They kneeled for the National Anthem and stood for the Brit anthem.

[IMMensaMind 459]

Well, let's cut to the issue. Do you guys feel that minorities are always treated fairly by our society?

 

 

This is not an honest question. Is anyone - or even any group - always treated well in any society?

 

You can mask any sort of agenda you wish by demanding something as undefinable as 'fairness', and you can also chase it forever, and demand 'change' forever doing so.

 

Most people understand this.

 

You can slice society into tiny chunks of "minority" any way you wish. I, for instance, am a minority. As a minority, I have the ability - and exercised it - to structure my business as a MBE. My business partner is black. This status allows our steel fabrication business a major edge as a subcontractor for multiple projects which require minority participation quotas.

 

Were we treated 'fairly' by society by being allowed such an advantage?

 

There is no discussion regarding 'fairness' unless you also are willing to discuss individuals, and individual choices. Will you find injustice when you do so? Sure. Statistically, how much of that will you find? Will you attempt to hang your hat on multiple claims of 'injustice' at the hands of police? Compared to the number of encounters minorities have with police?

 

No, you won't. Not statistically pertinent - particularly since police forces across the country are filled with minorities.

 

The entire narrative is an attempt to divide us and defeat us. Don't allow it to work.

[greenegt 3]

 

No, but that's because they keep voting for Democrats. If they stopped voting for those racists, then maybe they'll be treated better.

 

To be fair, have the Republicans shown that they have any inclination to improving the status quo for minorities and those below the poverty line? I vote Democrat, but I'm center leaning. I do not believe Republicans/Conservatives are evil and all that, but I don't get a sense of empathy from Republican leadership for people in impoverished conditions.

[IMMensaMind 459]

To be fair, have the Republicans shown that they have any inclination to improving the status quo for minorities and those below the poverty line? I vote Democrat, but I'm center leaning. I do not believe Republicans/Conservatives are evil and all that, but I don't get a sense of empathy from Republican leadership for people in impoverished conditions.

May I suggest a book?

 

Dinesh D'Souza: The Big Lie

 

https://www.amazon.com/Big-Lie-Exposing-Roots-American-ebook/dp/B01N39W2DI/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1506697650&sr=8-1

[greenegt 3]

This is not an honest question. Is anyone - or even any group - always treated well in any society?

 

You can mask any sort of agenda you wish by demanding something as undefinable as 'fairness', and you can also chase it forever, and demand 'change' forever doing so.

 

Most people understand this.

 

You can slice society into tiny chunks of "minority" any way you wish. I, for instance, am a minority. As a minority, I have the ability - and exercised it - to structure my business as a MBE. My business partner is black. This status allows our steel fabrication business a major edge as a subcontractor for multiple projects which require minority participation quotas.

 

Were we treated 'fairly' by society by being allowed such an advantage?

 

There is no discussion regarding 'fairness' unless you also are willing to discuss individuals, and individual choices. Will you find injustice when you do so? Sure. Statistically, how much of that will you find? Will you attempt to hang your hat on multiple claims of 'injustice' at the hands of police? Compared to the number of encounters minorities have with police?

 

No, you won't. Not statistically pertinent - particularly since police forces across the country are filled with minorities.

 

The entire narrative is an attempt to divide us and defeat us. Don't allow it to work.

 

I understand what you're saying. I am a black man, who is not particularly scared of police encounters. However, I can't help but sympathize with those who do have injustices perpetrated on them, even if it is a statistically small number. I think we're in this "identity politics" problem, because those who have been wronged feel like they have to scream loudly to be heard, so it just snowballs into extreme rhetoric from all sides. That's why what we say and how we say it, is important.

[IMMensaMind 459]

I understand what you're saying. I am a black man, who is not particularly scared of police encounters.

What makes you different than the myriad of blacks who claim that they are?

 

However, I can't help but sympathize with those who do have injustices perpetrated on them, even if it is a statistically small number. I think we're in this "identity politics" problem, because those who have been wronged feel like they have to scream loudly to be heard, so it just snowballs into extreme rhetoric from all sides. That's why what we say and how we say it, is important.

 

They don't have to scream at all. They're doing so for political advantage, and to support a very specific collectivist ideology which utilizes identity politics to divide. If people perceive that there are injustices, and - somehow - the 'system' is to blame, then that justifies any action that leads towards damaging the system. To tearing it down. It justifies rationalization for riots, incivility, discord, etc.

 

It's nonsense.

 

My guess is that you do not fear encounters with LEOs because you understand how to be civil and how to respect other people.

 

That's all it takes to eliminate what others are perceiving as 'injustice'. What they're experiencing is what they're giving. You get what you give.

 

Does that mean that there aren't real examples of injustice? Happens everyday. We have no way of making everything perfect, but we definitely can destroy what is good by claiming to seek what is perfect.

[IMMensaMind 459]

I understand what you're saying. I am a black man, who is not particularly scared of police encounters. However, I can't help but sympathize with those who do have injustices perpetrated on them, even if it is a statistically small number. I think we're in this "identity politics" problem, because those who have been wronged feel like they have to scream loudly to be heard, so it just snowballs into extreme rhetoric from all sides. That's why what we say and how we say it, is important.

 

My biz partner (like I said: he's black) makes a game out of this. Every time something happens in his life that isn't desirable, he reacts to poke fun.

 

The other day, we were at breakfast, and he ordered something (I forget what), and the waitress said "sorry sir, we're out of that". He said "It's 'cuz I'm black, isn't it??"

 

You could have made her face darker with chalk.

 

He was kidding, and immediately told her so. His point is to desensitize people to these silly claims, and attempt to defuse the clear elevation of stress. Whites literally are to the point where they don't act normally and respectfully around blacks; they've been reduced by this stupid narrative to treating/coddling blacks like they're special needs, or kids. They're literally scared that how they act/what they say is going ot be perceived as racism. It's asinine.

 

They both laughed afterwards; but you should have seen the relief on the lady's face. I felt bad for her having to feel like she's on pins and needles all the time.

