governor Wilson (R-RINO) of California or Woodrow? (/sarc)

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“Ted Cruz reminds AOC her own Democratic Party founded KKK, wrote Jim Crow laws...”

FINALLY! Cruz must have read my posts on FR. Hopefully the rest of the Repubs will follow suit.

[weezel]

Now, our ideologies did switch once but at the time there was no Republican party yet. Back when the country was new, and we had nothing, our side was the progressive bunch. WE wanted to build the country. Roads, Schools all the infrastructure that a country needs and we did that, quickly becoming the greatest nation the world has ever seen.

NOWDAYS, dim-0s call themselves progressive, but what are they trying to progress to? Men marrying other men? Porn being taught at school to 2nd graders? Murdering babies for convenience sake?

[T.B. Yoits]

I present Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, Hillary Clinton's mentor:

...pictured here with Jao Bai-din, another Democrat and actual Segregationist:

[bray]

Does slavery around the world bother them today? How about sex slavery coming across the border?

[Deplorable American1776]

Ted Cruz 1 AOC 0