There is the leader of the Democrat Party, President Joe Biden, making much of Juneteenth with a party on the White House lawn. He says this:
To me, making Juneteenth a federal holiday wasn’t just a symbolic gesture. It was a statement of fact for this country to acknowledge the origin of the original sin of slavery, to understand the war was never fought over it, it wasn’t just about a union, but it was most fundamentally about the country and freedom.
U.S. News & World Report also noted:
Vice President Kamala Harris said Juneteenth is an occasion to “honor Black excellence, culture and community.”
“America is a promise — a promise of freedom, liberty and justice,” Harris said. “The story of Juneteenth as we celebrate it is a story of our ongoing fight to realize that promise. Not for some, but all.”
Then there was White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre saying this:
It’s not enough to just commemorate Juneteenth.… It’s about remembering history, not erasing it. It is about reading books, not banning them.
And there they go again.
For the umpteenth time, what was not said by Biden and his fellow Democrats? There was no apology for, much less acknowledgement of, the crystal-clear fact that when the Democrat Party was formed — by slave owners — it went on to carve out a serious history as a staunch supporter of, yes indeed, slavery, segregation, and outright racism. With not a peep of an apology from Democrat leaders, including current party leader Joe Biden. (READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord: Biden’s Banana Republic)
Jean-Pierre says Americans need to be about “remembering history, not erasing it.” Exactly. But, alas, her own boss, not to mention the party he leads, as done everything possible to ignore history, erasing it — much less apologize for that history. What’s to apologize for? What goes unmentioned and conveniently not remembered by Joe Biden and other Democrats?
As I have previously noted in this space:
- There is no reference to the number of Democratic Party platforms supporting slavery. There were 6 from 1840-1860.
- There is no reference to the number of Democratic presidents who owned slaves. There were 7 from 1800-1861
- There is no reference to the number of Democratic Party platforms that either supported segregation outright or were silent on the subject. There were 20, from 1868-1948.
- There is no reference to “Jim Crow” as in “Jim Crow laws,” nor is there reference to the role Democrats played in creating them. These were the post-Civil War laws passed enthusiastically by Democrats. These laws segregated public schools, public transportation, restaurants, rest rooms and public places in general (everything from water coolers to beaches). The reason civil rights heroine Rosa Parks became famous is that she sat in the front of a “whites only” bus, the “whites only” designation the direct result of Democrats.
There is no mention of the 1868 Democratic Convention, whose slogan was “This is a white man’s country. Let a white man rule.”
- There is no reference to the formation of the Ku Klux Klan, which, according to Columbia University historian Eric Foner became “a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party.” Nor is there reference to University of North Carolina historian Allen Trelease’s description of the Klan as the “terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.”
- There is no reference to the fact Democrats in Congress opposed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. The Thirteenth banned slavery. The Fourteenth effectively overturned the infamous 1857 Supreme Court Dred Scott decision (made by Democrat pro-slavery Supreme Court justices) by guaranteeing due process and equal protection to former slaves. The Fifteenth gave black Americans the right to vote.
- There is no reference to the fact Democrats opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1866. It was passed by the Republican Congress over the veto of Democratic President Andrew Johnson. The law was designed to provide blacks with the right to own private property, sign contracts, sue and serve as witnesses in a legal proceeding.
- There is no reference to the Democrats’ opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1875. It was passed by a Republican Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses Grant. The law prohibited racial discrimination in public places and public accommodations.
- There is no reference to the Democrats’ 1904 platform, which devotes a section to “Sectional and Racial Agitation,” claiming the GOP’s protests against segregation and the denial of voting rights to blacks sought to “revive the dead and hateful race and sectional animosities in any part of our common country,” which in turn “means confusion, distraction of business, and the reopening of wounds now happily healed.”
- There is no reference to four Democrat platforms between 1908-1920, that are silent on blacks, segregation, lynching, and voting rights as racial problems in the country mount. By contrast the GOP platforms of those years specifically address “Rights of the Negro” (1908), oppose lynchings (in 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928) and, as the New Deal kicks in, speaks out about the dangers of making blacks “wards of the state.”
- There is no reference to the DNC-sponsored Democrat Convention of 1924, known to history as the “Klanbake.” The 103-ballot convention was held in Madison Square Garden. Hundreds of delegates were members of the Ku Klux Klan, the Klan so powerful that a plank condemning Klan violence was defeated outright. To celebrate the Klan staged a rally with 10,000 hooded Klansmen in a field in New Jersey directly across the Hudson from the site of the Convention. Attended by hundreds of cheering Convention delegates, the rally featured burning crosses and calls for violence against African Americans and Catholics.
- There is no reference to the fact that it was Democrats who segregated the federal government of the United States, specifically at the direction of President Woodrow Wilson upon taking office in 1913….
- There is [no] reference to the fact that Democrats created the Federal Reserve Board, passed labor and child welfare laws and created Social Security with Wilson’s New Freedom and FDR’s New Deal. There is no reference these programs were created as the result of an agreement to ignore segregation and the lynching of blacks. Neither is there a mention of the thousands of local officials, state legislators, state governors, U.S. Congressmen and U.S. Senators who were elected as supporters of slavery and then segregation between 1800 and 1965. Nor is there reference to the deal with the devil that left segregation and lynching as a way of life in return for election support for three post-Civil War Democrat presidents, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt.
- There is no reference that three-fourths of the opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Bill in the U.S. House came from Democrats, or that 80 percent of the nay vote on the bill in the Senate came from the Democrats. Certainly there is no reference to the fact that the opposition included future Democratic Senate Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia (a former Klan member) and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, Sr., father of future Vice President Al Gore. [Nor is there mention that Joe Biden gave the eulogy for Byrd at his funeral.]
- Last, but certainly not least, there is no reference to the fact that Birmingham, Alabama Public Safety Commissioner Bull Connor, who infamously unleashed dogs and fire hoses on civil rights protestors, was in fact — yes indeed — both a member of the Democratic National Committee and the Ku Klux Klan.
And — oh yes. Reparations is once again a topic floating in various liberal quarters. Yet curiously? There is no mention of the Democratic Party paying reparations not from tax dollars but their own dollars for what they have done. (READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord: Cori Bush Demands Reparations From All but Pro-Slavery Democratic Party)
Does Joe Biden, as the current leader of the Democrats, have the guts to publicly admit what serious history records of his party’s deeds? Is anyone in his party capable of running a campaign without playing the race card — as Democrats have played it for the better part of two centuries? Can Democrats even escape the race psychology that has indelibly branded them as America’s Party of Race?
Not so amazingly, just this last week, former President Barack Obama, the last leader of the Democratic Party, criticized Republican Sen. Tim Scott, a black man, and former South Carolina Gov. and U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, a woman of color, for needing to provide an “honest accounting of our past and our present.”
Really? Obama was in the White House for eight years, and there was nary a word of formal apology for the support of slavery and segregation by his party. Nor was there a call for his party to pay reparations. There was from Obama no “honest accounting of our past and our present.”
All of which is to say, Biden’s much ado about Juneteenth vividly fails to acknowledge just why Juneteenth was needed in the first place — because the political party he now leads was a staunch supporter of slavery and segregation after that.
And now? Now Biden and company have moved on to identity politics — the son of segregation and grandson of slavery.
The Party of Race goes on. Quite unapologetically led by President Joe Biden.
Imagine that.
