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What has the Democrat Party actually done for black Americans?

They voted against abolishing slavery and supported Jim Crow laws. For the past several decades, they have created horrible neighborhoods (e.g subsidized housing) and moved black people into those horrible neighborhoods. They encourage welfare, which makes black people less inclined to pursue an education and build a better life as they become dependent on the state. Now, they have reached the point where their leader says that black people "ain't black" if they choose not to vote Democrat. This shows how much of a threat black Americans are to Democrats when they know that *they* are the party keeping them poor and making their lives more miserable. Before you think that "black people can't get jobs 'cos racism", consider that black people CAN get jobs and that there aren't any obstacles in their way that white people also don't have. We know that if you are poor, it's harder to get an education and go to college, but it is possible and you can do it if you have the belief and determination to. Even without a college education, there are decent paying jobs that only require you to have graduated high-school.

It seems to me that the Democrat Party just want to keep black people in a cycle of misfortune and poverty so they keep voting for them, thinking there is no real way out of that cycle. If they are kept poor, they will vote for the party that professes a greater interest in giving them welfare, etc. The Democrats don't want black people to get out of this cycle because then they would realize that they have no use for the Democrat Party and they would move away from voting for them. Ideology aside, there is a reason why even moderately successful people tend to vote conservative.

Even with a basic lower middle-class income, or indeed any kind of income, black people in America are more likely to not vote Democrat.
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badminton · 61-69, MVIP
President Johnson passed the most important legislation for African-Americans since the Emancipation proclamation; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
SW-User
@badminton The Congress passed it dingaling. He rubber stamped the signature
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
@SW-User Johnson pushed the Democrats in Congress to vote for those measures. He personally telephoned each one and let them know he expected them to be on the floor of the House and vote or face his wrath. He would back up a congressman up into a corner. He was tall, he loomed over his victim. He'd say "Boy, I expect you to vote on this thing. I'm gonna be mighty disappointed if you ain't there." Johnson could be a real bastard. But in politics that is often what is needed.
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@badminton True. But it passed with a much higher % of Republican votes
Theyitis · 36-40, M
@SW-User Not true, it passed with a roughly equal percentage of Democratic and Republican votes.
SW-User
@Theyitis Not a chance. Prove it.

And don’t try to be cute and put actual votes down because we know the Dhims had a high number advantage in each House. Percentages. Per capitas
Theyitis · 36-40, M
@SW-User So there were several different votes and multiple different versions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that got voted on. According to Wikipedia, which should be a sufficient source in this case because it’s public record, the final vote in the Senate had 69% of Democrats in favor compared to 82% of Republicans. In the House, the final version of the bill was supported by 63% of Democrats and 80% of Republicans. I’ll admit, that’s a somewhat bigger difference than I thought I remembered; however, the Democrat/Republican difference in support of the bill paled in comparison to the North/South difference in support. If we define “The South” as the eleven former confederate states and The North as everyone else, then the final version of the bill enjoyed the support of 90% of Northern congressmen compared to only 8% of Southern House members. Likewise, 92% of Northern Senators voted in favor of the bill compared to only 5% of Southern Senators. That story shows a starker contrast between the two sides in question, and oddly enough Republicans today never seem to mention that part.
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@Theyitis So virtually all the no votes came from the south. And who were the southern Congressmen - democrats. By even a bigger margin than anywhere else.

Your side did everything to sandbag the negroes and you just proved it even more.

If that was supposed to be a burn it was a colossal fail.
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SW-User
@Theyitis Your dismal party filibustered, and voted to try to keep Jim Crow alive. Numbers don’t lie. You lose

Cope harder
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@badminton
President Johnson passed the most important legislation for African-Americans since the Emancipation proclamation; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Those Acts were just BS wall-paper since the Constitution already ensured civil rights and voting rights.
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@Theyitis
that’s a somewhat bigger difference than I thought I remembered

HAHAHA

You liberals and your "excuses!" 😂

We can deduce two things here, and they are that you clearly thought more Democrats supported Civil Rights than Republicans, and that you want to blame that on the "conservative Southerners."

Let me guess, were they not "real" Democrats?
Theyitis · 36-40, M
@SW-User Sure, they were “real” Democrats, but “Democrat” meant something different back then. Do you think they were woke liberals? 90 something percent of the bill’s opposition came from the old Confederacy. Is that from where American Progressivism traces its roots?
Why do you suppose that today it’s almost exclusively conservatives that like to wave the Confederate flag, can you explain that?

Here’s another example: back when he was much younger, Jesse Jackson once ran for mayor of Chicago as a Republican. Did that make him a conservative? Would you have supported his candidacy? He was a Republican after all. Oh wait, lemme guess, he wasn’t a “real” Republican?

Or maybe, just maybe, American politics hasn’t always been as simple as liberal Democrats vs. conservative Republicans?
Theyitis · 36-40, M
@Diotrephes Yeah, never mind things like poll taxes and de facto segregation, the 14th amendment was enough. The rest is just bullshit.
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