Right Wing Revisionist History CORRECTED

There is absolutely no coincidence whatsoever that just days before another national election, the Right Wing Nut Jobs are out flogging a pernicious lie that “the Democrat Party” is inherently racist, who “literally hunted (and) killed Republicans and African Americans.” Oh — and they’d also like to convince you that it’s the Democrats who are historical revisionists, rather than the authors of this preposterous piffle.

It would be easy, but inaccurate, to simply dismiss their insistence on conflating historical facts with modern day political party affiliation as “lies.” The only part of this thoughtless and largely inaccurate accusation that could rightly be called a “lie,” is the idea that Democrats have “successfully employed a revisionist history” to secure the black vote. Nonsense. These problems begin and end where they usually do; with the insistence on rigidly adhering to partisan political gains by any means necessary. They’ll say anything to win, no matter how ugly or wrong.

Well, in fairness, it would be wrong of me to accuse Sam Gonzalez (the misguided author who wrote the introduction to this historical hatchet-job) of lying, too. When he wrote Democrats have “trick(ed) Blacks into thinking Republicans are the racists when the truth is the other way around,” I honestly don’t believe he thought he was lying. I’d like to think that Sam simply doesn’t know any better — and is just an ignorant partisan player, a useful dupe in this sordid mess. It’s one thing to repeat something you’ve been told, because you think it will be popular with the rednecks — but do you even history, bro?

My guess is this: Sam (and many of his slower conservative cousins) really don’t have the first clue that these “Democrats” who right-wing propagandists love to accuse of “founding the KKK” and “hunting” God-fearing Republicans, were actually members of the The States Rights Democratic Party (otherwise referred to as Dixiecrats). The Dixiecrats tried and failed make the “South rise again,” when they fielded their own candidate for president less than 100 years after losing the Civil War.

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