Question by paul: Why do blacks usually support the democrat party?
Anyone who looks at history can plainly see it has been the dems who have apposed equality.
After the civil war blacks were freed and given 40 acres and a mule as reparations for slavery but after Lincoln was assassinated President Andrew Johnson a democrat reversed the order and returned the lands to their white owners.
It was the republicans who passed the civil rights acts of 1866 and 1875 granting blacks protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations and amended the constitution 13th 14th and 15th amendments giving blacks freedom citizenship and the right to vote. It was the democrats who started the KKK then repealed the civil rights acts and replaced them with segregation and Jim Crow laws.
Black History Month was originally “Negro History Week” began in 1926 under Republican President Calvin Coolidge
The republican party was the Party of most blacks prior to the 1960’s, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
President Dwight Eisenhower(Republican) sent U.S. troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools, established the Civil Rights Commission in 1958, and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation.
Republican Party, by the greatest percentage, passed the1957 Civil Rights Act and the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s.
President Richard Nixon who instituted the first Affirmative Action program in 1969 with the Philadelphia Plan that established goals and timetables.
The campaign for a federal holiday in King’s honor began soon after his assassination. President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983, and it was first observed in 1986.
President George W. Bush who supported the U.S. Supreme Court’s University of Michigan Affirmative Action decision, and spent over $ 200 billion to fight AIDS in Africa and on programs to help black Americans prosper. $ 200 billion is triple what Clinton administration offered and Bush has promised to double that amount again by 2010.
Democratic Party fought to keep blacks in slavery and was the Party that established the Ku Klux Klan.
Democratic Party from 1870 to 1930 used fraud, whippings, lynching, murder, intimidation, and mutilation to get the black vote, and passed the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws which legalized racial discrimination and denied blacks their rights as citizens
Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Democratic President Harry Truman who rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission.
Democratic President John F. Kennedy who voted against the 1957 Civil Rights law as a Senator, then opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after becoming president, and later had the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) investigate Dr. King on suspicion of being a communist.
Democratic Senator Al Gore Sr. voted against the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s.
Democrat is the party of Senator Robert Byrd who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Senator Fritz Hollings who hoisted the Confederate flag over the state capitol in South Carolina when he was the governor, and Senator Ted Kennedy who insulted black judicial nominees by calling them “Neanderthals” while blocking their appointments.
Democratic President Bill Clinton refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan.
So why do most blacks vote democrat?
“You cannot go into a Dunkin’ Donuts or a 7-Eleven unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking”
Sen. Joseph Biden Jr.
“My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state has the eighth largest black population in the country. My state is anything [but] a Northeastern liberal state.”
Sen. Joseph Biden Jr
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African American [Barack Obama] who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy.”
Sen. Joseph Biden Jr
“There’s less than 1% of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than 4% or 5% that is, are minorities. What is it in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you’re dealing with.”
Sen. Joseph Biden Jr.
“Mr Obama could win since he was a “light-skinned” African-American “with no Negro dialect”, unless he wanted one.”
Harry Reid (D Nevada)
“I’m blacker than Barack Obama. I shine shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in the black community not far from where we lived.”
Rod Blagojevish (D Chicago, Illinois)
“Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you’d find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they’d just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.”
–Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D., S.C.)
“I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes.”
–Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy
“Because when you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation. And you know what I’m talking about.”
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
Mahatma Gandhi “ran a gas station down in Saint Louis.”
-Senator Hillary Clinton
(On Clare
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Best answer:
Answer by scott
The passing of welfare legislation by LBJ.
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
Ricky
October 5, 2011 at 8:53 pm
Democrats have historically been poison for anyone trying to take the initiative to better their own lives.
Sway
October 5, 2011 at 9:06 pm
Because the democrats try to promise them “free shit” which in turn just makes them slaves back to the dem party.
Rune Jasper
October 5, 2011 at 9:49 pm
less or no black people in the other one?
