In all the posts you have made on this site Wellwisher, the only one stereotyping is you my friend. Spidergoat’s reference to historical facts isn’t stereotyping. It’s just referencing historical fact.
You mean like when Democrats oppressed minorities by passing and signing civil rights bills into law. That is a ridiculous but popular myth these days in your Republican circles. How dare them damn Democrats pass laws which ensures civil liberties and helps the nation’s poorest citizens wither they be black, white or any other color put food on their tables, keep a roof over their heads and better themselves…the audacity of “dem” Democrats!
And if you think Democrats are saying or if you think Martin Luther said the all the problems faced by racial minorities are the result of skin color; then you clearly haven’t been listening to them. Having worked in the ghettos in the 70’s, the era of the “welfare queen” I can tell you welfare queens were very real. I can tell you first hand the policies Democrats first enacted to aid the poor, were far from perfect. But it was a start. And you are conveniently ignoring all the changes in social welfare which have occurred since and signed into law by a very Democratic president.
Again, acknowledging a fact isn’t stereotyping, racial groups prior to The Civil Rights Act of 1964 were disadvantaged because of racial stereotyping. Affirmative Action was the racial quota system first implemented to bring those disadvantaged racial groups into the American middle class. It is now more of an artifact and the quotas have vanished. However some institutions can and do consider race in hiring and school admissions. And unfortunately, racism still persists in all races. Racists don't just come in one color.
If voluntary programs worked, Affirmative Action wouldn’t have been necessary. That is why Affirmative Action was instituted. There is some economic and social advantage in diversity. Diversity can be strength (e.g. Ferguson).
I was looking at the bigger picture, from Lincoln to now. The Democrats came aboard very late in the process and created a mythology that creates the illusions they were the originators of civil rights.
Democrat pundits pretend that the 1964 Civil Rights Act was the creation of the Kennedy or Johnson administrations, but in fact it was an extension of the Republican Party’s 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights Acts.
The Civil Rights Act of 1957,
Pub.L. 85–315, 71
Stat. 634, enacted September 9, 1957, primarily a
voting rights bill, was the first
civil rights legislation passed by
Congress in the
United States since the
1866 and
1875 Acts.
The
Civil Rights Act of 1875 (18
Stat.335–337),
[2] sometimes called
Enforcement Act or
Force Act, was a
United States federal law enacted during the
Reconstruction Era that guaranteed
African Americans equal treatment in
public accommodations,
public transportation, and prohibited exclusion from
jury service. The
Supreme Court decided the act was unconstitutional in 1883.
Provisions contained in the Civil Rights Act of 1875 were later reenacted during the
Civil Rights Movement in the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the
Civil Rights Act of 1968 relying upon the
Commerce Clause contained in
Article One of the
Constitution of the United States.
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was also Congress's show of support for the Supreme Court's
Brown decisions.
[1] The
Brown v. Board of Education (1954), eventually led to the integration of public schools. Following the Supreme Court ruling,
Southern whites in Virginia began a "
Massive Resistance." Violence against blacks rose there and in other states, as in
Little Rock, Arkansas, where that year
President Dwight D. Eisenhower had ordered in federal troops to protect nine children integrating a public school, the first time the
federal government had sent troops to the South since Reconstruction.
[2] There had been continued physical assaults against suspected activists and bombings of schools and churches in the South. The administration of Eisenhower proposed legislation to protect the right to vote by African Americans.
The Democratic party was the original slavery and segregation party, due to the higher need for slaves in the agricultural south. These southern states became republican, closer to modern times, after integration took root and legal segregation departed. The democrats misrepresent these states, by transposing two different times as though connected.
In the 19th century, Southern Democrats comprised whites in the South who believed in
Jacksonian democracy. In the 1850s they defended
slavery in the United States, and promoted its expansion into the West against northern
Free Soil opposition. The
United States presidential election, 1860 formalized the split. After
Reconstruction ended in the late 1870s they controlled all the Southern states and disenfranchised the blacks (who were Republicans). The "
Solid South" gave nearly all its electoral votes to Democrats in presidential elections. Republicans seldom were elected to office outside some mountain districts.
In the more modern times, the South became fertile ground for the GOP, which conversely was becoming more conservative, as the Democrats were becoming more liberal. Democratic incumbents, however, still held sway over voters in many states, especially those of the
Deep South. Although Republicans won most presidential elections in Southern states starting in 1964, Democrats controlled nearly every Southern state legislature until the mid-1990s and had a moderate (although not huge) amount of members in state legislatures until 2010. In fact, until 2002, Democrats still had much control over Southern politics. It wasn't until the 1990s that Democratic control began to implode, starting with the elections of 1994, in which Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress, through the rest of the decade. By the mid-1990s, however, the political value of the race card was evaporating and many Republicans began to court African Americans by playing on their vast dedication to
Christian conservatism.
[6]