151 years ago today: Democrats founded and staffed the Ku Klux Klan

[JQPublic1]

You are confused by party titles. Look at the history of racism in this country and you will see that conservatives of BOTH major parties are guilty of it. Liberals and moderates of either party have been far more conciliatory in their approach to civl rights for all. When the KKK was started in 1865, the founders weren't US citizens or Democrats but they were still conservatives. If one is a conservative, he/she takes it with them wherever they go, even if they move out of or secede from the USA. But once you give up your US citizenship, any political partisan ties are lost. So the founders of the KKK were conservatives before they gave up their US citizenship and remained so after they regained it.

From that perspective, it is clear that the conservative ideology persists in virtually the same geographical areas it did before the Great Emancipation albeit party affiliation has changed.

Here is proof:

Which of these facts do you dispute, and why?

The Conservatives:

• Conservatives fought to expand slavery while Liberals fought to end it.
• Conservatives passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
• Conservatives supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
• Conservatives supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
• Conservatives supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
• Conservatives opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
• Conservatives fought against anti-lynching laws.
• Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a "Kleagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.
• Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
• Conservatives passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Liberals.
• Conservatives declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican liberal, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
• Conservative President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
• Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Conservative of Alabama.
• Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
• Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Liberal efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
• Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
• Conservative Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
• Conservatives supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
• Conservatives supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
• Conservative public safety commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
• Conservatives were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
• Conservative Georgia Governor Lester Maddox "brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
• Conservative Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
• Conservative Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
• Conservative Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
• Conservative President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
• Conservative President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
• Conservative President Bill Clinton's mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Conservative and a supporter of racial segregation.
• Conservative President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
• Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
• Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
• Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
• Southern Conservatives opposed desegregation and integration.

Conservatives opposed:

1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2. The 13th Amendment
3. The 14th Amendment
4. The 15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6. The Civil Rights of 1866
7. The Enforcement Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of 1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
    
11. The Civil Rights Act of 1957
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1960
13. The United State Civil Rights Commission

The Liberals:

• Liberals enacted civil rights laws in the 1950's and 1960's, over the objection of Conservatives.
• Liberals founded the HBCU's (Historical Black College's and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Conservatives.
• Liberals pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
• Liberals fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
• Liberals pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
• liberal Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
• liberal Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
• liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Conservative President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960's.
• liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
• liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
• Republican liberal and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.

So many accusations.

So little evidence or backup. As usual.

Ironic claim coming from the little girl who starts a whole thread with a lie.

So, tell us....how does it feel to be a part of the democrat party and their kkk?

How does it feel to be a naked konservative after I pulled the cover off their racist asses?

I'm not a kkk democrat, like you.....I'm good....

No you are a KKK Republican... you are good for nuthin'

 

[Syriusly]

You are confused by party titles. Look at the history of racism in this country and you will see that conservatives of BOTH major parties are guilty of it. Liberals and moderates of either party have been far more conciliatory in their approach to civl rights for all. When the KKK was started in 1865, the founders weren't US citizens or Democrats but they were still conservatives. If one is a conservative, he/she takes it with them wherever they go, even if they move out of or secede from the USA. But once you give up your US citizenship, any political partisan ties are lost. So the founders of the KKK were conservatives before they gave up their US citizenship and remained so after they regained it.

From that perspective, it is clear that the conservative ideology persists in virtually the same geographical areas it did before the Great Emancipation albeit party affiliation has changed.

Here is proof:

Which of these facts do you dispute, and why?

The Conservatives:

• Conservatives fought to expand slavery while Liberals fought to end it.
• Conservatives passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
• Conservatives supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
• Conservatives supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
• Conservatives supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
• Conservatives opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
• Conservatives fought against anti-lynching laws.
• Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a "Kleagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.
• Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
• Conservatives passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Liberals.
• Conservatives declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican liberal, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
• Conservative President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
• Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Conservative of Alabama.
• Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
• Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Liberal efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
• Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
• Conservative Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
• Conservatives supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
• Conservatives supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
• Conservative public safety commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
• Conservatives were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
• Conservative Georgia Governor Lester Maddox "brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
• Conservative Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
• Conservative Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
• Conservative Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
• Conservative President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
• Conservative President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
• Conservative President Bill Clinton's mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Conservative and a supporter of racial segregation.
• Conservative President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
• Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
• Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
• Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
• Southern Conservatives opposed desegregation and integration.

