DaGip wrote:btownmeggy wrote:Conservatives would love a black President. "What!?! Racism!?! Racism doesn't exist! Don't you know we have a BLACK President!?"
Exactly...
That's what Bush has been doing with Rice and Powell. That way they can say they are not racist. That's how I have been seeing it anyway.
Both of your statements are ridiculous and insulting. If anyone has a civil rights record to be ashamed of it is liberal democrats.
The Republican Party, which has a conservative base, has:
1. Founded itself in 1856 with the express purpose of ending the expansion of slavery.
2. Produced president Abraham Lincoln & a Republican-dominated Congress, who successfully worked with Great Britain to end the slave trade, end slavery in the District of Columbia, issue the Emancipation Proclamation, pass the land grant acts which allowed blacks admission to agricultural schools, and repealed the Fugitive Slave Laws.
3. Stood against the Black Code Laws of the south.
4. Introduced the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, banning slavery....and 14th Amendment granting due process to
all Americans (despite Democrat resistance).
5. Had to override presidential vetoes in order to confer rights on blacks and protect the Freedman's Bureau.
6. Introduced & passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875 so all Americans could have equal access to public accomodations.
7. Produced supreme court judges who: (a) dissented from the Dred Scott decision, (b) overturned the notion of 'separate but equal' in Brown vs. Board of Education
8. Traditionally fought against the KKK and supported anti-lynching laws (only to be stopped by Democrats in the U.S. Senate)
9. Called for the desegregation of blacks/whites within the U.S. military
10. Worked with businessmen to create schools in the south for poor black youth
11. Been instrumental in getting the 1964 Civil Rights Act passed (because the one in 1875 was declared unconstitutional)
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That's just a short list of our accomplishments. Meggy, you should especially be ashamed of supporting a party which has:
1. Produced presidents who forcefully interred Japanese-Americans against their will - FDR. It took a Republican president to sign an act to compensate them for that - Ronald Regan in 1988.
2. Produced supreme court justices which were openly members of the KKK - Hugo Black
3. Produced governors which tried to used military force to keep blacks from having equal access to integrated high school - Orval Faubus. It took a Republican president to force his hand - Dwight Eisenhower.
4. Produced senators which lead opposition to the lunch counter integration movement - Ernest Hollings
5. Long supported segregation, especially by men like J. William Fulbright, who Bill Clinton admitted was his political mentor.
6. Produced a greater percentage of senators & house reps who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act
7.
Still has a member of the U.S. Senate who openly belonged to the KKK - Robert Byrd
If you want to debate who has an overall better record on civil rights, we win.