Jeffrey Lord has written a fantastic article for the Wall Street Journal on the history of the Democrat party. More to the point, the article is about the part of their history that they are glossing over.

As Democrats prepare to nominate Sen. Barack Obama to be the first black president, the Democratic National Committee and its chairman, Howard Dean, have whitewashed the party’s horrific and lengthy record of racism. The omission is in the section of the DNC Web site that describes the party’s history. The missing history raises the obvious question of whether the Democrats, unable or simply unwilling to put their party on record as taking direct responsibility for one of the worst racial crimes of the ages, will be able to run a campaign free of the racial animosities it has regularly brought both to American presidential campaigns and American political and social life in general.

The article goes on with an extensive list of things the Democrats don’t want you to be aware of as we head into the 2008 election blitz. This is a must-read article.