 

That's what this despicable political agenda has done to us.

[Antiramie 50]

Does that mean that there aren't real examples of injustice? Happens everyday. We have no way of making everything perfect, but we definitely can destroy what is good by claiming to seek what is perfect.

We can't ever have a perfect society so we shouldn't even try, and people being prejudiced against should just be quiet.

 

Finally the ugly truth comes out.

 

If that wasn't as blatant a support for oppression I don't know what is.

[IMMensaMind 459]

We can't ever have a perfect society so we shouldn't even try, and people being prejudiced against should just be quiet.

Finally the ugly truth comes out.

Yes. The ugly truth is you love to make sht up.

[Antiramie 50]

Yes. The ugly truth is you love to make sht up.

I'm not making anything up. You literally just said we, as a society, should be content with the state we're in, which includes injustices, because fighting for perfection/justice is just rocking the boat. So you prefer a system that oppresses people because people get loud when they fight for our society to progress toward perfection.

 

By definition you are the fascist.

[TBayXXXVII 2,106]

 

To be fair, have the Republicans shown that they have any inclination to improving the status quo for minorities and those below the poverty line? I vote Democrat, but I'm center leaning. I do not believe Republicans/Conservatives are evil and all that, but I don't get a sense of empathy from Republican leadership for people in impoverished conditions.

 

I'm similar, just on the other side. I vote Republican, but I'm certainly not a nut case like McCain and the far right. The Republicans want to make government assistance work instead of making it a cash cow for people who don't want to do anything. Welfare is broken. It gets abused left and right (by all races), and the Democrats keep letting it happen because they keep lying to people that the Republicans want to get rid of it... and that's completely false.

 

What's the best way to "control" someone? Keep them dependent on you.

 

What's the best way to do that? Limit their education.

 

Why? Because it limits their financial abilities.

 

How do the Democrats make this happen? They tell people on welfare that if they work, they'll get less money. They tell people that if they vote for Republicans, the Republicans will take that money away.

 

In turn... it keeps those on government assistance dependent on Democrats. Hence, it's why Democrats are racist. They feel that minorities are too stupid to realize what they're doing... and to their [Democrats], credit, it's working.

 

Republicans want to force you to work in order to get government assistance to which would supplement your income. This will give you more financial flexibility to create a better living environment for you and your family... which in turn will increase the level of your education... which thence leads to a better economic future. The net result is that you are no longer on government assistance.

[greenegt 3]

What makes you different than the myriad of blacks who claim that they are?

 

 

They don't have to scream at all. They're doing so for political advantage, and to support a very specific collectivist ideology which utilizes identity politics to divide. If people perceive that there are injustices, and - somehow - the 'system' is to blame, then that justifies any action that leads towards damaging the system. To tearing it down. It justifies rationalization for riots, incivility, discord, etc.

 

It's nonsense.

 

My guess is that you do not fear encounters with LEOs because you understand how to be civil and how to respect other people.

 

That's all it takes to eliminate what others are perceiving as 'injustice'. What they're experiencing is what they're giving. You get what you give.

 

Does that mean that there aren't real examples of injustice? Happens everyday. We have no way of making everything perfect, but we definitely can destroy what is good by claiming to seek what is perfect.

 

Yes, I am a civil and respectful person and it does go along way in this world. To your point about injustices, no we won't have a perfect society in our life times, but the issue is that those who have been wronged can oftentimes feel helpless. For example, while the statistics say that unjust police shootings are rare, if one does occur, the victim or victim's relatives should feel confident that justice will be served. Minorities don't feel like that is the case right now and that is very frustrating as American citizens. So while I do not advocate for extreme actions, like rioting, I do understand where the emotion comes from.

 

My biz partner (like I said: he's black) makes a game out of this. Every time something happens in his life that isn't desirable, he reacts to poke fun.

 

The other day, we were at breakfast, and he ordered something (I forget what), and the waitress said "sorry sir, we're out of that". He said "It's 'cuz I'm black, isn't it??"

 

You could have made her face darker with chalk.

 

He was kidding, and immediately told her so. His point is to desensitize people to these silly claims, and attempt to defuse the clear elevation of stress. Whites literally are to the point where they don't act normally and respectfully around blacks; they've been reduced by this stupid narrative to treating/coddling blacks like they're special needs, or kids. They're literally scared that how they act/what they say is going ot be perceived as racism. It's asinine.

 

They both laughed afterwards; but you should have seen the relief on the lady's face. I felt bad for her having to feel like she's on pins and needles all the time.

 

That's what this despicable political agenda has done to us.

 

I understand your sentiment here. I have had similar joking interactions with my non-black friends. Unfortunately, we don't know what's in everyone's heart, so we do need to tread lightly when interacting with strangers. I can joke around with my friends, because I know their hearts and they know mine, but I do need to respect people I don't know and not take anything for granted.

[Antiramie 50]

In turn... it keeps those on government assistance dependent on Democrats. Hence, it's why Democrats are racist. They feel that minorities are too stupid to realize what they're doing... and to their [Democrats], credit, it's working.

Except white people are the largest recipient group of Medicaid in the US.

 

I finally get the Democrats are racists schtick. No wonder you guys all hate them so much. It's because they're racist toward other white people, right!??

[greenegt 3]

 

I'm similar, just on the other side. I vote Republican, but I'm certainly not a nut case like McCain and the far right. The Republicans want to make government assistance work instead of making it a cash cow for people who don't want to do anything. Welfare is broken. It gets abused left and right (by all races), and the Democrats keep letting it happen because they keep lying to people that the Republicans want to get rid of it... and that's completely false.

 

What's the best way to "control" someone? Keep them dependent on you.

 

What's the best way to do that? Limit their education.

 

Why? Because it limits their financial abilities.

 

How do the Democrats make this happen? They tell people on welfare that if they work, they'll get less money. They tell people that if they vote for Republicans, the Republicans will take that money away.

 

In turn... it keeps those on government assistance dependent on Democrats. Hence, it's why Democrats are racist. They feel that minorities are too stupid to realize what they're doing... and to their [Democrats], credit, it's working.

