By Their Own Standards, Dems Racist When It Comes to Hispanics
Conservatives warned liberals of the dangers of playing the race card too often without substantiation. But with the election of President Obama, progressives went crazy.
Every time conservatives opposed our inexperienced president on policy, progressive pundits were quick to dismiss the objections as a simple expression of conservatives’ supposed distaste for an African-American president. Recall how Karen Hunter, MSNBC contributor, described challenges to the Obama agenda? “Post-Traumatic First African-American President Syndrome.”
The 5th District watchdog group in Virginia chronicles the net effect of such dangerous use of the race card:
Even the Daily Show lampooned the excessive use of the race card, declaring it “maxed out.”
Well, if by liberalism’s standards the act of objecting to a person of color on policy is tantamount to racism, then Americans now have clear evidence that progressives are racist toward Hispanics.
Democrats, through Bill Clinton and reportedly the White House, conspired to defeat a conservative Latino in a Senate race in Florida. The liberals in charge of the Democrat Party tried to convince their candidate, Kendrick Meek (an African-American), to drop out of that race so that the linguini-spined Charlie Crist would have a shot at beating Marco Rubio.
The message, largely ignored by the press, was that Marco Rubio could not be allowed to win because he was the wrong kind of Hispanic.
His family fled the left-wing utopia of Cuba. Thus, he had too much knowledge about where liberal policies lead. Worse yet, for liberals, he could articulate his family’s experience with the destructive results of leftist policies.
Liberals knew he had to be stopped, and thus were willing to throw an African-American under the bus in favor of the white guy who had been a Republican five minutes ago.
It wasn’t so much the man that liberals were trying to defeat, though Rubio is a magnificent candidate and will be a great senator. It was the idea that Rubio represents: he puts an exclamation point on the fact that not all Latinos believe in open borders and the welfare state. He shatters the narrative that liberals have worked for decades to craft. Now, not only will white America know that not all Latinos are liberal, Hispanics will now see their traditional conservative values displayed by a man that has an (R) next to his name. Rubio is something the Democrats have long feared: a conservative role model for the Latino community.
Sadly, this isn’t the first time liberals have conspired to keep Hispanics out of high office to maintain a narrative.
For the first time in history, the Dems in the Senate filibustered an Appeals court candidate, Estrada. It had never been done. Ever. That was EXTREME!
For the first time in history, the Dems in the Senate filibustered an Appeals court candidate, Estrada. It had never been done. Ever. That was EXTREME!
Why did they do it? Because he is Hispanic. He would clearly be on the fast -track to the Supreme Court. They could not have the first Hispanic on the Supreme court be appointed by a Republican President! That would never do!
It was all about keeping the Hispanics on the reservation. It was all about being able to continue to portray the Pubs as racists, as the party of white males.
The Narrative is what gives them access to power. If the Narrative is destroyed, so are they. Racist is,indeed, “maxed out”. One less Narrative, the lack of which aided greatly in their massive defeat. Just keep destroying the Narrative, and they are finished. Without the lies, they have nothing.
Gee, I guess maybe Bush should have nominated a Hispanic to the Supreme Court instead of those two middle-aged white guys. That way you could have claimed that precious “we like brown people too” mantra you so desperately want (but don’t really believe in).
You see, when you start to assign motives to people, you can’t prove anything. All you have s conjecture and opinion. It’s the way of the Fox. And it can be yours for on $200 million per day.
Yeah, that damned racist Bush, never appointing people of any color except white to any position in his cabinet or anywhere else, well except for Colin Powell and Codolezza Rice, oops,your statement is now a falicy!
gonzles, spellings, guitierrez etc can be added…approx 50% of Bush’s appointees were people of color or women. I especially liked Karen Hughes who called a spade a spade..
Sentsey does not seem to know how to get his point across without being rude and mean..guess he thinks it’s cute. Surely not intelligent. His facts are usually skewed
and not worth reading anymore.
