Who are the Racists ?

Dear Editor,

Trump and Republicans are continually accused of racism. We have claims that the Tea Party is Racist. There are claims that Republicans are racist. The epithets have mostly been made by Democrats and Liberal Media. Previous remarks likened George W. Bush to Hitler. When remarks are about Obama they were decried as racist. The Tea Party organized because of concerns regarding our Federal Government’s involvement in our personal lives and the effect on our ideas of freedom. There was an incident after the first congressional election of Obama’s incumbency when new members of congress, on their way to the Capitol, claimed to have been spat on by Tea Party members. A sizeable reward for proof was offered and never collected. The Tea Party membership is essentially; Republicans, Conservatives and Libertarians.

During the 1950’s and 1960’s the Democrat Representatives and Senators were likely to not vote for civil rights legislations and the Democrats where prone to filibuster legislation for civil rights. Conservatives have fostered integration, civil rights, fair voting, and policies that attempt to treat all citizens justly regardless of ethnicity, male or female, religion, or racial makeup. What have Democrats done but accuse?

Republicans over history from 1863 to 2003 lead and enacted legislations that were and are pro-inclusive and anti-racist starting with the First Hispanic Governor,

Romualdo Pacheco of CA. From the Emancipation Proclamation through to George Bush’s 2003 lead of U S military and our allies against the Taliban to liberate Afghan Women voting rights, and young women education. Republicans have been responsible and in the lead to enact eighteen major anti-racist legislation over unanimous Democrat opposition.

I ask what happened to innocent until proven guilty. Trump opposes uncontrolled immigration via illegal entry.

Gerald Keer

( 1866, Republicans passed 14th Amendment, defending African-Americans from oppressors in the post-Civil War South.

1869, the Republican-controlled 40th Congress passed the 15th Amendment, extending to African-Americans the right to vote.

1870, First African-American Senator was a Republican, in North Carolina, Hiram Reve[JK1] ls.

1871, Civil Rights Act effectively banned the Klan and enabled Republican officials to arrest hundreds of Klansmen. The KKK arose again during the Democratic administration of President Woodrow Wilson.
1875, Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act that banned racial discrimination in public accommodations.

1878, Republican U.S. Senator Aaron Sargent (R-CA) introduced in Congress the proposed 19th Amendment, according women the right to vote. Over the next four decades, it was primarily the Democrats who would oppose the measure. Not until 1919, after the Republican Party won majorities in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, did Congress approve what would become the 19th Amendment.

1884, John R. Lynch, a Former Slave, Chaired the 1884 Republican National Convention,

1906, Republican President, Theodore Roosevelt, appointed the First Jewish Cabinet Secretary, Secretary of Commerce and Labor, Oscar Solomon Straus.

1918, Octaviano Larrazolo of New Mexico, was elected Governor, becoming the second Hispanic to serve in this role since the territory became a state in 1912.

1924, Republican President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act, written by Rep. Homer Snyder (R-NY) granting citizenship to all Native Americans.

1926, Bertha Landes, a Republican, was the first woman to serve as mayor of a large American City, Seattle Washington.

1940, Republican National Convention approved a plank in its platform calling for racial integration of the armed forces. 1948 President Truman finally complied with the Republicans' demands for racial justice in the U.S. Military.

1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. The author of Brown v. Board of Education was a Republican, Chief Justice Earl Warren.1957, our President Dwight David Eisenhower (R), sent troops to Little Rock Arkansas to enforce integration as stipulated in Ike’s Executive Order 10730. 1959, The First Asian-American U.S. Senator was a Republican, Hiram Fong of Hawaii.

1962, Judge Tuttle, a Republican, in 1962, ordered the University of Mississippi to admit its first African-American student, James Meredith.

1964,The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was arguably the most important of the many civil rights bills passed in the middle part of the 20th century.  When we look at the party vote in both houses of Congress, the Republican vote was over 80%0f their membership.

Republican Minority Leader Dirksen led the fight to end the filibuster. Richard Russell (D) of Georgia and Strom Thurmond  (D) of South Carolina tried as hard as they could to sustain a filibuster.

1965, The Voting Rights Act was introduced in Congress on March 17, 1965 as S. 1564, and it was jointly sponsored by Mike Mansfield (D) and Everett Dirksen, Senate Republican Minority Leader. Both had worked with Attorney General Katzenbach to draft the bill's language. Although Democrats held two-thirds of the seats in both chambers of Congress in 1964. Civil Rights Act of 1964, but he expressed willingness to accept "revolutionary" legislation after learning about the police violence against marchers in Selma on Bloody Sunday. Given Dirksen's key role in helping Katzenbach draft the legislation, it became known informally as the "Dirksen Bach" bill.  After Mansfield and Dirksen introduced the bill, 64 additional Senators agreed to cosponsor.

President Nixon (R), directed his Labor Secretary to require Federal Contractors to enforce affirmative action programs.

President Gerald R. Ford when playing Football for Michigan State University refused to play against Georgia Tech because Tech made a demand that Michigan would not play their African American player Willis Ward. Jerry ford was incensed that the University would bench Ward, a star on Michigan. Ward intervened and requested Ford to play.)

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