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The next time Democrats take to the national airwaves to dishonestly accuse Republicans of racial hatred, remember who the historical record up until this very day points to as the real bigots: The Democrat Party.
In all possible ways, the Democrat Party is built around the pillars of ultra leftists, many of whom are known participants in racism and/or affiliates of racist hate groups. Consider the Democrat Party of today's heroes and leaders:
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Democrat icon and orchestrator of Japanese Internment.
- 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.
- Rev. Jesse Jackson,Democrat keynote speaker and race hustler known for making anti-Semitic slurs.
- Rev. Al Sharpten, Democrat activist and perennial candidate and race hustler known inciting anti-Semitic violence in New York City.
- 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.
The simple truth is that 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. Bigots are at the center of the Democrat party's current leadership and role models. 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.
A little known fact of history involves the heavy opposition to the civil rights movement by several prominent Democrats. Similar historical neglect is given to the important role Republicans played in supporting the civil rights movement.
Democrat Senators organized the record Senate filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Included among the organizers were several prominent and well known liberal Democrat standard bearers including:
- Robert Byrd, current senator from West Virginia
- 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 lie about his father's opposition to the Civil Rights Act.
- Sam Ervin, North Carolina senator of Watergate hearings fame
- Richard Russell, famed Georgia senator and later President Pro Tempore
The complete list of the 21 Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 includes Senators:
Hill and Sparkman of Alabama
- Fulbright and McClellan of Arkansas
- Holland and Smathers of Florida
- Russell and Talmadge of Georgia
- Ellender and Long of Louisiana
- Eastland and Stennis of Mississippi
- Ervin and Jordan of North Carolina
- Johnston and Thurmond of South Carolina
- Gore Sr. and Walters of Tennessee
- H. Byrd and Robertson of Virginia
- R. Byrd of West Virginia
Democrat opposition to the Civil Rights Act was substantial enough to literally split the party in two. A whopping 40% of the House Democrats VOTED AGAINST the Civil Rights Act, while 80% of Republicans SUPPORTED it.
http://www.congresslink.org/civil/cr22.html (broken link)
It took the hard work of Republican Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen and Republican Whip Thomas Kuchel to pass the Civil Rights Act (Dirksen was presented a civil rights accomplishment award for the year by the head of the NAACP in recognition of his efforts). Upon breaking the Democrat filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Republican Dirksen took to the Senate floor and exclaimed "The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!" (Full text of speech).
Sadly, Democrats and revisionist historians have all but forgotten (and intentionally so) that it was Republican Dirksen, not the divided 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.
Guess you like to live in the past - when ALL politicans were racist - well, almost all... Republican as well as Democrat...
I am absolutely positive, beyond any shed of a doubt, that if you took a poll today - in the American of today - not some distorted revisionist history view that you have - that Americans would OVERWHELMINGLY say that Republicans are far far more bigotted and racist than Democrats...
I know that eats at you - but tough!!! It's the truth - and all your rantings won't change that fact one iota..
That I am right was vindicated in both 2006 and 2008 - when Republicans got a very small portion of the minority vote.
Yup - you and a few diehard Neocons see otherwise - but who cares - you are so astronomically in the minority on this one - that I just sit back and laugh at the utter futility of your posting...
And disrespectful. I am willing to bet that the ignorant, disrespectful "protestors" that show up at soldiers funerals are Democrats.
Also, look at the debates. Who were the ones booing and running down the aisles, ripping their shirts open and screaming like animals caught in a trap, causing disruptions and making fools of themselves....they were all democrats. Oh and what is that they kept telling us? Obama supporters were "educated and upper class" ROFL. They sure act like it! LMFAO!
And disrespectful. I am willing to bet that the ignorant, disrespectful "protestors" that show up at soldiers funerals are Democrats.
Also, look at the debates. Who were the ones booing and running down the aisles, ripping their shirts open and screaming like animals caught in a trap, causing disruptions and making fools of themselves....they were all democrats. Oh and what is that they kept telling us? Obama supporters were "educated and upper class" ROFL. They sure act like it! LMFAO!
And disrespectful. I am willing to bet that the ignorant, disrespectful "protestors" that show up at soldiers funerals are Democrats.
Also, look at the debates. Who were the ones booing and running down the aisles, ripping their shirts open and screaming like animals caught in a trap, causing disruptions and making fools of themselves....they were all democrats. Oh and what is that they kept telling us? Obama supporters were "educated and upper class" ROFL. They sure act like it! LMFAO!
Thanks for the laugh ROFLMFAO!
So true...
Funny how not many of the left have ventured into this thread to post!
They want it to die quickly!
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