In the 1950s and 1960s, Democrats sought to maintain their power with chants of "Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever!" Little has changed.
An excellent piece by Ron F. Hale! Thank you, Dr. Martin for publishing it! For a century the Democratic Party in the South staunchly defended the immoral system of Jim Crow. From the Gilded Age to the 1960s, Southern Democrats, white mobs and white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizens' Council maintained and enforced racial segregation in the states of the former Confederacy. Alabama Governor George Wallace infamously defiantly stood in the school doorway and blocked Vivian Malone and James Hood two black students from registering for classes at the University of Alabama in 1963 and declared in a speech "Segregation now! segregation tomorrow! segregation forever!" Now that same defiant spirit has been adopted by today's Democrats in defense of illegal immigration and sanctuary cities. Why are the Democrats so h***bent on defending illegal immigration and sanctuary cities? For a couple different reasons. Number one, they want to turn those illegal immigrants into voters. Number two, they want to stick it to Donald Trump and would do anything to obstruct his administration. Number three, their wealthy donors lobby for it and want it. Big business loves to exploit illegal immigrants for cheap labor and can pay them peanuts. Not to mention they can avoid paying American workers a good wage or giving them benefits and can undercut unions.
Let's be clear, an open border is NOT humane nor is mass illegal immigration! An open border means criminals and terrorists can come into the country. It means sex and drug trafficking can freely flow from Mexico to the United States. It means illegal immigrants can die via drowning in the Rio Grande. It means foreign spies and saboteurs can enter the country. It means the deaths of innocent American citizens. It means an increase in crime and homelessness, the depression of wages for workers, women not being safe on the street and money and resources for vulnerable communities and areas of society that needed are diverted to them. Cities should be put their money towards poverty, education, healthcare, homelessness, infrastructure, public transportation, the police, the fire department, the arts, museums, libraries, suicide hotlines, and community center and to groups that should be prioritized like poor people, children, African Americans, Hispanics, Indigenous people, legal immigrants, people with disabilities, mentally ill people, victims of sexual assault and rape, and veterans. Sanctuary cities are bad because they hide criminals and terrorists, increase crime, keep ICE from being able to do their job properly, and lead to violence against police and American citizens. Illegal immigration also costs our country billions. They say illegal immigrants don't get benefits. At the federal level that's true but at the state level they do. All benefits for illegal immigrants should be abolished. Any companies that hire illegal immigrants need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Construction of the wall on the Southern border must be continued. The U.S. Military must continue to be deployed on the border. The Border Patrol should receive more funding. All sanctuary cities should be closed down. We should keep Remain in Mexico and rapid DNA testing for illegal immigrants in place. We should aggressively fight the cartels which President Trump is doing. He has also passed some excellent legislation to stop fentanyl from coming into the United States. The cartels aren't some rinky dink street gang, they are complex and sophisticated organizations that employ more people than some of the largest corporations in the world and have private armies equipped with military grade weaponry. President Trump has rescued 145,000 missing children trafficked to sweat shops or into the sex trade by the cartels. The cartels are revered as heroes by people in Mexico. They are trusted more than the police and the government. They force illegal immigrants who they help cross the border to work for them like serfs when they get to America. On another note, illegal immigrants aren't all Latino. They come in all colors and from all over the world. There are white illegal immigrants in America from Ireland, Poland and Russia for example. Its not about color, this is about breaking the law of the land. America is a nation of immigrations, but we are also a nation of laws. I don't care if an immigrant is white, black, brown, red, or yellow or if they are from Europe. Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, or Australia. But they must come legally and through the proper channels.
Can't ever go wrong with that one. I'd add one that is not on your list: Rising Tide, The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, by John M. Barry. It not only shows very clearly what we're talking about, it shows the little-understood path by which blacks became Democrats. Absolutely fascinating.
Outstanding piece of writing! I also have great respect for Victor Davis Hanson, an thoughtful and accurate historian.
Thank you, Mr. Martin, for this guest post.
Ron Hale is a treasure.
