They weren't just the party of Slavery, they were the party that screwed the Indians and created the trail of tears breaking a treaty.

Andrew Jackson the founder of todays Democrat Party was one of the biggest slave owners and had a reputation as the most vicious. He would have his slaves savagely beaten and would rape the women. Oh and if a slave ran away he would post a $50.00 reward on them and offer an extra $10.00 for every hundred lashings the slave catchers gave to the slave, which was virtually a death sentence. The Ku Klux Klan was formed as the military wing of the Democratic Party by Nathan Bedford Forrest, a DNC delegate and an active member of the party leadership.

Then the first movie screened at the White House was the pro Klan movie Birth of a Nation by Woodrow Wilson who praised the movie and the Klan. Then it continued under FDR how African Americans defending their country in World War 2 were treated as 3rd class citizens, not to mention the concentration camps FDR ordered opened to illegally hold Japanese Americans.

Then the bring up the civil rights act, that bill was based on laws that were passed in 1860 with 100% Republican Support and 0 Democrats votes. President Eisenhower even sent in Special Forces soldiers in to help protect and enforce letting African American students attend a college when the states Governor ordered the National Guard to keep the students out. Eisenhower activated the National Guard troops and ordered them back to their base. Then on the civil rights act of the 60's more Republicans voted for it them Democrats! Yet they claim to Champion it! Remember President Johnson's famous statement, "We will have those Ni**ers voting Democrat for the next 200 years!" The things the DNC want you to forget.

Oh and then there is the fact the no Republicans owned slaves and the Party was created in opposition of Slavery. There have been many Democratic Klansmen elected to Congress and the Senate. Hell, back in the 1860's a Democratic Senator savagely beat a Republican Senator on the Senate floor with a stick as he was giving a speech against slavery. Then There's Robert Byrd. He was third in the Presidential succession line who was a former high ranking Klansmen. In fact here are a few of his most famous statements.... I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds. — Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS) and "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation."

This is who the Democrats make President Pro Tem of the United States Senate and 3rd in the Succession line! That wasn't in the 60's either, that was in the 2000's That there is proof the party has not changed.

What did the founder of the Republican get for his efforts to free the slaves? He was assassinated by a Democrat under orders of Democratic leaders.

Now lets look at women's rights. The leaders of the women's suffrage movement were Republican women. More Republicans voted for the equal rights of women then Democrats did. If the Democrats had they way 200 years ago, we would not even be looking at Hillary as a Presidential candidate and Obama probably wouldn't even be able to vote.

'tain't pretty!

And with all that you still got people proud to belong to that party Not only that but they'll swear up and down that it's the republicans who are racist and homophobic. Kinda makes you wonder if these people have ever read a history book.
Now, that's not saying the Republican party is any better. Who will ever forget "Read my lips, no new taxes" or Sadam's stashed chemical weapons wich he didn't have to begin with or the Republican party's thirst for worldwide imperialism at the cost of Humanity itself?
Democrats, Republicans... Two sides of the same coin.

If African American's opened a history book they would be rioting at DNC offices and not the police/

Republicans are so racist that they created a political party on the basis of freeing slaves. Donald J. Trump is homophobic that he even let a man who had gender reassignment surgery compete in the Miss Universe Pageant. Those are all lies put forward by the Democratic Party.

Actually Saddam did have stashed chemical weapons, and it's been verified ISIS took control of them and have been using them.

If white americans opened a book and their eyes, they would know todays parties are not the parties of their grandaddys


dixiecrats no longer exist, but the SOUTH does,,


republicans are no longer the liberal party, they even hate the word


and the south, WHICH LEAD in discrimination and racism made a gradual but almost complete switch to supporting and becoming the republican base instead,,,

I don't believe ISIS took the chemical weapons stash that Saddam never had.
I would rather believe that the U.S gave ISIS those chemical weapons and instructed the "terrorists" to say they stole 'em from Hussein. It's no secret that the U.S is arming and helping ISIS, Daesh and Al-Qaida, even the terrorists say so themselves.

what discrimination and racism are you talking about? are you saying the police are republicans? i believe that it was a democrat that supplied the police with military surplus, brought us a police state, and made it where gangsters are outa control... i see more racism in the dems than the repubs... just because people are racist towards whites now doesn't mean it's any less racist..

http://loonybird.com/blacks_democrats.htm

The history of the Democratic Party is rooted in racism, violence, lynchings and bigotry. The National Review published an article detailing the racist history of the Democratic Party:

May 22, 1856: Two years after the Grand Old party’s birth, U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R., Mass.) rose to decry pro-slavery Democrats. Congressman Preston Brooks (D., S.C.) responded by grabbing a stick and beating Sumner unconscious in the Senate chamber. Disabled, Sumner could not resume his duties for three years.

