Terry Haugen:

If you "were black" who you vote for would not change. As far as that comment insulting you if you "were black", look at the statistics.

Why don't you explain your conservatives being sheeple comment? It is a liberal talking point with no merit. 

Israel:

I don't think bringing up the wealth of the candidates is a deciding point on who to vote for in this race.  They all have more money than the common man.

John:

Its obvious that Terry is ignorant in her understanding of true conservatism.  It's what this great country was founded on.

Israel:

It's unfortunate that only the wealthy can run successfully.

Terry:

What suppression of Blacks by the Republicans are you talking about?

You mean Abraham Lincoln tried to suppress Blacks? 

The Republican party was good enough for Martin Luther King Jr. to call his own.

Was it really a Republican Governor that tried to block Black students from entering the University of Alabama in 1963?

Simon:

Great minds think alike.  I didn't read your comments until I submitted mine.

Terry:

Someone else has summed up my argument against your outlandish left winged psycho babble much better than I could have without spending more time than I care to on debating this left winged meritless liberal argument.  The Capitalist Conservative has put together some interesting points on your brainwashed view point.  Furthermore, my time spent on it is already wasted because after my comment is read to you,  you will not be able to comprehend the truth.

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The Democrat Party's Long and Shameful History of Bigotry and Racism

A common attack upon conservatives and republicans by the ultra left is to engage in what has come to be known as "playing the race card" but is more accurately described as racial McCarthyism. Hardly a day goes by without a member of the far left wing falsely accusing conservatives of racism, bigotry, and a wide array of similar nasty things. They are not only dishonest, but they often border on the absurd, as in NAACP leader and hyper bigot Julian Bond's recent implication to his organization that Bush administration officials supported confederate slavery. Amazingly, Bond's statements went without condemnation from the radical Democrat party or others in his organization.

Not surprisingly, in all the lies and accusations of racism by the radical left wing, the truth becomes distorted not only about the Republicans but also the Democrats who make these accusations themselves. For instance, you may or may not have heard Democrat Senator Robert Byrd's outburst of racist bigoted slurs, more specifically the "n-word," on national television in March of 2001. Amazingly, this incident of blatant racism on national television drew barely a peep from the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Julian Bond, Mary Frances Berry, or any of the other ambulance chasers who purport themselves to be the leaders of the civil rights movement. In contrast, the main source of well deserved criticism for Byrd's racist outburst came not from any of the so called leaders of the civil rights movement but from from Republican Majority Leader Dick Armey (source). The race hustlers Jackson, Mfume et al turned a blind eye towards this act of racism by one of their own party, at most issuing an unpublicized slap on the wrist, or, as was more often the case, making not a peep. But where the race hustlers turn a blind eye and spew their lies, it is up to conservatives to set the record straight with the truth.

In response to the growing practice of racial McCarthyism by prominent left wing Democrats, it is necessary to expose the truth about the Democrat Party's record on Civil Rights:

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Franklin Roosevelt, the long time hero and standard bearer of the Democrat Party, headed up and implemented one of the most horrible racist policies of the 20th Century - the Japanese Internment Camps during World War II. Roosevelt unilaterally and knowingly enacted Japanese Internment through the use of presidential Executive Orders 9066 and 9102 during the early years of the war. These orders single-handedly led to the imprisonment of an estimated 120,000 law abiding Americans of Japanese ancestry, the overwhelming majority of them natural born second and third generation American citizens. Countless innocents lost their property, fortunes, and, in the case of an unfortunate few, even their lives as a result of Roosevelt's internment camps, camps that have been accurately described as America's concentration camps. Perhaps most telling about the racist nature of Roosevelt's order was his clearly expressed intention to apply it almost entirely to Japanese Americans, even though America was also at war with Germany and Italy. In 1943, Roosevelt wrote regarding concerns of German and Italian Americans that they t0o would share in the fate of the interned Japanese Americans, noting that "no collective evacuation of German and Italian aliens is contemplated at this time." Despite this assertion, Roosevelt did exhibit his personal fears about Italian and German Americans, and in his typical racist form he used an ethnic stereotype to make his point.  Expressing about his position on German and Italian Americans during World War II, Roosevelt stated "I don't care so much about the Italians, they are a lot of opera singers, but the Germans are different. They may be dangerous."

Roosevelt also appointed two notorious segregationists to the United States Supreme Court. Roosevelt appointed South Carolina segregationist Democrat Jimmy Byrnes to the court. Roosevelt later made Byrnes a top advisor, where the segregationist earned the nickname "assistant president." Byrnes was Roosevelt's second choice behind Harry Truman for the VP nod in his 1944 reelection bid. Roosevelt also appointed segregationist Democrat Senator Hugo Black of Alabama to the court. Black was a former member of the Ku Klux Klan with a notorious record of racism himself.

