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I consider myself a moderate.  While I respect the Republican perspectives on Business, I also value the current Democrat narrative on personal freedoms.

However, therein is the reason I share this list.

While Republicans have ALWAYS been civil rights champions, the Democratic Party has a long history of racism, including slavery, lynching, segregation, and oppression.  Also, “Party switching” is often brought up, even though it can easily be disproven. Yet it serves the party as a tool to hide their painful history (including removing civil war monuments). A history that would be better served to remind us of our faults, than to be stored away and forgotten, risking being repeated again and again because we have forgotten our lessons.

Perhaps the best way to prove a political party is of mutual respect and peace, is not by contributing to violent mob riots?    

Democrats (Blue) vs Republicans (Red)    (and links this color):

• Late 1700s: Federalists Party vs. Anti-Federalists Party
• Early 1800s: The Anti-Federalists eventually become the "Democrat-Republican" Party
• 1815-1824: The Federalist Party collapses, giving way to the "Democrat-Republican" Party splitting
• 1828: Democratic party gets its Pro-slavery start, a platform of individual rights, state sovereignty, and support of slavery.
• 1830: President Jackson creates the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which forced the indigenous people to assimilate and concede to U.S. law or leave their homelands.
  • Many Native Americans were forcibly marched (Trail of Tears), particularly Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole moved to Oklahoma.
• 1832: The Democratic-Republican Party, under Andrew Jackson, drops ‘Republican’ from the name and became the "Democratic" Party
• 1854: Northern "Whigs Party" becomes the Anti-Slavery Republican Party
• 1857: U.S. Supreme Court rules slaves are “NOT citizens“
  • Republicans voted against the ruling
  • Democrats voted for the ruling and succeeded
• 1860 – 1861: Republican President Lincoln elected Republican (previously Whigs), the "Anti Slavery Party"
  • • 7 southern slave states secede from the Union
    • Democrats start the Civil War

Democratic Campaign Material – Circa 1860

“The first colored senator and representatives – in the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States.”

• 1874: Republicans elect the first black speaker of the House, Joseph Rainey.
  • He was also the first black person to serve in the United States House of Representatives.
• 1875: Republican President Grant enacted the Civil Rights Act, which banned racial discrimination.
  • • It was a response to civil rights violations to black Americans and “to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights.”
• 1878: Senator Aaron Sargent from California introduces the 19th Amendment in Congress to give women the right to vote.
  • • Democrat-controlled Congress voted it out.
    • Democrats battle the 19th Amendment and oppose it for several decades.
• 1884: Republicans invite John Roy Lynch, a former slave, to chair the Republican National Convention.
• 1888: Republican plank includes an affirmation that “sovereign right of every lawful citizen, rich or poor, native or foreign-born, white or black, to cast one free ballot in public elections, and to have that ballot duly counted.”
• 1892: Republican platform specifically condemned the “inhuman outrages perpetrated upon American citizens for political reasons in the certain Southern States of the Union.”
• 1896: Republicans are the first major party to favor women’s suffrage, and by 1896 three states had full suffrage for women, though it wasn’t until 1919 that women got the right to vote nationwide.
• 1911: Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, the father of income tax, stuffs his cabinet with Dixiecrats, and set back the cause of civil rights for decades with federal segregation.
• 1915: Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, airs the racially charged “Birth of a Nation” movie in the White House.
• 1916: Democrat President Wilson opposes women’s suffrage and women picket outside the White House.

Above, in 1916 Women picket Democrat President Woodrow Wilson who initially opposed the woman’s right to vote.

