U.S. Senator Hiram Rhoades Revels1 posted on
02/25/2005 12:16:10 AM PST by
mdittmar
To: WKB
2 posted on
02/25/2005 12:19:26 AM PST by
mwyounce
To: mdittmar
How could this be so? Pre-1964 America was irredeemably racist, wasn't it? Revels must have been some sort of a puppet who simply did the bidding for his masters, surely. /Sarcasm off
To: mdittmar
Hiram Rhoades Revels, a Republican from Natchez, Mississippi, is sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.But..but..how can this be, the Democrats are the party of diversity!
4 posted on
02/25/2005 12:41:03 AM PST by
cardinal4
(George W Bush-Bringing a new democracy every term..)
To: mdittmar
weren't there also about 13 black Republicans in the House during the start of Reconstruction?
6 posted on
02/25/2005 12:58:21 AM PST by
GeronL
(Bush on the PRESS "They just float sewer out there.")
To: fieldmarshaldj
10 posted on
02/25/2005 6:17:16 AM PST by
bourbon
(You see me here, and yet I am already changed, already elsewhere.)
To: mdittmar; LS; bourbon; WKB; onyx
proportion to their overwhelming electoral majority I was not aware of blacks ever being a majority of the electorate in the South. They are 38% in Mississippi now which is the highest in the nation.
I know that in some Caribbean nations that blacks outnumbered whites dramatically as slaves....Haiti and Jamaica come to mind. I believe in Haiti it was 18-1.
Maybe, they are speaking of when many whites were disenfranchised at the time as ex-Rebels. Does anyone here know?
11 posted on
02/25/2005 7:53:20 AM PST by
wardaddy
(I don't think Muslims are good for America....just a gut instinct thing.)
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