NY and WH discriminate against blind people?

[shel90]

I think we all agree that blindness or deafness doesn't get in the way of ability.

I second that.

I heard about him and the fuss about him being blind. I didnt think it was a big deal. I always thought the most important thing was if he does a good job or not.

 

[Lighthouse77]

Who is the people? I do not see anything that they are against Patternson because of his blindness but you and Peterson´s wife.

I only see is some Republican supporters and Peternson´s wife accuse White White as Discriminatation.

I think he is just making a point. you see, people think republicans are racists because they go against Obama. people were republicans way before Obama ran for election.

 

[deafskeptic]

I think he is just making a point. you see, people think republicans are racists because they go against Obama. people were republicans way before Obama ran for election.

At one time, the Republicans were the anti-slavery folks and they championed for black rights but that started changing decades ago. Now especially since the 60s, they have gone to the other side.


Many changed from the Democratic Party to the Republican party because of the 60s so I think the racism was still there way before Obama even entertained the thought of running for the office.

 

[kokonut]

At one time, the Republicans were the anti-slavery folks and they championed for black rights but that started changing decades ago. Now especially since the 60s, they have gone to the other side.

Many changed from the Democratic Party to the Republican party because of the 60s so I think the racism was still there way before Obama even entertained the thought of running for the office.

Might want to read "Unfounded Loyalty" for a change.

Many believed the Democrats had a change of heart and fell in love with blacks. To the contrary, history reveals the democrats didn't fall in love with black folks, they fell in love with the black vote knowing this would be their ticket into the white house.

Wayne Perryman > Home

The Democrats

Our nation's top historians reveal that the Democratic Party gave us the Ku Klux Klan, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws and other repressive legislation which resulted in the multitude of murders, lynchings, mutilations, and intimidations (of thousands of black and white Republicans). On the issue of slavery: historians say the Democrats gave their lives to expand it, the Republicans gave their lives to ban it.


The Republicans

Regarding the Republican Party, historians report that while Democrats were busy passing laws to hurt blacks, Republicans devoted their time to passing laws to help blacks. Republicans were primarily responsible for the following Civil Rights legislation:

1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2. The 13th Amendment
3. The 14th Amendment
4. The 15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6. The Civil Rights of 1866
7. The Enforcement Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of 1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
11. The Freeman Bureau
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1957
13. The Civil Rights Act of 1960
14. The United State Civil Rights Commission

And gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following legislation

15. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
17. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
18. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
19. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
20. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
21. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
22. Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
23. Civil Rights Act of 1983
24. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988

Link

 

[CJB]

At one time, the Republicans were the anti-slavery folks and they championed for black rights but that started changing decades ago. Now especially since the 60s, they have gone to the other side.


Many changed from the Democratic Party to the Republican party because of the 60s so I think the racism was still there way before Obama even entertained the thought of running for the office.

That's because the terms were switched for the two parties.

 

[kokonut]

That's because the terms were switched for the two parties.

That's a red herring, and what you say doesn't make any sense. Note how there were strong bi-partisanship support on many legislations involving civil rights, equality and such? This means a continuation of Republican support for blacks from the days of Lincoln to the present when Democrats only began it's support 40 yeas ago to the present. So, it's the republican that has a much more history in supporting blacks. Ask the NBRA.com.

And gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following legislation

15. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
17. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
18. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
19. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
20. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
21. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
22. Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
23. Civil Rights Act of 1983
24. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988

 

[kokonut]

June 10, 1964
Civil Rights Filibuster Ended

Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)
At 9:51 on the morning of June 10, 1964, Senator Robert C. Byrd completed an address that he had begun 14 hours and 13 minutes earlier. The subject was the pending Civil Rights Act of 1964, a measure that occupied the Senate for 57 working days, including six Saturdays. A day earlier, Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey, the bill's manager, concluded he had the 67 votes required at that time to end the debate.

The Civil Rights Act provided protection of voting rights; banned discrimination in public facilities—including private businesses offering public services—such as lunch counters, hotels, and theaters; and established equal employment opportunity as the law of the land.

As Senator Byrd took his seat, House members, former senators, and others—150 of them—vied for limited standing space at the back of the chamber. With all gallery seats taken, hundreds waited outside in hopelessly extended lines.

Georgia Democrat Richard Russell offered the final arguments in opposition. Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (Rep), who had enlisted the Republican votes that made cloture a realistic option, spoke for the proponents with his customary eloquence. Noting that the day marked the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's nomination to a second term, the Illinois Republican proclaimed, in the words of Victor Hugo, "Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come." He continued, "The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!"

