Posted by
larry22 on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 5:57:55 PM
In my younger years I was a liberal democrat.
During the early 1980's I started reading about American race relations.
I was shocked at what I found and could not believe the historical material.
So, I started reading American history during Civil War era.
Again, I was shocked.
So, I read the Congressional Globe, which pre-dated the Congressional Record, to read something not filtered through an author’s potential bias.
Again, I was shocked to learn about the history of the democrat party and how that party laid the foundation that has influenced race relations in
America in the past and continues to exploit the foundation democrats laid for American race relations in a negative way today.
When the slave was freed the Republican party saw the freed slave as an American citizen with certain disadvantages that our American Republic must for a period of time help so the new citizen could become a stable and viable member of the American mosaic, the American Republic, which is continuously being formed out of many people into one people, into a strong Republic. Therefore, America must do those necessary things to assist the freed slave to transition from slave to free and become a healthy, stable member of the American Republic.
However, during the civil war era the democrat party was against the idea of freeing the slave to become an equal member of the American Republic. Democrats said that America would never accept the freed slave as an equal citizen with equal rights and equal opportunities. Democrats Copperheads created so much fear and hatred for the ex-slave that there was fear the “Negro” would be exterminated. The 1968 book, Black Scare, shows how democrats systematically instituted a hostile, hateful form of racism in America, which did not widely exist in America at that time until the democrat party campaigned against the freed slave: http://www.amazon.com/Black-Scare-Response-Emancipation-Reconstruction/dp/0520016645
Democrat party efforts to deny the freed slave any chance in America produced four options debated in Congress from 1861 to 1863 to answer the question, “What to do with the Negro?”
http://acwbn.blogspot.com/2009/03/what-shall-we-do-with-negro-lincoln.html
http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/escott.html
Republicans supported Option One: complete freedom and equal opportunity to ensure the Negro did not become a degraded social caste producing crime, disease and wards of the state reproducing the “European villain” the peasant class of Europe driven to flee to America for economic opportunity. Republicans said America was created to redress this error of European society and some in America, democrats, would reproduce policies that would recreate the European villain in American society, with the Negro in the place the white peasant, the villain, which these Republican members of Congress what were them generations ago. And, Republicans said democrat party policies against the Negro would reproduce the same crime patterns and violence seen in London here, again. Why repeat this foolishness in America because of hatred of race? Republicans said if America was to remain the last, best hope for mankind of the face of the Earth, America must work for the Negro, our own oppressed.
Option Two, supported by Lincoln, was colonization of the freed slave because Lincoln did not believe that America, led by democrat party efforts to spread racial hatred of the Negro would allow the freed slave a chance. So, to nip the impending racial problem in the bud the freed slave must be removed from the country for their safety and America’s peace.
http://www.conservapedia.com/Copperheads
http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Copperheads:politics.htm
Option Three, a social condition created by democrat rhetoric and public speeches, was extermination. This option scared and depressed Lincoln. Democrat Copperhead leaders in Congress said in speeches a superior people will never accept an inferior people and a war of extermination was sure to occur if the Negro remained in America. Then, copperhead democrats in their press enflamed public opinion against the freeing of the slave.
Option Four, supported by democrats, was systematic discrimination. Republicans said this will hurt the Republic because a large group of discriminated people will become the cause for crime, violence and wards of the state. Democrats said when two men stood at the door of opportunity, one black and one white, the white must be allowed in the door.
In 1863 there were 20 million whites in the country and 5 million blacks; 1 million free and 4 million slaves. democrats looked at the population percentages and seeing the majority took the position of what that party viewed was the position of the majority on the issue of race.
Remember, the American population was 25 million in 1865. Right after the civil war the Republican party suggested European immigration should be halted or slowed until the 4 million freed slaves were educated and held a firm grasp of the economic ladder. Republicans took this position to reduce competition for lower jobs between the ex-slave and the European immigrant.
The democrat party said immigration from Europe should be doubled, tripled. The flood gates of poor European immigrants should be opened. Democrats won the debate and by 1900 America’s population was 100 million. And several democrat controlled northern cities, Boston, New York Chicago, Phil, experienced European immigrant race riots. As the new immigrants came to America democrat party bosses would tell them Republicans were against them in favor of the Negro. This produced immigrant race riots anywhere the democrat party held power:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/books/albon_man/labor_ny_draft_riots_1863/
http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/books/albon_man/church_ny_irish/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Race_Riot_of_1919
http://www.jstor.org/pss/2702953
The democrat party, seeking to become the established majority party, won the race debate laying the foundation for modern American race relations that has produced high prison populations, urban crime, high murder rates in democrat urban areas, welfare, and single parent black families. However, 95% of blacks vote for the democrat party, the party directly responsible for establishing the racism in America blacks seek the democrats party to correct.
America is not and never was a racist country … it was and continues to be the democrat party that was and is the source of racism in our society.
The Republican party sought to protect the Republic as an on-going nation by protecting the tradition of many people forming into one common people, enjoying life, liberty and happiness … in a Republic. The democrat party, always using the worst of politics to bring out the worst in human nature, sought and seeks to use our worst nature to extract political majorities. Historically, this is the very reason why the foundering fathers did not establish this nation as a pure democracy.
The American democrat party is the only American political party that murdered hundreds of their political opponents, Republicans. And, thousands of American citizens, black Americans, in US history.
