The Inconvenient Truth About the Republican Party | 5 Minute Video
When you think of the Republican Party, what comes to mind? If you’re like many Americans, you may associate the GOP with racism, sexism, and general inequality. It’s a commonly pushed narrative by left-leaning media and academia, but as former Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science Carol Swain explains, the Republican Party was actually responsible for nearly every advancement for minorities and women in U.S. history—and remains the champion of equality to this day.
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Script:
Racist. Sexist. Republican.
These words are virtually interchangeable—at least, according to most professors, journalists, and celebrities. So, are they right? Let’s take a look at history.
The Republican Party was created in 1854. The first Republican Party platform, adopted at the party’s first national convention in 1856, promised to defeat, quote, “those twin relics of barbarism: polygamy and slavery.”
Those “twin relics” were spreading into the western territories. Republicans feared that as those territories became states, polygamy and slavery might become permanent parts of American life. Polygamy—the marriage of one man to multiple women—devalued women and made them a kind of property. Slavery, of course, did the same to blacks. Literally.
The Democrats were so opposed to the Republicans and their anti-slavery stance that in 1860, just six weeks after the election of the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, South Carolina, a state dominated by Democrats, voted to secede from the union. The Civil War that followed was the bloodiest war in US history. It led to the passage, by Republicans, of the 13th Amendment, which freed the slaves; the 14th Amendment, which gave them citizenship; and the 15th Amendment; which gave them the vote.
In 1870, the first black senator and the first black congressman were sworn in—both Republicans. In fact, every black representative in the House until 1935 was a Republican. And every black senator until 1979 was, too. For that matter, the first female member of Congress was a Republican; the first Hispanic governor and senator were Republicans. The first Asian senator? You get the idea.
Republicans also kept their pledge to defend women’s rights. In 1862, the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act was passed by the Republican-controlled Congress to put an end to polygamy.
In 1920, after 52 years of Democratic Party opposition, the 19th Amendment was ratified thanks to the Republican Congress, which pressured Democratic President Woodrow Wilson to drop his opposition to women’s rights. In the final tally, only 59 percent of House Democrats and 41 percent of Senate Democrats supported women’s suffrage. That’s compared to 91 percent of House Republicans and 82 percent of Senate Republicans. There certainly was a “war on women”—and it was led by the Democratic Party.
But while Republicans had won a major battle for women’s rights, the fight for blacks’ civil rights had a long way to go. In the 1920s, Republican President Calvin Coolidge declared that the rights of blacks are “just as sacred as those of any other citizen.”
By contrast, when famed sprinter Jesse Owens, a staunch Republican, won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he was snubbed by Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt only invited white Olympians to the White House.
Two decades later, it was a Republican President, Dwight Eisenhower, who sent the 101st Airborne Division to escort black students into Little Rock’s Central High when Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus—a Democrat—refused to honor a court order to integrate the state’s public schools.
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If There was No Republican Party, Blacks Might Sill Be SLAVES ! Tell a Deemonrat and Watch Them go Crazy !
Is there a good book about this?
Can we get this topic updated? Like a 2024 edition?
Harvard's ex-president, Claudine Gay, plagiarized from Carol M. Swain, the lady in this video.
If you want to piss off a democrat, tell them the truth! If you want to piss off a Republican, lie to them!
"I dont want my kids going to a school thats a racial jungle!" ~Joe Biden
You know I really enjoy reading these comments because it gives me hope that yes maybe we can pull through and get it together
History showed Democrats are evil then and still evil today.
I love Carol Swain. Her presentations are so educational and clarifying. I wish her the very best of luck and happiness.
GOD Bless this very intelligent woman
Except Democrats were conservative during the Civil War era. Nice try. Conservatives were always on the wrong side of social history and movements.
Democrats dont want this known!
Truth.
I love Carol Swain, I wish she was my relative. I could then call her up from time to time and talk to her. Carol you are the very top drawer. Thank you for all you do. Russ
As a Mexican American this video makes me go
"We're so back America"
I'm sorry, but I hope you do know that with president FDR the roles of the democrats and republicans switched, which is the reason why they are the way they are nowadays. So just because they used to be great doesn't mean they still are. So, nowadays they truly are racist and sexist and they're basically just puppets of the NRA, which is literally the reason why your kids can't go to school safely unlike here in Europe. So either get the parasites out of the Republican party or don't vote for them.
History repeats itself weirdly. Here in England today the left is working hard to stop free speech (they call it “hate speech” and that’s now a criminal offence). If you believe in God, love God and Jesus (as I do) then you are “far right” and the “far right” are to be hated (but that’s ok for the left because that’s not a hate crime, it’s called “a law for thee, but not for me”). If you support Isreal then you are a terrorist lover, but if you support Palestine then you are a freedom lover (despite Hamas being a proscribed terror organisation). If you silently prey in a designated control area (outside an abortion clinic) then you get arrested, but if you are islamist and scream through the streets calling for the deaths of all Jews, well…you are apparently a hero. The left always turns the world on its head to suit them. I am so unsurprised that, despite the democrats history, they have brainwashed their supporters into believing otherwise, exactly what is happening over here. God Bless cousins.
Mrs carol swain, i thank you for these videoes, you do an exellent job of telling truths in history! Had to go to work at 16 so no colledge for me!, i am tho ( i hope) a well rounded reader! I can think for myself & make up my own mind, some of these things i already know, but alot i didnt! They may be 5yr old videos ,but im never to old to learn! Thank you from a white rural deplorable!😅, please keep em coming!😊🇺🇲❤️🇺🇲
This is great! She always does a great job. This includes so many facts and truths that have been "buried" by the dems.
Hear is the truth about the democratic party they are responsible for the kkk they authored the Jim Crowe laws opposed the civil rights law
What party are anto woman groups and the KKK voting for today?
What is the "southern strategy"?
Why is my very racist father, who regularly talks about "imagine how great America could be right now, if blacks knew their place", a republican?
Good video
Well documented at the National archives in DC.
Our framers wrote our nation's bylaws the way they wrote them with purpose. They knew full well the dysfunction multiple parties would bring…..
And here's where it has lead.
I love this video. The truth is like a deep breath of fresh air and it never gets old.
Thank you.
Thank You for saying this
I am born to a family who votes for the Republican Party. I will always vote Republican. The Republicans were created to abolish slavery altogether and protect former black slaves from harassment and terror.
But honestly there's something else they don't teach are kids in school or nobody mentions during the Civil War if people would do their history they will find there was a million white slaves during the Civil War nobody talks about but yet we still got the Democrat Party Support and slavery right now we got to put a stop to this somehow it's wrong
I remember George Wallace a governor in Alabama a Democrat literally stood in front of the school house doors and would not allow black kids to enter the school
There is a video called the inconvenient truth of the Republican Party. Please go to the library and do your research. Your ancestors know and trust me they want you to know and see the truth.
Vote American. dems don't.