History of a Party

  I recently took a look into the Republican Party to find out why most Minorities believe they are racist and anti-minority.  This is what I found.


The Republican party was formed in opposition of slavery  in 1854   http://www.ushistory.org/gop/origins.htm

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Republican Abraham Lincoln in 1863  http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=34

Radical Republicans against slavery formed  the American Society of Anti-Slavery in  1833  http://www.teachushistory.org/second-great-awakening-age-reform/articles/historical-background-antislavery

The 13th Amendment:  The Abolition of Slavery  was passed through Congress mostly from Republicans and passed in 1865  http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=40

Territorial Suffrage Act  introduced by Republicans and finally passed in 1867  http://www.blackpast.org/?q=primarywest/territorial-suffrage-act-1867

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 Introduced by Republicans  http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1866.aspx

The 14th Amendment:  Equal Protection to All  passed by Republicans in 1868  http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/July-August-08/On-this-Day--Fourteenth-Amendment-Ratified-.html

The 15th Amendment:  Voting Rights Act (for Black Men) ratified & passed by Republicans  in 1870 http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/15thamendment.html

First Ku Klux Klan Act (Civil Rights Act of 1870) passed  by Republicans  http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1875.aspx

Second Ku Klux Klan Act (Civil Rights Act of 1871) passed by Republicans  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/grant-kkk/

Third Ku Klux Klan Act (Civil Rights Act of 1871) passed by Republicans  http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ku-klux-act-passed-by-congress

Republican Party Platform of 1872  First to Introduce reference to Women's Suffrage  http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29623

Civil Rights Act of 1875 passed by Republicans  http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/brown-v-board/timeline.html

1st  Women to be elected to House of Representatives   http://womenincongress.house.gov/member-profiles/profile.html?intID=202

The 19th Amendment:  Women's Suffrage Right is adopted.   http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment19/  26 of 36 state legislatures who voted to ratify it were under Republican control.


Add Individual rights, Low Taxes and small government, and you have the making of a Republican Party.  It's not perfect.  But I would hardly call it racist and Anti-Minority. 

How Should a Christian Vote?

Date October 18, 2012

Author Dr. Erwin W. Lutzer

Voting with a Christian Conscience

I believe the evangelical church has finally been forced to conclude that we cannot depend upon politics to turn this country around, bring us back to biblical principles, or reverse the anti-Christian bigotry developing in the courts, the media, and the wider culture. Only the church, armed with the Gospel, is able to bring lasting change in the hearts and lives of people. God’s House—and not the White House—holds the key to the future of our nation.
If there’s ever been a time for the church to stand tall, it’s today—whether it’s with or without support from our political leaders. As you look back at history, you’ll see times when God has given nations better leaders than they deserved—at other times, far worse (think of 20th century dictators). Still other times, the leader was a perfect fit for the people. But regardless of the leader, the church must remain faithful to its calling.
I refuse to endorse political candidates because (1) no one candidate is right on all the issues or, for that matter, wrong on all the issues, and (2) the Gospel should never be tied to a politician or political party.
We should never give the impression that one party or another is the “Christian party.” We must be able to say to Democrats, Republicans, and Independents—and everyone in between—that unless you believe in Jesus, you will be eternally separated from God.
I agree with Lyndon Johnson, who said in his inaugural address, “Under this covenant of justice we have become a nation—prosperous, great, and mighty. And we have kept our freedom. But we have no promise from God that our greatness will endure. We have been allowed by Him to seek greatness with the sweat of our hands and the strength of our spirit … If we fail now, we shall have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more than it gives, and that the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.”
We must pray not only that our candidates believe in God, but that their belief means something to them and their policies. At a minimum, they ought to be convinced that our laws are to be derived from God, through both the writings of Scripture and natural law.
How will I vote? Below I list seven biblical issues. Amid the welter of negative ads and campaign hype, I will vote for the candidate who best represents these issues.
Run your candidate through this grid, and you will be given guidance as you cast your ballot. And let us pray for whomever wins!

How Should a Christian Vote?

Whether we are enthusiastic about our political candidates or disappointed with our choices, we should not shirk our duty as good citizens.
In my opinion, we should vote for the person who best represents our convictions on the following issues, which I list without further comment and in no particular order.

1. Character and integrity
   “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people mourn…The king by judgment establishes the land but he that receives gifts overthrows it…If a ruler listens to lies, all his servants are wicked” (Proverbs 29:2, 4, 12).
   
