Timeline indicates where the racism comes from
September 22, 1862: Republican President Abraham Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
February 9, 1864: U.S. Senate supports Republicans’ plans for constitutional amendment to ban slavery
June 15, 1864: Republican Congress votes equal pay for African-American troops serving in U.S. Army during Civil War
June 28, 1864: Republican majority in Congress repeals Fugitive Slave Acts
January 31, 1865: 13th Amendment (bans slavery) passed by U.S. House with Republican Party Support: 100%. Democratic Party Support: 23%
March 3, 1865: Republican Congress establishes Freedmen’s Bureau to provide health care, education, and technical assistance to emancipated slaves
April 8, 1865: 13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate with Republican support 100%. Democrat support 37%
June 19, 1865: On “Juneteenth,” U.S. troops land in Galveston, TX to enforce ban on slavery that had been declared more than two years before by the Emancipation Proclamation of Republican President Lincoln
November 22, 1865: Republicans denounce Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting “black codes,” which institutionalized racial discrimination
1866: The Republican Party passes the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to protect the rights of newly freed slaves
December 6, 1865: Republican Party’s 13th Amendment, banning slavery, is ratified by the states
1865: The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is established by the Democratic Party to terrorize & murder blacks and their Republican supporters
February 5, 1866: Republican U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens introduces Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on African-Americans implement with “40 acres and a mule” relief by distributing land to former slaves, but vetoed by Democrat President Andrew Johnson
April 9, 1866: Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Johnson’s veto of the Civil Rights Act and it becomes law
May 10, 1866: U.S. House passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens of all races; 100% of Democrats vote no
June 8, 1866: U.S. Senate passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the law to all citizens; 94% of Republicans vote yes and 100% of Democrats vote no
July 16, 1866: Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of Freedman’s Bureau Act, which protected former slaves from “black codes” denying their rights
July 28, 1866: Republican Congress authorizes formation of two regiments of African-American cavalrymen (the Buffalo Soldiers)
July 30, 1866: Democrat-controlled City of New Orleans orders police to storm racially-integrated Republican meeting; raid kills 40 and wounds more than 150
January 8, 1867: Republicans override Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of law granting voting rights to African-Americans in D.C.
July 19, 1867: Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of legislation protecting voting rights of African-Americans
March 30, 1868: Republicans begin impeachment trial of Democrat President Andrew Johnson, who declared: “This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government of white men”
May 20, 1868: Republican National Convention marks debut of African-American politicians on national stage; two – Pinckney Pinchback and James Harris – attend as delegates, and several serve as presidential electors
1868 (July 9): Republican's 14th Amendment passes and recognizes newly freed slaves as U.S. Citizens. Republican Party Support: 94%, Democratic Party Support: 0%
September 3, 1868: 25 African-Americans in Georgia legislature, all Republicans, expelled by Democrat majority; later reinstated by Republican Congress
September 12, 1868: Civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and all other African-Americans in Georgia Senate, every one a Republican, expelled by Democrat majority; would later be reinstated by Republican Congress
September 28, 1868: Democrats in Opelousas, Louisiana murder nearly 300 African-Americans who tried to prevent an assault against a Republican newspaper editor
October 7, 1868: Republicans denounce Democratic Party’s national campaign theme: “This is a white man’s country: Let white men rule”
October 22, 1868: While campaigning for re-election, Republican U.S. Rep. James Hinds (R-AR) is assassinated by Democrat terrorists who organized as the Ku Klux Klan
November 3, 1868: Republican Ulysses Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour in presidential election; Seymour had denounced Emancipation Proclamation
December 10, 1869: Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs FIRST-in-nation law granting women right to vote and to hold public office
February 3, 1870: The US House ratifies the 15th Amendment granting voting rights to all Americans regardless of race. Republican support: 97% Democrat support: 3%
February 25, 1870: Republican Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the first Black seated in the US Senate, becoming the First Black in Congress and the first Black Senator.
May 19, 1870: African American John Langston, law professor and future Republican Congressman from Virginia, delivers influential speech supporting President Ulysses Grant’s civil rights policies
May 31, 1870: President U.S. Grant signs Republicans’ Enforcement Act, providing stiff penalties for depriving any American citizen's civil rights
June 22, 1870: Republican Congress creates U.S. Department of Justice, to safeguard the civil rights of African-Americans against Democrats in the South
December 12, 1870: Republican Joseph Hayne Rainey becomes the first Black duly elected by the people and the first Black in the US House of Representatives
In 1870 and 1871, along with Revels (R-Miss) and Rainey (R-SC), other Blacks were elected to Congress from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and Virginia – all Republicans.
A Black Democrat Senator didn’t show up on Capitol Hill until 1993. The first Black Democrat Congressman was not elected until 1935.
February 28, 1871: Republican Congress passes Enforcement Act providing federal protection for African-American voters
March 22, 1871: Spartansburg Republican newspaper denounces Ku Klux Klan campaign to eradicate the Republican Party in South Carolina
April 20, 1871: Republican Congress enacts the (anti) Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic Party-affiliated terrorist groups which oppressed African-Americans
Let us scoot to the 20th century...
1913: open letter from W.E.B. DuBois to Democrat President Woodrow Wilson who had pushed segregation wrote of "one colored clerk who could not actually be segregated on account of the nature of his work [and who] consequently had a cage built around him to separate him from his white companions of many years." Wilson fired 15 of 17 black supervisors.
1914: Democrat head of the Internal Revenue division in Georgia fired all his black employees, saying, "There are no government positions for Negroes in the South. A Negro's place in the corn field."
1914: Democrat southern states pass "Jim Crow Laws" that created a racial caste system in the American South
1964: Civil Rights Act voted on. 80% of Republicans voted in favor, 63% of Democrats voted in favor. Southern Democrats that opposed civil rights were led by Democrat Senator Byrd, a former KKK Kleagle who filibustered against Civil Right in the longest filibuster in history
1972: Democrat Senator Joe Biden advocates for segregation, pushed an anti-busing bill and admitted that he was siding with racists in the Democratic Party.
1977: Democrat Senator Joe Biden stated, "Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions built so high that it is going to explode at some point."
1986: Democrat Senator Joe Biden co-wrote the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which increased penalties for drug crimes and “also created a big sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine; even though the drugs are pharmacologically similar, the law made it so someone would need to possess 100 times the amount of powder cocaine to be eligible for the same mandatory minimum sentence for crack. Since crack is more commonly used by black Americans, this sentencing disparity helped fuel big racial disparities in incarceration.”
1993: When both parties realized the error of the Anti-Drug Abuse act that severely punished mostly blacks, Democrat Joe Biden said GHW Bush wasn't going far enough when he had called in 1989 for “more prisons, more jails, more courts, more prosecutors,” and tougher sentences for drug dealers and users alike.
1994: Democrat Joe Biden co-authored the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which led to much higher incarceration rates nationwide that locked up Black and Hispanic Americans at far higher rates than whites. It was a racist piece of legislation that devastated minority communities for a quarter of a century.
Dec. 19, 2019: Republican President Trump guarantees funding for Historically Black Colleges & Universities for 10 years. Previously, HBCU's were forced to "come begging for funding each year".
In looking at the actual historical timeline, it's pretty clear where the racists are, and which political party they associate with.
