Proof a good number in the Democratic party thwarted Blacks from receiving full civil rights for over a century is engraved in the history of this country.
When Congress formed the Northwest Ordinance, was voted on by the representation of the thirteen original states, the majority voted to abolish slavery in the territory for the states that would be created from it and later join the union of the thirteen. Ohio was the first state carved out followed by Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. At that point in time several states of the original thirteen had already abolished slavery and that was obvious in the votes their representatives cast. I believe that was in 1787 and the writing was on the wall for the Southern states that the union would be growing with no support for slavery. And with numbers against them growing, they felt the pressure. That is why the first half of the 1800's was filled with race issues and the division lines were forming long before the Civil War began.
You see I did read your link. And sure enough it eluded to the Northwest Ordinance when things got heated up. It also eluded to those from the North traveling to the South to try and convince the people that slavery needed to be abolished. Those who practiced slavery, didn't much appreciate that one either as shown in the link you posted.
So what exactly did I lie about?
That over 2000 Blacks were elected to office including the South during and after Reconstruction? Sorry, that's a well documented fact.
That racial relations improved during and after reconstruction until Woodrow Wilson, Democrat Segregationist was elected president? That he segregated the Federal government for crying outloud! That's historic fact as well.
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow . Jim Crow Stories . Segregation in the U. S. Government | PBS
That the Democrat politicians that owned the South during the civil rights movement in the 60's did everything in their power to stop the civil rights bill? Even the Democrat Lyndon Johnson admitted that one.
It is fact that the big segregationists at that time like Al Gore's father who represented Tennessee and Bill Clinton's Arkansas mentor J. William Fulbright who signed the Southern Manifesto a big segregationist, or Senator Sheets Byrd of West Virginia who was some grand poobah of the KKK. All three Democrat Senators who were part of hindering the passage of the civil rights bill. All three have perfect voting records against it.
Maybe it is overdue the Democratic party, apologize for condoning these racists that they tolerated for a century in the name of power in government that drug out so long people of color given all the rights they deserve in this country. Maybe it would be a good time for them to try and stop painting every white person living in the South as a white supremacist and every black conservative an Uncle Tom. Reason? Race baiting is all they have. Their record on race sucks. And because Republicans have a stronghold in the Southern states at this time that Lyndon Johnson foretold when signing the Civil Rights bill what else do they have to throw at it? . There is also a growing number of blacks leaving the Democratic party. Once the barriers were removed keeping black people down in the South, more and more started to experience the American dream. All those Southern states didn't end up with Republican governors without the votes of a good number of blacks.
