Obama inflames race relations again, invokes slavery

[Bfgrn]

Without reason?

The Justice Department found that the Ferguson Police Department (FPD) engaged in a pattern or practice of conduct that violates the First, Fourth, and 14th Amendments of the Constitution.

Could it be that the police asked the blacks if they had warrants? (When 70% of those blacks pulled over did have warrants and 70% of the whites did not?)

Justice Department Announces Findings of Two Civil Rights Investigations in Ferguson Missouri OPA Department of Justice

Pattern and Practice Typography

Easy to make a sign, isn't it? If it's true, the blacks can comply and simply smile at the cop while they waste their time. No collar for them.

How enlightening...when confronted with REAL examples of government invasion of civil rights, privacy and Constitutional rights, you right wingers:

A) Dismiss it
B) ALWAYS side with government.

Note my post.

Yea, and I saw your first reply. Here are some very sound words of wisdom. See if you can understand what Jefferson is saying and what you should heed as a citizen.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson

 

[Jackson]

Could it be that the police asked the blacks if they had warrants? (When 70% of those blacks pulled over did have warrants and 70% of the whites did not?)

Justice Department Announces Findings of Two Civil Rights Investigations in Ferguson Missouri OPA Department of Justice

Pattern and Practice Typography

Easy to make a sign, isn't it? If it's true, the blacks can comply and simply smile at the cop while they waste their time. No collar for them.

How enlightening...when confronted with REAL examples of government invasion of civil rights, privacy and Constitutional rights, you right wingers:

A) Dismiss it
B) ALWAYS side with government.

Note my post.

Yea, and I saw your first reply. Here are some very sound words of wisdom. See if you can understand what Jefferson is saying and what you should heed as a citizen.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson

I think you may agree that in all but the extreme cases, both debating posters are right and wrong. Neither owns a 100% of the truth.

 

[Bfgrn]

Justice Department Announces Findings of Two Civil Rights Investigations in Ferguson Missouri OPA Department of Justice

Pattern and Practice Typography

Easy to make a sign, isn't it? If it's true, the blacks can comply and simply smile at the cop while they waste their time. No collar for them.

How enlightening...when confronted with REAL examples of government invasion of civil rights, privacy and Constitutional rights, you right wingers:

A) Dismiss it
B) ALWAYS side with government.

Note my post.

Yea, and I saw your first reply. Here are some very sound words of wisdom. See if you can understand what Jefferson is saying and what you should heed as a citizen.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson

I think you may agree that in all but the extreme cases, both debating posters are right and wrong. Neither owns a 100% of the truth.

No one owns 100% of the truth, but right and wrong are rarely debatable. Civil rights must apply to all. If not, none of our civil rights are safe. The powers police officers are given must not be abused, it is a trust that must not be broken.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners"
Albert Camus

"The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened."
President John F. Kennedy

 

[Bfgrn]

Municipal Court Practices
http://www.justice.gov/sites/defaul...03/04/ferguson_police_department_report_1.pdf
The court’s practices also impose unnecessary harm, overwhelmingly on African-American individuals, and run counter to public safety.

Most strikingly, the court issues municipal arrest warrants not on the basis of public safety needs, but rather as a routine response to missed court appearances and required fine payments. In 2013 alone, the court issued over 9,000 warrants on cases stemming in large part from minor violations such as parking infractions, traffic tickets, or housing code violations. Jail time would be considered far too harsh a penalty for the great majority of these code violations, yet Ferguson’s municipal court routinely issues warrants for people to be arrested and incarcerated for failing to timely pay related fines and fees. Under state law, a failure to appear in municipal court on a traffic charge involving a moving violation also results in a license suspension. Ferguson has made this penalty even more onerous by only allowing the suspension to be lifted after payment of an owed fine is made in full. Further, until recently, Ferguson also added charges, fines, and fees for each missed appearance and payment. Many pending cases still include such charges that were imposed before the court recently eliminated them, making it as difficult as before for people to resolve these cases.

