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Nice post Clint.  However, I guess us Republicans missed out on electing the first black President, Bill Clinton—at least according to some Democrats.  Apparantly skin color doesn’t make for ‘black’ in the minds of Democrats, liberalism does.  No wonder all those black republican ‘firsts’ were disregarded.

Who freed the slaves?  Lincoln.

Who had the first black man to the White House as a guest?  Teddy Roosevelt.

Who had the first black woman to the White House as a guest?  Teddy Roosevelt.

Who made the first federal appointment of a black person?  Teddy Roosevelt.

The only tarnish on the GOP’s civil rights record is the defection of the “Dixiecrats” from the Dems to the Republicans.  But outside of that, the GOP’s civil rights record is long and proud.  Much longer and much prouder than the Democrats’.

In fact, I’m not even sure the Democrats did anything on civil rights until they figured out they could trap minorities as voting blocks by turning them into victims and pimping government entitlements to them.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Rob’s recently listened-to songs:

Reconstruction, those were the days, long time coming.
Long time gone.

Since 1929,Blacks in the House of Representatives

Oscar DePriest Republican Illinois 1929-1935
Arthur W. Mitchell Democrat Illinois 1935-1943
William Levi Dawson Democrat Illinois 1943-1970
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.  Democrat New York 1945-1967, 1967-1971
Charles Diggs Democrat Michigan 1955-1980
Robert N.C. Nix, Sr.  Democrat Pennsylvania 1958-1979
Augustus F. Hawkins Democrat California 1963-1991
John Conyers, Jr.  Democrat Michigan 1965-present
William L. Clay, Sr.  Democrat Missouri 1969-2001
Louis Stokes Democrat Ohio 1969-1999
Shirley Chisholm Democrat New York 1969-1983
George W. Collins Democrat Illinois 1970-1972
Ronald V. Dellums Democrat California 1971-1998
Ralph Metcalfe Democrat Illinois 1971-1978
Parren Mitchell Democrat Maryland 1971-1987
Charles B. Rangel Democrat New York 1971-present
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke Democrat California 1973-1979
Cardiss Collins Democrat Illinois 1973-1997
Barbara Jordan Democrat Texas 1973-1979
Andrew Young Democrat Georgia 1973-1977
Harold Ford, Sr.  Democrat Tennessee 1975-1997
Julian C. Dixon Democrat California 1979-2000
William H. Gray, III Democrat Pennsylvania 1979-1991
Mickey Leland Democrat Texas 1979-1989
Bennett McVey Stewart Democrat Illinois 1979-1981
George W. Crockett Democrat Michigan 1980-1991
Mervyn M. Dymally Democrat California 1981-1993
Gus Savage Democrat Illinois 1981-1993
Harold Washington Democrat Illinois 1981-1983
Katie Hall Democrat Indiana 1982-1985
Major Owens Democrat New York 1983-2007
Edolphus Towns Democrat New York 1983-present
Alan Wheat Democrat Missouri 1983-1995
Charles Hayes Democrat Illinois 1983-1993
Alton R. Waldon, Jr.  Democrat New York 1986-1987
Mike Espy Democrat Mississippi 1987-1993
Floyd Flake Democrat New York 1987-1998
John Lewis Democrat Georgia 1987-present
Kweisi Mfume Democrat Maryland 1987-1996
Donald M. Payne Democrat New Jersey 1989-present
Craig A. Washington Democrat Texas 1989-1995
Barbara-Rose Collins Democrat Michigan 1991-1997
Gary Franks Republican Connecticut 1991-1997
William J. Jefferson Democrat Louisiana 1991-present
Maxine Waters Democrat California 1991-present
Lucien E. Blackwell Democrat Pennsylvania 1991-1995
Eva Clayton Democrat North Carolina 1992-2003
Sanford Bishop Democrat Georgia 1993-present
Corrine Brown Democrat Florida 1993-present
Jim Clyburn Democrat South Carolina 1993-present
Cleo Fields Democrat Louisiana 1993-1997
Alcee Hastings Democrat Florida 1993-present
Earl Hilliard Democrat Alabama 1993-2003
Eddie Bernice Johnson Democrat Texas 1993-present
Cynthia McKinney Democrat Georgia 1993-2003, 2005-2007
Carrie Meek Democrat Florida 1993-2003
Mel Reynolds Democrat Illinois 1993-1995
Bobby Rush Democrat Illinois 1993-present
Robert C. Scott Democrat Virginia 1993-present
Walter Tucker Democrat California 1993-1995
Mel Watt Democrat North Carolina 1993-present
Albert Wynn Democrat Maryland 1993-present
Bennie Thompson Democrat Mississippi 1993-present
Chaka Fattah Democrat Pennsylvania 1995-present
Sheila Jackson Lee Democrat Texas 1995-present
J.C. Watts, Jr.  Republican Oklahoma 1995-2003
Jesse Jackson, Jr.  Democrat Illinois 1995-present
Juanita Millender-McDonald Democrat California 1996-present
Elijah Cummings Democrat Maryland 1996-present
Julia Carson Democrat Indiana 1997-present
Danny K. Davis Democrat Illinois 1997-present
Harold Ford, Jr.  Democrat Tennessee 1997-2007
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick Democrat Michigan 1997-present
Gregory W. Meeks Democrat New York 1998-present
Barbara Lee Democrat California 1998-present
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Democrat Ohio 1999-present
William Lacy Clay, Jr.  Democrat Missouri 2001-present
Diane Watson Democrat California 2001-present
Frank Ballance Democrat North Carolina 2003-2004
Artur Davis Democrat Alabama 2003-present
Denise Majette Democrat Georgia 2003-2005
Kendrick Meek Democrat Florida 2003-present
David Scott Democrat Georgia 2003-present
G.K. Butterfield Democrat North Carolina 2004-present
Emanuel Cleaver Democrat Missouri 2005-present
Al Green Democrat Texas 2005-present
Gwen Moore Democrat Wisconsin 2005-present
Yvette Clarke Democrat New York 2007-present
Keith Ellison Democrat Minnesota 2007-present
Hank Johnson Democrat Georgia 2007-presentSomehow Republicans forgot
to send Blacks invitations to the Party
Guess Whose Coming To Dinner?

