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Kevin McCarthy: Democrat Party Has Not Evolved from Its Days of Slavery, Jim Crow, KKK, While It Supports Critical Race Theory
Breitbart ^ | 29 June 2021 | ALANA MASTRANGELO

Posted on 07/06/2021 5:46:06 AM PDT by Magnatron

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To: Magnatron

Democrats are desperate to pretend their party has progressed.

3 card Monte dealers never change the act.


21 posted on 07/06/2021 8:28:04 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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The democrats have been saying republicans are racists and commit crimes to coverup their crimes.
If we had honest media the democrats could not get elected.
There are 6 media companies that own 90%+ of what we see and hear.


22 posted on 07/06/2021 10:37:12 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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The Left cannot let go of slavery because it avoids having to blame themselves for the condition of African-Americans today.

It used to be the cultural norm that parents "wanted a better life for their children" than they had. That motivation used to be called "sacrifice." Parents sacrificed so their children could have better lives.

That ethos is gone in the black community. This isn't "systemic racism," it's the consequences of LBJ's Great Society programs of the 1960s.

It's still there in the Asian communities built on multigenerational families. It's mostly still there in the European communities. It's likely still there in the Hispanic communities, too.

Even considering whatever "systemic racism" was inherent in "separate but equal," there are many causes of black poverty in the United States, as well as cyclical periods of gains and losses since the Civil War and emancipation from slavery.

People should read this wikipedia entry, The Great Migration. Then read the companion links at the bottom, the Second Great Migration, and then the final New Great Migration to see how African-Americans improved since Reconstruction.

Excerpt from The Great Migration:

African Americans made substantial gains in industrial employment, particularly in the steel, automobile, shipbuilding, and meatpacking industries. Between 1910 and 1920, the number of blacks employed in industry nearly doubled from 500,000 to 901,000.[29] After the Great Depression, more advances took place after workers in the steel and meatpacking industries organized into labor unions in the 1930s and 1940s, under the interracial Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). The unions ended the segregation of many jobs, and African Americans began to advance into more skilled jobs and supervisory positions previously informally reserved for whites.

Between 1940 and 1960, the number of blacks in managerial and administrative occupations doubled, along with the number of blacks in white-collar occupations, while the number of black agricultural workers in 1960 fell to one-fourth of what it was in 1940.[33] Also, between 1936 and 1959, black income relative to white income more than doubled in various skilled trades.[34] Encountering very little employment discrimination, blacks had higher labor force participation rates than whites in every U.S. Census from 1890 to 1950.[35] As a result of these advancements, the percentage of black families living below the poverty line declined from 87 percent in 1940 to 47 percent by 1960 and to 30 percent by 1970.[36]

African-Americans experienced a cultural flourishing in the decades after slavery as they migrated away from the south to other parts of the country. President Lyndon Johnson put an end to all that, and then President Barack Obama blamed "white people" for it.

And now, desperate Leftists are inciting rioting and looting in the name of "slavery" to blame President Donald Trump, "white privilege," and "white supremacy" for it, because they are ignorant of the gains African-Americans made and then lost throughout the last century.

-PJ

23 posted on 07/06/2021 10:41:29 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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