Take this test. I know it looks like a lot. Trust me it wont take long
1. What Party was founded as the anti-slavery Party and fought to free blacks from slavery?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
2. What was the Party of Abraham Lincoln who signed the emancipation proclamation that resulted in the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
3. What Party passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting blacks freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
4. What Party passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting blacks protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, and was the Party of most blacks prior to the 1960’s, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
5. What was the Party of the founding fathers of the NAACP?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
6. What was the Party of President Dwight Eisenhower who sent U.S. troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools, established the Civil Rights Commission in 1958, and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
7. What Party, by the greatest percentage, passed the Civil Rights Acts of the 1950’s and 1960’s?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
8. What was the Party of President Richard Nixon who instituted the first Affirmative Action program in 1969 with the Philadelphia Plan that established goals and timetables?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
9. What is the Party of President George W. Bush who appointed more blacks to high-level positions than any president in history and who spent record money education, job training and health care to help black Americans prosper?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
10. What Party fought to keep blacks in slavery and was the Party of the Ku Klux Klan?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
11. What Party from 1870 to 1930 used fraud, whippings, lynching, murder, intimidation, and mutilation to get the black vote, and passed the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws which legalized racial discrimination and denied blacks their rights as citizens?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
12. What was the Party of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry Truman who rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
13. What was the Party of President Lyndon Johnson, who called Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “that [N-word] preacher” because he opposed the Viet Nam War; and President John F. Kennedy who voted against the 1957 Civil Rights law as a Senator, then as president opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after becoming president and the FBI investigate Dr. King on suspicion of being a communist?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
14. What is the Party of the late Senators Robert Byrd who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Ernest “Fritz” Hollings who hoisted the Confederate flag over the state capitol in South Carolina while governor, and Ted Kennedy who called black judicial nominees “Neanderthals” while blocking their appointments?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
15. What was the Party of President Bill Clinton who failed to fight the terrorists after the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, sent troops to war in Bosnia and Kosovo without Congressional approval, vetoed the Welfare Reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
16. What is the Party of Vice President Al Gore whose father voted against the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s, and who lost the 2000 election as confirmed by a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations and the ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission that blacks were not denied the right to vote?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
17. What Party is against school vouchers, against school prayers, and takes the black vote for granted without ever acknowledging their racist past or apologizing for trying to expand slavery, lynching blacks and passing the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that caused great harm to blacks?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
By now you have figured out every answer is the letter “B.” I’m not saying that we should all go out and vote for Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum. But it does make you think about why the GOP is roundly hated by blacks. The image that the Republican party has in the African-American community is not good. Most believe that Republicans are evil, racist, narrow-minded, and homophobic. On the other side of the spectrum, the Democratic Party enjoys a good relationship with Blacks largely due to the sitting President. At one point in time the feelings toward the two political parties were reversed.
Locally a case can made that the Democratic Party has not really done right by African-Americans. “Machine’ politics kept blacks from getting jobs with the police and fire departments. In the wintertime you can see whose streets get plowed first. Also the Dan Ryan expressway separates the Democratic stronghold of Bridgeport from their neighbors to the east in Bronzeville. Don’t forget about the “Council Wars.” That was led by a group of aldermen who weren’t too fond of Harold Washington, our city’s first black mayor. Some of those same aldermen were behind the recent ward-remapping saga. I am not here to make sure you vote for one party over another. I just want people to be aware of history.
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Tags: City of Chicago, Council Wars, Mitt Romney, President Barack Obama, Rick Santorum
What party wants to make it harder for minorities to vote?
a. Democratic Party
b. Republican Party
I'm a minority and I find it insulting that liberals think I'm not smart enough to find a way to get an ID before election or find a voting place, etc. That I'm such a weak and helpless individula I need them to hold my hand through life.
You have to have an ID for everything else in life, why not for this very important event. Also and ID is required in this state. The so-called poor wear $80 gymshoes, iphones, jewlry, etc. I'm sure they can afford an ID.
C.Both
Thanks for reading!!
Locally, there is no difference between A and B.
Nationally, the situation for minorities -- especially African Americans-- has gotten worse in the last three years.
Historically, in the last 60 years the democrats have done not much more than produce a dependent class of people, which is their aim, which is President Obama's aim.
I get a laugh when black people say that we must vote for obama because the repbublican alternative is worse. They say this while doing terribly in democrat controlled, ward,city,county and state that does nothing but ignore and continually marginalise them. If republicans are so bad why are more blacks moving to republican controlled states, where the democrat voice is muted.
Black people aren't voting for Democrats because they agree. They have been conditoned by the dems and the dems have demonised the repubs so badly. What black people must understand is giving 90% + of your vote to one party marginalises you, weakens your political clout and takes away leverage. Black people are the most loyal of the dems but they are at the back of the line. Guaranting the votes only gurantees you will be taken for granted and written off by both parties as the republicans know they don't have a chance and democrats know you aren't going anywhere not matter what they do.