Chuck Woolery: Show me anywhere in History that Republicans did any nasty thing to Black People

[Miles Archer]

Link to tweet

[longship]

1. Chuck you, Woolery!

That's my rhetoric!

[JDC]

29. funny

[winstars]

2. The "Party of Lincoln" fallback position again. Sorry pal, that party is long gone!!!

These guys are funny.

[MFM008]

3. WTF???

Its still happening today you clown.

[Aristus]

4. Well, Chuck. One could start with Ronald Reagan announcing his candidacy in Philadelphia,

Mississippi.

It basically put the Republican seal of approval on the murders of three civil rights workers there in 1964. It was Ronald Reagan saying to white people: "I'll be President for you. Not for them."

[1965Comet]

5. According to the internet

Ulysses S. Grant (Republican President) owned a slave (prior to the Civil War, of course). Does that count as a "nasty thing"?


https://www.quora.com/In-American-history-has-any-Republican-ever-owned-a-slave

[Bucky]

21. Grant's record on slavery was pretty good

What with all the killing of pro-slavery traitors he did. I don't expect perfection. I'll settle for "improved over time". Something the Republicans clearly haven't done.

[Maru Kitteh]

34. But the quote is "any nasty thing"

I'd say owning a slave qualifies.

[grantcart]

38. Pretty disingenious framing

Grant received a slave from his father in law and gave him freedom.

At the time Grant was impoverished and eventually ended up selling firewood on the street.

As President Grant moved against the KKK

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/oldspeak/the_president_who_destroyed_the_klan_ulysses_s_grant_an_unappreciated_and_u

While President, Ulysses S. Grant destroyed the terrorizing Ku Klux Klan to protect the lives of the freed former slaves. But with the intensely disputed presidential election of 1876 to succeed him in office came the “Compromise of 1877," which gave the White House to the Republican candidate in exchange for the removal of Grant’s federal soldiers from the South and the return of complete control of the region to the racist Southern Democrats. This end of the Reconstruction period enabled the Klan eventually to rise again and to terrorize and murder Blacks until President Lyndon Johnson used the FBI to destroy the Klan a second time, almost 100 years later.

To stop Southern Klan terrorism, President Grant engineered the passage of the Ku Klux Klan Act in 1871, which in professor Brand’s words “remobilized the engines of the Civil War to deal with the Klan and the violence it practiced.” Against strong political opposition, Grant then used his new powers to the fullest to protect the freed slaves, as is described above. Using the words of the author, perhaps this is the epitaph which should have appeared on Grant’s Tomb – “Grant’s campaign put the fear of federal power into the Klan and shattered its sense of impunity. Not for decades would the nightriders exercise such influence again.” To his everlasting honor, President Grant stood for the absolute protection of the freed Black race in the face of Southern Democratic political, social and cultural tyranny.

Grant also made significant moves to protect Native Americans. The most egregious corruption at the time was with Indian Agents. Grant only appointed Quakers to the position as they were deeply committed to supporting Native Americans

http://millercenter.org/president/biography/grant-domestic-affairs

In his first inaugural address, Grant pledged to rethink the treatment of Native Americans, referring to them as "the original occupants of this land." He wanted to shift federal Indian policy toward what became known as the Peace Policy. This approach attempted to move Indians closer to white civilization (and ultimately U.S. citizenship) by housing them on reservations and helping them become farmers. Grant appointed a former military aide and Seneca Indian, Brigadier General Ely S. Parker, as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Parker was the first nonwhite appointment to a major federal position. To address corruption in federal Indian affairs, Grant also created a new Board of Indian Commissioners headed by philanthropic leaders.

[Bucky]

40. Facts are back in style

Wear 'em out while they last

[1965Comet]

44. "Grant received a slave from his father in law and gave him freedom. "

But we don't know how much time elapsed between his receipt of the slave and the freeing of that slave. Grant lived with his FIL for a few years before freeing the slave.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. First thing that comes to mind.

Emmet Till.

[Bucky]

22. That was done by Republicans?

Sorry, but there's no evidence that Milam and Bryant were Republicans.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/sfeature/sf_look_confession.html

[gratuitous]

7. Dear Chuck: See North Carolina

You should get out more.

[LonePirate]

8. Every voter ID bill in this country.

[Sherman A1]

10. Precisely

Well Said!

[Bucky]

23. Thank you

[uponit7771]

39. Amen

[frazzled]

9. Is there some kind of eerie correlation between

washed up d-list celebrities and the Republican Party? Is it something about seeing Reagan and Trump in themselves?

[3catwoman3]

11. D-list is much too generous.

D-list wannabe is probably even too kind.

I've recently seen Bob Eubanks, of the puerile Newlywed Game, shilling for something on TV. Can't remember what. He always seemed like a mental lightweight.

[bigbrother05]

12. There was that thing about Strom Thurman and let's not forget Jesse Helms

Just to start with the Dixiecrat transitions

[Botany]

13. Ever hear of the Sothern Strategy, Chuck?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

In American politics, southern strategy refers to methods the Republican Party
used to gain political support in the South by appealing to the racism against
African Americans harbored by many southern white voters.

[subterranean]

14. What's with the random capitalization in his tweet?

Obviously the product of an unstable person.

