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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:47:35 -0700 (PDT), william mosco <...@gmail.com
With the passing of Senator Kennedy, and the subsequent news coverage
painting the democratic party as the historical party of civil rights,
I thought now would be a good time to remind readers about the history
of the Democratic party, today's media has seemed to have forgotten.
The Racist History of the Democratic Party
Wayne Perryman, an inner city minister in Seattle and the author of
Unfounded Loyalty, in an editorial circulating on the Internet (Feb.
2004):
Most people are either a Democrat by design, or a Democrat by
deception. That is either they were well aware the racist history of
the Democrat Party and still chose to be Democrat, or they were
deceived into thinking that the Democratic Party is a party that
sincerely cared about Black people.
History reveals that every piece of racist legislation that was ever
passed and every racist terrorist attack that was ever inflicted on
African Americans, was initiated by the members of the Democratic
Party. From the formation of the Democratic Party in 1792 to the Civil
Rights movement of 1960's, Congressional records show the Democrat
Party passed no specific laws to help Blacks, every law that they
introduced into Congress was designed to hurt blacks in 1894 Repeal
Act. The chronicles of history shows that during the past 160 years
the Democratic Party legislated Jim Crows laws, Black Codes and a
multitude of other laws at the state and federal level to deny African
Americans their rights as citizens.
History reveals that the Republican Party was formed in 1854 to
abolish slavery and challenge other racist legislative acts initiated
by the Democratic Party.
Some called it the Civil War, others called it the War Between the
States, but to the African Americans at that time, it was the War
Between the Democrats and the Republicans over slavery. The Democrats
gave their lives to expand it, Republican gave their lives to ban it.
During the Senate debates on the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, it was
revealed that members of the Democratic Party formed many terrorist
organizations like the Ku Klux Klan to murder and intimidate African
Americans voters. The Ku Klux Klan Act was a bill introduced by a
Republican Congress to stop Klan Activities. Senate debates revealed
that the Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.
History reveals that Democrats lynched, burned, mutilated and murdered
thousands of blacks and completely destroyed entire towns and
communities occupied by middle class Blacks, including Rosewood,
Florida, the Greenwood District in Tulsa Oklahoma, and Wilmington,
North Carolina to name a few.
After the Civil War, Democrats murdered several hundred black elected
officials (in the South) to regain control of the southern government.
All of the elected officials up to 1935 were Republicans. As of 2004,
the Democrat Party (the oldest political party in America) has never
elected a black man to the United States Senate, the Republicans have
elected three.
History reveals that it was Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican
that introduced legislation to give African Americans the so-called 40
acres and a mule and Democrats overwhelmingly voted against the bill.
Today many white Democrats are opposed to paying African Americans
trillions of dollars in Reparation Pay, money that should be paid by
the Democratic Party.
History reveals that it was Abolitionists and Radical Republicans such
as Henry L. Morehouse and General Oliver Howard that started many of
the traditional Black colleges, while Democrats fought to keep them
closed. Many of our traditional Black colleges are named after white
Republicans.
Congressional records show it was Democrats that strongly opposed the
passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. These three Amendments
were introduced by Republicans to abolish slavery, give citizenship to
all African Americans born in the United States and, give Blacks the
right to vote.
Congressional records show that Democrats were opposed to passing the
following laws that were introduced by Republicans to achieve civil
rights for African Americans:
Civil Rights Act 1866
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Freedman Bureau Extension Act of 1866
Enforcement Act of 1870
Force Act of 1871
Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Civil Rights Act of 1960
And during the 60's many Democrats fought hard to defeat the
1964 Civil Rights Act
1965 Voting Rights Acts
1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act
Court records shows that it was the Democrats that supported the Dred
Scott Decision. The decision classified Blacks and property rather
than people. It was also the racist Jim Crow practices initiated by
Democrats that brought about the two landmark cases of Plessy v
Ferguson and Brown v. The Board of Education.
