Tuesday, January 15, 2008
The Democrats and their racial history
I think most of us know some of this, even though the media does their best to have us believe otherwise...
Bruce Bartlett is interviewed by FrontPageMagazine. He is the author of the new book, Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past:
"FP: What have you done in this book that no one has done before?
Bartlett: What I have done is assemble in one place the whole history of Democratic racism from Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson down to the present day. There are lots of obscure books published by university presses and articles in academic journals that examine this racist episode or that racist politician, but no one has ever connected all the pieces together before now. Frankly, I was astounded when I first became interested in the Democratic Party’s racist past that no one had done what I have done before now.
FP: Tell us a bit about the Democrats’ dark past when it comes to race, especially in regards to Woodrow Wilson, FDR, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson."
