The Left’s Favorite Weapon

I once read a WSJ article that asked the question that has become a topic during every election cycle.  Is America racist? The question as phrased is unanswerable, but clear-thinking people understand that active racism is no longer the greatest barrier to black and minority advancement in the United States.  In fact, it’s quite the contrary – for decades America has recoiled from the legacy of racism, nonetheless, the incessant talk of “structural” or “systemic” racism has conditioned people to think of this blight as ever-present.  Nonetheless, even as bigotry and discrimination have lost much of their menace, the Left continues to use it in their armamentarium of falsehoods.

The Left thrives on racism.  Whether Charlottesville or the death of Trayvon Martin, he of, “If I had a son he would look like Trayvon Martin” fame, the media’s exhilaration at these events is revealing, i.e., how these situations are always portrayed as intractable racism replete with a media spinning the familiar story of black tragedy and white bigotry.

So, what is it that makes racism so savory to the Left?  The answer is simple – Power – power that can be wielded against one’s political opponents.  At one time racism was an appalling bigotry that people learned to live with, and if not as a necessary evil, then as something that was an offensive a part of life.  But today, the Left injects racism into the national consciousness at every turn presenting it as the worst of all social evils.

Safe Spaces for minority students on university campuses and the white student response are prime examples of virtue-signaling and should be renamed “redemptive spaces” because that’s how white students and administrators display their contrition as they walk past the very segregated areas they are barred from.  Only in America!

But most people are growing tired of the constant drumbeat about systemic racism in America.  And since almost all of the caterwauling emanates from the Left, I thought we might look at this issue from a historical perspective.  There’s a phenomenon psychologists describe when one party accuses another party of what they themselves are guilty of.  It’s called “projection,” i.e., projecting undesirable actions or traits onto someone else, rather than admitting to them.  But what the Left cannot hide is that racism is in the DNA of the Democrat Party, and for evidence we need look no further than its origins.

~ Unassailable Evidence ~

The Democrat Party was founded in 1828 and is the world’s oldest active political party.  Martin Van Buren of New York played a central role in building the coalition of state organizations that formed the new party as a vehicle to elect Andrew Jackson of Tennessee as President of the United States.  Jackson was arguably the most racist (even though the term was coined until 1902) president in American history.  And as Yogi Berra might say, “Look it up!”

Twenty-six years later in 1854, the Republican Party emerged to combat the expansion of slavery into western territories after the passing of the Kansas–Nebraska Act.  The early Republican Party consisted primarily of northern Protestants, factory workers, professionals, businessmen, prosperous farmers, and, after the Civil War, former black slaves.

~ Fast Forward 110 Years ~

In 1964 when the Civil Rights Bill was signed into law, both congressional chambers had democrat majorities – including a filibuster-proof supermajority in the Senate – and with a democrat in the Oval Office, the Democrats maintained an overall federal government trifecta.

So, when the final vote came, the bill was passed with a greater percentage of republicans voting for the Act than did democrats.  In the Senate 82% of the republicans voted for the act and 18% against, versus 69% of the democrats who voted in favor of the act while 31% voted against it.  An examination of the House vote reveals a similar pattern, i.e., 80% of the republicans, voted yea, while and even lower percentage of democrats (61%) voted in favor.

As someone once said, “Do the math” and draw your own conclusions about the histories about the two parties.

Quote of the Day: “Our job is only to hold up the mirror — to tell and show the public what has happened.”—Walter Cronkite