The Party of Slavery and Racism

No, not them, silly. It's the Democrat Party. I know your socialist professors didn't tell you about this, so here's some remedial edumuhcation for you. Proof? Here's an excerpt from a great column by Bruce Bartlett. Can you handle the truth? After the war, the Democratic Party held a lock on the South for more than 100 years. All of the "Jim Crow" laws that prevented blacks from voting and kept them down were enacted by Democratic governors and Democratic legislatures. The Ku Klux Klan was virtually an auxiliary arm of the Democratic Party, and any black (or white) who threatened the party's domination was liable to be beaten or lynched. Democrats enacted the first gun-control laws in order to prevent blacks from defending themselves against Ku Klux Klan violence. Chain gangs were developed by Democrats to bring back de facto slave labor. FULL AMAZING COLUMN...