 

Republicans want to force you to work in order to get government assistance to which would supplement your income. This will give you more financial flexibility to create a better living environment for you and your family... which in turn will increase the level of your education... which thence leads to a better economic future. The net result is that you are no longer on government assistance.

 

These are good points. I wouldn't say that the Dems are being racist, but rather protective and not wanting to see those in extreme cases be left in the cold. I do believe that some people abuse welfare and other entitlements. However, lifting people out of that is the complicated part. I wish we had more bipartisanship in government, because we would be able to come up with some good solutions. We could adjust entitlements while figuring out ways to invest in low-income areas, so that there are viable jobs and education options for them.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,588]

If the police are the big problem in your life then the pollice aren't the big problem

[TBayXXXVII 2,106]

 

These are good points. I wouldn't say that the Dems are being racist, but rather protective and not wanting to see those in extreme cases be left in the cold. I do believe that some people abuse welfare and other entitlements. However, lifting people out of that is the complicated part. I wish we had more bipartisanship in government, because we would be able to come up with some good solutions. We could adjust entitlements while figuring out ways to invest in low-income areas, so that there are viable jobs and education options for them.

 

I couldn't agree more (at least what you say after them not being racist ).

[IMMensaMind 459]

Except white people are the largest recipient group of Medicaid in the US.

I finally get the Democrats are racists schtick. No wonder you guys all hate them so much. It's because they're racist toward other white people, right!??

good grief.

 

Democrats ruin what they touch. That they're racist is simply another despicable element to their insipid ideology.

[IMMensaMind 459]

These are good points. I wouldn't say that the Dems are being racist, but rather protective and not wanting to see those in extreme cases be left in the cold. I do believe that some people abuse welfare and other entitlements. However, lifting people out of that is the complicated part. I wish we had more bipartisanship in government, because we would be able to come up with some good solutions. We could adjust entitlements while figuring out ways to invest in low-income areas, so that there are viable jobs and education options for them.

 

I believe you will change your mind when you see rock-solid documentation that reveals otherwise.

 

That's why I'd want you to read The Big Lie.

[IMMensaMind 459]

I'm not making anything up. You literally just said we, as a society, should be content with the state we're in, which includes injustices, because fighting for perfection/justice is just rocking the boat. So you prefer a system that oppresses people because people get loud when they fight for our society to progress toward perfection.

By definition you are the fascist.

What an asinine convolution and baseless accusation. Let's prove it.

 

What do you want society to do, and how do you suggest going about it?

 

I want to hear details; not bullsht pie in the sky.

 

Go.

[seafoam1 1,878]

 

These are good points. I wouldn't say that the Dems are being racist, but rather protective and not wanting to see those in extreme cases be left in the cold. I do believe that some people abuse welfare and other entitlements. However, lifting people out of that is the complicated part. I wish we had more bipartisanship in government, because we would be able to come up with some good solutions. We could adjust entitlements while figuring out ways to invest in low-income areas, so that there are viable jobs and education options for them.

The democrats use racism as a tool. They consistently try to keep themselves hidden from actually being the racist entity they are by thoroughly using the people they appeal to. It's classic agenda driven, meaning they want big government, class and racial dependency, immigration related dependency, and green party dependency by both sensationalizing non issues, and ignoring issues that need to be prioritized for this country's well being. They are a group that runs on a platform of invoking emotions in race, age, and income. The problem is, they always say that the solution is that all of these people in their target group need to depend upon a democratic government to provide for them. Where as the Republicans preach that individuals of all races, legal ages, etc. depend upon themselves to manage their lives. and respect and follow the laws. Which means don't go shooting or robbing others, live off of government programs without reason, have more kids than you can afford, commit violence or execute crimes and so on.

 

What did obama do for this country in 8 years time? He caused racial divide and further government dependency while ignoring his old stomping grounds by letting Chicago turn into a violence pit.

[Antiramie 50]

What an asinine convolution and baseless accusation. Let's prove it.

 

What do you want society to do, and how do you suggest going about it?

 

I want to hear details; not bullsht pie in the sky.

 

Go.

It's not baseless. It's based entirely on your words. You said injustices aren't worth pursuing because the commotion that is involved is a greater detriment than actually bettering our society.

 

To answer your question:

 

Better training/hiring standards/pay for police officers. Body cams that don't "malfunction" and repercussions if they do. Unbiased DAs in police brutality/negligence cases. Firing/charging cops for illegal things instead of administrative leave with pay.

[Antiramie 50]

good grief.

 

Democrats ruin what they touch. That they're racist is simply another despicable element to their insipid ideology.

Great retort. Someone says handouts perpetuate racism because of how they affect minorities. I state that the largest group receiving handouts is caucasians. You continue to spew that Dems are racist, despite the contention being neutralized.

 

So you're just ignorant or refuse to acknowledge facts.

[IMMensaMind 459]

It's not baseless. It's based entirely on your words. You said injustices aren't worth pursuing because the commotion that is involved is a greater detriment than actually bettering our society.

No, you said that; I didn't. My POV is that 'society' doesn't get better in the way you seem to think it does. It's far too big, and all it takes is some social justice warrior types such as yourself to continue to highlight any dysfunction that takes place in it and claim it is a sign of some systemic problem for it to never end.

 

And that's exactly what happens. There is no such thing as 'better'; you'll never be able to quantify it - and you don't care to (or you would have been all over the statistics which would have indicated to you what kind of 'problem' you're identifying, and what targets you'd have to hit to be satisfied that society is 'better'.).

 

To answer your question:

Better training/hiring standards/pay for police officers.

Oh, there's that word again. 'Better'. Tell me: what does 'better' mean? What was worse before? How many incidents have to happen in order for you to decide that things are fine?

 

Body cams that don't "malfunction" and repercussions if they do.

Body cams are relatively new technology. They are going to malfunction. How many cases would you like to offer as proof that there is a problem? What percentage of encounters go bad, and what percentage would have to go bad in order for you to be satisfied?