Also wanted to ad, a person’s intelligence and loyalty should come before their color or sex.
A lesson we have learned well with the election of Obama.
How many of them were nominated to the Supreme Court?
Just a friendly reminder: Justice Thomas was nominated by George H.W. Bush. But I guess he slipped your mind because he is DEFINITELY the “wrong kind of black”……
Um, Sensei (if that is your real name) did you read the article at all, and if so, did you understand it? Here, let me repeat what your beloved Dems thought about Miguel Estrada:
Especially dangerous, because he has a minimal paper trail, he is a Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment. (emphasis mine)
Also, before you taint George Bush with the racist brush, let me remind you that he has a Hispanic daughter-in-law, and half-Hispanic grandchildren. Just FYI.
Oh, so Bush ALMOST nominated a Mexi, eh?
The Cesspool issues forth yet another episode in cosmic logic.
Modern Liberal Born Senseless Mantra eats itself –
“You see, when you start to assign motives to people, you can’t prove anything.”
And –
“…you could have claimed that precious “we like brown people too” mantra you so desperately want (but don’t really believe in).”
“You see, when you start to assign motives to people, you can’t prove anything.”
Persons Galore with reverse tok tok and a bit abject tail chasing.
So who’s next? What will be the next Margery Manifestation?
Born Senseless with the Kick Me sign riveted to its ass is being used for field goal practice by The Tingler. Being used and kicked. Forget the bus.
Mr. President has much higher uses for Born Senseless, the Chosen Ones. Liking it helps, Mr. President will take note of those who easily lay down their comfortable Cesspool life for His noble usage. Persons Galore, used and dumped. And loving it.
“That way you could have claimed that precious ‘we like brown people too’ mantra you so desperately want (but don’t really believe in).”
“You see, when you start to assign motives to people, you can’t prove anything.
Heh! Projection? Nah. It’s a Zen koan, folks.
Your Sensei – You have the stupidity to attempt painting Republicans in using ‘conjecture’? HAHAHAHA
The Democratic Party incorporates conjecture and projection ONLY. It’s their raison d’etre.
How many slips of the tongue sound bytes regarding race were recorded of Democrats the past 21 months? Reid, Rangel, Biden, Obama (too many to count by our CiC. I’ll only speak of the recent incidents I recollect. Asking ‘Black barber shop and hair salon owners’ and Hispanic/Latino voters in a pre-recorded message over the Summer.. can you imagine a Pub or Independent pol doing such a thing? Again in October playing up some ‘Pub is the enemy’ nonsense..?) for starters.
I suggest you look into Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s response to Beck’s August rally while she attended Sharpton’s hate-filled assembly.. uhh ‘rally’. Yep, a wonderful ‘unifier’ she and the ‘Reverend’ are. but she really excels at being a shakedown artist for campaign monies.
What color is the sky on your planet?
Sensei; You suck.
The poet checks in. Stunning. Thank you, Geebercyzer.
“You see, when you start to assign motives to people, you can’t prove anything.”
I suppose the hypocrisy of that statement is lost on a mental giant such as yourself.
Sensei, your despicable remark about Michelle Malkin on another thread here on this website yesterday proves that you are a fraud, a hypocrite, a racist and the slimiest of slimy low-lifes. That disqualifies you from having any right to accuse anyone else of being a racist or a bigot.
It is only out of envy, jealousy, hatefulness and spite that you come here to mock, criticize and ridicule your betters on contrived, bogus and bizarre pretexts. If we make you feel insecure, inferior, inadequate and stupid, maybe it is because you are insecure, inferior, inadequate and stupid, ya think?
Although I doubt it, it might make you feel better about yourself if you got up off of your fat, lazy butt and went out and got yourself a job, instead of living on unemployment, food stamps, welfare and other charities given to you by those of us who are working and paying our taxes, you sleazy ingrate, parasite, freeloader and lazy, useless bum.
Sensai the welfare queen is ridiculing us. LOL – What is wrong with that picture?
