1857: The Democrat-controlled Supreme Court approved the Dred Scott Decision which declared that Black Americans were “not persons but property” and therefore had no rights.
1860: Republican Abraham Lincoln opposed the fugitive slave law and announced an intention to end slavery.
1865: Republicans pushed the 13th Amendment. Slavery was finally abolished. Democrats tried to scuttle the new law.
1866: Republican Thaddeus Stevens introduced legislation to give former slaves 40 acres and a mule. Democrats opposed it.
1866: Republicans in Congress overrode Democratic President Andrew Johnson’s veto and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 conferring rights of citizenship on freed slaves.
1957: Republican Dwight Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, Ark., to escort Black students to schools which the Democratic governor was not allowing into schools.
1962: Democrat George Wallace, backed by the Ku Klux Klan, won election for governor of Alabama. His inaugural speech concluded with, “Segregation today, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever.”
Looking at history, it does not seem to be the Republicans who are racist. We are all Americans. What about removing the preface of African, Mexican, Asian, Indian, or any other ethnic group before the word American?