 

Unbiased DAs in police brutality/negligence cases.

Unbiased? By whose standard? How could you tell?

 

Firing/charging cops for illegal things instead of administrative leave with pay.

Demonstrate how that doesn't happen now. Specifically show us. How many times? Over how many years?

 

You won't answer these questions because you'll have to face that your notion of 'better' isn't the point at all.

 

You are seeking the impossible.

[IMMensaMind 459]

Great retort. Someone says handouts perpetuate racism because of how they affect minorities. I state that the largest group receiving handouts is caucasians. You continue to spew that Dems are racist, despite the contention being neutralized.

So you're just ignorant or refuse to acknowledge facts.

Oh, the contention isn't neutralized at all. History proves it. The Civil Rights Act was opposed by more Democrats than Republicans. LBJ's "I'll have N8ggers voting Democrat for 200 years" statement proves it as well.

 

The KKK was the military wing of the Democrat Party; founded by Democrats. The claim you make about more whites receiving handouts than blacks is specious: there are only two segments of society which receive handouts in such concentration as become endemic and generational: Appalachia, and every inner city in America.

 

And we know which party runs every inner city in America.

 

http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/19/dinesh-dsouza-democrats-are-the-real-racists-video/

 

http://govtslaves.info/2014/06/200-years-history-proves-democrats-real-racists/

 

(IWB) The very first Republican president freed the slaves and was hated for it. He was consequentially murdered by a Democrat.

 

The Klu Klux Klan was created by Democrat Party members for the express purpose of terrorizing blacks and Republicans in the South to prevent them from voting, and that every known Klansman that were members of Congress have been Democrats.

 

The first grand wizard of the KKK was honored at the 1868 Democratic National Convention.

 

No Democrats voted for the 14th Amendment to grant citizenship to former slaves and, to this day, the Democrat Party website ignores those decades of racism. Three years after Appomattox, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting blacks citizenship in the United States, came before the Congress: 94 percent of Republicans endorsed.

 

“The records of Congress reveal that not one Democrat — either in the House nor the Senate — voted for the 14th Amendment…Three years after the Civil War and the Democrats from the North as well as the South were still refusing to recognize any rights of citizenship for black Americans.

 

March 20, 1854 Opponents of Democrats’ pro-slavery policies meet in Ripon, Wisconsin to establish the Republican Party

 

May 30, 1854 Democrat President Franklin Pierce signs Democrats’ Kansas-Nebraska Act, expanding slavery into U.S. territories; opponents unite to form the Republican Party

 

June 16, 1854 Newspaper editor Horace Greeley calls on opponents of slavery to unite in the Republican Party

 

July 6, 1854 First state Republican Party officially organized in Jackson, Michigan, to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies

 

February 11, 1856 Republican Montgomery Blair argues before U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of his client, the slave Dred Scott; later served in [Republican] President Lincoln’s Cabinet

 

February 22, 1856 First national meeting of the Republican Party, in Pittsburgh, to coordinate opposition to Democrats’ pro-slavery policies

 

March 27, 1856 First meeting of Republican National Committee in Washington, DC to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies

 

May 22, 1856 For denouncing Democrats’ pro-slavery policy, Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) is beaten nearly to death on floor of Senate by U.S. Rep. Preston Brooks (D-SC), takes three years to recover

 

March 6, 1857 Republican Supreme Court Justice John McLean issues strenuous dissent from decision by 7 Democrats in infamous Dred Scott case that African-Americans had no rights “which any white man was bound to respect”

 

June 26, 1857 Abraham Lincoln declares Republican position that slavery is “cruelly wrong,” while Democrats “cultivate and excite hatred” for blacks

 

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

 

October 25, 1858 U.S. Senator William Seward (R-NY) describes Democratic Party as “inextricably committed to the designs of the slaveholders”; as President Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State, helped draft Emancipation Proclamation

 

June 4, 1860 Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) delivers his classic address, The Barbarism of Slavery

 

April 7, 1862 President Lincoln concludes treaty with Britain for suppression of slave trade

 

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 2, 1862 U.S. Rep. Justin Morrill (R-VT) wins passage of Land Grant Act, establishing colleges open to African-Americans, including such students as George Washington Carver

 

July 17, 1862 Over unanimous Democrat opposition, Republican Congress passes Confiscation Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy “shall be forever free”

 

August 19, 1862 Republican newspaper editor Horace Greeley writes Prayer of Twenty Millions, calling on President Lincoln to declare emancipation

 

August 25, 1862 President Abraham Lincoln authorizes enlistment of African-American soldiers in U.S. Army

 

September 22, 1862 Republican President Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation

 

January 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, implementing the Republicans’ Confiscation Act of 1862, takes effect

 

February 9, 1864 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton deliver over 100,000 signatures to U.S. Senate supporting Republicans’ plans for constitutional amendment to ban slavery

 

June 15, 1864 Republican Congress votes equal pay for African-American troops serving in U.S. Army during Civil War

 

June 28, 1864 Republican majority in Congress repeals Fugitive Slave Acts

 

October 29, 1864 African-American abolitionist Sojourner Truth says of President Lincoln: “I never was treated by anyone with more kindness and cordiality than were shown to me by that great and good man”

 

January 31, 1865 13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. House with unanimous Republican support, intense Democrat opposition

 

March 3, 1865 Republican Congress establishes Freedmen’s Bureau to provide health care, education, and technical assistance to emancipated slaves

 

April 8, 1865 13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate with 100% Republican support, 63% Democrat opposition

 

June 19, 1865 On “Juneteenth,” U.S. troops land in Galveston, TX to enforce ban on slavery that had been declared more than two years before by the Emancipation Proclamation

 

November 22, 1865 Republicans denounce Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting “black codes,” which institutionalized racial discrimination

 

December 6, 1865 Republican Party’s 13th Amendment, banning slavery, is ratified

 

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

 

April 19, 1866 Thousands assemble in Washington, DC to celebrate Republican Party’s abolition of slavery

 

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

 