Not to mention that he also welches on bets despite my offer to make the payment into a donation to charity.
“unemployment, food stamps, welfare and other charities ”
never been a part of my life, ever, which is more than i can say for Joe the Plumber, Joe Miller’s wife, Sharron Angle and Christine O’Donnell. As for charities, you might want to discuss that with Conservative Blunderer down there. He’s into begging for charities. I’m sure you two can figure out a way to scam the system.
I gave the links, you’ll note, both to the wager and to my offer of making a donation to charity to pay off on the wager.
I’ll let the readers make up their own mind about who’s in the right and who’s the weasel.
Hmmmm, Sensei is an eccentric, unemployed, lonely, old spinster, whose eccentric personality makes her unemployable, and who is, therefore, still leeching off of her elderly parents. But she insists that she isn’t living on the dole. Kind of explains her moodiness, crankiness, bitchiness and her other delusions, doesn’t it?
I don’t look to the likes of you to qualify me for anything. You don’t make me feel any particular way. And I don’t live life on the dole. So, strike 3.
It might more aptly be described as “wandering off the victimhood plantation” . . .
I lived 20 years in Massachusetts and 6 years in Charlottesville, VA (a liberal enclave 100 miles south of DC, home to the University of Virginia). I can tell by personal experience that racism is alive and well in liberal circles. It takes the form of a patronizing superiority towards minorities in general (especially latinos and blacks). If any individual belonging to these groups wants to progress he has to be careful to behave like a subject. The problem liberals see with people like Tom Sowell, Marco Rubio and many others who dare to develop a conservative spine and an intellect is exactly what you describe: fear of having CONSERVATIVE ROLE MODELS for what liberals consider their subordinate voting herds. The Democratic Party is now the political arm of Planned Parenthood. Allow me to remind all of you that Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, believed in the elimination of these “inferior groups”.
QUOTES
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“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
Margaret Sanger’s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts.
“Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need … We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.” Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review.
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END OF QUOTES
Black and Hispanic Americans are the main targets of the abortion “industry” initiated by Margareth Sanger and enshrined in our laws by the Democrats and the spineless Republicans. More than 50 million Americans have died in the womb. That is about the number of people Kruschev could have killed in a nuclear exchange with the US in the 60′s. No need to do it now. We’re doing it ourselves through abortion, drugs, bad education, and the culture of violence in the ghettos.
Add to that the inability of the GOP to attract those minorities that are for the most part naturally conservative. That neglect must end. Individuals like Mr. Estrada and Mr. Rubio are a wonderful sign that things are changing fast.
Keep telling the truth: The Democratic Party is an enemy of Hispanic and African Americans.
I lived 20 years in Massachusetts and 6 years in Charlottesville, VA (a liberal enclave 100 miles south of DC, home to the University of Virginia). I can tell by personal experience that racism is alive and well in liberal circles. It takes the form of a patronizing superiority towards minorities in general (especially latinos and blacks). If any individual belonging to these groups wants to progress he has to be careful to behave like a subject. The problem liberals see with people like Tom Sowell, Marco Rubio and many others who dare to develop a conservative spine and an intellect is exactly what you describe: fear of having CONSERVATIVE ROLE MODELS for what liberals consider their subordinate voting herds. The Democratic Party is now the political arm of Planned Parenthood. Allow me to remind all of you that Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, believed in the elimination of these “inferior groups”.
QUOTES
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“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
Margaret Sanger’s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts.
“Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need … We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.” Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review.
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END OF QUOTES
Black and Hispanic Americans are the main targets of the abortion “industry” initiated by Margaret Sanger and enshrined in our laws by the Democrats and the spineless Republicans. More than 50 million Americans have died in the womb. That is about the number of people Kruschev could have killed in a nuclear exchange with the US in the 60′s. No need to do it now. We’re doing it ourselves through abortion, drugs, bad education, and the culture of violence in the ghettos.
