To educate blacks who are Democrat sheep.

[aqwertyuiop]

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16500

It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.

It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950s and 1960s.

During the civil rights era of the 1960s, Dr. King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the school house doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose vicious dogs. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools. President Eisenhower also appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation. Much is made of Democrat President Harry Truman's issuing an Executive Order in 1948 to desegregate the military. Not mentioned is the fact that it was Eisenhower who actually took action to effectively end segregation in the military.


Democrat President John F. Kennedy is lauded as a proponent of civil rights. However, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Sen. Al Gore Sr. And after he became President, Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph, who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King.

In March of 1968, while referring to Dr. King's leaving Memphis, Tenn., after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd (W.Va.), a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble is ignited. A few weeks later, Dr. King returned to Memphis and was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

Given the circumstances of that era, it is understandable why Dr. King was a Republican. It was the Republicans who fought to free blacks from slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment). Republicans passed the civil rights laws of the 1860s, including the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 that was designed to establish a new government system in the Democrat-controlled South, one that was fair to blacks. Republicans also started the NAACP and affirmative action with Republican President Richard Nixon's 1969 Philadelphia Plan (crafted by black Republican Art Fletcher) that set the nation's fist goals and timetables. Although affirmative action now has been turned by the Democrats into an unfair quota system, affirmative action was begun by Nixon to counter the harm caused to blacks when Democrat President Woodrow Wilson in 1912 kicked all of the blacks out of federal government jobs.

Few black Americans know that it was Republicans who founded the Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Unknown also is the fact that Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen from Illinois was key to the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964 and 1965. Not mentioned in recent media stories about extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is the fact that Dirksen wrote the language for the bill. Dirksen also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing. President Lyndon Johnson could not have achieved passage of civil rights legislation without the support of Republicans.

Critics of Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater, who ran for President against Johnson in 1964, ignore the fact that Goldwater wanted to force the Democrats in the South to stop passing discriminatory laws and thus end the need to continuously enact federal civil rights legislation.

Those who wrongly criticize Goldwater also ignore the fact that Johnson, in his 4,500 State of the Union Address delivered on Jan. 4, 1965, mentioned scores of topics for federal action, but only 35 words were devoted to civil rights. He did not mention one word about voting rights. Then in 1967, showing his anger with Dr. King's protest against the Vietnam War, Johnson referred to Dr. King as "that Nigger preacher."

Contrary to the false assertions by Democrats, the racist "Dixiecrats" did not all migrate to the Republican Party. "Dixiecrats" declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican because the Republican Party was know as the party for blacks. Today, some of those "Dixiecrats" continue their political careers as Democrats, including Robert Byrd, who is well known for having been a "Keagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.

Another former "Dixiecrat" is former Democrat Sen. Ernest Hollings, who put up the Confederate flag over the state Capitol when he was the governor of South Carolina. There was no public outcry when Democrat Sen. Christopher Dodd praised Byrd as someone who would have been "a great senator for any moment," including the Civil War. Yet Democrats denounced then-Senate GOP leader Trent Lott for his remarks about Sen. Strom Thurmond (R.-S.C.). Thurmond was never in the Ku Klux Klan and defended blacks against lynching and the discriminatory poll taxes imposed on blacks by Democrats. If Byrd and Thurmond were alive during the Civil War, and Byrd had his way, Thurmond would have been lynched.

The 30-year odyssey of the South switching to the Republican Party began in the 1970s with President Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy," which was an effort on the part of Nixon to get Christians in the South to stop voting for Democrats who did not share their values and were still discriminating against their fellow Christians who happened to be black. Georgia did not switch until 2002, and some Southern states, including Louisiana, are still controlled by Democrats.

Today, Democrats, in pursuit of their socialist agenda, are fighting to keep blacks poor, angry and voting for Democrats. Examples of how egregiously Democrats act to keep blacks in poverty are numerous.

