To the editor:

The only “argument” the Left – the Democratic Party – has today is name-calling. If you don’t agree, you’re a “racist.” If we’re going to “cancel” racist organizations, let’s start with the historically racist party, the Democrats.

The Republican Party, weak though it often is, was founded on an anti-slavery platform. Abraham Lincoln led the Union’s war against the Southern Confederacy which included the slavery issue. The 13th Amendment banning slavery was passed in 1865 by Republicans.

In 1868, Republicans passed the 14th Amendment granting citizenship to former slaves and equal protection under the law. Backed by federal troops to fight the Ku Klux Klan, they formed “Union Leagues” under President Ulysses Grant to “Reconstruct the South.”

The first seven black members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives were Republicans.

In 1873, the Democrats won the House of Representatives (federal level) and soon gained control over the South’s state governments.

In 1877, the Reconstruction ended by removing federal troops from Southern states. This permitted segregation policies to be enacted (Jim Crow Laws) which disenfranchised blacks in all aspects of society. This inequality continued for nearly a century until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed.

Think back to Nazi Germany, 1935, when the Nuremberg laws were being drafted. They needed three factors to make the Jews second-class citizens. Unprecedented, they cited the “blueprints” of the Democratic Party in the U.S. that used these items to make the blacks second-class citizens: (1) segregation, (2) anti-miscegenation laws [intermarriage unlawful] and (3) state-sponsored discrimination.

Realize that “every segregation law in the U.S., from the 1880s to the 1950s was passed by a Democrat legislature, signed by a Democrat governor, enforced by Democrat officials, and there is not a single exception to this rule” (from speech by Dinesh D’Souza, Stanford University, March 2019).

History matters. Truth matters. The Bible says in John 18:37-38, “Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. Pilate saith unto him, What is truth?”

Through countless ages, like Pilate, philosophers have searched for truth but never found it. But for those sincerely desiring truth, the Holy Spirit, through Scripture, will lead them to the Lord Jesus who is the Source of all truth (John 14:6 and 15:26).

Editor’s note: The Democratic Party was the party in power in the South until it showed signs of breaking apart in 1948. This was due to the fact that Southern Democrats were upset by the policies of desegregation enacted by Democratic President Harry Truman. Southern Democrats created the States Rights Democratic Party, nominating Strom Thurmond for president in 1948, who eventually lost.

Thurmond became a Republican in 1960.

Following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, both of which were signed by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was a Southern Democrat, many white southerners switched to the Republican Party at the national level.