Add to that the inability of the GOP to attract those minorities that are for the most part naturally conservative. That neglect must end. Individuals like Mr. Estrada and Mr. Rubio are a wonderful sign that things are changing fast.
Keep telling the truth: The Democratic Party is an enemy of Hispanic and African Americans.
Far-left liberals are doing the same thing to Republican African-Americans now being elected to Congress. Men like Allen West or Tim Scott were probably called every name in the book by liberals because they weren’t “good” blacks, the ones who always play the victim and tow the angry far-left liberal line on every political issue. Heaven forbid minorities now, whether hispanic or African-American, should embrace conservative principles, they would be seen as traitors to their minority liberal friends.
Bunk. What has the Democratic Party done for minorities since the beginning of the “Great Society” in the 1960s? Have they ended poverty, stimulated job creation, and increased learning scores in schools for minorities? No. If anything, the plight of the minorities has gotten worse since the 1960s. Minorities are slowly beginning to wake up to this fact and are now beginning to realize that their last best hope for getting ahead in the world is by embracing conservative values. Marco Rubio and Allen West and Tim Scott are great examples of this and their success stories should be shown all over the country to other minority voters as a sign that they can do much, much, better while following conservative ideals and values. I’m sure all three of those men will play a large role and give great speeches at the upcoming 2012 Republican National Convention.
You are too generous by over a century, Libertyship.
The Democratic Party was the pre-Civil War party of slavery.
The Democratic Party was the party that successfully sought to end Reconstruction.
The Democratic Party was the party of Jim Crow.
The Democratic Party roared its opposition to the Civil Rights movement.
And, now, the Democratic Party, in league with the teachers’ unions, is perpetuating the most horrific and damaging civil rights denial in America today– the putrid public education systems in urban America.
The Democratic Party is proud to support minorities…so long as they know their place.
Minorities are fodder for the democrat agenda, which agenda is entirely dependent on race/class/gender/age (whatever) divisions.
Class warfare and identity politics are the meat and bread of Progressivism/Socialism.
Nothing can ever improve and no one’s lot can ever be ameliorated else the Progressive shtick fall apart.
It was funny (in a sad way) to watch that old womanizing reprobate (and murderer) Teddy Kennedy railing about “poverty in America” right up to the end of his life. He was too stuck in the mantra, the ideology, to acknowledge that prosperity across all groups had risen considerably during his lifetime.
But there are plenty carrying Kennedy’s banner today, groups like the congressional black caucus. It will be amusing to see how the CBC reacts to newly elected representative Allen West joining their ranks.
Democrats have standards? Since when?
A party of ‘win at all costs’ can’t afford standards, ethics or morals in the pursuit of victory and power.
Just for the sake of clarification, Marco Rubio is white. Cuba, like all of Latin America, was settled by white, European Spaniards. Some procreated with the natives, some procreated with the slaves brought to work the plantations, and some procreated with white, Spanish women colonists. Americans are under the misguided notion that a person with a Spanish surname is somehow automatically not white. The odds of this being true are greatly dependent on the person’s country of origin. Mexicans are mostly Mestizos and native Americans so the assumption that they’re not white is mostly always true. The opposite is true of Argentinians. Argentina has a larger white population than the US. So, while the Leftists can quiver in fear of diminishing Rubio because of his origins, he still a white guy.
And that is one more mark against Rubio in the eyes of the Democratic Party. To them, the “right kind” of Hispanic is brown, poor, and uneducated, thus easily manipulated.
Let’s be honest here: Marco Rubio might be white, but he is still Hispanic. White people aren’t a monolithic mass, any more than black or brown people.
The words Hispanic and race should not even be uttered in the same sentence. Does anyone talk about the Germanic race? Or the Franco race?
It is just an accident of history that the Caucasian Spanish were prolific conquerors and inter-minglers with a large population of indigenous peoples in the Caribbean and the Americas – thought to be descendents of the Mongoloid race. Most of these areas over time adopted the names and language of Spain and these areas ended up with a blended population.