After wrongly convincing black Americans that a minimum wage increase was a good thing, the Democrats on August 3 kept their promise and killed the minimum wage bill passed by House Republicans on July 29. The blockage of the minimum wage bill was the second time in as many years that Democrats stuck a legislative finger in the eye of black Americans. Senate Democrats on April 1, 2004, blocked passage of a bill to renew the 1996 welfare reform law that was pushed by Republicans and vetoed twice by President Clinton before he finally signed it. Since the welfare reform law expired in September 2002, Congress had passed six extensions, and the latest expired on June 30, 2004. Opposed by the Democrats are school choice opportunity scholarships that would help black children get out of failing schools and Social Security reform, even though blacks on average lose $10,000 in the current system because of a shorter life expectancy than whites (72.2 years for blacks vs. 77.5 years for whites).

Democrats have been running our inner-cities for the past 30 to 40 years, and blacks are still complaining about the same problems. More than $7 trillion dollars have been spent on poverty programs since Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty with little, if any, impact on poverty. Diabolically, every election cycle, Democrats blame Republicans for the deplorable conditions in the inner-cities, then incite blacks to cast a protest vote against Republicans.

In order to break the Democrats' stranglehold on the black vote and free black Americans from the Democrat Party's economic plantation, we must shed the light of truth on the Democrats. We must demonstrate that the Democrat Party policies of socialism and dependency on government handouts offer the pathway to poverty, while Republican Party principles of hard work, personal responsibility, getting a good education and ownership of homes and small businesses offer the pathway to prosperity.

 

[badbabysitter]

Waits patiently for the trolls arguement to be slaughtered....

 

[RightField]

Wow. Interesting perspective.

 

[KingOrfeo]

OK, basic American political-history lesson:

When the Republican Party was formed in 1854, it was considered radical for its time. I recall a political cartoon from 1860: Lincoln is leading his followers into the Promised Land of Republican rule and asks them what they want. A black says, "White people got no rights a collu'd person is bound to respeck, I jes' wants that understood." A person of unclear sex says, "I am a follower of Free Love and would like to be able to practice my beliefs." A shiftless-looking fellow says, "I'd like a hostelry where feller's who ain't inclined to work can be found in whiskey and terbacky." Probably not a fair representation of Republican views even then, but it says something that critics felt able to lampoon the party in those terms.

But institutions can change their nature over time. After the end of Reconstruction and the demise of the Radical (i.e., anti-racist) Republicans, the GOP became known as "the party of the free, white, working man," dedicated to protecting white settlers in the Midwest and West from having to share the territories which blacks who would (it was assumed) undercut their wages (much like the present attitude towards Mexican immigrants). In the Gilded Age, the GOP gradually became the party of big biz -- a character that became far more marked in the early years of the 20th Century. Meanwhile, in the South, all whites voted Democratic, the GOP being the hated party of Lincoln. The blacks, honoring Lincoln's memory, usually voted Pub if they were allowed to vote at all, which usually they weren't.

But when the New Deal came, the Dems started to become a more overtly liberal party. In those days, neither party was even nearly ideologically homogeneous. The Civil Rights movement got support from wings of both major parties and a lot of opposition from the Southern base of the Dems. Strom Thurmond even broke with the party ran an independent "Dixiecrat" bid for the presidency in 1948.

When LBJ signed the Voting Rights of Act of 1965, he declared, "We [the Democrats] have just lost the South for a generation." OTOH, by some accounts (less well-documented), he also said, "I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years." From that point, at any rate, African-American voters moved over to the Dems in droves while conservative whites started moving over to the GOP -- many of them by way of George Wallace's American Independent Party in 1968. When Nixon ran for re-election in 1972, he employed the Southern Strategy, appealing to Southern white conservatives, and was so successful he won nearly all the states that had gone with Wallace in four years before. And the parties continued to exchange constituencies, racial and ideological, throughout the 1970s.

Today, the parties are ideologically homogeneous -- at least, more so than they used to be, although both remain multi-tendency "big tents" -- and, while it might be unfair to characterize the GOP as the racist party, it is a fact that most white racist Americans, if they vote at all, will vote Republican. Most African-Americans vote Dem, and the Republicans never seem to give them any reason to do otherwise.

So, while the Democrats certainly do have an established history as the white racist party, that is completely irrelevant now.

 

[Le Jacquelope]

Just about all non-whites are "Democrat sheep".

It's far beyond aqwertyuiop's, rightfield's, or any other right winger's intellectual level, to comprehend why Republicanism appeals to white people and almost no one else.

 

[Tyrone Biggs]

Waits patiently for the trolls arguement to be slaughtered....

