Dear editor,
With Barack Obama's historic 2008 presidential election he immediately went on an apology tour for America. His tour apologized for America as a whole regarding the atrocities committed as a nation.
What Barack failed to mention during his tour was the leadership of America at the time of all these atrocities. Historically, that leadership came from members of the Democrat Party. Andrew Jackson's "Trail of Tears"; our Civil War with succession of the Democrat-controlled southern states over the slavery issue; the left's issue of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan; the 1960s Civil Rights movement, again in the Democrat-controlled southern states; the assassination in Democrat-controlled Memphis, Tennessee of Martin Luther King over protesting the city's Unionized Sanitation Department's treatment of blacks. It is all there in history.
What is also history is that Andrew Jackson was warned about his actions by Congress and the "one supreme" court. The Republican Party passed our 13th Amendment, which freed black slaves along with white indentured servants. The 14th Amendment reinforced Civil Rights laws but now restricted the women's right to vote. The 15th Amendment gave black men and previously indentured servants the right to vote. The 19th Amendment corrected and again allowed the women's vote. The 1964 Civil Rights Act of the Democrat Kennedy-Johnson administrations.
What do all these acts of governing have in common? They were all created or passed with a majority Republican vote with the largest opposition vote being those of Democrats and, yes, that includes the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Imagine that: A moderately center Democrat president receiving more support from Republicans for the Civil Rights Act than that of his own farther-left liberal Democrat Party! The 14th Amendment had no Democrat votes supporting it.
Martin Luther King's own ideology was directly opposed by left liberal Democrats and should assure you that King was not a Democrat Party member.
What has changed so that Congressman John Robert Lewis can now support a political party that tried to kill him in Alabama but did kill his friend and leader, Martin Luther King?
"Ask not what you can do for your country but what your country can do for you": Is this the answer, a poverty guaranteeing government checks for his constituents and an upper-level government job and check for himself?
STEVEN KING
Milton
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Calling out Congressman Lewis