At the turn of the century (1900), Southern Democrats continued to
oppress African Americans by placing thousands in hard-core prison
labor camps. According to most historians, the prison camps were far
worst than slavery. The prisoners were required to work from 10-14
hours a day, six to seven days a week in temperatures that exceeded
100 degrees and in temperatures that fell well below zero. The camps
provided free labor for building railroads, mining coal-mines and for
draining snake and alligator invested swamps and rivers. Blacks were
transported from one project to another in rolling cages similar to
the ones used to transfer circus animals. One fourth of the prison
populations were children ages 6 to 18. Young Cy Williams age 12, was
sentenced to 20 years for stealing a horse that he was too small to
ride. Eight-year old Will Evans was sentenced to 2 years of hard labor
for taking some change from a store counter and six-year old Mary Gay
was sentenced to 30 days for taking a hat. While authorities sent
whites to jail for the same offenses, they sent blacks to the prison
camps with much longer sentences. Thousands died from malaria, frost
bites, heat strokes, shackle poisoning, others were buried alive in
collapsing mines, or blown to pieces in tunnel explosions, and still
others drowned in swamps or were beaten and shot to death. Every
southern black citizen was a potential prisoner for any alleged small
offense, including violating evening curfews. Through the prison camp
system, southern owners of railroads, mines and farms had an unlimited
source of free labor. The black prisoners played a major role the
South's economic development. Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice
Initiative, said, in his opinion, "the prison camps were a new form of
slavery, but far more inhumane."
History reveals that it was three white persons that opposed the
Democrat's racist practices who started the NAACP.
Dr. Martin Luther King, several Civil Rights leaders and many
historians reported that during the first two years of his
administration, President John F. Kennedy ignored Dr. King's request
for Civil Rights. The chronicles of history reveal that it was only
after television coverage of riots and several demonstrations did
President Kennedy feel a need to introduce the 1963 Civil Rights Act.
At that time, experts believe the nation was headed toward a major
race war.
History reveals that it was Democratic Attorney General, Robert
Kennedy that approved the secret wire taps on Dr, Martin Luther King
Jr., and it was Democratic President Lyndon Johnson that referred to
Dr. King as " that n-word preacher." Senator Byrd referred to Dr. King
as a "trouble maker" who causes trouble and then runs like a "coward,"
when trouble breaks out.
Over the strong objections of racist Republican Senator Jessie Helms,
Republican President Ronald Reagan, signed into law, a bill to make
Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday. Several
Republican Senators convinced President Reagan this was the right
thing to do.
Congressional records show after signing the 1972 Equal Employment
Opportunity Act and issuing Executive Order 11478, Richard Nixon, a
Republican, that started what we know as Affirmative Action.
On December 15, 1994, federal Judge David V. Kenyon issued a court
order to the Clinton Administration in the Case of Fairchild v Robert
Reich Secretary of Labor (#CV92-5765 Kn). The order demanded that
Secretary Reich and the Clinton Administration force 100 west coast
shipping to develop an Affirmative Action plan to stop discrimination
against, African Americans, Hispanics, Female and Disabled Workers.
Female employees were being sexually harassed, Hispanic were being
denied promotions and training, Disable Workers were being laid off,
and African Americans were being force to work in an environment where
they had job classification called " N-word Jobs." Clinton left office
six years later and never complied with the court order. The companies
still do not have an Affirmative Action Plan.
President Clinton sent 20, 000 troops to protect the white citizens of
Europe's Bosnia, but sent no troops to Africa's Rwanda to protect the
black citizens there. Consequently over 800,000 Africans were massacre
During the 2003 Democratic Primary debates, the Rev. Al Sharpton, said
the Democrat take the black vote for granted and treat African
American like a mistress. They [Democrats} will take us to the dance,
but they don't want to take us home to meet mama."
On December 3, 2002, President Clinton spoke to Democratic Leadership
Council in New York regarding the future of the Democratic Party and
how they could retake the White House. At no time did he address Civil
Rights issues for blacks or doing things to improve the conditions of
African Americans. His only reference to Civil Rights was Civil Rights
for Gays. His only reference to improving communities was his
recommendation to revisit the Marshall Plan to re-build communities in
other countries. His entire speech was aired on C-Span.
After exclusively giving the Democrats their votes for the past 25
years, the average African American cannot point to one piece of civil
rights legislation sponsored solely by the Democratic Party that was
specifically designed to eradicate the unique problems that African
Americans face today. Congressional records show that all previous
legislation (since 1964) had strong bi-partisan support, even though
some Democrats debated and voted against these laws.
After reviewing all of the evidence, many believe America would have
never experienced racism to the degree that it has, had not the
Democrats promoted it through:
Racist Legislation
Terrorist Organizations
Negative Media Communications
Bias Education
Relentless Intimidation
And Flawed Adjudication.
The racism established and promoted by members of the Democratic Party
affected and infected the entire nation from 1856 with the Dred Scott
decision, to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case. But they never
offered or issued an apology.
Today both parties must remember their past. The Democrats must
remember the terrible things they did to Blacks and apologize and the
Republicans must remember the terrific things they did for Blacks and
re-commit to complete the work that their predecessors started and
died for.
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