The Wolves In Sheep's Clothing

This is the last word I care to say on the subject of race relations for quite some time. It is the habit of the Democratic Party in this country to claim the moral high ground on the subject of racial equality.

The logic goes something like this: "Those on the right (anyone who opposes Democrats) want to remove the social spending programs we put in place to "help" minorities, therefore they wish to "harm" minorities. Those racists."

That fallacious logic and the horrific track record of social spending programs aside, can Democrats legitimately claim a history of helping racial minorities?

As Frances Rice, chairman of the National Black Republican Association (NBRA) at the time wrote in this article, Dr. Martin Luther Kings Jr. counted himself among the ranks of Republicans with good reason.

The Democratic Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.

You see it was the Democrats in congress fighting to keep blacks in slavery, while the Republican Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Democrats longing for the old south started the Ku Klux Klan to punish black for the events of the Civil War. It was a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, who began segregation with the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats fought against the passage of every civil rights law from the 1860s, right up to the 1960s when we are to believe they experienced some magical transformation.

Now after 30 years of ever increasing social spending designed to lift blacks out of poverty, the racial wealth gap is more pronounced than ever. Too many blacks are still poor, uneducated, and voting Democratic. Should the Democrats wish to lay claim to defense of African Americans, history is certainly not on their side.

But surely with the election of a Black President they're leading the fight now, right? From the Democratic platform:

Democrats will fight to end discrimination based on race,sex, ethnicity, national origin, language, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, and disability in every corner of our country, because that’s the America we believe in.

Bold words are good, right? But they're just that, words. I belong to the only political party in America with a proven track record of both adherence to the Constitution, and unrelenting battle for the rights of all. The Libertarian Party.

From the Libertarian platform:

3.5 Rights and Discrimination

We condemn bigotry as irrational and repugnant. Government should not deny or abridge any individual's rights based on sex, wealth, race, color, creed, age, national origin, personal habits, political preference or sexual orientation. Parents, or other guardians, have the right to raise their children according to their own standards and beliefs.

The statement of Libertarian values in regard to race is is of the same character as, and I would say even more strongly worded than, that of the Democratic party.

Plus, history is on our side.