mad1961
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Slavery existed for 209 years before the Democratic Party was founded. Republicans today love telling blacks how the Democratic Party was pro-slavery and how it was the Republican Party that freed the slaves. There is a lot modern Republicans choose not to blacks as they try luring blacks into supporting a move back into Jim Crow. First, not all Republicans were for racial equality.
BLACKS WERE REPUBLICANS FOR 100 YEARS! We left the party because the party never wanted us.
Point number 1: Republicans authored an amendment to officially make slavery a constitutionally protected activity. The Republican Party is the party of The Corwin Amendment that would have cemented slavery as a constitutional right.
Point number two: A Republican president, with the support of the Republican Party, ended Reconstruction. The Republican Party is the party of the 1877 Compromise that ended Reconstruction and paved the way for Jim Crow.
Point number three: Once blacks got a foothold in the Republican party and gained some semblance of political equality, white Republicans took steps to purge blacks from leadership positions. The Republican Party is the party of the Lily White movement, a group of Republicans who worked to purge blacks from the party.
Point number four: Republicans consistently broke promises or ignored issues that affected black people. When blacks got Civil Rights, the Republican Party did not believe that was civil or right and decided that extremism in defense of liberty was no vice. In 1964 the Republican Party turned its back on blacks after nearly 100 years of black support.
Point number five: Today’s Republican Party is controlled by a racist Anti-Black base.
1. Arthur Zilversmit, Lincoln and the Problem of Race: A Decade of Interpretations, Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Volume 2, Issue 1, 1980, pp. 22-45, https://quod.lib.umich.edu/ j/jala/2629860.0002.104?view=text;rgn=main
2. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Did Lincoln Want to Ship Black People Back to Africa? https://www.theroot.com/did-lincoln-want-to-ship-black people-back-to-africa-1790858389
3. The Corwin Amendment, https://heritagepost.org/article/the- corwin-amendment/
4. Robert Longley, The Corwin Amendment, Enslavement, and Abraham Lincoln, Updated July 24, 2019, https://www.thoughtco.com/corwin-amendment-slavery-and-lincoln-4160928
5. The Reconstruction Act, https://www.american-historama.org/1866 1881-reconstruction-era/reconstruction-acts-1867.htm
6. Louis Kleber, The Presidential Election of 1876, History Today Volume 20 Issue 11 November 1970, https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/presidential-election-1876
7. The Compromise of 1877, https://www.khanacademy.org/ humanities/us-history/civil-war-era/reconstruction/a/ compromise-of-1877
8. Jeff Charles, Lily-White Movement: Why Black Americans Left The GOP, Liberty Nation News, April 02, 2021, https://www.libertynation.com/lily-white-movement-why-black-americans-left-the-gop/
9. Lily-white movement, https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/topic/lily white-movement/
11. HR. 7152, Senate vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Jun 19, 1964 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/s409
12. H.R. 7152. Civil Rights Act of 1964. Adoption of a resolution (h. Res. 789) providing for house approval of the bill as amended by the Senate, Jul 2, 1964 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/h182.
13. TO PASS S. 1564, The Voting Rights Act Of 1965, May 26, 1965, https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/89-1965/s78 .
14. TO PASS H.R. 6400, The 1965 Voting Rights Act, Jul 9, 1965, https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/89-1965/h87 .
15. 116TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION, Roll Call 654, Bill Number: H. R. 4, Voting Rights Advancement Act, DEC 06, 2019, https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2019654
16. Josh Israel, Every Senate Republican just voted against voting rights — again, American Independent, January 20, 2022, https://americanindependent.com/sen...g-rights-advancement-act-freedom-to-vote-act/
BLACKS WERE REPUBLICANS FOR 100 YEARS! We left the party because the party never wanted us.
Point number 1: Republicans authored an amendment to officially make slavery a constitutionally protected activity. The Republican Party is the party of The Corwin Amendment that would have cemented slavery as a constitutional right.
Point number two: A Republican president, with the support of the Republican Party, ended Reconstruction. The Republican Party is the party of the 1877 Compromise that ended Reconstruction and paved the way for Jim Crow.
Point number three: Once blacks got a foothold in the Republican party and gained some semblance of political equality, white Republicans took steps to purge blacks from leadership positions. The Republican Party is the party of the Lily White movement, a group of Republicans who worked to purge blacks from the party.
Point number four: Republicans consistently broke promises or ignored issues that affected black people. When blacks got Civil Rights, the Republican Party did not believe that was civil or right and decided that extremism in defense of liberty was no vice. In 1964 the Republican Party turned its back on blacks after nearly 100 years of black support.
Point number five: Today’s Republican Party is controlled by a racist Anti-Black base.
1. Arthur Zilversmit, Lincoln and the Problem of Race: A Decade of Interpretations, Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Volume 2, Issue 1, 1980, pp. 22-45, https://quod.lib.umich.edu/ j/jala/2629860.0002.104?view=text;rgn=main
2. Henry Louis Gates Jr., Did Lincoln Want to Ship Black People Back to Africa? https://www.theroot.com/did-lincoln-want-to-ship-black people-back-to-africa-1790858389
3. The Corwin Amendment, https://heritagepost.org/article/the- corwin-amendment/
4. Robert Longley, The Corwin Amendment, Enslavement, and Abraham Lincoln, Updated July 24, 2019, https://www.thoughtco.com/corwin-amendment-slavery-and-lincoln-4160928
5. The Reconstruction Act, https://www.american-historama.org/1866 1881-reconstruction-era/reconstruction-acts-1867.htm
6. Louis Kleber, The Presidential Election of 1876, History Today Volume 20 Issue 11 November 1970, https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/presidential-election-1876
7. The Compromise of 1877, https://www.khanacademy.org/ humanities/us-history/civil-war-era/reconstruction/a/ compromise-of-1877
8. Jeff Charles, Lily-White Movement: Why Black Americans Left The GOP, Liberty Nation News, April 02, 2021, https://www.libertynation.com/lily-white-movement-why-black-americans-left-the-gop/
9. Lily-white movement, https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/topic/lily white-movement/
11. HR. 7152, Senate vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Jun 19, 1964 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/s409
12. H.R. 7152. Civil Rights Act of 1964. Adoption of a resolution (h. Res. 789) providing for house approval of the bill as amended by the Senate, Jul 2, 1964 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/h182.
13. TO PASS S. 1564, The Voting Rights Act Of 1965, May 26, 1965, https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/89-1965/s78 .
14. TO PASS H.R. 6400, The 1965 Voting Rights Act, Jul 9, 1965, https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/89-1965/h87 .
15. 116TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION, Roll Call 654, Bill Number: H. R. 4, Voting Rights Advancement Act, DEC 06, 2019, https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2019654
16. Josh Israel, Every Senate Republican just voted against voting rights — again, American Independent, January 20, 2022, https://americanindependent.com/sen...g-rights-advancement-act-freedom-to-vote-act/