• 1916: Republican Jeannette Rankin is elected the first woman to serve Congress.
  • Also, the 1st woman was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and was affectionately called the “Lady of the house.”
• 1918: Democratic Ku Klux Klan rises by targeting Jews, Catholics, and immigrants in addition to blacks.
• 1918: Republicans introduce the Dyer anti-lynching bill.
  • Republican Leonidas C. Dyer introduced H.R. 11279 to stop the lynchings which were terrorizing Republicans and blacks to intimidate them into submission.
• 1918: Democratic President Wilson finally joins his daughter, leading suffragist Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre in the women’s right to vote. His delay cost him political strife.
• 1919-1920: Republican Congress passes the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote.
  • • The first women voters from every state allowed to vote gave a victory for Republican President Warren Harding.
    • Women did not forget that Woodrow Wilson had initially opposed suffrage in 1917.
• 1921: Republican President Harding delivers a formal speech in Alabama condemning lynchings.
• 1921: Republican Homer P. Snyder proposes the Indian Citizenship Act granting full citizenship to America’s indigenous people. President Calvin Coolidge signs it into law.
• 1922: Democrats try to keep lynching legal by creating a filibuster in the U.S. Senate.
• 1924: Republican President Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act granting full citizenship to America’s Indigenous people.
• 1926: Republican Bertha Landes becomes the first female mayor. Landes served Seattle, Washington from 1926-1928.
• 1929: Republican Octaviano Larrazolo becomes the first Mexican American United States Senator.
• 1929: Republican Charles Curtis becomes the first Native American Vice President of the United States. He is Kansa, Osage Nation, and Potawatomi.
• 1930: Democratic President Roosevelt (FDR) had a New Deal that prolonged joblessness for millions and black people were especially hard hit. It likely extended the Great Depression
  • The New Deal gave jobs first to whites, paid blacks less than whites, and then segregated the Conservation Corps.
• 1939: Democrat and KKK Covergirl Margaret Sanger created “The Negro Project” and Planned Parenthood in 1939 to cull the black population, coded eugenics to eliminate the ‘unfit’.
• 1942: Democrat President Roosevelt sends 120,000 Japanese Americans to Internment Camps during WWII.
• 1948: Chief Justice Earl Warren, a Republican, ended miscegenation laws restricting interracial marriage.
  • • He wrote: “restricting the freedom to marry solely because of racial classifications violates the central meaning of the Equal Protection Clause.”
• 1948: Dixiecrats emerge as a breakaway faction of the Democratic Party determined to legislate racial segregation.
• 1948-1954: Democrat President Truman issues Executive Order 9981 to end segregation in the Armed Services.
  • • The first integrated armed services begins with the Korean War when heavy casualties forced segregated units to merge for survival.
    • The Army’s last segregated units were finally disbanded in 1954.
• 1950’s: various Klans in the South acted as a "strong-arm" for many local Democratic politicians
• 1954: Republican lawmakers outlawed segregation in public schools by declaring that “separate but equal” public schools for black and white students were unconstitutional.
  • • Brown v. Board of Education legally ended, though some schools remained segregated.
    • Democratic Governor of Arkansas Orval E. Faubus orders the Arkansas National Guard to prevent black students from attending Little Rock Central High School.
    • Republican President Eisenhower removed the National Guard from Democratic state control, then sent in Federal Troops ~ the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army to stop Faubus from the obstruction of justice
• 1956: Democrat Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Connor, who defended segregation, forced the raid of the home of black Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and had 3 of his minister colleagues arrested for the false charge of vagrancy.
• 1957: Republican President Dwight Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act on Sept. 9 1957 making it illegal to suppress another’s right to vote.
  • Democrats reject and begin filibustering the Civil Rights Act to water down the rights of blacks.
    • They make it difficult for blacks to vote in many southern states and start requiring literacy tests.

Above, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower passes the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to ensure that black Americans had the right to vote.

• 1959: First Asian Senator, Hiram Fong, Republican from Hawaii. He served from 1959 until 1977.
  • • • Fong also was the first Asian American to receive votes for president at a major party convention.
• 1960: Republicans enact the 1960 Civil Rights Acts, a Federal law to establish inspection of local voter registration polls and to introduce penalties for anyone obstructing voting privileges enabling blacks and Hispanic Americans to vote without harassment.
• 1963: Democrat Governor George C. Wallace blocks black students from registering at the University of Alabama.
  • The following month Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his iconic “I have a dream” speech.
• 1964: President Johnson’s campaign runs an ad titled "Confessions of a Republican" to ensure election.
  • • • Democrats learned that accusing a Republican of being racist (without evidence) was a potent political weapon. It would not be the last time they used this tactic.
• 1964: "The Southern Strategy" – Republicans in the north attracted white voters in the South, by appealing to being against racism towards black Americans. The Southern Strategy successfully pulled many white, conservative, Southern Democrats into the Republican Party.
• 1964: Republican-controlled Congress passes the 1964 Civil Rights Act, as an extension of the Republican Party’s 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights Acts.
  • • • Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act:
      • It is a watered-down version of the 1957 civil rights legislation under Eisenhower, and LBJ was against the acts of 1948 and 1957.
      • The Democrats tried to filibuster it. Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, who was a KKK member, publicly denounced this measure on the Senate floor for 14 hours.
• 1964: Second "Party Switching" claim – Dixiecrats who actually remained Democrats (ONLY 2 Became Republicans) :

