A SECRET HISTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Posted by Andrew Jackson under Democratic Party at 7:32 am.La Shawn Barber, a real Red Christian, posts on the “secret” history of the Democratic Party.
What are your thoughts? Is La Shawn accurate or just selective concerning the Democratic Party?
August 14th, 2006 at 7:50 am
I admit to a selection bias!
August 14th, 2006 at 7:52 am
A Secret History of the Democratic Party
Update: Fellow Christian conservative Andrew Jackson asks, “Is La Shawn accurate or just selective concerning the Democratic Party?”
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August 14th, 2006 at 9:53 am
The Ku Klux Klan was in its heyday during the 1920s, almost a century ago. Ms. Barber makes the not-so-startling discovery that in the South, which was overwhelmingly Democrat in those days, many KKK members were Democrats.
Christian fundamentalism also was in its prime in the early 1920s, and many KKK members were also fundamentalist Christians. As a matter of fact, it is no secret that many fundamentalists in those days looked upon opposing racial intermingling as one way to preserve the “family values” fundamentalists held dear.
A knowledge of history is always valuable, what is the pressing significance of this information, either regarding the modern Democratic party, or modern Christians?
Ms. Barber’s post reads like just another cheap partisan shot. I’m sure her defense, as she writes in her post, is that her political opponents took the first cheap shot. Maybe they did. Now Barber has stooped to join them.
August 21st, 2006 at 9:18 am
Terry,
Like it or not, it gets rather irritating to continually hear the lie that the Republican party not only guarantees the perpetuity of racism, but that Republicans were the originators of racism as well. That is clearly the implication of writings which purposefully omit Democrat connections among prominent Southern segregationists and the KKK, while highlighting Repbulican connections between the same people. Such work was the subject of LaShawn’s comments.
You are correct in pointing out the futility of comparing modern political movements with those of past generations, yet your comment slyly attempts to tie together modern populist Evangelical Christianity (e.g. “family values”) and 1920’s southern Fundamentalism. The highly-evolved concept of modern “family values” as marketed by people like James Dobson simply did not exist 80 years ago.
Perhaps both sides should freely admit their failings along with their triumphs.