too good to be true!!!!

[luckydevil]

"all racists sure vote Republican."

Jack, do you always have to act like an a**

[Art]

Actually, Jack, Jessie Jackson is a racist and anyone who believes in affirmative action is a racist, and most of them vote Democrat. So, thanks for pointing out another failing of your group.

[tex]

Jack's statements imply that the Republican party holds some sort of hateful grudge against minorities, blacks in particular. I just don't see it that way.

In the 1860 campaign for president, Lincoln, a Republican , firmly expressed his opposition to slavery and his determination to limit the expansion of slavery westward into the new territories acquired from Mexico in 1850. His election victory created a crisis for the nation as many southern Democrats feared that it would just be a matter of time before Lincoln would move to kill slavery in the South. Rather than face a future in which black people might become free and equal citizens, the majority of the white Southern Democrats supported secession.

What started as a war to preserve the Union became a battle for freedom and a war to end slavery when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in January of 1863. Although the Proclamation did not free all slaves in the nation—indeed, no slaves outside of the Confederacy were affected by the Proclamation—it was an important symbolic gesture that identified the Republican party with freedom and the death of slavery. As part of the Proclamation, Lincoln also urged black males to join the Union forces as soldiers and sailors. By the end of the war, nearly 200,000 African-Americans had fought for the Republican cause, and Lincoln referred to them as indispensable in ensuring Union victory.

[redman]

Originally posted by JackC

The GOP may not be a racist party but all racists sure vote Republican.

Exception to the rule?