Conservatives opposed:

1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2. The 13th Amendment
3. The 14th Amendment
4. The 15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6. The Civil Rights of 1866
7. The Enforcement Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of 1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
    
11. The Civil Rights Act of 1957
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1960
13. The United State Civil Rights Commission

The Liberals:

• Liberals enacted civil rights laws in the 1950's and 1960's, over the objection of Conservatives.
• Liberals founded the HBCU's (Historical Black College's and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Conservatives.
• Liberals pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
• Liberals fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
• Liberals pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
• liberal Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
• liberal Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
• liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Conservative President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960's.
• liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
• liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
• Republican liberal and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.

So many accusations.

So little evidence or backup. As usual.

Ironic claim coming from the little girl who starts a whole thread with a lie.

So, tell us....how does it feel to be a part of the democrat party and their kkk?

How does it feel to be a naked konservative after I pulled the cover off their racist asses?

I'm not a kkk democrat, like you.....I'm good....

You are a good little Republican kkk klansman.

 

[Syriusly]

The Klan doesn't like democrats. And no I don't attend Trump rallies where KKK members and American Nazi factions can be found in abundance.

Democrats don't like anybody.....

You are confused by party titles. Look at the history of racism in this country and you will see that conservatives of BOTH major parties are guilty of it. Liberals and moderates of either party have been far more conciliatory in their approach to civl rights for all. When the KKK was started in 1865, the founders weren't US citizens or Democrats but they were still conservatives. If one is a conservative, he/she takes it with them wherever they go, even if they move out of or secede from the USA. But once you give up your US citizenship, any political partisan ties are lost. So the founders of the KKK were conservatives before they gave up their US citizenship and remained so after they regained it.

From that perspective, it is clear that the conservative ideology persists in virtually the same geographical areas it did before the Great Emancipation albeit party affiliation has changed.

Here is proof:

Which of these facts do you dispute, and why?

The Conservatives:

• Conservatives fought to expand slavery while Liberals fought to end it.
• Conservatives passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
• Conservatives supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
• Conservatives supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
• Conservatives supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
• Conservatives opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
• Conservatives fought against anti-lynching laws.
• Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a "Kleagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.
• Conservative Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
• Conservatives passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Liberals.
• Conservatives declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican liberal, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
• Conservative President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
• Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Conservative of Alabama.
• Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
• Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Liberal efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
• Conservative President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
• Conservative Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
• Conservatives supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
• Conservatives supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
• Conservative public safety commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
• Conservatives were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
• Conservative Georgia Governor Lester Maddox "brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
• Conservative Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
• Conservative Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
• Conservative Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
• Conservative President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
• Conservative President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
• Conservative President Bill Clinton's mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Conservative and a supporter of racial segregation.
• Conservative President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
• Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
• Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
• Conservative Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
• Southern Conservatives opposed desegregation and integration.

Conservatives opposed:

1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2. The 13th Amendment
3. The 14th Amendment
4. The 15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6. The Civil Rights of 1866
7. The Enforcement Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of 1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
    
11. The Civil Rights Act of 1957
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1960
13. The United State Civil Rights Commission

The Liberals:

• Liberals enacted civil rights laws in the 1950's and 1960's, over the objection of Conservatives.
• Liberals founded the HBCU's (Historical Black College's and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Conservatives.
• Liberals pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
• Liberals fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
• Liberals pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
• liberal Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
• liberal Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
• liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Conservative President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960's.
• liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
• liberal Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
• Republican liberal and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.

So many accusations.

So little evidence or backup. As usual.

Ironic claim coming from the little girl who starts a whole thread with a lie.

So, tell us....how does it feel to be a part of the democrat party and their kkk?

I feel great to be part of the Democratic Party- the party of Civil rights for the last 50 years.

How does it feel to be part of the Republican KKK- as Martin Luther King Jr. identified you?

 

[danielpalos]

Whose fault is it, that the South did not merely and simply, "harass the federal Judicature", for their States' right to Eminent Domain in Establishing federal Standards for the Union.

 

[paperview]

Democrats won decisive victories at the polls.

Indeed. Let's have a looksee about electing black democrats to congressional power. Power. Where it's at.

