Saturday, November 15, 2008
History Test, One, Two Three
Here's a little history test for one of my commenters (specifically one---who shows ignorance of American history---from my previous post on the Republican ladies luncheon who asked with a straight face 'if blacks are allowed to attend these events?') and for anyone else who thinks, mistakenly, that Republicans hate or exclude blacks from anything.
I hope you'll enjoy taking this test. And I'll give you a small hint....every answer to these first 9 questions is (b) and begins with the letter R, as in Republican.
HISTORY TEST
BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY: THE UNTOLD STORYNOTE:
1. What Party was founded as the anti-slavery Party and fought to free blacks from slavery? [ ] a. Democratic Party [ ] b. Republican Party
2. What was the Party of Abraham Lincoln who signed the emancipation proclamation that resulted in the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today? [ ] a. Democratic Party [ ] b. Republican Party
3. What Party passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting blacks freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote? [ ] a. Democratic Party [ ] b. Republican Party
4. What Party passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting blacks protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, and was the Party of most blacks prior to the 1960’s, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? [ ] a. Democratic Party [ ] b. Republican Party
5. What was the Party of the founding fathers of the NAACP who were themselves white? [ ] a. Democratic Party [ ] b. Republican Party
6. What was the Party of President Dwight Eisenhower who sent U.S. troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools, established the Civil Rights Commission in 1958, and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation? [ ] a. Democratic Party [ ] b. Republican Party
7. What Party, by the greatest percentage, passed the1957 Civil Rights Act and the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s? [ ] a. Democratic Party [ ] b. Republican Party
8. What was the Party of President Richard Nixon who instituted the first Affirmative Action program in 1969 with the Philadelphia Plan that established goals and timetables? [ ] a. Democratic Party [ ] b. Republican Party
9. What is the Party of President George W. Bush who supports the U.S. Supreme Court’s University of Michigan Affirmative Action decision, and is spending over $200 billion to fight AIDS in Africa and on programs to help black Americans prosper, including school vouchers, the faith-based initiative, home ownership, and small business ownership? [ ] a. Democratic Party [ ] b. Republican Party
Now, lest you feel the answers have left out your party, the Democrats, then you may be hearted to find that the answers to the following 8 questions are all (b) and start with the letter D, as in Democrats. Soldier on dear readers there's music at the end:
10. What Party fought to keep blacks in slavery and was the Party of the Ku Klux Klan? [ ] a. Republican Party [ ] b. Democratic Party
11. What Party from 1870 to 1930 used fraud, whippings, lynching, murder, intimidation, and mutilation to get the black vote, and passed the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws which legalized racial discrimination and denied blacks their rights as citizens? [ ] a. Republican Party [ ] b. Democratic Party
12. What was the Party of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry Truman who rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission? [ ] a. Republican Party [ ] b. Democratic Party
13. What was the Party of President John F. Kennedy who voted against the 1957 Civil Rights law as a Senator, then opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after becoming president, and later had the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) investigate Dr. King on suspicion of being a communist? [ ] a. Republican Party [ ] b. Democratic Party
14. What is the Party of current Senator Robert Byrd who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Senator Fritz Hollings who hoisted the Confederate flag over the state capitol in South Carolina when he was the governor, and Senator Ted Kennedy who recently insulted black judicial nominees by calling them “Neanderthals” while blocking their appointments? [ ] a. Republican Party [ ] b. Democratic Party
15. What was the Party of President Bill Clinton who failed to fight the terrorists after the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, sent troops to war in Bosnia and Kosovo without Congressional approval, vetoed the Welfare Reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan? [ ] a. Republican Party [ ] b. Democratic Party
16. What is the Party of Vice President Al Gore whose father voted against the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s, and who lost the 2000 election as confirmed by a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations and the ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission that blacks were not denied the right to vote? [ ] a. Republican Party [ ] b. Democratic Party
17. What Party is against the faith-based initiative, against school vouchers, against school prayers, and takes the black vote for granted without ever acknowledging their racist past or apologizing for trying to expand slavery, lynching blacks and passing the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that caused great harm to blacks? [ ] a. Republican Party [ ] b. Democratic Party
Source. Please note: None of this is to say all Republicans are purely non-racists or that all Democrats are racists. That would be absurd. But, it bears repeating that Republicans are given a very false rap by the likes of William in my comments section when they ask if blacks are allowed to attend Republican ladies luncheons. The answer, by the way, is yes and we wish more would attend.
It's safe to say the Republican party has sought to free black Americans for the past century and a half and give them the benefits of equality of opportunity, while the Democratic party has often sought to make racial victims and brain wash them into demanding the myth of equality of outcome. It will be interesting to see what Mr. Obama does with this when he's sworn in for president in January. I pray he will be an inspiration to all people in this regard.
Well, I suppose two can play this game.
ReplyDelete1. To which political party does Trent Lott belong? Which party did the late Sen. Jesse Helms (NC) Gove. Kirk Fordice call home? They all endoresed a group called "The Council of Conservative Citizens", which is opposed to, among other things, "race mixing" and the forced integration of the races. This is not a group that appeared in the 60s or 70s - they are opposed to those things TODAY.
2. To which political party does Diane Fedele belong? I'll answer that for you - she's the President Chaffey Community (CA) Republican Women. She thought it would be funny back in October to send out "Obama Bucks" to her 200+ members, which had hilarious pictures of Obama, KFC, Kool aid, ribs and watermelon. Of course she absolutely meant no offense: "I didn't see it the way that it's being taken. I never connected," she said. "It was just food to me. It didn't mean anything else."
