The Semi-Elect President, Donald John Trump
Mar 4, 2017 14:39:11 #
How Republicans Became a “States’ Rights” Party
By Berry Craig
GOP States Rights PartyThe GOP of “Lincoln and Liberty” has been gone for about 50 years.
But Sean Spicer just made it official: the Republicans are “a states’ rights party.”
President Donald Trump’s press secretary said so the other day in response to a reporter’s question about why his boss axed President Obama’s policy that freed transgender students to use toilets and locker rooms that that correspond to their gender identity.
Spicer said that transgender rights is “a states’ rights issue” and that the Republicans are “a states’ rights party.” Southern Democrats used to say the same thing in defense of slavery, segregation and denying African Americans the vote.
The Republicans started down the “states’ rights road” in the 1960s with the Nixon-era “Southern Strategy.”
The Republicans started down the “states’ rights road” in the 1960s with the Nixon-era “Southern Strategy.” The GOP went after conservative white Democrats in the old Confederate states who were ready to abandon their ancestral party because it championed sweeping federal civil rights legislation.
Doubtless, Trump and his flack know the history of “states’ rights” and of “America First,” the latter one of the president’s favorite phrases.
“America First” is not as well known as “states’ rights.” An “America First Committee” vehemently opposed U.S. entry into World War II.
Some committee members were genuine pacifists who believed war was morally wrong. But the organization is better known for its reactionary adherents who hated Jews and spoke admiringly of Adolf Hitler and Nazism.
More than a few right-wing Republicans embraced the America First Committee because they despised President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his “communistic” New Deal.
Charles Lindbergh, the famous aviator, was the group’s most popular speaker.
He was an “enthusiast of fascism,” wrote historian Eric Rauchway. “Lindbergh accepted a medal from Herman Goering ‘in the name of the Fuehrer’ during a visit to Germany in 1938, and ‘proudly wore the decoration.’”
Historian Susan Dunn wrote that “It is extremely unfortunate that … Trump chose to brand his foreign policy with the noxious slogan ‘America First,’ the name of the isolationist, defeatist, anti-Semitic national organization that urged the United States to appease Adolf Hitler.”
“States’ rights” is considerably older. For going on two centuries, it was white code for white supremacy.
Before the Civil War, the South’s powers-that-be cried “states’ rights,” meaning the right of states to sanction slavery.
In 1860-1861, leaders of eleven southern states trumpeted “states’ rights,” seceded from the Union and established the Confederacy because they feared Abraham Lincoln and the “Black “Republicans” would flex Uncle Sam’s muscles to abolish slavery.
From the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the 1960s, Southern politicians resurrected the “states’ rights” slogan to justify Jim Crow segregation and stripping the ballot from African Americans.
While Trump’s GOP is for “states’ rights,” the original GOP was steadfastly nationalist. Abraham Lincoln and the first Republicans believed the federal government had the power to keep slavery out of the western territories.
As the Civil War progressed, the GOP got behind the 13th Amendment to the constitution, which ended slavery. After the war, the Republicans backed the 14th Amendment, which made African Americans citizens, and the 15th Amendment, which gave black men the vote.
All three Reconstruction-era amendments represented the party’s founding principle: that the United States is a federal republic in which the central government is supreme over state governments.
The 1864 Republican platform recognized “the paramount authority of the Constitution and laws of the United States.”
(The platform also declared “that foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to the nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy.”
Berry CraigAn 1866 gathering of Kentucky Republicans hailed “the supremacy of the national constitution and laws” over state laws. “The States are not absolutely sovereign,” they maintained.
Berry Craig
By Berry Craig
GOP States Rights PartyThe GOP of “Lincoln and Liberty” has been gone for about 50 years.
But Sean Spicer just made it official: the Republicans are “a states’ rights party.”
President Donald Trump’s press secretary said so the other day in response to a reporter’s question about why his boss axed President Obama’s policy that freed transgender students to use toilets and locker rooms that that correspond to their gender identity.
Spicer said that transgender rights is “a states’ rights issue” and that the Republicans are “a states’ rights party.” Southern Democrats used to say the same thing in defense of slavery, segregation and denying African Americans the vote.
The Republicans started down the “states’ rights road” in the 1960s with the Nixon-era “Southern Strategy.”