Never in history had the Senate been able to muster enough votes to cut off a filibuster on a civil rights bill. And only once in the 37 years since 1927 had it agreed to cloture for any measure.

The clerk proceeded to call the roll. When he reached "Mr. Engle," there was no response. A brain tumor had robbed California's mortally ill Clair Engle of his ability to speak. Slowly lifting a crippled arm, he pointed to his eye, thereby signaling his affirmative vote. Few of those who witnessed this heroic gesture ever forgot it. When Delaware's John Williams provided the decisive 67th vote, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield exclaimed, "That's it!"; Richard Russell slumped; and Hubert Humphrey beamed. With six wavering senators providing a four-vote victory margin, the final tally stood at 71 to 29. Nine days later the Senate approved the act itself—producing one of the 20th century's towering legislative achievements.

U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1964-Present > Civil Rights Filibuster Ended

In the end 44 Republicans and 29 Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

 

[jillio]

I think he is just making a point. you see, people think republicans are racists because they go against Obama. people were republicans way before Obama ran for election.

People were racist long before Obama was elected, too.

 

[jillio]

That's because the terms were switched for the two parties.

Exactly. Even in my time, I can see the switch in platforms. Historical fact supports it, as well. Anyone with even a superficial knowledge of both history and politics know that the ieologies of both parties underwent transformation. One cannot compare the ideologies of either party from the 1800's to the ideologies they represent today. It is fallicious to even attempt to do so.

 

[kokonut]

Yet, you get to own that history. How come Democrats never apologized for their own racist party's past?

 

[jillio]

Yet, you get to own that history. How come Democrats never apologized for their own racist party's past?

Again, can't compare 1800's with today. It is fallicous. And the Repubs have dirty hands as well. Why haven't they apologized?

 

[Lighthouse77]

People were racist long before Obama was elected, too.

so? it doesn't mean republicans became republicans because they are racists.

btw, I know alot of people who are democrats today who are racists. They voted for republican this time because they didn't want a black president.. but they always told me they are democrats and have democratic viewpoints (they support healthcare, welfare, and such) and don't like republicans.

Some of my family told me this... They wanted to vote for Hillary but they did not want to vote for Obama.

 

[jillio]

so? it doesn't mean republicans became republicans because they are racists.

btw, I know alot of people who are democrats today who are racists. They voted for republican this time because they didn't want a black president.. but they always told me they are democrats and have democratic viewpoints (they support healthcare, welfare, and such) and don't like republicans.

Some of my family told me this... They wanted to vote for Hillary but they did not want to vote for Obama.

It doesn't mean that racism is limited to any one party. I was responding to your statement that there were Republicans long before Obama got elected. And while it is not limited to any one party, it has been demonstrated that the more conservative in other areas, the more likely an individual is to have racist attitudes.

 

[Lighthouse77]

I find that untrue.

Sorry, I think people want to imagine there are more racists in that party. When I can find just as many democrats who are equally racists.

 

[kokonut]

Bottom line, Democrats OWN their own history. They cannot pin or blame it on the Republicans for their own past or anybody else except their own. They've yet to apologize for their party's own atrocities of the past against minorities, yet all of the Democrat presidents never have the gumption or gut to apologize for their own party's racist and demeaning past.
History News Network

From the author of Unfounded Loyalty, Wayne Perryman, an inner city black minister, wrote this back in 2004:

History News Network

Most people are either a Democrat by design, or a Democrat by deception. That is either they were well aware the racist history of the Democrat Party and still chose to be Democrat, or they were deceived into thinking that the Democratic Party is a party that sincerely cared about Black people.

History reveals that every piece of racist legislation that was ever passed and every racist terrorist attack that was ever inflicted on African Americans, was initiated by the members of the Democratic Party. From the formation of the Democratic Party in 1792 to the Civil Rights movement of 1960's, Congressional records show the Democrat Party passed no specific laws to help Blacks, every law that they introduced into Congress was designed to hurt blacks in 1894 Repeal Act. The chronicles of history shows that during the past 160 years the Democratic Party legislated Jim Crows laws, Black Codes and a multitude of other laws at the state and federal level to deny African Americans their rights as citizens.

History reveals that the Republican Party was formed in 1854 to abolish slavery and challenge other racist legislative acts initiated by the Democratic Party.Some called it the Civil War, others called it the War Between the States, but to the African Americans at that time, it was the War Between the Democrats and the Republicans over slavery. The Democrats gave their lives to expand it, Republican gave their lives to ban it.