The court imposes these severe penalties for missed appearances and payments even as several of the court’s practices create unnecessary barriers to resolving a municipal violation. The court often fails to provide clear and accurate information regarding a person’s charges or court obligations. And the court’s fine assessment procedures do not adequately provide for a defendant to seek a fine reduction on account of financial incapacity or to seek alternatives to payment such as community service. City and court officials have adhered to these court practices despite acknowledging their needlessly harmful consequences. In August 2013, for example, one City Councilmember wrote to the City Manager, the Mayor, and other City officials lamenting the lack of a community service option and noted the benefits of such a program, including that it would “keep those people that simply don’t have the money to pay their fines from constantly being arrested and going to jail, only to be released and do it all over again.”

Together, these court practices exacerbate the harm of Ferguson’s unconstitutional police practices. They impose a particular hardship upon Ferguson’s most vulnerable residents, especially upon those living in or near poverty. Minor offenses can generate crippling debts, result in jail time because of an inability to pay, and result in the loss of a driver’s license, employment, or housing.

We spoke, for example, with an African-American woman who has a still-pending case stemming from 2007, when, on a single occasion, she parked her car illegally. She received two citations and a $151 fine, plus fees. The woman, who experienced financial difficulties and periods of homelessness over several years, was charged with seven Failure to Appear offenses for missing court dates or fine payments on her parking tickets between 2007 and 2010. For each Failure to Appear, the court issued an arrest warrant and imposed new fines and fees. From 2007 to 2014, the woman was arrested twice, spent six days in jail, and paid $550 to the court for the events stemming from this single instance of illegal parking. Court records show that she twice attempted to make partial payments of $25 and $50, but the court returned those payments, refusing to accept anything less than payment in full. One of those payments was later accepted, but only after the court’s letter rejecting payment by money order was returned as undeliverable. This woman is now making regular payments on the fine. As of December 2014, over seven years later, despite initially owing a $151 fine and having already paid $550, she still owed $541.

 

[Bfgrn]

Racial Bias

Ferguson’s approach to law enforcement both reflects and reinforces racial bias, including stereotyping. The harms of Ferguson’s police and court practices are borne disproportionately by African Americans, and there is evidence that this is due in part to intentional discrimination on the basis of race.

Ferguson’s law enforcement practices overwhelmingly impact African Americans. Data collected by the Ferguson Police Department from 2012 to 2014 shows that African Americans account for 85% of vehicle stops, 90% of citations, and 93% of arrests made by FPD officers, despite comprising only 67% of Ferguson’s population. African Americans are more than twice as likely as white drivers to be searched during vehicle stops even after controlling for non-race based variables such as the reason the vehicle stop was initiated, but are found in possession of contraband 26% less often than white drivers, suggesting officers are impermissibly considering race as a factor when determining whether to search. African Americans are more likely to be cited and arrested following a stop regardless of why the stop was initiated and are more likely to receive multiple citations during a single incident. From 2012 to 2014, FPD issued four or more citations to African Americans on 73 occasions, but issued four or more citations to non-African Americans only twice. FPD appears to bring certain offenses almost exclusively against African Americans. For example, from 2011 to 2013, African Americans accounted for 95% of Manner of Walking in Roadway charges, and 94% of all Failure to Comply charges. Notably, with respect to speeding charges brought by FPD, the evidence shows not only that African Americans are represented at disproportionately high rates overall, but also that the disparate impact of FPD’s enforcement practices on African Americans is 48% larger when citations are issued not on the basis of radar or laser, but by some other method, such as the officer’s own visual assessment.

These disparities are also present in FPD’s use of force. Nearly 90% of documented force used by FPD officers was used against African Americans. In every canine bite incident for which racial information is available, the person bitten was African American.

