WHY DEMOCRATS WANT YOU TO
FORGET THE CONFEDERACY Exclusive: Joseph Farah spills dirty
little secret behind left's assault on statues, flags, memorials, 5/28/17, WND
Have you noticed the movement to
remove statues, memorials, flags and markers that commemorate the historical
reality of the Confederacy in America?
Earlier this month, we saw another
vivid example of this when New Orleans removed the last of three statues of
Confederate heroes – Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and P.T. Beauregard.
It’s happening in dozens of states –
not just Southern. Some of these monuments have been around for nearly 150
years. What’s this new war on the
Confederacy all about?
I have a theory. I don’t think it
explains the phenomenon in its entirety. But I definitely think it’s part of
the explanation for the scorched-earth policy against American history, the
attempt to erase any historical vestige of the most costly war in our history.
First, you will notice that
Democrats are nearly always at the forefront of this kind of activity. Why
would that be? Could it be because they are embarrassed and ashamed of their
party’s own history?
You see, Jefferson Davis, the only
president of the Confederacy, was a Democrat. In fact, for 50 years after the
War Between the States, the white South was dominated almost entirely by the
Democratic Party. White Democrats ran the South during the war, through the Jim
Crow days of segregation and right up until the early 1960s.
Not a single Democrat in that era
ever suggested destroying statues of Confederate heroes, taking down
Confederate flags or toppling monuments memorializing the Confederacy.
What’s more, the Ku Klux Klan would
have discouraged such demolition. And the Ku Klux Klan was the military arm of
the Democratic Party. As you can learn in Ben Kinchlow’s amazing book, “Black Yellow
Dogs,” the
Klan didn’t just lynch blacks, they also strung up plenty of white Republicans.
Kinchlow is hardly alone in
reporting this. Historian Eric Foner, author of “A Short History of
Reconstruction,” summed it up thusly: “In effect, the [Ku Klux] Klan was a
military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party, the planter
class, and all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy. Its
purposes were political in the broadest sense, for it sought to affect power
relations, both public and private, throughout Southern society. It aimed to
destroy the Republican Party’s infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction
state, re-establish control of the black labor force and restore racial
subordination in every aspect of Southern Life.”
What occurs to me as I read these
stunning words is how successful the Democratic Party has actually been in
achieving those goals over the last 130 years. Today, it not only has “control
of the black labor force,” it has control over the black vote – the very vote
it sought to deny for most of those 130 years after the War Between the States.
Here’s some more from Foner, who
tells the story most Americans have never heard – that the Klan’s war was not
just against blacks; it was against Republicans: Violence was typically
directed at Reconstruction’s local leaders. As Emmanuel Fortune, driven from
Jackson, County, Florida, by the Klan, explained: “The object of it is to kill
out the leading men of the Republican Party … men who have taken a prominent
stand.”
Jack Dupree, victim of a
particularly brutal murder in Monroe County, Mississippi – assailants cut his
throat and disemboweled him, all within sight of his wife, who had just given
birth to twins – was “president of a Republican club” and known as a man who
“would speak his mind.”
On occasion, violence escalated from
the victimization of individuals to wholesale assaults on the Republican Party
and its leadership. In October 1870, after Republicans carried Laurens County,
in South Carolina’s Piedmont belt, a racial altercation at Laurensville
degenerated into a “negro chase” in which bands of whites drove 150 freedmen
from their homes and committed 13 murders. The victims included the newly
elected white probate judge, a black legislator and others “known and prominent
as connected with politics.”
Founded in 1866 as a Tennessee
social club, the Ku Klux Klan spread into nearly every Southern state,
launching a “reign of terror” against Republican leaders black and white. Those
assassinated during the campaign included Arkansas Congressman James M. Hinds,
three members of the South Carolina legislature, and several men who had served
in constitutional conventions. In Louisiana, even moderate ex-Governor Hahn by
October complained that “murder and intimidation are the order of the day in
this state.” White gangs roamed New Orleans, intimidating blacks and breaking
up Republican meetings.
In St. Landry Parrish, a mob invaded the
plantations, killing as many as 200 blacks. Commanding Gen. Lovell Rousseau, a
friend and supporter of the president, refused to take action, urging blacks to
stay away from the polls for self-protection and exulting that the ‘ascendance
of the negro in this state is approaching its end.” I could go on and on with
this well-documented history, but you get the point.
Today we think of the Democratic
Party as the champion of black Americans, more than 90 percent of whom support
the party. But it was the other way just 60 or 70 years ago in America. The
Republican Party was their party – the party of Lincoln, the party of
desegregation, the party of abolition.
What changed?
Democratic Party tactics.
It was President Lyndon Baines
Johnson who got the idea of the Democrat Party becoming the “champion” of black
Americans by enticing them into dependency through welfare-style programs.
This is why the late Martin Luther
King Jr. was a Republican. He understood the history. He recognized who
represented political allies and political foes.
Now do you understand why Democrats
have a special desire to stamp out, erase and eradicate all history about this
period? They simply don’t want their cover blown!
http://www.wnd.com/2017/05/why-democrats-want-you-to-forget-the-confederacy/
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