Racist History of the Democratic Party

The History of the Democrat Party


October 13, 1858:

During Lincoln-Douglas debates, U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas (D-IL) states: “I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever”; Douglas became Democratic Party’s 1860 presidential nominee.

April 16, 1862:

President Lincoln signs bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia; in Congress, 99% of Republicans vote yes, 83% of Democrats vote no.

July 17, 1862:

Over unanimous Democrat opposition, Republican Congress passes Confiscation Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy “shall be forever free.”

January 31, 1865:

13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. House with unanimous Republican support, intense Democrat opposition.

April 8, 1865:

13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate with 100% Republican support, 63% Democrat opposition.

November 22, 1865:

Republicans denounce Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting “black codes,” which institutionalized racial discrimination.

February 5, 1866:

U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-PA) introduces legislation, successfully opposed by Democrat President Andrew Johnson, to implement “40 acres and a mule” relief by distributing land to former slaves.

April 9, 1866:

Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Johnson’s veto; Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on African-Americans, becomes law.

May 10, 1866:

U.S. House passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens; 100% of Democrats vote no.

June 8, 1866:

U.S. Senate passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the law to all citizens; 94% of Republicans vote yes and 100% of Democrats vote no.

January 8, 1867

: Republicans override Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of law granting voting rights to African-Americans in D.C.

July 19, 1867:

Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of legislation protecting voting rights of African-Americans.

March 30, 1868:

Republicans begin impeachment trial of Democrat President Andrew Johnson, who declared: “This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government of white men.”

September 3, 1868:

25 African-Americans in Georgia legislature, all Republicans, expelled by Democrat majority; later reinstated by Republican Congress.

September 12, 1868:

Civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and all other African-Americans in Georgia Senate, every one a Republican, expelled by Democrat majority; would later be reinstated by Republican Congress.

October 7, 1868:

Republicans denounce Democratic Party’s national campaign theme: “This is a white man’s country: Let white men rule.”

October 22, 1868:

While campaigning for re-election, Republican U.S. Rep. James Hinds (R-AR) is assassinated by Democrat terrorists who organized as the Ku Klux Klan.

December 10, 1869:

Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs FIRST-in-nation law granting women right to vote and to hold public office.

February 3, 1870:

After passing House with 98% Republican support and 97% Democrat opposition, Republicans’ 15th Amendment is ratified, granting vote to all Americans regardless of race.

May 31, 1870:

President U.S. Grant signs Republicans’ Enforcement Act, providing stiff penalties for depriving any American’s civil rights.

June 22, 1870:

Republican Congress creates U.S. Department of Justice, to safeguard the civil rights of African-Americans against Democrats in the South.

September 6, 1870:

Women vote in Wyoming, in FIRST election after women’s suffrage signed into law by Republican Gov. John Campbell.

February 28, 1871

: Republican Congress passes Enforcement Act providing federal protection for African-American voters.

April 20, 1871:

Republican Congress enacts the Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic Party-affiliated terrorist groups which oppressed African-Americans.

October 10, 1871:

Following warnings by Philadelphia Democrats against black voting, African-American Republican civil rights activist Octavius Catto murdered by Democratic Party operative; his military funeral was attended by thousands.

October 18, 1871:

After violence against Republicans in South Carolina, President Ulysses Grant deploys U.S. troops to combat Democrat terrorists who formed the Ku Klux Klan.

November 18, 1872:

Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting, after boasting to Elizabeth Cady Stanton that she voted for “the Republican ticket, straight.”

January 17, 1874:

Armed Democrats seize Texas state government, ending Republican efforts to racially integrate government.

September 14, 1874:

Democrat white supremacists seize Louisiana statehouse in attempt to overthrow racially-integrated administration of Republican Governor William Kellogg; 27 killed.

March 1, 1875:

Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing access to public accommodations without regard to race, signed by Republican President U.S. Grant; passed with 92% Republican support over 100% Democrat opposition.

January 10, 1878:

U.S. Senator Aaron Sargent (R-CA) introduces Susan B. Anthony amendment for women’s suffrage; Democrat-controlled Senate defeated it 4 times before election of Republican House and Senate guaranteed its approval in 1919. Republicans foil Democratic efforts to keep women in the kitchen, where they belong.

February 8, 1894:

Democrat Congress and Democrat President Grover Cleveland join to repeal Republicans’ Enforcement Act, which had enabled African-Americans to vote.

January 15, 1901:

Republican Booker T. Washington protests Alabama Democratic Party’s refusal to permit voting by African-Americans.

May 29, 1902:

Virginia Democrats implement new state constitution, condemned by Republicans as illegal, reducing African-American voter registration by 86%.

February 12, 1909

: On 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, African-American Republicans and women’s suffragists Ida Wells and Mary Terrell co-found the NAACP.

May 21, 1919:

Republican House passes constitutional amendment granting women the vote with 85% of Republicans in favor, but only 54% of Democrats; in Senate, 80% of Republicans would vote yes, but almost half of Democrats no.

August 18, 1920

: Republican-authored 19th Amendment, giving women the vote, becomes part of Constitution; 26 of the 36 states to ratify had Republican-controlled legislatures.

January 26, 1922:

House passes bill authored by U.S. Rep. Leonidas Dyer (R-MO) making lynching a federal crime; Senate Democrats block it with filibuster.

June 2, 1924:

Republican President Calvin Coolidge signs bill passed by Republican Congress granting U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans.

