Let's not forget the true face of the Democratic Party throughout its existence -- as demonstrated by this upstanding state and national leader of the Democratic Party.

On this day in 1963, police in Birmingham, Alabama -- under the command of the Democrat sheriff, Eugene "Bull" Connor -- attacked several thousand African-American schoolchildren who were demonstrating peacefully for their civil rights. Connor's men used high-pressure hoses, clubs and police dogs in their assault, and then jailed nearly a thousand children.

At the time, it should be noted, Connor was the Democratic National Committeeman for Alabama. A member of the Ku Klux Klan, Connor had been a Democrat state legislator and a delegate to the 1948 Democratic National Convention. A year after attacking the African-American children, Connor was elected, as a Democrat, president of the state Public Service Commission.

I wonder -- did Robert Byrd wear his dress sheets to the Senate today to celebrate the heritage of his party?

Thanks to Michael Zak for highlighting this important day in American history, and giving Democratic Party barbarism the attention it deserves.

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