Typical Conservative White People.

Just a few weeks after Barack Obama told a Philadelphia radio station that his grandmothers racist tendencies were just something that was 'typical' of white people, one of his supporters -- musician John Legend -- told an audience on WashingtonPost.com that it is, apparently, only Conservative or Republican white people that are racists.

In responding to a question about whether or not the United States is ready for the 'son of a black man' to become President and, if so, were young people ready to be inspired by Obama ready to step up and make changes in their lives.

He answered, in part:

And the thing is, the people who wouldn't vote for a person because they're black wouldn't vote for a Democrat anyway.

Really? Since Mr. Legend is clearly a victim of a substandard public school education, let's take a brief walk through American history, shall we?

• 1854 - The Republican Party is founded by anti-Slavery activists to stand opposed to the pro-Slavery Democratic Party.
• 1856 - Senator Charles Sumner (a Republican) is beaten nearly to death by Congressman Preston Brooks (a Democrat) in the Senate chamber after speaking out against pro-Slavery Democrats.
• 1860 - Te Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln as their Presidential Candidate.
• 1865 - Republicans in the Congress unanimously back the 13th Amendment, making slavery unconsitutional. Of Democrats, 63% in the Senate and 78% in the House vote against the 13th Amendment.
• 1866 - 94% of Republican Senators and 96% of Republican Congressmen vote for the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing all Americans equal protection under the law. Democrats vote unanimously opposed.
• 1866 - Democrats in New Orleans order police to assualt an integrated Republican meeting, killing 40 and injuring 150 others.
• 1868 - Democrats adopt the party slogan: "This ia a white man's country: Let white men rule."
• 1871 - The Republican-led Congress passes the Enforcement Act, giving black voters Federal protection.
• 1871 - Republicans in the Congress adopt the Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing the pro-Democrat domestic terrorist group.
• 1871 - Republican Ulysses S. Grant dispatches Federal troops to quell Klan violence in South Carolina.
• 1874 - White Democrats storm the Louisiana Statehouse to oust Governor William Kellogg and his racially integrated administration, killing 27 people.
• 1894 - A Democrat-led Congress and Democrat Grover Cleveland repeal the 1871 Enforcement Act.
• 1898 - Democrats murdered black Republicans in Wilmington, N.C., so that they could stage "the nation's only recorded coup d'etat."
• 1901 - Republican Theodore Roosevelt invites the first black dinner guest, Republican Booker T. Washington, to the White House.
• 1912 - Democrat Woodrow Wilson fires all blacks holding Federal jobs.
• 1922 - Democrats filibuster a Republican attempt to make lynching a Federal crime.
• 1937 - Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt nominates Ku Klux Klansman Hugo Black to the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1954 - Chief Justice Earl Warren (a Republican) leads the U.S. Supreme Court in desegregating government schools in Brown v. Board of Education. Republican Dwight Eisenhower's Justice Department argued for desegregation on behalf of Brown. John Davis (a Democrat) argued in favor of 'seperate but equal' classrooms.
• 1957 - Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (a Democrat) used the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering a segregated school in Little Rock in violation of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to escort the students into the building and Federalized the Arkansas National Guard to take them out of Faubus' hands.
• 1957 - Democrat Senators John F. Kennedy and Al Gore, Sr., vote against the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
• 1963 - Democrat John F. Kennedy opposes Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington. John Kennedy orders his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to wiretap and orders the FBI to investigate Martin Luther King, Jr. in order undermine and discredit him.
• 1964 - The revolutionary Civil Rights Act passes Congress. It is supported by 82% of Republicans compared to only 64% of Democrats. Democrat Robert Byrd (a former Klansman) attempted to filibuster, but Everett Dirksen (a Republican) rallied the votes needed to invoke cloture and allow the bill's passage.
• 1967 - Democrat Lyndon Johnson refers to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as "that N----r preacher."
• 1968 - Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., a Republican, is called a 'trouble-maker' by former Klansman Robert Byrd, a Democrat, following a speek in Memphis, TN. When King returns to Memphis a few weeks later, he is assassinated by James Earl Ray. In 2004, Jesse Jackson said that he believes the government, led at the time by Democrat Lyndon Johnson, conspired to kill King.
• 1975 - Republican Gerald Ford promotes Daniel James to become the Air Force's first black four-star General.
• 1977 - Former Klansman Robert Byrd elected leader of the Senate Democrats, and holds the position until 1989.
• 1982 - Republican Ronald Reagan promotes Roscoe Robinson to become the Army's first black four-star General.
• 1983 - Republican Ronald Reagan establishes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday.
• 1989 - Republican Ronald Reagan appoints Colin Powell to the post of National Security Advisor, making him the first black to hold the position.
• 2001 - Former Klansman Robert Byrd, a Democrat, uses the 'N-word' on FoxNews.
• 2001 - Republican George W. Bush appoints Colin Power to the position of Secretary of State, making him the first black to hold that position.
• 2004 - Republican George W. Bush appoints Condoleeza Rice to the position of Secretary of State, making her the first black woman to hold that position. Former Klansman Robert Byrd (a Democrat) and 12 other Democrats stalled her confirmation, eventually voting against her appointment despite unanimous Republican support.

And, that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Since the Republican party's inception, they have supported the rights of blacks and other minorities in America, often with staunch and sometimes-violent opposition from Democrats.

Yet, somehow, the Democrat party manages to maintain that -- despite destroying black families with their welfare, family, and social policies -- they are the party that best represents blacks and while people John Legend characterize Republicans and Conservatives racists.

And, yet, it never seems to occur to anyone that perhaps the reason we can't have an honest discussion about race in this country is because there's one side that prefers to keep black people locked in a mindset of victimization while calling the other side as racists ...