• Only 2 Dixiecrats became Republicans after 1964. There was no "party switching"; no Republicans became Democrats
  Those that were Republicans, stayed Republicans. The 2 that saw the light:
  • Miles Godwin
  • Strom Thurmond

The parties never switched. How did the Democratic party change over time? If you have believed in the party switch myth then you’ve succumbed to a rebranding attempt by Democrats leadership. They were embarrassed that their party supported slavery. They were the party of physical slavery and today they are keeping the chains of mental slavery. They haven’t changed. The “parties switched myth” as well as the media push to destroy civil war monuments, is a result of a Democratic attempt to hide a racist history of slavery, of lynching, of segregation, of oppression, and nearly every civil rights legislation in our history.

• 1965: Republicans pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
  The Republicans had to overcome a Democrat Lead Filibuster to pass this legislation. On the final vote, 94% of the Republicans but only 27% of Democrat Senators supported this law. The Republican action forced Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson to sign. The law prevented literacy tests as a voting requirement.

• 1965: The Democrats continue to defend the "Jim Crow" laws where state and local laws mandating segregation.
  • Confederate Statues were erected by Democrats between the 1890s and 1950s, which aligned with the Jim Crow laws set by white supremest democrats.
    • “Jim Crow” was a derisive slang term for a black man. The so-called "Jim Crow Laws " were really not laws, but unwritten rules of white supremacy and of segregation.
• 1965: Malcolm X is assassinated by some "Nation of Islam" members.
  • • Malcolm X stated: racism itself, not white people, was the greatest foe to African Americans.
    • His father was killed by the Ku Klux Klan.
    • Malcolm X did not like Democrat President Johnson and had much disdain for Democrats in general.   
      Here is his famous “Chump” speech saying ‘if you vote Democrat, you are a traitor to your race‘: 

 

Above, Malcolm X discusses "political maturity" and his disdain for the Democratic Party

 

• 1967: Democrats furnished 10 of 11 votes against Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (America’s first black Supreme Court justice).
  • 69 Republicans confirmed him
• 1968: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is shot dead by Democrat James Earl Ray.
• 1969: Republican President Nixon appoints Vice President Agnew to lead a multi-racial task force to integrate schools.
  • • Was Nixon a racist? Nope, learn more:

 

Above, Dr. Carol M. Swain, formerly Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University, explains how the media used Nixon as “the media’s all-purpose bad guy” to describe the Southern Strategy. She unravels the false narrative that perpetuates today.

 

• 1980:President Reagan becomes president, the Republican party’s hold on white Southerners was firm. Today, the Republican party remains the party of the South. It’s an ironic outcome considering that a century ago, white Southerners would’ve never considered voting for the party of Lincoln.
• 1983:Republican President Ronald Reagan signs by executive order, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

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Above, Republican President Ronald Reagan signs the executive order to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. day as a national holiday.