There were seven African Americans in Congress 1900 -1965
Oscar Stanton De Priest Republican Illinois 1929-1935
Arthur W. Mitchell Democrat Illinois 1935-1943
William L. Dawson Democrat Illinois 1943-1970
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Democrat New York 1945-1967, 1967-1971
Charles Diggs Democrat Michigan 1955-1980
Robert N.C. Nix, Sr. Democrat Pennsylvania 1958-1979
John Conyers Democrat Michigan 1965-present

All but one: Democrat. The Republican party as a whole used to be more liberal (take a look at party platforms before 1965)

We know since the about the mid sixties, the ideology shifted more and more Conservative - as a whole.

So how has that shaken out when it comes to which party elects blacks to positions of Power?

1965, to the present:

Edward Brooke Republican -Mass. 1967-1979
Bill Clay Democrat Missouri 1969-2001
Louis Stokes Democrat Ohio 1969-1999
Shirley Chisholm Democrat New York 1969-1983
George W. Collins Democrat Illinois 1970-1972
Ron Dellums Democrat California 1971-1998
Ralph Metcalfe Democrat Illinois 1971-1978
Parren Mitchell Democrat Maryland 1971-1987
Charles B. Rangel Democrat New York 1971-present
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke Democrat California 1973-1979
Cardiss Collins Democrat Illinois 1973-1997
Barbara Jordan Democrat Texas 1973-1979
Andrew Young Democrat Georgia 1973-1977
Harold Ford, Sr. Democrat Tennessee 1975-1997
Julian C. Dixon Democrat California 1979-2000
William H. Gray, III Democrat Pennsylvania 1979-1991
Mickey Leland Democrat Texas 1979-1989
Bennett M. Stewart Democrat Illinois 1979-1981
George W. Crockett, Jr. Democrat Michigan 1980-1991
Mervyn M. Dymally Democrat California 1981-1993
Gus Savage Democrat Illinois 1981-1993
Harold Washington Democrat Illinois 1981-1983
Katie Hall Democrat Indiana 1982-1985
Major Owens Democrat New York 1983-2007
Ed Towns Democrat New York 1983-present
Alan Wheat Democrat Missouri 1983-1995
Charles Hayes Democrat Illinois 1983-1993
Alton R. Waldon, Jr. Democrat New York 1986-1987
Mike Espy Democrat Mississippi 1987-1993
Floyd H. Flake Democrat New York 1987-1998
John Lewis Democrat Georgia 1987-present
Kweisi Mfume Democrat Maryland 1987-1996
Donald M. Payne Democrat New Jersey 1989-present
Craig Anthony Washington Democrat Texas 1989-1995
Barbara-Rose Collins Democrat Michigan 1991-1997
Gary Franks Republican Connecticut 1991-1997
William J. Jefferson Democrat Louisiana 1991-2009
Maxine Waters Democrat California 1991-present
Lucien E. Blackwell Democrat Pennsylvania 1991-1995
Eva M. Clayton Democrat North Carolina 1992-2003
Sanford Bishop Democrat Georgia 1993-presen
Carol Mosely Braun Democrat Illinois 1993-1999
Corrine Brown Democrat Florida 1993-present
Jim Clyburn Democrat South Carolina 1993-present
Cleo Fields Democrat Louisiana 1993-1997
Alcee Hastings Democrat Florida 1993-present
Earl Hilliard Democrat Alabama 1993-2003
Eddie Bernice Johnson Democrat Texas 1993-present
Cynthia McKinney Democrat Georgia 1993-2003, 2005-2007
Carrie P. Meek Democrat Florida 1993-2003
Mel Reynolds Democrat Illinois 1993-1995
Bobby Rush Democrat Illinois 1993-present
Robert C. Scott Democrat Virginia 1993-present
Walter Tucker Democrat California 1993-1995
Mel Watt Democrat North Carolina 1993-present
Albert Wynn Democrat Maryland 1993-2008
Bennie Thompson Democrat Mississippi 1993-present
Chaka Fattah Democrat Pennsylvania 1995-present
Sheila Jackson-Lee Democrat Texas 1995-present
J. C. Watts Republican Oklahoma 1995-2003
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democrat Illinois 1995-present
Juanita Millender-McDonald Democrat California 1996-2007
Elijah Cummings Democrat Maryland 1996-present
Julia Carson Democrat Indiana 1997-2007
Danny K. Davis Democrat Illinois 1997-present
Harold Ford, Jr. Democrat Tennessee 1997-2007
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick Democrat Michigan 1997-present
Gregory W. Meeks Democrat New York 1998-present
Barbara Lee Democrat California 1998-present
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Democrat Ohio 1999-2008
William Lacy Clay, Jr. Democrat Missouri 2001-present
Diane Watson Democrat California 2001-present
Frank Ballance Democrat North Carolina 2003-2004
Artur Davis Democrat Alabama 2003-present
Denise Majette Democrat Georgia 2003-2005
Kendrick Meek Democrat Florida 2003-present
David Scott Democrat Georgia 2003-present
G. K. Butterfield Democrat North Carolina 2004-present
Emanuel Cleaver Democrat Missouri 2005-present
Al Green Democrat Texas 2005-present
Gwen Moore Democrat Wisconsin 2005-present
Barack Obama Democrat -Illinois 2005-2008
Yvette D. Clarke Democrat New York 2007-present
Keith Ellison Democrat Minnesota 2007-present
Hank Johnson Democrat Georgia 2007-present
Laura Richardson Democrat California 2007-present
André Carson Democrat Indiana 2008-present
Donna Edwards Democrat Maryland 2008-present
Marcia Fudge Democrat Ohio 2008-present
Roland Burris Democrat -Illinois 2009-2010
Allen West Republican Florida 2011–2013
Hansen Clarke Democrat Michigan 2011–2013
Tim Scott Republican South Carolina 2011–2013, 2014-present
Cedric Richmond Democrat Louisiana 2011–present
Frederica Wilson Democrat Florida 2011–present
Karen Bass Democrat California 2011–present
Terri Sewell Democrat Alabama 2011–present
Donald Payne, Jr. Democrat New Jersey 2012–present
Hakeem Jeffries Democrat New York 2013–present
Joyce Beatty Democrat Ohio 2013–present
Steven Horsford Democrat Nevada 2013–2015
Robin Kelly Democrat Illinois 2013–present
Alma Adams Democrat North Carolina 2013–present
Will Hurd Republican Texas 2015–present
Brenda Lawrence Democrat Michigan 2015–present
Mia Love Republican Utah 2015–present
Bonnie Watson Coleman Democrat New Jersey 2015–present

