Current-day Republicans take credit for freeing the slaves and blame Democrats for starting the KKK
Here’s the transcript for a new campaign ad that’s being sponsored by the National Black Republican Association in Maryland in support of Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele’s campaign. Two black women have a conversation that goes like this:
Pam: Dr. King was a real man.
Tina: You know . . he was a Republican.
Pam: Dr. King, a Republican? Really?
Tina: Democrats passed those Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan.
Pam: The Klan . . . White hoods and sheets?!
Tina: Democrats fought ALL Civil Rights Legislation from the 1860’s to the 1960’s. Democrats released those vicious dogs and fire hoses on blacks.
Pam: Seriously!
Tina: And the Dixiecrats? Remained Democrats and vowed to vote for a yellow dog, before a Republican. Republicans freed us from slavery and put our right to vote in the Constitution.
Pam: What?
Tina: Republicans started the NAACP, affirmative action and the HBCU’s.
Pam: Democrats have bamboozled blacks.
Tina: Democrats blocked the minimum wage passed by Republicans. Over 200 billion dollars have been spent on education, healthcare and job training since President Bush took office.
Pam: So, Democrats want to keep us POOR and voting ONLY Democrat.
Tina: Democrats want us to accept same-sex marriages; teen abortions without a parent’s consent and suing the Boy Scouts for saying “God†in their pledge.
Pam: We NEED to THINK! and vote OUR own values.
Tina: Exactly… Democrats have talked the talk, but Republicans have walked the walk.
Pam: I hear ya girl. It time for us to “DO†the walk.
(Together they laugh about it.)
Man, from the ad it really seems like the Republicans are the politicians that blacks should vote for, right? Well, it would seem that way for anyone who doesn’t have a even a cursory knowledge of history.
For one, there’s absolutely no record that King was a Republican. That’s pretty much a flat-out lie. King was an independent and didn’t pledge loyalty to either party. The fact that the ad would make up a lie about such a historical figure is terrible in and of itself.
Secondly, anyone who has taken a high school American history class knows that both parties have switched ideologies within the last few decades. For instance, my own extremely-conservative grandmother was a firm Democrat all the way up until the Nixon campaign, which was the first instance when she voted for a Republican, and she has been voting for them ever since. The first half of the 20th century was riddled with racist southern Democrats, and as civil rights legislation started to be pushed through by northern Democrats, the southern ones slowly drifted into the Republican party.
This ad really is sick in how misleading it is.
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It’s going to be a long, dirty season.
It definitely makes me think they’re aiming the ad at those without the education or the common sense to be incredulous. Considering the number of Americans who fit that bill, it’s an effective if deplorable tactic. Honestly, though, if someone compiled a list of all the horrible legislation enacted by both parties in the past two centuries, we’d all be voting independent. What matters are the issues at hand and the stances of modern-day politicians toward those issues; that’s what people should vote on. This is just slanderous garbage.
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