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3 ups, 5h
You ain’t black’ if you have trouble deciding between Trump and me" Joe Biden
2 ups, 17h,
1 reply
Clarkson & Wilberforce
were a force to be reckoned with
0 ups, 1h
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"In 1846, Clarkson was host to Frederick Douglass, an American former slave who had escaped to freedom in the North and become a prominent abolitionist, on his first visit to England.[25] Douglass spoke at numerous meetings and attracted considerable attention and support. At risk even prior to passage in the US of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, Douglass was grateful when British friends raised the money and negotiated purchase of his freedom from his former master[26] in December 1846."

SOURCE:
"Buying Frederick Douglass's freedom, 1846 | AP US History Study Guide from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History". 18 February 2014.
As cited in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Clarkson
3 ups, 11h,
4 replies
Modern republican's arguments when I bring up the party switch:
4 ups, 6h,
1 reply
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Yeah, not so much.

https://medium.com/@gpjames4886/republican-democratic-party-switch-25e136858292
4 ups, 5h,
2 replies
The only 'switch' that happened was Democrats going from slavery to marxism.

And Strom was like David Duke and that punk who created Alt-Right. They were 'ideological saboteurs' who made their so-called 'switch' in order to try and make the GOP/Conservatives look like racists or whatever.
2 ups, 5h
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0 ups, 3h
False. There was never a switch.

The majority of the party decided to endorse civil rights. The Southern Democrats did not want to, so they splintered away and tried to form their own party before simply signing up with the Republicans who as a party was against civil rights.
0 ups, 3h,
1 reply
There was never a switch.

The majority of the Democrat Party shifted towards civil rights, while the Republicans stayed behind and decided not to. Republicans were not Liberals. They wanted to end slavery. That's it. Just because they were Abolitionists doesn't mean they were Progressives. Just because somebody is a vegan doesn't mean they want cows free on their front lawn eating their azaleas.
0 ups, <1h,
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You forgot to fit the rest of the speech, for context:

"I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. [Cheers and laughter.] My understanding is that I can just let her alone. I am now in my fiftieth year, and I certainly never have had a black woman for either a slave or a wife. So it seems to me quite possible for us to get along without making either slaves or wives of negroes. I will add to this that I have never seen to my knowledge a man, woman or child who was in favor of producing a perfect equality, social and political, between negroes and white men. I recollect of but one distinguished instance that I ever heard of so frequently as to be entirely satisfied of its correctness---and that is the case of Judge Douglas' old friend Col. Richard M. Johnson. [Laughter.] I will also add to the remarks I have made, (for I am not going to enter at large upon this subject,) that I have never had the least apprehension that I or my friends would marry negroes if there was no law to keep them from it, [laughter] but as Judge Douglas and his friends seem to be in great apprehension that they might, if there were no law to keep them from it, [roars of laughter] I give him the most solemn pledge that I will to the very last stand by the law of this State, which forbids the marrying of white people with negroes. [Continued laughter and applause.] I will add one further word, which is this, that I do not understand there is any place where an alteration of the social and political relations of the negro and the white man can be made except in the State Legislature---not in the Congress of the United States---and as I do not really apprehend the approach of any such thing myself, and as Judge Douglas seems to be in constant horror that some such danger is rapidly approaching, I propose as the best means to prevent it that the Judge be kept at home and placed in the State Legislature to fight the measure. [Uproarious laughter and applause.] I do not propose dwelling longer at this time on this subject."

-The Great Emancipator, same speech continued...
0 ups, <1h
In context, no matter how crude or 'racist' the discussion on race could get during legal slavery,
and was the subject of many debates at this time period that led to abolishment. Lincoln was pointing out out that Douglass was a hypocrit to advocate for the institution of slavery of black people to continue, yet at the same time be okay for free white men to have relationships with or marry black or mixed race women, like his democrat party colleague, former VP Richard M Johnson was known for, .

"The Senate elected (Richard M Johnson) to the vice-presidential office. Due to his relationships with several Black or mixed-race women, [3] including his common-law wife Julia Chinn, Johnson proved such a burden for the Democrats in the 1836 election that they refused to renominate him for vice president in 1840. Van Buren campaigned for reelection without a running mate."

SOURCE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mentor_Johnson#References

Ironically, this debate opponent, Stephen Douglass, died suddenly & unexpectedly, the very day
Lincoln went on the offensive as POTUS, having ordered Union Troops into Virginia;
Fairfax Courthouse one afternoon, and Philippi the next, destroying printing presses
and confiscating some records.
0 ups, 2h
lmao
0 ups, 2h
No, they switched because the right are racists and some stubborn Democrats didn't want the Civil Rights Bill to pass so they became Republican
0 ups, 2h
Holy ragebait, anyone with IQ above 80 knows about the Democrats switching
1 up, 1d,
3 replies
parties ideologies switched over time especially around fdr.
the Republicans used to be the progressives and the southern Democrats were the conservatives though the northern Democrats tended to be a bit liberal as well. which is partly why the ideologies switched a bit
5 ups, 22h,
2 replies
Yeah... that's why 'progressive' dems voted against the Civil Rights Act...
0 ups, 3h,
1 reply
Progressive/Northern Democrats pushed for and got the Civil Rights act passed.
0 ups, 2h,
2 replies
Robert Byrd voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, participating in a lengthy filibuster against it.
0 ups, 2h
No, Robert Byrd voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1968.
0 ups, 2h
People became Republican to not support the CRA
2 ups, 10h
The civil rights act that charlie kirk said was bad?
3 ups, 6h
Half true.

https://medium.com/@gpjames4886/republican-democratic-party-switch-25e136858292
0 ups, 2h,
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It is quite progressive to obliterate the institution of Slavery, and emancipate in the context of 1865.

Lincoln was willing to call up 75k troops, to go on the offensive against his own citizens, in order to maintain the Union. He was also willing to suspend Habeas Corpus, and sign off on a plan by Edwin Stanton and carried out as Gen. Sherman's "Special Field Order No.15" to confiscate the private land from 30 miles inland to the Sea, on ALL coastal Georgia and a little into the states North and South; and give that away as 40 acres and a mule.

Once his Democrat Vice President, Andrew Johnson was inaugurated as POTUS, he stopped this from happening and honored General Grants conditions of surrender at Appomattox, and left said real estate in the hands of the U.S. Citizens that owned it and returned to the Union, as would be their property rights under the U.S. Constitution.

This is precisely why Andrew Johnson was the first President ever impeached. & why Spike Lee's production company is so named.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/the-truth-behind-40-acres-and-a-mule/ -Skip Gates
0 ups, 2h
The irony here, is that Georgia was set up as a British colony
FREE FROM THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY by James Oglethorpe in 1733.
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