The Democrats Revisionist History on Race

Former Enron advisor Paul Krugman and his employers must have nightmares about Ronald Reagan. For those not paying attention to the Times Op/Ed page--and judging by the Times precipitous decline in readership, that would be most of you--they has been on a mission to prove that Republicans are the party of racism and that Reagan was a leader on that front. The fact that Reagan has passed and hasn't been in the Oval Office since 1989 seems to have escaped the misguided editors. The other fact that the Editorial Board is 100% wrong is more important however.

It started with David Brooks, continued on with Bob Herbert, Lou Cannon and today with Paul Krugman.

Krugman and the Times board is on a mission to discredit the legacy of Ronald Reagan--easily the most-beloved Republican President of the last century. They are beating the drum that Reagan used the "Southern Strategy" of racism to win the South. Read the columns for background.

What I wish to get across in simple terms is this: The Republican Party is the party of Abraham Lincoln and has not been filled with racists as the Times would have you believe. They have been complicit in revising history since the mid-1960's and continue that until this day.

A little history lesson will go a long way here. First, it was the Democratic Party which contained an element known as the Dixiecrats. The Dixiecrats were a group of Southern politicos who believed in states rights because the wanted to continue Jim Crow laws and the segregationist system. They fought every bill that would've granted more rights to blacks including the two landmark pieces of legislation; the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act. How clear is the difference when it comes to the GOP and Democrats on civil rights? This clear:

In the 26 major civil rights votes after 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 percent of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 percent of the votes.

The leaders of this esteemed group of racial separatists was Sen. William Fulbright and Sen. Al Gore, Sr. Yes, the father of the former VP and current global warming scare monger was a devout segregationist. Joining this elite group was former Kleagle of the KKK and current West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd who recruited for the Klan because it was instrumental in "promoting traditional American values". I guess lynching blacks and burning crosses in the front yards of Jews were are considered "traditional American values" by Senator Byrd.

Senator Fulbright--Bill Clinton's mentor--was so against the Civil Rights Act that he was the only Democrat besides Gore to vote on a Gore amendment that would have effectively killed the bill. The Voting Rights Act was passed only because of the Republicans and every single southern Democratic Senator voted against it.

Do some research, follow the links and you'll see that Democrats have been revising their history on race for four decades and have largely succeeded with the willing help of media outlets like the NY Times. The time is past where revisionist history can pass as fact. The next time some liberal throws the race card at you, be armed with the facts and watch them deflate.