Excellent
Slap down!
This is pretty much common knowledge — the modern Democrat dodge is to say that oh, the Democrats who stood for slavery and Jim Crow went to the GOP and were washed out of the Democrat party. That’s what I hear from just about every black person I’ve spoken with. Has anyone traced the details and found out whether the move was as drastic as portrayed. To me it looks simpler — that Democrats of all geography hopped onto the welfare state and then used it to capture the black vote. Jim Crow was now superfluous; the black vote was no longer trouble for Democrats.
It was the democRATs.
Of course he’s correct
And not trying to destroy Dinesh’s thunder … but the Republican Party was created in 1854. Not long before the civil war. Made up of abolitionists, anti slavery Whigs and Free Staters. Not much time for an anti slavery party to change their platform 180 degrees.
Very good.
Of course, people should be prepared for one of the standard Leftist counter-arguments: somewhere along the way, the 2 parties “switched places” and the good guys became bad guys and vice versa.
But look:
Prior to 1860 — Democrats were pushing for new states to allow slavery
Democrats opposed the Civil War
After the Civil War, Republicans pushed for Reconstruction so that freed slaves could vote, own property, hold political office and get an education.
Democrats opposed Reconstruction.
Democrats started the KKK.
Democrats imposed Jim Crow so that segregation could be enforced.
Jackie Robinson was a Republican.
Martin Luther King was a Republican.
Segregationist Sheriff “Bull” O’Connor was a Democrat.
Strom Thurmond was a segregationist — when he was a Democrat.
Strom Thurmond opposed segregation — when he was a Republican.
The Democrat’s opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Republicans passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
And just this week — Kanye West supports President Trump and the Democrats want that boy to get back on the plantation.
I’m really not sure when the magical “switching places” took place, because it looks to me like Democrats have always been the racists.
At what time did the Republicans and Democrats form the unity party to enslave us all?
The Democrats that switched to Republican did so in the mid-nineteen-seventies and eighties, One Hundred Years after the Democrats owned slaves. For Democrats to use the argument that the Democrats that owned slaves were really Republicans is idiotic in the extreme.
Bkmrk.
“In 1860, the year before the Civil War, no Republican owned a slave.”
This is not just a statement about Republican leaders but about every Republican voter in the whole country.
So, since the Democrat party is discussing reparations, guess who ought to be paying those reparations.
Not only were slave owners Democrats, President Lincoln’s War was not about freeing the slaves.....that notion came later when he needed a cause to continue the fighting.
Later
Facts do not matter to the left. That is a serious problem.
Wow...
Here’s a slightly LONGER video on the subject.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Baxthwqr8&t=23s
Republicans are upset with blacks. Over 300,000 Republicans (Union Soldiers) died for their freedom. Blacks traded their vote for a welfare check and a lot of words.
D’Souza claims that not one Republican was a slave owner. Sorry, but he’s wrong. James Wallace, Maryland lawyer, legislator, and slave owner. He joined the Republican party shortly after the 1856 election and later commanded the 1st Maryland Infantry (Eastern Shore) Regiment at Gettysburg. He resigned his commission late in 1863 when the Union army began to seriously recruit black troops.
I read Booker T. Washington’s book “Up From Slavery”. It’s free on Kindle.
He was a genius. Born into slavery and then worked his way up, for those who don’t know about him.
An actual slave; he puts today’s grievance-mongers to utter shame.
Should be required reading for ridiculous snowflakes.