Watch how this guy reacts to learning about the true history of the Democratic Party for the first time. Classic. https://t.co/D3aVqCU4ts
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The video discusses the history of the Democratic and Republican parties in relation to racial equality and civil rights. It highlights that while many people associate racial equality with the Democratic party, the party has a history of discrimination, including defending slavery, founding the Ku Klux Klan, and opposing civil rights initiatives. In contrast, the Republican party was founded as an anti-slavery party and played a role in passing civil rights legislation. The video argues that the Democratic party has kept black communities down through failed policies, such as government welfare and opposition to school choice. It concludes by questioning the narrative that portrays the Republican party as the villain in terms of racial equality and civil rights.
Speaker 0: I'll have them voting democrat for 200 years.
Speaker 1: I thought I'd be a brave one, bro. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 0: When you think about racial equality and civil rights, Which political party comes to mind? The Republicans or the Democrats?
Speaker 1: Obviously, the Democratic party comes to mind. Like, that's just that's just a natural that's just what you're taught, honestly. So I immediately think of the Democratic party when I hear of Racial equality and definitely civil rights.
Speaker 0: Most people would probably say the Democrats, but this answer is incorrect. Since its founding in 18/29, the Democratic party has fought against every major civil rights initiative And has a long history of discrimination. The Democratic party defended slavery, started the civil war, opposed reconstruction, Founded the Ku Klux Klan, imposed segregation, perpetrated lynchings, and fought against the civil rights What? Of 1950.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. They did everything. They did everything bad. They ended up they did slavery, started the civil war, opposed reconstruction, Founded the Ku Klux Klan. What in the world?
Imposed segregation? Oh my god. Oh my god. I did not know any of this per perp perpetrated lynchings. Yeah.
Y'all were out here lynching people. Ain't y'all false civil rights? Y'all were criminals. Like, y'all were world class menaces. I was taught though that the Democratic party I I can record being brainwashed, bro.
Let me just continue the video. Let me finish continue the video.
Speaker 0: These And 19 sixties. In contrast, the Republican party was founded in 1854 As an anti slavery party, its mission was to stop the spread of slavery into the new western territories With the aim of abolishing it entirely. This effort, however, was dealt a major blow by the Supreme Court In the 18 57 case, Dred Scott versus Sandfoot, the court ruled that slaves aren't citizens. They're property. The 7 justices who voted in favor of slavery, all democrats.
The 2 justices who dissented, Both Republicans. The slavery question was, of course, ultimately resolved by a bloody civil war. The commander in chief during that war was the 1st Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, the man What?
Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln was a Republican? Oh my god, bro. This is not right. What okay.
Speaker 0: Read the slaves. 6 days after the confederate army surrendered, John Wilkes Booth, a democrat, fascinated president Lincoln. Lincoln's vice president, a democrat named Andrew Johnson, assumed the presidency. But Johnson adamantly opposed Lincoln's plan to integrate the newly freed slaves into the South's economic and social order. Johnson and the Democratic party were unified in their opposition to the 13th amendment, which abolished Slavery, the 14th amendment, which gave black citizenship, and the 15th amendment, which gave blacks the vote.
All three passed only because of universal Republican support. During the era of Reconstruction, Federal troops stationed in the south helped secure rights for the newly freed slaves. 100 of black men were elected to southern They legislatures as Republicans.
Speaker 1: Right. No. I just gotta be cap, bro. This is no way. Why Why is it worldly known that or not worldly.
I'll say nationwide. Like, it's the the the Democratic party has the stigma of being, like, Pro, like, very open for everything. Free everybody. Everybody rocks. Everyone deserves equal freedom.
Whole time, Every abomination in US history towards African Americans was literally done by the Democratic party. Like, every single one. Like, Y'all kill y'all kill MLK too? Was the person who did that a Democrat? Like, what what what wrong thing In the United States history of every detrimental act towards African Americans wasn't done by a person of the Democratic party.
It seems like literally every single one was done by the Democratic party, which is extremely ironic because it's very convenient for schools to leave that out. It's super convenient for schools to leave that information out. You learn about Abraham Lincoln. You don't learn that he was a Republican. You learn about slavery.
