Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party Page #5

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The film quoted Wilson.

It denounced the Reconstruction era,

when blacks briefly held office.

It depicted blacks,

played by whites in black face,

as ugly, vulgar,

and uncivilized predators

who liked nothing better

than raping white women.

[man] ''The white men were roused

by a mere instinct of self-preservation,

until at last there sprung into

existence a great Ku Klux Klan...

[horse whinnies]

...to rid themselves,

by fair means or foul,

of the intolerable burden

of government sustained by the votes

of ignorant Negroes. ''

[Swain] Wilson authorized

members of his cabinet

to reverse and resist

integration with blacks.

In 1914, Ida B. Wells

and a group of black leaders

confronted him about his racist,

discriminatory policies.

Mr. President.

Gentlemen, Mr. Trotter.

-And, uh, you must be Ida Wells.

- Mr. President.

A pleasure.

I understand you have some concerns.

You have fired most of the government's

black supervisors.

Your department chiefs

have assigned blacks separate workrooms,

lunch halls, and toilets!

Segregation is not a humiliation,

but a benefit,

and ought to be so regarded by you...

gentlemen.

Oh, I do approve the segregation

being attempted in several departments

of the federal government.

It is distinctly to the advantage

of the colored people themselves.

You presume that segregation

is good for blacks?

I disagree. You'll be hearing from us.

[Ida] I am not a Democrat,

because their records from the beginning

have been inimical to my interests,

because they have become notorious

in their hatred of the Negro as a man.

They have refused him the ballot,

murdered, beaten and outraged him,

and have refused him his rights.

[Swain] It didn't make

a bit of difference.

Wilson continued segregating

the federal government.

[D'Souza] Talk about the 1924

Democratic National Convention.

- You mean the ''Klanbake''?

- Yes.

[Swain] Tens of thousands of Klansmen

marched on New York City

shouting racist slogans

and burning crosses

to celebrate

the Democratic Party's refusal

to condemn the KKK in their platform.

Carol, was the New Deal

a radical break

with the racist policies

of the Democratic past?

[Swain] FDR didn't have the votes

to pass the New Deal program,

so he promised

the Democratic Party

that he would block

any anti-lynching legislation

and he would exclude blacks

from most New Deal programs.

White farmers were paid

not to grow crops,

which meant that many blacks

lost their jobs.

So most blacks,

if they worked on the land,

if they worked as maids,

if they were paid in cash,

they couldn't get Social Security.

And that continued with the Great

Society, right, with Johnson?

Well, Johnson knew

he needed the black vote,

but, privately...

I'm gonna have to bring up

the Negro bill again.

Let's face it,

our ass is in a crack.

In Texas, there are more Negroes

voting now than white people.

These Negroes are getting

pretty uppity these days.

And that's a problem for us,

since they got something now

they never had before...

the political pull

to back up their uppitiness.

Now, we got to give them

a little something

just enough to quiet them down,

but not enough to make a difference.

Why is this legislation

so important to you?

[chuckles]

I want to have them n*ggers voting

Democratic for the next 200 years.

[laughs]

But I need your help

and I need your help to do it.

Are you saying that

today's Democratic Party

continues to use blacks

for their political advantage?

Absolutely, that's exactly

what I'm saying.

[D'Souza] The Democratic Party

has been busted again and again

for slavery, for segregation,

for racism,

but just like any good con artist,

they know,

- ''Never give up the con. ''

- Never give up the con.

- Deny, deny, deny.

- [D'Souza] ''Deny, deny, deny. ''

Instead of accepting blame,

they shift the blame

onto the very people

who fought against their injustice.

Today's Democrats don't like

to hear about their own history.

The Klan is a terrorist

organization that has killed--

- A leftist terrorist organization.

- You can put whatever label you want.

- That's your game to play.

- No, that's important history.

No, we're not gonna play that game.

If you are racist,

you're probably a Republican.

[D'Souza] Like a lot of Democrats,

he's relying on the big switch.

That's the idea that the Democrats

got racially enlightened

and became the good guys,

whereas the racists in the Democratic

Party all became Republicans.

The big switch seems to be

supported by the fact that blacks,

who used to vote Republican,

did switch over to the Democratic Party.

Also, Southern whites, who used to

uniformly vote Democratic,

now vote Republican.

Then there's Senator Strom Thurmond,

the racist Democrat

who became a Republican.

Even many Republicans today

believe in the big switch.

But wait a minute. Blacks switched

to the Democratic Party in the 1930s

based on the promises of the New Deal.

They didn't do it because of race.

Many reluctantly moved

to the Democratic Party,

knowing they were joining the party

of segregation and the Ku Klux Klan.

Southern whites moved over

to the Republican Party much later,

during the 1970s through the '90s,

as the South became more prosperous.

Racism had declined dramatically

in the South.

So, as the South became less racist,

it became more Republican.

So, blacks and whites both switched

parties for economic reasons.

The proof of this is in Byron Shafer

and Richard Johnston's book,

''The End of Southern Exceptionalism.''

The authors provide data to show

that the poorest,

most racist whites never switched.

The ones that did switch

were the nonracists,

who were attracted to the Republican

Party's message of opportunity,

prosperity, and upward mobility.

So, what about Strom Thurmond?

Was he typical?

How many racists

in the Democratic Party leadership

switched and became Republicans?

Let's make a list,

and we'll see who switched.

We'll start with the leaders

of the Ku Klux Klan.

Now let's add in the leaders of

the various racist organizations...

and Democratic congressmen

and Democratic senators

from 1860 all the way to 2000.

Let's throw in all the people who voted

against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

So, there they are...

all 1,600 of them.

Ready for the big switch?

We'll go from Democratic blue

to Republican red.

So, here it is.

Yes, that's it.

Less than one percent.

The big switch is a big lie.

The Democrats didn't switch from

being the bad guys to the good guys.

They simply found a new and bigger scam.

In a Great Migration,

millions of Southern blacks

moved north to the cities.

They were joined by millions

of immigrants from all over the world,

so the Democrats got an idea..

''Let's recreate the plantation,

but now do it in the inner city. ''

I'm not the first to call

these neighborhoods plantations.

Here is Obama reading from his book

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