Yes I was waiting as well. RoryN must have not paid his dial up phone bill.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16500

It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.

It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950s and 1960s.

During the civil rights era of the 1960s, Dr. King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the school house doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose vicious dogs. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools. President Eisenhower also appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation. Much is made of Democrat President Harry Truman's issuing an Executive Order in 1948 to desegregate the military. Not mentioned is the fact that it was Eisenhower who actually took action to effectively end segregation in the military.


Democrat President John F. Kennedy is lauded as a proponent of civil rights. However, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Sen. Al Gore Sr. And after he became President, Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph, who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King.

In March of 1968, while referring to Dr. King's leaving Memphis, Tenn., after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd (W.Va.), a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble is ignited. A few weeks later, Dr. King returned to Memphis and was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

Given the circumstances of that era, it is understandable why Dr. King was a Republican. It was the Republicans who fought to free blacks from slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment). Republicans passed the civil rights laws of the 1860s, including the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 that was designed to establish a new government system in the Democrat-controlled South, one that was fair to blacks. Republicans also started the NAACP and affirmative action with Republican President Richard Nixon's 1969 Philadelphia Plan (crafted by black Republican Art Fletcher) that set the nation's fist goals and timetables. Although affirmative action now has been turned by the Democrats into an unfair quota system, affirmative action was begun by Nixon to counter the harm caused to blacks when Democrat President Woodrow Wilson in 1912 kicked all of the blacks out of federal government jobs.

Few black Americans know that it was Republicans who founded the Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Unknown also is the fact that Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen from Illinois was key to the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964 and 1965. Not mentioned in recent media stories about extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is the fact that Dirksen wrote the language for the bill. Dirksen also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing. President Lyndon Johnson could not have achieved passage of civil rights legislation without the support of Republicans.

Critics of Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater, who ran for President against Johnson in 1964, ignore the fact that Goldwater wanted to force the Democrats in the South to stop passing discriminatory laws and thus end the need to continuously enact federal civil rights legislation.

Those who wrongly criticize Goldwater also ignore the fact that Johnson, in his 4,500 State of the Union Address delivered on Jan. 4, 1965, mentioned scores of topics for federal action, but only 35 words were devoted to civil rights. He did not mention one word about voting rights. Then in 1967, showing his anger with Dr. King's protest against the Vietnam War, Johnson referred to Dr. King as "that Nigger preacher."

Contrary to the false assertions by Democrats, the racist "Dixiecrats" did not all migrate to the Republican Party. "Dixiecrats" declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican because the Republican Party was know as the party for blacks. Today, some of those "Dixiecrats" continue their political careers as Democrats, including Robert Byrd, who is well known for having been a "Keagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.

Another former "Dixiecrat" is former Democrat Sen. Ernest Hollings, who put up the Confederate flag over the state Capitol when he was the governor of South Carolina. There was no public outcry when Democrat Sen. Christopher Dodd praised Byrd as someone who would have been "a great senator for any moment," including the Civil War. Yet Democrats denounced then-Senate GOP leader Trent Lott for his remarks about Sen. Strom Thurmond (R.-S.C.). Thurmond was never in the Ku Klux Klan and defended blacks against lynching and the discriminatory poll taxes imposed on blacks by Democrats. If Byrd and Thurmond were alive during the Civil War, and Byrd had his way, Thurmond would have been lynched.

The 30-year odyssey of the South switching to the Republican Party began in the 1970s with President Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy," which was an effort on the part of Nixon to get Christians in the South to stop voting for Democrats who did not share their values and were still discriminating against their fellow Christians who happened to be black. Georgia did not switch until 2002, and some Southern states, including Louisiana, are still controlled by Democrats.

Today, Democrats, in pursuit of their socialist agenda, are fighting to keep blacks poor, angry and voting for Democrats. Examples of how egregiously Democrats act to keep blacks in poverty are numerous.

After wrongly convincing black Americans that a minimum wage increase was a good thing, the Democrats on August 3 kept their promise and killed the minimum wage bill passed by House Republicans on July 29. The blockage of the minimum wage bill was the second time in as many years that Democrats stuck a legislative finger in the eye of black Americans. Senate Democrats on April 1, 2004, blocked passage of a bill to renew the 1996 welfare reform law that was pushed by Republicans and vetoed twice by President Clinton before he finally signed it. Since the welfare reform law expired in September 2002, Congress had passed six extensions, and the latest expired on June 30, 2004. Opposed by the Democrats are school choice opportunity scholarships that would help black children get out of failing schools and Social Security reform, even though blacks on average lose $10,000 in the current system because of a shorter life expectancy than whites (72.2 years for blacks vs. 77.5 years for whites).

