President Obama declared five new national monuments yesterday, bringing the total number he’s created or expanded to 34 — the highest ever, according to The Washington Post. That’s two more than the previous record-holder, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Three of the new national monuments are civil rights sites in the South that have bipartisan support, and underline Obama’s push for protecting sites that speak for the nation’s diverse history and culture. Two monuments in Alabama and one in Beaufort County, South Carolina, commemorate moments of African-American history, including the Reconstruction Era and the violent clash between segregationists and civil rights activists in the 1960s.
Postby Speaker to Animals » Sat Jan 14, 2017 11:41 pm
I bet the monuments will downplay the role of the democratic party in suppressing blacks (often violently) with vague weasel words. They definitely won't mention that it was republicans that freed slaves, passed the first civil rights act (which was then repealed by democrats), fought against the lynching in the south, and eventually managed to get the second civil rights act pushed through in the 1960s.
It's really quite bizarre how the democrats have hijacked this issue when they were the villains the whole time. It was in living memory that the democrats tried to stop the current civil rights act from getting passed into law, yet the democrats and their media outlets managed to rewrite the whole thing in peoples' minds.
Speaker to Animals wrote:I bet the monuments will downplay the role of the democratic party in suppressing blacks (often violently) with vague weasel words. They definitely won't mention that it was republicans that freed slaves, passed the first civil rights act (which was then repealed by democrats), fought against the lynching in the south, and eventually managed to get the second civil rights act pushed through in the 1960s.
It's really quite bizarre how the democrats have hijacked this issue when they were the villains the whole time. It was in living memory that the democrats tried to stop the current civil rights act from getting passed into law, yet the democrats and their media outlets managed to rewrite the whole thing in peoples' minds.
"But, but, but, they switched. There was a switch. The Southern Strategy." The narrative falsehoods these people believe because of their once impenetrable media monopoly.
Postby Speaker to Animals » Mon Jan 16, 2017 5:46 pm
clubgop wrote:
Speaker to Animals wrote:I bet the monuments will downplay the role of the democratic party in suppressing blacks (often violently) with vague weasel words. They definitely won't mention that it was republicans that freed slaves, passed the first civil rights act (which was then repealed by democrats), fought against the lynching in the south, and eventually managed to get the second civil rights act pushed through in the 1960s.
It's really quite bizarre how the democrats have hijacked this issue when they were the villains the whole time. It was in living memory that the democrats tried to stop the current civil rights act from getting passed into law, yet the democrats and their media outlets managed to rewrite the whole thing in peoples' minds.
"But, but, but, they switched. There was a switch. The Southern Strategy." The narrative falsehoods these people believe because of their once impenetrable media monopoly.
Then ask them how the "progressives" are responsible for the New Deal if the sides switched in the 1970s.
Speaker to Animals wrote:I bet the monuments will downplay the role of the democratic party in suppressing blacks (often violently) with vague weasel words. They definitely won't mention that it was republicans that freed slaves, passed the first civil rights act (which was then repealed by democrats), fought against the lynching in the south, and eventually managed to get the second civil rights act pushed through in the 1960s.
It's really quite bizarre how the democrats have hijacked this issue when they were the villains the whole time. It was in living memory that the democrats tried to stop the current civil rights act from getting passed into law, yet the democrats and their media outlets managed to rewrite the whole thing in peoples' minds.
"But, but, but, they switched. There was a switch. The Southern Strategy." The narrative falsehoods these people believe because of their once impenetrable media monopoly.
Then ask them how the "progressives" are responsible for the New Deal if the sides switched in the 1970s.
Or the 60's. But that is a good one. Had this thrown at me.
Showing me the electoral map of 1880 anf then one of 2012 "looked see they switched." My response throw the map of 1984 let them deal with that.