The U.S. Senate recently passed a resolution apologizing to African Americans for slavery and Jim Crow laws on behalf of the American people. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, lead sponsor of the resolution, said, "You wonder why we didn't do it 100 years ago. It is important to have a collective response to a collective injustice."
No doubt the Democrats like the idea of "collective guilt" since they themselves far and away are at the center of slavery while GOP is the shining star of emancipation and equality.
Consider:
"After the war, it was the Republican Party that rammed through the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution over Democratic opposition. Republicans also enacted a series of civil-rights laws that culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which basically did what the Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplished (but was reversed by Democrats)"
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875, as well as a number of other civil-rights measures enacted by Republicans to protect the freed slaves. In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the court gave constitutional cover to segregation, effectively prohibiting federal efforts to tackle racial inequality until Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. And any federal civil-rights laws left on the books were repealed by Democrats once they got control of Congress and the White House in 1893.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121617172687056531.html
So:
The 13th amendment finally baring slavery (Emancipation Proclamation was temporary) was passed in 1865. 100% of Republicans voted for it and 23% of Democrats voted for it.
The 14th Amendment of 1868 overruled Dred Scott and gave that gave equal rights to the slaves who were previously excluded. 100% of Republicans voted for it while 0% of Democrats voted for it.
The 15th amendment of 1870 gave blacks the right to vote. 100% of Republicans voted for it - 0% of Democrats voted for it.
Between 1867 and 1865 19 civil rights acts were passed with Republican majorities in congress. When Democrats took over in 1876 no more civil rights acts were passed until 1964.
Following the Civil War Republican stands for black voters were blocked by Democrats
"During the Reconstruction period of 1865?1877 federal law provided civil rights protection in the South for "freedmen" ? the African Americans who had formerly been slaves. In the 1870s, white Democrats gradually returned to power in southern states, sometimes as a result of elections in which paramilitary groups intimidated opponents, attacking blacks or preventing them from voting. Gubernatorial elections were close and disputed in Louisiana for years, with extreme violence unleashed during the campaign. In 1877 a national compromise to gain southern support in the presidential election resulted in the last of the federal troops being withdrawn from the South. White Democrats had taken back power in every Southern state.[4] The white, Democratic Party Redeemer government that followed the troop withdrawal legislated Jim Crow laws segregating black people from the state's white population."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws
"The Republican-controlled Congress passed a set of Civil Rights Acts in 1866 and 1875, which were even broader in scope than the Civil Rights legislation enacted 100 years later. The first of these laws, which gave full equality to African Americans, was repealed in 1892, when the Democrats regained control of the Federal legislature. BROWN vs Board or Education reversed a decisions of 1882."
The second was declared unconstitutional in 1883 by the U.S. Supreme Court. With the end of the Reconstruction era and the ascendency of the Democrats in the South, the Jim Crow laws did away with the Republican reforms and paved the way for another century of oppression of our black citizens. While 23 African Americans were elected to Congress in the years immediately following the Civil War ? all Republicans ? after 1892 there were none."
http://www.examiner.com/x-5325...f-the-Democratic-Party
"Republicans continued to make strenuous efforts to aid African-Americans. In 1890, they passed a force bill in the House of Representatives to send federal troops into the South to protect the voting rights of African-Americans. These rights were being violated everywhere in that region by laws, practices and violence perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan and similar groups allied with the Democratic Party.
In 1900 (under President McKinley) and again in 1922 (under Harding), Republicans tried to enact an antilynching law. Coolidge asked for legislation again in his 1923 State of the Union message. Unfortunately, Southern Democrats in the Senate routinely filibustered every Republican effort to aid African-Americans.
Even Franklin Roosevelt wouldn't challenge the Senate's Southern caucus. Despite a landslide re-election victory in 1936, including overwhelming majorities in every Southern state, he refused to lend any support to another antilynching bill. Nor would he end the segregation of the armed forces established by Democrat Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
While Harry Truman deserves great credit for ending racial segregation in the military and the civil service, his efforts to pass civil-rights legislation also died from Southern Democratic opposition despite strong support from Republicans, who controlled Congress in 1947 and 1948. This makes Dwight Eisenhower's success in passing civil rights bills in 1957 and 1960 all the more remarkable, since Democrats then controlled both Houses of Congress."
Lyndon Johnson consistently opposed civil-rights legislation while he was in Congress, but as president worked hard to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Neither would have passed without the strong support of congressional Republicans, who provided the margin of victory."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121617172687056531.html
Basically it has been the GOP that lead the way in Emancipation of slaves and civil rights. It was the Democrats that were the party of slave holders and later on Jim Crow (measures meant to keep blacks from voting not because the because they were black but because they were Republicans).
A group of black activists, scholars and reporters support a film about Democrats and slavery (including Martin Luther Kings 'niece
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEFoa0yBCTI
From a groups of black leaders including Martin Luther Kings Niece
http://www.errvideo.com/Speakers.html
"Reparations . . . Who Should Pay?"
"If anyone, or any group, should pay reparations for past racial offenses, it should be the Democratic Party."
Not that the group thinks reparations are needed:
Even though a black man -- or woman -- could have been elected president long before 2008, it serves no purpose to dwell in the past. We should celebrate those who gave their lives to end slavery, and condemn those who prevented this day from coming for more than a century. And we should look forward, not look back."