Democrats have been running our inner-cities for the past 30 to 40 years, and blacks are still complaining about the same problems. More than $7 trillion dollars have been spent on poverty programs since Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty with little, if any, impact on poverty. Diabolically, every election cycle, Democrats blame Republicans for the deplorable conditions in the inner-cities, then incite blacks to cast a protest vote against Republicans.

In order to break the Democrats' stranglehold on the black vote and free black Americans from the Democrat Party's economic plantation, we must shed the light of truth on the Democrats. We must demonstrate that the Democrat Party policies of socialism and dependency on government handouts offer the pathway to poverty, while Republican Party principles of hard work, personal responsibility, getting a good education and ownership of homes and small businesses offer the pathway to prosperity.

Those "republican" ideals you mention, while not really republican ideals, also lead the way to poverty.

 

[JamesSD]

You know, the major point I got from the original post is that whites in the south are racist, regardless of what party they are affiliated with. I actually know that the younger generation, especially those in college now, are far more racially open minded than their parents' generation.

I would say that young republicans on a whole are far less interested in race than their older counterparts. There's probably more bias within the party against those of Mexican descent, but given changing demographic trends the party has to be at least somewhat open to latinos to have any chance at the national level.

It's not surprising the article left out income levels from its arguments. There aren't a lot of rich african americans, but they vote republican much more than their poorer peers.

Also of note: Between Lincoln and Nixon there was Taft and Woodrow Wilson. Taft is regarded as the most racist Post-Civil War President, and Woodrow Wilson helped continue alienate black voters.

It's tough to make an argument that the modern Republican party has the interests of Black middle class voters in mind with its policies. However, there may be some room for Republicans to make inroads. A much cited example is in California in 2008 where Black voters overwhelmingly supported Obama but also voted in favor of Prop 8, constitutionally banning gay marriage. Blacks attend church at a much higher rate than whites do in the US. Socially conservative poor blacks could have a difficult decision if properly courted. However, this would run the risk of alienating the Republican party's poor white racist voters.

 

[RightField]

It seems strange to me that the black population in America has aligned themselves with the lawyers (almost all democrat politicians are lawyers) vs. the Republican party which is mostly people who have enjoyed succes in their careers outside of being lawyers. The other big constituancy in the democratic party are the unions. Why do they affiliate themselves with lawyers and unions? Doesn't really make sense.

I would guess that they'd split along ideological lines like most all the rest of the population does. I've always wondered why not. Surely not all black people believe in the state having an overwhelmling stake in our lives (the dem platform). Colin Powel has it right, I'm surprise there's not more like him.

 

[KingOrfeo]

It's tough to make an argument that the modern Republican party has the interests of Black middle class voters in mind with its policies.

Nor white middle-class voters, either.

 

[JBCorbell]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Events

Warning..... Republican mouthpiece.

 

[KingOrfeo]

It seems strange to me that the black population in America has aligned themselves with the lawyers (almost all democrat politicians are lawyers) vs. the Republican party which is mostly people who have enjoyed succes in their careers outside of being lawyers.

I think you'll find politicians in general are drawn more heavily from the legal than from other professions. It's always been that way in America, it's traditional. And do you have a cite for your assertions?

The other big constituancy in the democratic party are the unions. Why do they affiliate themselves with lawyers and unions? Doesn't really make sense.

Of course it makes sense. If you want to be the party of the working class, you include the unions. Which are not nearly as big a deal in the Democratic coalition as they used to be or should be, actually, but where else are they going to go?

I would guess that they'd split along ideological lines like most all the rest of the population does. I've always wondered why not. Surely not all black people believe in the state having an overwhelmling stake in our lives (the dem platform). Colin Powel has it right, I'm surprise there's not more like him.