July 30, 1866: New Orleans’s Democratic government ordered police to raid an integrated GOP meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.

September 28, 1868: Democrats in Opelousas, Louisiana killed nearly 300 blacks who tried to foil an assault on a Republican newspaper editor.

October 7, 1868: Republicans criticized Democrats’ national slogan: “This is a white man’s country: Let white men rule.”

April 20, 1871: The GOP Congress adopted the Ku Klux Klan Act, banning the pro-Democrat domestic terrorist group.

October 18, 1871: GOP President Ulysses S. Grant dispatched federal troops to quell Klan violence in South Carolina.

September 14, 1874: Racist white Democrats stormed Louisiana’s statehouse to oust GOP Governor William Kellogg’s racially integrated administration; 27 are killed.

August 17, 1937: Republicans opposed Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Supreme Court nominee, U.S. Senator Hugo Black (D., Al.), a former Klansman who defended Klansmen against race-murder charges.

February 2005: The Democrats’ Klan-coddling today is embodied by KKK alumnus Robert Byrd, West Virginia’s logorrheic U.S. senator and, having served since January 3, 1959, that body’s dean. Thirteen years earlier, Byrd wrote this to the KKK’s Imperial Wizard: “The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.” Byrd led Senate Democrats as late as December 1988. On March 4, 2001, Byrd told Fox News’s Tony Snow: “There are white niggers. I’ve seen a lot of white niggers in my time; I’m going to use that word.” National Democrats never have arranged a primary challenge against or otherwise pressed this one-time cross-burner to get lost.

Contrast the KKKozy Democrats with the GOP. When former Klansman David Duke ran for Louisiana governor in 1991 as a Republican, national GOP officials scorned him. Local Republicans endorsed incumbent Democrat Edwin Edwards, despite his ethical baggage. As one Republican-created bumper sticker pleaded: “Vote for the crook: It’s important!”

Republicans also have supported legislation favorable to blacks, often against intense Democratic headwinds:

In 1865, Congressional Republicans unanimously backed the 13th Amendment, which made slavery unconstitutional. Among Democrats, 63 percent of senators and 78 percent of House members voted: “No.”

In 1866, 94 percent of GOP senators and 96 percent of GOP House members approved the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing all Americans equal protection of the law. Every congressional Democrat voted: “No.”

February 28, 1871: The GOP Congress passed the Enforcement Act, giving black voters federal protection.

February 8, 1894: Democratic President Grover Cleveland and a Democratic Congress repealed the GOP’s Enforcement Act, denying black voters federal protection.

January 26, 1922: The U.S. House adopted Rep. Leonidas Dyer’s (R., Mo.) bill making lynching a federal crime. Filibustering Senate Democrats killed the measure.

May 17, 1954: As chief justice, former three-term governor Earl Warren (R., Calif.) led the U.S. Supreme Court’s desegregation of government schools via the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. GOP President Dwight Eisenhower’s Justice Department argued for Topeka, Kansas’s black school children. Democrat John W. Davis, who lost a presidential bid to incumbent Republican Calvin Coolidge in 1924, defended “separate but equal” classrooms.

September 24, 1957: Eisenhower deployed the 82nd Airborne Division to desegregate Little Rock’s government schools over the strenuous resistance of Governor Orval Faubus (D., Ark.).

May 6, 1960: Eisenhower signs the GOP’s 1960 Civil Rights Act after it survived a five-day, five-hour filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats.

July 2, 1964: Democratic President Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act after former Klansman Robert Byrd’s 14-hour filibuster and the votes of 22 other Senate Democrats (including Tennessee’s Al Gore, Sr.) failed to scuttle the measure. Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen rallied 26 GOP senators and 44 Democrats to invoke cloture and allow the bill’s passage. According to John Fonte in the January 9, 2003, National Review, 82 percent of Republicans so voted, versus only 66 percent of Democrats.

