Posted by
Oldironsides on Saturday, September 05, 2009 1:06:23 PM
Democrats have recently adopted a new attack strategy for anyone who criticizes Barack Hussein Obama. Instead of making an effort to refute the facts of the criticism they accuse them of being racist. Here is a bonafide rebutal to these false charges.
An important message from the National Black Republicans Association
(I didn't spell Dr. Martin Luther King's name wrong, someone else
did but that is the correct link anyway so I can't change it.)
http://www.popmodal.com/video/2880/Matin-Luther-King-Was-Republican
Visit the web site of the National Black Republicans Association at http://www.nbra.info/
Reparations Petition to Congress
Demanding a Formal Apology to African Americans
for the
Democratic Party’s 200-year History of Racism
We, African American citizens of the United States, declare and assert:
Whereas
the healing of wounds begins with an apology, and the Democratic Party
has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices
against African Americans during the past two hundred years, nor held
accountable for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices
are having on us today,
Whereas as a result of the1898
Wilmington Race Riot Commission Report of May 31, 2006, the North
Carolina Democratic Party issued a unanimous apology on January 20,
2007 for the Democratic Party’s 1898 murderous rampage against blacks,
Whereas
in 2007 the Democrats in control of Congress refused to pass the H.R.
40 bill, Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans
Act, that was first introduced in 1989 and was re-introduced in every
Congress since then by black Democrat Congressman John Conyers of
Michigan,
Whereas inner-city minister Rev. Wayne Perryman wrote
a book, Unfounded Loyalty: An In-depth Look Into The Love Affair
Between Blacks and Democrats, and filed a lawsuit against the
Democratic Party on December 10, 2004, but, after admitting their
history of racism under oath in court, the Democrats refused to
apologize,
Whereas history shows that the Democratic Party
through its racist agenda and “States’ Rights” claim to own slaves,
sought to protect and preserve the institution of slavery from 1792 to
1865, thus enslaving millions of African Americans, while the
Republican Party was started in 1854 as the anti-slavery party and
fought to free blacks from slavery and championed civil rights for
blacks,
Whereas the Democratic Party enacted Fugitive Slave laws
to keep blacks from escaping from plantations; instigated the 1856 Dred
Scott decision which legally classified blacks as property; passed the
Missouri Compromise to spread slavery into 50% of the new Northern
states; and passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act designed to spread slavery
into all of the new Northern states,
Whereas the Democratic
Party in the South formed the Confederacy, seceded from the Union and
fought a Civil War to expand slavery where over 600,000 citizens were
killed, including many thousand blacks,
Whereas starting in
1861, anti-Civil War Democrats in the North were called “copperheads”
like the poisonous snake because they (a) wanted to appease the South
and accept a negotiated peace that would have resulted in an
independent Confederacy where blacks were kept in slavery, and (b)
showed their deep opposition to the Civil War draft by taking their
anger out on blacks, murdering and maiming blacks in virtually every
Northern state,
Whereas anti-Civil War Democrats in New York
engaged in “Four Days of Terror” against the city’s black population
from July 13-16, 1863, and the anti-Civil War chant of the Democrats,
as reported by one Pennsylvania newspaper, was: "Willing to fight for
Uncle Sam", but not “for Uncle Sambo,"
Whereas the anti-Civil
War Democrats verbally attacked Republican President Abraham Lincoln
because he wanted to free the slaves through war and grant blacks civil
rights, and drafted Northern men into the army to fight and die to make
his Emancipation Proclamation a reality – a Proclamation that became
the source of the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black
communities today,
Whereas after the Civil War, the Republican
Party (a) pushed to amend the Constitution to grant blacks freedom
(13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote
(15th Amendment); (b) passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875;
and (c) designed Reconstruction, a ten-year period of unprecedented
political power for African Americans,
Whereas anti-civil rights
Democrat Andrew Johnson became president when Republican President
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, and after the Civil War, the
Democratic Party fought to end Reconstruction and deny blacks the
promised “40 acres and a mule;” fought to overturn all civil rights
legislation from the 1860’s to the 1960’s; and passed repressive
legislation including the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws,
Whereas
the book A Short History of Reconstruction by the renowned historian,
Dr. Eric Foner, revealed that: (a) the Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866
by Democrats as a Tennessee social club; (b) the Ku Klux Klan became a
military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party, the
planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of white
supremacy; and (c) the Ku Klux Klan spread into other Southern states,
launching a ‘reign of terror‘ against Republican leaders, black and
white,
Whereas the book A Short History of Reconstruction by Dr.