All the maneuverings of politicians and governments around the concept of “Hispanics” just exposes the hypocrisy and obnoxiousness of ideology, race and victim driven politics. What the Democrats really want is to create class envy and feelings of resentment among a large constituency group so that they can position themselves as saviors. The Hispanic category isn’t tight enough for them so they go to great lengths to weed out those they feel are not worthy of their victim-hood. Try to get minority status with the SBA as an Hispanic and you will find that you do not qualify if your ancestors came from “the Iberian Peninsula” . Huh? Wouldn’t that be the case with almost everyone with a Spanish last name?
Marco Rubio is a great guy. What you see is what you get. There is nothing phony or pretentius about him. He is a laid back, down-to-earth kind of guy. He is honest, sincere and candid. He was an eloquent spokesman for Conservatism and for the civil rights of all people, black, white, Hispanic, Republicans and Democrats, alike, in the Florida State Legisalature. He is diligent and conscientious. His is the all American family – mom, American flag, moral values and apple pie. It was a heartwarming experience for us when we saw that he won. He deserved it. THere is someone of whom Americans of all political affiliations can be proud, one reason why many Democrats were glad to join Republicans in voting for him. He got 51% of the votes in a hard-fought 3-way race, unprecedented in Florida. The guy is dynamic.
Geezuz Brian. Give it a rest. Your posts are as obnoxious as Your Sensei’s, only dumber. Just STFU.
Are you shovel ready?
Hey ditch digger (appropriate name), how many fingers am I holding up, and which one?
Poor baby, still whining and sulking because I ridiculed one of your moronic comments?
Oh, and did I mention that you can kiss my ass?
Obviously, Brian, that jackass, Ditch Digger, is envious and jealous of you, probably because he is too stupid to make any worthwhile contributions of his own here.
I’ve seen his creepy and snotty comments before. Ignore that creepy loser.
Imbecile, Ditch Digger, chooses appropriate names for himself. On another conservative blog, he uses the name, Stuck-On-Stupid. Honestly, cross my heart. Ditch Digger, aka, Stuck-On-Stupid, has the IQ of an eggplant. (A small one) He contributes nothing. He is too stupid to say anything worth reading.
Ditch Digger, aka, Stuck-On-Stupid, has said on another blog that he is in construction.
You’ve all seen him. He is the fat slob with the top of his butt crack showing.
You know, the big, dumb dufus holding the stop sign on road construction sites?
PJM blogs are usually polite, if pointed. Let’s clean it up guys. Hey editor, asleep or something today?
Eric, thank you for bringing up the subject. For example, I am counted a s a latino because I was born in a Spanish country. My maternal grandparents come from a small town in the Alessandria province in the Italian Piedmont. My father’s ancestors come from another small town in the Po valley but my paternal grandmother is an English Catholic who emigrated to Latin America in the turn of the 20th century. I do have good friend Gunther Earhardt, if you want to find a trace of anything but German blood in his lineage you have to go back to the 15th century when some ancestor of his married a Dutch girl. But Gunther is counted as Hispanic in the US census because he was born in Argentina. Is Hispanic a “race”? No. Is Latino a “race”? Definitely no. The term itself used to be used exclusively by those born in Latium (Lazio)where the original Roman tribes came from.
Marco Rubio (and many others like him) simply represents those who were adopted as sons of this American Republic. Eventually all of those “racial” groups will dissolve and disappear but the role of a Marco Rubio at this time is to serve as a model for those who share his experience: other Cubans, Hondurans, Argentinians, etc. MOST ESPECIALLY those who are in Latin America and currently under the influence of the socialist wave that seems to envelope the whole world.
By the way: Che Guevara (Ernesto Sebastian Guevara de la Serna Lynch) had a an Irish-American grandmother who was born in (of all places) California. What a crazy world, uh?
