posted on Aug, 3 2011 @ 09:38 AM
Just read your topic and will answer it here...and probably there too, no problem.
I believe you are a well meaning person who has just a few things wrong...or I should say, mistaken. Firstly, both parties and at the same time,
neither party is racist anymore, mostly. Racism is indeed taking a back-burner in this country. That "ism" is being replaced by a new one
"classism". The sad part is most people are too late in seeing this. LOL...but we have people still harping on black and white, when the insanely
wealthy basically see middle class and lower class whites as N-words too!
We have some people dreaming of a race war and are not aware that even if their trailer park of good ol boys did succeed in killing all the
minorities....when they approached the wealthy elite grinning like, "Yep, we got rid of all those N-words!" They would then be gunned down and
called N-words themselves. Black, brown and whites are too mingled at the average persons level now.
If you're racists and not filthy rich, I got news for you....you're a N-word just like the rest of us. The reason being is that it's about class
warfare now.
Getting back to your thread, yeah most of us are aware that originally it were the Democrats that housed a large number of racists. Those Southern
Dixie guys, but included in their ranks were some good white guys who weren't AS racists as those southern dixies. Forgotten is that there were
plenty of racist in the Northern Republicans also! Lets face it folks....every white person was racist in that day, just some moreso than others.
Understandable!
As stated, the Northern Republicans were just as racist as the Democrats, though they weren't necessarily for slavery. Their stance was, "Set the
N-Words free but I don't want them living on my block!" Besides they knew blacks wouldn't truly "be free" because blacks wouldn't get a fare
shake. What's the use of being free to pursue the American Dream when you wouldn't be allowed access to the resources required to acquire that
dream. The only thing blacks would achieve is being "free" to clean toilets, shine shoes and crawl back to shack far away from white people....but
hey at least they're free!
Alright, so the Northern Republicans were racist in a different more covert manner while the Southern Dixies were just blatant, "Oh hell naw...I
won't see a "porch monkey" as my equal!" When it came time for the Civil Right's movement. The Southern Dixies and a large number of the Northern
Republicans just couldn't stomache that act. They were fine with blacks being "unofficial slaves" and designated to the slums of America, but
"HELL NAW" at the thought of giving them equality....for real, for real .
So when members of the Democrats actually showed SUPPORT for this act, the TRUE racist of the Democrats, the Southern Dixies, called their Northern
buddies in the Republican party and said, "Ted, look, I'm now officially a Republican! I'll be darned if I'ma sit next to Tyrone in Congress."
Ted said, "Good, cause we're kicking all these N-Word lovers out of our party....come on up and join us!"
And over-night, the Republicans (now carrying the Southern Dixies) became the party that did not hold the best interests of minorities. If so....why
did they switch in the first place?
This was my interesting take on the situation. I know I made it fun (on purpose) and the reasons for the switch were more elaborate to include votes
and unionization, but you'll get the gist.
I want to go into one other thing concerning "Who are the Real racists in America". Many policies directed toward minorities are ineffective because
they aren't COMPLETED! It isn't the actual policies, because they are an attempt, it's the follow through that's lacking. If we really wanted to
help someone we would offer them public assistance AND at the same time REQUIRE they obtain a degree or vocational certificate. I'm no Economic Major
and typing this up freestyle, I came up with that solution. So you're trying to tell me all these geniuses we have couldn't have done that?
It's deliberate sabotage....to make the policies and assistance look bad. The evil people who don't won't such policies in the first place,
deliberately insure the policy won't be successful by leaving the "seal" off. So that they can later say, "See, I told you giving them welfare
wouldn't help! Lets cancel it now."
To continue....I think we should no longer have allegiance to EITHER political party! I say it's time for some new ones.