This is the start of a new theme of blog posts that I’m covering as I going to be doing updates on race based issues. Racism and other things like it will now be covered in every other political post of this blog as it is a political issue in addition to being a society issue and all sorts of other issues like that in the end.
Now we do have to admit that both Democrats and Republicans have or used to have issues with racism at some point in their political history. Some are better at things now than they used to be. But it still was an issue or it is an issue with both parties.
Let’s start with the Democrats. They were in support of slavery and this is a well known fact. Some people even bring that fact up today. But the Democrats have evolved from their once conservative ways. After the Civil War brought an end to slavery, the Democrats lost a lot of the future elections for quite a while, at least for the presidency. They took a good, long look at themselves and didn’t like what they saw.
This leads to the Civil Rights movement around 100 years after the Civil War. The Democrats came out in support of Civil Rights and advancing society past racism. That remains a pipe dream, but we can always strive to make the world better. Lyndon Johnson helped sign new laws and helped improve this country’s rights for black people and other minorities of race.
The Democrats moved forward and largely beyond their racist ways, giving us candidates who are not white in a prominent and notable way like John Lewis, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Tammy Duckworth, Cory Booker, and others that are hard to remember of think of offhand.
Now for the other side: Despite originally starting out as against slavery, the Republicans have been doing badly in recent years with their blatantly racist ways. It might have started when a lot of them came out against Civil Rights during that era. While there are members of this party who aren’t white, it can be hard to see them when nearly all of them are white, at least when we see them on TV. Now it isn’t in their control whether or not they are white. What is an issue is that there are hardly any prominent members of this party who want to associate themselves with ways that are very clearly against them.
It isn’t so much a problem that Trump is racist if the Republican Party were more adamant in their rebukes of him. This is just one of many ways in which Republican’ts fail to hold the guy in the White House accountable to anything. Trump clearly embraces racists and he might not have gotten elected without them. (Yes, I know that people who support him aren’t racist, but are there racists who don’t support him?) He wouldn’t ever decry them and is quite infamous for calling white supremacists very fine people. Yet people refuse to call him out on it in their own party because they embrace the racist vote.
I wish that I could end this on a happy note, but there is something good in the fact that I don’t see any current racist issues with Democrats. I’m sure others will disagree with me and not point out any facts in that discussion while they are certain of this alternative fact. And I do see a problem with the Republicans’ racist ways nowadays that they won’t admit. One side improved and the other devolved quite horribly.
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