By my count - 114 African Americans in Congress since 1900.

--> Eight republicans. The balance: 106 Democrats.

Let not forget- there is only one party which has both nominated- and elected an African American as President.

And all of these right wing nut jobs will never forgive the Democratic Party for that.

"Let not forget- there is only one party which has both nominated- and elected an African American as President."

Twice!

 

[Syriusly]

Democrats won decisive victories at the polls.

Indeed. Let's have a looksee about electing black democrats to congressional power. Power. Where it's at.

There were seven African Americans in Congress 1900 -1965
Oscar Stanton De Priest Republican Illinois 1929-1935
Arthur W. Mitchell Democrat Illinois 1935-1943
William L. Dawson Democrat Illinois 1943-1970
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Democrat New York 1945-1967, 1967-1971
Charles Diggs Democrat Michigan 1955-1980
Robert N.C. Nix, Sr. Democrat Pennsylvania 1958-1979
John Conyers Democrat Michigan 1965-present

All but one: Democrat. The Republican party as a whole used to be more liberal (take a look at party platforms before 1965)

We know since the about the mid sixties, the ideology shifted more and more Conservative - as a whole.

So how has that shaken out when it comes to which party elects blacks to positions of Power?

1965, to the present:

Edward Brooke Republican -Mass. 1967-1979
Bill Clay Democrat Missouri 1969-2001
Louis Stokes Democrat Ohio 1969-1999
Shirley Chisholm Democrat New York 1969-1983
George W. Collins Democrat Illinois 1970-1972
Ron Dellums Democrat California 1971-1998
Ralph Metcalfe Democrat Illinois 1971-1978
Parren Mitchell Democrat Maryland 1971-1987
Charles B. Rangel Democrat New York 1971-present
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke Democrat California 1973-1979
Cardiss Collins Democrat Illinois 1973-1997
Barbara Jordan Democrat Texas 1973-1979
Andrew Young Democrat Georgia 1973-1977
Harold Ford, Sr. Democrat Tennessee 1975-1997
Julian C. Dixon Democrat California 1979-2000
William H. Gray, III Democrat Pennsylvania 1979-1991
Mickey Leland Democrat Texas 1979-1989
Bennett M. Stewart Democrat Illinois 1979-1981
George W. Crockett, Jr. Democrat Michigan 1980-1991
Mervyn M. Dymally Democrat California 1981-1993
Gus Savage Democrat Illinois 1981-1993
Harold Washington Democrat Illinois 1981-1983
Katie Hall Democrat Indiana 1982-1985
Major Owens Democrat New York 1983-2007
Ed Towns Democrat New York 1983-present
Alan Wheat Democrat Missouri 1983-1995
Charles Hayes Democrat Illinois 1983-1993
Alton R. Waldon, Jr. Democrat New York 1986-1987
Mike Espy Democrat Mississippi 1987-1993
Floyd H. Flake Democrat New York 1987-1998
John Lewis Democrat Georgia 1987-present
Kweisi Mfume Democrat Maryland 1987-1996
Donald M. Payne Democrat New Jersey 1989-present
Craig Anthony Washington Democrat Texas 1989-1995
Barbara-Rose Collins Democrat Michigan 1991-1997
Gary Franks Republican Connecticut 1991-1997
William J. Jefferson Democrat Louisiana 1991-2009
Maxine Waters Democrat California 1991-present
Lucien E. Blackwell Democrat Pennsylvania 1991-1995
Eva M. Clayton Democrat North Carolina 1992-2003
