The Inconvenient Truth About the Democratic Party | 5 Minute Video
Did you know that the Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, founded the KKK, and fought against every major civil rights act in U.S. history? Watch as Carol Swain, professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, shares the inconvenient history of the Democratic Party.
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When you think about racial equality and civil rights, which political party comes to mind? The Republicans? Or, the Democrats?
Most people would probably say the Democrats. But this answer is incorrect.
Since its founding in 1829, 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 acts of the 1950s and 1960s.
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 1857 case Dred Scott v. Sandford, the court ruled that slaves aren’t citizens; they’re property. The seven justices who voted in favor of slavery? All Democrats. The two 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 first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln – the man who freed the slaves.
Six days after the Confederate army surrendered, John Wilkes Booth, a Democrat, assassinated 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 blacks 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. Hundreds of black men were elected to southern state legislatures as Republicans, and 22 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 with measures like black codes – laws that restricted the ability of blacks to own property and run businesses. And they imposed poll taxes and literacy tests, used to subvert the black citizen’s right to vote.
And how was all of this enforced? By terror — much of it instigated by the Ku Klux Klan, founded by a Democrat, Nathan Bedford Forrest.
As historian Eric Foner – himself a Democrat – notes:
“In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party.”
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The truth 😊
I hope for the sake of freedom and the Country EVERYONE OF COLOR WILL VOTE REPUBLICAN , The Demoncrats must be voted out of existence , there is no place for Their Repression in this Land of freedom . Presently The Demoncrats are trying to enslave the entire population with Marxist Communist ideologies , the same way they did it to the black Democrat controlled city's with poverty. With poverty , theft goes up , fighting amongst our selves , drugs , gang's, robbery, crimes , its all designed to be a bottomless pit which One can not escape , this makes the entire city a type of prison holding captive everyone in it , it all comes from poverty . YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THE PLAY BOOK TO OVERCOME THE DEFEAT, IF THEY CAN KEEP YOUR MIND ENSLAVED AND YOUR HEART BROKEN 💔 THEY'VE ALREADY WON WITHOUT YOUR ABILITY TO FIGHT BACK. THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE ! YOU WILL BE FREE INDEED ❤
PragerU is right-wing propaganda. Nothing more, nothing less. The Republican party wants oily to talk about the Democratic party's shameful past. Thats to keep attention away from the Republican party's shameful PRESENT.
The democrats should pay reparations every registered democrat should pay reparations for slavery since the democrats were the party of slavery
Vote Republican… 🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️
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Shouldn’t your organization more accurately be called the liars club
If this trash were taught in a first grade class the teacher would be fired. Democrat Truman desegregated our armed forces democrat obj passed civil,and voting rights acts which were opposed by Goldwater and Reagan but not by Nixon. Democrats nominated kamala and Obama. Republicans have never nominated any person of color for president and BP they did nominate trump whose company was sued by Nixon administration for violating housing rights act and who calls African countries shithole countries and praises violent confederate flag carrying rioters. Stop the gaslighting
Only people who are completgely historically illiterate would fall for this psy op. As everyone even minimally familiar with the twentieth century knows after World War Two the conflict within the party between old entrenched southern racists started when Truman desegregated the armed forces causing the most racist democrats to support Stromboli’s Thurmond’s breakaway Dixiecrats Truman won that election anyway. Then after Kennedy’s death Lyndon Johnson in alliance with milk passed the civil rights act and voting rights acts ending apartheid in America and making us a true democracy for the first time obj predicted this would hand the south over to the Republicans and it did Thurmond became a republican Goldwater the republican presidential nominee came out against the civil rights act as did Reagan. And ultimately the democrats nominated blacks twice for
She is right and President LB Johnson who passed the War on Proverty in the 1960's and started rewarding single black women for having more children with welfare funding and benefits, falsely assuming money would solve the problem of past neglect by Dem. Party. Johnson told other Dems in House the black vote would always be theirs now. This ACT destroyed the family unit and removed the value of children needing both a mother and father. The fathers slowly disappeared in the home and the men became addicted to alcohol, illegal drugs, and criminal behavior ! This Act was changed in latter years but the damage had been done !! 😢 I was a school teacher in elementary school of 90% black students and the only adult who cared about the child were the grandparents from my experience😢 in 70's !
