Who are the racists?
The History of RACISM in Politics
By pfwag

While there are racists and bigots on both sides of the aisle, it is not equal. Nearly every piece of racist legislation Congress has ever enacted was initiated and supported by mostly Democrats. Nearly all anti-racist and equal rights legislation was initiated and overwhelmingly supported by the Republicans.

It was the Democrats who passed the 1820 Missouri Compromise to allow slavery in Missouri, while excluding it from the new northern territories, and then passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 to force the authorities in free states to return fugitive slaves to their masters.

It was the Democrats who passed Democratic Senator and presidential candidate Stephen A. Douglas’ Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 to allow a vote for or against slavery in the two new territories.

It was the Democrat Party’s Supreme Court that made the infamous 1856 Dred Scott decision, Scott v. Sandford, which legally classified slaves as property.

Historians later found out that Democratic President-elect James Buchanan pressured Justice Grier, a northerner, to join the Southern majority in the ruling. President Buchanan was a vocal supporter of slaveholder rights and endorsed the Lecompton Constitution which would have made Kansas a slave owning state.

Conversely, the Republican Party was formed in 1854 to abolish slavery and challenge the racist legislative acts initiated by the Democratic Party. In its first convention in 1856, the Republican Party addressed racism as a moral issue in the first 5 of the 9 planks in the party platform. At the 1860 Republican convention, 10 of 17 planks addressed civil rights.

Interestingly, the sixth plank from the 1860 convention states:

That the people justly view with alarm the reckless extravagance which pervades every department of the federal government; that a return to rigid economy and accountability is indispensable to arrest the systematic plunder of the public treasury by favored partisans; while the recent startling developments of frauds and corruptions at the federal metropolis, show that an entire change of administration is imperatively demanded.

It was New York City Democrats who conducted the four days of terror in 1863 that resulted in dozens of blacks being lynched. Some estimates put the number of Blacks murdered at up to 1,000. The barbarism in the four days of rioting were at least as grotesque as anything that ever occurred in the Deep South.

While the Civil war was technically over “state’s rightsâ€