Granted this was On July 30th 1866:
White Democrats, led by police, attacked a convention of Black and white Republicans in New Orleans. More than 40 persons were killed, and at least 150 were wounded. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, Military commander of the state, said, “It was not riot; it was an absolute massacre…which the mayor and the police of the city perpetrated without the shadow of a necessity.”
but it is but one of the many examples that Gateway Pundit uses in his piece The Ugly Side of Another Failed Black Democrat, that counter “The Ugly Side of the G.O.P.” This piece was written by “racially obsessed New York Times “columnist” Bob Herbert”
Citing this article:
Republicans also have supported legislation favorable to blacks, often against intense Democratic headwinds:
In 1865, Congressional Republicans unanimously backed the 13th Amendment, which made slavery unconstitutional. Among Democrats, 63 percent of senators and 78 percent of House members voted: “No.”
In 1866, 94 percent of GOP senators and 96 percent of GOP House members approved the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing all Americans equal protection of the law. Every congressional Democrat voted: “No.”
February 28, 1871: The GOP Congress passed the Enforcement Act, giving black voters federal protection.
February 8, 1894: Democratic President Grover Cleveland and a Democratic Congress repealed the GOP’s Enforcement Act, denying black voters federal protection.
January 26, 1922: The U.S. House adopted Rep. Leonidas Dyer’s (R., Mo.) bill making lynching a federal crime. Filibustering Senate Democrats killed the measure.
May 17, 1954: As chief justice, former three-term governor Earl Warren (R., Calif.) led the U.S. Supreme Court’s desegregation of government schools via the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. GOP President Dwight Eisenhower’s Justice Department argued for Topeka, Kansas’s black school children. Democrat John W. Davis, who lost a presidential bid to incumbent Republican Calvin Coolidge in 1924, defended “separate but equal” classrooms.
September 24, 1957: Eisenhower deployed the 82nd Airborne Division to desegregate Little Rock’s government schools over the strenuous resistance of Governor Orval Faubus (D., Ark.).
May 6, 1960: Eisenhower signs the GOP’s 1960 Civil Rights Act after it survived a five-day, five-hour filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats.
July 2, 1964: Democratic President Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act after former Klansman Robert Byrd’s 14-hour filibuster and the votes of 22 other Senate Democrats (including Tennessee’s Al Gore, Sr.) failed to scuttle the measure. Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen rallied 26 GOP senators and 44 Democrats to invoke cloture and allow the bill’s passage. According to John Fonte in the January 9, 2003, National Review, 82 percent of Republicans so voted, versus only 66 percent of Democrats.
True, Senator Barry Goldwater (R., Ariz.) opposed this bill the very year he became the GOP’s presidential standard-bearer. However, Goldwater supported the 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights Acts and called for integrating Arizona’s National Guard two years before Truman desegregated the military. Goldwater feared the 1964 Act would limit freedom of association in the private sector, a controversial but principled libertarian objection rooted in the First Amendment rather than racial hatred.
June 29, 1982: President Ronald Reagan signed a 25-year extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The Republican party also is the home of numerous “firsts.” Among them:
Until 1935, every black federal legislator was Republican. America’s first black U.S. Representative, South Carolina’s Joseph Rainey, and our first black senator, Mississippi’s Hiram Revels, both reached Capitol Hill in 1870. On December 9, 1872, Louisiana Republican Pinckney Benton Stewart “P.B.S.” Pinchback became America’s first black governor.
August 8, 1878: GOP supply-siders may hate to admit it, but America’s first black Collector of Internal Revenue was former U.S. Rep. James Rapier (R., Ala.).
October 16, 1901: GOP President Theodore Roosevelt invited to the White House as its first black dinner guest Republican educator Booker T. Washington. The pro-Democrat Richmond Times newspaper warned that consequently, “White women may receive attentions from Negro men.” As Toni Marshall wrote in the November 9, 1995, Washington Times, when Roosevelt sought reelection in 1904, Democrats produced a button that showed their presidential nominee, Alton Parker, beside a white couple while Roosevelt posed with a white bride and black groom. The button read: “The Choice Is Yours.”
GOP presidents Gerald Ford in 1975 and Ronald Reagan in 1982 promoted Daniel James and Roscoe Robinson to become, respectively, the Air Force’s and Army’s first black four-star generals.
November 2, 1983: President Reagan established Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a national holiday, the first such honor for a black American.
President Reagan named Colin Powell America’s first black national-security adviser while GOP President George W. Bush appointed him our first black secretary of state.
President G.W. Bush named Condoleezza Rice America’s first black female NSC chief, then our second (consecutive) black secretary of State. Just last month, one-time Klansman Robert Byrd and other Senate Democrats stalled Rice’s confirmation for a week. Amid unanimous GOP support, 12 Democrats and Vermont Independent James Jeffords opposed Rice ” the most “No” votes for a State designee since 14 senators frowned on Henry Clay in 1825.
“The first Republican I knew was my father, and he is still the Republican I most admire,” Rice has said. “He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.”
See also:
The Ugly Side of Revisionism
Excerpt: Another day, another black revisionist attempting to lay “racism” on the GOP. Bob Herbert writing an oped in the “now for almost free, get’em while their hot” Ny Times blathers:
“I applaud the thousands of people…
Herbert: Republicans “Anti-Black”Excerpt: Racially obsessed New York Times “columnist” Bob Herbert babbles incoherently today about the GOP being “anti-black,” while conveniently overlooking the fact that more than 40 years of fealty to the Democrat Party hasn’t exactly worked wonders for…
From Macsmind:
UPDATE II: For the lefties who are barking:”Oh yeah, we was like that then but now we are different”. Oh really? Roll the tape:
play video
Like on “The Plantation”.
watch videoOh Joe! How about “Clean Blacks”? Do they too work at the 7/11?
