Written by Steve Cannon for USSA News.
The Republican Party was formed in 1854 as a response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which sought to expand slavery into American territories. Throughout its history, the Republican Party has been at the forefront of the fight against slavery and for the rights of Black Americans.
Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation
On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared enslaved Black people free during the Civil War. This bold and historic move by Lincoln and the Republican Party was a turning point in the fight to abolish slavery and secure equal rights for Black Americans.
The Civil War Was Not North vs South, But a Battle Between Republicans and Democrats
Contrary to popular belief, the Civil War was not a battle between the North and South, but rather a battle between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The Lincoln-Douglas debates in the northern state of Illinois, for example, clearly illustrate that the conflict was not between regions, but between political ideologies.
The Dred Scott Decision and the Democratic Party’s Support for Slavery
The notorious Dred Scott decision, which declared that Black people were property and not citizens, was made by a Supreme Court majority of seven Democratic justices in favor and two Republican judges against. This decision, made by the Democratic Party, was a clear demonstration of their support for slavery and oppression of Black Americans.
The Ku Klux Klan and the Republican Party’s Fight Against White Supremacy
After the Civil War ended on April 9, 1865, Southern Democrats who despised Black people formed the Ku Klux Klan. Surprisingly, White Republican militias aimed to eliminate the KKK and fight against white supremacy.
Jim Crow Laws and the Democratic Party’s Oppression of Black Americans
Jim Crow laws, which imposed racial segregation and undone political and economic gains made by Black people during Reconstruction, were enacted by Southern Democrat-dominated state legislatures in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
The Republican Party’s Support for Black Representation in Congress
By 1900, more than 20 Black Republicans had served in Congress. Democrats, on the other hand, did not elect a single Black representative until 1935. In fact, every Black senator elected until 1979 was a Republican.
The Democratic Party’s Suppression of Black Voting Rights
When federal troops withdrew from the South after reconstruction ended, Democrats’ white supremacy laws re-emerged with a vengeance, enforced by the paramilitary arm of the Democratic Party, the KKK, which was used to suppress Black people from voting Republican.
The Democratic Party’s Support for Abortion and Eugenics
The Democratic Party has also been the party of abortion, with organizations such as Planned Parenthood, established by eugenics racists like Margaret Sanger, designed to eradicate “undesirables.” This practice continues today, with more Black infants aborted in New York City than are born.
The Democratic Party’s History of Racism and Oppression
Historically, prominent Democrats such as Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt have promoted racism and oppression, with Wilson re-segregating many federal agencies and screening the racist film Birth of a Nation at the White House and FDR declining to welcome four-time gold medalist Jessie Owen (a diehard Republican) to the White House and incarcerating 120,000 Japanese Americans.
The Democratic Party’s Failure to Address Black Plight
Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton, both Democrats, promote black victimization. The party advocates racial identity politics as a result of its policies’ catastrophic failure, which continues to harm black people and demonstrates its disdain for blacks. Opposition to school choice traps black students in failed schools. Politically correct police has made blacks victims of violent crimes.
In 2019, 9 unarmed blacks were slain by police (the figure is 19 for white people), whereas over 2,000 blacks were murdered by other blacks in 2018, and Democrats have had monopolistic control of ALL the cities we hear and read about black plight: Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit..
If Democrats truly cared about black people, they would treat abortion as a tragedy, support school choice, work to end the failed welfare state, abandon the idea of defunding police, promote advancement based on merit and character rather than the amount of melanin in your skin.
We need to end open borders that flood the market with cheap labor and steal jobs from black Americans, end their support for minimum wage laws that lead to higher black unemployment and end their social justice mantle. We have been fed lies, it’s time to be hungry for truth.