A Thought On the Democrats Valuing Blacks Greatly

[jordan179]

The Democrats used to value blacks greatly.

Then, the Republicans made the Democrats stop buying and selling them at auction.

It was a little dispute called the American Civil War. You may have heard of it.

Comments

[asher63]

Word!

[wombat_socho]

ZING!

[benschachar_77]

Hah! I knew I knew you from somewhere other than theothermccain.

[wombat_socho]

You have the advantage of me. I don't recognize your LJ handle and can't connect it with any of the commentariat at Stacy's place.

[benschachar_77]

I don't comment there very often.

[robby]

One dirty little secret is that there are more slaves, right now, in the 21st century than ever before. Let's not talk about it, though. Let's, instead, agonize over America's past, even though we fought , and won, a civil war to fix it.

[ford_prefect42]

That is a bit of a question isn't it? Why is it that we actually fought a war against *ourselves* over the slave trade, and are more or less ignoring the fact that ISIS is engaged in the same practice?

Although I find the claims of "more now than then" sommewhat dubious, those making that claim are using a quite different definition of "slave".

[robby]

Even if the definition is limited to "forced labor", we have 20 million slaves in the world today. People ignore it, even the self-serving activists who want to blame the white race for the slavery that ended 150 years ago.

[ford_prefect42]

I am skeptical of that number too, but ultimately, the actual number isn't that important. The fact is, it still does go on, and that fact doesn't get anywhere near as much attention as it should.

[davidkevin]

And then the parties traded places with regard to racism in the latter half of the 20th Century with the Nixon Southern Strategy and northern liberalism.

This "Democrats are racists and slavers" baloney is getting really, really old.

[jordan179]

And then the parties traded places with regard to racism in the latter half of the 20th Century with the Nixon Southern Strategy and northern liberalism.

According to the Democrats they did. Also, according to the Democrats, retaining racist Southern Democrat leaders such as Robert K. Byrd, a former high-ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan, was okay because his willingness to remain a Democrat magically atoned for his previous racism, which was fairly extreme (he refused to join the US military in World War II because he didn't want to serve in the same organization with blacks). Meanwhile, the Republican expulsion of leaders such as David Duke didn't count, because that was obviously just for show.

Of the two main American parties, it is the Democrats who make the appeal to race more, and who claim that there are mysterious inherent differences between whites and non-whites which require that the two groups be treated differently. But the Republicans are the more racist party, because the Democrats say so.

This "Democrats are

[skarman]

It's called co-opting. Use the accomplishments of another for your own gain. The Republicans fought against slavery, even guys we love to hate doing their part. People like Nixon and Hoover. Nixon also was involved in Watergate but that is way worse than what the current one has been involved in, if you believe the democrats. Hoover was a crossdresser and secret gay man who persecuted the gays and lesbians. So, both of those are irrelevant to the democrats and their liberal idiots

[gothelittle]

Ayup. A black criminal who had just finished victimizing another black person is shot while charging at police, and it's "Black Lives Matter" and a bunch of rioting and calls for action against the policeman in question.

Hundreds of innocent, Christian black girls are kidnapped by Muslim extremists and forced into sexual slavery, and we get a hashtag and Michelle Obama's pouty face.

[justgin1978]

LOVE your snarkiness and brevity. Point well made.