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.
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.
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.)