Which Is the Party of Historic Racism?

I'm halfway though Karl Rove's The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters (which, by the way, is an excellent history) and I'm struck afresh by how one of the biggest (and most easily disproven) lies of historical revisionism is that the Democrat Party is the one that most cares for the rights and needs of the black community. 

After all, the Democrats were the party of slavery and the Confederacy, the party of Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan, the party that fought tooth and bloody nail against voting rights, desegregation, and the Civil Rights Act. 

And even today it is the Democrat Party that champions and enables Planned Parenthood, the mega-abortion business that is brutally destroying hundreds of thousands of preborn babies of color every year.

Sigh.