Eric Foner exposed the facts that: (a) the Hayes-Tilden Compromise of
1877 was an attempt by Republicans to get the Democrats to stop
lynching Republicans, black and white, and respect the rights of
blacks; and (b) contrary to legend, President Rutherford Hayes did not
remove the last federal troops from the South, but merely ordered
federal troops surrounding the South Carolina and Louisiana statehouses
to return to their barracks,
Whereas after taking control of
Congress in the late 1800’s, the Democratic Party passed the Repeal Act
of 1894 that overturned all civil rights legislation passed by the
Republicans, including the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875,
Whereas
the Democratic Party supported the Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896
that established the “separate but equal” segregation doctrine,
Whereas
historical documents show that: (a) in an effort to stop the Democrats
from lynching and denying civil rights to blacks, the NAACP was founded
on Republican President Abraham Lincoln’s 100th birthday, February 12,
1909, by white Republicans Oswald Garrison Villard, Mary White Ovington
and William English Walling; and (b) the first black general secretary
of the NAACP was black Republican James Weldon Johnson who became the
general secretary of the NAACP in 1920 and, in 1900, wrote the song,
“Lift Every Voice,” known as the “Black National Anthem” in
collaboration with his brother, John Rosamond Johnson,
Whereas
after Democrat President Woodrow was elected in 1912 and while Congress
was controlled by the Democrats, all black American civil employees
where pushed out of federal government jobs, and the greatest number of
bills proposing racial segregation and discrimination were introduced
than had ever been proposed in our nation’s history,
Whereas
even though Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the vote
of many black Americans due to his “New Deal,” he banned black American
newspapers from the military because he was convinced the newspapers
were communists and rejected anti-lynching laws pushed by Republicans,
as well as efforts by Republicans to establish a permanent Civil Rights
Commission that did not get established until 1958 under Republican
President Dwight Eisenhower,
Whereas Democrat President Harry
Truman not only rejected Republican efforts to enact anti-lynching laws
and establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission, but also failed to
enforce his 1948 Executive Order designed to desegregate the military,
an order that was not effectively enforced until Republican President
Dwight Eisenhower was elected,
Whereas with the party slogan:
"Segregation Forever!," the Dixiecrats, who were Democrats, (a) formed
the States' Rights Democratic Party for the presidential election of
1948; (b) remained Democrats for all local elections and all subsequent
national elections; and (c) did not all migrate to the Republican Party
as Democrats today falsely claim, but instead the Dixiecrats declared
that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than a Republican
because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks,
Whereas
during the civil rights era of the 1960's, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., who was a Republican, was fighting the Democrats including:
(a) Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox who famously brandished ax
handles to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant; (b) Democrat
Public Safety Commissioner "Bull" Connor in Birmingham who let loose
vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators;
and (c) Democrat Alabama Governor George Wallace who stood in front of
the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963 and thundered, "Segregation now,
segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,"
Whereas the
Democratic Party supported the Topeka, Kansas school board in the Brown
v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (a 1954 Supreme Court
decision by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was appointed by Republican
President Dwight Eisenhower) which declared that the “separate but
equal” doctrine violated the 14th Amendment and ended school
segregation,
Whereas in 1954, Democrat Arkansas Governor Orville
Faubus tried to prevent the desegregation of a Little Rock public
school, resulting in Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sending
federal troops to prevent violence and enforce a court order
desegregating the Little Rock school,
Whereas Democratic
President John F. Kennedy was not a civil rights advocate because he:
(a) voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law (that was pushed by
Republican President Dwight Eisenhower); (b) opposed the 1963 March on
Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (that was organized by black
Republican A. Phillip Randolph); (c) authorized the FBI (supervised by
his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) to wiretap and
investigate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on suspicion of being a
communist in order to undermine that Civil Rights leader; (d) was later
criticized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for ignoring civil rights
issues; and (e) only grudgingly agreed to make a telephone call to get
Dr. King, Jr. out of the Birmingham jail after Dr. King, Sr. requested
Kennedy’s help,
Whereas due to the nearly 100 years of
opposition to civil rights laws by Democrats, Republican Senator Barry
Goldwater, who ran for president against Lyndon Johnson in 1964, sought
to force the Democrats in the South to stop passing discriminatory laws
and thus end the need to continuously enact federal civil rights
legislation, but his efforts were not heeded by the Democrats who later
unjustly criticized Goldwater,
Whereas Democrat President Lyndon
Johnson could not have achieved passage of civil rights legislation
without the support of Republicans due to the strong opposition of
Democrats, and in his 4,500-word State of the Union Address delivered
on January 4, 1965, Johnson mentioned scores of topics for federal
action, but only thirty five words were devoted to civil rights and not
one word about voting rights,
Whereas it was Republican Senator
Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson,
who was key to the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960
and 1964, as well as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights
Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing,
Whereas
Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a former “Keagle” in
the Ku Klux Klan, made a 14-hour filibuster speech in the Senate in
June 1964 in an unsuccessful effort to block passage of the 1964 Civil
Rights Act,
Whereas because Republican Senator Everett
successfully fought to pass civil rights laws in the face of strong
opposition to civil rights laws by the Democrats, Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. hailed Senator Dirksen’s “able and courageous leadership;”
and "The Chicago Defender," the largest black-owned daily at that time,
praised Senator Dirksen “for the grand manner of his generalship behind
the passage of the best civil rights measures that have ever been
enacted into law since Reconstruction,”
Whereas the statement by
Democrat President Lyndon Johnson about losing the South after passage
of the 1964 civil rights law was not made out of a concern that racist
Democrats would suddenly join the Republican Party that was fighting
for the civil rights of blacks, but instead, was an expression of fear
that the racist Democrats would again form a third party, such as the
short-lived States' Rights Democratic Party,
Whereas after
Democrat President Lyndon Johnson expressed his concern that the racist
Democrats in the South would be lost after the passage of the 1964
civil rights laws, Johnson’s concern came true when Alabama’s Democrat
Governor George C. Wallace in 1968 started the American Independent
Party that attracted other racist candidates, including Democrat
Atlanta Mayor Lester Maddox,
Whereas in March of 1968, while
referring to the fact that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. left Memphis,
Tennessee after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, Democrat
Senator Robert Byrd called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts
trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble is ignited, which
motivated Dr. King to return to Memphis a few weeks later where he was
assassinated on April 4, 1968,
Whereas Democrats expressed
little, if any, concern when the racially segregated South voted
solidly for Democrats; yet unfairly deride Republicans because of the
thirty-year odyssey of the South switching to the Republican Party that
began in the 1970's with President Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy,"
which was an effort on the part of Nixon to get Christians in the South
to stop voting for Democrats who did not share their values, and who
were discriminating against blacks,
Whereas Republican President
Richard Nixon established Affirmative Action as a merit-based system to
help African Americans prosper with his 1969 Philadelphia Plan (crafted
by black Republican Art Fletcher) that set the nation's first goals and
timetables, as well as his 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act that
made merit-based Affirmative Action programs the law of our nation, but
Democrats turned Affirmative Action into an unfair quota system;
Whereas
Democrat Senator Robert Byrd who was a fierce opponent of desegregating
the military complained in one letter: “I would rather die a thousand
times and see old glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than
see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a
throwback to the blackest specimen of the wilds,”
Whereas in the
early 1970’s, Democrat Senator Robert Byrd pushed to have the Senate’s
main office building named after a former “Dixiecrat,” Democrat Senator
Richard Russell who was Senator Byrd’s mentor and leading opponent of
ant-lynching legislation, and in 2001 Senator Byrd was forced to
apologize for using the N-word on television,
Whereas Democrats
did not denounce Democrat Senator Christopher Dodd who praised Senator
Robert Byrd as someone who would have been "a great senator for any
moment," including the Civil War; yet Democrats denounced Senator Trent
Lott for his remarks about Senator Strom Thurmond who was never in the
Ku Klux Klan and, after he became a Republican, defended blacks against
lynching and the discriminatory poll taxes imposed on blacks by
Democrats,
Whereas Democrats today demean and discriminate
against blacks including (a) Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy who called
black judicial nominees “Neanderthals;” (b) Democrat Senator Harry Reid
who slurred Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as someone who could
not write good English; (c) Democrat Senator Joe Biden who boasted that
his home state of Delaware was a slave state and slandered all black
former presidential candidates (Rep. Shirley Chisholm who became the
first black and the first woman to run for president in 1972; Senator
Carol Mosely Braum; Rev. Jesse Jackson; and Rev. Al Sharpton) by
declaring that Senator Barack Hussein Obama (the son of an white
American woman and a man from Kenya) is the first “clean” black
presidential candidate; (d) Democratic Party operatives who depicted
Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele on the Internet as a
“Simple Sambo;” (e) cartoonist Jeff Danziger and Pat Oliphant who
portrayed Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice as a “stooge” and a
bare foot, “Ignorant Mammy;” (f) Democratic Senator John F. Kerry who
denounced Affirmative Action on the floor of the Senate in the 1990’s;
(g) Senator Hillary Clinton who set the tone for the current race-based
slander when she insulted Mahatma Gandhi of India who was a role model
for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by calling Gandhi a gas station
attendant; and (h) President Bill Clinton who – following in the
footsteps of his mentor J. William Fulbright, a staunch segregationist
– refused to enforce a court-ordered Affirmative Action Plan while
president and was himself sued for discriminating against his black
employees while he was the Governor of Arkansas,
Whereas the
Democratic Party’s use of deception and fear to intimidate black
Americans into voting for Democrats is consistent with the Democratic
Party’s heritage of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and
kukluxery – a perversion of moral sentiment among leaders of the
Democratic Party; and the Democratic Party’s racist legacy bode ill
until this generation of African Americans,
Now, therefore, for
the documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs inflicted upon African
Americans, we demand a formal written apology from the Democratic Party.