A Shameful History

Ex-Hollywood Liberal has an informative post on the United States' historical racial conflicts and the Democrats' role in them.

When Republicans won the Civil War in 1865, it didn’t stop there. In spite of the 13th Amendment, Democrats continued to deny blacks their citizenship rights. In 1868, the 14th Amendment was passed, establishing citizenship for all in Federal law.

100% of Republicans voted for it.
100% of Democrats opposed it.

Despite passage of the 14th Amendment, Democrats continued to prevent blacks from voting. To overcome this, Congress passed the 15th Amendment, establishing the right to vote for all people regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

100% of Republicans voted for it.
100% of Democrats opposed it.

From 1866–1875, the Republican Congress passed 19 civil rights laws. Democrats oppose them all.

In 1866, Democrats formed the Ku Klux Klan with the express purpose of preventing the election of Republicans in the South. In 1872, Democrats admitted during Congressional hearings that the Klan was a Democrat creation intended to restore Democrat control of the South. The Klan carried out this plan with a series of massacres.

In 1876, Democrats took control of the House and no more civil rights legislation was passed until 1964. In 1892, Democrats took control of the White House, the Senate, and the House. They immediately established Jim Crow laws and repealed all civil rights legislation passed by the Republicans. The laws or amendments they could not repeal were skirted by poll taxes and literacy tests.

Until 1935, all blacks elected to Congress were Republicans. In addition to those elected to federal office, hundreds of blacks (all Republican) were elected to state legislatures in the South. In the 1920s, Republicans proposed anti-lynching legislation. The legislation passed the house but was killed by the Democrat-controlled Senate. The legislation finally passed by a slim margin in 1939 despite the passionate opposition speech by Democrat Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson.

Two years after the passage of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Democrats expressed their opposition to the desegregation decision in the "Southern Manifesto." One hundred members of Congress, all Democrats, signed the manifesto.

In 1957, Republican President Eisenhower authored a Civil Rights Bill, hoping to repair the damage done to blacks and their civil rights by Democrats since 1892. Passage of the bill was blocked by Senate Democrats.

In 1959, Republican President Eisenhower authored a Voting Rights Bill in an effort to undo the disenfranchisement of blacks by Democrats through poll taxes, literacy tests, and threats of violence by the KKK. Once again, passage of the bill was blocked by Senate Democrats.

As the daughter of Harvard Professor Henry “Bunifah Latifah” Gates, Elizabeth’s vapid blog about the “Beer Summit” devolved from pageant queen oratory into the swamp of revisionist history. Her final comments not only corroborate her father’s uninspired performance as an educator and parent, but also identifies herself among America's next generation of race-baiters... (Read the rest of this great post here)