Republicans..The real allies of African Americans

[daveman]

This post is accurate. Until blacks made strides toward actual equality in business, housing etc... about 40 years ago, the GOP was their best friend. Of course, once they started getting executive jobs, moving into white enighborhoods etc... the GOP becamse their political enemy but oh well.

In your head, perhaps, but not out here in the real world.

 

[daveman]

This post is accurate. Until blacks made strides toward actual equality in business, housing etc... about 40 years ago, the GOP was their best friend. Of course, once they started getting executive jobs, moving into white enighborhoods etc... the GOP becamse their political enemy but oh well.

Really? prove it

Be happy to. Google the votes on Affirmative Action, Urban Housing, equal pay, etc... and see which party voted overwhelmingly against.

Telling someone else to prove your point for you is a massive fail.

 

[Jroc]

This post is accurate. Until blacks made strides toward actual equality in business, housing etc... about 40 years ago, the GOP was their best friend. Of course, once they started getting executive jobs, moving into white enighborhoods etc... the GOP becamse their political enemy but oh well.

Really? prove it

Be happy to. Google the votes on Affirmative Action, Urban Housing, equal pay, etc... and see which party voted overwhelmingly against.

Affirmative action overall has not helped, "urban housing" come to Detroit and you'll see the "Urban housing"


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtXLzhbTz5E]Thomas Sowell: Before and After Affirmative Action - YouTube[/ame]

 

[daveman]

Really? prove it

Be happy to. Google the votes on Affirmative Action, Urban Housing, equal pay, etc... and see which party voted overwhelmingly against.

Affirmative action overall has not helped, "urban housing" come to Detroit and you'll see the "Urban housing"


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtXLzhbTz5E]Thomas Sowell: Before and After Affirmative Action - YouTube[/ame]

But they meant well, and felt good about themselves.

And of course, that's all that really matters.

 

[IndependntLogic]

Really? prove it

Be happy to. Google the votes on Affirmative Action, Urban Housing, equal pay, etc... and see which party voted overwhelmingly against.

Telling someone else to prove your point for you is a massive fail.

Oooh. I'm so distraught. I haven't done the research because it's beyond you guys to figure out whether the GOP has voted against things such as Affirmative Action, Equal pay etc...

BTW, I'm not saying that all those things are good or that I agree with them. Here, let me make this easier to figure out since you seem to be having a problem with this. Let's use simple evidence. People vote for who they think represents their interest best.

Now let me see. Hmmm. Which party has owned the minority vote since the 70's? Yeah. That would be hard to figure out.

 

[daveman]

Be happy to. Google the votes on Affirmative Action, Urban Housing, equal pay, etc... and see which party voted overwhelmingly against.

Telling someone else to prove your point for you is a massive fail.

Oooh. I'm so distraught. I haven't done the research because it's beyond you guys to figure out whether the GOP has voted against things such as Affirmative Action, Equal pay etc...

BTW, I'm not saying that all those things are good or that I agree with them. Here, let me make this easier to figure out since you seem to be having a problem with this. Let's use simple evidence. People vote for who they think represents their interest best.

Now let me see. Hmmm. Which party has owned the minority vote since the 70's? Yeah. That would be hard to figure out.

So, you fail -- and it's someone else's fault.

Yep, you're a leftist.

 

[rightwinger]

Correction: I got nothing that you'll accept.

Why do you want to keep black people dependent on the government?

II know why -- I just want to hear your version.

Let's look at the premise of this thread daveman

The claim is that african americans should flock to the Republican because you claim Democratic initiatives are not working

When I asked what Republicans have to offer, the best you could come up with was "Equal opportunity"

What equal opportunity is being offered by Republicans? The right to pay your own way to college without assistance? The right to try to get a low paying job and pay a babysitter $5 an hour? The equal opportunity to buy groceries and pay rents while you only make $7 an hour?

What equal opportunity are you offering?

Umm.. The premise of this thread is Republicans have done more to liberate and help blacks in this country then any Democrat propaganda machine can counter. Also the fact is that they should be looking at both parties for what they are, and have done and not simply listen to the bull the liberal Democrat race hustlers spew

Ok then.....

Can you identify what Republicans have done to make things better for black people? Once they abolish all those nasty liberal programs to help blacks, what are they going to replace them with?

