In February of 1866 the
Senate enlarged the powers of the Freedmen's Bureau. “Naturally
lazy, the Southern negro would at once avail himself of this offer of
Government care and support,” snarled the Democrat’s paper in Franklin County,
Virginia1. “to maintain an army of greedy office-holders,
and a million or more of lazy negroes in idleness”2
Shall we discuss what party
these sentiments represent today? Truth is being railroaded by
people that believe any crap that will align with their views. Feeling
a bit guilty that your party represents racism, hate, oppression? Just look back
in history and try to co-op a fabricated connection to a party name and
wah…lah…you are now the party of Republican Lincoln and can claim how much your
party did to fight slavery and injustice. History be damned!
I dare you to read the
quotes above and claim you are the party of Lincoln. What am I
saying? You already have your fingers in your ears…la,la,la,la,la….
1The Thin Light of Freedom, p.383. The
Freedmen’s Bureau was established by the Lincoln administration prior to the
end of the Civil War to assist the transition of the oppressed former slaves to
a better footing. Of course, the conservative (former DEMOCRAT)
party which splintered and later became the Republican party of George
Wallace, Nixon, Reagan, etc. resisted this at great lengths. I
would argue they have mastered a way to continue with the same quote above to
continue this legacy.
2Ibid.
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