Sanford Bishop Democrat Georgia 1993-presen
Carol Mosely Braun Democrat Illinois 1993-1999
Corrine Brown Democrat Florida 1993-present
Jim Clyburn Democrat South Carolina 1993-present
Cleo Fields Democrat Louisiana 1993-1997
Alcee Hastings Democrat Florida 1993-present
Earl Hilliard Democrat Alabama 1993-2003
Eddie Bernice Johnson Democrat Texas 1993-present
Cynthia McKinney Democrat Georgia 1993-2003, 2005-2007
Carrie P. Meek Democrat Florida 1993-2003
Mel Reynolds Democrat Illinois 1993-1995
Bobby Rush Democrat Illinois 1993-present
Robert C. Scott Democrat Virginia 1993-present
Walter Tucker Democrat California 1993-1995
Mel Watt Democrat North Carolina 1993-present
Albert Wynn Democrat Maryland 1993-2008
Bennie Thompson Democrat Mississippi 1993-present
Chaka Fattah Democrat Pennsylvania 1995-present
Sheila Jackson-Lee Democrat Texas 1995-present
J. C. Watts Republican Oklahoma 1995-2003
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democrat Illinois 1995-present
Juanita Millender-McDonald Democrat California 1996-2007
Elijah Cummings Democrat Maryland 1996-present
Julia Carson Democrat Indiana 1997-2007
Danny K. Davis Democrat Illinois 1997-present
Harold Ford, Jr. Democrat Tennessee 1997-2007
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick Democrat Michigan 1997-present
Gregory W. Meeks Democrat New York 1998-present
Barbara Lee Democrat California 1998-present
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Democrat Ohio 1999-2008
William Lacy Clay, Jr. Democrat Missouri 2001-present
Diane Watson Democrat California 2001-present
Frank Ballance Democrat North Carolina 2003-2004
Artur Davis Democrat Alabama 2003-present
Denise Majette Democrat Georgia 2003-2005
Kendrick Meek Democrat Florida 2003-present
David Scott Democrat Georgia 2003-present
G. K. Butterfield Democrat North Carolina 2004-present
Emanuel Cleaver Democrat Missouri 2005-present
Al Green Democrat Texas 2005-present
Gwen Moore Democrat Wisconsin 2005-present
Barack Obama Democrat -Illinois 2005-2008
Yvette D. Clarke Democrat New York 2007-present
Keith Ellison Democrat Minnesota 2007-present
Hank Johnson Democrat Georgia 2007-present
Laura Richardson Democrat California 2007-present
André Carson Democrat Indiana 2008-present
Donna Edwards Democrat Maryland 2008-present
Marcia Fudge Democrat Ohio 2008-present
Roland Burris Democrat -Illinois 2009-2010
Allen West Republican Florida 2011–2013
Hansen Clarke Democrat Michigan 2011–2013
Tim Scott Republican South Carolina 2011–2013, 2014-present
Cedric Richmond Democrat Louisiana 2011–present
Frederica Wilson Democrat Florida 2011–present
Karen Bass Democrat California 2011–present
Terri Sewell Democrat Alabama 2011–present
Donald Payne, Jr. Democrat New Jersey 2012–present
Hakeem Jeffries Democrat New York 2013–present
Joyce Beatty Democrat Ohio 2013–present
Steven Horsford Democrat Nevada 2013–2015
Robin Kelly Democrat Illinois 2013–present
Alma Adams Democrat North Carolina 2013–present
Will Hurd Republican Texas 2015–present
Brenda Lawrence Democrat Michigan 2015–present
Mia Love Republican Utah 2015–present
Bonnie Watson Coleman Democrat New Jersey 2015–present

By my count - 114 African Americans in Congress since 1900.

