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Hey,you forgot to put in there when George HW Bush made his speech the Democratics carried on so and wanted him investicated for spending 26,000.00 for the speech and said it was not right.
It was not that it was a speech to the children but he has done nothing but talked the whole time he has been in office.This insurance bill and our troops are inportant now,why all of a sudden stick a speech to the children in he middle.Why not wait until the first ofthe year or around a school important date.Please try and fine a copy on line or somewhere and look over this bill.I don't like being told if I will have insurance .It will raise our taxes and don't think it want.Read it!!He has made more speeches than days he has been in office.He plans to go tomorrow to speak in Min.on the bill,WHY?He is running it in the dirt. I voted for him but I am tired of seeing and hearing him.I feel he doesn't know the campaining is over and speaking is all he knows how to do.I hope he proves me wrong.

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Why Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican
By Frances Rice
It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a
Republican. Why? It was the Democrats who Dr. King was fighting,
and he would not have joined the Democratic Party, the party of
segregation and the Ku Klux Klan. To understand why MLK was a
Republican, let’s take a walk through history.
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History of civil rights - In a nutshell
● The Republican Party - From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the
Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks.
● The Democratic Party - As author Michael Scheuer stated, the Democrat Party is the party
of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.
Slavery – Democrats fought to expand it, Republicans fought to
ban it
Democrats formed the Confederacy, seceded from the Union and fought a Civil War
(1861 to 1865) – a war where over 600,000 citizens were killed, including many
thousands of blacks – in order to keep blacks in slavery because the Democrats had
built their economic base on the backs of black slaves.
Democrats enacted Fugitive Slave laws to keep blacks from escaping from plantations
and instigated the 1856 Dred Scott decision which legally classified blacks as
property. Democrats pushed to pass the Missouri Compromise to spread slavery into 50% of the new states.
Democrats also pushed to achieve passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act that was designed to spread slavery into all
of the new states.
Northern anti-Civil War Democrats, called “copperheads”, did not want to be drafted to fight in the Civil War.
Starting in 1861, they attacked blacks in virtually every Northern city and pushed for a negotiated peace that
would have resulted in an independent Confederacy where blacks were kept in slavery. In New York, anti-Civil
War Democrats engaged in “Four Days of Terror” against the city’s black population from July 13-16,
1863.
The anti-Civil War chant of the Democrats, as reported by one Pennsylvania newspaper, was: "Willing to fight for
Uncle Sam", but not “for Uncle Sambo." These anti-Civil War Democrats verbally attacked Republican
President Abraham Lincoln because he fought to free blacks from slavery and make his Emancipation
Proclamation a reality – a Proclamation that became the source of the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black
communities today.
The Party of Lincoln - The Republican Party was started in
1854 as the anti-slavery party by abolitionists opposed to
keeping blacks in human bondage, and Republicans, under the
leadership of President Abraham Lincoln, fought to free blacks
from slavery.
After the Civil War, Republicans amended the US Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th
Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment).
Republicans passed the civil rights laws of the 1860's, including the Civil Rights Act of 1866
and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 that was designed to establish a new government system in
the Democrat-controlled South, one that was fair to blacks.
If the Democrats had left blacks alone at this moment in history, our nation would not be
faced with racial divisiveness today. Instead, Democrats set for themselves the
horrendous task of keeping blacks in virtual slavery.
Reconstruction - Democrats fought to end Reconstruction that was started by
Republicans
Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan in 1866 to lynch
and terrorize Republicans - black and white and drive
Republicans out of the South.
Photo: An 1868 cartoon with the Democratic Party Donkey threatening that the
KKK would lynch Republicans in Ohio
- Printed in the Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Independent Monitor
In the book "A Short History of Reconstruction", renowned historian, Dr. Eric Foner,
revealed that the Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 by Democrats as a Tennessee
social club. The Ku Klux Klan became a military force serving the interests of
the Democratic Party, the planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of
white supremacy. The Ku Klux Klan spread into other Southern states, launching a
‘reign of terror‘ against Republican leaders, black and white.
The Hayes-Tilden Compromise of 1877 was an attempt by
Republicans to get the Democrats to stop the lynchings and respect the
rights of blacks. Contrary to popular belief promoted by Democrats today, President
Rutherford Hayes did not remove the last federal troops from the South, but merely
ordered federal troops surrounding the South Carolina and Louisiana statehouses to return to
their barracks.
Segregation - Democrats enacted the discriminatory Black Codes
and Jim Crow laws
Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every piece of
civil rights legislation from the 1860’s to the 1960's.
Democrats wanted to keep blacks in virtual slavery and deny blacks the promised “40
acres and a mule”.
After they took control of Congress in 1892, Democrats
passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil
rights legislation passed by the Republicans, including
the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875. It took
Republicans nearly six decades to finally achieve
passage of civil rights legislation in the 1950’s and
1960’s.
It defies logic for Democrats today to claim that the racist Democrats suddenly joined
the Republican Party after Republicans finally won the civil rights battle against the
racist Democrats. In fact, the racist Democrats declared that they would rather vote
for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was
known as the party for blacks.
The Republicans started the NAACP in 1909 on Abraham
Lincoln’s 100th birthday to counter the racist practices of the
Democrats. The first black American to head the NAACP
was Republican James Weldon Johnson who wrote the
lyrics to “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, the inspirational song
that is considered to be the Black National Anthem.
Few blacks know that Republicans also started the Historically
Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s).
James Weldon Johnson

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