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Ultimately though, no, it’s not what we need to hear. It’s barely an advance for black people to correctly identify Democrats with the historical “wrongs” that have been done to blacks in America; the better route is to understand that it does us no good to dwell upon the past in this way. What’s done is done, and the question now is what are we going to do with the amazing opportunities that we’ve been blessed with here in America, right here, right now.

Your point is sound, but IMHO it would help some if people understood the whole history of the Republican Party. I was pleased by the treatment of the subject in this 5/9/18 Dinesh D’Souza video.
He summarized the history of the Republican Party by quoting Abraham Lincoln as saying that the definition of slavery is, “You work, I eat.” And while he admitted party platforms changed over time, he asserted that opposition to the “You work, I eat” principle has been a constant theme of the Republican Party.
The other interesting point he made was that blacks switched heavily to the Democrat Party during the New Deal - even though the FDR cut a deal with southern Democrats to cut the blacks out of most of the New Deal goodies.
D'Souza made the point in different ways in previous documentaries, but he said that of 200 Southern Democrat governors and senators, 199 lived and died as Democrats. The lone exception being, of course, Strom Thurman. It wasn’t that Southern Democrats took over the Republican party, but that Southern whites accepted the Republican Party.

Yes, I saw the movie and am familiar with those points. It’s true and worth saying. But the narrative that the modern day left runs with is basically that the parties “switched sides” during the Civil Rights Era, Nixon’s Southern Strategy and all of that. D’Souza’s debunked that of course, but if you’re judging based on demographics, as they are wont to do, it’s hard to argue with the reality that as of now, the GOP is whiter than America in general, and the donkeys are less white.

But my point is really more coming from within the black community, where race and history play such a big role in our thought processes. Making arguments about which political party has historically been more or less racist just reinforces that. The better argument, IMHO, is to decouple race and history from how we think about today’s realities, and instead support whichever strategy has proven itself most effective. To me, the answer to that from a political perspective is clearly Republicanism/conservatism, whatever you want to call it, but traditional values, free market economics, and law and order.

quoting Abraham Lincoln as saying that the definition of slavery is, “You work, I eat.”

Great leaders have a way of boiling complex topics down.

Reagan's foreign policy: "We win. They lose."

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