--> Eight republicans. The balance: 106 Democrats.

Let not forget- there is only one party which has both nominated- and elected an African American as President.

And all of these right wing nut jobs will never forgive the Democratic Party for that.

"Let not forget- there is only one party which has both nominated- and elected an African American as President."

Twice!

We all know that every one of these people trying to label the Democrats the party of the KKK was also deeply opposed to Barack Obama.

We also know that there is only one party that nominated 3 candidates for President who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act- and that is the Republican Party

Which is why they are trying to change the narrative to escape Martin Luther King's observation that the Republican Party became the party of the KKK- and the radical right- in 1964.

The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right[/

 

[GWV5903]

Are we truly suppose to believe that all the confederate Democratic party members in the south all moved to the northeast and all of the Northeast Republican party members and families all moved to the South?

So if this analogy has any merit then certainly you can name the Southern Conservative Democrats who changed parties and became Southern Conservative Republicans over this 150 year period...

Pogo tried but he was only able to name 12, all in this century. Remember there were over 1,500 elected to US and State offices...

 

[Pogo]

Are we truly suppose to believe that all the confederate Democratic party members in the south all moved to the northeast and all of the Northeast Republican party members and families all moved to the South?

So if this analogy has any merit then certainly you can name the Southern Conservative Democrats who changed parties and became Southern Conservative Republicans over this 150 year period...

Pogo tried but he was only able to name 12, all in this century. Remember there were over 1,500 elected to US and State offices...

You are truly a fucking moron.

*NOBODY* --- anywhere, ever --- claimed that Democrats were changing parties for 150 years.

I called some off the top of my head --- which were ALL post-Thurmond.

 

[GWV5903]

"Let not forget- there is only one party which has both nominated- and elected an African American as President."

Twice!

And since his election the Democrats have lost how many state and federal offices? He has been a nice motivator for the working class, why did those Democrats vote for Trump again?

I think its clear his self infatuation will keep him front and center for sometime to come, we can only hope!

Hell the Michelle 2020 rumor is the best news the Republicans could hear, if you thought Hillary was not well liked, try running Michelle...

 

[GWV5903]

You are truly a fucking moron.

Oh No! The Keyboard Commando again! Can you wipe the spit or probably tobacco off of your screen? Its okay, the USMB Temper Tantrum Award is still yours, in this you have few competitors...

*NOBODY* --- anywhere, ever --- claimed that Democrats were changing parties for 150 years.

Well I would agree, that's been the point, but its hard for you to grasp...

I called some off the top of my head --- which were ALL post-Thurmond.

And you can't add to them either...

 

[Pogo]

You are truly a fucking moron.

Oh No! The Keyboard Commando again! Can you wipe the spit or probably tobacco off of your screen? Its okay, the USMB Temper Tantrum Award is still yours, in this you have few competitors...

*NOBODY* --- anywhere, ever --- claimed that Democrats were changing parties for 150 years.

Well I would agree, that's been the point, but its hard for you to grasp...

I called some off the top of my head --- which were ALL post-Thurmond.

And you can't add to them either...

I don't need to 'add to them' Gummo, nor was I even posting to you at the time.
It's a point nobody made in a topic that's not about party shifting.

that's been the point, but its hard for you to grasp...

NOBODY'S BEEN CLAIMING THAT BUT YOU, Twinkletoes. So nobody owes you jack shit.

 

[GWV5903]

NOBODY'S BEEN CLAIMING THAT BUT YOU, Twinkletoes. So nobody owes you jack shit.

Is that you Pogo dying for more attention??? Oh wait you're going to

or continue to ...

Liberal Logic at its finest victim to the end, but most of you are

...

 

[Little-Acorn]

A greater percentage of Republicans, in both the House and Senate, voted for the Civil Rights Act, than the percentage of Democrats.

