The Democratic Party has historically waged war against Black-Americans and that war has continued into the present day, despite the Democratic propaganda that they are the only ones who care about Black-Americans. Really? I have blogged about this before, but recent action by the Democratic Party has so underlined their hypocrisy that I find it necessary to comment once more.
It was Southern Democrats who created and enforced the infamous “Jim Crow” laws that forced Blacks into separate waiting rooms, separate train cars, backs of buses, separate drinking fountains, separate schools. It was Democrats who violently opposed the Civil Rights movement, often attacking peaceful Black demonstrators. It was the Democratic governor of Alabama, George Wallace, who defied a federal desegregation order over 50 years ago and a Democratic Birmingham police commissioner, Bull Connor, who turned fire hoses and police dogs on peaceful civil rights demonstrators.
And today, it is the Democratic Party who conspires to keep Black-Americans in poverty and segregation. Democrats insist that Blacks must be given “free spaces” on college campuses where no non-blacks are allowed and “all-black” dorms on campuses like Berkeley. This is segregation spun to look like a gift to the Black community, but it is still segregation. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have decried it. Democrats charge that the phrase “There is only one race, the human race.” is “micro-aggression” and just another attack by White-Americans. Yet MLK’s dream, his goal, was an America where the color of an individual’s skin was of no more importance than the color of that individual’s hair or eyes, an America where the only race was “the human race.” And yet, the Democratic Party would destroy any chance of MLK’s dream coming to fruition.
It is Democratic mayors and governors who keep Black-Americans in poverty in the inner city slums of cities like Baltimore and Chicago by refusing to allow them school choice – the ability to move their children to safe schools where they will get an actual education instead of being simply given a diploma, whether they have learned anything or even bothered to attend classes. These uneducated high school graduates are thrust into the world and given scholarships to colleges, many of them prestigious, based upon their skin color rather than their acquired education, and thus forced to fail, hopelessly overwhelmed by the rigors of college classes.
Democrats protect illegal immigration and fight any Republican attempt to curtail it because illegal immigrants often vote, illegally, and they always vote Democratic! Yet the influx of so many unskilled workers take away the very jobs that could go to the unskilled, uneducated graduates of many urban high schools!
The Democratic Party stood solidly against the tax bill recently passed by Congress, yet the bill, conceived, supported, and passed solely by Republicans has already seen nearly thousands of automobile manufacturing jobs returning to Michigan, many of which will be filled by Black-Americans. Most Black-Americans who pay federal taxes will see their tax burden reduced. And well over 150 companies have given bonuses and wage increases to their employees, many of whom are Black. Walmart alone is increasing its starting wage rate for hourly employees to $11 after passage of the of the tax law and is giving its employees as much as $1,000 as a one-time cash bonus. To put that in perspective, an hourly wage increase of $2 (from the current $9 to $11) is a 22% raise which will increase their yearly salaries by over $4000! We teachers were overjoyed on the very rare occasions when we saw a 5% raise! 22% for us was unimaginable, yet that is the result of the tax bill for thousands upon thousands of Walmart workers, many of them Black-Americans! Walmart is also expanding maternity and parental leave benefits. Many, many Black-Americans work for Walmart and for the other companies with salary increases and cash bonuses, and those cash bonuses, which Nancy Pelosi called “crumbs,” will heat homes, provide food, and buy warmer coats for many Black families this winter. Yet Democrats to a man (and woman) voted against the bill!
Oh yeah, the Democrats love Black-Americans! That is, as long as they vote Democratic! Any person of color who comes to his or her senses and becomes a Republican is vilified, called an “Uncle Tom,” and, if possible, silenced.