Sheila Raines, an African-American member of the club, was the first person to complain to Fedele about the newsletter. Raines, of San Bernardino, said she has worked hard to try to convince other minorities to join the Republican Party and now she feels betrayed.
"This is what keeps African-Americans from joining the Republican Party," she said. "I'm really hurt. I cried for 45 minutes."
3. To which political party do you think participants at the Values Voter Summit belong? Hint: speakers at their meeting in September included Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.
Not sure? This'll clear it up for you. Mark Whitlock and Bob DeMoss - good ole' Tennessee boys - came up with the idea to sell "Obama Waffles" waffle-mix. The Obama on the front had huge eyes, big nose, thick lips and huge teeth and thand thick lips and the Obama on the back was dressed in an Arab keffeyeh. 'Course it wasn't racist in anyway, mind you - just hilarious!! But the Values Voter summit cut off sales after they discovered - shockingly! - that the boxes had "offensive material".
4. Two of the people on the major poltical party tickets this past fall were in Congress when the holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. came up for a vote. One voted for it, the other against. Can you tell me which person voted against it, and can you name the political party he or she belongs to?
5. Robert Byrd (D-VA) has had this to say about his daliance with the Klan: "I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times... and I don't mind apologizing over and over again. I can't erase what happened." In the 108th Congress, he received a 100% rating from the NAACP.
5. Can you tell me the name of the Senator who said this about avowed segregationist (who fathered a child with his parent's black maid) Strom Thurmond: "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."
Thurmond ran as a "Dixiecrat" in 1948 and said during his campaign: "All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches." His platform declared that "We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race." Thurmond was a Democrat until 1964, when he switched to the Republican party, having grown discontented with the Democrats and their support for civil rights.
7. The current mayor of Washington, DC has come out against teacher's unions and in favor of charter schools. Can you tell me which political party he belongs to?
8. Can you tell me the name of the President who signed into law the Civil Rights bill of 1964, and to which political party he belonged?
9. Albert Gore, Sr., was one of only three Southern Democratic Senators not to sign the 1956 "Southern Manifesto" which opposed integration. He voted against the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 (later calling it his biggest mistake), but supported the Voting Rights Act of 1965. By 1970, he was tagged by his fellow Tennesseans as being the "Southern Regional Chairman of the Eastern Liberal Establishment". How little things change - you're really in some sort of time warp out there in Tennesse, aren't ya?
10. Can you tell me the name of the candidate running for Senate in Tennessee in 2006 who the RNC targeted with a commerical that featured a scantily-clad white woman, who declared that "she met (him) at the Playboy Party" and who said breathlessly at the end of the ad "Hey...(name)....call me!" Can you tell me the political party that person belonged to, and can you tell me the name of his opponent (and his political party) who was "furious" at that ad?
11. One of the three Senators who ran on the major political party tickets did not vote for the "Post 9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008". Can you tell me which Senator it was, and can you tell me which poltical party he calls home? Can you tell me the poltiical party of the 6 Senators who voted against the final passage of the bill: Jon Kyl, Wayne Allard, Larry Craig, George Voinovich, Thomas Coburn, and Jim DeMint?
12. Can you name the political party that had the late Senator Jesse Helms as a member? He shared an elevator one day in the early 1990s with Carol Moseley-Braun (the first African-American woman in the US Senate) and famously said to fellow elevator rider Sen. Orrin Hatch, "Watch me make her cry. I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to sing Dixie until she cries." Then, class act that he was, he sang "Dixie", emphasizing how "good" things were before the Civil War ended slavery.
Web, you may be right that the Republican party of the 1800's and up to about the mid 1900's were the party that supported blacks in their efforts to be free and enjoy the same freedoms as everyone else. The Democrats who voted against the Civil Rights bills of the 50s and 60s became the leaders in Nixon's "Southern Stragey" and left the Democratic party in droves to become Republicans, due mainly to their opposition to the Democratic party's stand on equality of the races, integration, and voting rights, to name a few. Just as the northern states have seen a bloodletting of Republicans, the south has seen the same of the Democrats. Things change.
Thank you for the history lesson. Since you made a post regarding my comment, at least give me the opportunity to respond.
ReplyDeleteTell us Web, how many black people did you see at Bob Krumm's event?
Obviously, you are a senior citizen and think in terms of what America used to be like. Let's take a look at what the Republican party has become:
NPR
RNC Has Fewest Black Delegates In 40 Years
"Blacks comprise only 1.5 percent of the total number of GOP delegates this year, according to the Joint Center, which focuses on minority issues."
Further, the GOP with it's so-called hypocritical "values platform" that supports a president guilty of war crimes and torture, claim 'ownership' of the evangelical vote. No wonder they are now known as the 'White KKKristian party.' It's no wonder that the GOP and it's ideals were thoroughly rejected by American voters, except in the more ignorant and less educated areas of the country. If you want to look at the where the lowest level of educational attainment exists, look at the red states on the electoral map.
I recently has a religious conservative student tell me he didn't vote for Obama because he was sworn into the Senate with his hand on the Koran. How does it feel to be the winner of the ignorance vote?
thank you for your opposing comments, it makes the discussion better....
ReplyDeleteFabulous post! But I must ask, how did we get to where we are today, in terms of blacks voting for the Democrats?
ReplyDeleteBy the way, closing with the Sam Cooke song was pure genius!
ReplyDeleteBill Bennett has written a two volume History of America, entitled America, The Last Best Hope. Being me, I read volume two first, which goes from World War I to the end of the Reagan presidency. Now I am halfway through volume one, and I am reading about the Andrew Jackson presidency. Being from Tennesee, I know you know a lot about Jackson. He hated the central bank idea. So how do we remember Jackson? By putting his face on the twenty dollar bill! What a great country!
This is incredibly appropriate.
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