Thursday - April 19, 2012

I Guess It’s Race Day After All

Two good reads if you can spare 20 minutes or so.

Bruce Walker at American Thinker looks at the history of Race, Republicans, and Democrats, but stops his history about when Nixon left the building.

What caused the change in the attitude of blacks towards the two political parties was not any real perception of Goldwater as a bigot, which he emphatically was not, but rather upon the perceived benefit to blacks of socialism and of statist intervention in the private affairs of Americans.

Socialism promises those who are at the bottom of society greater affluence by the redistribution of wealth.  Historically, that noxious doctrine has had very little appeal in America because groups have entered America destitute and, through dint of hard work, have risen to the heights of society within a generation or two.

GOP historian, speaker, and author Michael Zak points out a big handful of detail errors in the comments there at AT ... and the comments there are worth reading ... and then goes on to pen his own essay today at Human Events, concerning the very first Civil Rights Act:

Ominously, the assassination of the Great Emancipator [Lincoln] had left the presidency to his Democrat vice president, Andrew Johnson.  Senator Lyman Trumbull (R-IL), co-author of the 13th Amendment banning slavery, also wrote the 1866 Civil Rights Act. Republican support was nearly unanimous, while Democrats were unanimously opposed.  This would be the first time Congress overrode a presidential veto of a significant bill.

The law conferred U.S. citizenship on all African-Americans, according them “full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens.” Despite Democrat objections, Republicans made sure African-Americans had the right to own property, engage in business, sign contracts and file lawsuits.

Andrew Johnson refused to enforce this law in the southern states, so it had little effect there. However, many racially discriminatory laws in the North were repealed or struck down as a result.

Yet in a big picture way, Walker’s essay, Zak’s writings, and Coulter’s paragraphs are all tied together. They all do a Breitbart and fight the meme, the oldest one, that the GOP is against black people. Which is a huge crock, and always has been. Since 1854.

Posted by Drew458     on 04/19/2012 at 02:32 PM   
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