The Republican party has a much better record in terms of civil rights than the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party certainly panders more with an old south kind of "we'll take care of you" attitude all the time, but what has the Democratic Party actually done for the African American?
*It was the Republican Party that were abolitionists during the civil war.
*A republican president freed the slaves.
*Frederick Douglass once said, "The Republican Party is the ship and all else is the sea."*After the civil war the Republican Party passed the first 3 civil rights acts which outlawed slavery and guaranteed equal protection of the law.
*During the 1920s the KKK was lynching blacks and it was Republican presidents Harding and Coolidge that denounced the KKK violence and supported the federal anti-lynch law, which passed in the Republican house before dying in the DEMOCRAT senate.
*In the 1940s Democrat president FDR refused to have pictures taken with blacks. During that time the Republican party was calling for desegregation of the military and the right to vote.
*In 1964, Lyndon Johnson (Democrat) did pass the Civil Rights Act but only after Republicans had introduced a bill of their own.
*89% of Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964...A FAR greater percentage than Democrats. The Civil Rights Act of 1964…perhaps the greatest accomplishment in the struggle for civil rights was overwhelming supported by Republicans and overwhelming hated by Democrats. It just so happens that the President who signed the bill into law was a good man…Lyndon Johnson.
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Why don't more Republicans show up at African American political forums?
One thing I'll gave Mike H is that at least he showed up.
A Fairfield
Resident of an African American neighborhood
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