The True Champions of Civil Rights

No, Virginia, the Democrats are not the champions of the Civil Rights Movement. Credit should be given where it is due. President Lyndon Johnson certainly deserves credit. Martin Luther King obviously deserves credit. But not the Democrat Party. Rather, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 could not have passed had it not been for the Republicans in Congress at the time. We should not forget, either that "It was a Republican federal judge who desegregated many public facilities in the South. Appointed by President Eisenhower in 1955, Frank Johnson had overturned Montgomery, Alabama's infamous "blacks in the back of the bus" law in his very first decision. During the 1960s, Judge Johnson continued to advance civil rights despite opposition from George Wallace, Lester Maddox, and other Democrat Governors." Let me point out that Eisenhower challenged institutionalized racism long before President Lyndon Johnson did. It is all too convenient for Democrats to forget the Civil Rights Act of 1960 - the one that came four years before the next one. The 1960 Civil Rights Act was born towards the end of 1958. Following the 1957 Civil Rights Act, Eisenhower introduced another civil rights bill in late 1958, which was his reaction to a violent outbreak of bombings against churches and schools in the South. Though Eisenhower is not automatically linked to the civil rights issue, his contribution, including the 1957 Act, is important as it pushed the whole civil rights issue into the White House. (Read more...) Additionally, "By demonizing Republicans and conservatives the left can continue to impose the big lie, which will be accepted as gospel by minorities, whom Democrats believe 'owe' them." (More...) And lest we forget, it was the Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves. Nothing that happened after Lincoln could have been possible had the Democrats been allowed to appease the South and let them break away from the United States. Had that happened, the Confederate States of America might still be an apartheid-like Hell on Earth. RELATED: National Black Republican Association - DYK-Why MLK was a Republican