Emily Murphy Quotes
It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.
Murphy, Emily F. The Black Candle. Thomas Allen, 1922, p. 186.
Reconstruction was the period in the South after the Civil War. The change that emancipation brought to the white South was traumatic, and there was a constant struggle between those who wanted the Blacks to be integrated into Southern Society—and those Southerners who wanted to create a society that would be as close to slavery as possible, So the Klu Klux Klan and other terrorist organizations formed and with lynching and other intimidation, much of the initial progress of Reconstruction was rolled back and did not get reinstated until the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts were passed in 1964.
After Lyndon Johnson led the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Republican’s reached out to the Southern Racists who felt betrayed by the Democratic Party, and their Southern Strategy succeeded so that the overt racists of the nation became Republicans instead of Democrats. At the same time, liberal Republicans felt estranged from the “party of Lincoln” and over the years the Republicans drive out the liberals and then the moderates. The racists and white Supremacists became more and more influential in setting the policies, norms and language of the party and soon White identity code phrases became part of much of the Republican rhetoric. This offended liberals, and Blacks. The Republican rhetoric became more and more extreme in order to get enough votes from white males and some whit females while that demographic was shrinking as a percentage of the U. S. population. Roy felt that this made for an enthusiastic and rabid base, but the Republicans could no longer produce a majority coalition, and had one victory of the presidency with only George W. Bush who actually last the popular vote but won in the Electoral College.
Theodore Roosevelt, became President when President McKinley was assassinated. One thing that he did was to have the Negro leader, Booker T. Washington to lunch at the White House. He had previously had Blacks in his famous Rough Riders. Although Roosevelt had not taken a public position in inter-racial marriage, in the South, and much of rest of the country, accusing someone of favoring miscegenation was as serious an insult as there was. The accusation was used to attack anyone who did not favor segregation, lynching and Jim Crow in the same way that people who favored Medicare or Labor Unions were called “communists”. Cardamon himself was the target of many for his disrespectful and gross description of the president. See Quotation
In 2010, Gates had written an Op-Ed in the New York Times. The subject was the role of some African Blacks in the slave trade. There was much criticism and negative reaction among some Blacks.
Emily Murphy was a Canadian women's rights activist, jurist, and author. In 1916, she became the first female magistrate in Canada, and in the British Empire. She is best known for her contributions to Canadian feminism, specifically to the question of whether women were "persons" under Canadian law.