Municipal court practices likewise cause disproportionate harm to African Americans. African Americans are 68% less likely than others to have their cases dismissed by the court, and are more likely to have their cases last longer and result in more required court encounters. African Americans are at least 50% more likely to have their cases lead to an arrest warrant, and accounted for 92% of cases in which an arrest warrant was issued by the Ferguson Municipal Court in 2013. Available data show that, of those actually arrested by FPD only because of an outstanding municipal warrant, 96% are African American.

Our investigation indicates that this disproportionate burden on African Americans cannot be explained by any difference in the rate at which people of different races violate the law. Rather, our investigation has revealed that these disparities occur, at least in part, because of unlawful bias against and stereotypes about African Americans. We have found substantial evidence of racial bias among police and court staff in Ferguson. For example, we discovered emails circulated by police supervisors and court staff that stereotype racial minorities as criminals, including one email that joked about an abortion by an African-American woman being a means of crime control.

City officials have frequently asserted that the harsh and disparate results of Ferguson’s law enforcement system do not indicate problems with police or court practices, but instead reflect a pervasive lack of “personal responsibility” among “certain segments” of the community. Our investigation has found that the practices about which area residents have complained are in fact unconstitutional and unduly harsh. But the City’s personal-responsibility refrain is telling: it reflects many of the same racial stereotypes found in the emails between police and court supervisors. This evidence of bias and stereotyping, together with evidence that Ferguson has long recognized but failed to correct the consistent racial disparities caused by its police and court practices, demonstrates that the discriminatory effects of Ferguson’s conduct are driven at least in part by discriminatory intent in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.

 

[Freewill]

the complaint by many is that in 1776 some of the founders owned slaves, which was the practice back then no matter how abhorrent today. But think about it, in less then 100 years from that time the Republican party rose up to end the Democrat party slavery. Apparently Obama and many others forget that part of history. White northern Republicans won freedom for blacks. White Republicans also started the NAACP to help blacks. All good came from the Republican party. That is why the democrats/liberals try so hard to reverse history.

 

[Stephanie]

SNIP:
POLL: Race Relations Worse Under Obama
3.7.2015
News
Rip Curl
987
poll found 39 percent believe relations between blacks and whites have gotten worse, not better, since Mr. Obama took office in January 2009. Just 15 percent say relations have improved. In an interesting finding, 45 percent of whites think relations have worsened while just 26 percent of blacks think so.

The survey of 1,000 adults was taken last month, before a Department of Justice report released this week found racial bias in the Ferguson, Mo., police department.

In remarks after the report was released, Obama said the type of racial bias in Ferguson is not isolated.

ALL of it here:
POLL Race Relations Worse Under Obama Truth Revolt

 

[SuperDemocrat]

Obama: ‘We’re the Slaves Who Built the White House’

"Look at our history. We are Lewis and Clark and Sacajawea, pioneers who braved the unfamiliar, followed by a stampede of farmers and miners, and entrepreneurs and hucksters. That’s our spirit. That’s who we are.

"We are Sojourner Truth and Fannie Lou Hamer, women who could do as much as any man and then some. And we’re Susan B. Anthony, who shook the system until the law reflected that truth. That is our character.

"We’re the immigrants who stowed away on ships to reach these shores, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free –- Holocaust survivors, Soviet defectors, the Lost Boys of Sudan. We’re the hopeful strivers who cross the Rio Grande because we want our kids to know a better life. That’s how we came to be. (Applause.)

"We’re the slaves who built the White House and the economy of the South. (Applause.) We’re the ranch hands and cowboys who opened up the West, and countless laborers who laid rail, and raised skyscrapers, and organized for workers’ rights.

"We’re the fresh-faced GIs who fought to liberate a continent. And we’re the Tuskeegee Airmen, and the Navajo code-talkers, and the Japanese Americans who fought for this country even as their own liberty had been denied.

"We’re the firefighters who rushed into those buildings on 9/11, the volunteers who signed up to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq. We’re the gay Americans whose blood ran in the streets of San Francisco and New York, just as blood ran down this bridge. (Applause.)

