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flyupsidedown

Ain't this a Flip

Drenched in blood of slavery

The U.S. Senate voted unanimously last week to adopt a resolution apologizing for slavery.

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, lead sponsor of the resolution, said, "You wonder why we didn't do it 100 years ago. It is important to have a collective response to a collective injustice."

Only after decades of public education ignoring and distorting U.S. history can such a huge lie be said with a straight face.

Senator, you didn't do it 100 years ago because 100 years ago you Democrats were enforcing Jim Crow segregation laws, poll taxes to keep blacks from voting, and riding around in sheets and pointy hats just in case blacks didn't get the message.

You say "It's important to have a collective response" because you want to bury the origins, purposes, and historical practices of your own party.

The worst part is, Republicans in the Senate let you get away with it.

Principled Republicans knowing their history would have authored a resolution reciting the facts that the Republican Party was formed, among other reasons, to oppose slavery and that the Republican Party and its first President Abraham Lincoln responded to Southern, Democrat-led secession with a successful war that preserved the union and freed the slaves.

After Lincoln's assassination (by a Democrat), the Republican-led Congress (over the objections of the Democratic Party minority) amended the Constitution to confirm the liberation of the slaves (13th Amendment: slavery abolished), and the 14th Amendment (freed slaves are citizens equal to all citizens) and the 15th Amendment (right to vote guaranteed to freed slaves).

Southern Democrats spent the next 100 years trying to keep freed slaves down with segregation laws, poll taxes to deny the right to vote, and lynching to enforce the social order. The KKK was formed by a Democrat; no Republican has ever been a member of the KKK. This is the heritage of the Democratic Party.

In fact, the Democratic Party was formed in the first place to defend and expand slavery.

In 1840, the very first national nominating convention of the Democratic Party adopted a platform which read in part:

Resolved, That Congress has no power ... to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several states ... that all efforts by abolitionists ... made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery ... are calculated ... to diminish the happiness of the people, and endanger the stability and permanency of the union.
Got that, Sen. Harkin? Your party was born defending slavery as necessary for the happiness of the people and threatening secession and war if slavery were challenged . . .

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The KKK was formed by a Democrat; no Republican has ever been a member of the KKK.


While there is some truth to the article. That part about No Republican has ever been a member of the KKK is ridiculous.  A quick google search shows how out of touch that statement is.  In fact there has been a complete turn around and I dare say that most KKK members now would be Republicans.
Check the facts, how about this one.

Sunday, April 26, 2009
Former GOP lawmaker, KKK member David Duke arrested in Prague

By GottaLaff
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It kkkouldn't happen to a kkkreepier ggguy:

   [F]ormer Republican state lawmaker, and KKK leader, David Duke, was arrested in Prague for denying the Holocaust. It's a crime punishable by three years in prison. [...] [I]t's understandable why the Czech Republic would have laws against Holocaust denial. Though I am waiting for the religious right to now come to the rescue of their poor soulmate. After all, he's a bigot being persecuted under hate speech laws. And you know how the religious right is all up in arms over European hate speech laws. Perhaps some intrepid reporter should ask the Concerned Women for America, Focus on the Family, and the Family Research Council how they feel about David Duke's arrest under hate speech laws.

I'm having fantasies about the same thing happening to BushCo. Here are few more details:

   The former leader of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), David Duke, arrested Friday afternoon in Prague, was released in the night and will be forced to leave the country during the day of Saturday, police said. [...]

   David Duke, 59, was charged with supporting a movement to suppress human rights and fundamental freedoms. After his arrest in the restaurant ‘Black Eagle’ in the old Prague, he was interrogated for several hours.

   Quoted Saturday by the agency CTK, the Czech lawyer of the former leader of the KKK, Klara Samkova, said she would make a complaint against the police in Prague.
flyupsidedown

Wow, you found . . . one.  Shall we traipse through the dems roster?  I'm sure he meant no republican lawmaker.  The republican party disowned and ran him out of the party when he came out with his KKK credentials.  

I see nothing wrong in a organization/movement to preserve and diseminate Anglo American culture and contributions benefitting humankind.  It is healthy and inspiring, seeing how the rest of the world takes delight in denigrating Anglo males regardless of their far reaching enlightened contributions to societies, gov'ts, nations globally.  Of course, the KKK wouldn't qualify as one of these organizations.
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GOP blind to its race problem
BY LEONARD PITTS JR.
lpitts@MiamiHerald.com

The modern GOP was created in 1965 with a stroke of Lyndon Johnson's pen.

If that is an exaggeration, it is not much of one. When Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, he made a prediction: In committing the unpardonable sin of guaranteeing the ballot to all citizens regardless of race, he said, he would cause his party to lose the South ``for a generation.''

And indeed Southern Democrats, who for a century had bombed schools, lynched innocents, perverted justice and terrorized millions in the name of intolerance, responded by leaving their ancestral party in droves. They formed the base of a new GOP, a reality acknowledged by Ronald Reagan when he opened his 1980 campaign at a segregationist fair in a town where three civil-rights workers were infamously martyred, by declaring, 'I believe in states' rights.''

In embracing its new southern base, the Republican Party became the Repugnant Party on matters of race, a distinction it has done little to shed.

So some of us were disappointed but not surprised last week when Sherri Goforth, an aide to Tennessee state Sen. Diane Black, came under fire for an e-mail she sent out. It depicted the 44 U.S. presidents, showing the first 43 in dignified, statesmanlike poses. By contrast, the 44th, the first African American, is seen as a pair of cartoon spook eyes against a black backdrop. Goforth's explanation: the e-mail, which went to GOP staffers, was sent ``to the wrong list of people.''

