Democrats regularly pat themselves on the back
for their liberal positions on race.
They then turn around and say all Republicans are racist. This certainly forgets history.
George Wallace and Lester Maddox were both
Democrats. In the 1950's and 60's, the
Republicans were more Northern and progressive on race. The Democrats were more Southern and much
more segregationist than Republicans. This
alignment held from about 1855 to about 1968.
The Democrats bought black votes with the welfare part of the
"Great Society" program. They
also successfully demonized Barry Goldwater in 1964. Wikipedia says, "In 1964, Goldwater ran
a conservative campaign that emphasized states' rights. Goldwater's 1964 campaign was a magnet for
conservatives since he opposed interference by the federal government in state
affairs. Although he had supported all
previous federal civil rights legislation and had supported the original senate
version of the bill, Goldwater made the decision to oppose the Civil Rights Act
of 1964. His stance was based on his
view that the act was an intrusion of the federal government into the affairs
of states and that the Act interfered with the rights of private persons to do
or not do business with whomever they chose." So he had a radically
Libertarian position on Federal government interference with states and
individuals. Democrats successfully
portrayed his record as racist, and traded white Southern votes for black
Northern ones. I lived through this as a
child and young man. My family was all
Republican, but we were unpopular in Montana because we paid Native Americans
white wages. It
was Republican President Eisenhower who ordered the National Guard into Little
Rock in 1957 to force desegregation on Central High School there. While I'm not saying there was and is
absolutely no racism in the Republican Party, Democrat descriptions of the
comparative positions of the two parties are now, and have been since 1964,
wildly exaggerated in order to force black voters away for the Republican Party
which was their political home for over a century.
Liberals also like to say that blacks were uniquely victimized by
discrimination. This is also both self-
serving and false. Chinese and Japanese
immigrants were systematically excluded, were not eligible for citizenship and
in some cases were forbidden to own or lease land. See for example the Chinese Exclusion Act of
1882 or the California Alien Land Law of 1913.
For a general survey, Google "History of Us Immigration Law."
Also, look into what happened to Japanese residents of the Continental US
during World War II. (Hint: They we
"interned,")
“Progressives” like to disown the old Democrat party by saying
the historical Democrats were not progressive.
As a "Progressive" or "Liberal," you are of course
always right. Us ignorant Conservatives
defer to your superior wisdom. Of
course, they just say that they were not "Progressive" so they're not
your problem as a "Progressive Democrat." ("Liberal" is so
passe.) The fact that they were Democrats doesn't count unless they were
"Progressive." Since Progressives can define any historical Democrat as not
"Progressive," let's try someone who defines himself as
"Progressive" currently. Let’s
consider Al Sharpton, who supported an anti Jewish riot in Crown Heights where
the mob stabbed and killed Yankel Rosenbaum.
He has his own TV show on MSNBC and calls himself
"Progressive." I guess he's not anybody's problem (except maybe
Yankel Rosenbaum's friends and family) because his heart is pure? And he can't
be an anti semitic bigot, can he, because he's black.
The fact that inner city blacks do not have the opportunities of
suburban whites is whose problem exactly? For example, the schools are
unionized, so charter schools and vouchers are not allowed. By definition, stop and frisk is
racist, so crime is rampant. Families
are subsidized to break up, so they do. People
who create jobs are taxed out of the inner city. And who supports all of these
oppressive policies? Liberal Democrats.