Why should blacks consider republicans to be their allies?

 

[rightwinger]

Correction: I got nothing that you'll accept.

Why do you want to keep black people dependent on the government?

II know why -- I just want to hear your version.

Let's look at the premise of this thread daveman

The claim is that african americans should flock to the Republican because you claim Democratic initiatives are not working

When I asked what Republicans have to offer, the best you could come up with was "Equal opportunity"

What equal opportunity is being offered by Republicans? The right to pay your own way to college without assistance? The right to try to get a low paying job and pay a babysitter $5 an hour? The equal opportunity to buy groceries and pay rents while you only make $7 an hour?

What equal opportunity are you offering?

The insistence that blacks are capable of succeeding on their own without the help of white people.

Democrats don't believe that. They believe blacks are incapable of succeeding without the help of white liberals.

The soft bigotry of low expectations.

Just what I thought....

Republicans intend to remove all programs that help not just blacks but all poor people and say....."you are on your own......lift yourself up from poverty"

Find your own damn money to go to school, you get sick....that's your problem, can't afford rent or food to eat?.....suck it up

That is what passes for being an Allie to republicans

 

[daveman]

Let's look at the premise of this thread daveman

The claim is that african americans should flock to the Republican because you claim Democratic initiatives are not working

When I asked what Republicans have to offer, the best you could come up with was "Equal opportunity"

What equal opportunity is being offered by Republicans? The right to pay your own way to college without assistance? The right to try to get a low paying job and pay a babysitter $5 an hour? The equal opportunity to buy groceries and pay rents while you only make $7 an hour?

What equal opportunity are you offering?

The insistence that blacks are capable of succeeding on their own without the help of white people.

Democrats don't believe that. They believe blacks are incapable of succeeding without the help of white liberals.

The soft bigotry of low expectations.

Just what I thought....

Republicans intend to remove all programs that help not just blacks but all poor people and say....."you are on your own......lift yourself up from poverty"

Find your own damn money to go to school, you get sick....that's your problem, can't afford rent or food to eat?.....suck it up

That is what passes for being an Allie to republicans

So you think it's better to pat them on the head and treat them like children.

Basically, you're saying Democrats buy the black vote with government goodies.

On that, we agree.

 

[rightwinger]

The insistence that blacks are capable of succeeding on their own without the help of white people.

Democrats don't believe that. They believe blacks are incapable of succeeding without the help of white liberals.

The soft bigotry of low expectations.

Just what I thought....

Republicans intend to remove all programs that help not just blacks but all poor people and say....."you are on your own......lift yourself up from poverty"

Find your own damn money to go to school, you get sick....that's your problem, can't afford rent or food to eat?.....suck it up

That is what passes for being an Allie to republicans

So you think it's better to pat them on the head and treat them like children.

Basically, you're saying Democrats buy the black vote with government goodies.

On that, we agree.

Not at all Dave...I am proposing that you help people who need help

Your basic premise that not a single social program ever helped a single black person is a blatant lie.

Your premise that because some poor people become dependent on the government that all poor people depend on government is also a lie

The truth is that millions of Americans both black and white have used these programs to lift themselves out of poverty.

 

[daveman]

Just what I thought....

Republicans intend to remove all programs that help not just blacks but all poor people and say....."you are on your own......lift yourself up from poverty"

Find your own damn money to go to school, you get sick....that's your problem, can't afford rent or food to eat?.....suck it up

That is what passes for being an Allie to republicans

So you think it's better to pat them on the head and treat them like children.

Basically, you're saying Democrats buy the black vote with government goodies.

On that, we agree.

Not at all Dave...I am proposing that you help people who need help

Your basic premise that not a single social program ever helped a single black person is a blatant lie.

Your premise that because some poor people become dependent on the government that all poor people depend on government is also a lie

The truth is that millions of Americans both black and white have used these programs to lift themselves out of poverty.

You're saying I've said things I have not, in fact, said.

 

[rightwinger]

So you think it's better to pat them on the head and treat them like children.

Basically, you're saying Democrats buy the black vote with government goodies.

On that, we agree.

Not at all Dave...I am proposing that you help people who need help

Your basic premise that not a single social program ever helped a single black person is a blatant lie.