2. Sanctity of human life—abortion, stem cell research using human embryos
   “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb” (Psalm 139:13).
   
3. Same-sex marriage or civil unions among same-sex couples
   “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination” (Leviticus 18:22).
   
4. Freedom for religious speech
   “So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered them, ‘Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard’” (Acts 4:18-20).
   
5. Racial equality
   “And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on the face of the earth” (Acts 17:26).
   “…and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God” (Revelation 5:9-10).
   
6. National Security“And they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it. And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night” (Nehemiah 4:8-9).
   
7. Taxation and government spending“We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards…we are forcing our sons and daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards” (Nehemiah 5:4-5).
   

Whether our preferred candidate wins or loses, we have a God-given responsibility to pray for our leaders and to support them in whatever way we can. Paul, addressing the Romans when Nero was on the throne, wrote, “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God” (Romans 13:1).
Be assured I will vote with prayer, seeking wisdom from God. And I hope you will vote with the same values in mind.

Democrats, Republicans and Blacks

Thomas Sowell
September 28, 2000

No group votes more solidly for the Democrats than blacks – and no group suffers more as a result than blacks. Political spin makes Democrats the best friends of blacks, the party of civil rights laws, the party of affirmative action and the party of social programs to help the poor in general and blacks in particular. But spin and facts are very different things. The fact is that a higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Despite all the media hype about the confederate flag flying over the state capitol in South Carolina, no Republican put that flag there.

The Democrats' Senator Fritz Hollings, who was governor of South Carolina in the 1960s, put that confederate flag there at a time when it was used all across the South as a symbol of resistance to the civil rights movement. With all the criticism of Texas Governor George W. Bush for not telling the state of South Carolina what to do, there was scarcely a word anywhere about Democrat Fritz Hollings. That's the media for you.

Democrats can claim credit – if that's the word – for all the government social programs that have played such a role in the disintegration of families. These programs have done little to reduce poverty. Blacks did more to reduce their own poverty than the government ever has.

Between 1940 and 1960, the poverty rate among black families fell from 87 percent to 47 percent. Yet there was no major federal civil rights legislation or welfare state programs created during that period. The continuing rise of blacks out of poverty during the 1960s, when their poverty rate fell an additional 17 points, cannot be arbitrarily attributed to the Great Society programs, since this trend was already decades old before these programs were created. As for the first decade of affirmative action – the 1970s – the poverty rate among blacks fell by only one percentage point then.

Education had much to do with the rise of blacks. As of 1940, black adults averaged just 5 years of schooling. By 1960 that was 8 years and by 1970 it was 10 years. Obviously, doubling your education within one generation tends to increase your income, regardless of which party is in power or what policies they follow.

In our own high-tech era, education is even more important. Nothing is more of a handicap to blacks today than inadequate education. There are many reasons for these inadequacies. How do the Democrats and Republicans compare, when it comes to the education of black youngsters?

Democrats are too completely dependent on the teachers' unions to be able to break the public school monopoly or to get rid of incompetent teachers or even to insist on the teaching of the basics, instead of the dumbed-own education and amateur social engineering that the education establishment likes.

Republicans have a golden opportunity to offer blacks something that the Democrats cannot possibly offer – the right of parents to choose where their own children go to school. Whatever political support there is for vouchers has come almost exclusively from Republicans. Democrats are totally opposed – and have to be, if they want to continue getting the millions of dollars contributed by the teachers' unions.

Another factor in the decline of American education in general and education in low-income minority communities in particular, is the difficulty of either punishing or expelling disruptive and violent students who destroy the education of the other students. Liberal judges have made it literally a federal case when schools crack down on disruptive and violent students. Who appoints liberal judges? Usually Democrats, though Republicans have slipped up and appointed a few as well.

One of the other huge handicaps that black students face is the attitude that trying to learn is "acting white." Self-destructive as this notion may be, it is a logical corollary of the social vision that says whitey is out to get you and it doesn't matter how much you know or how hard you try. Which party panders to this victimhood vision? Which party cuddles up with race hustlers like Al Sharpton, who promote this paranoid tribalism? The Democrats in general and Al Gore and Hillary Clinton in particular.

These are the facts. But how much weight do facts carry on Election Day.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/493722/Reconstruction