Hugo Black: A former Democrat Senator from Alabama and liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice appointed by FDR, Hugo Black had a lengthy history of hate group activism. Black was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920's and gained his legal fame defending Klansmen under prosecution for racial murders. In one prominent case, Black provided legal representation to Klansman Edwin Stephenson for the hate-induced murder of a Catholic priest in Birmingham. A jury composed of several Klan members acquited Stephenson of the murder, reportedly after Black expressed Klan gestures to the jury during the trial. In 1926 Black sought and won election as a Democrat to the United States Senate after campaigning heavily to Klan membership. He is said to have told one Klan audience "I desire to impress upon you as representatives of the real Anglo-Saxon sentiment that must and will control the destinies of the stars and stripes, that I want your counsel." In the Senate Black became a stauch supporter of the liberal New Deal initiatives of FDR and a solid opponent of civil rights legislation, including a filibuster of an anti-lynching measure. Black led the push for several New Deal programs and was a key participant in FDR's court packing scandal. Roosevelt appointed Black, a loyal ally, to the U.S. Supreme Court. During the Senate confirmation of Black's nomination, the issue of his strong Klan affiliations caused a public controversy over his appointment. Following the confirmation Roosevelt claimed ignorance of Black's Klan past, though this claim was dubious at best. Black's first Senate election, which occurred with Klan support, had been covered nationally a decade earlier in 1926. Black's Klan affiliations were a well known part of his political background and recieved heavy coverage in the newspapers at the time of his appointment. On the court, Black became a liberal stalwart. He also continued his career of supporting racism by authoring the opinion in favor of FDR's Japanese internment program in the infamous Korematsu ruling.

Senator Robert Byrd, D-WV: Byrd is a former member of the Ku Klux Klan and is currently the only national elected official with a history in the Klan, a well known hate group. Byrd was extremely active in the Klan and rose to the rank of "Kleagle," an official Klan membership recruiter. Byrd once stated that he joined the Klan because it was effective in "promoting traditional American values" (Source). Byrd's choice of words speak volumes about his bigotry considering the fact that the Klan is a notorious hate group, and the racist "values" it promotes are anything but American. One of the earliest criticisms of Byrd's Klan ties came in 1952 when he was running for Congress. Byrd responded by claiming that he had left the Klan in 1943 while noting that "(d)uring the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan." Byrd was lying, however, as he engaged in correspondence with a Klan Imperial Wizard long after he claims to have ended his ties with the hate group.

In a letter to the Klan leadership (Source) dated 3 years after he purported to have ended his ties with them, Byrd wrote "I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state. The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia." Byrd continued his racist diatribe "It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union" and followed with a request for assistance from the hate group's leadership in "rebuilding the Klan in the realm" of West Virginia.

Byrd's racism extends far beyond his Klan membership. In a letter he wrote on the subject of desegregating the armed forces, Byrd escalated his racist rhetoric to an appalling level. In the letter, Byrd vowed that he would never fight in an integrated armed services noting "(r)ather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds" (Source).

Byrd's racist opinions have shown their ugly face in his behavior in the Senate.  Byrd led the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and, according to the United States Senate's own website, filibustered the legislation to the bitter end appearing as one of the last opponents to the act before a coalition of civil rights proponents led by Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen invoked cloture so that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 could pass. At the time, Byrd was in the the midst of a 14 hour and 13 minute filibuster diatribe against the key civil rights measure (Source).  Throughout the 1960's, Byrd was was one of the staunchest opponents to civil rights in the U.S. Senate. Byrd's racist history drew attention recently when he went on national television and repeatedly used the n-word, one of the most vicious racial slurs in existence, in an appearance on national television. Byrd uttered the slur on Fox News Sunday with Tony Snow on March 5, 2001. Despite the appalling nature of the remark, it went largely ignored by the mainstream media and the self appointed "civil rights" leadership. Whereas a similar remark by anyone other than a leading Democrat Senator would assuredly prompt the likes of Jesse Jackson to assemble protest rallies demanding resignations, the Jackson crowd was eerily quiet following Byrd's remarks, issuing only low key suggestions that Byrd should avoid making such bigoted remarks.