Your premise that because some poor people become dependent on the government that all poor people depend on government is also a lie

The truth is that millions of Americans both black and white have used these programs to lift themselves out of poverty.

You're saying I've said things I have not, in fact, said.

Well then....maybe you can enlighten us?

Have these liberal programs helped Americans (blacks included) or not?

 

[JakeStarkey]

Jroc continues to post a one-sided tortorous rendering of important issues. When he posts the whole environment of the event, then we can talk. But right now he is cheating with selective out-of-context material. Jroc continues to make no sensible or defensible point.

Counter it.

I don't have to because you have not met the burden as well as others here have demolished your out-of-context arguments.

Fail.

 

[daveman]

Not at all Dave...I am proposing that you help people who need help

Your basic premise that not a single social program ever helped a single black person is a blatant lie.

Your premise that because some poor people become dependent on the government that all poor people depend on government is also a lie

The truth is that millions of Americans both black and white have used these programs to lift themselves out of poverty.

You're saying I've said things I have not, in fact, said.

Well then....maybe you can enlighten us?

Have these liberal programs helped Americans (blacks included) or not?

Keeping people dependent on government is not helping them. A hand out, not a hand up, is not helping them. Giving a man a fish instead of teaching him to fish is not helping him.

But it does buy you votes. And that, of course, is the rationale behind Dem support of social programs: Buying votes with the taxpayers' money.

I have no problem with helping people who need help. I do have a problem with helping people who can support themselves but choose not to. According to the left, that makes me a terrible person.

 

[rightwinger]

You're saying I've said things I have not, in fact, said.

Well then....maybe you can enlighten us?

Have these liberal programs helped Americans (blacks included) or not?

Keeping people dependent on government is not helping them. A hand out, not a hand up, is not helping them. Giving a man a fish instead of teaching him to fish is not helping him.

But it does buy you votes. And that, of course, is the rationale behind Dem support of social programs: Buying votes with the taxpayers' money.

I have no problem with helping people who need help. I do have a problem with helping people who can support themselves but choose not to. According to the left, that makes me a terrible person.

Is providing low cost housing a handout or a hand up?
Is providing education and job training a handout?
Is providing healthcare and free lunches to poor children a handout?


What programs have the Republicans proposed that will teach poor people to fish?

 

[IndependntLogic]

Telling someone else to prove your point for you is a massive fail.

Oooh. I'm so distraught. I haven't done the research because it's beyond you guys to figure out whether the GOP has voted against things such as Affirmative Action, Equal pay etc...

BTW, I'm not saying that all those things are good or that I agree with them. Here, let me make this easier to figure out since you seem to be having a problem with this. Let's use simple evidence. People vote for who they think represents their interest best.

Now let me see. Hmmm. Which party has owned the minority vote since the 70's? Yeah. That would be hard to figure out.

So, you fail -- and it's someone else's fault.

Yep, you're a leftist.

LOL! No it's that I simply don't care.
If you're too stupid to figure out that the Dems have been the party of choice for minorities, I'm not particularly concerned with your definition of success or failure.

 

[Jroc]

Jroc continues to post a one-sided tortorous rendering of important issues. When he posts the whole environment of the event, then we can talk. But right now he is cheating with selective out-of-context material. Jroc continues to make no sensible or defensible point.

Counter it.

I don't have to because you have not met the burden as well as others here have demolished your out-of-context arguments.

Fail.

Your Lazyness is more like it. If you can't counter than don't bother to post becouse you waste my time.

 

[Jroc]

Oooh. I'm so distraught. I haven't done the research because it's beyond you guys to figure out whether the GOP has voted against things such as Affirmative Action, Equal pay etc...

BTW, I'm not saying that all those things are good or that I agree with them. Here, let me make this easier to figure out since you seem to be having a problem with this. Let's use simple evidence. People vote for who they think represents their interest best.

Now let me see. Hmmm. Which party has owned the minority vote since the 70's? Yeah. That would be hard to figure out.

So, you fail -- and it's someone else's fault.

Yep, you're a leftist.

LOL! No it's that I simply don't care.
If you're too stupid to figure out that the Dems have been the party of choice for minorities, I'm not particularly concerned with your definition of success or failure.

