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On 9 Nov 2004 19:44:24 -0800, matttelles@sprynet.com (Matt Telles)
wrote:

>Resident Samuel <raccoon@forest.net> wrote in message news:<mcr1p0517u75njdfhsqas7comcqed325sh@4ax.com>...
>> On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 06:33:50 GMT, "Lou P. Garrew" <howling@moon.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> >Trailer Pork Resident Schmucky wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 07:40:57 GMT, "Lou P. Garrew" <howling@moon.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> > It ultimately insures a dingwally of a case of inflation,
>> >> > which wipes out people on low or fixed incomes.
>> >> 
>> >> Of course you liberals prefer the specter of deflation, exacerbated by
>> >> pissant trade alliances like nafta and gatt, coupled with NO form of
>> >> livable safe fixed income return...
>> >
>> >Hey, Schmucky, thanks for describing what the Republicans did to the
>> >USA in the Twenties!
>> 
>> Which party was pro-slavery in the 1860s?
>> 
>> Hint _ it wasn't the Republicans...
>
>Well, no, since they really didn't exist

Nope, that's another DAMNED lie; let's revist the past... it was the
DEMOCRAPS who wanted to maintain slavery!

http://tempknak.home.att.net/Reparations.html

In the 1860's, a Republican president, Abe Lincoln, and a Republican
Congress led the U. S. in a painful civil war which overturned the
Dred Scott decision and freed the slaves.  Abe Lincoln was
assassinated for his trouble.  But the Republican Congress continued
the good fight.

It framed and recommended to the states three constitutional
amendments to end slavery, extend the rights of citizenship to the
freed Negro slaves, and guarantee their voting rights.  Mainly
Republican legislatures in the constitutionally required number of
states ratified the three Amendments [3]. 

Then the Republican Congress passed seven Enforcement Acts as the
Amendments had expressly authorized and promised.  For obvious
reasons, Congress did not trust Southern state courts to enforce the
rights of African Americans.  So the Enforcement Acts shifted a lot of
unpleasant responsibilities from state courts to federal courts. 

Federal judges didn't want any part of that: they thought that this
kind of jurisprudence was beneath their dignity.  So the U. S. Supreme
Court found various pretexts to nullify most of the enforcement
legislation.  As a result, African American civil rights remained only
a dream.  Then, in the 1890's, the Democrats, the party of slavery,
finally gained control of the presidency and both houses of Congress.
They promptly repealed what little of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendment Enforcement Acts the Supreme Court had not already gutted.
The dream then disappeared entirely [4]. 

Democrats continued to trample Negro civil rights for another 70
years.  In the twenty-six major civil rights votes between 1933 and
1964, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over
80 percent of the votes.  By contrast, the Republican majority favored
civil rights in over 96 percent of the votes.  The landmark Civil
Rights Bill of 1964 was passed with overwhelming Republican support
despite the obstruction of Democrats.