Where is the "Well Organised Militia" in Minneapolis?

,

iluvatar5150 said:

You haven't really read much history of 20th-century America, have you?

Click to expand...

Here is some:

October 13, 1858
During Lincoln-Douglas debates, U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas (D-IL) states: “I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever”. Douglas became Democratic Party’s 1860 presidential nominee.

April 16, 1862
President Lincoln signs bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia. In Congress, 99% of Republicans vote yes and 83% of Democrats vote no.

July 17, 1862
Over unanimous Democrat opposition, the Republican-controlled Congress passes the Confiscation Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy “shall be forever free”.

January 31, 1865
13th Amendment banning slavery was passed by U.S. House of Representatives with unanimous Republican support and intense Democrat opposition.

April 8, 1865
13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate with 100% Republican support and 63% Democrat opposition.

November 22, 1865
Republicans denounce Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting “Black Codes,” which institutionalized racial discrimination.

February 5, 1866
U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-PA) introduces legislation, successfully opposed by Democrat President Andrew Johnson, to implement “40 acres and a mule” relief by distributing land to former slaves.

April 9, 1866
Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Johnson’s veto, and the Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on African-Americans, becomes law.

May 10, 1866
U.S. House passes the Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens, with 100% of Democrats voting no.

June 8, 1866
U.S. Senate passes the Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the law to all citizens, where 94% of Republicans vote yes and 100% of Democrats vote no.

January 8, 1867
Republicans override Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of law granting voting rights to African-Americans in D.C.

July 19, 1867
Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of legislation protecting voting rights of African-Americans.

March 30, 1868
Republicans begin impeachment trial of Democrat President Andrew Johnson, who declared: “This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government of white men”.

September 3, 1868
25 African-Americans in the Georgia legislature, all Republicans, were expelled by the Democrat majority. They were later reinstated by a Republican-controlled Congress.

September 12, 1868
Civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and all other African-Americans in the Georgia Senate – all Republicans – were expelled by the Democrat majority. They were later be reinstated by a Republican-controlled Congress.

October 7, 1868
Republicans denounce the Democratic Party’s national campaign theme: “This is a white man’s country: Let white men rule”.

October 22, 1868
While campaigning for re-election, U.S. Rep. James Hinds (R-AR) is assassinated by Democrat terrorists who were organized as the Ku Klux Klan.

December 10, 1869
Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs First-in-nation law granting women the right to vote and to hold public office.

February 3, 1870
After passing the U.S. House of Representatives with 98% Republican support and 97% Democrat opposition, the Republicans’ 15th Amendment is ratified, which granted the right to vote to all Americans regardless of race.

May 31, 1870
President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Republicans’ Enforcement Act, providing stiff penalties for depriving civil rights to any Americans.

June 22, 1870
The Republican-controlled Congress creates the U.S. Department of Justice to safeguard the civil rights of African-Americans against Democrats in the South.

Touché

GreatLakes4Ever said:

All of that was from the 19th century. You just proved @iluvatar5150 correct.

Click to expand...

Nope - here is part two:

January 15, 1901
Black Republican Booker T. Washington protests Alabama Democratic Party’s refusal to permit voting by African-Americans.

May 29, 1902
Virginia Democrats implement a new state constitution, condemned by Republicans as illegal, that reduced African-American voter registration by 86%.

February 12, 1909
On the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, African-American Republicans and women’s suffragists Ida Wells and Mary Terrell co-found the NAACP. Black Republican James Weldon Johnson later became the first black head of the NAACP in 1920.

May 21, 1919
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passes a constitutional amendment granting women the vote with 85% of Republicans in favor, but only 54% of Democrats. In the Senate, 80% of Republicans voted yes, but almost half of Democrats voted no.

August 18, 1920
The Republican-authored 19th Amendment, affirming the right to vote for women, becomes part of Constitution. 26 of the 36 states that ratified the amendment had Republican-controlled legislatures.

January 26, 1922
The U.S. House of Representative passes the bill authored by U.S. Rep. Leonidas Dyer (R-MO) making lynching a federal crime; Senate Democrats block it with a filibuster.

