Posted on 06/12/2024 2:44:23 PM PDT by DFG
95 years ago today, on June 12th, 1929, Democrats across the country expressed outrage that President Herbert Hoover’s wife, Lou, invited an African-American woman to a White House reception.
First Lady Lou Hoover, a Republican, held a luncheon for the wives of Republican congressmen.
Mrs. Hoover refused the Democrats’ demands that she rescind her invitation to Jessie De Priest, wife of Oscar De Priest, an African-American congressman from Chicago.
The Luncheon went on as planned.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
What difference at this point does it make?
They skated on that one too.
On October 16, 1901, shortly after moving into the White House, [Republican] President Theodore Roosevelt invited his adviser, the African American spokesman Booker T. Washington, to dine with him and his family. The event provoked an outpouring of condemnation from white [Democrat] politicians and press in the American South. This reaction affected subsequent White House practice and no other African American was invited to dinner for almost thirty years. — Wikipedia article
They really should abandon ant contact to tradition, because tradition links one to sinners, and there is no mercy with progressives. How about the Satan Party? Too truthful. How about the Love Party? Perfect, completely opposite.
BTTT
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