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   From: vrwc2000@hotmail.com   
      
    a.k.a. the cocksucker in S.D. wrote..   
   > On Tue, 6 May 2008 08:14:15 -0400, "SilverBullet"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>On this day in 1868, a mob of Democrats massacred nearly 300   
   >>African-American Republicans in Opelousas, Louisiana.   
   >   
   > Snicker   
   >   
   > That "mob" was entirely CONSERVATIVE   
   >   
   > Jesse Helms father, Strom Thurmond father were probably   
   > there, DoucheBag   
      
   Another bullshit accusation from Gary the Racist. But We KNOW for a fact   
   that your party still to this day has a Kleagal sitting in the   
   Senate..HA!!!!   
   Here's some more 'good reading' for your racist ass, rosetard..enjoy!   
      
   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   Congress repealed the GOP's Enforcement Act, denying black voters federal   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.   
      
   "The first Republican I knew was my father, and he is still the Republican I   
   most admire," Rice has said. "He joined our party because the Democrats in   
   Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans   
   did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I."   
      
   The House Policy Committee's 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar offers 365   
   examples of GOP support for women, blacks, and other minorities, often over   
   Democratic objections. Among its highlights:   
      
   "To stop the Democrats' pro-slavery agenda, anti-slavery activists founded   
   the Republican party, starting with a few dozen men and women in Ripon,   
   Wisconsin on March 20, 1854," the calendar notes. "Democratic opposition to   
   Republican efforts to protect the civil rights of all Americans lasted not   
   only throughout Reconstruction, but well into the 20th century. In the   
   south, those Democrats who most bitterly opposed equality for blacks founded   
   the Ku Klux Klan, which operated as the party's terrorist wing."   
      
   Contemporary partisan hyperbole? Consider this 1866 comment from Governor   
   Oliver Morton (R., Ind.), who is immortalized in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary   
      
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