Just Askin' Questions About Democrats

Some day, maybe sooner than I know, I'm going to write down a concise history of the racist Democrat Party beginning with it's origins. It was formed in 1828 as a pro-slave party with Pres. Andrew Jackson as its titular head. You remember him, right? He signed into law the Indian Removal Act to push all Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi River. That stuff wouldn't float today. And then I'd work my way up to the year of 1854. That's when the Republican Party was formed. Both Jackson, Michigan and Ripon, Wisconsin take credit for the formation of the political party but both had as its main premise the elimination of slavery. How am I doing so far? Have I piqued your interest in learning more about how the Democrats have lassoed the racist mantra from Republicans being the bad guys in this discussion? Abe Lincoln once said to anti-slave author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, about her book Uncle Tom's Cabin, "So, you're the little lady responsible for this war(the War Between The States)." Stowe was much hated by southern pro-slavery folks.

Oh, I could go on and on about how the Democrats are the real pro-slave, anti-Black group in the US but there's so much to write down and so little time in which to do it. Did you know the Ku Klux Klan was begun by a Confederate Democrat? His name was Nathan Forrest. After that organization was eradicated, mostly anyway, it sprung up again with a vengeance in southern Indiana in the 1920's by---you guessed it, a Democrat. Speaking of Democrats the most racist, anti-Black president in American history, after Andrew Jackson, was a feller by the name of Woodrow Wilson. He was a Democrat don't ya' know. You remember him. He was the one who forced us into a horrid world war. Why is it racism and war always seem to go hand in hand with the Democrat Party?

Know what? This little tutorial I've just given hasn't been done by moi since I stopped teaching American History in high school classrooms in 1988. Golly, those were good times. I hope my students remembered some of the lessons they were taught. I've come to the conclusion our schools aren't doing much of this stuff today.