It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => General Board => Topic started by: BigAlSouth on March 22, 2011, 08:03:54 PM
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This story is just too good not to share. Seems like there was this governor of the State of North Carolina who crusaded against the Ku Klux Klan and their violence toward freed slaves. Once the opposing party re-took control of the N.C. House and Senate, the opposition party members immediately sought to punish the governor for the temerity of protecting the black man. The opposition party filed an impeachment against Governor William Woods Holden. Can you believe it? One hundred and forty years ago North Carolina Republicans impeached the sitting Democratic governor of their state for trying to better the lives of the state's freed slaves.
Uhhhh, hold on there a minute Skippy. Although the foregoing story would fit nicely in the MSM narrative of mean Republicans, the facts are the exact opposite:
To combat the Ku Klux Klan, Holden hired two dozen detectives in 1869–70. The detective unit was not overly successful in limiting Klan activities, but Holden's efforts to suppress the Klan exceeded those of other Southern governors. He called out the militia against the Klan in 1870, imposed martial law in two counties, and suspended the writ of habeas corpus for accused leaders of the Klan in what became known as the Kirk-Holden war. The result was a political backlash that lost the Republicans the upcoming legislative election.
After the Democratic Party regained majorities in both houses of the state legislature, Governor Holden was impeached
by the North Carolina House of Representatives on December 14, 1870. Despite being defended by well-known attorneys such as Nathaniel Boyden and William Nathan Harrell Smith, he was convicted on six of the eight charges against him by the North Carolina Senate in straight party-line votes on March 22, 1871. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/William_Woods_Holden (http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/William_Woods_Holden)
Now, my children, why on earth would I think that this little forgotten incident in the history of the Old North State would be of any interest? Because the local media is sugar coating the participation of the Democrats in a pretty nasty part of our State's racist heritage. Check it:
In a move that could compel legislators to confront the state's racist past, the Senate wants to debate this week a resolution pardoning the late Republican Gov. William Woods Holden, who became the first governor removed from office in the United States on March 22, 1871. http://www.wral.com/news/state/nccapitol/story/9309396/ (http://www.wral.com/news/state/nccapitol/story/9309396/)
The State's racist past? How about the Democrat's racist past? And if the Democrats were so anxious about righting this little wrong from 140 years past, why did the political class wait until this week? Simple. As in simple math. For the first time since the impeachment of Republican Governor William Woods Holden, the Republican Party holds the majority in the NC House and NC Senate. It sure is sweet watching the local Repubs rubbing the Dems noses in their own sordid racist past.
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This is pretty damn good. History needs to be shoved down the throats of the ignorant folks so we can get the record set right.
One of my favorite books is Wrong on Race, I forget the author, but it does a great job of laying out the facts of the D racism.
And 140 years to achieve majorities? Wow.
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Excellent synopsis of a very interesting story BAS!
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Excellent synopsis of a very interesting story BAS!
Indeed! And fodder for me to shove in local faces, if you don't mind me swiping your delivery.
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Excellent synopsis of a very interesting story BAS!
Indeed! And fodder for me to shove in local faces, if you don't mind me swiping your delivery.
Can I watch?!
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Yep. Soon as I get BAS' okay.
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Throughout the history of this country, the Democrat party has methodically institutionalized racism against Blacks. Their enslavement of Blacks to the past through welfare and perpetuating victimhood is an act of violence against Blacks that I find unforgivable. It is every bit as destructive to their personhood as chains, whips, and ownership, if not more so. Creating a dependent class based on race perpetuated by racism has allowed the Democrats to portray themselves as the benefactor of Blacks while demagoguing Republicans for wanting to "take away" what the Democrats have "given" them.
This is naked evil. The fact that it has been a successful political strategy is a shame on this country. It is right and good that the NC GOP is poised to rub their wretched noses in their shameless, evil racism.
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This 150th anniversary of The Civil War will be very different from that of 1961-1965 . There will be re-writng of history by lefty academics the likes of which we've never seen . This celebration , I promise you , is going to be for the negroes , about the negroes and by the negroes unlike 1961-65 . If the liberals have anything to say about it ( and they most certainly will ) the battlefield struggle will receive far less mention than the emancipation question ; that is unless you want to talk about the negroes who served in the Union Army ( they're the ones who won the war , don't you know ). Also be prepared for a white-wash of northern Democrats who , unwittingly , had a hell of a lot to do with starting the war and were more than happy to continue slavery's creep into the western territories .
This is going to be one f*cked-up "celebration" ! ::gaah::
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Yep. Soon as I get BAS' okay.
Club the bastards wif it.
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Thankee.
Biiiig supporters of the "civil rights" 'round these parts without allowing any fact to penetrate that its purpose was to impose equality under the law on the government, not the people; nor willing to admit that it had advanced some while ago to government confiscating the rights of some people for redistribution to others.
Quite convoluted, actually, in that while the Democrats are lauded for having lead the "civil rights" charge, Republicans are vilified as the oppressive racists who fought the measure, which is presumed to continue to this day. What to do with folks who refuse to consider it was their Democrat "champions" who had first institutionalized the racism which they perpetuate to this day, ignoring the Republicans contribution to the loss of their freedom to associate.
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Heck of a good post BAS! ::thumbsup::
We can no longer let the Left whitewash their racists sins and cast them onto others who are innocent of such slander.
We must shove their deceit in their faces!
I eagerly await news from Pan! ;)
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Aaaaand, here's yer typical Democrat response:
at the risk of being accused of being a democrat and jumping in to defend democrats it would be wrong to ignore the fact that the parties have evolved and switched positions on issues over the years, especially in the South.
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Aaaaand, here's yer typical Democrat response:
at the risk of being accused of being a democrat and jumping in to defend democrats it would be wrong to ignore the fact that the parties have evolved and switched positions on issues over the years, especially in the South.
Yeah, whatever. And by "switching positions", this person is referring to exactly what I said above. The Democrats became the "benefactors" of the Black race, enslaving them to the past and the state, undermining their neighborhoods, families, and self-confidence, and ultimately molding their sense of personhood and citizenship into a pathetic bloc of people who can reliably be counted on to defend the plantation from those who would set them free.
Evil, evil people, those Democrats. Switched positions my ass.
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Yeah, evil. Nothing else can reconcile such overt dishonesty!
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Jeesh, do I loath them!
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