March 2, 2021 - Epoch Times
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| Recently, as you know, I gave testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on reparative justice, a fancy term for reparations. | |
| One of the many points I made is this. | |
| Why should anybody other than Democrats pay a dime? | |
| After all, out of the 350,000 slave owners of the estimated 4 million slaves in 1860, near as we can figure out, virtually none of them was a Republican. | |
| Here's my incendiary fact. | |
| In 1860, which is the year before the Civil War, no Republican owned a slave. | |
| Now, notice I'm not saying that no Republican leader owned a slave. | |
| I'm saying that no Republican in the United States owned a slave. | |
| And if that's true, if that's true, it means that all the slaves in the country, there were four million at the time, this was the zenith of American slavery, four million slaves were all owned by Democrats. | |
| Now, when Dinesh made that claim, he got hammered and sent scholars all over the world scouring around to prove him wrong. | |
| And they did prove him wrong. | |
| Turned out there might have been maybe eight Republicans out of the 350,000 estimated slave owners or slave-owning families in 1860. | |
| Not a whole lot to brag about. | |
| Maybe Brian Williams can tell us what fraction of 1% that is. | |
| This brings us to the all-important 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. | |
| And what role do the Democrats play in getting them passed? | |
| Well, the three Reconstruction Amendments, 13th, 14th, 15th. | |
| The 13th abolished slavery. | |
| The 14th established the principle of equal citizenship. | |
| The 15th tries to give black men the right to vote. | |
| These are all things which the federal government couldn't have conceived of doing before the Civil War. | |
| But the war itself empowers the national government, and the abolition of slavery leads, after a terrible political struggle, to the incorporation of black Americans as equal citizens of the society. | |
| 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments each ends with a clause saying, Congress shall have the power to enforce this amendment. | |
| In other words, it gives Congress the right to protect the basic rights of American citizens. | |
| And even though those basic rights of blacks were soon violated and taken away, really, in many of the southern states, nonetheless those amendments remain in the Constitution, and a century later, They would be the basis, the legal constitutional basis, for the Civil Rights Revolution of the 1960s. | |
| A hundred years later, those amendments Charles Sumner, the senator from Massachusetts during Reconstruction, said were sleeping giants in the Constitution. | |
| And they did sleep for a long time, but then they were reawakened by the Civil Rights Movement and became the basis for the Civil Rights Revolution of the 1960s. | |
| Now, to answer my own question, what role did Democrats play in getting the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments passed? | |
| Answer, none. | |
| They opposed all three amendments. | |
| Johnson and the Democratic Party were unified in their opposition to the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, the 14th Amendment, Democrats founded the KKK, you know. | |
| Today's Democratic Party believes that government has an important role to play in society. | |
| It fights against economic inequality. | |
| It advocates policies that battle racial and gender discrimination. | |
| But it wasn't always this way. | |
| The Democratic Party was once the party of white supremacy, supporting slavery and the Ku Klux Klan. | |
| And as a percentage of the party, more Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act, both in the House and the Senate, than did Democrats who filibustered against it. | |
| The only serious congressional opposition to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 came from Democrats. | |
| Eighty percent of Republicans in Congress supported the bill. | |
| Less than 70 percent of Democrats did. | |
| Democratic senators filibustered the bill for 75 days until Republicans mustered the few extra votes needed to break the logjam. | |
| Bull Connor, the Superintendent of Public Safety, Birmingham, Alabama. | |
| In 1963, under orders by City Commissioner Eugene Bull Connor, Birmingham, Alabama City Police used fire hoses and police dogs against children and adults engaged in nonviolent protests against segregation. | |
| The demonstrations were part of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birmingham campaign. | |
| Television news coverage of the attacks by police sparked mass nationwide protests. | |
| You can never whip these birds. | |
| If you don't keep you and them separate. | |
| I found that out in Birmingham. | |
| You've got to keep the white and the black separate. | |
| Orville Favis, the racist governor of Arkansas who refused to allow those little black kids to attend that public school. | |
| Democrat. | |
| It was in September that nine black students, six girls and three boys, became forever known as the Little Rock Nine. | |
| On September 2nd of that year, days before Central High was to be integrated, Governor Orville Faubus of Arkansas ordered National Guardsmen to surround the school. | |
| Their orders? | |
| To only let the white students in. | |
| I acted to protect the persons and property of the people of Little Rock. | |
| Ever heard of Ross Barnett, former racist governor of Mississippi? | |
| Democrat? | |
| We asked Governor Ross Barnett how long the state was prepared to finance the fight against integration. | |
| As I said a while ago, we'll have to cross that bridge when we meet it, when we get to it. | |
| We can't anticipate that people are going to continue to violate the law. | |
| We presume that people will We'll begin to control our mental and our physical faculties in such a manner and way that they'll have respect for laws of the various states when they enter those states. | |
| When these freedom riders go to Ohio or go to Oregon, they ought to obey the laws of those states. | |
| I don't know what it's going to cost, and it is a great burden, I'll admit that. | |
| Governor George Corley Wallace of Alabama? | |
| Democrat? | |
| In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever. | |
| And don't get me started on the time that Ted Kennedy, Democrat, praised George Wallace, Democrat, because Ted Kennedy was thinking about running for presidency and all of a sudden George Wallace's racism didn't matter a whole lot, did it? | |
| For if there's one thing that George Wallace stands for, it is the right of every American to speak his mind and be heard, fearlessly and in any part of this country. | |
| As I told the House Judiciary Committee on Reparative Justice, what about people like Obama, Kamala Harris? | |
| Obama's father from Kenya, an area of Africa where there was a lot of slave trading. | |
| Obama's mom from Kansas, her family owned slaves. | |
| Does Obama cut a check or does he get a check? | |
| Kamala Harris, her father admitted from Jamaica that his family owned slaves. | |
| Does Kamala Harris cut a check or does she get a check? | |
| It all becomes so very complicated. | |
| Doesn't it? | |
| A couple of ending points. | |
| I kept hearing over and over again that slavery has existed in America for 400 years. | |
| Well, America has not existed for 400 years. | |
| America was founded in 1787. | |
| Slavery ended 1865, substantially less than 400 years. | |
| Also, there's this problem. | |
| From whom are you going to ultimately get all this money? | |
| Because slavery existed all over the world from the beginning of human history. | |
| Talk about a cross-current of money going back and forth. | |
| Consider this. | |
| The Arab slave trade lasted centuries before the European slave trade and lasted afterwards. | |
| And more blacks were taken out of Africa for the Arab slave trade than Europeans took out of Africa and transported to North America. | |
| This is the story of the slave trade between Europe and Africa, a tragic tale of coastal villages raided and men, women and children carried off into captivity, loaded onto ships, taken to be sold as slaves in another continent and never seeing their homes again. | |
| A familiar enough narrative, except that in this case, the villages being depopulated in this way were English, and the slave traders arrived in ships which had sailed from Africa. | |
| Long before the British ever became involved in the slave trade, slavers out of Africa were raiding not only the British Isles, but many other European countries, from Iceland to Malta, Ireland to Spain, and Italy to the Netherlands, carrying off white slaves to be sold in the slave markets of Africa. | |
| The truth can be horribly complicated. | |
| What are your thoughts? | |
| And don't forget, we have been demonetized by YouTube, which means we must be doing something right. | |
| Why am I smiling? | |
| Because you can now get me uncensored and on demand. | |
| Just go to LarryTube.com. | |
| That's right, LarryTube.com, because we've got a country to save. |
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