Civil Rights, Brought to You By...Republicans?

[CornField]

Reserve your calendar now.

by Paul T. von Hippel, Guest Contributor
1.14.05

Two weeks into the New Year, conservative outlets continue to promote the 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar, a 12-month wall calendar "celebrating a century and a half of civil rights achievements by the party of Lincoln."

The stated purpose of the Republican Freedom Calendar is to promote the story, "as remarkable as it is untold," of "the many important Republican achievements in advancing civil rights." But actually the Calendar does a good deal more than that. Not only does the Calendar ignore the civil rights achievements of Democrats, it paints the Democratic Party as a perennial enemy of civil rights. The Calendar also omits the embarrassing chapters in Republican history.

One-sided history would be expected, I suppose, if the Republican Freedom Calendar were a campaign flyer. But the Calendar is a government publication prepared by the Policy Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. Like the Education Department's contract with black commentator Armstrong Williams, the Republican Freedom Calendar represents an alarming use of taxpayer dollars for Republican propaganda aimed primarily at African-Americans.

The Calendar tells us that "every single African-American in Congress until 1935 was a Republican." It does not mention that the situation is quite different today, when the 109th Congress has 43 black Democrats--and not a single black Republican.

The Calendar mentions "two African-American women who were…co-founders of the NAACP: Ida Wells and Mary Terrell, great Republicans, both of them." It does not acknowledge that the NAACP's relationship to the Republican Party has changed since the days of Wells and Terrell. President Bush has described his relationship with the NAACP as "basically nonexistent." On the NAACP's most recent Federal Legislative Report Card, every Republican in Congress received a failing grade.

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[tk2kewl]

1. Why do you want to make me mad?

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[tom_paine]

2. Actually, the early history of the Republican Party is actually

the history of the current Democratic Party.

they switched in 1980, when Ronnie Raygun, that Bushevik Puppet, opened his campaign in Philadelphia Mississippi, which signalled the new home of the Confederacy and the Party of Lee (not Lincoln) as the Bushevik Party, err the Republican Party.

But again, the Busheviks have no compunction about Soviet-style lying.

None at all.

[ET Awful]

3. Actually the switch really occurred when southern Democrats

left the party in droves to first becomoe "Dixiecrats" then Republicans when the Democratic Party supported civil rights.

[tom_paine]

5. True true

But even still, until 1980 MANY Confederate-Bushevik Types simply couldn't pull the R lever because of the hated memory of that socialst government-expanding, slave-freeing minority-loving Lincoln.

In 1980, Raygun made sure they KNEW that the Party of Lincoln had become the Party of Lee.

In fact, to this day, Busheviks who revile the Modern-Democratic Lincoln will do things like turn his photo around if it happens to be glaring down at them fromthe walls of their room at a Virginia Bed & Breakfast in Shenandoah.

Yes, I know of that firsthand.

Why do they hate America so?

Why do they love Imperial Amerika and Bootlicking Their Bettors?

Of course, besides slavery and "states rights" (the right to be as corrupt and murderous as possible without interference, that is), the Civil War was as much as retain the old English Monarchial Ideals of People "knowing their place" and "not getting uppity with their bettors".

[teenagebambam]

4. "celebrating a century and a half.....

....of civil rights achievements by the party of Lincoln."

Who was himself, it seems, gay.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743266390/qid=1105728375/sr=2-3/ref=pd_ka_b_2_3/002-8356295-3467213

[Skittles]

6. republicans are such a f***ing joke

stuff like this is why I refuse to respect anyone who would call themselves a republican. THEY SUCK.