Which means absolutely nothing, give these same people a history test, they've been so brainwashed they'll tell you Lincoln was a democrat, which is why I started this thread a little history lesson for the libs

 

[LAfrique]

Historically Significant Black Experiences

Historical Points of Interest

1. One of the primary reasons the Republican Party came into existence was because of its opposition to the Democrat Party’s support and promoting of The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. This act repealed the Anti-Slavery Missouri Compromise Law. The Missouri Compromise was an attempt to halt the spread of slavery beyond a certain point in the Louisiana Territory.

2. In 1854 at Jackson, Michigan a group of men met to form a new political party and one of the primary things that they agreed on, was their opposition to slavery and in particular the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. So while the Democratic Party was feverishly fighting to preserve slavery, the Republicans were meeting in Jackson, Michigan to destroy it.

3. The first candidate the Republican selected was Col. John C. Fremont who ran against pro-slavery candidate, Democrat James Buchanan. Even though Fremont loss it is interesting to know that he was the Republicans first anti-slavery presidential candidate.

4. In 1858, Republican Abraham Lincoln faced Democrat Stephen Douglas in a race for U.S. Senate in Illinois. That campaign became famous for the Lincoln-Douglas debates, with Democrat Stephen Douglas defending slavery and Republican Abraham Lincoln opposing it.

5. Lincoln is quoted as saying in 1858 the following, “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe the government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” And it was with this attitude that Lincoln became the Republicans first elected president, in 1860.
6. Republican President Lincoln is quoted as saying the following to an Indiana Regiment: “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

7. After experiencing repeated defeats during the Civil War, Lincoln declared, “On many a defeated field there was a voice louder than the thundering of a cannon. It was the voice God, crying, “Let My People go.” We…came to believe it as a great and solemn command.

8. In response to what Lincoln believed to be a divine mandate on January 1, 1863, he issued an edict we commonly call, The Emancipation Proclamation. And even though this act did not free all slaves or solves the slave problem, it led to change for the slave population in this country. (It is said that Lincoln before his death said, “The central act of my administration, and the greatest even of the nineteenth century was the Emancipation Proclamation…
”
9. Two of the greatest fighters for the freedom of the slaves were two Republicans by the name of Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens. Lerone Bennett, Jr. the historian said this regarding these two men. “Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens educated Lincoln, and the country, to a policy of Black Emancipation.” To them, as much as to conservative Lincoln, black people owe their freedom.

10. Republicans Sumner and Stevens were responsible for three (3) amendments to the Constitution which freed black people from slavery, made them citizens with all the rights of all Americans and the right to vote. They did this even though the Democrats fought to prevent them from bringing these laws to pass.

11. Thaddeus Stevens also fought to give every freed slave forty acres of land and a mule, so that slaves could take care of their families

12. The dream of forty acres and a mule was destroyed when Lincoln was killed and his vice president, Andrew Johnson, a Democrat replaced Lincoln and said of Black people, “Black people were inferior to whites and unready for equal rights. So he worked to destroy much of what Republicans had worked and fought so hard for.

13. One of the greatest periods of freedom Blacks ever enjoyed in America was between 1867 and 1877. The Republican Party was responsible for this period of time, and many positive changes took place for Blacks during the time of the enforcement of a series of measures called, Reconstruction Acts. W.E. B. Dubois called this period the, “Mystic Years.”

14. Here are but a few things that happen during the Reconstruction period. A. Hiram Rhodes Revels (Republican) became the first Black in congress, holding the position of U.S. Senator B. Republican Joseph H. Rainey from South Carolina became the first member of the U.S. House of Representatives C. In 1875, Blanche Kelso Bruce of Mississippi was elected to U.S. Senate, the first black to serve a full term in the Senate. In 1871, he was appointed by Republican President James A. Garfield as Registrar of the U.S. Treasury.


15. During the Republican supported period called, Reconstruction, blacks held state offices throughout the South, they were superintendents of education. Black and White children went to school together, interracial marriages were common and we didn’t ride on the back of the bus. Black colleges like Howard, Fisk and Morehouse came into being.

