I get livid when Democrats try to own the Civil Rights legislation like it was their deal. It was not theirs. Republicans need to put their panties on and start owning the Civil Rights movement - and not just on their website. (Which, I might add, is brilliant and beautiful, in case you lack the courage or time to click on the link.)
They need to start owning it in interviews. They need to start owning it on the floor of the Senate. They need to remind the black community that their party was put together because there were American citizen who were disgusted that "All men were created equal" only extended to those of European ancestry. It was worth a war. It was worth their lives.
When an arrogant loudmouth like Olbermann gets on his show and starts insinuating the Democratic Party's involvement when it comes to Civil Rights was to help it, I am hardly capable of sitting idly by. A big part of the reason that it makes me upset is because if he's done any research into this issue he knows: Democrats accounted for 80% of the opposition to the Civil Rights legislation in the 60s. Look up the voting record - it hasn't changed.
In the 50s and 60s, I will remind you all yet again, the Democratic Party was the party of segregation, lynch mobs and the Klan. Let's not get confused when it comes to who was trying desperately to stop all these things. It's atrocious that the Black community now sees welfare as "help" and vote party line with the Ds 90% of the time. Both Dr. King and Malcolm X would be ashamed (albeit for different reasons).
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6 comments:
This post made me smile right up into my earlobes. For those of us who were taught history and lived it... we know the truth. Now after decades, we pass the banner on to you and leave it in very capable hands.
If you really want to get peeved....... take a look at President Obama's choice for safe schools czar, Kevin Jennings.
The notion of the Republic (from which Republicans get their name) is that there is one law for all and no one is above the law. That is essential to free and egalitarian society.
It's no surprise the Democrats controlled the old South for so long it was known as the "Solid South." The Democrat notion of proper government is a simple majority determines law, right and wrong and final morality. This viewpoint will lead to existential struggles, you betcha.
So they went to war... it had to happen for some reason. And the struggle still goes on. Will the human individual have purpose apart from some value to the state? Or do we only have value because we organize into voting blocks, which then win or lose, and get a larger or smaller portion of the pie in result?
And so it goes.
Victoria, this really made me smile. Why, indeed, doesn't the Republican party swing history like the overwhelming bat that it is and beat the democrats senseless? The history is there and speaks more powerfully than any attempt to use it as a political tool ever will. Growing up in that era was enlightening and exhausting. There is also a time to pass the banner on
you and so many in their twenties and thirties are picking it up and carrying it on quite well.
Bravo!
I agree that Republicans need to step up and start setting the record straight. Because of the internet any knucklehead can go find the voting record and see which party was the party of "No to Negroes." Great post.
Democrats are still the party of racism and racists yet our people keep following these plantation masters each and every election cycle.
nice post. thanks.
You're absolutely right.
Here's a blog post I wrote about Civil Rights legislation in the last century.
I think many of today's students would be surprised to read the complete history behind civil rights, and that MLKJ, Rosa Parks, Jesse Jackson, et al, weren't the only ones involved.
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