Quick History lesson

[Antares]

Great. Another Stormfronter,

Nope just a semi-educated white man without liberal guilty blinders on.

 

[Pogo]

You did know that "blacks" were the biggest suppliers of "blacks" to whitey.....didn't you?

LOL....educate yourself kid...Shaka was the big dog.

Ah - you don't get the meaning.

Why am I not surprised...

 

[Antares]

LOL....educate yourself kid...Shaka was the big dog.

Ah - you don't get the meaning.

Why am I not surprised...

LOL, I have no regard for your opinion kid....I've known you across a few boards

 

[NYcarbineer]

I think you might be forgetting some.

In alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll those years since ..oh, 1929, you'd think pubs could have found a way to elect just a few more black folks.

Here is a list of African Americans elected to Congress since 1929.
(compiled before the 2010 election, so it does not reflect current count):
.
Pay special attention to the party affiliation:

Oscar Stanton De Priest Republican Illinois 1929-1935
Arthur W. Mitchell Democrat Illinois 1935-1943
William L. Dawson Democrat Illinois 1943-1970
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Democrat New York 1945-1967, 1967-1971
Charles Diggs Democrat Michigan 1955-1980
Robert N.C. Nix, Sr. Democrat Pennsylvania 1958-1979
John Conyers Democrat 1965-present
Bill Clay Democrat Missouri 1969-2001
Louis Stokes Democrat Ohio 1969-1999
Shirley Chisholm Democrat New York 1969-1983
George W. Collins Democrat Illinois 1970-1972
Ron Dellums Democrat California 1971-1998
Ralph Metcalfe Democrat Illinois 1971-1978
Parren Mitchell Democrat Maryland 1971-1987
Charles B. Rangel Democrat New York 1971-present
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke Democrat California 1973-1979
Cardiss Collins Democrat Illinois 1973-1997
Barbara Jordan Democrat Texas 1973-1979
Andrew Young Democrat Georgia 1973-1977
Harold Ford, Sr. Democrat Tennessee 1975-1997
Julian C. Dixon Democrat California 1979-2000
William H. Gray, III Democrat Pennsylvania 1979-1991
Mickey Leland Democrat Texas 1979-1989
Bennett M. Stewart Democrat Illinois 1979-1981
George W. Crockett, Jr. Democrat Michigan 1980-1991
Mervyn M. Dymally Democrat California 1981-1993
Gus Savage Democrat Illinois 1981-1993
Harold Washington Democrat Illinois 1981-1983
Katie Hall Democrat Indiana 1982-1985
Major Owens Democrat New York 1983-2007
Ed Towns Democrat New York 1983-present
Alan Wheat Democrat Missouri 1983-1995
Charles Hayes Democrat Illinois 1983-1993
Alton R. Waldon, Jr. Democrat New York 1986-1987
Mike Espy Democrat Mississippi 1987-1993
Floyd H. Flake Democrat New York 1987-1998
John Lewis Democrat Georgia 1987-present
Kweisi Mfume Democrat Maryland 1987-1996
Donald M. Payne Democrat New Jersey 1989-present
Craig Anthony Washington Democrat Texas 1989-1995
Barbara-Rose Collins Democrat Michigan 1991-1997
Gary Franks Republican Connecticut 1991-1997
William J. Jefferson Democrat Louisiana 1991-2009
Maxine Waters Democrat California 1991-present
Lucien E. Blackwell Democrat Pennsylvania 1991-1995
Eva M. Clayton Democrat North Carolina 1992-2003
Sanford Bishop Democrat Georgia 1993-present
Corrine Brown Democrat Florida 1993-present
Jim Clyburn Democrat South Carolina 1993-present
Cleo Fields Democrat Louisiana 1993-1997
Alcee Hastings Democrat Florida 1993-present
Earl Hilliard Democrat Alabama 1993-2003
Eddie Bernice Johnson Democrat Texas 1993-present
Cynthia McKinney Democrat Georgia 1993-2003, 2005-2007
Carrie P. Meek Democrat Florida 1993-2003
Mel Reynolds Democrat Illinois 1993-1995
Bobby Rush Democrat Illinois 1993-present
Robert C. Scott Democrat Virginia 1993-present
Walter Tucker Democrat California 1993-1995
Mel Watt Democrat North Carolina 1993-present
Albert Wynn Democrat Maryland 1993-2008
Bennie Thompson Democrat Mississippi 1993-present
Chaka Fattah Democrat Pennsylvania 1995-present
Sheila Jackson-Lee Democrat Texas 1995-present
J. C. Watts Republican Oklahoma 1995-2003
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democrat Illinois 1995-present
Juanita Millender-McDonald Democrat California 1996-2007
Elijah Cummings Democrat Maryland 1996-present
Julia Carson Democrat Indiana 1997-2007
Danny K. Davis Democrat Illinois 1997-present
Harold Ford, Jr. Democrat Tennessee 1997-2007
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick Democrat Michigan 1997-present
Gregory W. Meeks Democrat New York 1998-present
Barbara Lee Democrat California 1998-present
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Democrat Ohio 1999-2008
William Lacy Clay, Jr. Democrat Missouri 2001-present
Diane Watson Democrat California 2001-present
Frank Ballance Democrat North Carolina 2003-2004
Artur Davis Democrat Alabama 2003-present
Denise Majette Democrat Georgia 2003-2005
Kendrick Meek Democrat Florida 2003-present
David Scott Democrat Georgia 2003-present
G. K. Butterfield Democrat North Carolina 2004-present
Emanuel Cleaver Democrat Missouri 2005-present
Al Green Democrat Texas 2005-present
Gwen Moore Democrat Wisconsin 2005-present
Yvette D. Clarke Democrat New York 2007-present
Keith Ellison Democrat Minnesota 2007-present
Hank Johnson Democrat Georgia 2007-present
Laura Richardson Democrat California 2007-present
André Carson Democrat Indiana 2008-present
Donna Edwards Democrat Maryland 2008-present
Marcia Fudge Democrat Ohio 2008-present