July 16, 1866 Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of Freedman’s Bureau Act, which protected former slaves from “black codes” denying their rights

 

July 28, 1866 Republican Congress authorizes formation of the Buffalo Soldiers, two regiments of African-American cavalrymen

 

July 30, 1866 Democrat-controlled City of New Orleans orders police to storm racially-integrated Republican meeting; raid kills 40 and wounds more than 150

 

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”

 

May 20, 1868 Republican National Convention marks debut of African-American politicians on national stage; two – Pinckney Pinchback and James Harris – attend as delegates, and several serve as presidential electors

 

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

 

September 28, 1868 Democrats in Opelousas, Louisiana murder nearly 300 African-Americans who tried to prevent an assault against a Republican newspaper editor

 

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

 

November 3, 1868 Republican Ulysses Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour in presidential election; Seymour had denounced Emancipation Proclamation

 

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 19, 1870 African-American John Langston, law professor and future Republican Congressman from Virginia, delivers influential speech supporting President Ulysses Grant’s civil rights policies

 

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

 

March 22, 1871 Spartansburg Republican newspaper denounces Ku Klux Klan campaign to eradicate the Republican Party in South Carolina

 

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

 

September 20, 1876 Former state Attorney General Robert Ingersoll (R-IL) tells veterans: “Every man that loved slavery better than liberty was a Democrat… I am a Republican because it is the only free party that ever existed”

 

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

 

July 14, 1884 Republicans criticize Democratic Party’s nomination of racist U.S. Senator Thomas Hendricks (D-IN) for vice president; he had voted against the 13th Amendment banning slavery

 

August 30, 1890 Republican President Benjamin Harrison signs legislation by U.S. Senator Justin Morrill (R-VT) making African-Americans eligible for land-grant colleges in the South

 

June 7, 1892 In a FIRST for a major U.S. political party, two women – Theresa Jenkins and Cora Carleton – attend Republican National Convention in an official capacity, as alternate delegates

 

February 8, 1894 Democrat Congress and Democrat President Grover Cleveland join to repeal Republicans’ Enforcement Act, which had enabled African-Americans to vote

 

December 11, 1895 African-American Republican and former U.S. Rep. Thomas Miller (R-SC) denounces new state constitution written to disenfranchise African-Americans

 

May 18, 1896 Republican Justice John Marshall Harlan, dissenting from Supreme Court’s notorious Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal” decision, declares: “Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens”

 

December 31, 1898 Republican Theodore Roosevelt becomes Governor of New York; in 1900, he outlawed racial segregation in New York public schools

 

May 24, 1900 Republicans vote no in referendum for constitutional convention in Virginia, designed to create a new state constitution disenfranchising African-Americans

 

January 15, 1901 Republican Booker T. Washington protests Alabama Democratic Party’s refusal to permit voting by African-Americans

 

October 16, 1901 President Theodore Roosevelt invites Booker T. Washington to dine at White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country

 

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

 

June 18, 1912 African-American Robert Church, founder of Lincoln Leagues to register black voters in Tennessee, attends 1912 Republican National Convention as delegate; eventually serves as delegate at 8 conventions

 

August 1, 1916 Republican presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes, former New York Governor and U.S. Supreme Court Justice, endorses women’s suffrage constitutional amendment; he would become Secretary of State and Chief Justice

 

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

 

April 18, 1920 Minnesota’s FIRST-in-the-nation anti-lynching law, promoted by African-American Republican Nellie Francis, signed by Republican Gov. Jacob Preus

 

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

 

December 8, 1924 Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis argues in favor of “separate but equal”

 

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

 

October 20, 1942 60 prominent African-Americans issue Durham Manifesto, calling on southern Democrats to abolish their all-white primaries

 

April 3, 1944 U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Texas Democratic Party’s “whites only” primary election system

 

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 “[t]he use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.”

 

February 18, 1946 Appointed by Republican President Calvin Coolidge, federal judge Paul McCormick ends segregation of Mexican-American children in California public schools

 

July 11, 1952 Republican Party platform condemns “duplicity and insincerity” of Democrats in racial matters

 

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

 

December 8, 1953 Eisenhower administration Asst. Attorney General Lee Rankin argues for plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education

 

May 17, 1954 Chief Justice Earl Warren, three-term Republican Governor (CA) and Republican vice presidential nominee in 1948, wins unanimous support of Supreme Court for school desegregation 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

 

October 19, 1956 On campaign trail, Vice President Richard Nixon vows: “American boys and girls shall sit, side by side, at any school – public or private – with no regard paid to the color of their skin. Segregation, discrimination, and prejudice have no place in America”

 

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

 

June 23, 1958 President Dwight Eisenhower meets with Martin Luther King and other African-American leaders to discuss plans to advance civil rights

 

February 4, 1959 President Eisenhower informs Republican leaders of his plan to introduce 1960 Civil Rights Act, despite staunch opposition from many Democrats

 

May 6, 1960 President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republicans’ Civil Rights Act of 1960, overcoming 125-hour, around-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats

 

July 27, 1960 At Republican National Convention, Vice President and eventual presidential nominee Richard Nixon insists on strong civil rights plank in platform

 

May 2, 1963 Republicans condemn Democrat sheriff of Birmingham, AL for arresting over 2,000 African-American schoolchildren marching for their civil rights

 

June 1, 1963 Democrat Governor George Wallace announces defiance of court order issued by Republican federal judge Frank Johnson to integrate University of Alabama

 

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 Dirkson, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.