"We are storytellers, writers, poets, artists who abhor unfairness, and despise hypocrisy, and give voice to the voiceless, and tell truths that need to be told.


"We’re the inventors of gospel and jazz and blues, bluegrass and country, and hip-hop and rock and roll, and our very own sound with all the sweet sorrow and reckless joy of freedom.

"We are Jackie Robinson, enduring scorn and spiked cleats and pitches coming straight to his head, and stealing home in the World Series anyway. (Applause.)

"We are the people Langston Hughes wrote of who “build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how.” We are the people Emerson wrote of, “who for truth and honor’s sake stand fast and suffer long;” who are “never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

"That’s what America is. Not stock photos or airbrushed history, or feeble attempts to define some of us as more American than others. (Applause.) We respect the past, but we don’t pine for the past. We don’t fear the future; we grab for it. America is not some fragile thing. We are large, in the words of Whitman, containing multitudes. We are boisterous and diverse and full of energy, perpetually young in spirit. That’s why someone like John Lewis at the ripe old age of 25 could lead a mighty march."

Obama We re the Slaves Who Built the White House The Weekly Standard
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They will not stop. The democrats just will not stop using the grievance industry to gain power and advance their agenda. They just will not stop.

I wonder who Booker T's quote applies to today.......

As a democrat, I supported slavry back in 1860. I see no problem with it and I wish I can bring it back but we have so many of those Cotten pickers in our party that it's a dead issue. Did I tell you we opposed most civil rights legislation pushed in the fifties?

 

[Theowl32]

Obama: ‘We’re the Slaves Who Built the White House’

"Look at our history. We are Lewis and Clark and Sacajawea, pioneers who braved the unfamiliar, followed by a stampede of farmers and miners, and entrepreneurs and hucksters. That’s our spirit. That’s who we are.

"We are Sojourner Truth and Fannie Lou Hamer, women who could do as much as any man and then some. And we’re Susan B. Anthony, who shook the system until the law reflected that truth. That is our character.

"We’re the immigrants who stowed away on ships to reach these shores, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free –- Holocaust survivors, Soviet defectors, the Lost Boys of Sudan. We’re the hopeful strivers who cross the Rio Grande because we want our kids to know a better life. That’s how we came to be. (Applause.)

"We’re the slaves who built the White House and the economy of the South. (Applause.) We’re the ranch hands and cowboys who opened up the West, and countless laborers who laid rail, and raised skyscrapers, and organized for workers’ rights.

"We’re the fresh-faced GIs who fought to liberate a continent. And we’re the Tuskeegee Airmen, and the Navajo code-talkers, and the Japanese Americans who fought for this country even as their own liberty had been denied.

"We’re the firefighters who rushed into those buildings on 9/11, the volunteers who signed up to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq. We’re the gay Americans whose blood ran in the streets of San Francisco and New York, just as blood ran down this bridge. (Applause.)

"We are storytellers, writers, poets, artists who abhor unfairness, and despise hypocrisy, and give voice to the voiceless, and tell truths that need to be told.


"We’re the inventors of gospel and jazz and blues, bluegrass and country, and hip-hop and rock and roll, and our very own sound with all the sweet sorrow and reckless joy of freedom.

"We are Jackie Robinson, enduring scorn and spiked cleats and pitches coming straight to his head, and stealing home in the World Series anyway. (Applause.)

"We are the people Langston Hughes wrote of who “build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how.” We are the people Emerson wrote of, “who for truth and honor’s sake stand fast and suffer long;” who are “never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

"That’s what America is. Not stock photos or airbrushed history, or feeble attempts to define some of us as more American than others. (Applause.) We respect the past, but we don’t pine for the past. We don’t fear the future; we grab for it. America is not some fragile thing. We are large, in the words of Whitman, containing multitudes. We are boisterous and diverse and full of energy, perpetually young in spirit. That’s why someone like John Lewis at the ripe old age of 25 could lead a mighty march."

