Sen. Hiram Rhodes Revels (R-Mississippi)
Posted on 09/26/2008 2:02:34 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The Senate galleries were packed, filled with both black and white spectators, and a murmur filled the air as the nation's first black member of Congress, Sen. Hiram Revels, stood to deliver his first speech to the chamber.
Nearly 140 years before Sen. Barack Obama's historic quest to become the nation's first black president, Revels captivated a nation in the midst of social upheaval following the Civil War. The date was March 16, 1870, less than five years after the 13th Amendment abolished slavery.
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my kids never learned about this in school.
the republican history for civil rights has been allowed to be rewritten by dems and public education.
young americans need to be informed on the true history of the republican party and the racist history of the dems.
I believe the first black president will be a Republican.
Yes, the history of the Republican Party in supporting the civil rights of African-Americans has curiously been expunged from our schools. It’s as if the Republican Party did not exist when the Civil Rights history of the 50s and 60s is covered. It was merely segregationist Democrats v. “progressive” Democrats.
One would never know that African-Americans were almost uniformly Republican up until the 1930s, at which time the FDR Democrats brought in many due to the Depression.
Even then, the Republicans did not abandon the cause of Civil Rights.
Didn’t know about this. Thanks!
Sen. Hiram Rhodes Revels (R-Mississippi)
And he was smart enough to stay the hell away from a young Barbara Walters.
I wish we had more representation in other parties besides the dems. I wish I didn’t have so many skeletons in my closet, then I could run for office.
Yeah, quite so. Putting all your eggs in one basket, especially when the basket has a great big hole in the middle, is ill-advised. Unfortunately for the GOP, they haven't exactly demonstrated an overwhelming desire to elect Black people to office (just getting the nomination isn't enough, you've got to provide the tools to win the general, and to keep the office). The more Blacks we get in the door under our label, the less Blacks will see the GOP as the White People Party and start to give us more consideration.
"I wish I didn’t have so many skeletons in my closet, then I could run for office."
Well, if you were running as a Dem, it'd be no problem. The more skeletons you have, the better. You haven't made your bones as a Dem if you haven't broken a whole mess of laws.
I just saw this video. We ought to run this man for Congress... or with Palin in 2012. ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/user/machosauceproduction
(And he’s a Richard Pryor fan, and you can’t go wrong there)
bump!
It is so good to see someone as hip as me and in the right mindset who is not afraid to be different and speak the truth. Thanks for posting this.
I’m glad you liked it. I spotted it on another thread and thought folks might enjoy it.
Anandaluv: Obama speaks directly to the government-dependent class because that's what a community organizer does. Mismanagement of the Bush admistration? It started with Carter and was tilted toward an avalanche by Bill Clinton. Bush and McCain both made efforts to rectify this mess but were shot down by a solidified Democrat/RINO front raking money from Fannie/Freddie. Check "this video" or "this transcript" if you're too slow to digest it.
True 'nuff, Bush should have kept pushing it but the forces of money were behind the Democrats on this - helping the plantation-complacent afford to stay in a home they can brag is their own. Meanwhile I have lived in rentals all my adult life because I was brought up to earn and pay for what I call my own.
It’s hard to get through to such people. When you’re brought up with a relentless diet of hatred that liberalism embodies, it’s difficult to throw off the shackles. I rather strongly relate to the young man in the video, who is just a few years older than myself, because I was fed that same diet, and yet saw the light of truth and agitated (and still agitate) against it. I do wish him success in freeing many minds, not just Black, but all races, ages, and genders, from that mental slavery.
Turns out I should have invested in the company who handles foreclosures. I want to buy a backwoods property vaguely accessible to the grid and build a vaguely code-compliant fortress against what I believe is a dark time a'commin'.
If Obama wins that dark time is extremely accelerated. McCain is the only alternative in such a close race. And here we are again having to choose.
May have to move in with you and we can form a Wilson County Compound. ;-)
Brilliantly said, mein froind! This fellow has it nailed that the real party of slavery is indeed the Democrats.
Crabs in a bucket, great analogy. Matt Damon, lol.
Take Duckapee off the air and give him a show on Fox News. Devout Christian, he even has a guitar, and a whole band. The anti-Duckapee?
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