 

June 20, 1964 The Chicago Defender, renowned African-American newspaper, praises Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) for leading passage of 1964 Civil Rights Act

 

March 7, 1965 Police under the command of Democrat Governor George Wallace attack African-Americans demonstrating for voting rights in Selma, AL

 

March 21, 1965 Republican federal judge Frank Johnson authorizes Martin Luther King’s protest march from Selma to Montgomery, overruling Democrat Governor George Wallace

 

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

 

August 6, 1965 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

 

July 8, 1970 In special message to Congress, President Richard Nixon calls for reversal of policy of forced termination of Native American rights and benefits

 

September 17, 1971 Former Ku Klux Klan member and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black (D-AL) retires from U.S. Supreme Court; appointed by FDR in 1937, he had defended Klansmen for racial murders

 

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

 

April 26, 1999 Legislation authored by U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI) awarding Congressional Gold Medal to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks is transmitted to President

 

January 25, 2001 U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee declares school choice to be “Educational Emancipation”

 

March 19, 2003 Republican U.S. Representatives of Hispanic and Portuguese descent form Congressional Hispanic Conference

 

May 23, 2003 U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) introduces bill to establish National Museum of African American History and Culture

[IMMensaMind 459]

And this last here, just in case you think about attempting to claim that the Democrats and the Republicans suddenly switched sides, and everything bad/racist was really on the GOP, from a retired Lt. Col - black female:

 

http://blackrepublican.blogspot.com/2012/06/republicans-and-democrats-did-not.html

[IMMensaMind 459]

[IMMensaMind 459]

If you're not racist, you'll listen to what this black gentleman has to say:

 

 

Of particular interest is the last two minutes of the video, where he airs a speech by Malcolm X highlighting how blacks are chumps for supporting Democrats, and that Dixiecrats are merely Democrats in disguise.

 

It puts the lie to the claim that the parties switched sides. They never did. All that happened - as explained in both videos - was that Democrats abruptly switched strategies, and went underground with their overt racism. And they enslaved a whole new generation of Americans in the process, and ruined them.

[RaiderHaters Revenge 3,566]

We can't ever have a perfect society so we shouldn't even try, and people being prejudiced against should just be quiet.

 

Finally the ugly truth comes out.

 

If that wasn't as blatant a support for oppression I don't know what is.

 

you do know the word prejudice does not mean racist, I am so tired of people continually using prejudice as a negative connotation. It is human nature to PRE-JUDGE every single person we ever encounter in our life based on people we have encountered before and how our interactions were with those people. Does that mean we prejudge all people of a given color the same? No, but I guarantee, that you prejudge every person dressed in a nice well tailored suit as someone who is more likely to have a positive experience, than some guy in saggy shorts and a basketball jersey regardless of his color

 

I don't judge a book by its cover, however every human that exists looks at that cover and is prepared based upon previous encounters.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,588]

It's not baseless. It's based entirely on your words. You said injustices aren't worth pursuing because the commotion that is involved is a greater detriment than actually bettering our society.

 

To answer your question:

 

Better training/hiring standards/pay for police officers. Body cams that don't "malfunction" and repercussions if they do. Unbiased DAs in police brutality/negligence cases. Firing/charging cops for illegal things instead of administrative leave with pay.

You want cops suspended without pay in all instances based on an accusation before a hearing or trial? I heard that idiot Kaepernick say the same thing. I'm still amazed about how little the public knows about how police departments operate yet are not shy about talking as if they do. Here's a tip: you don't know what you're talking about. And neither does the leader of your movement.

[james00 4]

It's hard to believe all this got started because a half white guy started kneeling during the anthem. That picture of him in the pig socks is so cute . You know you got your together when you can rock pig socks like that. All this nonsense will phase out eventually because it's a no win situation. It's just that simple. I'll be glad when the NFL starts to accelerate that process. NFL better wake up before that cash flow starts getting hit .

[Donkey 34]

Oh, the contention isn't neutralized at all. History proves it. The Civil Rights Act was opposed by more Democrats than Republicans. LBJ's "I'll have N8ggers voting Democrat for 200 years" statement proves it as well.

 

The KKK was the military wing of the Democrat Party; founded by Democrats. The claim you make about more whites receiving handouts than blacks is specious: there are only two segments of society which receive handouts in such concentration as become endemic and generational: Appalachia, and every inner city in America.

 

And we know which party runs every inner city in America.

 

http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/19/dinesh-dsouza-democrats-are-the-real-racists-video/

 

http://govtslaves.info/2014/06/200-years-history-proves-democrats-real-racists/

 

(IWB) The very first Republican president freed the slaves and was hated for it. He was consequentially murdered by a Democrat.

 

The Klu Klux Klan was created by Democrat Party members for the express purpose of terrorizing blacks and Republicans in the South to prevent them from voting, and that every known Klansman that were members of Congress have been Democrats.

 

The first grand wizard of the KKK was honored at the 1868 Democratic National Convention.

 

No Democrats voted for the 14th Amendment to grant citizenship to former slaves and, to this day, the Democrat Party website ignores those decades of racism. Three years after Appomattox, the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, granting blacks citizenship in the United States, came before the Congress: 94 percent of Republicans endorsed.

 

“The records of Congress reveal that not one Democrat — either in the House nor the Senate — voted for the 14th Amendment…Three years after the Civil War and the Democrats from the North as well as the South were still refusing to recognize any rights of citizenship for black Americans.

 

March 20, 1854 Opponents of Democrats’ pro-slavery policies meet in Ripon, Wisconsin to establish the Republican Party

 

May 30, 1854 Democrat President Franklin Pierce signs Democrats’ Kansas-Nebraska Act, expanding slavery into U.S. territories; opponents unite to form the Republican Party

 

June 16, 1854 Newspaper editor Horace Greeley calls on opponents of slavery to unite in the Republican Party

 

July 6, 1854 First state Republican Party officially organized in Jackson, Michigan, to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies

 

February 11, 1856 Republican Montgomery Blair argues before U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of his client, the slave Dred Scott; later served in [Republican] President Lincoln’s Cabinet

 

February 22, 1856 First national meeting of the Republican Party, in Pittsburgh, to coordinate opposition to Democrats’ pro-slavery policies

 

March 27, 1856 First meeting of Republican National Committee in Washington, DC to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies

 

May 22, 1856 For denouncing Democrats’ pro-slavery policy, Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) is beaten nearly to death on floor of Senate by U.S. Rep. Preston Brooks (D-SC), takes three years to recover

 

