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Originally Posted by Guest
I have a couple of minor quibbles with your post, which I agree with in the main.
1. Your statement that the Republican party was created to end slavery is a bit overblown. In fact, in a letter to newspaperman Horace Greeley, President Lincoln stated that his sole purpose was to maintain the Union and that if that could be done without freeing any slaves, he was willing to do that. He also felt that after the slaves were freed they should be deported to some other country. He did not envision a racially integrated nation.
2. You neglected to mention that the 14th Amendment, granting citizenship to former slaves, passed with 94% Republican support and 0% (Zero) Democrat support.
3. When the Klan was organized, Democrat and former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest became Grand Wizard, claiming to be the Klan's national leader. The Klan murdered not only freed slaves but also Republicans in the South.
4. The order to racially integrate the military was made by President Truman, not President Eisenhower. It was done on July 26, 1948, by Executive Order 9981. What Eisenhower did do was use the 101st Airborne to enforce court orders to integrate Arkansas public schools.
5. The historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 would not have passed had it not been for manipulation of the rules in the Senate by Republican Leader Mike Mansfield who rushed the bill to the floor for a vote. When President Johnson signed the bill into law he gave the first Ceremonial Pen to Mansfield. He later explained to his daughter Lynda that he did this because the bill would not have passed without the Republicans. She mentioned it in a speech at the LBJ ranch a few years ago.
6. The ludicrous claim that the parties have "switched" on racism is claimed by Democrats who are ashamed of their party's record. They claim that the early Republicans were "liberal" and now the Democrats are "liberal" so there must have been a switch. Perhaps they should research the term "Dixiecrats."
I share the frustration of "Guest" regarding the general ignorance of our history throughout the country.
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Thanks for your post.
I had forgotten about Mike Mansfield's involvement in the civil rights passage.
I have calmed down a bit, but am just got weary of these uneducated, history disadvantaged people who post on here. I am weary of the posts claiming how Democrats are the saviors of the disadvantaged, which is ludicrious and so very untrue. I am weary of the calls of racism against all Republicans when the Democratic party was the poster children for racism until the Republican party was able to pass the civil rights bill.
I am also weary of the posters that are just intellectually unable to respond to others and have an discussion, and show their true character with the calls of "racists", "bigots" and references to white sheets (which their political party invented).
Thanks again for your post