Of course Biden thinks that blacks are too stupid to care for themselves anyway – the foundation liberalism is that minorities are too stupid to care for themselves.
LOL…
is this a joke?
90+% of African-Americans vote Democrat.
Your team wont change that fact until you change the empty soul of your party.
2, SFL, your party has no soul, just sound bytes, Illegal campaign contributions, and a virtual plantation where you make African-Americans toil, but give them nothing in return.
Once they realize this, you’ll be the one on the outside looking in, PERMANENTLY!
PCD…90% of blacks vote for the Democrats.
We have PLENTY of soul to go around, over here.
Your party is going NOWHERE, and will continue to do so until it ditches people like you and/or changes its ideology to something more modern.
Your team lost the blacks, lost control of congress and will lose control of the White House.
How much more of a beating do you need before you realize you need to change?
4, when you are proven wrong in 08, will you do something constructive like leave the country?
DUDE, i will bet you and Peejz and anyone else here that if a Republican wins in 2008 the office of the president, I will NEVER POST HERE AGAIN.
Is there some way Peejz can save this link/post?
There is no way in hell your team will win ANYTHING in 2008.
You’re going to lose more seats in congress and you are going to lose the presidency.
I will bet my existance on this blog, to that.
The bet:
If a republican wins the White House in 2008, San Francisco Liberal will never bother you people again.
And if a Democrat wins the office of the presidency, PCD will never post here again.
Fair?
6, that is an old and empty liberal pledge that is never honored.
Also, are you also saying that SF is filled with helpless human debris that can only live by abusing Federal programs?
4- And just what is it that you offer the blacks. According to Jesse, although it was proven false, more blacks are in prison than in college. According to statistics, prior to NCLB, the NEA could proudly say that 60% of black males in the third grade were illiterate…
90% of the blacks vote Democrite because they are ignornt of the sordid reality of the history of the Democrite Party, and the fact that the real racism is the Democrite virtual plantation.
Republicans should stay on the high ground and attempt to continue the slow but continuing process of awakening for black voters instead of pandering to and perpetuating the myth for political gain (as the Democrites do).
That is the moral high ground (something Democrites could not care less about).
“DUDE, i will bet you and Peejz and anyone else here that if a Republican wins in 2008 the office of the president, I will NEVER POST HERE AGAIN.”
Don’t do that; it wouldn’t help anything. This site needs all sides of each argument.
Pam – the Dems must be offering SOMETHING good to blacks if over NINETY PERCENT OF THEM vote for the Democrat candidate.
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90%!!! that’s frickin’ HUGE.
Obviously, republicans left a sour taste in the mouths and minds of the American black man or woman.
12- That is exactly what I thought. You have no answer for the question, nor do you have any real proof that your figure is correct.
The republicans have done and continue to do a great deal for the black population. As a percentage of their respective parties, more Republicans voted for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than did Democrats! Blacks have prospered greatly under Republican presidents. During the presidency of Reagan, black adult and teenage unemployment, for example, fell faster than did white adult and teenage unemployment.
White condescension–whites bending over backward to show their good motives and unbiased minds due to irrational “white guilt”–is just as bad as black racism, and does far more damage than good. “Blacks do not need sympathetic whites to protect blacks’ ‘self esteem.’” Guilty whites who support affirmative action inherently believe that blacks need “an artificial boost without which they could not compete.” Expecting less of a black person simply because he is black is “condescending,” and, in the true sense of the word, racist.
If they choose to vote Democratic, so be it, but we will continue to work for everyone.
Heather Mac Donald says:
“To be sure, black incarceration rates are off the charts. Black men were 41 percent of the more than 2 million men in federal, state, and local prisons at midyear 2006. At the end of 2005, there were 3,145 prison inmates per 100,000 black males in the United States, compared with 1,244 inmates per 100,000 Hispanic males and 471 inmates per 100,000 white males.”
I wonder if the IQ correlation would fit roughly along those lines. 85 for blacks… 90…Hispanics 100 for whites. Recently, there was a very good ABC Evening News piece about how the Black/White divide looks fifty years later in Little Rock Central high. Sort of what you expect… blacks predominate remedial, whites in AP courses and grades. Yet the principal, a white female, was weeping over society’s being at fault…and, oh yeah, she mentioned something about reading not being promoted in black families.
Perhaps if it was taught that criminals are bad and hard working police officers and firemen are good, there might be some change in that. Good education is leads to good jobs. Dropping out is a nearly surefire path to poverty. Having kids out of wedlock leads to poverty. Maybe it’s time to actually teach values instead of do what feels good.
12, SF Crybaby, again, you suck up and repeat lies to the black population. Care to campaign without telling 1 single lie? You donkeys can’t do it. Also, you donkeys can’t go one election without stuffing the ballot box. How about a completely clean election for a change? Can you wimps do it?
PCD the Democrites are masters of voting fraud, having long ago elevated it to an art form. They are not the only ones who have committed acts of fraud, but what the Democrites are unique in is the sheer scale of fraud.
It is just my estimate, but I wouldn’t be surprised if 5-10% of the Democrite vote in a Presidential campaign is fraud. Evene more so in local elections.
And they have lawyers..lots and lots of lawyers.
As for 90% of the blacks voting Democratic.
Why does the phrase “You can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.” The Dems are just doing a really good job of fooling that 90%. The 10% are the ones that aren’t being fooled.