October 3, 1924:

Republicans denounce three-time Democrat presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan for defending the Ku Klux Klan at 1924 Democratic National Convention.

June 12, 1929:

First Lady Lou Hoover invites wife of U.S. Rep. Oscar De Priest (R-IL), an African-American, to tea at the White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country.

August 17, 1937:

Republicans organize opposition to former Ku Klux Klansman and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by FDR; his Klan background was hidden until after confirmation.

June 24, 1940:

Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces; for the balance of his terms in office, FDR refuses to order it.

August 8, 1945:

Republicans condemn Harry Truman’s surprise use of the atomic bomb in Japan. The whining and criticism goes on for years. It begins two days after the Hiroshima bombing, when former Republican President Herbert Hoover writes to a friend that “The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.”

September 30, 1953:

Earl Warren, California’s three-term Republican Governor and 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, nominated to be Chief Justice; wrote landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

November 25, 1955:

Eisenhower administration bans racial segregation of interstate bus travel.

March 12, 1956:

Ninety-seven Democrats in Congress condemn Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and pledge to continue segregation.

June 5, 1956:

Republican federal judge Frank Johnson rules in favor of Rosa Parks in decision striking down “blacks in the back of the bus” law.

November 6, 1956:

African-American civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy vote for Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President.

September 9, 1957:

President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republican Party’s 1957 Civil Rights Act.

September 24, 1957:

Sparking criticism from Democrats such as Senators John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, President Dwight Eisenhower deploys the 82nd Airborne Division to Little Rock, AR to force Democrat Governor Orval Faubus to integrate public schools.

May 6, 1960:

President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republicans’ Civil Rights Act of 1960, overcoming 125-hour, around-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats.

May 2, 1963:

Republicans condemn Democrat sheriff of Birmingham, AL for arresting over 2,000 African-American schoolchildren marching for their civil rights.

September 29, 1963:

Gov. George Wallace (D-AL) defies order by U.S. District Judge Frank Johnson, appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, to integrate Tuskegee High School.

June 9, 1964:

Republicans condemn 14-hour filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act by U.S. Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-WV), who still serves in the Senate.

June 10, 1964:

Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) criticizes Democrat filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act, calls on Democrats to stop opposing racial equality. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced and approved by a staggering majority of Republicans in the Senate. The Act was opposed by most southern Democrat senators, several of whom were proud segregationists—one of them being Al Gore Sr. Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson relied on Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.

August 4, 1965:

Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) overcomes Democrat attempts to block 1965 Voting Rights Act; 94% of Senate Republicans vote for landmark civil right legislation, while 27% of Democrats oppose. Voting Rights Act of 1965, abolishing literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to prevent African-Americans from voting, signed into law; higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats vote in favor.

February 19, 1976:

President Gerald Ford formally rescinds President Franklin Roosevelt’s notorious Executive Order authorizing internment of over 120,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII.

September 15, 1981:

President Ronald Reagan establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to increase African-American participation in federal education programs.

June 29, 1982:

President Ronald Reagan signs 25-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act.

August 10, 1988:

President Ronald Reagan signs Civil Liberties Act of 1988, compensating Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property during World War II internment ordered by FDR.

November 21, 1991:

President George H. W. Bush signs Civil Rights Act of 1991 to strengthen federal civil rights legislation.

August 20, 1996:

Bill authored by U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari (R-NY) to prohibit racial discrimination in adoptions, part of Republicans’ Contract With America, becomes law.

And let’s not forget the words of Liberal icon Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood…
"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…"

No wonder Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Sr. were both Republicans!

Rev. Al Sharpton had it right when he said, "Democrats will take us to the dance, but they won't take us home to meet mama." Democrats have hijacked the black vote and spend an inordinate amount of time and resources expanding and increasing dependence on social safety net programs. If they truly had minorities' best interests in mind, they would be working harder to decrease that dependency by trying to elevate their constituents' station in life. Constantly being told they are disenfranchised, dependent on the nanny state, and in need of more and more "rich racists' money" to thrive, crushes the drive and ambition of one of the country's most prolific and able-minded, able-bodied groups of exceptional Americans. Democrats and their ilk are sucking the life out of our minorities and sucking the funds out of the economy to keep them on self-imposed life support.

I can only hope that a new movement of black Americans will rise up and seize the opportunities this country provides to us all. A movement that refuses to wear the label of "dependent" and strikes out to make their mark on this country. A movement that idolizes other successful black business owners over rap stars and sports figures. A movement that sets out to show that they can do it as well, or better than their white counterparts. A call to provide for those in need rather than to join them. A call to reject the rhetoric of "leaders" like Revs. Jesse & Al who tell them they can't do it. Who mobilize to challenge the status quo rather than accept their perceived reliance on government....and don't believe they need another government program to do it.

I call on all Republicans to go back to the front on the issue of blacks in America. Republicans did all of the dirty work when it wasn't popular, against the will of the Democratic Party, to ensure blacks had every opportunity our Constitution provides. Republicans defeated Democrats efforts to deny the black vote, which they now overwhelmingly receive. They receive the black vote because they have convinced blacks that they still aren't equal, and that they need the government to survive. They have made them addicted to government like a drug, and they need a serious intervention.

Was LBJ correct when he said, "I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years," after signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act? The same Act that was passed by Republican congressmen despite the 14-hour democratic filibuster by then Senator and former Grand Cyclops of the KKK, Robert Byrd(D-WV).