Blessings to you.

Tim

Obama being the nominee may not truly show the bent of the Democrats. I actually think that it was the moderate Republicans and so called Reagan democrats that came out in primaires to vote for Obama. Their numbers just out voted “true Democrats”. With McCain wrapping up the nomination so quickly it allowed for many to cross vote in Democatic primaries. Showing America isn’r racist even if democats are.

The Republican Party was founded by anti-slavery activists, in contrast to the pro-slavery Democratic Party. It was Abe Lincoln, a Republican President, who led the North to victory in the Civil War and freed the slaves while the Democrats did everything in their power to keep black Americans down.

The facts of history show the heavy opposition to the civil rights movement by Democrat Senators.
In 1922, Democrats in the Senate filibustered a Republican attempt to make lynching a federal crime.

Robert Byrd, current senator from West Virginia organized the record Senate filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

It took the hard work of Republican Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen and Republican Whip Thomas Kuchel to break the filibuster and pass the Civil Rights Act. (Dirksen was presented a civil rights accomplishment award by the head of the NAACP in recognition of his efforts)

Then it took years (mostly because of the democatic hold on congress) a Republican (gasp not him) Richard Nixon was president before any real teeth were put behind affirmative action laws.

Byrd wasn’t alone several prominent and well known liberal Democrat standard bearers including:

J. William Fulbright, Arkansas senator and political mentor of Bill Clinton

Albert Gore Sr., Tennessee senator, father and political mentor of Al Gore.
Gore Jr. has been known to downplay his father’s opposition to the Civil Rights Act.

Sam Ervin, North Carolina senator

Richard Russell, famed Georgia senator and later President Pro Tempore

Similar historical neglect is given to the important role Republicans played in supporting the civil rights movement. A calculation of 26 major civil rights votes from 1933 through the 1960’s civil rights era shows that Republicans favored civil rights in approximately 96% of the votes, whereas the Democrats opposed them in 80% of the votes!

Democrat opposition to the Civil Rights Act was substantial a whopping 40% of House Democrats VOTED AGAINST the Civil Rights Act, while 80% of Republicans SUPPORTED it. Republican support in the Senate was even higher. Similar trends occurred with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was supported by 82% of House Republicans and 94% of Senate Republicans.

Sadly,revisionist historians have all but forgotten that it was Republican Dirksen, not the Democrats, who made the Civil Rights Act a reality. Dirksen also broke the Democrat filibuster of the 1957 Civil Rights Act that was signed by Republican President Eisenhower.

The three most notorious opponents of school integration were all Democrats:

George “segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever” Wallace standing in the door of an Alabama schoolhouse to keep black children from being able to go to school with whites?

- Lester Maddox, Democrat Governor of Georgia

The most famous of the school desegregation standoffs involved Governor Faubus. Democrat Faubus (one of Bill Clinton’s political heroes) used police and state forces to block the integration of a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. The standoff was settled and the school was integrated only after the intervention of Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Bull Connor turned water hoses and dogs on civil rights protestors. Bull Connor was a Democrat.

Even the Democrat Party organization resisted integration and refused to allow minority participation for decades. Exclusion of minorities was the general rule of the Democrat Party of many states for decades they prefered to have “white primaries”!

The Supreme Court in Nixon v. Herndon declared the practice of “white primaries” unconstitutional after states had passed laws barring Blacks from participating in Democrat primaries. But the Democrat Parties did not yield to the Court’s order. After Nixon v. Herndon, Democrats simply made rules within the party’s individual executive committees to bar minorities from participating, which were struck down in Nixon v. Condon. The Democrats,responded by using state parties to pass rules barring blacks from participation. This practice was actully upheld by the Supreme Court in Grovey v. Townsend, but was overturned by Smith v. Allwright. The Democrats responded with what was known as the “Jaybird system” which used private Democrat clubs to hold white-only votes on a slate of candidates, which were then transferred to the Democrat party itself and put on their primary ballot as the only choices. Terry v. Adams overturned the Jaybird system, prompting the Democrats to institute blocks of unit rule voting procedures as well as the infamous literacy tests and other Jim Crow regulations to specifically block minorities from participating in their primaries. In the end, it took 4 direct Supreme Court orders to end the Democrat’s “white primary” system, and after that it took countless additional orders, several acts of Congress, and a constitutional amendment to tear down the Jim Crow codes that preserved the Democrat’s white primary for decades beyond the final Supreme Court order ruling it officially unconstitutional.

The Democrat Party’s history during this century is one closely aligned to bigotry in a record stemming largely out of the liberal New Deal era up until the modern day. if the center of the Democrat party’s current leadership and role models are not bigots they do seem to act like bigots. And in a striking display of hypocrisy, many of the same Democrats who dishonestly shout accusations of “bigotry” at conservatives are practicing bigots of the most disgusting and disreputable kind themselves.

-Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Democrat icon
Orchestrated internment of Japanese but did not seem to be worried
about Germans and Italians (We were at war with their conties too) Perhaps Japanese did’t look “white enough”?

-Ex-House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, former affiliate of a St. Louis area racist group
- Ex-Senate President Pro Tempore Robert Byrd, former Ku Klux Klansman known for making bigoted slurs on national television
- Sen. Ernest Hollings, leading Democrat Senator known for use of racial slurs against several minority groups
- Lee P. Brown, former Clinton cabinet official and Democrat mayor of Houston who won reelection using racial intimidation against Hispanic voters
- Andrew Cuomo, former Clinton cabinet official and Democrat candidate for NY Governor who made racist statements about a black opponent.
- Dan Rather, Democrat CBS news anchor and editorialist known for using anti-black racial epithets on a national radio broadcast
- Donna Brazile, former Gore campaign manager known for making anti-white racial attacks. Brazile has also worked for Jackson, Gephardt, and Michael Dukakis

Who’s the only black American currently on the Supreme Court? Clarence Thomas. The first black Secretary of State? Colin Powell. The first black woman ever to be a Secretary of State? Condi Rice. All under Republican administrations.

Meanwhile, what do we see from Democrats? We see Oreo cookies being thrown at Maryland’s Michael Steele and black Republicans being called “Uncle Toms” and compared to “Aunt Jemima.”

A study by Stanford professor Iyengar on — how much government relief Democrats and Republicans believe people deserved to be given after Katrina — Democrats behaved in a racist fashion while Republicans didn’t:

“But for Democrats, race mattered — and in a disturbing way. Overall, Democrats were willing to give whites about $1,500 more than they chose to give to a black or other minority….” Republicans are likely to be more stringent, both in terms of money and time, Iyengar said. “However, their position is ‘principled’ in the sense that it stems from a strong belief in individualism (as opposed to handouts). Thus their responses to the assistance questions are relatively invariant across the different media conditions. Independents and Democrats, on the other hand, are more likely to be affected by racial cues.”

Reality Check: there are racists in both parties. But, there are a lot more of them in the Democratic Party always have been and seems to run deeper. Many Democrats have no problem with using racial discrimination for political purposes, they’ll support policies like reparations, Affirmative Action, and racial quotas that Republicans simply won’t. Then they deftly distort and exploit incidents like the Katrina rescue efforts to convince Americans that the GOP hates black Americans.

Given this evidence I would conclude that racism runs very deep indeed in the Democratic Party!

Godfather (theslowbleed.com)