And his race has bearing how? He is hispanic- it’s a political/social term, denoting he comes from a spanish speaking country, not that he is a Native American/Mestizo from central/south america. He probably identifies more with Cuban-Latino culture than he actually could with the WASP cutlure, and have a deeper understanding of their problems and issues, not to mention cultural mores (I don’t know him and he’s not in my state, so this, in all fairness, could be wrong). And, my guess is he’s fluent in Spanish, and so can actually talk directly to his Hispanic consituents, and be a stronger voice for them.
As for the rest of it- do you know how intermarried his family might be? A lot of intermarriage happened, and a lot of cultural blending, so how does that affect his ‘whiteness’? Or does it even matter? Do you actually have a point with pointing out his race, or did you just want to seem smart?
His language and cultural background is Hispanic, so he’s, by definition, Hispanic, regardless of his race. So, again, what’s your point?
It’s sad to watch that video. The fellow was so limited in vocabulary and didn’t put forth any evidence. He was totally unwilling to discuss freedom of speech and the destruction of private property that he was engaged in. This person is emblematic of the type of unthinking, mindless followers the democrats love. What is really sad is that he is only hurting himself and others like him in the long run.
The Democrats’ pattern of blocking Hispanics for not being “the right kind of Hispanic” is undeniable.
It follows the pattern. For examply, only those black individuals who toe the party line (party line=”blacks are the eternally oppressed in America and must continuously oppose whitey”) are the right kind of blacks. Anyone who doesn’t accept that dogma is viewed as a betrayer of the faith, an outcast. Or an Uncle Tom.
(Recall when that jealous race baiter extraordinaire, Jesse Jackson, was caught on tape saying he’d like to cut Obama’s nuts off.)
The Left also thinks only certain kinds of (pre-approved) speech are free and that it has a right to control any speech it doesn’t like and/or denigrate it as “hate speech”.
It was the idea that Rubio represents: he puts an exclamation point on the fact that not all Latinos believe in open borders and the welfare state. He shatters the narrative that liberals have worked for decades to craft.
The new Governor of New Mexico, prosecutor Susana Martinez, is cut from the same cloth.
Some Hispanics saw straight through Obama’s appeal a couple of weeks ago to vote Democrat and help him defeat their common “enemy”. (that enemy, of course, is the huge swath of the American people that wants immigration laws currently on the books to be enforced)
Of course, Obama and his Enforcer at Justice, Eric Holder, have demonstrated a pattern of picking and choosing which laws to enforce against whom.
I’ve never heard a more eloquent denunciation of illegal immigration than Gabriella’s in Tucson, April 2010
they use mexicans the same way they use blacks, its the white people who keep them down…….but how much did jackson & sharton help the blacks? the 2 of them use the BLAME GAME over and over and over…. THEY ARE THE ONES THAT SHOULD WAKE UP? they are being USED?
Oh, if you only knew. Democrats are actually making a much more concerted effort to silence minority voices. I heard on the radio that the Democrat Hispanics are secretly funding the drug cartels across the border. Yep. They’re funneling $200 million per day into the hands of the drug lords to stoke violence and give Hispanics a bad name in our border states. And it’s working, too. I don’t love down there, but I saw Sharron Angle’s ads, and if that doesn’t scare the bejeezus out of you, nothing will. Clearly all illegal immigrants are gang members, drug dealers and murderers. Thank you, Sharron, for turning that plan of the Democrat Hispanics on its ear. You’re the greatest.
“By Their Own Standards, Dems Racist…”
People might not be aware of this, but at one time the Demo-scum actually enslaved people who had dark skin and then, after we made them stop doing that, they invented a political system known as Jim Crow that made black people into second class citizens. They also murdered thousands of black people just to make sure that black folks got the idea of what the Jim Crow laws were supposed to do (to their credit the Demo-scum also murdered white Republicans, so folks wouldn’t think they were TOTALLY racist).
Check it out. It’s in all the history books.
Really? What history of yours refers to the Demo-scum? And what chapter in your history book refers to murdering of white Republicans? Sounds like someone is a proud owner of the Glenn Beck Super Awesome Republican Patriot American History Coloring Book For Kids.