The Republicans started down the “states’ rights road” in the 1960s with the Nixon-era “Southern Strategy.” The GOP went after conservative white Democrats in the old Confederate states who were ready to abandon their ancestral party because it championed sweeping federal civil rights legislation.
Doubtless, Trump and his flack know the history of “states’ rights” and of “America First,” the latter one of the president’s favorite phrases.
“America First” is not as well known as “states’ rights.” An “America First Committee” vehemently opposed U.S. entry into World War II.
Some committee members were genuine pacifists who believed war was morally wrong. But the organization is better known for its reactionary adherents who hated Jews and spoke admiringly of Adolf Hitler and Nazism.
More than a few right-wing Republicans embraced the America First Committee because they despised President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his “communistic” New Deal.
Charles Lindbergh, the famous aviator, was the group’s most popular speaker.
He was an “enthusiast of fascism,” wrote historian Eric Rauchway. “Lindbergh accepted a medal from Herman Goering ‘in the name of the Fuehrer’ during a visit to Germany in 1938, and ‘proudly wore the decoration.’”
Historian Susan Dunn wrote that “It is extremely unfortunate that … Trump chose to brand his foreign policy with the noxious slogan ‘America First,’ the name of the isolationist, defeatist, anti-Semitic national organization that urged the United States to appease Adolf Hitler.”
“States’ rights” is considerably older. For going on two centuries, it was white code for white supremacy.
Before the Civil War, the South’s powers-that-be cried “states’ rights,” meaning the right of states to sanction slavery.
In 1860-1861, leaders of eleven southern states trumpeted “states’ rights,” seceded from the Union and established the Confederacy because they feared Abraham Lincoln and the “Black “Republicans” would flex Uncle Sam’s muscles to abolish slavery.
From the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the 1960s, Southern politicians resurrected the “states’ rights” slogan to justify Jim Crow segregation and stripping the ballot from African Americans.
While Trump’s GOP is for “states’ rights,” the original GOP was steadfastly nationalist. Abraham Lincoln and the first Republicans believed the federal government had the power to keep slavery out of the western territories.
As the Civil War progressed, the GOP got behind the 13th Amendment to the constitution, which ended slavery. After the war, the Republicans backed the 14th Amendment, which made African Americans citizens, and the 15th Amendment, which gave black men the vote.
All three Reconstruction-era amendments represented the party’s founding principle: that the United States is a federal republic in which the central government is supreme over state governments.
The 1864 Republican platform recognized “the paramount authority of the Constitution and laws of the United States.”
(The platform also declared “that foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to the nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy.”
Berry CraigAn 1866 gathering of Kentucky Republicans hailed “the supremacy of the national constitution and laws” over state laws. “The States are not absolutely sovereign,” they maintained.
Berry Craig
Mar 4, 2017 14:39:17 #
How Republicans Became a “States’ Rights” Party
By Berry Craig
GOP States Rights PartyThe GOP of “Lincoln and Liberty” has been gone for about 50 years.
But Sean Spicer just made it official: the Republicans are “a states’ rights party.”
President Donald Trump’s press secretary said so the other day in response to a reporter’s question about why his boss axed President Obama’s policy that freed transgender students to use toilets and locker rooms that that correspond to their gender identity.
Spicer said that transgender rights is “a states’ rights issue” and that the Republicans are “a states’ rights party.” Southern Democrats used to say the same thing in defense of slavery, segregation and denying African Americans the vote.
The Republicans started down the “states’ rights road” in the 1960s with the Nixon-era “Southern Strategy.”
The Republicans started down the “states’ rights road” in the 1960s with the Nixon-era “Southern Strategy.” The GOP went after conservative white Democrats in the old Confederate states who were ready to abandon their ancestral party because it championed sweeping federal civil rights legislation.
Doubtless, Trump and his flack know the history of “states’ rights” and of “America First,” the latter one of the president’s favorite phrases.
“America First” is not as well known as “states’ rights.” An “America First Committee” vehemently opposed U.S. entry into World War II.
Some committee members were genuine pacifists who believed war was morally wrong. But the organization is better known for its reactionary adherents who hated Jews and spoke admiringly of Adolf Hitler and Nazism.
More than a few right-wing Republicans embraced the America First Committee because they despised President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his “communistic” New Deal.