House Democrats: 152-–96 (61%-39%)
House Republicans: 138–-34 (80%–20%)

Senate Democrats: 46-21 (69%-31%)
Senate Republicans: 27-6 (82%-18%)

Even though Democrats were in the majority in both houses, they would not have been able to pass it at all, unless such large majorities of Republicans also voted to pass. Fortunately the Republicans came through and saved the bill from the defeat Democrats alone would have given it.

Democrats have always supported racism. From their founding of the KKK, to their current majority membership in it, to the majority support of racist legislation in Congress even today.

If I were a Democrat, I'd try to fake as many excuses for not associating racism with Democrats as I could, just as the leftists in this thread do. The truth is just too painful for Democrats... as usual.

 

[Pogo]

A greater percentage of Republicans, in both the House and Senate, voted for the Civil Rights Act, than the percentage of Democrats.

House Democrats: 152-–96 (61%-39%)
House Republicans: 138–-34 (80%–20%)

Senate Democrats: 46-21 (69%-31%)
Senate Republicans: 27-6 (82%-18%)

Even though Democrats were in the majority in both houses, they would not have been able to pass it at all, unless such large majorities of Republicans also voted to pass. Fortunately the Republicans came through and saved the bill from the defeat Democrats alone would have given it.

Democrats have always supported racism. From their founding of the KKK, to their current majority membership in it, to the majority support of racist legislation in Congress even today.

If I were a Democrat, I'd try to fake as many excuses for not associating racism with Democrats as I could, just as the leftists in this thread do. The truth is just too painful for Democrats... as usual.

Echobubbler posts the same mythology for the sixth time, gets same result:

>> 80% of Republicans in the House and Senate voted for the bill. Less than 70% of Democrats did. Indeed, Minority Leader Republican Everett Dirksen led the fight to end the filibuster. Meanwhile, Democrats such as Richard Russell of Georgia and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina tried as hard as they could to sustain a filibuster.

Of course, it was also Democrats who helped usher the bill through the House, Senate, and ultimately a Democratic president who signed it into law. The bill wouldn't have passed without the support of Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana, a Democrat. Majority Whip Hubert Humphrey, who basically split the Democratic party in two with his 1948 Democratic National Convention speech calling for equal rights for all, kept tabs on individual members to ensure the bill had the numbers to overcome the filibuster.

Put another way, party affiliation seems to be somewhat predictive, but something seems to be missing. So, what factor did best predicting voting?

You don't need to know too much history to understand that the South from the civil war to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 tended to be opposed to minority rights. This factor was separate from party identification or ideology. We can easily control for this variable by breaking up the voting by those states that were part of the confederacy and those that were not.​

You can see that geography was far more predictive of voting coalitions on the Civil Rights than party affiliation. What linked Dirksen and Mansfield was the fact that they weren't from the south. In fact, 90% of members of Congress from states (or territories) that were part of the Union voted in favor of the act, while less than 10% of members of Congress from the old Confederate states voted for it. This 80pt difference between regions is far greater than the 15pt difference between parties.

But what happens when we control for both party affiliation and region? As Sean Trende noted earlier this year, "sometimes relationships become apparent only after you control for other factors".​

In this case, it becomes clear that Democrats in the north and the south were more likely to vote for the bill than Republicans in the north and south respectively. This difference in both houses is statistically significant with over 95% confidence. It just so happened southerners made up a larger percentage of the Democratic than Republican caucus, which created the initial impression than Republicans were more in favor of the act.

Nearly 100% of Union state Democrats supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act compared to 85% of Republicans. None of the southern Republicans voted for the bill, while a small percentage of southern Democrats did.


The same pattern holds true when looking at ideology instead of party affiliation. The folks over at Voteview.com, who created DW-nominate scores to measure the ideology of congressmen and senators, found that the more liberal a congressman or senator was the more likely he would vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, once one controlled for a factor closely linked to geography.

... Thus, it seems to me that minorities have a pretty good idea of what they are doing when joining the Democratic party. They recognize that the Democratic party of today looks and sounds a lot more like the Democratic party of the North that with near unity passed the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 than the southern Democrats of the era who blocked it, and today would, like Strom Thurmond, likely be Republicans. << --- Republicans the Party of Civil Rights?
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As we keep saying and have from the beginning ---- the South was and is conservative. That holds regardless whether they're Democrats, Republicans, Whigs, Constitutional Unionists, American Independents, Know Nothings or anything else. It's what we call a 'constant'.