Emancipation Revelation Revolution 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEFoa0yBCTI
Emancipation Revelation Revolution 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...5QEV6Y&feature=related
Emancipation Revelation Revolution 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...yGn9-s&feature=related
No doubt the Democrats like the idea of "collective guilt" since they themselves far and away are at the center of slavery while GOP is the shining star of emancipation and equality.
Consider:
"After the war, it was the Republican Party that rammed through the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution over Democratic opposition. Republicans also enacted a series of civil-rights laws that culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which basically did what the Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplished (but was reversed by Democrats)"
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875, as well as a number of other civil-rights measures enacted by Republicans to protect the freed slaves. In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the court gave constitutional cover to segregation, effectively prohibiting federal efforts to tackle racial inequality until Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. And any federal civil-rights laws left on the books were repealed by Democrats once they got control of Congress and the White House in 1893.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121617172687056531.html
So:
The 13th amendment finally baring slavery (Emancipation Proclamation was temporary) was passed in 1865. 100% of Republicans voted for it and 23% of Democrats voted for it.
The 14th Amendment of 1868 overruled Dred Scott and gave that gave equal rights to the slaves who were previously excluded. 100% of Republicans voted for it while 0% of Democrats voted for it.
The 15th amendment of 1870 gave blacks the right to vote. 100% of Republicans voted for it - 0% of Democrats voted for it.
Between 1867 and 1865 19 civil rights acts were passed with Republican majorities in congress. When Democrats took over in 1876 no more civil rights acts were passed until 1964.
Following the Civil War Republican stands for black voters were blocked by Democrats
"During the Reconstruction period of 1865?1877 federal law provided civil rights protection in the South for "freedmen" ? the African Americans who had formerly been slaves. In the 1870s, white Democrats gradually returned to power in southern states, sometimes as a result of elections in which paramilitary groups intimidated opponents, attacking blacks or preventing them from voting. Gubernatorial elections were close and disputed in Louisiana for years, with extreme violence unleashed during the campaign. In 1877 a national compromise to gain southern support in the presidential election resulted in the last of the federal troops being withdrawn from the South. White Democrats had taken back power in every Southern state.[4] The white, Democratic Party Redeemer government that followed the troop withdrawal legislated Jim Crow laws segregating black people from the state's white population."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws
"The Republican-controlled Congress passed a set of Civil Rights Acts in 1866 and 1875, which were even broader in scope than the Civil Rights legislation enacted 100 years later. The first of these laws, which gave full equality to African Americans, was repealed in 1892, when the Democrats regained control of the Federal legislature. BROWN vs Board or Education reversed a decisions of 1882."
The second was declared unconstitutional in 1883 by the U.S. Supreme Court. With the end of the Reconstruction era and the ascendency of the Democrats in the South, the Jim Crow laws did away with the Republican reforms and paved the way for another century of oppression of our black citizens. While 23 African Americans were elected to Congress in the years immediately following the Civil War ? all Republicans ? after 1892 there were none."
http://www.examiner.com/x-5325...f-the-Democratic-Party
"Republicans continued to make strenuous efforts to aid African-Americans. In 1890, they passed a force bill in the House of Representatives to send federal troops into the South to protect the voting rights of African-Americans. These rights were being violated everywhere in that region by laws, practices and violence perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan and similar groups allied with the Democratic Party.
In 1900 (under President McKinley) and again in 1922 (under Harding), Republicans tried to enact an antilynching law. Coolidge asked for legislation again in his 1923 State of the Union message. Unfortunately, Southern Democrats in the Senate routinely filibustered every Republican effort to aid African-Americans.
Even Franklin Roosevelt wouldn't challenge the Senate's Southern caucus. Despite a landslide re-election victory in 1936, including overwhelming majorities in every Southern state, he refused to lend any support to another antilynching bill. Nor would he end the segregation of the armed forces established by Democrat Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
While Harry Truman deserves great credit for ending racial segregation in the military and the civil service, his efforts to pass civil-rights legislation also died from Southern Democratic opposition despite strong support from Republicans, who controlled Congress in 1947 and 1948. This makes Dwight Eisenhower's success in passing civil rights bills in 1957 and 1960 all the more remarkable, since Democrats then controlled both Houses of Congress."
Lyndon Johnson consistently opposed civil-rights legislation while he was in Congress, but as president worked hard to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Neither would have passed without the strong support of congressional Republicans, who provided the margin of victory."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121617172687056531.html
Basically it has been the GOP that lead the way in Emancipation of slaves and civil rights. It was the Democrats that were the party of slave holders and later on Jim Crow (measures meant to keep blacks from voting not because the because they were black but because they were Republicans).
A group of black activists, scholars and reporters support a film about Democrats and slavery (including Martin Luther Kings 'niece
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEFoa0yBCTI
From a groups of black leaders including Martin Luther Kings Niece
http://www.errvideo.com/Speakers.html
"Reparations . . . Who Should Pay?"
"If anyone, or any group, should pay reparations for past racial offenses, it should be the Democratic Party."
Not that the group thinks reparations are needed:
Even though a black man -- or woman -- could have been elected president long before 2008, it serves no purpose to dwell in the past. We should celebrate those who gave their lives to end slavery, and condemn those who prevented this day from coming for more than a century. And we should look forward, not look back."
Emancipation Revelation Revolution 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEFoa0yBCTI
Emancipation Revelation Revolution 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...5QEV6Y&feature=related
Emancipation Revelation Revolution 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...yGn9-s&feature=related
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