[avacado]

" Rice says most blacks are not aware that from its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party, the Republican Party has been at the “forefront of the struggle for civil rights, which is why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican.”

It was Republicans, she notes, who fought to free blacks from slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote. Republicans also pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress from the 1860s through the 1960s, Rice says.

“It was the Democrat public safety commissioner, Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor, in Birmingham who let loose vicious dogs and turned the fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators,” Rice says. "

Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark!

[Kirkwood]

They don’t teach such things in the schools so it can’t be true. /s

[Kryptonite]

Rice says most blacks are not aware that from its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party, the Republican Party has been at the “forefront of the struggle for civil rights, which is why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican.”

!!!!

[Sigurdrifta]

It’s also interesting, as Clayton Cramer and others have noted, that notwithstanding the left’s strong desire for “gun control”, the vast majority of gun-control laws passed since after the Civil War have been racist in origin and result. This has sometimes been against whites (eg the NY Sullivan Law), but much more often against blacks.

(Yes, I know that some on the right share the goal of gun control, but my impression is that the left is much more inclined to this attitude...possibly there is an overlay of elitist mentality here that transcends the politics.)