Commenting on Reed's book Active Faith, Bruce Bawer notes that Reed acknowledges that his "faith community" was "on the wrong side of the most central cause of social justice in this century", namely racism. "The white evangelical community allowed our black brothers and sisters to be held in bondage and treated as second-class citizens for four centuries and we quoted scripture to justify it," Reed writes. "...[T]he sad record of religious conservatives on race gives liberals reason to hurl charges of bigotry and intolerance at us," he continues, although "they are wrong in making those attacks today [because] the white evangelical ... legacy of racism" is "now being wiped clean."

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Keep wiping, Ralphie. Anything in the Good Book about reparations?

Jack Kemp:

"The measure of our compassion should not be how many needy people receive government aid, but how many people do not need government assistance because they're now on that ladder of upward mobility that Lincoln called the desire to improve one's lot in life. This is the heritage of the United States, going back to one of the founding principles of the nation, that all men are created equal and, until Republicans tragically compromised this principle in an effort to lure Democratic segregationist votes their way, it was also the legacy of Grand Old Party.





"The GOP went wrong in 1964 when Barry Goldwater, no racist, tragically voted against the Civil Rights Act out of misguided ideological purity. There were many fine men and women in the Republican Party, all for civil rights, but the party itself was not associated with the struggle for justice and equality.

"By contrast, the Democratic Party, which was the party of segregation in this country, embraced the civil rights movement. This enabled the Democratic Party to shed its segregationist image and gain the loyalty of African-Americans.

"The Republican Party had a great history of civil, human and equal rights that became obscured in the '64 campaign and to a greater extent even before. We should have been there with King, Andy Young and Ben Hooks on the streets of Atlanta, Montgomery and Birmingham. We should have been there with John Lewis on his Selma March.

"We should have been there with Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Ala., in December of 1955, but we now have a second chance, and we must not lose it.



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Coulda, woulda, shoulda. Pandered to racists instead.

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Southern preferences in 1964

84% of Southern delegates to the Republican Convention agreed with the view that: “the government in Washington should stay out of the question of integrating schools”





82%: the question of voting rights of Negroes should be left to state and local governments.”

Black and Black, p. 130



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In a speech made to the 1984 Sons of Confederacy Veterans at their national convention, Sen. Lott said, "The spirit of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, is alive and well in the 1984 Republican Party Platform."





"The party of Abraham Lincoln is now the party of Jefferson Davis"

-- Trent Lott

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And speaking of Lincoln --

“Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital.” -- Abraham Lincoln in his first annual message to Congress