...And I love blacks and gays and Latinos
As long as they don't move next door--
So love me, love me, love me
I'm a liberal
--Jello Biafra
I make no generalizations; just look at the history. The Democrats have done a yeoman's job of portraying themselves as the champions of civil rights while casting the Republicans as racists when nothing could be further from the truth. The Republican party was started by anti-slavery activists; it was our first Republican president who signed the Emancipation Proclamation; and it was Republicans who proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1875. In the 26 major civil rights votes since 1933, Republican majorities supported such legislation over 96% of the time, while a Democrat majority was opposed to the civil rights bills in over 80% of the votes.
Even though Democrats receive as much as 90% of the black vote in some elections, there are only a handful of black Democrats who represent Districts with a white majority. It was a Republican president who nominated the only black Justice currently sitting on the Supreme Court, another Republican who appointed the first black Secretary of State (Colin Powell) and the first female black Secretary of State (Condoleeza Rice, who, btw, was the preferred presidential nominee for 2008 by a majority of Republican voters in an informal poll taken in 2006).
So, what's the Democrats' record on civil rights? How about Congressional Districts which have been gerrymandered because of racist white liberals who will not vote for a black candidate? How about the Democrats' 1922 Senate filibuster of a bill to make lynching a federal crime? Then there's the fact that FDR, the lion of the Demcrat party, nominated Hugo Black, a former Ku Klux Klansman, to the Supreme Court. It was the Democrats who gave us the Great Society, which has destroyed untold numbers of families with entitlement programs which encourage out-of-wedlock births. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was filibustered for 14 hours by Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), a former Kleagle (recruiter) for the Ku Klux Klan. Don't take my word for it--it's in the Congressional Record. It was Byrd who also uttered the offensive racist epithet "white n*****" on national television in March 2001 and was never censured or asked to apologize.
So you see, I don't need to generalize about Democrats. They've done a pretty fair job of stereotyping themselves.
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