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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChuck Woolery: Show me anywhere in History that Republicans did any nasty thing to Black People
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longship
(40,416 posts)That's my rhetoric!
winstars
(4,220 posts)These guys are funny.
MFM008
(19,808 posts)Its still happening today you clown.
Aristus
(66,344 posts)Mississippi.
It basically put the Republican seal of approval on the murders of three civil rights workers there in 1964. It was Ronald Reagan saying to white people: "I'll be President for you. Not for them."
1965Comet
(175 posts)Ulysses S. Grant (Republican President) owned a slave (prior to the Civil War, of course). Does that count as a "nasty thing"?
https://www.quora.com/In-American-history-has-any-Republican-ever-owned-a-slave
Bucky
(54,005 posts)What with all the killing of pro-slavery traitors he did. I don't expect perfection. I'll settle for "improved over time". Something the Republicans clearly haven't done.
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)I'd say owning a slave qualifies.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Grant received a slave from his father in law and gave him freedom.
At the time Grant was impoverished and eventually ended up selling firewood on the street.
As President Grant moved against the KKK
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/oldspeak/the_president_who_destroyed_the_klan_ulysses_s_grant_an_unappreciated_and_u
While President, Ulysses S. Grant destroyed the terrorizing Ku Klux Klan to protect the lives of the freed former slaves. But with the intensely disputed presidential election of 1876 to succeed him in office came the Compromise of 1877," which gave the White House to the Republican candidate in exchange for the removal of Grants federal soldiers from the South and the return of complete control of the region to the racist Southern Democrats. This end of the Reconstruction period enabled the Klan eventually to rise again and to terrorize and murder Blacks until President Lyndon Johnson used the FBI to destroy the Klan a second time, almost 100 years later.
To stop Southern Klan terrorism, President Grant engineered the passage of the Ku Klux Klan Act in 1871, which in professor Brands words remobilized the engines of the Civil War to deal with the Klan and the violence it practiced. Against strong political opposition, Grant then used his new powers to the fullest to protect the freed slaves, as is described above. Using the words of the author, perhaps this is the epitaph which should have appeared on Grants Tomb Grants campaign put the fear of federal power into the Klan and shattered its sense of impunity. Not for decades would the nightriders exercise such influence again. To his everlasting honor, President Grant stood for the absolute protection of the freed Black race in the face of Southern Democratic political, social and cultural tyranny.
Grant also made significant moves to protect Native Americans. The most egregious corruption at the time was with Indian Agents. Grant only appointed Quakers to the position as they were deeply committed to supporting Native Americans
http://millercenter.org/president/biography/grant-domestic-affairs
In his first inaugural address, Grant pledged to rethink the treatment of Native Americans, referring to them as "the original occupants of this land." He wanted to shift federal Indian policy toward what became known as the Peace Policy. This approach attempted to move Indians closer to white civilization (and ultimately U.S. citizenship) by housing them on reservations and helping them become farmers. Grant appointed a former military aide and Seneca Indian, Brigadier General Ely S. Parker, as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Parker was the first nonwhite appointment to a major federal position. To address corruption in federal Indian affairs, Grant also created a new Board of Indian Commissioners headed by philanthropic leaders.
Bucky
(54,005 posts)Wear 'em out while they last
1965Comet
(175 posts)But we don't know how much time elapsed between his receipt of the slave and the freeing of that slave. Grant lived with his FIL for a few years before freeing the slave.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,735 posts)Emmet Till.
Bucky
(54,005 posts)Sorry, but there's no evidence that Milam and Bryant were Republicans.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/sfeature/sf_look_confession.html
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)You should get out more.
LonePirate
(13,420 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Well Said!
Bucky
(54,005 posts)uponit7771
(90,336 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)washed up d-list celebrities and the Republican Party? Is it something about seeing Reagan and Trump in themselves?
3catwoman3
(23,978 posts)D-list wannabe is probably even too kind.
I've recently seen Bob Eubanks, of the puerile Newlywed Game, shilling for something on TV. Can't remember what. He always seemed like a mental lightweight.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)Just to start with the Dixiecrat transitions
Botany
(70,504 posts)In American politics, southern strategy refers to methods the Republican Party
used to gain political support in the South by appealing to the racism against
African Americans harbored by many southern white voters.
subterranean
(3,427 posts)Obviously the product of an unstable person.
mrgorth
(3,431 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,976 posts)blinded by the white.
