Never confuse a Democrat with facts!

Somebody's been running the new American plantation for forty years, but it's not the Republicans. It's Republicans that wanted the emancipation of today's American slaves, starting with the welfare reforms of a few years ago.

From:
California's Back-to-Reality Welfare Reform
by Carolyn Lochhead
City Journal, Spring 1995
http://www.city-journal.org/printable.php?id=555

excerpts:

With red-hot intensity, Eloise Anderson despises the welfare system she heads for California-the state that consumes fully a quarter of the nation's spending on Aid to Families with Dependent Children, the main cash welfare program.

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Right now, nobody feels that they are responsible. It's the government.

[...]

Fathers do not naturally abandon their children; what she has watched is women push men away because the government has become a better provider. "In poor families, what we have said is that you don't have to have the dad at the table. And that I think is a disaster, both for these families and for society."

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Boys, especially in neighborhoods devoid of working men, grow up thinking men have no importance in families. "When a black boy grows up and looks out, he doesn't see around him black males doing anything except hanging out on the street. He goes home, and he looks at his family, and he doesn't see black men doing anything. He goes to school, and he doesn't see black men doing anything. What do you think happens to the psyche of this child?"

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Anderson argues that welfare advocates implicitly degrade those they claim to care about. The unspoken message behind the assertion that welfare recipients can't find jobs when immigrants easily find them, she says, is that recipients cannot compete with everyone else. Such attitudes, she contends, promote ugly racial stereotypes. The same dismissive implication underlies the advocates' nonjudgmental acceptance of out-of-wedlock childbearing. "We should say, 'Hey, aren't you talking about black folks here, and aren't you saying that black folks can't control their sexual behavior? Aren't you saying that black folks aren't capable of supporting their kids?', I mean, I will just take this and just wipe [advocates'] faces in it."

Shhhhh!!!!!!
Melendez is hunting wabbits.
And besides, he is desperate to turn attention away from his and his party's desire to censor the free speech of Americans.

Democrats=Confederates? Not quite that simple, as Daffyd no doubt knows.

The Democrats had been the dominant party since Andrew Jackson's time but they split massively over the question of the expansion of slavery to the new territories in the elction of 1860.

Most southerners voted Democratic but there were still a substantial number of Southern Whigs - so it wasn't universal.

There were Northern Democrats. Ben Butler, the man who saved Lincoln's hash by forcing his way through an angry Baltimore mob to relieve Washington DC was a Democrat. He later became notorious as 'Beast Butler' the governor of occupied New Orleans.

Don,

The beef isn't about individual Democrats. The beef is about the Democrat Party's policies and the effects, intended and unintended, that logically follow if you implement said policies. The Democrat Party following Andy Jackson was, is, and if it doesn't change, will be the Party of Slavery; and I don't give a rip if that's because of the Know-Nothings, Copperheads, or "Progressives".

Thanks for hissing in, . Now you can slither in with a comment, o wise. (sign out)