Obama We re the Slaves Who Built the White House The Weekly Standard
-------------------------------

They will not stop. The democrats just will not stop using the grievance industry to gain power and advance their agenda. They just will not stop.

I wonder who Booker T's quote applies to today.......

As a democrat, I supported slavry back in 1860. I see no problem with it and I wish I can bring it back but we have so many of those Cotten pickers in our party that it's a dead issue. Did I tell you we opposed most civil rights legislation pushed in the fifties?

Yeap you also claimed the republican president was a war monger and the liberation of the enslaved was not necessary.



Sound familiar?

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

I think there should be a poll. I would guess 90% of respondents would say race relations were better Jan. 19, 2009 than they are today.

and I would rightfully and correctly identify those responsible for any deterioration as white supremacist ignoramuses.....

LOL, Obama had nothing to do with it? "Gates" outlandish behavior , then calling his friend, Obama. Obama inserting himself in something that he had no business in; Trayvon Martin...same thing... he could be my son !; "African American Education Dept." Let's help educate the black kids damn the whites and Latinos; Michael Brown... a Ferguson matter.. brings in DOJ to help the Brown family get justice..what about the Wilson family? Sigh. This president and his buddy Holder have done their best to stir rage and hatred without reason.

Without reason?

The Justice Department found that the Ferguson Police Department (FPD) engaged in a pattern or practice of conduct that violates the First, Fourth, and 14th Amendments of the Constitution.

Could it be that the police asked the blacks if they had warrants? (When 70% of those blacks pulled over did have warrants and 70% of the whites did not?)

How would you like to be a Black citizen and have some white goon Police accuse you of being a pedophile , charge you with providing a false name[said his name was "Mike" instead of Michael"..lie with abandonment about what happened and the charges are dropped but you lose your job...t5hat is what the white PIG did in Ferguson ...I want to see that man's name exposed in the news for the bigot degenerate he is

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

[ Did I tell you we opposed most civil rights legislation pushed in the fifties?

In case you had not noticed smegma breath it is not 1950...its 2015 and the Repugnant party is meeting with white Supremacist...and the GOP is trying desperately to disenfranchise Blacks ....

Justice Ginsburg sees what motivates Texas' voter ID law .

The law's intent is "purposely discriminatory," Ginsburg concluded. Citing the U.S. District Court ruling that declared the Texas law unconstitutional, she observed that since 2000, Texas has become a majority-minority state. That gave its Legislature and governor "an evident motive to 'gain partisan advantage by suppressing'" the votes of blacks and Latinos.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Sorry bout that,

I don't really see anything in Obama's speech that seems intended to stir up racial hatred or tension. I just don't see it.

1. You need to open your stupid eyes then.



Regards,
SirJamesofTexas

Just look at the hate in his face while he was giving it.

You should wipe the shit off your upper lip wing nut....

 

[guno]

this is your democrat party that you VOTE FOR...

read and weep you sheep

 

[squeeze berry]

maybe the white police officers in Ferguson should get jobs elsewhere and let the African American community take care of themselves ?

there will be a utopia in Ferguson

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

Obama: ‘We’re the Slaves Who Built the White House’

"Look at our history. We are Lewis and Clark and Sacajawea, pioneers who braved the unfamiliar, followed by a stampede of farmers and miners, and entrepreneurs and hucksters. That’s our spirit. That’s who we are.

"We are Sojourner Truth and Fannie Lou Hamer, women who could do as much as any man and then some. And we’re Susan B. Anthony, who shook the system until the law reflected that truth. That is our character.

"We’re the immigrants who stowed away on ships to reach these shores, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free –- Holocaust survivors, Soviet defectors, the Lost Boys of Sudan. We’re the hopeful strivers who cross the Rio Grande because we want our kids to know a better life. That’s how we came to be. (Applause.)

"We’re the slaves who built the White House and the economy of the South. (Applause.) We’re the ranch hands and cowboys who opened up the West, and countless laborers who laid rail, and raised skyscrapers, and organized for workers’ rights.

