Black Southerners have long memories and they haven't forgotten what their own grandparents told them: the republicans never stood up for black folks and used them unmercifully before abandoning them. You seem to have no idea what Reconstruction wrought. Reconstruction was a military occupation of the former Confederate states and was a reign of terror over black and white Southerners alike. The radicals of the republican party behaved so abominably toward all Southerners, white and black that they poisoned relations between the two parties, between the North and South and between black and white Americans for generations to come.
"Let the record show" indeed. You're setting the stage for the republicans to replace the democrats again as the massas on the big liberal plantation by having a republican president push for reparations. I'll be tickled to death when conservatives of all races abandon your rotten, lying worthless socialist party.
No personal offense intended, of course, ma'am. And I agree about Kevin. He's a good spokesman.
Twodees, did you read my post? The info on Republicans during the Civil War came from a rather liberal university Civil War history timeline. Conde Rice talks proudly of her grandfather becoming a Republican in the Jim Crow south because the Democrats wouldn't let him register.
Communists exploited poor youths in Africa in the 50s and 60s to disrupt order in villages, get rid of "Godly" influnces. They supplied them with Molotav cocktails and told them that the evil White missionaries/men were responsible for their misery and that it was their right to destroy their property, steal what they could for their own. MLK used lesser but similar tactics straight out of the agitprop handbook, in Selma, and they knew by then to put children and cripples out front for the TV cameras while members of their organization taunted the police to provoke them into reacting. The same powermongers are exploiting the inner cities the same way today.
The heads of the Communist Party are adamant in their determination to subvert whites, Negroes, organizations, and even churches to obtain a revolution in America. The Negro was one of the first objectives of the Communists; and they wrote: Comrades Browder, Edwards, and Ford have spoken about the necessity of making a turn in our Negro work, how to connect ourselves with the organized masses, in the United States. There are, of the Negro population, 10 million in churches. The problem of how to penetrate these organizations is of the utmost political importance. Party Organizer, p. 16
March 1935, by the Central Committee Communist Party
The Coming American Revolution
I don't doubt that there's enough blame to go around...we are all sinners, but no, I don't trust the current textbook version of black history. Christians fought hardest to eradicate slavery...in England and then in America, and they didn't do it for approval from the public, a legacy or politics. The Republican Party was formed to protest against those who wanted to spread slavery Westward with expansion. Some will call it all politics. I don't buy it. You make an unpopular stand. You fight. Those with the long history of organized gang-violence are not on the right.