Charles Lindbergh, the famous aviator, was the group’s most popular speaker.
He was an “enthusiast of fascism,” wrote historian Eric Rauchway. “Lindbergh accepted a medal from Herman Goering ‘in the name of the Fuehrer’ during a visit to Germany in 1938, and ‘proudly wore the decoration.’”
Historian Susan Dunn wrote that “It is extremely unfortunate that … Trump chose to brand his foreign policy with the noxious slogan ‘America First,’ the name of the isolationist, defeatist, anti-Semitic national organization that urged the United States to appease Adolf Hitler.”
“States’ rights” is considerably older. For going on two centuries, it was white code for white supremacy.
Before the Civil War, the South’s powers-that-be cried “states’ rights,” meaning the right of states to sanction slavery.
In 1860-1861, leaders of eleven southern states trumpeted “states’ rights,” seceded from the Union and established the Confederacy because they feared Abraham Lincoln and the “Black “Republicans” would flex Uncle Sam’s muscles to abolish slavery.
From the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the 1960s, Southern politicians resurrected the “states’ rights” slogan to justify Jim Crow segregation and stripping the ballot from African Americans.
While Trump’s GOP is for “states’ rights,” the original GOP was steadfastly nationalist. Abraham Lincoln and the first Republicans believed the federal government had the power to keep slavery out of the western territories.
As the Civil War progressed, the GOP got behind the 13th Amendment to the constitution, which ended slavery. After the war, the Republicans backed the 14th Amendment, which made African Americans citizens, and the 15th Amendment, which gave black men the vote.
All three Reconstruction-era amendments represented the party’s founding principle: that the United States is a federal republic in which the central government is supreme over state governments.
The 1864 Republican platform recognized “the paramount authority of the Constitution and laws of the United States.”
(The platform also declared “that foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to the nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy.”
Berry CraigAn 1866 gathering of Kentucky Republicans hailed “the supremacy of the national constitution and laws” over state laws. “The States are not absolutely sovereign,” they maintained.
Berry Craig
By Berry Craig
GOP States Rights PartyThe GOP of “Lincoln and Liberty” has been gone for about 50 years.
But Sean Spicer just made it official: the Republicans are “a states’ rights party.”
President Donald Trump’s press secretary said so the other day in response to a reporter’s question about why his boss axed President Obama’s policy that freed transgender students to use toilets and locker rooms that that correspond to their gender identity.
Spicer said that transgender rights is “a states’ rights issue” and that the Republicans are “a states’ rights party.” Southern Democrats used to say the same thing in defense of slavery, segregation and denying African Americans the vote.
The Republicans started down the “states’ rights road” in the 1960s with the Nixon-era “Southern Strategy.”
The Republicans started down the “states’ rights road” in the 1960s with the Nixon-era “Southern Strategy.” The GOP went after conservative white Democrats in the old Confederate states who were ready to abandon their ancestral party because it championed sweeping federal civil rights legislation.
Doubtless, Trump and his flack know the history of “states’ rights” and of “America First,” the latter one of the president’s favorite phrases.
“America First” is not as well known as “states’ rights.” An “America First Committee” vehemently opposed U.S. entry into World War II.
Some committee members were genuine pacifists who believed war was morally wrong. But the organization is better known for its reactionary adherents who hated Jews and spoke admiringly of Adolf Hitler and Nazism.
More than a few right-wing Republicans embraced the America First Committee because they despised President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his “communistic” New Deal.
Charles Lindbergh, the famous aviator, was the group’s most popular speaker.
He was an “enthusiast of fascism,” wrote historian Eric Rauchway. “Lindbergh accepted a medal from Herman Goering ‘in the name of the Fuehrer’ during a visit to Germany in 1938, and ‘proudly wore the decoration.’”
Historian Susan Dunn wrote that “It is extremely unfortunate that … Trump chose to brand his foreign policy with the noxious slogan ‘America First,’ the name of the isolationist, defeatist, anti-Semitic national organization that urged the United States to appease Adolf Hitler.”
“States’ rights” is considerably older. For going on two centuries, it was white code for white supremacy.
Before the Civil War, the South’s powers-that-be cried “states’ rights,” meaning the right of states to sanction slavery.