You don't learn that it was ran by Democrats. You learn about the Ku Klux Klan. You don't learn that it was ran by Democratic Party. You don't learn any of that. It's like, we'll teach you this part, but, you don't wanna tell you this right here because, like, this could kinda ruin the agenda.
Anyways, this is a shock to me as you can see.
Speaker 0: Black Republicans served in the US Congress by 1900. The democrats did not elect a black man to congress until 1935. But after reconstruction ended, When the federal troops went home, Democrats roared back into power in the South. They quickly reestablished white supremacy across the region Oh my god. Measures like black Of course.
Of course. That restricted the ability of blacks to own property and rent I
Speaker 1: gotta look this up.
Speaker 0: And they imposed poll taxes and literacy tests used to subvert black citizens' right to vote.
Speaker 1: And I have a question. If all of the Democratic party did all of this, why are black people being pushed to be Democrats? Why is it a stigma to be a Republican as a black person? If you say if you say you're a Republican around black people, Dude, bro, why is it a stigma? That's a genuine question.
I'm not saying this. This is not this is not rhetorical. I genuinely wanna know. Why is there a stigma Towards being a Republican nowadays when the Democratic party has done abomination after abomination after abomination after abomination. They have done everything.
Speaker 0: And how was all of this enforced? By terror. Much of it instigated by the Ku Klux Klan founded by Democrat, Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Speaker 1: Of course.
Speaker 0: As historian Eric Foner himself a democrat notes, in effect, the Klan was a military force Serving the interests of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: Military force? They were terrorists. They weren't a military force. Well, I guess they were a military force because they were under the Democratic Party. So by that sense, they are a military force because they are technically under that branch of the government.
So I guess.
Speaker 0: President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, shared many views with the Klan. He resegregated many criminal agencies and even screened the 1st movie ever played at the White House, the racist fem, The Birth of a Nation, originally entitled The Klansman. God. A few decades later, the only serious congressional opposition to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 Came from Democrats. 80% of Republicans in congress supported the bill, less than 70% of Democrats did.
Speaker 1: Bro, this is so hard to listen to, bro. Like, I'm not even gonna forget the reaction, bro. Forget it. Let's just talk. This is genuinely hard to listen to.
Like, every single word they say is like, this can't be real, man. This can't be real. Civil Rights Act, 80% of Republicans supported it. Less than 70% of Democrats supported it. This is so hard to listen to.
It feels like every time it feels like I've just been told a lie, kinda. And not a lie as in saying, oh, the Republican Party they do be like the Republican Party is bad, But it's more so in the sense of I've been in school forever, living my whole life up to this point. And I have never even they teach you the information. They teach you the Ku Klux existed. They teach you the Civil Rights Act.
They teach you about all these, momentous figures in the in the African American world, like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. But they don't really teach you their ideals. They don't teach you what parties were going against them. They don't teach you what presidents were going against them and what parties they were. They don't teach you what party supported Slavery was party of post slavery.
They just kinda leave out facts, and it's so convenient to leave out certain facts because it plays into the narrative to brainwash us. I feel like I've been getting brainwashed for years. And I'm not saying that to say, oh, I'm a flip around and change my whole political view. No. It literally feels like I've been getting brainwashed for years.
Speaker 0: Democratic senators filibustered the bill for 75 days until Republicans mustered the few extra votes Needed to break the logjam. And when all of our efforts to enslave blacks, keep them enslaved, and then keep them from voting had failed, The democrats came up with a new strategy. If black people are going to vote, they might as well vote for democrats As president Lyndon Johnson was purported to have said about the Civil Rights Act, I'll have them voting Democrat for 200 years.
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow. Wow.
Speaker 0: Now The Democratic party prospers on the votes of the very people it has spent much of its history oppressing. Democrats falsely claim that the Republican Party is the villain when in reality, it's the failed policies of the Democratic party that have kept blacks down. Massive government welfare has decimated the black family. Opposition to school choice has kept them trapped and fell in schools. Politically correct policing has left black neighborhoods defenseless against violent crime.
So when you think about racial equality and civil rights, which political party should come to mind? I'm Carol Swain, professor of political Science and law at Vanderbilt University for Prager University.
Speaker 1: Man, I can't even I'm not gonna lie. This video ruined my whole evening. Like, I can't even I'll catch y'all later, man.
