Perhaps a better approach would have been to remind folks that one of our major political parties was founded on the condemnation of white supremacy, while the other fought tooth and nail against civil rights.
I'm not advocating using tragedy for political gains, but don't word your statement such that it makes it look like our side is the evil one.
Truth. There is a difference between advocating tragedies and wanting laws upheld. And where do the Democrats think they have room to talk about racist?
The Racist Agenda Of The Democratic Party Will Shock You
We have all heard the claims that the Republican Party is racist. People who believe this nonsense are in dire need of a history lesson. It’s time to pin the tail on the donkey. Not only does the Democratic Party have an extremely racist history, but its current policies are also holding minorities back.
In March of 1854, the Republican Party was officially formed in opposition to the Democrat’s pro-slavery stance. Under Republican President Abraham Lincoln, The Republican-controlled Congress passed the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in 1865. While 100% of the Republicans voted for the 13th amendment, only 23% of the Democrats voted for it. A couple years later, the Supreme Court ruled on Dred Scott v. Sanford. The decision was divided between two Republican justices and seven Democratic justices. With the Democrats in the majority, the Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans could not be considered citizens of the United States.
By 1866, Democrats founded the KKK as a way of trying to combat the Republican Party’s efforts to establish equality for African-Americans. Despite the Democrat Party’s claims to be all about equality, its ties to the KKK have lasted for over a century and are still ongoing. Robert Byrd, a Democrat, served in the House of Representatives from 1953 to 1959 and the Senate from 1959 to 2010. In the 1940s, Byrd created a new chapter of the KKK in West Virginia. Byrd once wrote in a letter, “I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side … Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.†During Byrd’s first campaign, he announced that he was no longer a member of the KKK. However, the Democratic Party’s ties to the KKK do not end there. Just this past March, Will Quigg, a KKK leader switched his support from Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton. Quigg stated, “She is telling everybody one thing, but she has a hidden agenda.â€
Shortly after the KKK was founded, the 14th Amendment was passed in 1868, which granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.†While 100 percent of Republicans voted in favor of the 14th Amendment, every single Democrat voted against it. Following the 14th Amendment, the 15th Amendment gave African-American men the right to vote. Of course, the Democrats voted against this as well. Clearly, the Democrats were doing everything they could to suppress the rights of African-Americans. So in the 1870s, when they gained control of Congress in all of the southern states, the Democrats instilled Jim Crow laws.
For many years to come, Democrats were on a mission to stop the Republican Party’s efforts towards equality. In 1918, the Democrats blocked an anti-lynching bill that a Republican introduced to the House of Representatives. The Democrat’s KKK had lynched thousands of people and the proposed bill was aimed at punishing those who committed these horrific acts.............
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