Is the American Democratic Party racist? If it was, and it actually was, then how do we know that it isn’t anymore? The hard questions must necessarily be asked, as the Democrats don’t seem to show any remorse for their terrible, racist, murderous past and race-card-playing present.

Something most people probably don’t know is that the American Democratic Party, ironically the party of Presidential Nomination candidate Barack Obama, is responsible for slavery and the Ku Klux Klan in America.

I have previously blogged about the fact that the Democratic Party in America is actually responsible for bringing forth the racist Ku Klux Klan.

The Democrats even have a currently sitting Senator, Robert Byrd, who has actually belonged to the Klan and who has uttered racist slurs on television. But it doesn’t appear to matter to Democrats. This I find bizarre.

The Canada Free Press is asking why doesn’t the Democratic Party of the United States take responsibility and apologize for its terrible heritage, and cites some points recommended by Lt. Colonel Frances Rice, a retired US Army officer and member of the Lincoln Heritage Institute, in an open letter to the Democratic Party (Ms. Rice is a Black Republican, incidentally). Here are some excerpts:

Whereas the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery and, after the Civil War, established Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes and other repressive legislation that were designed to disenfranchise African Americans,

Whereas the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, and their primary goal was to intimidate and terrorize African American voters, Republicans who moved South to protect African Americans and any other whites who supported them,

Whereas, according to leading historians (both black and white), the horrific atrocities committed against African Americans during slavery and Reconstruction were financed, sponsored, and promoted by the Democratic Party and their Ku Klux Klan supporters,

Whereas from 1870 to 1930, in an effort to deny African Americans their civil rights and to keep African Americans from voting Republican, thousands of African Americans were shot, beaten, lynched, mutilated, and burned to death by Ku Klux Klan terrorists from the Democratic Party,

Whereas Democratic Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission(...)

So... should the Democratic Party take full responsibility and apologize for its key, dominant role in slavery and racism in the United States, and not continue to run away and try to hide from the inconvenient truth?