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Democrats: The Party of Systemic Racism

As I have outlined in my article, “Slavery and Discrimination rooted in Party Politics”, the Democrat Party has a long history of racism and discrimination. To summarize:

“Democrats have been solely responsible for defending slavery, starting the Civil War, opposing reconstruction, lynching blacks, founding the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow laws and segregation, poll taxes and literacy tests. The Party voted against the 13th amendment (end slavery), 14th amendment (black citizenship), and 15th amendment (black right to vote), filibustered the 1960 Civil Rights Act (elimination of poll taxes), and tried to filibuster the 1964 Civil Rights Act for 60 days, the longest filibuster in Senate history.”
- Kevin Griev - Posted: Feb 07, 2021 12:01 AM

And this history continues to this day as exemplified by the following quotes:

"I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for 200 years."
- President Lyndon Baines Johnson

“These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”
- Richard Russell, Democratic Senator from Georgia from 1933 to 1971

“Whether we want to own up to it or not, the welfare state has done what Jim Crow, gross discrimination and poverty could not have done. It has contributed to the breakdown of the black family structure and has helped establish a set of values alien to traditional values of high moral standards, hard work and achievement.”
 - Walter E. Williams

“What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.”
 - Thomas Sowell

 “the soft bigotry of low expectations”
- President George W. Bush in a 2000 speech to the NAACP

Today, this racism is exemplified by the policy of Democrats in the following forms:

• Urban Public Education is no longer about education to prepare the students for the future but is about the students' indoctrination to Progressive/Leftists and Democrats ideology.
• Public Welfare that entraps black persons in a cycle of poverty and keeps them voting for Democrats to provide more welfare.
• Public welfare that supports, and indeed financially encourages, single motherhood.
• Minimum wages laws that makes it more difficult for poorly educated blacks to obtain jobs.
• Job Training that produces little jobs and fewer skills for the modern world.

Alas, the Democrats are not motivated by altruism, but they are motivated by the acquisition and retention of power. To further quote Kevin Griev:

“If Democrats really wanted to help blacks, they would treat abortion as a tragedy, support school choice, work to end the failed welfare state, drop the idea of defunding police, promote advancement based on merit and character not the amount of melanin in your skin, end open borders which flood the market with cheap labor and steal jobs from black Americans, end their support of minimum wage laws which lead to higher black unemployment, and end their social justice mantra which is equality by group not the individual, anathema to America’s founding principles. I know, wishful thinking. So, whenever you hear Democrats calling Republicans racists, just know there is a simple psychological term for this: projection.”
- Kevin Griev - Posted: Feb 07, 2021 12:01 AM

To which I say, Amen.