In a sickening recognition of Byrd's appalling political career, the national Democrat party has done nothing but embrace the West Virginia senator with leadership roles and practically every honor imaginable. To this very day the Democrats call former Klansman turned U.S. Senator Robert Byrd the "conscience of the Senate." They have embraced him as their party's central pillar in all ways possible. Byrd has been reelected more times than any other Democrat senator, has served as a Democrat in Congress, a Democrat State Senator in West Virginia, and a Democrat State Delegate in West Virginia. Democrats have made repeatedly elected Byrd into their national party leadership and into the U.S. Senate leadership. He became secretary of the Senate Democrat Caucus in 1967, and Senate Democrat Whip in 1971. The Democrats elected former Klansman Byrd as their Senate Majority Leader from 1977-1980 and as their Senate Minority Leader from 1981-1986. Byrd was again elected Democrat Majority Leader from 1987-1988. Democrats made Byrd the chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee and President Pro Tempore of the Senate from 1989 until the Republicans won control of the Senate in November 1994. Following the defection of Jim Jeffords in June 2001, the Democrats again made Byrd the chairman of the Appropriations Committee and elected him to the highest ranking office in the Senate: the President Pro Tempore, a position which also put this former Klansman 4th in line for the presidency. Byrd lost his position when Republicans retook the Senate in late 2002, but continues to serve as one of the highest ranking members of the Democrat Senate leadership today.

Senator Ernest Hollings, D-SC: Hollings is liberal Democrat Senator from South Carolina who is also notorious for his use of racial slurs. He rose out of the Democrat Party's segregationist wing in the 1960's as governor of South Carolina. While in office as governor, Hollings personally led the opposition to lunch counter integration in his state. The New York Times reported on March 17, 1960 that then-governor Hollings "warned today that South Carolina would not permit 'explosive' manifestations in connection with Negro demands for lunch-counter services." According to the article, Hollings gave a speech in which he "challenged President Eisenhower's contention that minorities had the right to engage in certain types of demonstrations" against segregation. In the speech Hollings described the Republican president as "confused" and asserted that Eisenhower had done "great damage to peace and good order" by supporting the rights of minorities to protest segregation at the lunch counters.

Governor Hollings' support for segregation continued throughout his term and included his attendance at a July 23, 1961 meeting of segregationist Democrats to organize their opposition to the civil rights movement. Hollings was one of four governors in attendence, all of them Democrats. The others included rabid segregationists Orval Faubus of Arkansas and Ross Barnett of Mississippi. The New York Times reported on the meeting, noting that among the strategies discussed were using the segregationist White Citizens Council organization to mobilize political opposition to desegregation.

In more recent years Hollings, a senior Democrat senator, has made disparaging racial remarks and slurs against minorities. Senator Hollings, who was a contender for his party's presidential nomination in 1984, blamed his defeat in the primaries by using a racial slur against Hispanics. After losing the Iowa Straw Poll, Hollings stated "You had wetbacks from California that came in here for Cranston," referring to one of his opponents, Alan Cranston. A few years later Hollings reportedly used the slur "darkies" to derogatorily refer to blacks. He also once disparagingly referred to the Rainbow PUSH Coalition as the "Blackbow Coalition," and called former Senator Howard Metzenbaum, who is Jewish, "the Senator from B'nai B'rith." Hollings gained international criticism for his remarks about the African Delegation to the 1993 Geneva GATT conference, where he crudely remarked "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." Hollings was also the Governor of South Carolina who raised the confederate flag over the state capitol in the early 1960's in what was considered at the time to be an act of defiance to civil rights. The press ignored Hollings and his role in the flag issue at the same time the political correctness police were smearing George W. Bush during his campaign after Bush correctly remarked that the flag was a state issue to be decided upon by South Carolina and not the national government.

Jesse Jackson: Jackson was the featured prime time speaker at the 2000 Democrat Convention. Jackson has a history of using anti-Semitic slurs and derogatorily calling New York City "Hymietown." Jackson, a prominent self proclaimed "civil rights leader," is himself guilty of the same bigotry he dishonestly purports to oppose.

Dan Rather: Rather,  the well known television anchor for CBS, is also a liberal Democrat who has spoken at fundraisers for the Democrat party in the past. The notoriously left wing reporter appeared on the Don Imus radio show on July 19, 2001 where he was interviewed about his long term refusal to cover the Gary Condit (D-CA) scandal involving an affair with a missing intern despite the scandal's national prominence. Rather noted on the air that CBS had basically forced him to cover the story that was on every other network and on the front page of all the major newspapers, all this after Rather avoided it for months. Rather stated on the air, refering to CBS, that "they got the Buckwheats" and made him cover the Condit scandal. The term "Buckwheat" is considered an offensive racial stereotype that stems from an easily frightened black character named "Buckwheat" on the Little Rascals comedies.  It is widely regarded as a racial epithet and has long been condemned as an offensive stereotype by several civil rights organizations. In several past incidents (see here and here) the use of the epithet "Buckwheat" has recieved condemnation by the NAACP, Al Sharpton and other left wing organizations. These left wing organizations and personalities have demanded that other media personalities be fired over using the epithet, and even staged a protest at a school over the mere allegation that the racist stereotype had been used by a teacher. Yet these same liberal groups have, to date, remained completely silent now that one of their own, Dan Rather, is guilty of using the same offensive racial stereotype they have condemned elsewhere on a national radio show. It's just more proof of how the left wingers who cry the loudest with accusations of racism against others turn a blind eye when somebody of their own left wing ideology is the undeniable culprit of a blatantly racist act or statement!

Cragg Hines: Hines is one of the most rabidly partisan DC based Democrat editorial columnists to work for a major newspaper, and he makes no attempts to hide it. To Hines, pro-lifers are "neanderthals," as is often the case with those who differ in opinion with him.  Ironically, Hines, a columnist who regularly touts himself as an enlightened progressive, is also known for racial remarks and religious intolerance. He attacked Senator Jesse Helms in an August 26, 2001 editorial with not only the usual liberal name calling, but also with a racial epithet. Hines used the racial slur "cracker" to attack Helms. He used the epithet not only within the article's text, but he even included it in the piece's title. In a sense of heavy irony, Hines' article accused Helms of bigotry for, among other things, opposing liberal policies like affirmative action. He didn't seem to object to himself for his own bigotted language in the same article. Hines has also drawn heavy criticism from Catholics including a letter to the editor from the former President of the U.S. Catholic Bishop's Conference for his seemingly agenda-driven criticisms of Catholicism and its religious leaders, often based on little or no historical evidence, which he has expressed in numerous editorial columns.

Al Sharpton: Sharpton, a perrenial Democrat candidate and one of the rumored candidates for the Democrat's 2004 presidential nomination, has a notorious racist past. Sharpton was a central figure who fanned the 1991 Crown Heights race riot, where a mob shouting anti-semetic slurs murdered an innocent Jewish man. Sharpton also incited a 1995 protest of a Jewish owned store in Harlem where protesters used several anti-semetic slurs. During the protests, a Sharpton lieutenant called the store's owner a "bloodsucker" and declared an intent to "loot the Jews." A member of the protest mob later set fire to the store, resulting in the death of seven (source).

Representative Dick Gephardt, D-MO: Gephardt, the former Democrat Minority Leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, gave several speeches to a St. Louis area hate group during his early years as a representative. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Gephardt spoke before the Metro South Citizens Council, a now defunct white supremacist organization, during his early years as a congressman. Newsmax.com further reported that Gephardt had openly asked the group for an endorsement of his candidacy during one of his many visits with the organization. Gephardt has long avoided questions about his past affiliation with this group.

Andrew Cuomo: Cuomo, Bill Clinton's former Housing Secretary and a prominent Democrat political player in New York, was tape recorded using racially inflamatory rhetoric to build opposition to a potential Democrat primary opponent while speaking to a Democrat group. Cuomo stated that voting for his rival for the New York Democrat gubernatorial nomination Carl McCall, who is black, would create a "racial contract" between Black and Hispanic Democrats  "and that can't happen." Upon initial reports, Cuomo denied the statement but later a tape recording surfaced. Cuomo later dropped out of the race for governor (source).

Lee P. Brown: Brown, Bill Clinton's former drug czar and Democrat mayor of Houston, engaged in racist campaigning designed to suppress Hispanic voter turnout during his 2001 reelection bid. Brown faced challenger Orlando Sanchez, a Hispanic Republican who drew heavy support from the Hispanic community during the general election. Two weeks prior to the runoff, Brown's campaign printed racist signs designed to intimidate Hispanic voters. The signs featured a photograph of Sanchez and the words "Anti-Hispanic." The signs drew harsh criticism from Hispanic leaders as their message was designed to intimidate and confuse Hispanic voters. Around the same time the signs were being used, Brown supporter and city councilman Carol Alvarado made a series of racially charged attacks on Sanchez, implying a desire to see the supression of Hispanic voter turnout in the runoff. Brown staffers also went on record claiming that Sanchez was not a true Hispanic. The racist anti-Hispanic undertones of Brown's reelection bid were so great that liberal Democrat city councilman John Castillo, himself Hispanic, retracted his endorsement of Brown in disgust and became a Sanchez supporter in the final week of the campaign. Following the harsh condemnation of the racist signs and tactics, Brown purported that his campaign was removing them even though many still lingered around Houston up until the election. When election day came along, Brown placed more of the racist signs at polling places, despite his claim to have stopped using them. The large campaign billboard style election day signs featured, in Spanish, the word "Danger!" on them followed by Sanchez's name with a large red circle and slash through it. The signs identified the Brown campaign as their owner on the bottom. Brown's racially charged reelection effort barely squeeked by Sanchez on election day, winning 51% to 49% following a series of racially motivated advertisements in which the Brown campaign appealed to the fear of black voters by invoking images of the gruesome lynching death of James Byrd, Jr. and by attempting to pit them against Hispanics. While Brown had the audacity to declare himself a mayor for all people and all ethnicities at his victory party, many in Houston fear the racial wounds inflicted by his campaign will take years to heal.

Mary Frances Berry: Berry is the Democrat chair of the US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR). She purports herself to be an "independent" in her political affiliation in order to hold her job on the civil rights commission where partisan membership may not exceed 4 for either party, but is in fact a dedicated liberal Democrat who openly supported Al Gore for president and has given a total of $20,000 in personal contributions to the Democrat Party, Al Gore for President, and other Democrat candidates over the last decade. Berry is an open racist who is affiliated with the far-left Pacifica radio network, a group with ties to black nationalist causes. Berry once stated "Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them," indicating that she believes the USCCR should only look out for civil rights violations against persons of certain select skin colors.

Billy McKinney: Former Democrat State Representative Billy McKinney of Georgia, who is also the father of former Democrat congresswoman Cynthia McKinney of the same state. During his daughter's failed 2002 reelection bid, McKinney appeared on television where he blamed his daughter's difficulties on a Jewish conspiracy. McKinney unleashed a string of anti-semitic sentiments, stating "This is all about the Jews" and spelling out "J-E-W-S." McKinney lost his own seat in a runoff a few weeks later.

The Democrat Party and the Ku Klux Klan: Aside from the multiple Klan members who have served in elected capacity within the high ranks of the Democrat Party, the political party itself has a lengthy but often overlooked history of involvement with the Ku Klux Klan. Though it has been all but forgotten by the media, the Democrat National Convention of 1924 was host to one of the largest Klan gatherings in American history. Dubbed the "Klanbake convention" at the time, the 1924 Democrat National Convention in New York was dominated by a platform dispute surrounding the Ku Klux Klan. A minority of the delegates to the convention attempted to condemn the hate group in the party's platform, but found their proposal shot down by Klan supporters within the party. As delegates inside the convention voted in the Klan's favor, the Klan itself mobilized a celebratory rally outside. On July 4, 1924 one of the largest Klan gatherings ever occurred outside the convention on a field in nearby New Jersey. The event was marked by speakers spewing racial hatred, celebrations of their platform victory in the Democrat Convention, and ended in a cross burning.

A little known fact of history involves the heavy opposition to the civil rights movement by several prominent Democrats. Similar historical neglect is given to the important role Republicans played in supporting the civil rights movement. A calculation of 26 major civil rights votes from 1933 through the 1960's civil rights era shows that Republicans favored civil rights in approximately 96% of the votes, whereas the Democrats opposed them in 80% of the votes! These facts are often intentionally overlooked by the left wing Democrats for obvious reasons. In some cases, the Democrats have told flat out lies about their shameful record during the civil rights movement.

Democrat Senators organized the record Senate filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Included among the organizers were several prominent and well known liberal Democrat standard bearers including:
- Robert Byrd, current senator from West Virginia
- J. William Fulbright, Arkansas senator and political mentor of Bill Clinton
- Albert Gore Sr., Tennessee senator, father and political mentor of Al Gore. Gore Jr. has been known to lie about his father's opposition to the Civil Rights Act.
- Sam Ervin, North Carolina senator of Watergate hearings fame
- Richard Russell, famed Georgia senator and later President Pro Tempore

The complete list of the 21 Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 includes Senators:

- Hill and Sparkman of Alabama
- Fulbright and McClellan of Arkansas
- Holland and Smathers of Florida
- Russell and Talmadge of Georgia
- Ellender and Long of Louisiana
- Eastland and Stennis of Mississippi
- Ervin and Jordan of North Carolina
- Johnston and Thurmond of South Carolina
- Gore Sr. and Walters of Tennessee
- H. Byrd and Robertson of Virginia
- R. Byrd of West Virginia

Democrat opposition to the Civil Rights Act was substantial enough to literally split the party in two. A whopping 40% of the House Democrats VOTED AGAINST the Civil Rights Act, while 80% of Republicans SUPPORTED it. Republican support in the Senate was even higher. Similar trends occurred with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was supported by 82% of House Republicans and 94% of Senate Republicans. The same Democrat standard bearers took their normal racists stances, this time with Senator Fulbright leading the opposition effort.

It took the hard work of Republican Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen and Republican Whip Thomas Kuchel to pass the Civil Rights Act (Dirksen was presented a civil rights accomplishment award for the year by the head of the NAACP in recognition of his efforts). Upon breaking the Democrat filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Republican Dirksen took to the Senate floor and exclaimed "The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!" (Full text of speech). Sadly, Democrats and revisionist historians have all but forgotten (and intentionally so) that it was Republican Dirksen, not the divided Democrats, who made the Civil Rights Act a reality. Dirksen also broke the Democrat filibuster of the 1957 Civil Rights Act that was signed by Republican President Eisenhower.

Outside of Congress, the three most notorious opponents of school integration were all Democrats:
- Orval Faubus, Democrat Governor of Arkansas and one of Bill Clinton's political heroes
- George Wallace, Democrat Governor of Alabama
- Lester Maddox, Democrat Governor of Georgia

The most famous of the school desegregation standoffs involved Governor Faubus. Democrat Faubus used police and state forces to block the integration of a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. The standoff was settled and the school was integrated only after the intervention of Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Even the Democrat Party organization resisted integration and refused to allow minority participation for decades. Exclusion of minorities was the general rule of the Democrat Party of many states for decades, especially in Texas. This racist policy reached its peak under the New Deal in the southern and western states, often known as the New Deal Coalition region of FDR. The Supreme Court in Nixon v. Herndon declared the practice of "white primaries" unconstitutional in 1927 after states had passed laws barring Blacks from participating in Democrat primaries. But the Democrat Parties did not yield to the Court's order. After Nixon v. Herndon, Democrats simply made rules within the party's individual executive committees to bar minorities from participating, which were struck down in Nixon v. Condon in 1932. The Democrats, in typical racist fashion, responded by using state parties to pass rules barring blacks from participation. This decision was upheld in Grovey v. Townsend, which was not overturned until 1944 by Smith v. Allwright. The Texas Democrats responded with their usual ploys and turned to what was known as the "Jaybird system" which used private Democrat clubs to hold white-only votes on a slate of candidates, which were then transferred to the Democrat party itself and put on their primary ballot as the only choices. Terry v. Adams overturned the Jaybird system, prompting the Democrats to institute blocks of unit rule voting procedures as well as the infamous literacy tests and other Jim Crow regulations to specifically block minorities from participating in their primaries. In the end, it took 4 direct Supreme Court orders to end the Democrat's "white primary" system, and after that it took countless additional orders, several acts of Congress, and a constitutional amendment to tear down the Jim Crow codes that preserved the Democrat's white primary for decades beyond the final Supreme Court order ruling it officially unconstitutional.

Hispanics in South Texas were treated especially poorly by the Democrat Party, which relied heavily on a system of political bosses to coerce and intimidate Hispanics into voting for Democrat primary candidates of choice. Though coercion is illegal, this system, known as the Patron system, is still in use to this day by local Democrat parties in some heavy Hispanic communities of the southwest.

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Democrat icon and orchestrator of Japanese Internment
- Ex-House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, former affiliate of a St. Louis area racist group
- Ex-Senate President Pro Tempore Robert Byrd, former Ku Klux Klansman known for making bigoted slurs on national television
- Rev. Jesse Jackson, Democrat keynote speaker and race hustler known for making anti-Semitic slurs
- Rev. Al Sharpten, Democrat activist and perennial candidate and race hustler known inciting anti-Semitic violence in New York City
- Sen. Ernest Hollings, leading Democrat Senator known for use of racial slurs against several minority groups
- Lee P. Brown, former Clinton cabinet official and Democrat mayor of Houston who won reelection using racial intimidation against Hispanic voters
- Andrew Cuomo, former Clinton cabinet official and Democrat candidate for NY Governor who made racist statements about a black opponent.
- Dan Rather, Democrat CBS news anchor and editorialist known for using anti-black racial epithets on a national radio broadcast
- Donna Brazile, former Gore campaign manager known for making anti-white racial attacks. Brazile has also worked for Jackson, Gephardt, and Michael Dukakis

The simple truth is that the Democrat Party's history during this century is one closely aligned to bigotry in a record stemming largely out of the liberal New Deal era up until the modern day. Bigots are at the center of the Democrat party's current leadership and role models. And in a striking display of hypocrisy, many of the same Democrats who dishonestly shout accusations of "bigotry" at conservatives are practicing bigots of the most disgusting and disreputable kind themselves.

Israel:

Exactly my point.  With decades of Democrats lying regarding Republican racism is it any wonder?

Whatever isolated instances of Republican racism you can find, I am sure the Dems actions of racism have certainly trumped it.

I find the Democrat party's acts of racism absolutely repulsive and downright disgusting.  I agree with Terry when she said,  "If I were black I certainly wouldnt vote for a party that has had a concerted effort in the past to supress me!"  I would vote Republican.

Mike:

Did you say race card?

Tchaka:

What?

Didn't you ask the question in your title, "Would you vote for a WHITE candidate for President?" 

Doesn't your question ask about voting preference or voting habits?

Don't try to act like I'm off topic.  As for the distastefulness of it.  I think it's very distasteful when 92% + of any particular race votes a straight party line.  And you don't get the lemmings connection?  I thought you were smarter than that.  Do I need to break it down for you?  I answered your question and now you claim an answer is distasteful?  How do most answers taste?  I never ate one.

The only other time there is this high of a percentage of any people voting one way in an election it is when the people are enslaved under a dictatorship type of government.  Is the Black community enslaved to the Democrat party?

Tchaka:

You said on this post:

"Of the 91% of blacks who are voting for Obama, how many would vote for a white candidate?  I don't know the answer, but what I can tell you is that up to 100% of those who have voted in a presidential election in the past have voted for a white person. "

Then you said "This blog isn't about blacks voting Dem.,"

Excuse me.  I thought Barack Obama was a Democrat.   

I think you are the one that has a reading comprehension problem, not I.

Tchaka:

You don't see racism when 92% of a race votes for one party?  I can't believe you don't think racism plays a role when that large of a percentage of a group of people vote for a particular party.  Open your eyes.

Simon:

Your producer and his family voting for Obama just because he is Black is an example of the racism I was trying to explain to Tchaka and he wasn't able to comprehend it.

Maybe Tchaka understands my point now.   I wonder if Tchaka was raised to believe that racism can never be coming from a Black onto a White.  This might explain why he can't see it.

Simon:

Yes, truly scary.

Mike:

I am with you.  Wouldn't it be neat if J.C. Watts ran with McCain?  At least we could inject some real conservatism into the ticket.

Simon:

It's hard to imagine you being at a loss for words.  He probably is a nice guy.  I think sometimes people do things that are racist without realizing it.

Ask him what he would think if you told him you were going to vote for McCain solely because he is white.

Tchaka:

What you have described to Mike is exactly what is happening with Black voters.  They are voting for Obama because he is black.

Nick:

Clinton had many Blacks in his cabinet.  In his kitchen cabinet.

Nick:

I guess I didn't give Tchaka the mind numbed left winged liberal answer to his asinine question, so he decided to reprimand me.

Larry:

5 Reasons NOT to vote for Obama

Ayres, Rezko, Wright, Michelle Obama and Larry SinClair.

Larry:

What I find interesting is how the main stream media and the Obamanites have tried to re-define racism to be if you say anything against Obama.

The irony here is when you have 92% or more of Blacks voting for a Black candidate because of the color of his skin.   Now that is truly racism. 

Frank:

We know what Obama is about.

He is about Socialism, big government, higher taxes, pro-abortion, pro-sodomite life styles, weaker National security, open borders, racist policies, steal from the haves and give to the have nots (Marxism), supporting Muslim extremists, cut and run in Iraq.  This is change alright.  Change we can ill afford.

Kevin:

I am with you on voting for J.C. Watts or Alan Keyes.  I could not vote for Powell or Rice or anyone else who wants to promote racial quotas.

Terry:

Take another toke.  You have no idea who "my" guys are.  And of the "guys" you used as examples, who is running for President?

The answer is None.

Israel:

I don't see Powell as superceding any racial barriers.  Powell is pro racial quotas.  That, my friend is not transcending racial barriers. He would be promoting racism through racial quotas.

Israel:

Okay.  I'll give you that. Powell just won't win the conservative vote.

Pepsi challenge using warm coke.  Coke is a good word to use when you're talking about Obama.

Tchaka: 

You said,

"Mike - ..........  What I'm saying is, "helping somebody because of their skin color is technically a race issue, but I can give leeway due to human nature being the cause to grab at an identifier (in this case race); not helping some one because of their skin color WOULD be racist".  Make sense? ......"

Ah yes, Racism as defined by Tchaka.  Are you are saying voting for someone because of their race would NOT be racist but not voting for someone because of their race would be racist? 

Now just so I am clear as I am often not on your statements because I choose to remain sober, If a person were to vote for McCain solely because he is white and the other candidate is Black, according to you that would not be racist because the voter is helping someone because of their race.  But when the voter casts his vote for McCain because he is white, he is not helping the other candidate because of his skin color, and this according to you, makes the voter racist.

In a contest where candidates are of different races, when a voter casts a vote for one candidate because of his race ("helping somebody because of their skin color"), he is also voting against the other candidate ("not helping some one because of their skin color").

Which is it?  Either I need to take a shot of something real strong to understand what you are saying or dismiss your comments as pure leftist drivel.

Tchaka:

You said:

"Standard fare for you.  Once you're able to make comments without the inane leftist/marxist/socialist/liberal/sodomite/terrorist bits, you'll find more people willing to take you seriously."

If I am addressing those in the aforementioned groups, I will address them.  If you fall into any of those groups, well let the chips fall where they may.  No one has ever accused me of mincing words.  If you truly believe in what you are, you should be proud of it.  I am a conservative and I don't pretend to be something I'm not.   As for my comments being inane; I'm sure they may seem inane to you have a left bent brain but there are many others who think otherwise.