June 2, 1924
Republican President Calvin Coolidge signs the bill passed by the Republican-controlled Congress granting U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans

October 3, 1924
Republicans denounce three-time Democrat presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan for defending the Ku Klux Klan at the 1924 Democratic National Convention.

June 12, 1929
First Lady Lou Hoover invites the wife of U.S. Rep. Oscar De Priest (R-IL), an African-American, to tea at the White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country.

August 17, 1937
Republicans organize opposition to former Ku Klux Klansman and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hugo Black’s Klan background was hidden until after his confirmation.

June 24, 1940
The Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces. For the balance of his terms in office, Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt refuses to order integration of the military.

August 8, 1945
Republicans condemn Democrat President Harry Truman’s surprise use of the atomic bomb in Japan. Two days after the Hiroshima bombing, former Republican President Herbert Hoover wrote to a friend: “The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.”

September 30, 1953
Earl Warren, California’s three-term Republican Governor and 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, was nominated to be Chief Justice by Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Justice Warren wrote landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

November 25, 1955
The Eisenhower administration bans racial segregation of interstate bus travel.

March 12, 1956
Ninety-seven Democrats in Congress condemn the U.S Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education and pledge to continue segregation of the races.

June 5, 1956
Republican federal judge Frank Johnson rules in favor of Rosa Parks in a decision striking down “blacks in the back of the bus” laws in the Democrat-controlled South.

November 6, 1956
African-American civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy vote for Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President.

September 9, 1957
Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Republican Party’s 1957 Civil Rights Act.

September 24, 1957
Sparking criticism from Democrats such as Senators John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson who both voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower deploys the 82nd Airborne Division to Little Rock, AR to force Democrat Governor Orval Faubus to integrate public schools.

May 6, 1960
Republican President Dwight Eisenhower signs the Republicans’ Civil Rights Act of 1960, overcoming a 125-hour, around-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats.

May 2, 1963
Republicans condemn the Democrat sheriff of Birmingham, Alabama for arresting over 2,000 African-American schoolchildren marching for their civil rights.

September 29, 1963
Democrat Gov. George Wallace of Alabama defies order by U.S. District Judge Frank Johnson, appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, to integrate Tuskegee High School.

Part three:
June 10, 1964
Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) criticizes the Democrat filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act and calls on Democrats to stop opposing racial equality. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced and approved by a staggering majority of Republicans in the Senate. The Act was opposed by most southern Democrat senators, several of whom were proud segregationists—one of them being Democrat Senator Al Gore Sr. The Democrat President Lyndon Johnson relied on Senator Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.

August 4, 1965
Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen overcomes the Democrat attempts to block the 1965 Voting Rights Act. 94% of Senate Republicans voted for that landmark civil right legislation, while 27% of Democrats opposed it. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 abolished literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to prevent African-Americans from voting.

February 19, 1976
Republican President Gerald Ford formally rescinds Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s notorious Executive Order authorizing internment of over 120,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII.

September 15, 1981
Republican President Ronald Reagan establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities to increase African-American participation in federal education programs.

June 29, 1982
Republican President Ronald Reagan signs a 25-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act.

August 10, 1988
Republican President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, compensating Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property during World War II internment ordered by Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

November 21, 1991
Republican President George H. W. Bush signs the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to strengthen federal civil rights legislation.

August 20, 1996
Legislation authored by U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari (R-NY) to prohibit racial discrimination in adoptions becomes law and is part of the Republicans’ Contract With America.

@yougottabekidding, how do you have a three post long history of race in America in the last 160 years and not mention Martin Luther King Jr. or the Tulsa Massacre?

GreatLakes4Ever said:

@yougottabekidding, how do you have a three post long history of race in America in the last 160 years and not mention Martin Luther King Jr. or the Tulsa Massacre?

Click to expand...

Perhaps because I was addressing Congress and the government. The part of history that is not widley well known - but thanks for calling me out. Always a pleasure.

Touche'd a nerve?

yougottabekidding said:

Perhaps because I was addressing Congress and the government. The part of history that is not widley well known - but thanks for calling me out. Always a pleasure.