March 6, 1857 Republican Supreme Court Justice John McLean issues strenuous dissent from decision by 7 Democrats in infamous Dred Scott case that African-Americans had no rights “which any white man was bound to respect”

 

June 26, 1857 Abraham Lincoln declares Republican position that slavery is “cruelly wrong,” while Democrats “cultivate and excite hatred” for blacks

 

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

 

October 25, 1858 U.S. Senator William Seward (R-NY) describes Democratic Party as “inextricably committed to the designs of the slaveholders”; as President Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State, helped draft Emancipation Proclamation

 

June 4, 1860 Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) delivers his classic address, The Barbarism of Slavery

 

April 7, 1862 President Lincoln concludes treaty with Britain for suppression of slave trade

 

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 2, 1862 U.S. Rep. Justin Morrill (R-VT) wins passage of Land Grant Act, establishing colleges open to African-Americans, including such students as George Washington Carver

 

July 17, 1862 Over unanimous Democrat opposition, Republican Congress passes Confiscation Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy “shall be forever free”

 

August 19, 1862 Republican newspaper editor Horace Greeley writes Prayer of Twenty Millions, calling on President Lincoln to declare emancipation

 

August 25, 1862 President Abraham Lincoln authorizes enlistment of African-American soldiers in U.S. Army

 

September 22, 1862 Republican President Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation

 

January 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, implementing the Republicans’ Confiscation Act of 1862, takes effect

 

February 9, 1864 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton deliver over 100,000 signatures to U.S. Senate supporting Republicans’ plans for constitutional amendment to ban slavery

 

June 15, 1864 Republican Congress votes equal pay for African-American troops serving in U.S. Army during Civil War

 

June 28, 1864 Republican majority in Congress repeals Fugitive Slave Acts

 

October 29, 1864 African-American abolitionist Sojourner Truth says of President Lincoln: “I never was treated by anyone with more kindness and cordiality than were shown to me by that great and good man”

 

January 31, 1865 13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. House with unanimous Republican support, intense Democrat opposition

 

March 3, 1865 Republican Congress establishes Freedmen’s Bureau to provide health care, education, and technical assistance to emancipated slaves

 

April 8, 1865 13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate with 100% Republican support, 63% Democrat opposition

 

June 19, 1865 On “Juneteenth,” U.S. troops land in Galveston, TX to enforce ban on slavery that had been declared more than two years before by the Emancipation Proclamation

 

November 22, 1865 Republicans denounce Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting “black codes,” which institutionalized racial discrimination

 

December 6, 1865 Republican Party’s 13th Amendment, banning slavery, is ratified

 

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

 

April 19, 1866 Thousands assemble in Washington, DC to celebrate Republican Party’s abolition of slavery

 

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

 

July 16, 1866 Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of Freedman’s Bureau Act, which protected former slaves from “black codes” denying their rights

 

July 28, 1866 Republican Congress authorizes formation of the Buffalo Soldiers, two regiments of African-American cavalrymen

 

July 30, 1866 Democrat-controlled City of New Orleans orders police to storm racially-integrated Republican meeting; raid kills 40 and wounds more than 150

 

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”

 

May 20, 1868 Republican National Convention marks debut of African-American politicians on national stage; two – Pinckney Pinchback and James Harris – attend as delegates, and several serve as presidential electors

 

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

 

September 28, 1868 Democrats in Opelousas, Louisiana murder nearly 300 African-Americans who tried to prevent an assault against a Republican newspaper editor

 

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

 

November 3, 1868 Republican Ulysses Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour in presidential election; Seymour had denounced Emancipation Proclamation

 

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 19, 1870 African-American John Langston, law professor and future Republican Congressman from Virginia, delivers influential speech supporting President Ulysses Grant’s civil rights policies

 

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

 

March 22, 1871 Spartansburg Republican newspaper denounces Ku Klux Klan campaign to eradicate the Republican Party in South Carolina

 

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

 

September 20, 1876 Former state Attorney General Robert Ingersoll (R-IL) tells veterans: “Every man that loved slavery better than liberty was a Democrat… I am a Republican because it is the only free party that ever existed”

 

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

 

July 14, 1884 Republicans criticize Democratic Party’s nomination of racist U.S. Senator Thomas Hendricks (D-IN) for vice president; he had voted against the 13th Amendment banning slavery

 

August 30, 1890 Republican President Benjamin Harrison signs legislation by U.S. Senator Justin Morrill (R-VT) making African-Americans eligible for land-grant colleges in the South

 

June 7, 1892 In a FIRST for a major U.S. political party, two women – Theresa Jenkins and Cora Carleton – attend Republican National Convention in an official capacity, as alternate delegates

 

February 8, 1894 Democrat Congress and Democrat President Grover Cleveland join to repeal Republicans’ Enforcement Act, which had enabled African-Americans to vote

 

December 11, 1895 African-American Republican and former U.S. Rep. Thomas Miller (R-SC) denounces new state constitution written to disenfranchise African-Americans

 

May 18, 1896 Republican Justice John Marshall Harlan, dissenting from Supreme Court’s notorious Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal” decision, declares: “Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens”

 

December 31, 1898 Republican Theodore Roosevelt becomes Governor of New York; in 1900, he outlawed racial segregation in New York public schools

 

May 24, 1900 Republicans vote no in referendum for constitutional convention in Virginia, designed to create a new state constitution disenfranchising African-Americans

 

January 15, 1901 Republican Booker T. Washington protests Alabama Democratic Party’s refusal to permit voting by African-Americans

 

October 16, 1901 President Theodore Roosevelt invites Booker T. Washington to dine at White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country

 

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

 

June 18, 1912 African-American Robert Church, founder of Lincoln Leagues to register black voters in Tennessee, attends 1912 Republican National Convention as delegate; eventually serves as delegate at 8 conventions

 

August 1, 1916 Republican presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes, former New York Governor and U.S. Supreme Court Justice, endorses women’s suffrage constitutional amendment; he would become Secretary of State and Chief Justice

 

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

 

April 18, 1920 Minnesota’s FIRST-in-the-nation anti-lynching law, promoted by African-American Republican Nellie Francis, signed by Republican Gov. Jacob Preus

 

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

 

December 8, 1924 Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis argues in favor of “separate but equal”

 

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

 

October 20, 1942 60 prominent African-Americans issue Durham Manifesto, calling on southern Democrats to abolish their all-white primaries

 

April 3, 1944 U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Texas Democratic Party’s “whites only” primary election system

 

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 “[t]he use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.”

