The Myth of Democrat Civil Rights Support

True colors come shining through:

The black sharecropper's daughter, born in segregated Alabama, has been excoriated as a closet member of the Ku Klux Klan who, at least according to the Senate minority leader, would like nothing better than to return America to "Civil War days." Left-leaning political cartoonists depict her as an Aunt Jemima on steroids, complete with exaggerated physical features typically found only in the racist literature distributed by hate groups. She's been called insensitive to the rights of minorities, the plight of the poor, and the difficulties of the disabled. Her opponents warn that she is "the far right's dream judge" and that "(s)he embodies Clarence Thomas's ideological extremism and Antonin Scalia's abrasiveness and right-wing activism." And her opponents are plentiful, a who's who of Left-wing advocacy groups: Planned Parenthood, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, NAACP, NOW, People for the American Way, National Abortion Federation, Feminist Majority, and the American Association of University Women, just to name a few.

The revisionist history of the 60s now holds that it was the noble Democratic Party which drove the civil rights movement. What is not now acknowledged is it was the bigoted, racist Democratic Party which steadfastly opposed the civil rights movement. When Martin Luther King braved dogs and lynch mobs in the South, he wasn't facing Republicans (do kids today even know that the Republican Party was founded on the abolition of slavery, and that the first Republicans deemed "radical" by Democrats were so labeled for being too solicitous of the rights of black Americans? The Republicans who provided the crucial margin for civil rights legislation, despite serious reservations about the wisdom of LBJ's "Great Society", despite the fact that merely voting "no" would have afforded the greatest opportunity to break the Democrat stranglehold on the South, are the unsung heroes of the effort.

It's nice to see the Democrats show their true colors once more, in their hysterical and bigoted treatment of Janice Brown, Clarence Thomas, Condoleeza Rice, and any other black American who won't stay on the reservation the Democrats have so carefully walled in for them.

Bring on the nuclear option. Perhaps Klansman Senator Byrd will have his last hurrah inveighing against another black American who won't sit down and shut up when told to do so by white Democrats. Perhaps black Americans will return to the Republican fold to some small extent, and thus force the Democrat leadership to do more than take their votes for granted.

Either way, I enjoy seeing the Democrat facade on support for racial and ethnic minorities torn down whenever a hack politico smells fear.