Purging Hate in America

Yesterday, the South Carolina House of Representatives voted to remove the Confederate Battle flag from the state capital and the governor signed the bill into law. The flag will come down today. So over 50 years after the flag was raised by a Democrat governor and longtime U.S. Senator, Ernest "Fritz" Hollings and a Democrat controlled, white male state House and Senate, the flag seen by many has a symbol of racism and hate will come down under an Indian-American, female Republican governor, Nikki Haley, and a Republican-controlled state House and Senate. It is also interesting to note that South Carolina's senior U.S. Senator, Republican Lindsey Graham, continues to be elected despite lingering rumors that he is gay, and its junior senator, Republican Tim Scott, is the first African-American, elected to the U.S. Senate from the South since Reconstruction. Who knew South Carolina was such a hotbed of equality?

With the Confederate flag on its way out, as usual, those on the Left are not satisfied. Many, such as CNN anchor Don Lemon, are seriously questioning whether it's time to remove the Jefferson memorial from its place on the Tidal Basin and if, the nation's capital itself, should be renamed. After all, both Jefferson and Washington were slave owners so their place in American history is irredeemably tainted.

If that reasoning makes sense to you, I ask you to consider the following. Should someone be banished from the public arena if they supported slavery? How about if they were responsible for the Jim Crow laws and racial segregation? What if they formed a hate group that terrorized racial, religious and ethnic minorities? And how about if they opposed the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968, and the Voting Rights Act? What if they support policies that have had genocidal effects on the African-American population? Or if many in their leadership were former Klan members or spied on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and referred to him by the N-word? Would you associate with a group like this? Then why are some of you registered Democrats?

Here are the facts.
The Democrat Party was the party of slavery, Jim Crow laws and segregation.
The Ku Klux Klan was formed as the militant arm of the Democrat Party.
The following prominent Democrat members of the U.S. Congress opposed civil rights legislation:
Richard B. Russell, Al Gore Sr., J. William Fulbright, and Robert C. Byrd, to name a few;
President John F. Kennedy and his brother, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, illegally wire-tapped the phones of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
President Lyndon B. Johnson described King using the N-word.
President Woodrow Wilson re-segregated the U.S. military
A major policy of the Democrat party, legalized abortion, was advocated by Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger, who in 1921 said it would, "...limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective." Today, 3 out of 4 African-American pregnancies end in abortion and the black population has remained the same as it was in 1973 - 13%. Prophetic, huh?

Maybe its time we really purge America of its hateful past. Let's start at the source and ban the Democrat Party.