The Dixiecrats were a white supremacist splinter-party of the Democratic Party in the mid-20th century who were determined to protect what they saw as the southern way of life against an oppressive United States federal government.

The term Dixiecrat is a portmanteau of Dixie, referring to the Southern United States, and Democrat, referring to the United States Democratic Party. Initially, it referred to a splinter from the party in the 1948 U.S. presidential election: for over a century, white Southerners had overwhelmingly been Democrats, but that year many bolted the party and supported Strom Thurmond’s third-party candidacy for president of the United States. The emergence of the solid Democratic South followed the end of Reconstruction Period when the then Republicans used the post-Civil War period to help African-Americans emerge from slavery and secure their political and voting rights. When white Southerners reclaimed political control in the late 1800s with the aid of organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and the lynching of black activists, the region gave its political allegiance to the then Democratic Party.

Over the next several decades, as the white South slowly re-aligned from the Democrats to the Republicans, the term came to have a broader usage, including, for example, with reference to the members of the Electoral College who in the election of 1960 voted for Harry Flood Byrd rather than John F. Kennedy, or the white Southern voters and electors who in 1968 supported George C. Wallace.

The term has also been used to refer to conservative white Southerners who remain within the Democratic Party, and those who were formerly Democrats but now identify as Republicans.

Source: Wikipedia-Dixiecrat

Woof:
You forgot about Poland.

Gary Franks Republican Connecticut 1991-1997

woofie, gladto see that once forced to accept blacks as humans the Democrat Party allowed them to join the political proccess. Now, who was it that forced the Democrat Party to accept negros as human beings?

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

this would be great if it were the same demo party, unfortunately all the southern democrats you guys are demonizing are now repubos. history? anybody? fuck it if we can get out a nice diss?

Robert Byrd is a Repubo?

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

2h9
history? anybody? fuck it if we can get out a nice diss?

2H9,

While you’re at it, throw in Bill Clinton, AlGore, Jimmy Carter, Kathleen Blanco, and John Edwards… all good southern Democrats.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One,
Having no leg to stand on comes with the territory. Get used to it.

Strom Thurmond?
Demo turned Repubo. A good case study for you guys.

Scared,

It was probably the combination of the words “good” and “Democrats” that confused you.  I intended neither the the oxymoron, nor any resulting loss of intellectual equilibrium.  My apologies.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Willie Jeff and Algore are part of the generation that carried the Democrat Party the next step along the long followed path towards a socialist democracy during the ‘80s and ‘90s. Ms Blanco is a part of the tried and true Louisiana Democrat Party machine. Politics in LA are a world unto themselves, with profitable interactions with the Fedreal Government thrown in.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

Bat One,
I forgive you. I thought you were taking a cheap shot by presenting a badly constructed argument while completely ignoring history. My bad. It’s an easy mistake my friend.

Scared,

I don’t do “badly constructed arguments.” No apologies necessary.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One,
I stand corrected. Your personal affirmations have much weight. But you still fail to account for your “turning a blind eye” to history. Thanks for the list WOOF.

Bobby L. Rush (D-IL)

A leader of the militant Black Panther Party in the 1960s.

John Conyers, Jr. (D - MI).

Conyers is one of the top recipients of donations from the Arab-American Leadership PAC. And not surprisingly, he has a long history of pandering to Arab and Muslim voters.

During the first Gulf War, for instance, Conyers fought FBI outreach efforts in the Arab and Muslim community in Detroit that were designed to gather intelligence on potential cells and protect the home front.

Leading a Democrat jihad to deny law enforcement key terror-fighting tools he is in the pocket of Islamists.

Son of a leftist Detroit union activist, he represents the largest Arab population in the country.

His district includes Dearborn, Mich., nicknamed “Dearbornistan” by locals fed up with cultural encroachment and terror fears from a steady influx of Mideast immigrants.

history? anybody? fuck it if we can get out a nice diss?
Sparkie Arbuckle on February 16, 2007 at 10:34 am

History indeed!!!

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. —Aristotle ...

Just looking at the list of senior Democrat Party members is enough to make a RICO prosecutor’s mouth-water.

Tell you what, kids. List for us all the “African-American” senior staffers working for Democrats in Congress. Not scumbag politicians, the people they hire to run their operations. Lets see that list. And while we are at it, how about a list of “African-Americans” who have held senior Cabinet Staff and senior, top leadership positions in the Admins of the last 3 Democrat Presidents.

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