Did you know that the Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, founded the KKK, and fought against every major civil rights act in U.S. history?
Since its founding in 1829, the Democratic Party has fought against every major civil rights initiative, and has a long history of discrimination. The Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, opposed Reconstruction, founded the Ku Klux Klan, imposed segregation, perpetrated lynching’s, and fought against the civil rights acts of the 1950s and 1960s.
The Republican Party, however, was founded in 1854 as an anti-slavery party. Its mission was to stop the spread of slavery into the new western territories with the aim of abolishing it entirely. This effort was dealt a major blow by the Supreme Court, though. In the 1857 case of Dred Scott v Sanford, the court ruled that slaves aren’t citizens, they’re property. The seven justices who voted in favor of slavery? All Democrats. The two justices who dissented? Both Republicans.
The slavery question was, therefore, ultimately resolved by a bloody civil war. The commander-in-chief during that war, the man who freed the slaves, was the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln.
Six days after the confederate army surrendered, John Wilkes Booth, a Democrat, assassinated President Lincoln. Lincoln’s vice president, Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, assumed the presidency, but Johnson adamantly opposed Lincoln’s plan to integrate the newly freed slaves into the South’s economic and social order.
Johnson and the Democratic Party were opposed to the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, the 14th Amendment, which gave blacks citizenship, and the 15th Amendment, which gave blacks the vote. They only passed because of universal Republican support.
As historian Eric Foner, himself a Democrat wrote, “In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party”
Later, President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, shared many views with the Klan. He re-segregated many federal agencies, and even screened the first movie ever played at the White House, the racist film “The Birth of a Nation”, originally entitled “The Clansman”.
A few decades later, the only serious congressional opposition to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, came from Democrats.
When their efforts to enslave blacks, keep them enslaved, and then keep them from voting had failed, the Democrats came up with a new strategy: If black people are going to vote, they may as well vote for Democrats. As President Lyndon Johnson was reported to have said “I’ll have those n*****s voting Democrat for the next 200 years.
Democrats, is this the history that you want to teach your grandchildren? Is this what you want to tell them you are?
Well this is the true history. Like it or not, if you’re Democrat, this is your history. I personally wouldn’t want to have to tell my grandchildren that my party supported things like slavery, lynching’s, segregation, and worse. I would rather my grandchildren know that throughout history, my party, the Republican Party was against such civil rights atrocities, but that’s just me, maybe you Democrats are proud of your history. I wouldn’t be, but again, that’s just me.
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