The gavel has come down to close the Republican National Convention. I DVR’d the prime time speeches and have seen most of them. How anyone could listen objectively and not be uplifted and inspired, I don’t know. But apparently the loony left has been able to criticize.
I don’t pay much attention to what we laughingly call the “Mainstream Media” anymore, but I’ve heard just a few extreme examples of the reported “racism” at the convention. Of course the most blatant examples of the racism charge were probably on MSNBC so no one heard them. Apparently it’s now racist to refer to Chicago, golf and to hold a convention during hurricane season.
Anyway, the MSM intimated that the GOP only had one black or Hispanic speaker after another to pander to those voting groups, as if the speakers were ringers and not ACTUAL Republican politicians. Former Democrats Artur Davis and New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez were especially effective I thought.
Yes, there were many more white faces than other ethnic groups at the convention, but that’s not because the Republicans don’t want other ethnic groups to participate, but because the Democrats have perpetrated a fictitious story line that they are the party that works for minorities.
Some of what follows I have written about before, but it bears repeating to counter the fiction about Republicans being racists.
The party that grew out of the movement to abolish slavery: Republican.
The party that started the Civil War rather than end slavery: Democrat.
The president that issued the Emancipation Proclamation to free the slaves – Abraham Lincoln: Republican.
The president that tried to start a new country where the institution of slavery could be preserved – Jefferson Davis: Democrat.
The party that gave freed slaves the right to vote in the 15th Amendment to the Constitution: Republican.
The party that instituted Jim Crow laws, poll taxes and literacy tests to obstruct African Americans’ right to vote: Democrat.
The first African American members of Congress: Republican.
The founders and members of the Ku Klux Klan: Democrat.
The members of Congress who voted as a bloc for the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Republican.
The members of Congress who voted against the Civil Right Act of 1964: Democrat.
Oh and one last thing. The party to which Martin Luther King Jr. belonged: Republican.