During the Senate debates on the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, it was revealed that members of the Democratic Party formed many terrorist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan to murder and intimidate African Americans voters. The Ku Klux Klan Act was a bill introduced by a Republican Congress to stop Klan Activities. Senate debates revealed that the Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.

History reveals that Democrats lynched, burned, mutilated and murdered thousands of blacks and completely destroyed entire towns and communities occupied by middle class Blacks, including Rosewood, Florida, the Greenwood District in Tulsa Oklahoma, and Wilmington, North Carolina to name a few.

After the Civil War, Democrats murdered several hundred black elected officials (in the South) to regain control of the southern government. All of the elected officials up to 1935 were Republicans. As of 2004, the Democrat Party (the oldest political party in America) has never elected a black man to the United States Senate, the Republicans have elected three.

History reveals that it was Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican that introduced legislation to give African Americans the so-called 40 acres and a mule and Democrats overwhelmingly voted against the bill. Today many white Democrats are opposed to paying African Americans trillions of dollars in Reparation Pay, money that should be paid by the Democratic Party.

History reveals that it was Abolitionists and Radical Republicans such as Henry L. Morehouse and General Oliver Howard that started many of the traditional Black colleges, while Democrats fought to keep them closed. Many of our traditional Black colleges are named after white Republicans.

Congressional records show it was Democrats that strongly opposed the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. These three Amendments were introduced by Republicans to abolish slavery, give citizenship to all African Americans born in the United States and, give Blacks the right to vote.

Congressional records show that Democrats were opposed to passing the following laws that were introduced by Republicans to achieve civil rights for African Americans:

Civil Rights Act 1866
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Freedman Bureau Extension Act of 1866
Enforcement Act of 1870
Force Act of 1871
Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Civil Rights Act of 1960
And during the 60's many Democrats fought hard to defeat the
1964 Civil Rights Act
1965 Voting Rights Acts
1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act

Court records shows that it was the Democrats that supported the Dred Scott Decision. The decision classified Blacks and property rather than people. It was also the racist Jim Crow practices initiated by Democrats that brought about the two landmark cases of Plessy v Ferguson and Brown v. The Board of Education.

At the turn of the century (1900), Southern Democrats continued to oppress African Americans by placing thousands in hard-core prison labor camps. According to most historians, the prison camps were far worst than slavery. The prisoners were required to work from 10-14 hours a day, six to seven days a week in temperatures that exceeded 100 degrees and in temperatures that fell well below zero. The camps provided free labor for building railroads, mining coal-mines and for draining snake and alligator invested swamps and rivers. Blacks were transported from one project to another in rolling cages similar to the ones used to transfer circus animals. One fourth of the prison populations were children ages 6 to 18. Young Cy Williams age 12, was sentenced to 20 years for stealing a horse that he was too small to ride. Eight-year old Will Evans was sentenced to 2 years of hard labor for taking some change from a store counter and six-year old Mary Gay was sentenced to 30 days for taking a hat. While authorities sent whites to jail for the same offenses, they sent blacks to the prison camps with much longer sentences. Thousands died from malaria, frost bites, heat strokes, shackle poisoning, others were buried alive in collapsing mines, or blown to pieces in tunnel explosions, and still others drowned in swamps or were beaten and shot to death. Every southern black citizen was a potential prisoner for any alleged small offense, including violating evening curfews. Through the prison camp system, southern owners of railroads, mines and farms had an unlimited source of free labor. The black prisoners played a major role the South's economic development. Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative, said, in his opinion, "the prison camps were a new form of slavery, but far more inhumane."

History reveals that it was three white persons that opposed the Democrat's racist practices who started the NAACP.

Dr. Martin Luther King, several Civil Rights leaders and many historians reported that during the first two years of his administration, President John F. Kennedy ignored Dr. King's request for Civil Rights. The chronicles of history reveal that it was only after television coverage of riots and several demonstrations did President Kennedy feel a need to introduce the 1963 Civil Rights Act. At that time, experts believe the nation was headed toward a major race war.

History reveals that it was Democratic Attorney General, Robert Kennedy that approved the secret wire taps on Dr, Martin Luther King Jr., and it was Democratic President Lyndon Johnson that referred to Dr. King as " that n***** preacher." Senator Byrd referred to Dr. King as a "trouble maker" who causes trouble and then runs like a "coward," when trouble breaks out.

Over the strong objections of racist Republican Senator Jessie Helms, Republican President Ronald Reagan, signed into law, a bill to make Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday. Several Republican Senators convinced President Reagan this was the right thing to do.

Congressional records show after signing the 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act and issuing Executive Order 11478, Richard Nixon, a Republican, that started what we know as Affirmative Action.

