Hildebrand: Democrats have history of abuse of civil rights

By: Charlie Hildebrand | Morganton News Herald
Published: October 20, 2009

Hildebran, NC --

President Jimmy Carter said people who are dissatisfied with President Obama have been influenced to a major degree because of his color. I do not believe that. I believe that most people, including the people of the out party, are dissatisfied with his policies. I also believe that President Carter is trying to depict the Republican Party as a racist party.
There are some facts that we know. Look at Gov. Orval Faubus (1955-1967), a Democrat who tried to keep the black students from going to Little Rock High School in 1957. It took a Republican president (Eisenhower) to straighten out the mess in Little Rock. Next we go to Lester Maddox, a Democrat from Atlanta, who put a barrel of ax handles in his restaurant and threatened to bust any black man's head open if he tried to stage a sit-in at his restaurant. He won so much popularity from that act that the Democrat Party elected him governor of Georgia (1967-1971). George Wallace, Democratic governor of Alabama (1963-1967), who opposed integration, stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama in 1963 and would not let two black students go in and register for classes. The same thing happened at the University of Mississippi where Gov. Ross Barnett (1960-64) would not let black students go in and register for classes.
You cannot find anywhere in the United States where a Republican governor acted in such a racist manner as these.
U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd from West Virginia was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Bull Conner, a Democratic police chief from Alabama, turned the fire hose on a peaceable black march. The first Democratic president owned slaves. The first Republican president abolished slavery.
Vice-President Al Gore referred to Jack Kemp as a lone voice for civil rights in the Republican Party. Al Gore's father, a senator from Tennessee, did not vote for civil rights.
I remember, before the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, when black children in many Democratic states were bused across two or three counties to be sure they were not mixed with white students.
It seems like Democrats are wrongly accusing Republicans of abusing civil rights.

Hildebrand: Democrats have history of abuse of civil rights

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