February 6, 2025
The Systemic Racism of the American Left
Pandering and exploiting Americans by race is the 220-year culture of the Democrats and the American Left.
Pandering and exploiting Americans by race is the 220-year culture of the Democrats and the American Left.

It is one of the most deliberately ignored — if most basic — facts of American history.

The Democrats literally began as the Party of Slavery. It fought relentlessly, as historian Bruce Bartlett has detailed in his book Wrong On Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past, “to save and protect that institution right down to the Civil War.”

Thomas Jefferson was the founder of what became the Democratic Party. A slave owner himself, he rested the party’s political power on support from fellow slave owners. As historian Garry Wills from Northwestern University noted in his book on Jefferson’s reliance on the political power of slave owners, “Negro President”: Jefferson and the Slave Power, “Like all other southerners, Jefferson had to take every political step he could to prevent challenges to the slave system.”

Historians, not to mention the Democratic Party itself, credit Andrew Jackson as being the co-founder of the Democrats. This is why the party fundraisers for well over a century have been titled “Jefferson–Jackson Day” dinners.

Jackson, also a slave owner, is noted as well for being the moving force behind the “Trail of Tears,” which is accurately described here by PBS:

In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the “Trail of Tears,” because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died.

As I noted here ages ago, when Democrats began writing their political platforms in 1840, the first six of these official statements of party policy positions between 1840 and 1860 all reflected the Jefferson–Jackson view of staunch support for slavery.

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