US President Donald Trump's attempt to commingle sprint legend Usain Bolt in his tiff with NFL protesters has been met with scathing responses from Jamaicans on Twitter.
"Please leave the Boss out of your politricks," tweeted @JamaicaOlympics in response to Trump's post of a 2012 video showing Bolt cutting an interview so he could stand in silence for the US national anthem.
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Many persons in Jamaica are under the impression that Donald Trump is racist when he is not. This is because the Democrats have been convincing black persons that Donald Trump and The Republicans are racist. What is the truth?
The truth is the Democratic Party supported slavery not the Republicans. The Republicans opposed slavery.
The Democratic party supported slavery from its inception in the 1830s until it split over the issue in 1860. In January 1865, 100 percent of House Republicans supported the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. Among those who voted, 78 percent of House Democrats opposed abolition.
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The Democratic Party identified itself as the "white man's party" and demonized the Republican Party as being "Negro dominated," even though whites were in control. Determined to re-capture the South, Southern Democrats "redeemed" state after state -- sometimes peacefully, other times by fraud and violence. By 1877, when Reconstruction was officially over, the Democratic Party controlled every Southern state.
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At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency, white supremacists were conducting a reign of terror throughout the South. In outright defiance of the Republican-led federal government, Southern Democrats formed organizations that violently intimidated blacks and Republicans who tried to win political power.
The most prominent of these, the Ku Klux Klan, was formed in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865. Originally founded as a social club for former Confederate soldiers, the Klan evolved into a terrorist organization. It would be responsible for thousands of deaths, and would help to weaken the political power of Southern blacks and Republicans.
Grant, Reconstruction, and the KKK