Posted on 04/28/2015 10:20:23 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
After writing about an MSNBC talking head’s comment about the “niggerization of politics” yesterday, and watching the latest threat by the New Black Panther Party against the Republican National Convention, I thought it time to update my posts on racism and the timeline of action and inaction.
In a discussion of Civil Rights in America, how often do you hear the name of Republican Senator Everett Dirksen (R-IL)? Not often. How often do you hear the name of Democrat Senator Robert Byrd in connection to civil rights? Not often but for very different reasons. Dirksen was a champion for civil rights. Robert Byrd was not. But you do hear the name of Senator Strom Thurmond practically spat from the mouths of those accusing Republicans for the plight of Negros African-Americans Blacks, but Strom Thurmond was a Democrat in those days, and he was VERY active in trying to kill the civil rights bill. It was later that Thurmond became a Republican. Most people do not know that.
An agenda can be identified by what is NOT being said. The names of Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Everett Dirksen and the many Republicans who fought for, and or/voted for the civil rights bill are never uttered. Neither is it mentioned that Republicans voted for the Civil Rights bill in far greater percentages than did Democrats, or that Democrats had a sufficient majority to pass it without a single Republican vote.
TIMELINE of CIVIL RIGHTS IN AMERICA:
The items with an asterisk (*) are taken from this video produced by Frantz Kebreau, Research Author/National Speaker: StolenHistory.com. Mr. Kebreau has a great website. Visit him here. The items without an asterisk are taken from one of my previous posts with additions. Update 4-14: Michael Zak at Grand Old Partisan (visit him here) has notified me that this time line is his property, that it originated with him on the back of a calendar he produced.
*1854: The Republican Party is formed to “stop the spread of slavery.” The Democratic Party is decidedly…”Pro-Slavery”
March 20, 1854: Opponents of Democrats’ pro-slavery policies meet in Ripon, Wisconsin to establish the Republican Party
*Stephen Douglas, Democratic Party Leader authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
May 30, 1854: Democrat President Franklin Pierce signs Democrats’ Kansas-Nebraska Act, expanding slavery into U.S. territories; opponents unite to form the Republican Party
June 16, 1854: Newspaper editor Horace Greeley calls on opponents of slavery to unite in the Republican Party
July 6, 1854: First state Republican Party officially organized in Jackson, Michigan, to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies
February 11, 1856: Republican Montgomery Blair argues before U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of his client, the slave Dred Scott; later served in [Republican] President Lincoln’s Cabinet
February 22, 1856: First national meeting of the Republican Party, in Pittsburgh, to coordinate opposition to Democrats’ pro-slavery policies
March 27, 1856: First meeting of Republican National Committee in Washington, DC to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies
May 22, 1856: For denouncing Democrats’ pro-slavery policy, Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) is beaten nearly to death on floor of Senate by U.S. Rep. Preston Brooks (D-SC), takes three years to recover
March 6, 1857: Republican Supreme Court Justice John McLean issues strenuous dissent from decision by 7 Democrats in infamous Dred Scott case that African-Americans had no rights “which any white man was bound to respect”
June 26, 1857: former Congressman Abraham Lincoln, now a private citizen, declares Republican position that slavery is “cruelly wrong,” while Democrats “cultivate and excite hatred” for blacks
October 13, 1858: During Lincoln-Douglas debates, U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas (D-IL) states: “I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever”; Douglas became Democratic Party’s 1860 presidential nominee
October 25, 1858: U.S. Senator William Seward (R-NY) describes Democratic Party as “inextricably committed to the designs of the slaveholders”; as President Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State, helped draft Emancipation Proclamation
June 4, 1860: Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) delivers his classic address, The Barbarism of Slavery
*1861: Abraham Lincoln, Republican, is elected President.
*Most Democratic Party Controlled States Secede from the Union…inn Protest
April 7, 1862: President Lincoln concludes treaty with Britain for suppression of slave trade
April 16, 1862: President Lincoln signs bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia;
Republican Support: 83%
Democrats Support: 17%
Read FULL LIST HERE
I know this article is old, but it needs to be brought up and reminded again....and again....
It's time conservatives, Republicans, those with brains, speak up and defend history and set it straight. Let's stop the lies, myths and propaganda!!!
Another fact is that most of our Founding Fathers were actually against slavery. Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence which had their anti-slavery sentiment in it. The Commission of Five, his editorial board of sorts, read his first draft and they told him that they could not take on that fight at that time. They needed to point their attention solely at King George. So, the antislavery bits were deleted. Not because they liked slavery, but because they could not fight both fights at once. It would have to be fought later.
On his way to his inauguration Lincoln had to slip quietly through Baltimore, Maryland (a Democrat dominated slave holding State) during the wee hours of the morning to avoid the likelihood of assassination. History doesn’t necessarily repeat but it can certainly echo.
bkmk
A most magnificent essay, which I shall save and reference for use!
BTTT
Democrat racism timeline bookmark
November 10,1898 Wilmington, NC the nation’s ONLY coup d’etat. Democrats overthrew the elected government and forced them to leave town. Democrats took over and ushered in an era of segregation, intimidation and totalitarian rule.
Six blacks were killed, 60 injured. Black newspaper was burned down. Blacks hid in the swamps. Republicans were also forced leave town.
And don’t blame the people who supported the Confederacy. There were good people and bad, on both sides. These Democrats were the worst of the South.
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