[mrgorth]

15. Chuck Woolery?

[pansypoo53219]

16. white privilege snowflake.

blinded by the white.

[ghostsinthemachine]

17. Dear Chuckles. Let's begin right here, not many years ago

When the CIA, under the auspices of George Bush SR, Oliver North etc illegally traded guns for cocaine in the war in Nicuragua. The same CIA then developed a way to unload all that cocaine on black people in the inner cities, by creating crack. A product that could be sold in small quantities. Before that, you needed a substantial amount of money to do cocaine. Now five dollars could buy a bit.

Then, at the height and hysteria of the crack epidemic, the very same George HW Bush went on live television, in an address to the nation, held up a bag of crack, that was illegally purchased minutes before, in front of the white house and told America that the penalties for crack should be far more serious than regular cocaine. Thus the "mandatory minimum" laws were enacted. And that created a situation that penalized black people far more seriously than white people for the same thing. A situation that took males out of the families. Out of the work force. Put families on welfare. Probation, recidivism.

John Earlichman said that he invented the war on drugs to keep blacks and hippies down. Report: Aide says Nixon's war on drugs targeted blacks, hippies
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/

[Hoyt]

18. White wing racists damn sure did. Today, that is the base of the GOP.

[RockaFowler]

19. His whole timeline is one big Conspiracy Theory

And his sycophants lap it up!

[Bucky]

20. 1876: cut a deal with racists to end Reconstruction knowing it mean disenfranchisement

I mean, if you want to talk about how awesome Republicans were on Civil Rights in the 19th century, let's remember that fad lasted about 15 years.

[Vinca]

24. I thought Chuck Woolery was dead.

[coco22]

25. YOU LIE!!!

how's is that MFKER!

[onenote]

26. The myth of Democratic opposition to Civil Rights legislation

Because the political divide in this country was regional as much as, or more than, party-driven, it is possible to show that Republicans were more supportive of Civil Rights legislation than Democrats. Here is a telling set of numbers from 1964:

1964 Civil Rights Act Aye Votes

Dem/Union GOP/Union Dem/Confed GOP/Confed
House: 144/152 (95%) 137/161 (85%) 8/91 (9%) 0/11 (0%)
Senate 45/46 (98%) 27/32 (84%) 1/21 (5%) 0/1 (0%)

Given that those formerly Democratic districts in the old Confederacy are now Republican districts (and given that in the 1960s and 1970s nearly four dozen elected officials from old Confederate states switched to the Republican party from the Democratic party), its pretty clear where the racists are today.

[bhikkhu]

27. Republican Justice Joseph P Bradley

After the Colfax Massacre (1872) he overturned the verdicts against the killers and handed the Klan and their ilk the tacit approval of the racist state militias, which began a reign of fear in the south.

[kysrsoze]

28. Wow, he's as big a dick as Sajak. Cut from the same vile cloth

[Bengus81]

30. Tulsa race riot in 1921. Reagans "welfare queen"....

Not saying that everyone participating in that horrible riot in Tulsa was a Republican,but I HIGHLY doubt they were all Democrats either Chucky.

Reagan and his welfare queen story which was definite linkage that if your on welfare you gotta be black.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot

Someone needs to tell an IDIOT like Woolery that WORDS can do damage also.

[meadowlander]

41. Willie Horton dog whistling.

[still_one]

31. Gee, I guess the way President Obama was treated and called every name in the

book, by the republicans doesn't count.

I guess the republican strategy to gain political support in the South by appealing to the racism against African Americans harbored by many southern white voters doesn't count. Hint, that's Nixon's southern strategy, and it is alive and well

The Reagan "welfare queen" lie, along with racially coded appeals to racists to attract their support, nothing to see there.

While historically both parties have racist baggage to hang around their necks, it was the Democrats starting with Kennedy that actively changed that dynamic by embracing civil rights as a major foundation of its platform.

After the Civil Rights Act was passed, it was the republican party that assumed the "Dixiecrat" role, and the republican party's choice for president in 2016, a racist, sexist, and xenophobe, is what they are today as evidenced by the white supremacists that are a part of that administration with people like Bannon and Session. Is it any wonder that the KKK, and all the other white supremacist groups support them?

[raccoon]

32. How 'bout the way little shit Joe Wilson called President Obama a liar during the

State of the Union speech?

[Jamaal510]

33. "Citizen Chris"

won that thread.
Funny how Chuck has yet to respond to any of his points.

[doc03]

35. You are a washed up game show host STFU and stick with

advertising shit to rip off old people.

[Demsrule86]

36. Voter supression.

[Jamaal510]

37. I don't do Twitter,

but if I did, I would've asked him in response something like: "Show me anywhere in history that Democrats did any nasty thing to White people that makes most of them vote Republican."

[meadowlander]

42. Ignoring AIDS in Africa.

Defunding contraception in Africa.
Ignoring the Rwandan genocide but intervening in Bosnia.
Assassinating Patrice Lumumba.
Reagan supporting apartheid.

[Blue_Roses]

43. Seriously Chuck?

Are you going senile? Because our history is chock full of horrible things they endured. There are even pictures...

Good grief. The stupid runs thick these days.