Touche'd a nerve?

Click to expand...

If you were focusing on just the government and Congress, why was their no mention of the Republicans ending Reconstruction in 1877 so they could have the White House and the South became a breeding ground for Jim Crow laws when the federal troops left?Why was their no mention of the government making MLK Day a federal holiday? Why was their no mention of the first African American becoming president? Why no mention of Thurgood Marshall being named the first African-American Supreme Court Justice?

Hammster said:

There’s no Colored drinking fountains where I live.

Click to expand...

Where do you live?

yougottabekidding said:

Part three:
June 10, 1964
Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) criticizes the Democrat filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act and calls on Democrats to stop opposing racial equality. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced and approved by a staggering majority of Republicans in the Senate. The Act was opposed by most southern Democrat senators, several of whom were proud segregationists—one of them being Democrat Senator Al Gore Sr. The Democrat President Lyndon Johnson relied on Senator Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.

August 4, 1965
Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen overcomes the Democrat attempts to block the 1965 Voting Rights Act. 94% of Senate Republicans voted for that landmark civil right legislation, while 27% of Democrats opposed it. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 abolished literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to prevent African-Americans from voting.

February 19, 1976
Republican President Gerald Ford formally rescinds Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s notorious Executive Order authorizing internment of over 120,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII.

September 15, 1981
Republican President Ronald Reagan establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities to increase African-American participation in federal education programs.

June 29, 1982
Republican President Ronald Reagan signs a 25-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act.

August 10, 1988
Republican President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, compensating Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property during World War II internment ordered by Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

November 21, 1991
Republican President George H. W. Bush signs the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to strengthen federal civil rights legislation.

August 20, 1996
Legislation authored by U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari (R-NY) to prohibit racial discrimination in adoptions becomes law and is part of the Republicans’ Contract With America.

Click to expand...

It's kind of cute how you respond to a comment that had nothing to do with political parties and turn it into something partisan. It's also cute how you convenient gloss over the partisan makeup of the politicians who voted for and against those bills after the 1960's.

That 1982 Civil Rights Act extension passed the Senate by a vote of 85-8. Of the 8 who voted against it, one was an Independent and 7 were Republicans. Republican Jesse Helms filibustered it:
VOTING RIGHTS ACT RENEWED IN SENATE BY MARGIN OF 85-8

The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 was opposed by a majority of Republican Representatives and nearly half of the Republican Senators. Support from Democrats was overwhelming:
Civil Liberties Act of 1988 - Wikipedia

The Civil Rights Act of 1991 had overwhelming majorities of both parties in both houses, but of the people who voting against it, only 5 were Democrats (all Representatives). The rest consisted of 5 Republican Senators and 33 Republican Representative.
S. 1745 (102nd): Civil Rights Act of 1991 -- Senate Vote #238 -- Oct 30, 1991
S. 1745 (102nd): Civil Rights Act of 1991 -- House Vote #386 -- Nov 7, 1991

I can't find where Molinari's bill got past the Senate:
H.R.3286 - 104th Congress (1995-1996): Adoption Promotion and Stability Act of 1996

But go ahead and keep spinning your bogus narrative that it's always been Democrats who've opposed civil rights while ignoring the fact that the makeup of the parties has changed over the last 50 years. If you keep at it, I'm sure you'll convince somebody other than yourself or those who haven't picked up a book.

yougottabekidding said:

Perhaps because I was addressing Congress and the government. The part of history that is not widley well known - but thanks for calling me out. Always a pleasure.

Touche'd a nerve?

Click to expand...

It's plenty well-known that the Democrats used to be the party of segregation. That's what the Dixiecrats were. That's who the "party of Lincoln" ran against. The only people who don't know that are the same, uneducated people likely to buy into the propaganda that you're trying to spin that tries to whitewash the more recent actions of the Republican party on race by riding the coattails of their grandparents. If you're a racist jerk today, you don't get a pass merely because your great-great-grandfather was a hero who fought the confederates and sheltered slaves.

