Posted on 07/23/2020 1:20:46 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
On the floor of the House today, Texas GOP Congressman Louie Gohmert filed a motion requiring the Democrat Party adopt a new name because of its history of racism and violence against Black Americans.
Watch this clip, followed by the text of Gohmert’s resolution:
" " Transcript of Gohmert’s Resolution:
The Democratic Party platforms of 1840, 1844, 1848, 1852, and 1856 stated “that all efforts of the abolitionists, or others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery . . . are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences; and that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people and endanger the stability and permanency of the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend of our political institutions.” The Democratic Party platform of 1856 declared that “new states” to the Union should be admitted “with or without domestic slavery, as [the state] may elect.” The Democratic Party platform of 1856 declared that “we recognize the right of the people of all the Territories . . . to form a Constitution, with or without domestic slavery.” The Democratic Party platform of 1860, in seeking to uphold the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 that required law enforcement officials to arrest any individual suspected of being a runaway slave, stated that “the enactments of the State Legislatures to defeat the faithful execution of the Fugitive Slave Law are hostile in character, subversive of the Constitution, and revolutionary in their effect.” No Democrat in Congress supported the 14th Amendment, which gave full citizenship to freed slaves. It passed in 1868 with 94 percent Republican support and zero support from Democrats. No Democrat in Congress supported the 15th Amendment, which gave freed slaves the right to vote. It passed in 1870 with 100 percent Republican support and zero support from Democrats. Various state Democratic Party officials enacted policies to disenfranchise and “systematically suppress” the right of African Americans to vote. The resolution specifically cites the 1902 Constitution of the State of Virginia that disenfranchised about 90 percent of the African American voters at the time, forcibly reducing the number of eligible African American voters from about 147,000 in 1901 to about 10,000 by 1905. The resolution notes that this measure was “supported almost exclusively by Virginia Democrats.” The administration of President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, “began a racial segregation policy for U.S. government employees and, by 1914, the Wilson administration’s Civil Service instituted the requirement that a photograph be submitted with each employment application.” When the Democratic Party held its national convention in 1924 in New York City at Madison Square Garden, the event was commonly referred to as the “Klan-Bake” due to the influence of the Ku Klux Klan in the party. Senate Democrats held a 75-calendar day filibuster against the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Former Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), a known recruiter for the KKK, led the Democrats to oppose civil rights for African Americans. Democrats “enacted and enforced Jim Crow laws and civil codes that forced segregation and restricted freedoms” for African Americans. In June, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) ordered the removal of the portraits of four previous Speakers of the House who served in the Confederacy, stating that these portraits “set back our nation’s work to confront and combat bigotry.” However, Gohmert’s resolution notes that the Speakers that Pelosi removed (Robert M.T. Hunter, Howell Cobb, James L. Orr, and Charles F. Crisp) were all Democrats. [End]
Prior to reading his resolution, Gohmert correctly stated that “A great portion of the history of the Democratic Party is filled with racism and hatred,” Gohmert said. “Since people are demanding we rid ourselves of the entities, symbols, and reminders of the repugnant aspects of our past, then the time has come for Democrats to acknowledge their party’s loathsome and bigoted past and consider changing their party name to something that isn’t so blatantly and offensively tied to slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination, and the Ku Klux Klan.”
Epic. And 100% true.
That is all.
How did the vote go?
Louie forgot one thing. The 1868 democrat party campaign slogan.
Go Rep. Gomert.
Here’s the video you ripped off without your blog being involved:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1286385343898497026
“This is a White Man’s Country, Let White Men Rule”
DNC
Cancel the Democrat Party.
I take it to mean: “This is a White Man’s Country, Let White Men Rule.”
Although I consider myself to have a decent knowledge of 19th century history, this one seems to have slipped by me.
The internet may be a pain in the rear sometimes, but it does allow you to look up things in seconds that would probably have required a trip to the library back in the Reagan era or other happier times than these.
Well done, FRiend.
I suspect others are curious - I went to Wikipedia, and this is what I found:
“The Democratic National Convention was held at Tammany Hall in New York City between July 4, and July 9, 1868. The slogan for the 1868 Democratic National Convention was, “This is a White Man’s Country, Let White Men Rule”. ‘
Thanks for posing the question.
“...Cancel the Democrat Party....”
Well, IF it ever finally comes out that these SOBs bought, paid for with taxpayer dollars and colluded with the CCP on a deliberate virus release, the least of their worries will be cancellation.
One is either an American...or a democrat, but not both.
They’re AINOs; American in Name Only.
At least his link works. Your link, not so much. As usual.
Now if all the Republican Congress Critters would get up daily and Recite the Demonrat Party Platform from yesteryear on the FLOOR OF THE HOUSE, giving them full attribution of course, things might start to happen.
Linkage through Twitter?
Twat is up with that?
The left has been demanding removal of Columbus statues, Mt. Rushmore, etc. for objectionable statements or traits. So surely they should at the very least insist the Democrats change their name.
The left has been demanding removal of Columbus statues, Mt. Rushmore, etc. for objectionable statements or traits. So surely they should at the very least insist the Democrats change their name.
So now that we’ve established that the name “Democrat Party” is forever tainted by past racism, perhaps they can change their name to “Washington Political Team”.
Beautiful!
DC Swamp ‘Rats
That's what the scurvy click-monger provided.
It isn't his own, that's all that matters.
Theft it is and theft it remains.
My computers don't render twitting well.
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