According to a story in CTMirror, “CT
GOP chair says cancel culture should apply to Democrats”, the Grand Old Party of Lincoln, generally
regarded as the father of the modern Republican Party, “intends to adopt a
resolution condemning the history of the Democratic Party, which sprang to life
in the slave-holding South and amassed a long record protecting segregation
before embracing labor and civil rights — and ceding white southern voters to
Republicans.”
The Connecticut GOP
is now working up a resolution, and J.R. Romano, Chairman of the state GOP, is
quoted in the CTMirror story as having thrown down the gauntlet to state Democrats:
“We demand that the party change its name,” said J.R. Romano, the state GOP
chair. “For me, I believe it is vital that every citizen know the truth about
the so-called party of inclusion and acceptance. If we are to hold Christopher
Columbus accountable for over 500 years after the fact, it is our duty and
moral obligation to hold the Democratic Party accountable.”
Is he serious? Yes,
he is serious; the resolution may go forward, though it’s doubtful the GOP will
wink at Republican brown shirts as they uproot statues, deface monuments and
airbrush history.
Romano did not
suggest the GOP was in the process of creating a curriculum in public schools across
the state that would show impressionable young children the real nature of the
historic complicity of the Democrat Party in supporting slavery, Jim Crow and
the setting of dogs on southern protestors gathered to fulfill Dr. Martin
Luther King’s call to establish Lincoln’s “more perfect union” in his memorable
“I
Have A Dream” speech, delivered from the steps of the Lincoln memorial.
But perhaps a curriculum guide is in the works.
Chairwoman of
Connecticut’s Democrat Party Nancy DiNardo has said, according to the CTMirror
story, that “Connecticut is one of the many states where Democrats renamed
annual Jefferson-Jackson fundraising dinners,” and this demonstrates that Modem
Democrats have “recognized the error of their ways nearly 100 years ago and
since then have supported the New Deal, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the
Voting Rights Act of 1965, gay rights, gay marriage, choice, health care for
all, racial justice and demilitarization of police, just to name a few
important milestones, many of which Republicans have worked to defeat.”
And here history
gets very messy. The name of the annual money grab for Democrats in Connecticut,
“The Jefferson, Jackson, Bailey” dinner, was changed a few years back after it had
been noticed very late in the day that President Thomas Jefferson, the
principal author of the Declaration of Independence, was a slaver, as was “Father
of the Country” George Washington, who released his slaves upon his death. The
names of Jefferson and Jackson were expunged and the dinner was renamed. It was
mentioned at the time in some
news commentary that Jackson, the father of the modern Democrat Party, had
also moved the Cherokee Indians off their ancestral lands in a long march that
later became known as “The
Trail of Tears”.
Not only did Mr.
Jackson own hundreds of slaves, he vigorously prohibited abolitionists from
distributing tracts condemning slavery, tabled abolitionist activity in
Congress and was himself a slave trader, according
to a piece in Salon.
The lesson commonly
drawn from the desecration of Columbus statues in Connecticut is that
repentance is not enough; the sins of the father should always be visited upon sons and daughters, and never mind
Ezekiel as quoted above. The violent protesters
prosecuting the war on statues and monuments, whipped up by the usual suspects –
few of whom, one imagines, are registered Republicans -- have also attacked the
Lincoln memorial, the site of King’s stirring oratory, and statues of Ulysses
S. Grant, the general Lincoln chose to prosecute the Civil War, in the course
of which the South was forced back into the Union, minus its slaves, at a cost
of blood
and tears that school children in Connecticut, as well as infantalized quasi-Marxist
revolutionists, cannot picture in their worst nightmares. At the battle of Shiloh,
the ground was so carpeted with dead bodies that neither northern nor southern troops
could advance a foot without stepping on a corpse.
All this should be
remembered rightly so that children in Connecticut will not repeat the errors
of history.
We are now in the process
of forgetting the remembered history that still burns brightly in the minds of
the present generation. DeNardo knows very well that the nay vote breakdown during
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was: Democrats opposed 91, Republicans opposed 35.
She knows as well that after passage of the 14th amendment, which
had enfranchised American blacks – all of the black congressmen elected during Reconstruction
were Republicans – it was Democrats, during Jim Crow era, that systematically disenfranchised
blacks. Systemic racism begins here.
So then, always remembering
Ezekiel, bring on the curriculum.
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