Until 1935, every black federal legislator was Republican.
America's first black U.S. Representative, South Carolina's Joseph Rainey, and our first black senator, Mississippi's Hiram Revels, both reached Capitol Hill in 1870.
On December 9, 1872, Louisiana Republican Pinckney Benton Stewart "P.B.S." Pinchback became America's first black governor.
America's first black Collector of Internal Revenue was former U.S. Rep. James Rapier (R., Ala.).
GOP presidents Gerald Ford in 1975 and Ronald Reagan in 1982 promoted Daniel James and Roscoe Robinson to become, respectively, the Air Force's and Army's first black four-star generals.
November 2, 1983: President Reagan established Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday, the first such honor for a black American.
President Reagan named Colin Powell America's first black national-security adviser while GOP President George W. Bush appointed him our first black secretary of state.
President G.W. Bush named Condoleezza Rice America's first black female NSC chief, then our second (consecutive) black secretary of State.
Why is Condoleezza Rice a Republican? In her own words:
"The first Republican I knew was my father, and he is still the Republican I most admire," Rice has said. "He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I."
The Civil Rights Act of was the culmination of 106 years of Republican efforts, not Democrat, and it was an uphill battle all the way.
The Democratic party embraced the Civil Rights movement, not out of compassion or tolorence of blacks, but because they saw the writing on the wall.They knew that passage of the Civil Rights Act was inevitable and they realized that there was going to be a new and powerful voting block.
They knew that most blacks from that time were uneducated, uninformed and naive so they changed tactics.
In an effort to win over this new and powerful voting block the Democrats started embracing the cause.
They started pointing to "this" bill or "that" legislation" that they voted on in order to show they were with blacks all along.
Ignoring the fact that in the beginning of the Civil Rights era, most bills before Congress were Republican sponsored.
In a Media and propaganda Blitz they stole the Republican thunder, but the facts are there. History doesn`t lie despite attempts to alter the facts. |
