Yes The Democrats are Racists!
H/T to Brian at Iowa Voice for this WaPo article that I missed.
We have had many a battle on the subject of racism within the parties, so take a look at what Stanford University professor Shanto Iyengar has to say:
Are Republicans stingy but principled while Democrats are generous but racist?
“I wouldn’t put it quite so starkly,” said Stanford University professor Shanto Iyengar. He would prefer to call Democrats “less principled” rather than bigoted, based on his analysis of data collected in a recent online experiment that he conducted with The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com.
As reported in this column a few weeks ago, the study found that people were less likely to give extended aid to black Hurricane Katrina victims than to white ones. The race penalty, on average, totaled about $1,000 per black victim.
As Iyengar and his colleagues subsequently dug deeper into these data, another finding emerged: Republicans consistently gave less aid, and gave over a shorter period of time, to victims regardless of race.
Democrats and independents were far more generous; on average, they gave Katrina victims on average more than $1,500 a month, compared with $1,200 for Republicans, and for 13 months instead of nine.
But for Democrats, race mattered — and in a disturbing way. Overall, Democrats were willing to give whites about $1,500 more than they chose to give to a black or other minority. (Even with this race penalty, Democrats still were willing to give more to blacks than those principled Republicans.) “Republicans are likely to be more stringent, both in terms of money and time, Iyengar said. “However, their position is ‘principled’ in the sense that it stems from a strong belief in individualism (as opposed to handouts). Thus their responses to the assistance questions are relatively invariant across the different media conditions. Independents and Democrats, on the other hand, are more likely to be affected by racial cues.”
June 25, 2006 - 07:56 AM on June 25th, 2006
Democrats are all about keeping people poor and stupid, why else would they want to keep bad teachers and take away one of our most important freedoms, our economic freedom. As long as there has been money governments have known you can control people by taking it away, and everytime the democrats propose higher taxes they’re taking away more of our freedom. When are people going to wake up and realize that socialism is just another word for oppression? On the racism issue, even disregarding the hypocrisy of affirmative action which only reinforces the racist idea that some races are inferior, democrats only pay lip service to civil rights. “In the 26 major civil rights votes after 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 percent of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 percent of the votes” http://www.congresslink.org/civil/essay.html
June 25, 2006 - 08:49 AM on June 25th, 2006
Good work Drake. You missed one topic near and dear to my heart that also has a racist background. Gun Control. It has NEVER proven effective at reducing crime. In fact quite the opposite. There are a number of anti gun laws on the books that are directly related to racism and all of them have been proposed and supported by the Democrats. The open carry law in California was in direct response to the Black Panthers showing up at the state legislature building the day it was being voted on openly displaying a number of firearms. The “Saturday Night Special” laws from the 1960s were implemented to keep blacks from obtaining firearms during the race riots because they only effected inexpensive weapons. A significant portion of the price of any firearm purchased in the US goes to taxes and currently legal fees over the junk lawsuits being filed against lawful businesses over the criminal misuse of their products. The first gun restrictions in this country were passed following reconstruction to keep the former slaves from owning guns and being able to protect themselves from the marauding bands of the KKK.
June 25, 2006 - 03:44 PM on June 25th, 2006
How many demacrats owned slaves before the CIVIL WAR? and maybe JESSIE JACKASSON should know that ROBERT BYRD belongs to the KKK
June 26, 2006 - 01:00 AM on June 26th, 2006
Democrites are the party of the Plantation South, the KKK, the Jim Crow laws, the attempts to suppress the Civil Rights movement. What more proof does anyone need?
Oh, I forgot…it’s GWB that doesn’t care about black people…:lol: