the historical facts from the new GOP website: http://www.gop.com/index.php/learn/accomplishment/
the more current facts from an article by Larry Elder: http://townhall.com/columnists/Larr...ellow_black_republican_oppose_obama?page=full
Did you know?....
-That Democrats opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution -- abolishing slavery, granting citizenship rights to newly freed slaves, and guaranteeing the right to vote (at least on paper) to blacks, respectively?
-That most of the politicians who stood for segregation were Southern Democrats?
-That the Ku Klux Klan was founded by Democrats, one of whose goals was to stop the spread of the Republican Party?
-That in 1864, against nearly unanimous Democrat opposition, Republicans passed the 13th Amendment unanimously, abolishing slavery?
-That today 70 percent of black children and over 50 percent of Hispanics are born outside of wedlock thanks to the welfare state -- which Democrats want to expand -- playing a huge role in discouraging marriage and destabilizing families?
-That inner-city parents want vouchers -- the right to determine where their children go to school? Do you know most Democrats, including Barack Obama, oppose this? or that Republicans, for the most part, support vouchers?
-That in 1864, Republicans Passed the 14th Amendment, which defended African-Americans from their Democrat oppressors in the post-Civil War South?
-That in 1866, the Republican Governor of New Jersey vetoed an attempt by the Democrat-controlled legislature to rescind the state's ratification of the 14th Amendment?
-That nearly all Democrats in Congress voted against the 15th Amendment? In 1869, the Republican-controlled 40th Congress passed the 15th Amendment, extending to African-Americans the right to vote and that nearly all Republicans in Congress voted in favor, though a few abstained, saying it did not go far enough?
-That Democrats used intimidation, poll taxes, registration fraud, and literacy tests to prevent most African-Americans from voting for nearly a century?
-In 1871, the Republican-controlled 42nd Congress passed a Civil Rights Act aimed at the Ku Klux Klan and being guilty of murdering hundreds of African-Americans, this terrorist organization had also eradicated the Republican Party throughout most of the South?
-That the 1871 Civil Rights Act bypassed the Democrat-controlled state courts, and that the law empowered the Republican administration of Ulysses Grant to protect the civil rights of the former slaves in federal court?
-That in March 1875, the Republican-controlled 43rd Congress passed the most comprehensive civil rights legislation ever? President Ulysses Grant signed the bill into law that same day. Among its provisions, the 1875 Civil Rights Act banned racial discrimination in public accommodations. Sound familiar? Though struck down by the Supreme Court eight years later, the 1875 Civil Rights Act would be reborn as the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
-That for eight years after 1940 , Democratic presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman refused to integrate into the 1940 Republican National platform plank calling for racial integration of the armed forces? Not until 1948 did President Truman finally comply with the Republicans' demands for racial justice in the U.S. military.
-That in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional and he author of Brown v. Board of Education was a Republican, Chief Justice Earl Warren?
-That many Democrats in the Senate filibustered the 1957 Civil Rights bill, and that the five terms of the FDR and Truman presidencies, the Democrats did not propose any civil rights legislation. President Eisenhower, in contrast, asked his Attorney General to write the first federal civil rights legislation since the Republican Party’s 1875 Civil Rights Act.
-That in 1957, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson criticized President Eisenhower when the Democrat governor of Arkansas ordered the National Guard to prevent the court-ordered racial integration of a public high school in Little Rock?
-That Republican President Dwight Eisenhower refused to tolerate defiance of the federal judiciary? Under a plan suggested by his attorney general, the President placed the governor’s soldiers under federal control and ordered federal troops to the state, where they escorted African-American children to school.
-That blacks stand to benefit more than whites through Social Security privatization?
-That 36 percent of babies aborted are black, while blacks make up 17 percent of live births?
-That Margaret Sanger, the founder of the organization that became Planned Parenthood, believed that poor blacks were inferior and that aborting their babies made our society better?
the more current facts from an article by Larry Elder: http://townhall.com/columnists/Larr...ellow_black_republican_oppose_obama?page=full
Did you know?....
-That Democrats opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution -- abolishing slavery, granting citizenship rights to newly freed slaves, and guaranteeing the right to vote (at least on paper) to blacks, respectively?
-That most of the politicians who stood for segregation were Southern Democrats?
-That the Ku Klux Klan was founded by Democrats, one of whose goals was to stop the spread of the Republican Party?
-That in 1864, against nearly unanimous Democrat opposition, Republicans passed the 13th Amendment unanimously, abolishing slavery?
-That today 70 percent of black children and over 50 percent of Hispanics are born outside of wedlock thanks to the welfare state -- which Democrats want to expand -- playing a huge role in discouraging marriage and destabilizing families?
-That inner-city parents want vouchers -- the right to determine where their children go to school? Do you know most Democrats, including Barack Obama, oppose this? or that Republicans, for the most part, support vouchers?
-That in 1864, Republicans Passed the 14th Amendment, which defended African-Americans from their Democrat oppressors in the post-Civil War South?
-That in 1866, the Republican Governor of New Jersey vetoed an attempt by the Democrat-controlled legislature to rescind the state's ratification of the 14th Amendment?
-That nearly all Democrats in Congress voted against the 15th Amendment? In 1869, the Republican-controlled 40th Congress passed the 15th Amendment, extending to African-Americans the right to vote and that nearly all Republicans in Congress voted in favor, though a few abstained, saying it did not go far enough?
-That Democrats used intimidation, poll taxes, registration fraud, and literacy tests to prevent most African-Americans from voting for nearly a century?
-In 1871, the Republican-controlled 42nd Congress passed a Civil Rights Act aimed at the Ku Klux Klan and being guilty of murdering hundreds of African-Americans, this terrorist organization had also eradicated the Republican Party throughout most of the South?
-That the 1871 Civil Rights Act bypassed the Democrat-controlled state courts, and that the law empowered the Republican administration of Ulysses Grant to protect the civil rights of the former slaves in federal court?
-That in March 1875, the Republican-controlled 43rd Congress passed the most comprehensive civil rights legislation ever? President Ulysses Grant signed the bill into law that same day. Among its provisions, the 1875 Civil Rights Act banned racial discrimination in public accommodations. Sound familiar? Though struck down by the Supreme Court eight years later, the 1875 Civil Rights Act would be reborn as the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
-That for eight years after 1940 , Democratic presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman refused to integrate into the 1940 Republican National platform plank calling for racial integration of the armed forces? Not until 1948 did President Truman finally comply with the Republicans' demands for racial justice in the U.S. military.
-That in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional and he author of Brown v. Board of Education was a Republican, Chief Justice Earl Warren?
-That many Democrats in the Senate filibustered the 1957 Civil Rights bill, and that the five terms of the FDR and Truman presidencies, the Democrats did not propose any civil rights legislation. President Eisenhower, in contrast, asked his Attorney General to write the first federal civil rights legislation since the Republican Party’s 1875 Civil Rights Act.
-That in 1957, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson criticized President Eisenhower when the Democrat governor of Arkansas ordered the National Guard to prevent the court-ordered racial integration of a public high school in Little Rock?
-That Republican President Dwight Eisenhower refused to tolerate defiance of the federal judiciary? Under a plan suggested by his attorney general, the President placed the governor’s soldiers under federal control and ordered federal troops to the state, where they escorted African-American children to school.
-That blacks stand to benefit more than whites through Social Security privatization?
-That 36 percent of babies aborted are black, while blacks make up 17 percent of live births?
-That Margaret Sanger, the founder of the organization that became Planned Parenthood, believed that poor blacks were inferior and that aborting their babies made our society better?