In 1860-1861, leaders of eleven southern states trumpeted “states’ rights,” seceded from the Union and established the Confederacy because they feared Abraham Lincoln and the “Black “Republicans” would flex Uncle Sam’s muscles to abolish slavery.
From the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the 1960s, Southern politicians resurrected the “states’ rights” slogan to justify Jim Crow segregation and stripping the ballot from African Americans.
While Trump’s GOP is for “states’ rights,” the original GOP was steadfastly nationalist. Abraham Lincoln and the first Republicans believed the federal government had the power to keep slavery out of the western territories.
As the Civil War progressed, the GOP got behind the 13th Amendment to the constitution, which ended slavery. After the war, the Republicans backed the 14th Amendment, which made African Americans citizens, and the 15th Amendment, which gave black men the vote.
All three Reconstruction-era amendments represented the party’s founding principle: that the United States is a federal republic in which the central government is supreme over state governments.
The 1864 Republican platform recognized “the paramount authority of the Constitution and laws of the United States.”
(The platform also declared “that foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to the nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy.”
Berry CraigAn 1866 gathering of Kentucky Republicans hailed “the supremacy of the national constitution and laws” over state laws. “The States are not absolutely sovereign,” they maintained.
Berry Craig
Mar 4, 2017 14:42:15 #
NAACP Calls for Economic Boycott of North Carolina
The Sanford Herald (Sanford, N.C.) February 27, 2017 at 11:55 am 58 News
The Herald-Sun | Kaitlin McKeown Rev. Dr. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP, addresses a crowd during a "Fight for 15" rally on Nov. 29, 2016 in Durham, NC. The rally brought together employees of the fast food, home care and child care industries to demand a $15 minimum wage.
RALEIGH — The state and national NAACP calls for an economic boycott of North Carolina, citing racially-discriminatory gerrymandering and voter suppression laws.
NAACP National President and Chief Executive Officer Cornell William Brooks and North Carolina State President and National Board Member Rev. Dr. William Barber II, held a press conference at 11 a.m. Friday at the N.C. General Assembly to discuss the economic boycott and rally supporters for direct actions against the legislators.
“NAACP state and national chapters are putting on a boycott of North Carolina,” said Bob Finch, Lee County NAACP Community Coordinator Chairman. “We are urging coalition partners and unions to hold North Carolina’s feet to the fire.”
According to the NAACP Board of Director’s Resolution:
The National Board of the NAACP will explore such a North Carolina Boycott along with the NC State Conference until the N.C. legislature passes bills that accomplish the following (or until such results are achieved through the courts):
–Undo racially gerrymandered districts and create fair election districts.
–Repeal the entire HB2 law.
–Repeal SB4 law passed in a special session that stripped trained civil servants in county and state election boards from supervising elections.
–Repeal the requirement that litigants to appeal to the en banc Court of Appeals before they can file an appeal to the N.C. Supreme Court.
–Repeal legislation that stripped the current governor of powers his predecessor enjoyed.
“The ballot box didn’t work,” said Finch. “So now we’ve got to hit them in the pocket book.”
Two weeks ago during in the 11th Annual Moral March on Raleigh and HKonJ People’s Assembly the N.C. NAACP and its 200 coalition partners, drew close to 100,000 individuals to the state capital to protest against extremism in the NC General Assembly and Trumpism in Washington DC.
Barber informed the gathering that the NC State Conference Executive Committee had voted unanimously to ask the National Board of the NAACP to grant permission for economic boycott, which the NAACP National Board of Directors recently approved in a resolution last weekend during its annual board meeting in New York.
“The actions of the all-white caucus of extremists in our legislature and the former governor are out of control,” said Barber. “They have consistently passed legislation that is a violation of our deepest moral values, voting rights, civil rights and the fundamental principle of equal protection under the law.”
Along with the NAACP, at least 200 additional organizations are planning to join them in the economic boycott of the state. The press conference kicked off the economic boycott, which will include several stages and escalation of protest. The NAACP will refuse to hold its convention in North Carolina and will reach out to other organizations to take similar stances, said the NAACP in its press release.
“True democracy remains a distant ideal that the racist actions of members of the N.C. state legislature continue to disgracefully push further and further out of the reach of the African-American community,” said Brooks.
