August 12, 2021 By
Deborah Bucknam
Vermont Democrat
Party chair Bruce Olsson published a commentary recently proclaiming yet
again that Republicans are "racist." This is particularly rich since
the Democrat party is the oldest and most enduring racist political
party in history, and its racism continues to this day. Here are the
facts:
The Democrat Party was founded in 1828.
Its first national party platform, ratified during the 1840 Presidential
election, stated: “ that all efforts by abolitionists or others, made
to induce congress to interfere with questions of slavery… are
calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences, and
that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the
happiness of the people… and ought not to be countenanced by any friend
to our political institutions.”.............
Throughout most of the 20
th century,
Democrats condoned or excused policies of apartheid and
disenfranchisement of Black Americans. Senate Democrats successfully
filibustered a Republican led anti-lynching bill in 1934, and a
Republican-led effort to ban the poll tax in 1940. At the time, the
poll tax was so effective in the American South that only 3% of Black
Americans were registered to vote there. Elected Democrats fought tooth
and nail against anti-racist legislation, filibustering the Civil Rights
Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and engaging in so-called
“massive resistance” against school integration into the early 1970s. A
century and half of racist policies vigorously supported by Democrat
party leaders -- no other political party in history comes close. ...........
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