On Feb 25, 1864, Republican H. W. Davis of Maryland responded to democrat party arguments about the present and future condition of Blacks in America. Remember democrat party racial policies of hatred against black Americans had not been instilled in America at this point in our nation's history. democrat policies in the democrat controlled South and democrat controlled Northern cities did produce the negative effects for black Americans that Republicans begged democrats not to follow.
To read the Library of Congress - Congressional Globe passage for yourself where Davis addresses the Four Options during debates go to this site and in the box that says "Turn to image" enter page # "45". Then, start reading the second paragraph of column 2:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=067/llcg067.db&recNum=654
Also, read the Library of Congress - Congressional Globe passage where Republican Davis appeals to the “better nature” of members of the democrat party to act as responsible public servants during debates and work for the good of the Republic and not use the situation to gather raw political power, as democrat still do. Go to the below link and in the box that says "Turn to image" enter page # "46". Then, start reading the entire third column:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=067/llcg067.db&recNum=654
Two things should become apparent, the Republican party position on the black American has remained the same from the 1860’s to 2009. Republicans still stand on the same principles. Democrats still operate by exploiting base human motivations, hate, greed, and class envy to gain a “majority” to establish a democrat party tyranny.
In 1888, in Boston, Republican George Gable gave a speech to a group of "negroes" about a development in their voting patterns. Republican Gable cautioned the Negro audience to stop voting for Republicans just because Republicans were their only political supporters. He said Negroes must "keep your vote alive" because if one party, Republicans, knows it has your vote and the other party, democrats, knows it can never get your vote, your vote is basically dead. You will end up getting nothing for your vote. By keeping your vote alive, means both parties must compete for your vote and that will be best for the country. Many free blacks had nothing of value. No money, no property, poor jobs, nothing of value. The only things that was of value was their vote, it gave them a valuable franchise that should only go to the highest bidder offering the best return. Republican George Gable said to get the best return for that valuable vote politicians should not take your vote for granted. Republicans refused to exploit the black vote when it had the black vote.
During the same period in history democrats were responsible for the murder of hundreds of Republicans by the newly formed Ku Klux organization for going into the South to assist in the education and rehabilitation of the ex-slave doing the Reconstruction period. After Reconstruction democrats were responsible for the murder of thousands of Negroes.
During the Jim Crow era in the South, when democrats would not allow Negroes to attend public universities their taxes paid for, wealthy Northern Republican industrialist financed Booker T. Washington's building of the black college system in the South that still exist. Strangely, those same black colleges, today, have left-wing liberal colleges faculties turning out college students who assume democrats built the colleges in the democrat Jim Crow South where thousands of blacks were lynched by democrats. This racial violence was not done by Americans for race hatred, this violence was done by democrats for their base political objectives!
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/2000/lynching.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAlynching.htm
http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/
The black American in the past and today has always lived and still lives in areas of the country that are under democrat party political control. To escape democrat party lynching’s and oppression blacks fled the Jim Crow democrat South to escape to the democrat controlled Northern cities filled with immigrants democrats turned into rabid racist to block black economic progress. So, it was more killings of Negroes during white immigrant race riots fueled by democrat party bosses.
Now that the South is no longer under the control of the democrat party blacks are returning and enjoying peace, safety and happiness in those areas where Republicans have a strong political presence. However, in the South, during the era of Jim Crow blacks were oppressed and murdered in those areas the democrat party was the dominant power. After Jim Crow when Republicans gained a measure of political power blacks are returning to the South to escape democrat party cities in the North were blacks are murdered by the hundreds in black-on-black crime. In fact, in democrat controlled areas of the country where blacks live today, blacks experience high murder rates, drugs, gangs, unemployment, hopelessness, broken families, etc.
The black American needs a second Emancipation ... from the democrat party to finally become free in our Republic. Historically, when ever black Americans moved from an area to another area, it has always been, and still is, to escape the conditions created democrats against blacks. Can democrats deny this?
Democrats use the historical conditions created by the democrat party against black Americans to hang around the neck of the Republican party simply by showing that Republicans have a political presence in the South ... today. However, this ignores the damage that generation after generation on democrat party policies that have destroyed the lives of millions of black Americans to create the current black American condition of poverty, which the democrat party exploits to steal the black vote.
What urban American city historically controlled by the democrat city, like New Orleans, where black Americans live in large numbers is a shining example of how black Americans have benefitted from voting for democrats, election after election? Today, in the many school systems of these same democrat cities are black Americans being well educated and prepared to live an independent life from the democrat party without eternal need for a welfare system? In these same democrat cities what is the high school drop-out rate for black Americans teens? Point to an area of the South where blacks avoid because of fear of Republican political power in the area? Why are black Americans today, moving back to the Republican South ... after their parents, grand parents and great grand parents fled the democrat party Jim Crow South?
Then, members of the democrat party continuously throw the charge of racism in the face of Republicans. While the typical Republican doesn’t respond. We should respond! We must respond! I have hundreds of pages of original research that has never become part of the historical record of American race relations. While the democrat party led our Republic into the dark night of racism many forgotten Republicans, from over a hundred and fifty years ago, wanted to lead America into a color blind society. The historical Republican position on race relations must be viewed in its proper historical context to fully understand the greatness of the Republican party.