re: #374 Walter L. Newton

Obama keeps telling us it’s not about race. Yes, it is a lot about race. That term has become a mantra from the left to make conservatives feel bad about the past race relations in this country. Well, yes, we do have things to own up to when it comes to past race relations.

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Except that the overwhelming majority of the racists in our past were Democrats. Those were Democrats standing in the schoolhouse doors to prevent school integration. Eisenhower was the president who sent the 101st to Little Rock. Every pro-segregation politician I can remember from growing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s was a Democrat.

The important pieces of civil rights legislation were passed only because they were supported by Republicans. A majority of Democrats voted against the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

It isn’t the Republicans in particular, or conservatives in general, who have to answer for America’s past of slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation. It is the Democrats.