Southern Conservatives fought for slavery. Southern conservatives fought for Jim Crowe and against civil rights. Whether they have called themselves Democrats or Republicans, southern conservatives have been on the wrong side of history since the Civil War. Who are you trying to fool other than yourself with this bullturd?
Where to begin, where to begin…?
Prior to the Civil War, the Democratic Party, as a whole, supported slavery. Why was the Republican Party created? Because Whigs tried to straddle the slavery question and split apart– pro-slavery Whigs joined the pro-slavery Democratic Party, anti-slavery Whigs created the Republican Party (including an eloquent, successful Illinois lawyer named Lincoln).
Who was Lincoln’s opponent in the 1858 Senate debate? Stephen Douglas. So let’s get this straight– Stephen Douglas was a “moderate” Democrat from a non-slave-holding state. And he was on board, as was any and every Democrat of the time, with protecting slavery in the South and allowing it to spread to the newly created states that would be created out of the western territories. There was no “moderate” opposition to slavery in the Democratic Party. The only question was whether you supported it passionately or merely supported it as a plank of the party. But there was no doubt or debate about the position of the Democratic Party.
There was no small “conservative Democrat” support or slavery. It was full-throated support for the “peculiar institution”.
The same holds for the end of Reconstruction. African-American candidates won elections all over the South 1866-1876. What political party did all of those African-American politicians belong to? The Republican Party. What party despised them? What party opposed them? What party sought to end the protections of former slaves that Reconstruction provided? The Democratic Party. What party instituted the poll taxes, property requirements, literacy requirements, and other requirements to disenfranchise African-Americans? It begins with a D…
What political party did African-Americans overwhelmingly belong to prior to the 1930s? The Republican Party. Why? The supporters of Jim Crow were all uniformly…uniformly!…members of the Democratic Party.
Think of the images of governors blocking African-Americans from school, of police setting dogs on, and manning hoses against, civil rights protesters, think of the crowds booing and shouting insults…all of them Democrats.
What party destroyed Republican civil rights efforts in the 1940s and 1950s? Democrats. And what party did the President belong to who finally sent the national guard to Little Rock? Republican Dwight Eisenhower. Over the howling protests of, you guessed it, Democrats.
Issues of race in America have always been difficult. Indeed, race is the arrow that flies through our history. It has been the cause of our deepest shames and greatest triumphs.
But let’s be clear about where the Democratic Party has been in terms of those issues, those shames, and those triumphs.
Perhaps the Democratic Party has the best interest of minorities at its heart. But its actions have always belied that and, as I pointed out above, even today I’m not encouraged as HUGE numbers of yet another generation of African-American youth drops out of/”graduates” from failing schools without proficient abilities to read, write, or calculate. And the teachers’ unions that think those systems are just fine, thank you very much? What political party do they support with hundreds of millions of dollars (…hundreds of millions…it boggles the mind)? That’s right…
Let it be a tragic warning to any minority group that thinks the Democratic Party supports the interest of its members…
Truth Time had you pegged before you even posted. It was the conservatives.
One tiny quibble- they are the Democrat party, not the Democratic party. We have a democratic system of government. It’s hair splitting, but it seems that the progressive left is adept at manipulating language, so let’s not give them any extra ammo.
I do have a question (I’ll have to look up on my own)- wasn’t there a split in the Democrat party that sent southern ‘crats into the replublican party around the 50s or 60s?
I will say I like the finessing of saying “southern conservatives, whatever they call themselves” when it was predominantly as members of the Democrat party that they participated in racially oppresive policies. Interesting way of disavowing that there is racism deep in the roots of the Democrat party (before I get flamed, I’m not saying that all Dems are racists, but it’d be nice if the party leaders owned up to their past).
‘I will say I like the finessing of saying “southern conservatives, whatever they call themselves”’
They usually called themselves Democrats, because that’s what they were.