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)When the CIA, under the auspices of George Bush SR, Oliver North etc illegally traded guns for cocaine in the war in Nicuragua. The same CIA then developed a way to unload all that cocaine on black people in the inner cities, by creating crack. A product that could be sold in small quantities. Before that, you needed a substantial amount of money to do cocaine. Now five dollars could buy a bit.
Then, at the height and hysteria of the crack epidemic, the very same George HW Bush went on live television, in an address to the nation, held up a bag of crack, that was illegally purchased minutes before, in front of the white house and told America that the penalties for crack should be far more serious than regular cocaine. Thus the "mandatory minimum" laws were enacted. And that created a situation that penalized black people far more seriously than white people for the same thing. A situation that took males out of the families. Out of the work force. Put families on welfare. Probation, recidivism.
John Earlichman said that he invented the war on drugs to keep blacks and hippies down. Report: Aide says Nixon's war on drugs targeted blacks, hippies
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)And his sycophants lap it up!
Bucky
(54,005 posts)I mean, if you want to talk about how awesome Republicans were on Civil Rights in the 19th century, let's remember that fad lasted about 15 years.
Vinca
(50,270 posts)coco22
(1,258 posts)how's is that MFKER!
onenote
(42,701 posts)Because the political divide in this country was regional as much as, or more than, party-driven, it is possible to show that Republicans were more supportive of Civil Rights legislation than Democrats. Here is a telling set of numbers from 1964:
1964 Civil Rights Act Aye Votes
Dem/Union GOP/Union Dem/Confed GOP/Confed
House: 144/152 (95%) 137/161 (85%) 8/91 (9%) 0/11 (0%)
Senate 45/46 (98%) 27/32 (84%) 1/21 (5%) 0/1 (0%)
Given that those formerly Democratic districts in the old Confederacy are now Republican districts (and given that in the 1960s and 1970s nearly four dozen elected officials from old Confederate states switched to the Republican party from the Democratic party), its pretty clear where the racists are today.
bhikkhu
(10,715 posts)After the Colfax Massacre (1872) he overturned the verdicts against the killers and handed the Klan and their ilk the tacit approval of the racist state militias, which began a reign of fear in the south.
kysrsoze
(6,021 posts)Bengus81
(6,931 posts)Not saying that everyone participating in that horrible riot in Tulsa was a Republican,but I HIGHLY doubt they were all Democrats either Chucky.
Reagan and his welfare queen story which was definite linkage that if your on welfare you gotta be black.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot
Someone needs to tell an IDIOT like Woolery that WORDS can do damage also.
meadowlander
(4,395 posts)still_one
(92,190 posts)book, by the republicans doesn't count.
I guess the republican strategy to gain political support in the South by appealing to the racism against African Americans harbored by many southern white voters doesn't count. Hint, that's Nixon's southern strategy, and it is alive and well
The Reagan "welfare queen" lie, along with racially coded appeals to racists to attract their support, nothing to see there.
While historically both parties have racist baggage to hang around their necks, it was the Democrats starting with Kennedy that actively changed that dynamic by embracing civil rights as a major foundation of its platform.
After the Civil Rights Act was passed, it was the republican party that assumed the "Dixiecrat" role, and the republican party's choice for president in 2016, a racist, sexist, and xenophobe, is what they are today as evidenced by the white supremacists that are a part of that administration with people like Bannon and Session. Is it any wonder that the KKK, and all the other white supremacist groups support them?
raccoon
(31,110 posts)State of the Union speech?
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)won that thread.
Funny how Chuck has yet to respond to any of his points.
doc03
(35,332 posts)advertising shit to rip off old people.
Demsrule86
(68,565 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)but if I did, I would've asked him in response something like: "Show me anywhere in history that Democrats did any nasty thing to White people that makes most of them vote Republican."
meadowlander
(4,395 posts)Defunding contraception in Africa.
Ignoring the Rwandan genocide but intervening in Bosnia.
Assassinating Patrice Lumumba.
Reagan supporting apartheid.
Blue_Roses
(12,894 posts)Are you going senile? Because our history is chock full of horrible things they endured. There are even pictures...
Good grief. The stupid runs thick these days.