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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 It was the democrats who started the KKK then repealed the civil rights acts and replaced them with segregation and Jim Crow laws.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
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