16. The Democrats never accepted the Reconstruction Period, as the last word and they went about to take all these advancements back, through groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. Most klans men were Democrats. Lerone Bennett, Jr. says this about how the Democrats went about destroying the Reconstruction period. “By stealth and murder, by economic intimidation and political assassinations, by whippings and mamings, cuttings and shootings, by the knife, by the rope, by the whip. By the political use of terror, by the braining of the baby in its mothers arms, the slaying of the husband at his wife’s feet, the raping of the wife before her husbands’ eves. By fear….In every state, Democrats attempted to control the votes of their late slaves…and the Democrats succeeded in destroying the greatest time of freedom Blacks ever enjoyed in America.”


17. The great Black Republican abolitionist Frederick Douglass had this to say about the Democratic Party, “…Sir, it is evident that there is in this country a purely slavery party- a party which exists for no other earthly purpose than to promote the interests of slavery….For the present, the best representative of the slavery party in politics is the Democratic party.”

18. During the rebirth of the Civil Rights movement of the 50’s and 60’s the overwhelming number of governors who stood in their respective school doors to block blacks from attending their schools were Democrats such as, Alabama Democratic Governor George Wallace, who stood in the schoolhouse door, Georgia Democratic Governor Lester Maddox stood in his restaurant door with a pistol on his hip and men with ax handles stood behind him to block blacks from coming into his business, Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett declared he would stand against federal laws regarding integration, and then there is Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus who sent his national guard to prevent black children from entering Arkansas schools.

19. On September 25, 1957, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower in a record breaking time of a little over three weeks sent federal troops to Arkansas to ensure the safety of black children who were integrating Arkansas schools.

20. The passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would not have been possible without the strong cohesive support of the Republican. In fact, all Southern Democrats voted against the Civil Rights Act, including Al Gore, Sr. though President Lyndon Johnson was a Democrat he couldn’t get enough votes from his own party to pass civil rights laws, he needed the help of a willing Republican majority.

21. It is reported that over 4000 Ku Klux Klan killings took place during the terrible time of their reign of terror, but a better plan has been developed which eliminates over 400,000 black people every year, this plan has been so effective until Hispanics now out number Blacks in America. This effective gift of genocide comes from the Democratic Party supported practice called, Abortion.

Black History

While I am aware that no political ideology is without flaws, I know from my observation that the republican party, a sect of political conservatism, has a history of barbarism, a history of disdain for ideas not theirs and of the notion that only they should be entitled to benefits.

I live in Lone Star, the heart of US political conservatism, and know that republicans are very callous toward the poor, tough on crime when it involves the poor and are 10 times more likely to call the law (talk about not wanting big government!) on people for just about anything. I do not understand how a people so indifferent towards Black and so quick to send Blacks to death row and without solid evidence can be considered "allies" of Black or African Americans. Allies in what?

 

[Ava]

Historically Significant Black Experiences

Historical Points of Interest

1. One of the primary reasons the Republican Party came into existence was because of its opposition to the Democrat Party’s support and promoting of The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. This act repealed the Anti-Slavery Missouri Compromise Law. The Missouri Compromise was an attempt to halt the spread of slavery beyond a certain point in the Louisiana Territory.

2. In 1854 at Jackson, Michigan a group of men met to form a new political party and one of the primary things that they agreed on, was their opposition to slavery and in particular the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. So while the Democratic Party was feverishly fighting to preserve slavery, the Republicans were meeting in Jackson, Michigan to destroy it.

3. The first candidate the Republican selected was Col. John C. Fremont who ran against pro-slavery candidate, Democrat James Buchanan. Even though Fremont loss it is interesting to know that he was the Republicans first anti-slavery presidential candidate.

4. In 1858, Republican Abraham Lincoln faced Democrat Stephen Douglas in a race for U.S. Senate in Illinois. That campaign became famous for the Lincoln-Douglas debates, with Democrat Stephen Douglas defending slavery and Republican Abraham Lincoln opposing it.

5. Lincoln is quoted as saying in 1858 the following, “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe the government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” And it was with this attitude that Lincoln became the Republicans first elected president, in 1860.
6. Republican President Lincoln is quoted as saying the following to an Indiana Regiment: “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

7. After experiencing repeated defeats during the Civil War, Lincoln declared, “On many a defeated field there was a voice louder than the thundering of a cannon. It was the voice God, crying, “Let My People go.” We…came to believe it as a great and solemn command.

