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To: illiac

In 2004, the Reverend Wayne Perryman, an inner-city minister in Seattle, filed a class action suit – against the Democratic Party for its racist actions. In his 100-page brief, he lists the abuses heaped on black Americans:
* Democrats opposed abolitionist of slavery and Abolitionists
* Democrats supported slavery and fought and gave their lives to expand it
* Democrats supported and passed the Fugitive Slave Laws of 1793 & 1854
* Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery
* Democrats supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery
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Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision (denying citizenship to free blacks in free states)
* Democrats supported and passed Jim Crow Laws
* Democrats opposed the Reconstruction Act of 1867
* Democrats opposed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves
* Democrats opposed the 13th ( to end slavery), 14th (to grant citizenship to blacks) and 15th (give blacks the right to vote) Amendments
* Democrats opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1866
* Democrats opposed the Civil Right Act of 1875
* Democrats had it overturned by U.S. Supreme Court
* Democrats opposed the 1957 Civil Rights Acts
* Democrats argued against the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Acts
* Democrats argued against the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Acts
* Democrats voted against the 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act
* Democrats supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson (declared that separate but equal was good enough for blacks)
* Democrats supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas (overturned Plessy v Ferguson, ending segregation).

In 2005, the district court decided that he lacked standing to bring the suiut.


13 posted on 04/01/2010 9:32:22 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: NTHockey

Outstanding post it should open a liberals eyes if they dare to read.


14 posted on 04/01/2010 10:34:04 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: NTHockey

What a great man he is. I have seen some video’s of him in the past and also he has been on some of the talk radio shows lately too. God bless him.


17 posted on 04/01/2010 11:25:48 PM PDT by Katarina (God bless ElRushbo and Mark Levin!)
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