There was a party switch so this is basically slandering the Republican Party
FACTS!
Carol Swain is talking about past centuries. IT'S 2024. PSwain, PragerU and MAGA Republicans avoid this truth… TODAY, white supremacists, white nationalists and other anti-black racists are loyal REPUBLICANS and not Democrats.
PragerU is NOT an educational source. PragerU is a right-wing propaganda channel. They don't exist to provide objective truth. They exist to deceive the unknowing. Indoctrination is their goal. If you believe otherwise, you're already a victim.
Dems are indeed the worst racists.
Carol Swain is a Proverbs 31 Woman ! A Queen! She would be a better President than Kamala ! Carol Swain is Intelligent! Kamala is lacking . A Demimondeine Democrat Grifter with Graft and Power issues !
Democrats are carpet baggers the south sent north to get even. Just look at every place run by democrats.
If you vote Democrat, you basically vote for slavery. People need to know the Truth. Democrats still enslave black minds.
Omg so roots was a lie damn
Wow never learned this in school they lied
Neither party care about us. We are the only ones who don't know it
This is the information, that should be disclosed to the adults that immigrate to the US.
I came as a teen, so I learned most of this but the dems make themselves sound benevolent and accepting of all…pshaw!
Thanks
Nothing is true about the democrat party!
So that is why Biden said IF YOU DON'T VOTE FOR ME THEN YOU AIN'T BLACK.
The democrats do not give a rats 🐀 A$$ about any black peoples !!!
HEY BLACK FOLKS :
Pay attention to what she is saying !!! THE DEMOCRATS ARE THE PARTY THAT PUT YOU IN CHAINS ⛓️
And the democrats would love to have you back in chains ⛓️💥 and make you slaves again
WAKE UP PEOPLE !!!
Do your research 🧐
VOTE 🗳️ REPUBLICAN
And yet …people still wanna vote for kamala…lol…halourius
There's a reason hardly any Republicans reply to my comments on this PragerU right-wing propaganda video. Because they don't want to admit that TODAY in 2024, anti-black racists are among the most loyal and dependable REPUBLICANS there are.
Add to that list:
– Marxism, Socialism, Communism supporters.
– Introduced slavery into the United States as confederates assisted by the British on board the 1st cargo ship named the "White Lion."
– Started the Klu Klux Klan (Not todays wannabe 'KKKK' "Knights of the Klu Klux Klan," but the real original KKK)
– Assassinated our first Republican President Abraham Lincoln
I mean what more do we need to see? These people are the Antifa, the people supporting Hamas and Hezbollah, the weatherman that bombed the capital twice and have the audacity to call conservative Americans insurrectionist, murder burn and loot during the 'Summer of Love.'
They are the people that are in favor of men in womans bathrooms, the reason litter boxes are in school bathrooms and tampons in boy's bathrooms.
They are the people that want to keep the border open so that illegals can brutally rape, murder and sex traffic woman and children in the United States not to mention the drugs like fentanyl.
There is so much more! The Demon party are malevolent vile-evil sick anti God, anti-American, anti-Constitutional, USA flag burning, flag kneeling deplorable radical extremist freaks.
Anyone that supports late term abortion – even post labor termination is truly an evil person. Same people supporting hormone blockers, graphic sex books in children's schools, sex changes at very early ages.
I mean, there is no end to how vile and radical these people get! What's the next letter they want to add to their alphabet list? Pedo-sexual?
It's 2024. Not 1864. Not 1924. Not 1954. It's 2024.
PragerU and Republicans NEVER want to talk about TODAY. White supremacists, white nationalists and other anti-black racists are proud and loyal Republicans and not Democrats.