Debunking Democrat Myths

• Blacks have access to health care
• All blacks benefited from the tax cuts
• The “Dixiecrats” remained Democrats
• The truth about Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”
• No blacks were denied the right to vote in 2000 and 2004

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Democrats deceive blacks about access to health care

Democrats claim that poor blacks have no access to health care.  Yet, $10 billion has been allocated for Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance for the poor.  Since 2001 access to community health centers that provide free medical care for the poor has been extended to 2.2 million additional Americans.  This expansion is part of President Bush's five-year plan to fund 1,200 new sites serving 16 million Americans.

The truth about “Tax Cuts for the Rich”

Contrary to false claims by Democrats, all Americans benefited from Bush's Jobs and Growth tax relief law where 108 million families got an average $2,500 more in tax relief.  Poor blacks benefited from the tax cuts in two ways.  First, 3.8 million more poor blacks were freed from the tax rolls, bringing the total to a record 40 million Americans who pay no income taxes, according to the nonpartisan Tax Foundation.  Second, poor blacks get a tax gift of $1,000 per child and an additional $1,658 on average under the Earned Income Tax Credit program.  Therefore, a poor family with two children receives $3,658 each year from the government.

The Dixiecrats remained Democrats

Contrary to the myth perpetuated by Democrats and some liberal historians, the Dixiecrats did not migrate to the Republican Party.

The Dixiecrats were a group of Southern Democrats who, in the 1948 national election, ran a third party ticket that supported the Jim Crow laws passed by the democrats and racial segregation.  Even so, they continued to be Democrats for all local and state elections, as well as for all future national elections.

Since the republican Party was founded as the anti-slavery party, Southern Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” that vote for a Republican.

Today, some of those former Dixiecrats continue their political careers as Democrats.  Most notable examples are Democrat Robert Byrd of West Virginia who is well known for having been a “Keagle” in the Ku Klux Klan, and Democrat Senator Fritz Hollings who put up the Confederate flag over the state capitol when he was the governor of South Carolina.  The Ku Klux Klan that was started by the Democrats was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.

In 1964, it took the leadership of Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen to break the filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill led by Senator Robert Byrd.  Recently, Senator Christopher Dodd praised Senator Byrd as someone who would have been “a great leader for any moment,” including the Civil War.  Where was the outrage from black Democrats?

Democrats denounced Senator Trent Lott for his remarks about Senator Strom Thurmond have remained silent about Senator Dodd’s racist remarks.  Senator Thurmond was never a member of the Klan, and he defended blacks against the poll tax and lynching.  If Senator Byrd and Senator Thurmond were alive during the Civil War and Byrd had his way, Thurmond would have been lynched.

The truth about Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”

The nearly 30-year odyssey of the South switching to the Republican Party began in the late 1970s with President Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy.  Georgia did not switch until 2002, and some states, such as Louisiana, still are controlled by Democrats.

The essence of Nixon’s strategy was to convince Christians in the South to stop supporting the Democratic Party that was denying blacks their civil rights and support the Republican Party that was fighting for the civil rights of blacks.

Southerners who switched to the Republican Party did so because they got over their dislike for the Republican Party that was known as the party for blacks and realized that the Republican Party shares their traditional values of faith in God, personal responsibility, hard work, and strong families.

Today, Christians in the South do not support the Democratic Party because it is the party of socialists and secularists who favor same-sex marriage, partial-birth abortion and banning God from the public square.  The harsh rhetoric by Democrats against people of faith shows that Christians are not welcome in the Democratic Party.

Democrat Myth:  Blacks Denied the Right to Vote

A second recount of Florida's votes by the Miami Herald and a consortium of major news organizations confirmed that George W. Bush won the 2000 election.  Also, investigations by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the U. S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division found that no blacks were denied the right to vote in the 2000 election. 

If even one black person had been denied the right to vote, that person's name would have been blasted on the front page of every newspaper in this country.  The record shows that in June 2001, following a six-month investigation that included subpoenas of Florida State officials from Governor Jeb Bush on down, the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights issued a report that found no evidence of voter intimidation, no evidence of voter harassment, and no evidence of intentional or systematic disenfranchisement of black voters. The U. S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division conducted a separate investigation and also found no evidence that Floridians were denied the right to vote during the November 2000 election.

During the 2004 election, Democratic Party operatives continued to perpetuate the myth that black voters were disenfranchised during the 2000 presidential election.  If blacks had been denied the right to vote, then why did all of the Democratic Party senators, including John Kerry, John Edwards, Bob Graham and Bill Nelson refuse to support the filling of a voter fraud lawsuit by the Congressional Black Caucus?

Notably, the claim by Democratic Party operatives that "millions" of blacks were denied the right to vote seems ludicrous on its face since ballots do not record the race of the voter. Not mentioned by those claiming voter intimidation is the fact that in 24 of the 25 Florida counties with the highest ballot spoilage rate, the election supervisor was a Democrat. In the 25th county, the election supervisor was an Independent.  As for the "felon purge list," the Miami Herald found that whites were twice as likely to be incorrectly placed on the list as backs. The real shame here is that some Democrats, for short-term partisan advantage, are only too willing to exploit the painful history of black voter disenfranchisement, ironically by Southern Democrats.

The only identifiable black voters who were actually disenfranchised during the 2000 election were members of the military stationed overseas whose ballots, along with those of other overseas service members, were thrown out because of phony challenges by lawyers hired by the Democratic Party.

Every election cycle, the Democratic Party goes into the black community with the same message of incitement, not empowerment.  The message to blacks is "you are a victim," and you must cast a revenge vote in anger to stop Republicans from taking away your right to vote or letting the Voting Rights Act expire.  Does that seem familiar?

Democratic Party activists are now in 2006 showing a film entitled American Blackout with false claims about black voter disenfranchised in 2000 and 2004. Starting in 2002, Democratic Party operatives began showing a film called Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election that also contains the false accusation that blacks were denied the right to vote by Republicans. This accusation in those two films is designed to generate hatred among black voters toward Republicans.

The American Blackout film was made by a left-wing radical, Ian Inaba, whose company is called “Guerilla News Network.”  The film “Unprecedented” was made by reporters for the BBC, the British Broadcasting Company, and was shown to be biased against both the American and British governments by an independent investigating commission.  MoveOn.Org and the African People's Socialist Party, a revolutionary organization that equates our soldiers and country to Nazis and Nazi Germany, sponsored the “Unprecedented” film.  Apparently those liberal, left-wing socialist groups do not know that the word “Nazis” is the German acronym for the Nationalist Socialist Workers Party, a left-wing, socialist organization.