They were conservatives in the sense that they wanted to keep some sort of system of government enforced racial segregation in place, and that system had been in place for generations (first race-based slavery, then Jim Crow).
A conservative is anyone who wants to maintain the existing order. That’s what the word means. It really has nothing to do with left wing/right wing political ideology.
Other than that, so-called Southern conservatives voted for “liberal” left wing Democrats decade after decade after decade, and NEVER voted for right wing Republicans, right up until the final collapse of the Jim Crow system in the 1960s.
Of course, the Democrat Party never stopped being racist, they just changed who they were racist against. Organizations like the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus or the New Black Panther Party are:
1.) Completely, totally and utterly racist.
2.) Inextricably linked to the Democrats.
It’s no surprise that the Democrats act like racists. They’ve always been racists.
“Really?”
Yes, really.
Oh, for heaven’s sake, enough already with the stupid “racist” word. It’s meaningless. It’s not even a real word.
That video is a perfect example of the identity politics sludge that the Democratic Party has been pumping out for decades. That man a saw a bunch of white people with signs supporting a Republican and immediately leaped to the conclusion that they were racists, and saw it as his duty to intimidate them into silence. All this was based on nothing more than the fact that they were white people (there may have been a black person there too, since the crazy was hysterically screaming “house n****r” at someone as well). If that’s not racism, what is?
Congratulations, Marco Rubio! I love the strong, extremely patriotic Cuban-Americans. They are extremely valuable assets to America!
Long live freedom! Long live the United States!
Precisely so , Mr Salcedo .
Long live the Cuban people who fled Castro’s workers paradise . I so appreciate the Cuban American people and how they remember and recognize which Party it was who delivered their people into tyranny in Cuba .
I’ve been saying this for years; That the Democrat Party is the National Seat of discrimination. They have been historically, and at present.
Why does no one want to see the truth? Would they believe it if it came from the New York Times? Olbermann? NPR?
“The Democratic Party is proud to support minorities…so long as they know their place.”
Heck, yeah.
For years the kindly liberal Democrats provided millions of black slaves with exciting and interesting careers in the cotton picking industry.
the dems only care about who the own they,re own same difference most inherited being in the party cause parents where, grand parents etc to way back in history or where bought in to the party
LATINOS ARE NOT A VOTING BLOCK! We’re not even a real “group” people!! Get it together and pay attention. “Latino” is just a way to replace the ridiculous “hispanic”, and they’re both equally and completely meaningless. It’s exactly as if we had to evacuate the US and Canada to some other country, and when we arrived they decided we all belonged to the “North American” ethnic group. “Latinos” come from dozens of countries, speak a variety of languages, from Native American languages to English ( hello? Belize anyone?) to French, to Dutch, to various dialects of Spanish and Portuguese. 100′s of millions of people, covering a tremendously broad spectrum of education, wealth, livelihood, culture, tradition, language and melanin. Sound familiar??? I can only speak for Cubans, b/c that’s where my family is from, but the fact that many Cubans are conservative cannot possibly come as a surprise to anyone. Educated, middle-and working-class folks who had the rug yanked out from under them by a communist revolution, who then arrived in the US during the early 60′s, when a bunch of left-wing, overfed, overpriviledged and underworked middle-class white kids were “protesting” about how hard their lives were and fighting to take away from every one else what had just been taken away from the Cubans. Seriously, still can’t figure out why they voted Republican for 40 years? And why Little Havana in Miami is bisected by Ronald Reagan Avenue? The fact that Kennedy left them to rot 90 miles away in the Bay of Pigs but then sent their children halfway around the world to die fighting the Communists in Vietnam was really just the icing on the cake. And this experience is unique to Cubans, as the Mexican, Ecuadorian, Dominican, etc experience is unique to them. It’s ridiculous to lump them all together. Ridiculous, ignorant, and wrong.
One quibble with the article. Dems HAVE no standards, at least not for themselves. They have LOTS of standards for Republicans to meet, though.
Other than that, Sr. Salcedo, I am really coming to like your articles.