What have Republicans ever done for Blacks?
Regarding the Republican Party, historians report that while Democrats were busy passing laws to hurt blacks, Republicans devoted their time to passing laws to help blacks. Republicans were primarily responsible for the following Civil Rights legislation:
1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2. The 13th Amendment
3. The 14th Amendment
4. The 15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6. The Civil Rights of 1866
7. The Enforcement Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of 1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
11. The Freeman Bureau
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1957
13. The Civil Rights Act of 1960
14. The United State Civil Rights Commission
And gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following
legislation
15. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
17. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
18. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
19. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
20. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
21. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
22. Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
23. Civil Rights Act of 1983
24. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988
Programs By Republicans & their Supporters include:
a. Many of our key traditional Black Colleges are named after Republicans Colleges
b. The Freedman Bureau
c. Historians say that three whites that opposed the Democrat's racist practices, including the lynching of blacks, founded and funded the NAACP
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The same Republican Party that;
1) ...accepted the Dixicrats when they were “booted” out of the Democratic Party
2) ...created the “Southern Strategy” to get their candidates elected It was indeed southern Democrats who fought civil rights legislation. Yet Barry Goldwater, the hero of the Republican Party, fought the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and it was his 1964 presidential run that led the GOP to become the anti-integration party. When the national Democratic Party embraced civil rights, all of those bigoted imbeciles left and went to the GOP.
3) ...pushed Proposition 209 in California -- basically eliminating Affirmative Action in admission policies at California Universities.
4) ...under President Dwight Eisenhower, had testified before Congress against integrating the military and belittled the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision that desegregated public schools.
5) ...in 1988 George Bush tarred Democrat Michael Dukakis as soft on crime, famously using ads that featured a menacing black rapist named Willie Horton.
6) ...under Ronald Reagan declared that he "believed in states' rights" when he kicked off a presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where civil rights martyrs Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman were murdered, fighting states rights and attempting to help blacks get registered to vote. Once in office, Reagan used the racialized image of "welfare queens" who drive Cadillac's, and he led an all out assault on affirmative action laws calling them "reverse racism."
7) ...under Rep. Bill Frist who voted to ban affirmative action programs that would use legislative branch funds, voted against the Hate Crimes Expansion Act of 2000 and against an amendment in 1998 to preserve the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program. Frist voted for the confirmations of John Ashcroft as attorney general in 2001 and Far-right jurist Dennis Shedd earlier this year to the U.S. Circuit Court.
8) ...Ronald Reagan may have extended the Voting Rights Act in 1982, but he fought it like a dog. Then again, he called the Voting Rights Act of 1965 "humiliating to the South."
9) ...the President George Bush vetoed the Civil Rights Act in 1990 when it came up for renewal.
10) ...fought the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday? The GOP. Which party vigorously fought efforts to impose sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa? That's right, the party of Lincoln.
Also, as this “posting” relates to what is Real and Not Real with the Republican Party’s History and Black Folk, how come the Hayes-Tilden Betrayal is never mentioned? Basically, the betrayal dealt with the selling out of southern black folks by the Republican Party during Reconstruction. Follow the links to find out more;
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/412.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/135075_oscareason15.html
Let us see Real Republican Civil Rights history.
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