An excellent piece by Ron F. Hale! Thank you, Dr. Martin for publishing it! For a century the Democratic Party in the South staunchly defended the immoral system of Jim Crow. From the Gilded Age to the 1960s, Southern Democrats, white mobs and white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizens' Council maintained and enforced racial segregation in the states of the former Confederacy. Alabama Governor George Wallace infamously defiantly stood in the school doorway and blocked Vivian Malone and James Hood two black students from registering for classes at the University of Alabama in 1963 and declared in a speech "Segregation now! segregation tomorrow! segregation forever!" Now that same defiant spirit has been adopted by today's Democrats in defense of illegal immigration and sanctuary cities. Why are the Democrats so h***bent on defending illegal immigration and sanctuary cities? For a couple different reasons. Number one, they want to turn those illegal immigrants into voters. Number two, they want to stick it to Donald Trump and would do anything to obstruct his administration. Number three, their wealthy donors lobby for it and want it. Big business loves to exploit illegal immigrants for cheap labor and can pay them peanuts. Not to mention they can avoid paying American workers a good wage or giving them benefits and can undercut unions.
Let's be clear, an open border is NOT humane nor is mass illegal immigration! An open border means criminals and terrorists can come into the country. It means sex and drug trafficking can freely flow from Mexico to the United States. It means illegal immigrants can die via drowning in the Rio Grande. It means foreign spies and saboteurs can enter the country. It means the deaths of innocent American citizens. It means an increase in crime and homelessness, the depression of wages for workers, women not being safe on the street and money and resources for vulnerable communities and areas of society that needed are diverted to them. Cities should be put their money towards poverty, education, healthcare, homelessness, infrastructure, public transportation, the police, the fire department, the arts, museums, libraries, suicide hotlines, and community center and to groups that should be prioritized like poor people, children, African Americans, Hispanics, Indigenous people, legal immigrants, people with disabilities, mentally ill people, victims of sexual assault and rape, and veterans. Sanctuary cities are bad because they hide criminals and terrorists, increase crime, keep ICE from being able to do their job properly, and lead to violence against police and American citizens. Illegal immigration also costs our country billions. They say illegal immigrants don't get benefits. At the federal level that's true but at the state level they do. All benefits for illegal immigrants should be abolished. Any companies that hire illegal immigrants need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Construction of the wall on the Southern border must be continued. The U.S. Military must continue to be deployed on the border. The Border Patrol should receive more funding. All sanctuary cities should be closed down. We should keep Remain in Mexico and rapid DNA testing for illegal immigrants in place. We should aggressively fight the cartels which President Trump is doing. He has also passed some excellent legislation to stop fentanyl from coming into the United States. The cartels aren't some rinky dink street gang, they are complex and sophisticated organizations that employ more people than some of the largest corporations in the world and have private armies equipped with military grade weaponry. President Trump has rescued 145,000 missing children trafficked to sweat shops or into the sex trade by the cartels. The cartels are revered as heroes by people in Mexico. They are trusted more than the police and the government. They force illegal immigrants who they help cross the border to work for them like serfs when they get to America. On another note, illegal immigrants aren't all Latino. They come in all colors and from all over the world. There are white illegal immigrants in America from Ireland, Poland and Russia for example. Its not about color, this is about breaking the law of the land. America is a nation of immigrations, but we are also a nation of laws. I don't care if an immigrant is white, black, brown, red, or yellow or if they are from Europe. Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, or Australia. But they must come legally and through the proper channels.
Here are some excellent reads on the Jim Crow South, so that Dr. Martin's audience can learn more about a very dark chapter in our nation's history:
* The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward
* Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice by David M. Oshinsky
* From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Michael J. Klarman
* Rabble Rousers: The American Far Right in the Civil Rights Era by Clive Webb
* Fight Against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights by Clive Webb
* Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 by Amy Louise Wood
* The Burning: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 by Tim Madigan
* A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs
* The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction-15th Anniversary Edition by Edward L. Ayers
* Light, Bright and Damn Near White: Black Leaders Created by the One-Drop Rule by Michelle Gordon Jackson
* Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy by Bruce Watson
* Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America by Mamie Till-Mobley & Christopher Benson
* Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacy by Stephen David Kantrowitz
* Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of America by Richard Gergel
Noah, Thanks for the list. Which book would you recommend for me to purchase if I could only order one? Ron
Hmmm....that's a hard one. I would say The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward because it's a classic study of racial segregation!
Can't ever go wrong with that one. I'd add one that is not on your list: Rising Tide, The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, by John M. Barry. It not only shows very clearly what we're talking about, it shows the little-understood path by which blacks became Democrats. Absolutely fascinating.