By Bruce Bartlett
In fallacious on Race, Bruce Bartlett units the list directly on a hidden prior that many Democrats might quite see swept lower than the carpet. starting from the founding of the Republic via to this day, it rectifies the unfair perceptions of America's nationwide events. whereas Nixon's notorious "Southern approach" is continually referenced within the media, much less good remembered are Woodrow Wilson's segregation of the full Federal civil service; FDR's appointment of a member of the KKK to the superb court docket; John F. Kennedy's apathy in the direction of civil rights legislation; and the ascension of Robert Byrd, who's present President seasoned tempore of the Senate, 3rd in line within the presidential line of succession, and a former member of the KKK. For the last seventy years, African americans have voted en masse for one social gathering, with little in any case to teach for it. Is it time for the pendulum to swing the wrong way? With the Republican celebration furiously engaged in pre-2008 soul looking out, this exhaustively researched, incisively written expos?© can be a tremendous and compelling section of that discuss as we head in the direction of November.
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55 The great black leader Frederick Douglass tried to explain all this at a White House meeting on February 7, 1866. 56 Afterwards, however, the president was overheard saying, “Those damned sons of bitches thought they had me in a trap. I know that damned Douglass. ”57 When Congress reconvened on December 4, 1865, Johnson quickly dismissed its concerns about the way black people were being treated in the South. ”58 Of course, nothing could have been further from the truth. Numerous reports from the South made clear to Congress, if not to the White House, that great suffering was occurring among the former slaves.
47 Interpreting the president’s power to pardon as broadly as possible, Lincoln said that all rebellious states could be readmitted to the Union on the basis of full equality, with no penalty, if just 10 percent of the state’s qualified voters in the 1860 presidential election took an oath of loyalty and established new state governments. Issued as it was in the midst of a war that would continue for another seventeen months, Lincoln was obviously trying to encourage an early end to hostilities by offering seceding states the best possible peace terms.
The following year, he signed into law legislation requiring freed slaves to be deported to Africa. Johnson’s own son Robert accompanied several free blacks to the port of Norfolk in 1856, where they were put onboard a ship bound for Liberia. “This unsavory business did not faze the governor,” historian Hans Trefousse writes. ”11 Johnson ran for reelection as governor in 1855. ”12 He chose not to seek a third two-year term in 1857. S. Senate. 13 SENATOR JOHNSON A big Democratic victory in the statehouse elections gave Johnson his wish: he was named to the Senate on October 8, 1857.