"We’re the fresh-faced GIs who fought to liberate a continent. And we’re the Tuskeegee Airmen, and the Navajo code-talkers, and the Japanese Americans who fought for this country even as their own liberty had been denied.

"We’re the firefighters who rushed into those buildings on 9/11, the volunteers who signed up to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq. We’re the gay Americans whose blood ran in the streets of San Francisco and New York, just as blood ran down this bridge. (Applause.)

"We are storytellers, writers, poets, artists who abhor unfairness, and despise hypocrisy, and give voice to the voiceless, and tell truths that need to be told.


"We’re the inventors of gospel and jazz and blues, bluegrass and country, and hip-hop and rock and roll, and our very own sound with all the sweet sorrow and reckless joy of freedom.

"We are Jackie Robinson, enduring scorn and spiked cleats and pitches coming straight to his head, and stealing home in the World Series anyway. (Applause.)

"We are the people Langston Hughes wrote of who “build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how.” We are the people Emerson wrote of, “who for truth and honor’s sake stand fast and suffer long;” who are “never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

"That’s what America is. Not stock photos or airbrushed history, or feeble attempts to define some of us as more American than others. (Applause.) We respect the past, but we don’t pine for the past. We don’t fear the future; we grab for it. America is not some fragile thing. We are large, in the words of Whitman, containing multitudes. We are boisterous and diverse and full of energy, perpetually young in spirit. That’s why someone like John Lewis at the ripe old age of 25 could lead a mighty march."

Obama We re the Slaves Who Built the White House The Weekly Standard
-------------------------------

They will not stop. The democrats just will not stop using the grievance industry to gain power and advance their agenda. They just will not stop.

I wonder who Booker T's quote applies to today.......

Such is the nature of Evil.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

maybe the white police officers in Ferguson should get jobs elsewhere and let the African American community take care of themselves ?

there will be a utopia in Ferguson

They need an all Black Police force and Judges and clerks ...the whole Ferguson Government needs to be Black...

 

[squeeze berry]

maybe the white police officers in Ferguson should get jobs elsewhere and let the African American community take care of themselves ?

there will be a utopia in Ferguson

They need an all Black Police force and Judges and clerks ...the whole Ferguson Government needs to be Black...

yep, segregation

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

maybe the white police officers in Ferguson should get jobs elsewhere and let the African American community take care of themselves ?

there will be a utopia in Ferguson

They need an all Black Police force and Judges and clerks ...the whole Ferguson Government needs to be Black...

yep, segregation

yep get a taste of your medicine...the white people in Ferguson have proven they cannot be allowed in Government..they use it to manifest bigotry and economic exploitation...no whining white creep

 

[Bfgrn]

the complaint by many is that in 1776 some of the founders owned slaves, which was the practice back then no matter how abhorrent today. But think about it, in less then 100 years from that time the Republican party rose up to end the Democrat party slavery. Apparently Obama and many others forget that part of history. White northern Republicans won freedom for blacks. White Republicans also started the NAACP to help blacks. All good came from the Republican party. That is why the democrats/liberals try so hard to reverse history.

We have all made mistakes. But Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted on different scales. Better the occasional faults of a party living in the spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a party frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
President John F. Kennedy


Funny...on all the threads and posts that are authored every single day on this board, I never hear Republicans defend blacks or minorities...EVER. I hear them defend thugs with badges like Darren Wilson. I hear them defend government agencies that discriminate against blacks and minorities. I hear them defend travesties like the abuse of the Grand Jury system like the Darren Wilson case. I hear them defend unconstitutional laws like Arizona SB 1070 that invites rampant racial profiling against Latinos, Asian-Americans and others presumed to be "foreign" based on how they look or sound and authorize police to demand papers proving citizenship or immigration status from anyone they stop and suspect of being in the country unlawfully. Or the copycat profiling laws passed by Republican state houses in Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah.

But I never hear Republicans defend blacks, minorities or their constitutional rights...EVER.

