Recapturing True History

This is the second post exploring how we might recapture the spirit of America and, in this instance, find historic truth. Ratcatcher does not pretend to posting a comprehensive retelling of American history. That has been done by The 1776 Project and the writings of Dr. Victor Davis Hanson. Rather, we intend to focus our very brief historical review on the phenomenon of an entire race of Americans who, in the face of overwhelming history, have chosen to believe a lie.

Black America, even to this day, continues to vote and support in lock step the National Democrat Party. Why is that? What does the historical record teach us about that relationship?

Conservative Black Americans often lament that their fellow Blacks seem content to remain on a virtual plantation. The reference is, of course, to the plantation culture that fostered and kept alive Black slavery for so long. What is the truth in that allegation?

The slave owners of the 18th and 19th Centuries were, uniformly, Democrats. Throughout the South, the Democrat Party maintained an iron-fisted hold on governance and political policy. Slavery continued because the Democrat Party encouraged it. It ended with the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Republican President, Abraham Lincoln and the victory of the Union forces in the Civil War.

Following the Civil War, Reconstruction was pursued by the Republican establishment of the North, but vigorously obstructed by the Democrats in the South. The Ku Klux Klan came into existence and terrorized Black people who attempted to exercise the freedom won with the blood and treasure of the North. Blacks became Republicans and voted conservatively. But the Democrats were unrelenting in their determination to continue the subjugation of Blacks by whatever means.

So-called “Jim Crow” laws were enacted throughout the South restricting the freedom of Blacks to avail themselves of the opportunities open to Whites. There is no evidence that Republicans participated in these outrages. Reading tests and other stringent and unfair “qualifications” were imposed on Black people wishing to vote. These were designed to keep Blacks from participating in normal civic society. These were the tools of the Democrat Party arranged to keep Black people in a form of functional slavery, unable to advance their position in society.

In response to governmental action, the Democrats of the South invented the concept of “separate but equal” schools. Separate but equal other facilities were also imposed – “Whites Only” drinking fountains and restaurants; seating at the back of the bus were but two examples of the continuing campaign of the Democrat Party to assure that Black people understood their place in society and realized that, though freed from slavery, they were not really free and certainly not equal.

“Separate but equal” schooling was a sad joke; one recognized by every honest and forthright person who took the time to examine the issue. But it was the announced and defended policy of the Democrats. Governors faced off against federal officials who were determined to desegregate the schools. The television was filled with images of little girls being escorted through angry mobs into school buildings and fire hoses being used by Democrats to hose down Black protestors marching to highlight the plight of Blacks in the South.

And then the Supreme Court, headed by a Republican Chief Justice, issued its ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education. And eleven years later, Republicans in the U.S. Congress, pushed through the 1965 Civil Rights Act over the strenuous objection of the Democrat Party.

Any fair reading of the history of the 18th, 19th, and most of the 20th Centuries reveals clearly the unrelenting efforts of the Democrats to maintain their hold on slavery and the efforts of the Republicans to end it and provide equal treatment to Blacks. But following the enactment of the 1965 Civil Rights Act came Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and with it, broadly-based welfare, especially to Black families and most especially, to single Black mothers. The laws had the effect, whether intended or not, to encourage Black men either to abandon their wives and children or never marry in the first place, but to continue to propagate, contributing to the explosion of the number of Black children with no father in the home. The consequence was predictable and immediate. Women began having babies out of wedlock in an effort to increase their income—income largely sponsored by the Democrat Party. And presto, Black people found themselves ensnared in a new “soft” slavery, one sponsored and supported by the government and, you guessed it, the Democrat Party. And overnight, a group of people who had been self-sufficient became wards of the federal government. And the price for this? Just make sure you vote Democrat. Jacob’s lunch; their votes, sold for continuing welfare.

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