True, Senator Barry Goldwater (R., Ariz.) opposed this bill the very year he became the GOP’s presidential standard-bearer. However, Goldwater supported the 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights Acts and called for integrating Arizona’s National Guard two years before Truman desegregated the military. Goldwater feared the 1964 Act would limit freedom of association in the private sector, a controversial but principled libertarian objection rooted in the First Amendment rather than racial hatred.

June 29, 1982: President Ronald Reagan signed a 25-year extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The Republican party also is the home of numerous “firsts.” Among them:

Until 1935, every black federal legislator was Republican. America’s first black U.S. Representative, South Carolina’s Joseph Rainey, and our first black senator, Mississippi’s Hiram Revels, both reached Capitol Hill in 1870. On December 9, 1872, Louisiana Republican Pinckney Benton Stewart “P.B.S.” Pinchback became America’s first black governor.

August 8, 1878: GOP supply-siders may hate to admit it, but America’s first black Collector of Internal Revenue was former U.S. Rep. James Rapier (R., Ala.).

October 16, 1901: GOP President Theodore Roosevelt invited to the White House as its first black dinner guest Republican educator Booker T. Washington. The pro-Democrat Richmond Times newspaper warned that consequently, “White women may receive attentions from Negro men.” As Toni Marshall wrote in the November 9, 1995, Washington Times, when Roosevelt sought reelection in 1904, Democrats produced a button that showed their presidential nominee, Alton Parker, beside a white couple while Roosevelt posed with a white bride and black groom. The button read: “The Choice Is Yours.”

GOP presidents Gerald Ford in 1975 and Ronald Reagan in 1982 promoted Daniel James and Roscoe Robinson to become, respectively, the Air Force’s and Army’s first black four-star generals.

November 2, 1983: President Reagan established Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a national holiday, the first such honor for a black American.

President Reagan named Colin Powell America’s first black national-security adviser while GOP President George W. Bush appointed him our first black secretary of state.

President G.W. Bush named Condoleezza Rice America’s first black female NSC chief, then our second (consecutive) black secretary of State. Just last month, one-time Klansman Robert Byrd and other Senate Democrats stalled Rice’s confirmation for a week. Amid unanimous GOP support, 12 Democrats and Vermont Independent James Jeffords opposed Rice — the most “No” votes for a State designee since 14 senators frowned on Henry Clay in 1825.

By the way, if we’re going to strip schools of the names of racists, Strom Thurmond High School in South Carolina and Robert C byrd high school in West Virginia should be at the top of the list.

http://downtrend.com/robertgehl/democratic-party-has-roots-in-violence-racism-and-bigotry

Keep reading and studying. The modern Republican Party has discarded a lot of it's heritage, just as the Democrats.

Even in the day, the Republicans REJECTED Teddy Roosevelt's ideas, to the point where they drove him from the Party. The modern party decided to champion States Rights, at least verbally, specifically to avoid offending the white racists of the South (and then proved they were lying about that, when they realized it meant supporting the rights of states to approve gay marriage).

Bottom line, unless you indulge in lying to yourself, your effort to prove that the Democrats are Bad Guys, and the GOP are Good Guys, will be a failure.

somein society wants 5o say get over history and that today isn't our grandparents life but will play the past card at anytime that fits them

"Hillary is needed to protect the advancements we have made. No one is more qualified to continue the work we have started"

the op basis an implication that republicans support civil rights based upon what the OLD republican party did,,,

my response was to address the major difference between the parties of old and todays difference

mainly southern support of discrimination and racism and how it impacted party representation and party base,,,

I don't know who the 'some' are,,,but I don't say get over history, the past impacts and LEADS to the future


I simply pointed out major changes in one area, POLITICS,, that have changed over time

LIBEALS passed those amendments

todays republicans HATE liberals,,,

Never said you did. I said some in society and I meant some in society

that's awesome, considering I was the only one saying something different than the rest...


seemed personal , glad it wasn't,,,

I do know many people and I am on social sites

I see all kinds of crazy comments to articles on facebook

I can relate