Im sick of democrats and republicans

[KevinNYC]

The democrats have always been the anti-black party. Nice try.

This is true.





If you have been asleep for the last 50 years.


Yes, Democrats mostly dominated Southern Politics during the Jim Crow era, but during the Civil Rights era there was a schism in the Democratic party and a realignment.
The racist "state rights" Democrats lost. Yes, George Wallace was a Democrat when he stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama and tried to prevent a federal judge's ruling allowing black students to attend. Then Democratic president federalized the Alabama National Guard and this general ordered Wallace to step aside.



That very same night JFK went on national TV and gave a speech written that very same day calling equal rights a moral issue and calling for civil rights laws. It was well-received in the black community.

The next day Medgar Evars was shot.



After JFK was assassinated, LBJ urged passage of the Civil Rights bill as a tribute to JFK. The Bill was filibustered by among others Democrat Strom Thurmond. The Bill overwhelmingly passed except in the South where over 95% of Southern Democrats and 100% of Southern Republicans opposed it.

One of the non Southern Republicans who opposed the act was Barry Goldwater. Here's Martin Luther King on Goldwater's 1964 Republican convention.

The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right. The "best man" at this ceremony was a senator whose voting record, philosophy, and program were anathema to all the hard-won achievements of the past decade.
It was both unfortunate and disastrous that the Republican Party nominated Barry Goldwater as its candidate for President of the United States. In foreign policy Mr. Goldwater advocated a narrow nationalism, a crippling isolationism, and a trigger-happy attitude that could plunge the whole world into the dark abyss of annihilation. On social and economic issues, Mr. Goldwater represented an unrealistic conservatism that was totally out of touch with the realities of the twentieth century. The issue of poverty compelled the attention of all citizens of our country. Senator Goldwater had neither the concern nor the comprehension necessary to grapple with this problem of poverty in the fashion that the historical moment dictated. On the urgent issue of civil rights, Senator Goldwater represented a philosophy that was morally indefensible and socially suicidal. While not himself a racist, Mr. Goldwater articulated a philosophy which gave aid and comfort to the racist. His candidacy and philosophy would serve as an umbrella under which extremists of all stripes would stand. In the light of these facts and because of my love for America, I had no alternative but to urge every Negro and white person of goodwill to vote against Mr. Goldwater and to withdraw support from any Republican candidate that did not publicly disassociate himself from Senator Goldwater and his philosophy.

While I had followed a policy of not endorsing political candidates, I felt that the prospect of Senator Goldwater being President of the United States so threatened the health, morality, and survival of our nation, that I could not in good conscience fail to take a stand against what he represented.

MLK called LBJ's election a defeat for the 'forces of regress'

In 1964, Goldwater got his deepest support in the Deep South where states like Alabama and Mississippi went Republican for the first time since the 1860's. He got much higher votes totals there than in his old home state. 2 months after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, in a early indication of a shift that would happen all over Strom Thurmond became a Republican.

The fight during the 1960s was so significant, that for decades afterwards, it was quite common to see pictures of MLK right along JFK in black homes almost to the point of cliche.

“Back in the day, in households in Alabama where I’m from, his portrait was on the wall along with King and Jesus Christ,” said Dale Long, who works for the city of Dallas.

[Smook B]

Combine the two Repubcrats or Demolicans.

[9erempiree]

Just a bunch of bullshit if you ask me.