On December 15, 1994, federal Judge David V. Kenyon issued a court order to the Clinton Administration in the Case of Fairchild v Robert Reich Secretary of Labor (#CV92-5765 Kn). The order demanded that Secretary Reich and the Clinton Administration force 100 west coast shipping to develop an Affirmative Action plan to stop discrimination against, African Americans, Hispanics, Female and Disabled Workers. Female employees were being sexually harrassed, Hispanic were being denied promotions and training, Disable Workers were being laid off, and African Americans were being force to work in an environment where they had job classification called " n***** Jobs." Clinton left office six years later and never complied with the court order. The companies still do not have an Affirmative Action Plan.

President Clinton sent 20, 000 troops to protect the white citizens of Europe's Bosnia, but sent no troops to Africa's Rwanda to protect the black citizens there. Consequently over 800,000 Africans were massacre

During the 2003 Democratic Primary debates, the Rev. Al Sharpton, said the Democrat take the black vote for granted and treat African American like a mistress. They [Democrats} will take us to the dance, but they don't want to take us home to meet mama."

On December 3, 2002, President Clinton spoke to Democratic Leadership Council in New York regarding the future of the Democratic Party and how they could retake the White House. At no time did he address Civil Rights issues for blacks or doing things to improve the conditions of African Americans. His only reference to Civil Rights was Civil Rights for Gays. His only reference to improving communities was his recommendation to revisit the Marshall Plan to re-build communities in other countries. His entire speech was aired on C-Span.

After exclusively giving the Democrats their votes for the past 25 years, the average African American cannot point to one piece of civil rights legislation sponsored solely by the Democratic Party that was specifically designed to eradicate the unique problems that African Americans face today. Congressional records show that all previous legislation (since 1964) had strong bi-partisan support, even though some Democrats debated and voted against these laws.

After reviewing all of the evidence, many believe America would have never experienced racism to the degree that it has, had not the Democrats promoted it through:

Racist Legislation
Terrorist Organizations
Negative Media Communications
Bias Education
Relentless Intimidation
And Flawed Adjudication.

The racism established and promoted by members of the Democratic Party affected and infected the entire nation from 1856 with the Dred Scott decision, to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case. But they never offered or issued an apology.

Today both parties must remember their past. The Democrats must remember the terrible things they did to Blacks and apologize and the Republicans must remember the terrific things they did for Blacks and re-commit to complete the work that their predecessors started and died for.

If you have a complaint about this, I suggest you take it up to Wayne Perryman, who is a black minister for the inner city of Seattle. Don't take your complaints up to me.

 

[shel90]

I find that untrue.

Sorry, I think people want to imagine there are more racists in that party. When I can find just as many democrats who are equally racists.

The Southern states are strongly conservative and that's where racism is rampant or it used to be.

 

[Lighthouse77]

The Southern states are strongly conservative and that's where racism is rampant or it used to be.

They are usually independent (confederate party mostly)

beside, the south also have majority of blacks too so are you calling them conservative because of the people that get voted in the office?

 

[jillio]

I find that untrue.

Sorry, I think people want to imagine there are more racists in that party. When I can find just as many democrats who are equally racists.

Research finds it true. There have been several studies done that correlate conservative attitudes in life in general and racism. Much of the time it is covert, but it is still there.

Personally, if I am going to imagine, I would much prefer to imagine that racism doesn't exist at all, and we have progressed, as a society beyond such superficial belief systems. But that is not reality. The reality is that racism does still exist, and people are still being subjected to stereotypes and discrimination based on nothing more that the superficial characteristic of skin color.

 

[jillio]

The Southern states are strongly conservative and that's where racism is rampant or it used to be.

Absolutely. I lived in the south for 25 years. Covert racism, particularly, is still rampant.

 

[jillio]

Bottom line, Democrats OWN their own history. They cannot pin or blame it on the Republicans for their own past or anybody else except their own. They've yet to apologize for their party's own atrocities of the past against minorities, yet all of the Democrat presidents never have the gumption or gut to apologize for their own party's racist and demeaning past.
History News Network

From the author of Unfounded Loyalty, Wayne Perryman, an inner city black minister, wrote this back in 2004:

History News Network



If you have a complaint about this, I suggest you take it up to Wayne Perryman, who is a black minister for the inner city of Seattle. Don't take your complaints up to me.

Again, can't compare what took place in the 1800's to what takes place today. Fallicious comparison.

Why is it that you don't demand apologies from the Repubs for the many times they have been caught with dirty hands? Are they exempt from responsibility?