The GOP Can Attract Minorities — If They Can Stop Being Bigots
But Democrats get a pass for their sins because African Americans can cite one battle after another when Democrats stood with them, dating back to Harry Truman desegregating the armed forces in 1948. And even though, in the 1950s and 1960s — which served as the defining eras for the black Civil Rights Movement — Southern Democrats were among the chief antagonists, it was Democrat John F. Kennedy who first addressed the nation on the importance of recognizing the civil rights of black Americans.
As a matter of cause-and-effect you may be right, but that kind of selective memory leaves out a few things, such as Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation and fighting a little-known war against slavery, Wilson segregating the government, Eisenhower sending the troops into Little Rock, and a few other facts of history that seem to have been purged from the collective memory.