As far as trying to reverse history...here are the FACTS...


Why Did the Democratic and Republican Parties Switch Platforms?

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. President and a Republican (left), and Franklin Roosevelt, the 32nd U.S. President and a Democrat. The Republican and Democratic parties effectively switched platforms between their presidencies.

During the 1860s, Republicans, who dominated northern states, orchestrated an ambitious expansion of federal power, helping to fund the transcontinental railroad, the state university system and the settlement of the West by homesteaders, and instating a national currency and protective tariff. Democrats, who dominated the South, opposed these measures. After the Civil War, Republicans passed laws that granted protections for African Americans and advanced social justice; again, Democrats largely opposed these expansions of power.

Sound like an alternate universe? Fast forward to 1936. Democratic president Franklin Roosevelt won reelection that year on the strength of the New Deal, a set of Depression-remedying reforms including regulation of financial institutions, founding of welfare and pension programs, infrastructure development and more. Roosevelt won in a landslide against Republican Alf Landon, who opposed these exercises of federal power.

So, sometime between the 1860s and 1936, the (Democratic) party of small government became the party of big government, and the (Republican) party of big government became rhetorically committed to curbing federal power.
more

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Obama: ‘We’re the Slaves Who Built the White House’

"Look at our history. We are Lewis and Clark and Sacajawea, pioneers who braved the unfamiliar, followed by a stampede of farmers and miners, and entrepreneurs and hucksters. That’s our spirit. That’s who we are.

"We are Sojourner Truth and Fannie Lou Hamer, women who could do as much as any man and then some. And we’re Susan B. Anthony, who shook the system until the law reflected that truth. That is our character.

"We’re the immigrants who stowed away on ships to reach these shores, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free –- Holocaust survivors, Soviet defectors, the Lost Boys of Sudan. We’re the hopeful strivers who cross the Rio Grande because we want our kids to know a better life. That’s how we came to be. (Applause.)

"We’re the slaves who built the White House and the economy of the South. (Applause.) We’re the ranch hands and cowboys who opened up the West, and countless laborers who laid rail, and raised skyscrapers, and organized for workers’ rights.

"We’re the fresh-faced GIs who fought to liberate a continent. And we’re the Tuskeegee Airmen, and the Navajo code-talkers, and the Japanese Americans who fought for this country even as their own liberty had been denied.

"We’re the firefighters who rushed into those buildings on 9/11, the volunteers who signed up to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq. We’re the gay Americans whose blood ran in the streets of San Francisco and New York, just as blood ran down this bridge. (Applause.)

"We are storytellers, writers, poets, artists who abhor unfairness, and despise hypocrisy, and give voice to the voiceless, and tell truths that need to be told.


"We’re the inventors of gospel and jazz and blues, bluegrass and country, and hip-hop and rock and roll, and our very own sound with all the sweet sorrow and reckless joy of freedom.

"We are Jackie Robinson, enduring scorn and spiked cleats and pitches coming straight to his head, and stealing home in the World Series anyway. (Applause.)

"We are the people Langston Hughes wrote of who “build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how.” We are the people Emerson wrote of, “who for truth and honor’s sake stand fast and suffer long;” who are “never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

"That’s what America is. Not stock photos or airbrushed history, or feeble attempts to define some of us as more American than others. (Applause.) We respect the past, but we don’t pine for the past. We don’t fear the future; we grab for it. America is not some fragile thing. We are large, in the words of Whitman, containing multitudes. We are boisterous and diverse and full of energy, perpetually young in spirit. That’s why someone like John Lewis at the ripe old age of 25 could lead a mighty march."

Obama We re the Slaves Who Built the White House The Weekly Standard
-------------------------------

They will not stop. The democrats just will not stop using the grievance industry to gain power and advance their agenda. They just will not stop.

I wonder who Booker T's quote applies to today.......

He shit all over 50 years of racial progress by good people working together.

He did. Obama setback race relations 60+ years.