If by "they" you mean the African-Americans (it sounds at first like you means the Democrats, which makes no sense), they perceive clearly enough that an unfettered free-market system has never been very good for them and probably never will be. Mainly because, even today, most of them are poor -- at least, African-Americans are poorer on average than the general population -- and an unfettered free-market system has never been good for poor people and never will be.

 

[sphy2]

Sorry, I only got through the first sentence, "It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican."

FALSE. Martin Luther King SENIOR was a republican. MLK Jr. was non-partisan.

 

[Le Jacquelope]

I think you'll find politicians in general are drawn more heavily from the legal than from other professions. It's always been that way in America, it's traditional. And do you have a cite for your assertions?



Of course it makes sense. If you want to be the party of the working class, you include the unions. Which are not nearly as big a deal in the Democratic coalition as they used to be or should be, actually, but where else are they going to go?



If by "they" you mean the African-Americans (it sounds at first like you means the Democrats, which makes no sense), they perceive clearly enough that an unfettered free-market system has never been very good for them and probably never will be. Mainly because, even today, most of them are poor -- at least, African-Americans are poorer on average than the general population -- and an unfettered free-market system has never been good for poor people and never will be.

An unfettered free-market system has never been good for the working class, period. Working class minorities are more wise to this fact than working class whites.

 

[unregistered]

 

[JBCorbell]

Then why haven't they come up with something better?

If you follow the logic, he has.

A system in which the business owners get an equal share to the employees. Where all get the same and there is no difference between the servant and the master.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Then why haven't they come up with something better?

They have. We're living in it, ever since the New Deal. Europe is better still.

 

[The_Trouvere]

OK, basic American political-history lesson:

When the Republican Party was formed in 1854, it was considered radical for its time. I recall a political cartoon from 1860: Lincoln is leading his followers into the Promised Land of Republican rule and asks them what they want. A black says, "White people got no rights a collu'd person is bound to respeck, I jes' wants that understood." A person of unclear sex says, "I am a follower of Free Love and would like to be able to practice my beliefs." A shiftless-looking fellow says, "I'd like a hostelry where feller's who ain't inclined to work can be found in whiskey and terbacky." Probably not a fair representation of Republican views even then, but it says something that critics felt able to lampoon the party in those terms.

But institutions can change their nature over time. After the end of Reconstruction and the demise of the Radical (i.e., anti-racist) Republicans, the GOP became known as "the party of the free, white, working man," dedicated to protecting white settlers in the Midwest and West from having to share the territories which blacks who would (it was assumed) undercut their wages (much like the present attitude towards Mexican immigrants). In the Gilded Age, the GOP gradually became the party of big biz -- a character that became far more marked in the early years of the 20th Century. Meanwhile, in the South, all whites voted Democratic, the GOP being the hated party of Lincoln. The blacks, honoring Lincoln's memory, usually voted Pub if they were allowed to vote at all, which usually they weren't.

But when the New Deal came, the Dems started to become a more overtly liberal party. In those days, neither party was even nearly ideologically homogeneous. The Civil Rights movement got support from wings of both major parties and a lot of opposition from the Southern base of the Dems. Strom Thurmond even broke with the party ran an independent "Dixiecrat" bid for the presidency in 1948.

When LBJ signed the Voting Rights of Act of 1965, he declared, "We [the Democrats] have just lost the South for a generation." OTOH, by some accounts (less well-documented), he also said, "I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years." From that point, at any rate, African-American voters moved over to the Dems in droves while conservative whites started moving over to the GOP -- many of them by way of George Wallace's American Independent Party in 1968. When Nixon ran for re-election in 1972, he employed the Southern Strategy, appealing to Southern white conservatives, and was so successful he won nearly all the states that had gone with Wallace in four years before. And the parties continued to exchange constituencies, racial and ideological, throughout the 1970s.

Today, the parties are ideologically homogeneous -- at least, more so than they used to be, although both remain multi-tendency "big tents" -- and, while it might be unfair to characterize the GOP as the racist party, it is a fact that most white racist Americans, if they vote at all, will vote Republican. Most African-Americans vote Dem, and the Republicans never seem to give them any reason to do otherwise.

So, while the Democrats certainly do have an established history as the white racist party, that is completely irrelevant now.

When KingOrfeo submits something this well written, I know he wrote it himself. When a wingnut submits more than a few paragraphs with no errors of grammar and spelling, I can nearly always find it on at least fifty websites.