The Democratic Party's Long and Shameful History of Bigotry

I am hoping that any legitimate third party will run by conservative tea party types. A third party that divides liberal/progressive votes without getting any real political power would be a disaster for pragmatic progressives (like me).

A third party on your side is a curse.

So Foofie, you are implying that Blacks, Asians, Hispanics and Jews are bigots based on only on their ethnicity? I think you are missing the point. This isn't about ethnicity, it is about bigotry and the politicians who appeal to them for votes. The party that is pursuing (and winning) the bigot vote in the past few decades is the Republicans.

In that past it was the Democrats appealing to bigots but that all changed during the Richard Nixon administration.

Republican bigots are bigots because of what they are doing and saying, not because of their ethnicity.

The Democrats are suggesting that the rules are unfair, and there is a lot of evidence to back up that claim. If you are born in a white upper-middle class family it is much easier for you to be successful (by any measure of success) than a child born in a black, working class family.

The rules are specifically set up to protect privilege. The children of the privileged have privilege bestowed upon them. They don't have to work that hard to have the success that they are brought up believing they are entitled to. An extraordinary person born without privilege can work like a dog and use unusual talent to reach the same place, and some people do this (and others fail). But this doesn't change that fact that the playing field is slanted dramatically. Children born in privilege are given success on a platter with little work (or even talent) required.

If the rules were fair, than I wouldn't feel the need to change them.

Another finding of the study is that the distribution of benefits no longer aligns with the demography of poverty. African-Americans, who make up 22 percent of the poor, receive 14 percent of government benefits, close to their 12 percent population share.

White non-Hispanics, who make up 42 percent of the poor, receive 69 percent of government benefits – again, much closer to their 64 percent population share.

It was policies to level the playing field, such as getting rid of the clearly racist "Asian Exclusion Act", enacting laws to address the inequity anti-semitism (important in education, the workplace and housing) that gave Jewish and Japanese Americans the chance to succeed.

The Republicans are actively trying to roll back these protections.

- Protecting Civil rights.
- Strong protections against workplace discrimination.
- Fair housing laws.
- Stronger penalties for people who commit hate crimes.

These are Democratic positions that are there to combat bigotry and directly benefit both Jewish and Japanese Americans right now.

I would add Voting Rights and Woman's reproductive rights and racial profiling and marriage equality to that list (but I will stick with the first four that are beyond argument).

There is a reason that a large majority of Jewish and Japanese voters vote for Democrats.

If the rules were fair, than I wouldn't feel the need to change them

The best way to do it is either have no rules at all, or leave them the way you wrote them and let everyone learn to work within the rules.

The advantage that whites have is willing to use the capitalistic system to their advantage.