Civil Discourse
Did you know Hitler was a Republican?
A national black Republican group is running a radio advertisement accusing Democrats of starting the Ku Klux Klan and saying the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, a claim challenged by civil-rights researchers.
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The spot begins with one woman telling another, “Dr. King was a real man. You know he was a Republican.”
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In the ad, the woman goes on to say, “Democrats passed those black codes and Jim Crow laws. Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan.” Her companion replies, “The Klan? White hoods and sheets?”
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The first woman also says, “Democrats fought all civil rights legislation from the 1860s to the 1960s. Democrats released those vicious dogs and fire hoses on blacks.”The ad asserts that “Democrats want to keep us poor while voting only Democrat” and, “Democrats want us to accept same-sex marriages, teen abortions without a parent’s consent and suing the Boy Scouts for saying ‘God’ in their pledge.”
About the GOP, the ad says: “Republicans freed us from slavery and put our right to vote in the Constitution.”
Interesting timeline there. “Democrats fought all civil rights legislation from the 1860s to the 1960s.” I wonder what happened after that? Oh yeah…the Southern Strategy.
Seriously, if the Republicans can constantly bring up the MoveOn Hitler ad (that MoveOn didn’t even make), then this deplorable ad needs to be thrown in the Republican party’s face at every opportunity. That and the Max Cleland / Osama Bin Laden ad. And the “Democrats want to ban the Bible” direct mail ads. The Republican party should be ashamed of themselves for using this kind of rhetoric.
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Politicians have long used race as a way to divide us. The fact is that race is a “myth” with no basis in biology. If we spent as much time talking about what we have in common as opposed to how we differ the world would be a better place.
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Comment by luminouscarl — September 24, 2006 @ 3:15 pm
All those racist Democrats started leaving the party in the fifties, after the “Dixiecrats” split from the party in 1948, held their own convention and nominated Strom Thurmond for President. They were welcomed into the Republican Party, where they remain today. In the meantime, look at the Dems’ record on racial and class justice since 1960.
Yes, those Democrats in the TV spot were bad, but the ad should mention that they are now Republicans.
Comment by Larry Jones — September 25, 2006 @ 1:15 pm
“The Republican party should be ashamed of themselves for using this kind of rhetoric.”
We are talking Republicans here right? They don’t do shame. For that matter they can’t detect hypocrisy or irony either.
Comment by Dean — September 25, 2006 @ 5:55 pm