8. In response to what Lincoln believed to be a divine mandate on January 1, 1863, he issued an edict we commonly call, The Emancipation Proclamation. And even though this act did not free all slaves or solves the slave problem, it led to change for the slave population in this country. (It is said that Lincoln before his death said, “The central act of my administration, and the greatest even of the nineteenth century was the Emancipation Proclamation…
”
9. Two of the greatest fighters for the freedom of the slaves were two Republicans by the name of Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens. Lerone Bennett, Jr. the historian said this regarding these two men. “Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens educated Lincoln, and the country, to a policy of Black Emancipation.” To them, as much as to conservative Lincoln, black people owe their freedom.

10. Republicans Sumner and Stevens were responsible for three (3) amendments to the Constitution which freed black people from slavery, made them citizens with all the rights of all Americans and the right to vote. They did this even though the Democrats fought to prevent them from bringing these laws to pass.

11. Thaddeus Stevens also fought to give every freed slave forty acres of land and a mule, so that slaves could take care of their families

12. The dream of forty acres and a mule was destroyed when Lincoln was killed and his vice president, Andrew Johnson, a Democrat replaced Lincoln and said of Black people, “Black people were inferior to whites and unready for equal rights. So he worked to destroy much of what Republicans had worked and fought so hard for.

13. One of the greatest periods of freedom Blacks ever enjoyed in America was between 1867 and 1877. The Republican Party was responsible for this period of time, and many positive changes took place for Blacks during the time of the enforcement of a series of measures called, Reconstruction Acts. W.E. B. Dubois called this period the, “Mystic Years.”

14. Here are but a few things that happen during the Reconstruction period. A. Hiram Rhodes Revels (Republican) became the first Black in congress, holding the position of U.S. Senator B. Republican Joseph H. Rainey from South Carolina became the first member of the U.S. House of Representatives C. In 1875, Blanche Kelso Bruce of Mississippi was elected to U.S. Senate, the first black to serve a full term in the Senate. In 1871, he was appointed by Republican President James A. Garfield as Registrar of the U.S. Treasury.


15. During the Republican supported period called, Reconstruction, blacks held state offices throughout the South, they were superintendents of education. Black and White children went to school together, interracial marriages were common and we didn’t ride on the back of the bus. Black colleges like Howard, Fisk and Morehouse came into being.

16. The Democrats never accepted the Reconstruction Period, as the last word and they went about to take all these advancements back, through groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. Most klans men were Democrats. Lerone Bennett, Jr. says this about how the Democrats went about destroying the Reconstruction period. “By stealth and murder, by economic intimidation and political assassinations, by whippings and mamings, cuttings and shootings, by the knife, by the rope, by the whip. By the political use of terror, by the braining of the baby in its mothers arms, the slaying of the husband at his wife’s feet, the raping of the wife before her husbands’ eves. By fear….In every state, Democrats attempted to control the votes of their late slaves…and the Democrats succeeded in destroying the greatest time of freedom Blacks ever enjoyed in America.”


17. The great Black Republican abolitionist Frederick Douglass had this to say about the Democratic Party, “…Sir, it is evident that there is in this country a purely slavery party- a party which exists for no other earthly purpose than to promote the interests of slavery….For the present, the best representative of the slavery party in politics is the Democratic party.”

18. During the rebirth of the Civil Rights movement of the 50’s and 60’s the overwhelming number of governors who stood in their respective school doors to block blacks from attending their schools were Democrats such as, Alabama Democratic Governor George Wallace, who stood in the schoolhouse door, Georgia Democratic Governor Lester Maddox stood in his restaurant door with a pistol on his hip and men with ax handles stood behind him to block blacks from coming into his business, Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett declared he would stand against federal laws regarding integration, and then there is Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus who sent his national guard to prevent black children from entering Arkansas schools.

19. On September 25, 1957, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower in a record breaking time of a little over three weeks sent federal troops to Arkansas to ensure the safety of black children who were integrating Arkansas schools.

20. The passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would not have been possible without the strong cohesive support of the Republican. In fact, all Southern Democrats voted against the Civil Rights Act, including Al Gore, Sr. though President Lyndon Johnson was a Democrat he couldn’t get enough votes from his own party to pass civil rights laws, he needed the help of a willing Republican majority.