The NAACP plans to create an internal task force to examine the ways in which the economic boycott can be expanded throughout the state as well as replicated in other states.
“The NAACP refuses to accept this attack on democracy or the commoditization of bias against people due to racial or gender identity here in North Carolina or anywhere else around the nation,” said Brooks. “This we will fight against with all of our resources until we win.”
To see the complete resolution visit: http://live-naacp-site.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Resolution-of-National-Board-as-Proposed-by-NC-State-Conference.pdf.
To view the press conference in its entirety visit: https://livestream.com/accounts/5188266/events/7051729.
The Sanford Herald (Sanford, N.C.) February 27, 2017 at 11:55 am 58 News
The Herald-Sun | Kaitlin McKeown Rev. Dr. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP, addresses a crowd during a "Fight for 15" rally on Nov. 29, 2016 in Durham, NC. The rally brought together employees of the fast food, home care and child care industries to demand a $15 minimum wage.
RALEIGH — The state and national NAACP calls for an economic boycott of North Carolina, citing racially-discriminatory gerrymandering and voter suppression laws.
NAACP National President and Chief Executive Officer Cornell William Brooks and North Carolina State President and National Board Member Rev. Dr. William Barber II, held a press conference at 11 a.m. Friday at the N.C. General Assembly to discuss the economic boycott and rally supporters for direct actions against the legislators.
“NAACP state and national chapters are putting on a boycott of North Carolina,” said Bob Finch, Lee County NAACP Community Coordinator Chairman. “We are urging coalition partners and unions to hold North Carolina’s feet to the fire.”
According to the NAACP Board of Director’s Resolution:
The National Board of the NAACP will explore such a North Carolina Boycott along with the NC State Conference until the N.C. legislature passes bills that accomplish the following (or until such results are achieved through the courts):
–Undo racially gerrymandered districts and create fair election districts.
–Repeal the entire HB2 law.
–Repeal SB4 law passed in a special session that stripped trained civil servants in county and state election boards from supervising elections.
–Repeal the requirement that litigants to appeal to the en banc Court of Appeals before they can file an appeal to the N.C. Supreme Court.
–Repeal legislation that stripped the current governor of powers his predecessor enjoyed.
“The ballot box didn’t work,” said Finch. “So now we’ve got to hit them in the pocket book.”
Two weeks ago during in the 11th Annual Moral March on Raleigh and HKonJ People’s Assembly the N.C. NAACP and its 200 coalition partners, drew close to 100,000 individuals to the state capital to protest against extremism in the NC General Assembly and Trumpism in Washington DC.
Barber informed the gathering that the NC State Conference Executive Committee had voted unanimously to ask the National Board of the NAACP to grant permission for economic boycott, which the NAACP National Board of Directors recently approved in a resolution last weekend during its annual board meeting in New York.
“The actions of the all-white caucus of extremists in our legislature and the former governor are out of control,” said Barber. “They have consistently passed legislation that is a violation of our deepest moral values, voting rights, civil rights and the fundamental principle of equal protection under the law.”
Along with the NAACP, at least 200 additional organizations are planning to join them in the economic boycott of the state. The press conference kicked off the economic boycott, which will include several stages and escalation of protest. The NAACP will refuse to hold its convention in North Carolina and will reach out to other organizations to take similar stances, said the NAACP in its press release.
“True democracy remains a distant ideal that the racist actions of members of the N.C. state legislature continue to disgracefully push further and further out of the reach of the African-American community,” said Brooks.
The NAACP plans to create an internal task force to examine the ways in which the economic boycott can be expanded throughout the state as well as replicated in other states.
“The NAACP refuses to accept this attack on democracy or the commoditization of bias against people due to racial or gender identity here in North Carolina or anywhere else around the nation,” said Brooks. “This we will fight against with all of our resources until we win.”
To see the complete resolution visit: http://live-naacp-site.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Resolution-of-National-Board-as-Proposed-by-NC-State-Conference.pdf.
To view the press conference in its entirety visit: https://livestream.com/accounts/5188266/events/7051729.
Mar 4, 2017 15:05:14 #
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Mar 5, 2017 02:05:22 #
Progressive One wrote:
NAACP Calls for Economic Boycott of North Carolina... (show quote)
Guess my next vacation will be IN good old North Carolina as well as actively seeking out companies that do business in NC.
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