Just a reminder. Don’t eat the yellow snow!

It is clear Herman Cain is part of the rabid Right-Wing.  Having
not distanced himself from crazed Tea Party quacker, Apostle
Claver, who accused the Democratic Party as racist, shows the
kind of misanthropist Claver and Cain are.

It will be a good thing, though, for this to have erupted in order
to flush the truth out into the open by following the history of
slavery and the Democrats’ long march from pre-Civil War up to
the present and the dramatic turnabout face of both the Democratic
Party and the Republican Party has taken.  Historical facts cannot be
denied, but the whole set of facts is required about the evolution of
how the Parties have changed 180 degrees to be what they are today. 
So Claver’s Right Wing hysteria is a case of over acting hiding the real
fact that the Republican Party of today is the Party Against the People,
and is home to a huge contingent of racists against not only Black
Americans but all people of color, ethnicity, and Non-Christian
religious preference.

It is propitious that public discussion will now be possible to root out the
reality of history.  And finally the American youth will be able to get the
truth that is not provided in history classes at school.

Whatever is the Democrats’ checkered history regarding their
complicity in slavery and resident bigotry, much of that has withered
away and were it not for liberal abolitionists the Civil War would have
taken a much different conclusion to the horror of slavery in America. 
It will be interesting to hear the heated debate that is sure to emerge
between Black Americans with differing views as it is they who are the
only ones who can say what is the state of their experience in
contemporary American society and the relative compassion of
the Political Parties now 40 years after the Civil Rights Movement. 

As reported on the Beecher Stowe website:
“Immediately after its publication, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was both lauded
as an achievement and attacked as inaccurate:  The most liberal
abolitionists felt the book was not strong enough in its call to
immediately end slavery, disliked Stowe’s tacit support of the
colonization movement, and suggested that Stowe’s main character Tom
was not forceful enough.”
http://harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/utc/impact.shtml

While the 19th c. Republican GOP was anti-slavery, and the Southern
Democrats the pro-slavery, the Northern Democrats were instrumental in
ending the institution of slavery in America.  The liberal New Deal social
program nudged the Democrats as an organized political party to the
left, and the conservative Southern Democrats split into two parties, the
Dixiecrats (quasi Republicans) and the rest defected to the Republican
Party.  After the Jim Crow laws were successfully litigated the Democratic
Party in its entirety evolved to represent left-liberalism. 

Michael Kazin chronicles the transformation of American politics from
the Abolitionist Movement up to today in his relatively new book
American Dreamers, How the Left Changed a Nation, most worthwhile
reading for food for debate