21. It is reported that over 4000 Ku Klux Klan killings took place during the terrible time of their reign of terror, but a better plan has been developed which eliminates over 400,000 black people every year, this plan has been so effective until Hispanics now out number Blacks in America. This effective gift of genocide comes from the Democratic Party supported practice called, Abortion.

Black History

LIBERALS, PROGRESSIVES and the ACLU have been the best friends of blacks

CONSERVATIVES have worked very hard to deny them rights and equality

From Fredick Douglass himself: ( a black slave with common sense and intelligence and knowledge of history: )

Three-Fifths Clause: Setting the Record Straight
By Bob Ellis on February 9th, 2011

Those on the Left who are always looking for a reason to hate America often go to the Three-Fifths Clause of the U.S. Constitution to make the claim that it is a racist document. However, their myopic approach completely ignores the context and reason for this provision in Article 1 Section 2.

The video below from historian David Barton’s “American History in Black and White” presentation provides that context and background, setting the record straight.

Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who became a leader in the abolitionist movement, was told by William Lloyd Garrison that the Constitution was a pro-slavery document. Douglass originally took Garrison at his word, but later investigated for himself and concluded that the Constitution was an anti-slavery document.

I was, on the anti-slavery question,…fully committed to (the) doctrine touching the pro-slavery character of the Constitution…I advocated it with pen and tongue, according to the best of my ability…Upon a reconsideration of the whole subject, I became convinced… that the Constitution of the United States not only contained no guarantees in favor of slavery, but on the contrary, it is in its letter and spirit an anti-slavery instrument, demanding the abolition of slavery as a condition of its own existence as the supreme law of the lad. Here was a radical change in my opinions…Brought directly, when I escaped from slavery, into contact with a class of abolitionists regarding the Constitution as a slaveholding instrument, it is not strange that I assumed the Constitution to be just what their interpretation made it…But I was now conducted to the conclusion that the Constitution of the United States was not designed to maintain and perpetuate a system of slavery – especially as not one word can be found in the Constitution to authorize such a belief.

The Three-Fifths Clause of Article 1 Section 2 deals only with representation, not the intrinsic worth of a person.

Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.

When we sat down to craft our constitution, many of the northern founders wanted to end slavery now that we were a new nation; we had not been permitted to end slavery while under the authority of the British crown. But the southern states, economically dependent on slavery for their agricultural system, refused to join a union of states where slavery was outlawed. The unity of our new country was hanging by a thread: deny the principles outlined in the Declaration of Independence and allow slavery…or uphold those principles and see the new nation fall apart at the start. The Three-Fifths Compromise was born out of this dilemma.

Said Gouverneur Morris:

Upon what principle is it that slaves shall be computed in the representation? Are they men? Then make them citizens and let them vote! But the admission of slaves into the representation comes to this: that the inhabitant of Georgia and South Carolina who goes to the coast of Africa and – in defiance of the most sacred laws of humanity – tears away his fellow creatures from their dearest connections and damns them to the most cruel bondage, shall have more votes in a government instituted for the protection of the rights of mankind than the citizen of Pennsylvania or New Jersey who views with a laudable horror so nefarious a practice.

Slaves made up a huge number of the population of the South, and southern states saw proportional representation as an opportunity to boost their number of seats in congress. But there was a serious logical and ethical problem with this idea: they were not treating slaves in a manner fitting for human beings. What the southern states wanted to do was akin to counting their cars as people to get more seats in congress.

The anti-slavery founders (such as John Adams, George Mason, Luther Martin, Elbridge Gerry, Gouverneur Morris, James Wilson, Benjamin Rush, Thomas Paine, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, Aaron Burr, and others) saw an opportunity to keep the nation together while providing an incentive to the southern states to do away with slavery. If the southern states freed their slaves, then each slave would go up in congressional representation value by two-fifths or 40%. And if the South refused, the northern states would theoretically hold the advantage in congress and thus hopefully end slavery legally that much quicker.

Evil clings tenaciously on, and it would eventually cost the lives of more than half a million Americans to end the institution of slavery in the United States.

America’s history has never been perfect–no people’s has–but from the beginning most of our founders recognized that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights. And the “better spirits” of our country would work tirelessly for generations and spill untold blood to see that these self-evident truths were realized for all Americans.