Can Republican insistence upon torture be traced back to the institution of slavery?

Question

Republican states were historically slave states and slave territories.

“It is, sadly, a simple fact that torture was once a deep part of the American way of life, inextricable from slavery and racism, for a very long time. It was worst in the South, but not unknown elsewhere - well into the twentieth century. The ease with which some in the new GOP reconcile themselves to it with respect to terror suspects, as long as it is directed at "the other," cannot be fully understood outside this context. "Waterboarding," for example, a torture technique the majority of GOP candidates cannot bring themselves to condemn and which the new attorney-general refuses to declare illegal, was used against African-Americans to extract false confessions in the South. And lynching was often accompanied by gruesome torture.”

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/11/torture-in-amer.html

Since Reagan brought the Republican party into power in the USA, Southern Democrats have become Republican (Red States vs Blue States). In fact, you could say that Southern Democrats have taken over today's Republican Party.

From Time Magazine:

“The sad truth is that many Republican leaders remain in a massive state of denial about the party's four-decade-long addiction to race-baiting. They won't make any headway with blacks by bashing Lott if they persist in giving Ronald Reagan a pass for his racial policies.

…. Yet it's with Reagan, who set a standard for exploiting white anger and resentment rarely seen since George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door, that the Republican's selective memory about its race-baiting habit really stands out.

…. As a young congressman, Lott was among those who urged Reagan to deliver his first major campaign speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three civil rights workers were murdered in one of the 1960s' ugliest cases of racist violence. It was a ringing declaration of his support for "states' rights" — a code word for resistance to black advances clearly understood by white Southern voters.”

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,399921,00.html

Answer 1

It's about White man, power and control so yes you can draw a correlation to that.

Answer 2

No, they were doing "waterboarding" even in ancient times. It was used to get confessions by those who were accused of witchcraft.

It was used in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, etc. Even the French have used it extensively. All nations do it.

I do not use the term African-Americans because it does not include those blacks who are not considered African-Americans such as Haitians and people from Liberia, Nigeria, and Cote d'Ivoire. I prefer the term Black Americans.

Waterboarding is an "equal opportunity" method of interrogation. It has been used without regard to race, color, creed, or national origin.

Answer 3

Get rich quick schemes in the capitalist business world, (buyouts, IPOs, conglomerates, acquisitions, mergers, and the stock market), do not actually work. Remaining solvent does not actually exist within false economics capitalism.

Profit existing in the capitalist business world, or millionaires existing within capitalism, is pathological deception committed by the 21 organizations spying on the population with plain clothes agents, (with covert fake names and fake backgrounds).

Actual economics is the persons paying the monthly business loan payments of companies voting at work in order to control the property they are paying for.

Capitalism is the psychology of imaginary parents, false economics, and the criminal deception of employees that are paying the bills (including the stocks and bonds, or shares) of companies.

Anti-democracy republicanism is the psychology of imaginary parents, and false government.

Answer 4

You do know that Abraham Lincoln was a republican and supported the 13TH Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery, whereas his demoncratic opponent in 1864 supported slavery and pledged to return to the South the rights it had had in 1860.

Answer 5

Check you history, and you'll find your premise is false.
First of all, slave states, in the South were Democrat. I do believe a Republican named Lincoln freed the slaves.
Your link is pretty suspect.

Answer 6

Torture was around even before Christ was born dude. Republicans didn't invent it.

Answer 7

no