A Modest Proposal for a Name Change

[Dashinka 24,597]

A Modest Proposal for a Name Change

By SERGIU KLAINERMAN

 & JOHN LONDREGAN
July 16, 2020 6:30 AM

 

 

In all this frenzy of name changes, one culprit is conspicuously missing. Up to the 1960s the Democratic Party was the party of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, the Ku Klux Klan, lynching, poll taxes, and literacy tests for voting. The first Confederate Congress was dominated by former Democrats. While one might argue that these Democrats left their party when they left their country, their party certainly continued to stand by them: In the contested presidential election of 1876, the Democrats allowed the Republican Rutherford Hayes to assume office despite the stronger claims of their own candidate, Samuel Tilden, in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from the South. 

 

This bargain ended Reconstruction and ushered in almost a century during which the Democratic Party dominated Southern politics, implementing a cruel regime of segregation in state after state of the former Confederacy. Nor were the Democrats in any great hurry to change their racist ways. When Woodrow Wilson became the first Democrat in 16 years to occupy the White House in March 1913, he lost no time resegregating the civil service; in the following year, his administration introduced the requirement that employment applications include a photograph of the job candidate, thereby greatly facilitating employment discrimination. 

 

During the early months of World War II, the Democratic Party showed its remarkable versatility at racist oppression when Democratic president Franklin Delano Roosevelt — against the recommendation of his FBI chief, J. Edgar Hoover — ordered that Americans of Japanese ancestry be rounded up and deported to concentration camps, where they were lent out to farmers as slave labor. Many shops and farms owned by Japanese Americans were auctioned off for next to nothing to their neighbors. When Fred Korematsu, who was arrested in San Francisco and deported to Topaz, Utah, appealed his detention all the way to the Supreme Court, all six justices voting to uphold Roosevelt’s racist order were themselves Roosevelt appointees. Democrat Hugo Black, a notorious anti-Catholic bigot and former member of the Ku Klux Klan, wrote the opinion. The lone Republican appointee on the court, Owen Roberts, strenuously dissented, noting that Korematsu was imprisoned in “a concentration camp, based on his ancestry, and solely because of his ancestry.”

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/cancel-culture-democrat-belongs-in-dustbin-history/

 

 

[Boiler 45,670]

Time for the party of the KKK to go.

 

There is a district of Denver that was named after a Dem mayor and the demands have been met to rename it.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

5 hours ago, Dashinka said:

A Modest Proposal for a Name Change

By SERGIU KLAINERMAN

 & JOHN LONDREGAN
July 16, 2020 6:30 AM

 

 

In all this frenzy of name changes, one culprit is conspicuously missing. Up to the 1960s the Democratic Party was the party of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, the Ku Klux Klan, lynching, poll taxes, and literacy tests for voting. The first Confederate Congress was dominated by former Democrats. While one might argue that these Democrats left their party when they left their country, their party certainly continued to stand by them: In the contested presidential election of 1876, the Democrats allowed the Republican Rutherford Hayes to assume office despite the stronger claims of their own candidate, Samuel Tilden, in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from the South. 

 

This bargain ended Reconstruction and ushered in almost a century during which the Democratic Party dominated Southern politics, implementing a cruel regime of segregation in state after state of the former Confederacy. Nor were the Democrats in any great hurry to change their racist ways. When Woodrow Wilson became the first Democrat in 16 years to occupy the White House in March 1913, he lost no time resegregating the civil service; in the following year, his administration introduced the requirement that employment applications include a photograph of the job candidate, thereby greatly facilitating employment discrimination. 

 

During the early months of World War II, the Democratic Party showed its remarkable versatility at racist oppression when Democratic president Franklin Delano Roosevelt — against the recommendation of his FBI chief, J. Edgar Hoover — ordered that Americans of Japanese ancestry be rounded up and deported to concentration camps, where they were lent out to farmers as slave labor. Many shops and farms owned by Japanese Americans were auctioned off for next to nothing to their neighbors. When Fred Korematsu, who was arrested in San Francisco and deported to Topaz, Utah, appealed his detention all the way to the Supreme Court, all six justices voting to uphold Roosevelt’s racist order were themselves Roosevelt appointees. Democrat Hugo Black, a notorious anti-Catholic bigot and former member of the Ku Klux Klan, wrote the opinion. The lone Republican appointee on the court, Owen Roberts, strenuously dissented, noting that Korematsu was imprisoned in “a concentration camp, based on his ancestry, and solely because of his ancestry.”

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/cancel-culture-democrat-belongs-in-dustbin-history/

 

 

People too often either don't know or opt for selective amnesia of their beloved D party.  Same with the slave trade that was pushed on the US by the UK.  All those elite folk and their class systems.  And still today, there are those who fall for the promises that if they support said party, they will reap the "rewards".  The rewards in question will NOT be what the lower folk are hoping for, I assure you.

[Neonred 3,576]

The county just to the north of where I live is Lee county FL, named after you know who.  The bust of Robert E Lee was recently removed from downtown Ft. Myers and there is a push to rename the county.  Now in an in your face  move, the right is OK with this and is petitioning for a name change also....

 

https://www.capitolhellway.com/2020/07/13/lee-county-florida-to-be-renamed-trump-county/

 

 

 

 

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

1 hour ago, Neonred said:

The county just to the north of where I live is Lee county FL, named after you know who.  The bust of Robert E Lee was recently removed from downtown Ft. Myers and there is a push to rename the county.  Now in an in your face  move, the right is OK with this and is petitioning for a name change also....

 

https://www.capitolhellway.com/2020/07/13/lee-county-florida-to-be-renamed-trump-county/

 

 

 

 

Brilliant!

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

4 hours ago, Neonred said:

The county just to the north of where I live is Lee county FL, named after you know who.  The bust of Robert E Lee was recently removed from downtown Ft. Myers and there is a push to rename the county.  Now in an in your face  move, the right is OK with this and is petitioning for a name change also....

 

https://www.capitolhellway.com/2020/07/13/lee-county-florida-to-be-renamed-trump-county/

 

 

 

 

Wish I had 10,000 upvotes to give!