John
October 5, 2011 at 10:41 pm
It depends on them not all black are with democrat some support republicans well because in a republican side they support big businesses and wealthy people and for the democratic side they support the welfare system and the poor people.
captain mustard
October 5, 2011 at 11:08 pm
As long as the Republicans are in power and are interested in keeping things the way they are, the Blacks will never achieve economic and political relevance. Despite the fact that the Democrats are a little too liberal on some morale issues, many Blacks perceive them as the vehicle to attaining true freedom, equality, and opportunity
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October 6, 2011 at 12:04 am
THE DEMOCRAT PLANTATION.
The Democrat Plantation keeps blacks and poor whites down, poor, in their place, and Voting Democrat in hopes of some Crumbs being tossed to them.
I ESCAPED the Democrat Plantation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Democrats will NEVER get their little dik-skinners ahold of me Again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
summertime
October 6, 2011 at 12:15 am
Why do you think the whites support the Republican party.To get their form of welfare and they get it.Do you know that there is more welfare and food stamps distributed in the Red States? That’s funny.No one has dibs on that.Why would blacks vote against themselves?Your question makes no sense.There is nothing you or i can say to change anyones idea of what is right for them.You vote right they vote left.Live with it.
American citizen and taxpayer
October 6, 2011 at 12:30 am
Unfortunately I would say the guarantee of maximum government transfer payments.
PS African-Americans are, statistically, more socially conservative than whites as well. So they can’t be voting Democrat because of abortion or same-sex marriage.
Jas B
October 6, 2011 at 1:15 am
I don’t know where you learnt your history but The Civil Rights Act of 1964 bill was called for by President John F. Kennedy in his civil rights speech of June 11, 1963. Unfortunately he was assassinated before this could be passed into law and his predecessor Lyndon Johnson, both of these presidents were Democrats.
Johnson also introduced to Congress the idea of a Voting Rights Act in what is considered to be one of his best speeches:
“Rarely are we met with a challenge…..to the values and the purposes and the meaning of our beloved Nation. The issue of equal rights for American Negr0es is such as an issue…..the command of the Constitution is plain. It is wrong – deadly wrong – to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country.”
With his commitment to the cause, Congress realised that Johnson would not back down on this issue and if they hindered or failed to back it, Americans would view the failure to be one by Congress alone.
The Act was passed. It outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes as a way of assessing whether anyone was fit or unfit to vote. As far as Johnson was concerned, all you needed to vote was American citizenship and the registration of your name on an electoral list. No form of hindrance to this would be tolerated by the law courts.
The Act was the boost that the civil rights cause needed to move it swiftly along and Johnson has to take full credit for this. As Martin Luther King had predicted in earlier years, demonstrations served a good purpose but real change would only come through the power of Federal government. Johnson proved this. V Sanders has called what he did as a “legislative revolution”. Johnson had one break in that he worked with a Congress that had a majority of Democrats serving in it and as a Democrat president both could work well together.
On April 11, 1968 President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968. Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 is commonly known as the Fair Housing Act, or as CRA ’68, and was meant as a follow-up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. While the Civil Rights Act of 1866[1] prohibited discrimination in housing, there were no federal enforcement provisions. The 1968 act expanded on previous acts and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, and as of 1974, gender; as of 1988, the act protects the disabled and families with children. It also provided protection for civil rights workers.
Those black Americans alive today owe their civil rights to the Democratic party and what happened back in the 1800’s when the two parties bear no resemblance in ideology to the parties of today is irrelevant to them and to all but some right wing republicans who attempt to rewrite history to their advantage. know the truth. They or their parents and grandparents lived through these times and are well aware of which party has their best interests at heart.
How do I know all this? I was alive at the time and saw it happen. If you doubt me check up on these facts from unbiased factual sites, some below.
Thomas
October 6, 2011 at 1:57 am
Jas B’s got it right dude, read up.
And reaganomics is the one the top reasons my older black friends vote Dem.