BTW a group I founded, Silent Majority has 258 members who have joined and most have joined by my personal invitation so there are plenty of people who take me seriously. 

Prior to knowing you, I never knew anyone who was egotistical enough to single handedly redefine a word like racism and then twist the definition until it excludes their own prejudices.

Simon:

I believe there are many who believe this statement to be true.  When over 90% of the Black voters vote for Obama over Hillary; now that is racism.  You won't hear this on the evening news.

In the general election when over 90% of the Black population votes for Obama over the white candidate, now that is racism. You won't hear this on the evening news either.

What you will see on the news is an interview with some good ole country white boy in bibs with a pick up truck and a gun rack being interviewed by the evening news man.  This good ole boy will be  telling everybody that he will never vote for a black man for president.  That's what the evening news will give you and the evening news will tell you that is what racism is, but you won't hear a peap out of them about the over 90% of Blacks who voted for a black man for president as being racist.

Maybe the Orlando politician has it right and you and I are just stupid conservatives.

Simon:

Go easy on Jane.  Afterall, she is an Obama supporter.  You might need to use shorter sentences and smaller words to communicate with her effectively.  Try using the word "change" a lot.  Tell her "Yes we can."  But never tell her what or how we are going to "change" and never tell her what "we can" do.  Tell her that for the first time in your adult life you are proud to be an American.  Tell her that some people are going to have to give up their piece of pie for others to have their piece of pie.  Tell her that there is no way you would punish your daughter by making her have a baby.

Give her an example of someone that is a  racist.  Let's say, use someone in your family for the example, maybe your grandmother.  These are all things she can relate to.  Tell her that you are very friendly with a known terrorist and bomber who has bombed government buildings in the United States and is unrepentant of it.  She will understand.

Tchaka:

I'm sorry.  Next time I will dumb down my comments and insert pictures so you may comprehend what I'm talking about.

You are a piece of work.  You place this post on MY Group and then tell me to sit on the sidelines because you don't agree with what I say or how I say it.  Unbelievable.

Tchaka:

If by simple concepts you mean liberals and socialists you are right.  You can't get any more  simple minded than you folks.

Rich:

You have a nerve to say that I hate anyone.  Who are you to say that of anyone?  Although I may hate someone's actions or views, I don't hate anyone.

If you want to wallow in a liberal or gay life style and join liberal and gay groups that is your business.  Join as many liberal or gay groups as you like.  Seek comfort in them. No,  I do not hate you.  It's none of my business what you do in your free time, however when the promotion of the gay life style infringes upon heterosexuals and family and the gays promotion of the gay life style is blasted across the television sets in America and our schools are teaching homosexuality as an alternative life style, and as if homosexuality is normal, you bet I have a problem with it.  When the homosexual movement demand special rights, you bet I have a problem with it.  When the homosexuals are denegrating marriage which is God's gift to man as a union between man and woman sure I have a problem with it.

Do I hate liberals and gays?  No, I do not but at the same time I don't have to embrace anyone's life styles.

For you to make your libelous comments claiming that I "hate" liberals and "hate" homosexuals, on a public post is not only outrageous but very foolhardy on your part.

I am asking you nicely to retract your libelous statements you have made above about me.  Thank you.

Israel:

You can promote homosexuality if you want.  As for me, I will stand against it.  It is an abomination.  These unnatural acts are being mainstreamed into our school systems and promoted on television.  It's people with attitudes like yours that make it more pervasive.  You go ahead and shrug it off.  I will continue to stand against it.

Kevin:

You are right.  Color has nothing to do with it.  I would vote for Watts over McCain and McCain over Powell.  I would vote for Watts over all of them including Bush and probably Newt.

Hugh:

I would respect Obama more if he picked Wright for his V.P.  At least his pick would be from his heart.  He would be proclaiming to the American people, "Vote for me even though I hate America and I am a racist!"

Israel and Hugh:

Let's not forget about Al Sharpton.

Simon:

Thanks for getting the truth out there.  If you are trying to convince Terry, forget it.  She still thinks Bush is running for president.

Simon:

Many black folk were just brought up with racial prejiduces.  The movie "The Jerk" illustrated this when Steve Martin's "Step" Mother told him when he was ready to go out on his own she said, "Don't you never trust Whitey."

The black Americans who were brought up this way find it hard to shake.  It sticks to them like glue.  There are diversity programs they can attend that won't cure them but help them to cope with their racial intolerances.

Regarding the West Virginia primaries, it's funny to hear the Democrat elitists claim that the West Virginia voters are ignorant white folk who don't know any better.  They will be saying this about Kentuckians also.  These statements are going to bite them in the keester in the general.

Simon:

With Obama, now it's more than race.  You aren't allowed to say anything bad about him because wacko Obamanites and the liberal news media think he's the Messiah.