Posted on 11/12/2026 6:13:13 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Hiram R. Revels (Republican) – Served from 1870 to 1871.
And so was the second:
Blanche K. Bruce (Republican) – Served from 1875 to 1881.
Just thought you all should know. Or in case anyone needed reminding...
Would be nice for the Party to look back to its roots a bit...
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IF black people had half a brain cell, NONE of them would be democraps.
That was one of the corrupt carpetbagger governments during the Occupation.
I watched as decade after decade the media covered the first black political figures as “since reconstruction”, and avoided their political party, skirting around the teachable moment.
Well that's because the government banned all white people from voting during this period.
Only the population of voters the liberals created to keep them in power were allowed to vote.
Same exact thing the liberals are doing with illegal aliens today. The idea is to override the will of actual citizens so that the liberals can stay in power and use the government as a tool to enrich themselves.
Nowadays we are getting Aliens and Muslims elected to office because they used this same trick.
The Republicans of that era were liberals. They wanted higher taxes. They wanted protectionism for Northern industries. They wanted "social change" and did not care that it would cause bad consequences. They came from Massachussets and Illinois, which are still liberal strongholds today.
The very type of government excess we claim to hate today was implemented by those "Republicans" whom we have been taught are "heroes."
They are in fact grifters, and they always were.
My post is about the present media manipulating information to advance the democrat party and to avoid anything positive sounding about the GOP.
The MSM Media Psyops never cease. They all get “The Memo” of how to “not cover” Black Republicans...
Please explain the “Vanity” part of your initial post.
Is there a link to a published article, or did I miss that??
Please, the South voted overwhelmingly for Fdr 4 times.
So? Blacks all voted Republican. The Republican Party had almost no candidates in the south before the Civil War. Republicans won with mostly black votes in Reconstruction. After most blacks were kept from voting, the south was totally Democratic. Only mountainous and other Unionist areas voted Republican from like 1890-1970.
ALL of the first group of black reps were GOP. ‘Cause only the GOP fought for them. The Dnc enslaved them.
Which is exactly what happened back then, but the term "Liberal" and "Conservative" should be used, because all the Liberals migrated to the Democrat party (because of FDR) and all the Conservatives migrated to the Republican party. (Because of Reagan.)
Yes, the powerful Northeastern liberals who controlled all the publications in America during that era, painted the Democrats (Conservatives) as horrible, and Republicans (Liberals) as great, and they have been using that same tactic against us all the way to the modern era.
They still control all the media, just like they did in 1870.
Sure, 68 years later, after their econommy and wealth had been destroyed and they had been brought to rack and ruin.
Poor desperate people will always vote for government handouts. It's better than starving.
Just like all the illegal aliens vote for the Democrats, Cause only the Democrats fight for them.
How did that work out this last election? Do you think changing the laws to allow illegals to vote is a good idea?
Won't they always vote for more handouts?
Won't they always keep liberals in power?
Exact same thing in 1870.
“””””The MSM Media Psyops never cease. They all get “The Memo” of how to “not cover” Black Republicans...”””””
So true, they completely avoid the history of the black vote and the GOP, they even lie about it and tie the switch to the 1960s and Civil Rights, when the switch was actually made in 1936.
Most people don’t know that a kind and conservative Black man named George W Bush founded Washington state after being forced out of Oregon.
At the time the racist libs there saw him and passed a law banning black people from owning property.
people also forget that George Washington founded Centrailia
They voted for Bryan and his stupid free silver platform also.
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