“I didn’t see him hold a rally. I didn’t see him stand up at the picket line, and I sure as hell didn’t hear him comment about it,” Shawn Fain said about the former president’s actions during the 2019 General Motors strike.
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Cope, libs, cope….well…more like Marxists now….
THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
CAROL SWAIN
When you think about racial equality and civil rights, which political party comes to mind? The Republicans? Or, the Democrats? Most people would probably say the Democrats. But this answer is incorrect.
Since its founding in 1829, the Democratic Party has fought against every major civil rights initiative, and has a long history of discrimination.
The Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, opposed Reconstruction, founded the Ku Klux Klan, imposed segregation, perpetrated lynchings, and fought against the civil rights acts of the 1950s and 1960s.
In contrast, the Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an anti-slavery party. Its mission was to stop the spread of slavery into the new western territories with the aim of abolishing it entirely. This effort, however, was dealt a major blow by the Supreme Court. In the 1857 case Dred Scott v. Sandford, the court ruled that slaves aren’t citizens; they’re property. The seven justices who voted in favor of slavery? All Democrats. The two justices who dissented? Both Republicans.
The slavery question was, of course, ultimately resolved by a bloody civil war. The commander- in-chief during that war was the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln – the man who freed the slaves.
Six days after the Confederate army surrendered, John Wilkes Booth, a Democrat, assassinated President Lincoln. Lincoln’s vice president, a Democrat named Andrew Johnson, assumed the presidency. But Johnson adamantly opposed Lincoln’s plan to integrate the newly freed slaves into the South’s economic and social order.
Johnson and the Democratic Party were unified in their opposition to the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery; the 14th Amendment, which gave blacks citizenship; and the 15th Amendment, which gave blacks the vote. All three passed only because of universal Republican support.
During the era of Reconstruction, federal troops stationed in the south helped secure rights for the newly freed slaves. Hundreds of black men were elected to southern state legislatures as Republicans, and 22 black Republicans served in the US Congress by 1900. The Democrats did not elect a black man to Congress until 1935.
But after Reconstruction ended, when the federal troops went home, Democrats roared back
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into power in the South. They quickly reestablished white supremacy across the region with measures like black codes – laws that restricted the ability of blacks to own property and run businesses. And they imposed poll taxes and literacy tests, used to subvert the black citizen’s right to vote.
And how was all of this enforced? By terror — much of it instigated by the Ku Klux Klan, founded by a Democrat, Nathan Bedford Forrest.
As historian Eric Foner – himself a Democrat – notes:
“In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party.”
President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, shared many views with the Klan. He re-segregated many federal agencies, and even screened the first movie ever played at the White House – the racist film “The Birth of a Nation,” originally entitled “The Clansman.”
A few decades later, the only serious congressional opposition to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 came from Democrats.
Eighty percent of Republicans in Congress supported the bill. Less than 70 percent of Democrats did. Democratic senators filibustered the bill for 75 days, until Republicans mustered the few extra votes needed to break the logjam.
And when all of their efforts to enslave blacks, keep them enslaved, and then keep them from voting had failed, the Democrats came up with a new strategy: If black people are going to vote, they might as well vote for Democrats. As President Lyndon Johnson was purported to have said about the Civil Rights Act, “I’ll have them n*****s voting Democrat for two hundred years.”
So now, the Democratic Party prospers on the votes of the very people it has spent much of its history oppressing.
Democrats falsely claim that the Republican Party is the villain, when in reality it’s the failed policies of the Democratic Party that have kept blacks down. Massive government welfare has decimated the black family. Opposition to school choice has kept them trapped in failing schools. Politically correct policing has left black neighborhoods defenseless against violent crime.
So, when you think about racial equality and civil rights, which political party should come to mind?
I’m Carol Swain, professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University, for Prager University.
Trump has never supported Labor Unions… and he most certainly has never supported striking workers. He only did this for a photo-op.
Trump lost Michigan by 100,000 votes last election. He has no shot of winning Michigan in 2024 unless voter turnout is historically low.
TRUMP IS LIKE J.R.EWING BUT LESS HONEST ….
Shawn fein needs to sit down! Watch when they outsource these jobs,32 hour work week gonna become 0 work week and quit walking in front of traffic you m*r*ns!!
Trump is a fraud and a coward
I was cpinting on the UAW to remember
Those exact facts
Mr Trump , please rember what You' have and have not done, it is tough I know.
Unions you voted for this economy and corruption
Great comments from UAW President trump never on our side as a worker not then for sure will never do protect the workers 🎉👍👍👍
Bought and paid for DNC bootlicker
The supreme court judge will make the final decision of trump becoming president!
Trump 2024..
I want the entire economy to crash cause I want 68 dollars an hour to put a sticker on an airbag
Lol, their support for Biden is sooooo dumb. Biden couldn't even speak for more than a minute…he's nearly dead and all he's helped out is the Taliban, Iran, Ukraine, Illegals, China..
Trump 2024! Anyway, use your brains. Don't let Operation Mockingbird continue washing them.
The United Auto Workers endorsed Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton over U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders for president. May 26 2016
I hear people complaining about trump but just tell me how much farther does your pay check go? I don't care about his personality, he had the USA in a better place then we have been since Bidden took over. Or his handlers whatever you believe.
Kiss most of the auto jobs goodbye if you vote Biden
Joe Biden wants to put the UAW out on the streets with his electric cars that take fewer people to build, and the reason wages have been raised is because of the inflation that he caused. Lol, don’t believe anything that fraud says
I moved out of Michigan in 2014 because of out-sourcing. I lived it. I was planning on moving back in 2020 but covid stunted it and then JB tanked the economy so I still live in a state I feel foreign in just to have finances to support what I love.
Think about that my non-Michigan fellow Americans: I had to leave a known manufacturing hub to another state to have a manufacturing job. 🤔🫡
Trump lies wherever he goes.
Strange.. Biden's whole political career has been about exporting jobs to other nations and getting payoffs, he has supported and voted nafta, WTO pacts, etc..,,, UAW prez is a dummie
It matters not democrats or republicans the corporations run the country
Trump is the problem as he is one of the corperate 1% rich people they dont want anything to do with
Funny I work at Warren truck plant building Ram trucks and all the guys and gals I work with support Trump !00%. don't listen to these fools that say other wise, UAW strong for TRUMP 2024