GreatLakes4Ever said:

If you were focusing on just the government and Congress, why was their no mention of the Republicans ending Reconstruction in 1877 so they could have the White House and the South became a breeding ground for Jim Crow laws when the federal troops left?Why was their no mention of the government making MLK Day a federal holiday? Why was their no mention of the first African American becoming president? Why no mention of Thurgood Marshall being named the first African-American Supreme Court Justice?

Click to expand...

Well... there ya go, now it is mentioned. Cookie?

Hammster said:

You are the one who brought up the history of the 20th century. Are you saying that’s only applicable when it fits your narrative?

Click to expand...

QFT

yougottabekidding said:

Well... there ya go, now it is mentioned. Cookie?

Click to expand...

I just find it curious that your entire list seemed to skip anything that didn’t make Republicans look good/make Democrats look bad. It reads like a Republican fluff piece.

Also, I think you just copy and pasted having never read this because you didn’t challenge my complaint about Martin Luther King Jr being absent. His voted for Eisenhower is the extent of his contribution to civil rights according to this.

iluvatar5150 said:

It's kind of cute how you respond to a comment that had nothing to do with political parties and turn it into something partisan. It's also cute how you convenient gloss over the partisan makeup of the politicians who voted for and against those bills after the 1960's.

Click to expand...

FYI - using terms like what I bolded are often a sign of hitting a nerve. It is used in the pejorative, (a word expressing contempt or disapproval), not in a factual sense, but snide and some times unmannerly. If that is the case, I do not know, it falls on deaf ears with me.

You do a good job in replying with some facts, but the "you're so cute", takes away from your believability in a personal sense.

As for "a comment that has nothing to do with political parties" - per haps you can elaborate on what you are referring to without the mention of political parties. That I find interesting.

Hammster said:

United States.

Click to expand...

If you're going to rebut my argument, then how about you actually do it instead of playing games?

Hammster said:

You are the one who brought up the history of the 20th century. Are you saying that’s only applicable when it fits your narrative?

Click to expand...

No, I'm saying that @yougottabekidding cherry-picked factoids to push a bogus, simple-minded narrative that anybody with a couple minutes and google can pick apart. Additionally, his posts were mostly irrelevant because the post of @Hazelelponi's to which I was responding had little to do with partisanship and was mostly about the oppression that blacks have faced.

GreatLakes4Ever said:

I just find it curious that your entire list seemed to skip anything that didn’t make Republicans look good/make Democrats look bad. It reads like a Republican fluff piece.

Also, I think you just copy and pasted having never read this because you didn’t challenge my complaint about Martin Luther King Jr being absent. His voted for Eisenhower is the extent of his contribution to civil rights according to this.

Click to expand...

I encourage you to read the link I referenced. It is written by an African American.

yougottabekidding said:

FYI - using terms like what I bolded are often a sign of hitting a nerve. It is used in the pejorative, (a word expressing contempt or disapproval), not in a factual sense, but snide and some times unmannerly. If that is the case, I do not know, it falls on deaf ears with me.

Click to expand...

It hit a nerve with me because it's dishonest. I have no problem with criticizing Democrats but using your cherry-picked list to paint the sort of picture you did is ridiculous - less because it criticizes Dems and moreso because it tries to get Republicans off the hook.

You do a good job in replying with some facts, but the "you're so cute", takes away from your believability in a personal sense.

Click to expand...

That's why I try to cite as many sources as possible. I don't need you to believe *me* when the data shows that I'm right.

As for "a comment that has nothing to do with political parties" - per haps you can elaborate on what you are referring to without the mention of political parties. That I find interesting.

Click to expand...

Go back and re-read @Hazelelponi's post. Her only mention of anything political was the left's anti-poverty measures.

yougottabekidding said:

I encourage you to read the link I referenced. It is written by an African American.

Click to expand...

What link? These are the only three links you've posted in this thread and they were all part of your copy-and-paste job:
Confiscation Act of 1862
Orval Faubus - Wikipedia
Children of the Camps | CIVIL LIBERTIES ACT OF 1988