DNC Chair Ignores Democrats' Jim Crow History

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Erich Hicks of CA 5:21PM June 08, 2011

I beg to differ. Republicans promote division? Who has cried "racist" over every single policy disagreement voiced during Obama's presidency? Who tries to feed class anger every chance they get? Who thinks minorities aren't smart or capable enough to get a photo ID? Who has put more minorities on food stamps than any other president? Who said "reward your friends and punish your enemies"? I believe that was all Democrats.
Democrats treat minorities like they are children who can't think for themselves, can't provide for themselves, and have no hope without government handouts. Since Democrats have started "helping" minorities, single parent households have risen dramatically, crime in minority neighborhoods has risen, dropout rates have risen, and teen pregnancies have risen. How exactly have they helped?
You say Republicans mix religion into politics and there is a double standard? Democrats' religion is climate change and they aren't promoting it for moral reasons-they are promoting it for their own pocketbooks. The double standard, which I saw clearly expressed in hundreds of comments since this whole Weiner story broke is that the left says, "Hey, we never claimed to be family values types with morals, so you can't hold it against us when we lie, cheat, or steal, but since Republicans claim to have morals, they should be held accountable when they mess up." Is that really the standard you want for your party's elected officials--that it's okay when they screw up because they never claimed to have morals to begin with?
"Voter disenfranchisement" is just a fancy way to say the Dems want everyone who will vote for them to vote regardless of whether they are registered or here legally. Photo ID is required to cash a check and sometimes to be shown along with a credit card in stores. Most people have it and it's not hard to get it if you don't. Shouldn't we all want to make sure that only people who are eligible to vote in our elections do?

writer59 of PA 5:20PM June 08, 2011

You know, when you see a parent out in public and there child is having a temper tantrum because they want somesomething they don't need or the parent doesn't really have the money for. But the parent still goes ahead and gets it anyway even though it would be better not to as too teach the child a lesson.
That is what the Democratic Party has become, let's just give everybody anything they want regardless of the overall effect it might have in the future. Enablers, every last one of them.
While the Republican Party is the parent the kids hate because somebody has to be the bad guy and say "No" sometimes, for the betterment of that child lest they grow up and can't do a darn thing for themselves.
Not painting every Democrat as a Whiny Spoiled Brat, but if the shoe fits...

Jeremy of SC 3:58PM June 08, 2011

I believe the point was to say that efforts to strengthen voter qualifications, while fine in theory, are a potentially dangerous slope that must be navigated very carefully so as not to risk alienating eligible citizens from voting. Yes, the Jim Crow Laws were more of a tangled web; however, it certainly could be argued that the web started with various hurdles minority citizens had to navigate so as to prevent them from voting. When I hear my Republican acquaintances sayimng things like they want to "take their country back," or "only tax paying citizens should vote," or "Barack Obama would never had won if so many blacks had not voted" I have to say I worry where there hearts are. So, distract yourselves from the reality of potential disenfranchisement by arguing the finer points of what constituted Jim Crow, but that does not change the intent of such efforts.

T Ganski of FL 3:12PM June 08, 2011

True - Jim Crow was the domain of the Dixie-crat South.
But in the modern era - since 1960 - the Democratic Party has stood up in a major way to get rid of racism, bigotry and unfair treatment of minorities. They passed major legislation to make things right, they stood in the streets and marched with civil rights leaders. They worked hard to make voting an easy task for all without restrictions intended to block specific groups. They did this knowing it was a political risk - as the Southerners were so against this. So they not only showed vision, fairness - they also showed guts - willing to do what was right no matter whether they lost power or not.
On the other hand - the GOP has reversed its fine record from the 1800's and early 1900's - and since the 1960's has lapsed into a party that either overtly or behind the scenes promotes inuendo, division, prejudice, inequality, hypocrisy, mixing religion into politics, etc. They support those who wish to take away rights, have little respect for facts, have a double standard (Vitter can stay, so can Ensign, but Weiner has to resign?) Most glaring is that vitually all of the Dixie-crats left the Demcratic party for the GOP after Congress led by the Dems pased the Voting Rights Act. Imagine that - the party with the most Southern representation is also the party of race politics. The South never changes....
So Mr Roff - you bring up a good point, but it goes against your right wing party - GOP/TP. It's not a bad mark against the Dems. The Democrats changed for the better. The far right has lost its way....

DeeToo of SC 3:07PM June 08, 2011

I doubt highly that anyone else in the MSM will touch this faux pax by a Democrat - instead, they will ignore it and focus on Palin and any perceived misstatements she makes.

junior of DC 12:43PM June 08, 2011