“Blacks may have been mistreated by Democrats in the past, but if you look at our history, our parties have changed as time has gone on.”
WRONG. That’s what teachers and the media say, and though it sounds good, it’s dead wrong.
LBJ cherrypicked on all of Ike’s Civil Rts. Legislation. After all, LBJ opposed anti-lynching legislation over and over, as well as civil rights legislation and integration ideas. He, like all the southern Dems before him, was a bigot.
The Dems controlled the media, presidency, and academia in the 60s, so spin and revisionism was easy to accomplish. JFK was no fan of blacks either.
It is possible that some of the old-fashioned white GOPers in today’s South came from Democrat families, but Bob Byrd—the only former Klansmen in the Senate—is a proud Dem, Al Gore Sr. was a big time racist Southern Dem, and Strom Thurmond was originally a Dem/DixieCrat. He only later switched because he was angry with the party since they would not let him continue to filibuster the 1964 Voting Act because LBJ was now president.
That Goldwater, while running for president in 1964, voted agst the CR Act, was a mistake. But he only voted against it because he preferred the original one—written by Eisenhower.
So, instead of lynching, enslaving and segregating blacks, Democrats now destroy them thru social welfare programs and inner-city “activist” leaders/politicians. It’s still racism.
Ignorance of history (and revisionism) is a proud tradition of today’s Democrat Party.
I’m still in my 20s, but I read. The left watches Idol, The Daily Show and MSNBC.
Obama does not know a thing either.
McCain and Bush are both very well-read historians.