You may wish to let that one marinate for a moment.

And please, don't bother reminding me of Democrat Robert Byrd's onetime membership in the Ku Klux Klan; I make no argument that the Democrats are untainted by bigotry. Rather, my argument is that the GOP is consumed by it, riddled with it, that it has shown, sown, shaped and been shaped by it, to an abhorrent degree.

You think that's unfair? Well, after Goforth's e-mail, after ''Barack the Magic Negro,'' and John McCain's campaign worker blaming a fictional black man for a fictional mugging, and a party official in Texas renaming the executive mansion ''the black house,'' and an official in Virginia claiming Obama's presidency would see free drugs and ''mandatory black liberation theology,'' and a Republican activist in South Carolina calling an escaped ape one of Michelle Obama's ''ancestors,'' it seems wholly fair to me. Indeed, overdue.

And keep in mind: All that is just from the last year or so. I could draw up a much longer list but space is limited, and there is a final point to make.

Which is that, yes, I am cognizant of the danger of painting with too broad a brush and no, I am not saying membership in the GOP is synonymous with membership in the KKK. I know there are Republicans of racial enlightenment and common decency. Indeed, I am counting on it, counting on them to search conscience and demand their party find ways of winning elections that do not depend on lazy appeals to the basest emotions of the hateful and the unreconstructed.

Do it because it's the right thing. And do it because it is in the party's long-term interest. As a 2008 Gallup poll indicates, black people are more religious than Republicans as a whole and just as conservative on some key moral issues. Yet only 5 percent identify with the party of religion and conservatism. The GOP's ongoing inability to win over such a natural constituency speaks volumes.

I keep waiting for somebody to do something about it. I mean, I can hear Republicans of racial enlightenment and common decency yelling at me from here.

They want me to know there is nothing honorable, much less inherently Republican, in the hatred expressed by these weasels in elephant's clothes. In response, I would give them this advice:

Don't tell me. Tell them.


Fly, here is a quote from the above article you could use in your midterm campaign that would do the modern GOP some good and just might get the party back on track.

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Indeed, I am counting on it, counting on them to search conscience and demand their party find ways of winning elections that do not depend on lazy appeals to the basest emotions of the hateful and the unreconstructed.
THE CURE

Republicans don't have the guts to come forward if they're a racist. You have to run them out of the closet like cock roaches. Right Jh?
jhofficial

THE CURE wrote:
Republicans don't have the guts to come forward if they're a racist. You have to run them out of the closet like cock roaches. Right Jh?


If you only had a clue.
THE CURE

Give me one.
coastie

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Kestrel

flyupsidedown wrote:
Wow, you found . . . one.  Shall we traipse through the dems roster?  I'm sure he meant no republican lawmaker.  The republican party disowned and ran him out of the party when he came out with his KKK credentials.  

I see nothing wrong in a organization/movement to preserve and diseminate Anglo American culture and contributions benefitting humankind.  It is healthy and inspiring, seeing how the rest of the world takes delight in denigrating Anglo males regardless of their far reaching enlightened contributions to societies, gov'ts, nations globally.  Of course, the KKK wouldn't qualify as one of these organizations.


No republican lawmaker? David Duke was a republican lawmaker! He was in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1989 to 1992.

There is some evidence that Warren G. Harding (republican president) was a KKK member.

And there are probably many local republican lawmakers that are/were KKK members, just like democrats.

Yup, many folks from the democratic party were involved in the KKK, but that has flip-flopped in the last fifty years.
flyupsidedown

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The modern GOP was created in 1965 with a stroke of Lyndon Johnson's pen


Hmmm . . . let's see, we'll assume your little scenario is viable.   Let's also assume most of those voters who supposedly switched parties were of an average age of 35.  It is probably closer to 40 but let's say 35.  That was 44 years ago so that makes those undercover democrat racists approx. 79 yrs old.  If that were the case and I doubt it.  That generation is long gone.  I would be more convinced if you could show actual demographic shifts in the number of dems to reps.  You know, like 1000 left here and there was an increase of 1000 over here.  That would do it.  More than likely the demographic shift was because they became the party of the godless radicals.  They tolerated just about anything and decent conservative christian democrats voted with their feet.  Your article is myopic and simplistic, cherry picking anecdotal inuendo to trump up a racist scenario that realistically would have been influenced by a multiple of real issues.  

These kind of propagandistic shill games are not really worth debating.  It's funny.  Most of the racists I know are democrats.  There's some factual inuendo for you.
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fly wrote:

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Your article is myopic and simplistic, cherry picking anecdotal inuendo to trump up a racist scenario that realistically would have been influenced by a multiple of real issues.  


Thanks for the compliment!!
flyupsidedown

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Thanks for the compliment!!


Typical of your insightfulness related to facts and their interpretive meaning.  shall we say la-la-land?  That would be unkind, generous but unkind.  There are facts and then there are propagandized 'truths' for the dissemination of weird world views full of goose-stepping Obama-ites.  That was rhetorical hyperbole, sorry.  They aren't to the goose-stepping stage yet.  We still have time America!
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Fly you are right.  What am I doing?  I have to keep reminding myself to schedule more T times.   Very Happy  Smile  

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What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them - that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. - President Barack Obama - 1/20/09

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