A Comment About

Should McCain Write Off African-American Voters?

June 10, 2008 - 12:49 am - by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
AJ
2008-06-10 06:24:45

Sad that blacks are voting for Obama. After all, he’s at least half white, probably more.

If the left (or blacks) read more often, they’d know:

That the GOP has always been good for blacks and the Dems have always been bad, especially between 1800-1965 when they enslaved blacks, then lynched them, promoted segregation and avoided giving them civil rights. Now they keep them down for purposes of votes. That’s nearly as bad.

After all, the “great” LBJ cherrypicked on all of Eisenhower’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.