• 1984: Republicans elect Jim Koble of AZ, an openly gay member of Congress and the only opening Gay Republican in House.
• 1986: Republican lawmakers install the Federal Holiday signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1983 to coincide with the birthday and to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• 1989: Republican Illean Ros-Lehtinen, a Cuban American, becomes the first Latina elected to Congress.
  • • She is the most senior ranking Republican woman in the U.S. House of Representatives.
• 1993: 100 years after Republicans, The Democratic Party finally elects their first African-American Senator.
  • • Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999
• 1995: President Clinton asks to build a border wall to stem the tide of illegal aliens
• 2005: Republican President George W. Bush appoints Republican Alberto Gonzales, as the 80th US Attorney General.
  • Gonzales became the highest-ranking Hispanic American in the executive government to date.
• 2006: The Secure Fence Act (2006) – This legislation mandated that the Department of Homeland Security construct about 700 miles of border barriers on the US-Mexico Border. It passed with bipartisan support and resulted in about 350 miles of the wall being built by presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
• 2008: Democratic President Obama elected – Some extreme racism in the beginning. No rioting. 
  • • Democrats had no problem with confederate statues during the entire presidency of Barack Obama 2008-2016.
    • The historical monuments only became racist to Democrats when Trump became president.
    • Unemployment was 12.7% in January 2009 and peaked at 16.8% in March 2010 (without a Virus)
• 2010:Democrat Robert Byrd was the last member of Congress to hold membership in the KKK.
  • • Hillary Clinton called Byrd her “mentor.”
• 2011:Republican Governor of New Mexico, Susana Martinez, becomes the nation’s first Latina governor.
• 2011:Republican Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, appointed by President Reagan, authored the ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. He was the swing vote.
• 2016:Openly gay Republican Peter Thiel founder of Paypal, was invited to speak at the Republican National Convention.

Above, openly gay Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal speaks at the 2016 Republican Convention about why he is a Republican.

• 2016-2017: Antifa rises as a conglomeration of leftist militants to terrorize the right side of the political spectrum.
  • Antifa Democrats begin tearing down confederate statues to erase their racist past.
     THIS IS WHY THEY CAME DOWN. Republicans want to learn from our history, not hide it.  Democratic leaders are trying to hide it! 
  • Confederates were Democrats, and Democrats seditiously have been rewriting history for decades.
• 2017: Offered school choice to free children trapped by zip code in failing schools, allowing blacks to choose their own schools.
• 2017: H.R.2989 – the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commission Act. In honor of American social reformer and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, to plan, develop, and carry out programs and activities to on the bicentennial anniversary of his birth and to recommend the federal government entities appropriate to carry out such programs and activities.
• 2017: H.R.228 – Indian Employment, Training, and Related Services Consolidation Act of 2017.
• 2018: Prioritized women-owned businesses for some $500 million in SBA loans.
• 2018: H.R.1306 – Western Oregon Tribal Fairness Act. 17,519 acres of land be part of the reservation of the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians.
• 2018: H.R.1927 – African American Civil Rights Network Act of 2017 This law establishes a Civil Rights Network in the National Park Service.
• 2018: H.R.267 – Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park Act of 2017.
• 2018: Black unemployment rate falls to 6.8% ~ historic lows under President Trump

2021 : Joe Biden has a long history of racism: 

• • He once called state-mandated school integration “the most racist concept you can come up with,”
  • Barack Obama “the first sort of mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean.” 
  • He was a staunch opponent of “forced busing” in the 1970s, 
  • He lead the crusader for mass incarceration throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s. 
  • "Rambling Joe" Biden (yes that was his nickname) has described African-American felons as “predators” too sociopathic to rehabilitate
  • and white supremacist senators as his friends.
  • In 2006, he said, “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”
  • In 1977, he said that forced busing to desegregate schools would cause his children to “grow up in a racial jungle.”
  • More on his work with segregationist senators to oppose that mandatory busing, which decades later led to the strongest moment in Kamala Harris’s campaign for president, when she blasted him as having personally impacted her as a young girl.
  • And over the course of his entire career, he had kind words to say about staunchly segregationist senators.

Any one of these statements or episodes would have been enough to sink the political career of any conservative in Washington, D.C., against whom tenuous accusations of racism are commonplace and occur almost daily.  But Joe Biden, who has a lifetime of them, is now president of the United States. 

Today: WITHOUT Question, the people of the democratic party are making huge gains on repairing its identity. Hopefully, the leadership acts accordingly.

Systemic racism is indeed a vile problem, one that must be addressed immediately. When Democrats stop pointing fingers and look in the mirror, we can begin the conversation by fixing the issue we all share.