- Latest Republican attempt at HB2 compromise may reveal governor’s game plan
- Could it be that Cooper never wanted a compromise?
- Is race-baiting Democrats’ last hope in North Carolina?
On Feb. 26, North Carolina finally discovered who won the November election for governor.
Oh, sure, on Nov. 8, voters cast their ballots. On Dec. 6, Gov. Pat McCrory conceded a tight race.
But all that time, a lot of people thought the new governor would be that folksy, ol’ Roy Cooper they saw on the TV commercials. Only now, however, do we see the real Gov. Cooper: a radical progressive who detests anyone with qualms about allowing men into public bathrooms, locker rooms and showers used by women and girls.
Cooper, in his pursuit to eliminate gender designations on bathroom and shower room doors in North Carolina, wants Republican legislators to drop a provision in HB186, the proposed compromise to eliminate HB2.
Over the weekend Cooper likened the compromise provision, which would allow for a vote by the people on local nondiscrimination ordinances, to allowing the old South to vote on the federal Civil Rights Act. The Civil Rights Act of 1965 ended the racist Jim Crow laws of the past century. In making this comparison, he equates voters in North Carolina today to the Democrat politicians of the Jim Crow era who wrote and enforced the racist law.
In saying this, Cooper isn’t merely disagreeing about the legislation.
He’s saying people who support HB2 are ignorant, violent racists. In other words, Cooper is really just like other radical progressives who detest anyone who opposes them.
Also, he’s saying in effect he will never willingly compromise. Would you compromise with racist bigots? Of course not. That’s why Cooper, and other members of his party who are under the sway of the radical Left, don’t want to compromise on this.
This slur against the people of North Carolina also flies in the face of the historical facts.
In North Carolina, it was the politicians in power and the media of the day – the News & Observer – who implemented and enforced Jim Crow, not the people.
The News and Observer, in a 2005 editorial, acknowledged the paper’s role in the White Supremacy Campaign and Wilmington race riots of 1898. Even so, the News & Observer can’t help but point a finger at the people of North Carolina when they “admit” their founder and editor played a significant part along with the state’s Democrats in North Carolina’s Jim Crow past.
“Many whites resented African-American advances, and the Democrat Party became their champion. Newspaper publishers – including Josephus Daniels, the founder and editor of The News & Observer – used their influence to stoke the racial animosity that catapulted Democrats in the 1898 elections.
That animosity grew especially strong in Wilmington, the state’s largest city at the time, resulting that November in the torching of a black-owned newspaper and then violence that led to deaths and injuries of black residents.
The following months saw the introduction of Jim Crow laws passed in Raleigh that weren’t wiped away until the civil rights movement of the 1960s and ’70s.”
While those on the Left today attempt to rewrite history by claiming that the Democrats of yesterday were “conservatives,” there is no evidence to substantiate their claims. To the contrary, most historians characterized Daniels and the leaders of the Democrat Party at that time as progressives. Daniels in fact served in the presidential cabinet of progressive icon Woodrow Wilson.
North Carolina Democrats benefited from the White Supremacy Campaign for more than a century. Beginning with 1898, North Carolina was considered a one-party state. Not until 2010 did Republicans have majorities in both state chambers of the legislature, and only in 2012 did the people elect a Republican governor to go with a GOP-dominated General Assembly.
It appears that Cooper, a Democrat, believes that if given the chance, the people of North Carolina would vote to protect women and children, hence casting a vote against more ordinances like the one Charlotte passed that allowed – and in the end required — men and women, boys and girls to use the same public restrooms.
Cooper, it would seem, wants to portray such a vote as abhorrent as racism by dragging in the Jim Crow label. Has Cooper given us all a glimpse of the cards in his hand and shown us that he will regularly be pulling out the race card and using it for political gain? North Carolinians are smart enough to know when a powerful person such as the state’s governor is demeaning them without cause and most certainly without evidence.
This is the second compromise Republicans have offered to HB2, and once again, it appears Democrats have no intention to compromise at all.
One would think that a person who reaches the pinnacle of Governorship would be smart enough to quit using race as an excuse. But, then again, what more can we expect from a liberal with a mental disorder. The Governor has nothing else to fall back on. He has run out of logical ideas as most liberals do and resort back to false charges of racism. I believe that I can speak for most folks that we are sick and tired of people like Cooper using the race card.
We knew Cooper was a rabid progressive. We must support the strong leadership we have in the legislature. He needs to be held in check. Cooper in not going to be good for NC. I pledge to stay engaged.
The Governor fails to remember the 12 Democrats in the house that voted for HB2. Is he also calling these members racists?
When Roy was in the legislation did he suppose teachers raises? I do not remember he being a big supporter of raising salaries for anyone.