 

February 18, 1946 Appointed by Republican President Calvin Coolidge, federal judge Paul McCormick ends segregation of Mexican-American children in California public schools

 

July 11, 1952 Republican Party platform condemns “duplicity and insincerity” of Democrats in racial matters

 

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

 

December 8, 1953 Eisenhower administration Asst. Attorney General Lee Rankin argues for plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education

 

May 17, 1954 Chief Justice Earl Warren, three-term Republican Governor (CA) and Republican vice presidential nominee in 1948, wins unanimous support of Supreme Court for school desegregation 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

 

October 19, 1956 On campaign trail, Vice President Richard Nixon vows: “American boys and girls shall sit, side by side, at any school – public or private – with no regard paid to the color of their skin. Segregation, discrimination, and prejudice have no place in America”

 

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

 

June 23, 1958 President Dwight Eisenhower meets with Martin Luther King and other African-American leaders to discuss plans to advance civil rights

 

February 4, 1959 President Eisenhower informs Republican leaders of his plan to introduce 1960 Civil Rights Act, despite staunch opposition from many Democrats

 

May 6, 1960 President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republicans’ Civil Rights Act of 1960, overcoming 125-hour, around-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats

 

July 27, 1960 At Republican National Convention, Vice President and eventual presidential nominee Richard Nixon insists on strong civil rights plank in platform

 

May 2, 1963 Republicans condemn Democrat sheriff of Birmingham, AL for arresting over 2,000 African-American schoolchildren marching for their civil rights

 

June 1, 1963 Democrat Governor George Wallace announces defiance of court order issued by Republican federal judge Frank Johnson to integrate University of Alabama

 

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 Dirkson, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.

 

June 20, 1964 The Chicago Defender, renowned African-American newspaper, praises Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) for leading passage of 1964 Civil Rights Act

 

March 7, 1965 Police under the command of Democrat Governor George Wallace attack African-Americans demonstrating for voting rights in Selma, AL

 

March 21, 1965 Republican federal judge Frank Johnson authorizes Martin Luther King’s protest march from Selma to Montgomery, overruling Democrat Governor George Wallace

 

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

 

August 6, 1965 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

 

July 8, 1970 In special message to Congress, President Richard Nixon calls for reversal of policy of forced termination of Native American rights and benefits

 

September 17, 1971 Former Ku Klux Klan member and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black (D-AL) retires from U.S. Supreme Court; appointed by FDR in 1937, he had defended Klansmen for racial murders

 

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

 

April 26, 1999 Legislation authored by U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI) awarding Congressional Gold Medal to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks is transmitted to President

 

January 25, 2001 U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee declares school choice to be “Educational Emancipation”

 

March 19, 2003 Republican U.S. Representatives of Hispanic and Portuguese descent form Congressional Hispanic Conference

 

May 23, 2003 U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) introduces bill to establish National Museum of African American History and Culture

 

The history of political parties is more complicated than you're making it out to be.

 

What's your point anyway?

[james00 4]

Look Kap got what he wanted. He will be famous forever. Personally I think he just wanted some attention, but people latched on to his agenda and ran with it. I know there are people that are gonna disagree. He obviously wasn't gonna be remembered for his football play because he was irrelevant in that department. NFL Will be better when pregame shows are talking about football again and the coaches are talking about the actual game instead of the game plan for the anthem. Anybody who loves football can agree to that.

[Johnny B. Goode 17]

19 pages of Americans arguing - over a few athletes protesting inequity in the justice system - just what Putin and Don the Con wanted.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,588]

19 pages of Americans arguing - over a few athletes protesting inequity in the justice system - just what Putin and Don the Con wanted.

Let's discuss the alleged inequality in the justice system. Unless of course you don't think the victims of crime deserve justice and violators should be punished.

[MDC 5,877]

19 pages of Americans arguing - over a few athletes protesting inequity in the justice system - just what Putin and Don the Con wanted.

Exactly. Don is playing his angry butt hurt supporters like a fiddle.

[Johnny B. Goode 17]

Exactly. Don is playing his angry butt hurt supporters like a fiddle.

Right, the same guy who mocked McCain's as a POW and mocked a gold star family, is all of the sudden so concerned about the national anthem. Gimme a break!

 

 

It would be laughable if it wasn't hook line and sinker to his supporters.

[IMMensaMind 459]

The history of political parties is more complicated than you're making it out to be.

 

What's your point anyway?

You mean that I couldn't capture the entire nuanced history of both parties in one post?

 

You're right.

 

My point is encapsulated in those two videos.

[MDC 5,877]

Right, the same guy who mocked McCain's as a POW and mocked a gold star family, is all of the sudden so concerned about the national anthem. Gimme a break!

 

 

It would be laughable if it wasn't hook line and sinker to his supporters.

Dude's MAGA hats are made in China. That tells me as I need to know about the POTUS.

[IMMensaMind 459]

19 pages of Americans arguing - over a few athletes protesting inequity in the justice system - just what Putin and Don the Con wanted.

You mean Putin wouldn't have wanted players protesting the US flag to create the division in the first place?

[IMMensaMind 459]

Dude's MAGA hats are made in China. That tells me as I need to know about the POTUS.

Yes.

 

We know bullsht leftists invent to smear Trump is all you need to know about Trump.

 

http://www.snopes.com/donald-trump-hat-china/

[IMMensaMind 459]

Exactly. Don is playing his angry butt hurt supporters like a fiddle.

And yet you're the one who keeps falling for fiction.

 

And you've somehow convinced yourself that you're the savvy one who isn't being played.

 

Riiiiight.