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 1860's, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950's and 1960's.
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.
@WisePatman ". From the early 1700's through the 1920's (200 years!) People in the United States took care of each other through churches and charities. The Govt took it." Nobody gave a crap about black people back then, and the average person was much worse off too. Way to romantacize something untrue.
daswann14 1 week ago
@SARDU1976 But not much empathy for Japanese Americans.
WisePatman 1 week ago
@djbennyblack True enough, I don't think you see that I don't care so much about Dems vs Repubs as I do about good policy vs idiot policy. That is why I have not been a member of any political party since the 80's. Welfare should be provided by someone other than the Government because the Government uses it for political power on both sides. From the early 1700's through the 1920's (200 years!) People in the United States took care of each other through churches and charities. The Govt took it.
WisePatman 1 week ago
@djbennyblack Yes all those things are true, a man can do a lot in 50 years of life.
WisePatman 1 week ago
@djbennyblack Racial profiling and Affirmative action both have, at their core, decisions about what will happen to someone based solely on their race. I do not believe in making judgments based on that criteria whether they be "good" or "bad" because some imperfect human is deciding goodness and badness. Both racial profiling and affirmative action can be and are abused by those administrating them. Why can't we just judge based on appropriateness for the job?
WisePatman 1 week ago
@djbennyblack Touche', I should be more circumspect in my judgments of you. Sorry about that. I should also tone down the smarmy factor as well. I will attempt in the future to not give you reason to sigh so much.
WisePatman 1 week ago
@WisePatman Racial Profiling and Affirmative Action are the same? And I was wrong to assume your ignorance...good lord. Affirmative Action provides the individual with less opportunity (ie lack of white privilege) an opportunity to succeed based on their own merit so long as they are qualified to perform a job. Racial profiling assumes potential guilt based solely on race an aesthetics. And DIXIECRATS not all Democrats wrote Jim Crowe laws. They didn't exist north of the MD line.
djbennyblack 1 week ago
@WisePatman For the record, the war on drugs wasn't part of Civil Rights legislation, it came from a republican. Nixon and Reagan's policy's both inflated the war on drugs, started by Teddy Roosevelt to get rid of Mexicans. WIC, cam after, Section 8 is a product of the great depression (1937) not civil rights, and as we have established, welfare far predates civil rights (it existed during slavery for crying out loud).
djbennyblack 1 week ago
@WisePatman Lol, well, people tend to associate themselves with like minded people, so of course I get that people around you, who are like you, wouldn't recognize the blatant lack of information that leads you to your beliefs is ignorance. That's kind of a part of ignorance. And to clarify, that's not an arbitrary statement. You defined ALL democrats as dixiecrats, when that isn't the case at all. There have also been several other factual faux pas from you that wreak of ignorance.
djbennyblack 1 week ago
@WisePatman "I'm actually not white" "..didn't think it was important" To recap, you have taken the angry white male, right wing Republican stance, and yet you are none of these things...and you aren't ignorant...well then you're an anomaly, congrats. And for the record, I never prejudged, I reacted to your smarmy comments in kind. Remember, I'm "poor, uneducated and inexperienced", but I should be polite when insulted...more sighs
djbennyblack 1 week ago