You can play the Bullshit Numbers Game all you like but the quantifiable fact remains:

The original House version:

• Southern Democrats: 7–87 (7–93%)
• Southern Republicans: 0–10 (0–100%)
• >>> ALL SOUTHERNERS: 7-97 (6.7%--93.3%)

• Non-Southern Democrats: 145–9 (94 – 6%)
• Non-Southern Republicans: 138–24 (85 – 15%)
• >>> ALL NON-SOUTHERNERS: 283-33 (89.6%--11.4%)

The Senate version:

• Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5–95%)
• Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0–100%)
• Non-Southern Democrats: 45–1 (98–2%)
• Non-Southern Republicans: 27–5 (84–16%)
• ALL SOUTHERNERS: 1--21 (4.5%--95.5%)
• ALL NON-SOUTHERNERS: 72--6 (92.3%--7.7%)

Them's the numbers in the real world, recorded by history And there's nothing in the world you can do to change that.

 

[Syriusly]

A greater percentage of Republicans, in both the House and Senate, voted for the Civil Rights Act, than the percentage of Democrats.

House Democrats: 152-–96 (61%-39%)
House Republicans: 138–-34 (80%–20%)

Senate Democrats: 46-21 (69%-31%)
Senate Republicans: 27-6 (82%-18%)

Even though Democrats were in the majority in both houses, they would not have been able to pass it at all, unless such large majorities of Republicans also voted to pass. Fortunately the Republicans came through and saved the bill from the defeat Democrats alone would have given it.

Democrats have always supported racism. From their founding of the KKK, to their current majority membership in it, to the majority support of racist legislation in Congress even today.

If I were a Democrat, I'd try to fake as many excuses for not associating racism with Democrats as I could, just as the leftists in this thread do. The truth is just too painful for Democrats... as usual.

As Martin Luther King Jr. notes- the Republicans became the party of the KKK in 1964

Democrats are responsible for the passage of the three most significant Civil Rights Bills in the last 100 years- we gladly accept that responsibility.

Democrats proposed, pushed through, and voted in the majority for, and signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Democrats proposed, pushed through Congress, voted in a majority for and signed the Voting Rights Act.

Democrats proposed, pushed through Congress, voted in a majority for and signed the 1968 Civil Rights Act.

Republicans nominated for President the man who voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Republicans elected Ronald Reagan- who opposed all three Civil Rights acts.
Republicans elected George Bush- who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

What we are seeing from you- is the typical Right Wing nut attempt to re-write history.

And that brings us back to the words of Martin Luther King Jr.

The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right.

 

[Little-Acorn]

The KKK was founded by ex Confederate soldiers, all hard core extremist conservative racists.

As usual, so many assertions, so little supporting evidence or references.

The poor little liberals are trying as hard as they can to obscure the fact that Democrats overwhelmingly joined and supported the Ku Klux Klan, for the purpose of keeping black people down. These are the same Democrats who enact legislation today based on the idea that black people and other minorities can't make it without government "help", while they pass no such legislation for whites.

And they keep lying desperately about their party's responsibility for maintaining slavery as Republicans fought a war to eliminate it.

Poor little liberals. Too many people know the truth about them, so many that they merely look like the liars they are when they try to deny it.

Close the thread, mods.

And as usual, they are desperate to prevent anyone from discussing it.

 

[JakeStarkey]

151 years later they are all in the Far and Alt Right, primarily Republicans when they vote.

 

[Pogo]

The poor little liberals are trying as hard as they can to obscure the fact that Democrats overwhelmingly joined and supported the Ku Klux Klan, for the purpose of keeping black people down

STILL unmitigated horseshit.

The founding of the Klan is documented. I've spelled it out, even in tiny little fourth-grade words, fifty times here. So did your OP article, which you've apparently abandoned after it finally sunk in that it was working against your myth.

Again, I've given you specific names of the six ex-Confederate veterans who founded the original one --- as a fraternal social club, PLUS the ex-minister/salesman who re-founded it. I gave you names, places, dates, even the exact address of the building. NOWHERE is there any evidence of any political affiliation or activity on the part of *ANY* of them. Not a single one.

And there's fuck-all you can do about that.

Fatter o' mact ----- the very next post is going to demonstrate this abject futility.

Take it Poopoo.

 

[Unkotare]

Note the scumbag in the upper right-hand corner.

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[GWV5903]

Note the scumbag in the upper right-hand corner.

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Don't confuse Pogo anymore, he's close to going into orbit...