Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Pay up, Democrats

Powerline has the best way to get money for reparations - make Democrats pay.
Let’s stick with the principle of strict liability for a moment.  The chief defender of slavery and its aftermath, the regime of Jim Crow segregation, was the Democratic Party.  Democrats in large numbers opposed the 13th Amendment, the 14th Amendment, then for decades disenfranchised blacks in defiance of the intent of the 15th Amendment, and contrived numerous ways to take the property of newly freed blacks and/or prevent them from acquiring property in the South.  For decades Democrats blocked civil rights legislation, and federal anti-lynch laws that Republicans proposed in the early 20th century.
Waiting for MSNBC to get behind this idea.

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