...in allllllllllllllllllllllllllllll those years...THREE republicans.
93 democrats. ---> Since 1929.
Grand Total: THREE REPUBLICANS.
THREE.

*note again this was compiled pre-2010 elections. Since then a few more added, including the one termer West, and the Senator that was installed by the Governor (not elected as Senator)

Two can play at the game.

Black Republicans in general:

Claude Allen, former White House Domestic Policy Advisor

Renee Amoore, health care advocate & founder and president of The Amoore Group, Inc.; former candidate for Republican
National Committee Co-Chairwoman

Caesar Antoine, 13th Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana

J. Kenneth Blackwell, former Secretary of State of Ohio, former gubernatorial candidate

Michelle Bernard, journalist, author, columnist

Lynette Boggs, former Las Vegas City Councilwoman, former Clark County, NV commissioner, former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives

Peter Boulware, former NFL linebacker and Republican candidate for the Florida House of Representatives, District 9.

Jennette Bradley, former Treasurer of the State of Ohio

Randy Brock, former State Auditor of Vermont, current State Senator of Vermont

Stephen Broden, conservative commentator, Life Always board member (a pro-life organization) and evangelical pastor, 2010 Congressional candidate

Edward Brooke, former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, first African American elected by popular vote to the U.S. Senate

Janice Rogers Brown, a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals

Blanche Bruce, former U.S. Senator from Mississippi, first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate

Keith Butler, Republican national committeeman from Michigan, former councilman for Detroit, minister and former U.S. Senatorial candidate

Herman Cain, businessman, media personality, and former candidate for President of the United States in 2012.

Jennifer Carroll, Lieutenant Governor of Florida[1]

Ben Carson, political commentator and pediatric neurosurgeon

Ron Christie, former advisor to Vice-President Dick Cheney[2]

Octavius Valentine Catto, civil rights activist and African American baseball pioneer

Henry P. Cheatham, former U.S. Representative from North Carolina

Eldridge Cleaver, author and civil rights leader

William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr., fourth United States Secretary of Transportation, first African American Supreme Court Clerk

Ward Connerly, political activist, businessman, and former University of California Regent

Norris Wright Cuney, Chairman of the Texas Republican Party (1886-1896)

Randy Daniels, former Secretary of State of New York, 2006 Gubernatorial candidate

Artur Davis, former Democratic Alabama Congressman, speaker at 2012 Republican National Convention, potential Republican candidate

Oscar Stanton de Priest, former U.S. Representative from Illinois

Robert DeLarge, South Carolina congressman

Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, editor, orator, author, and statesman

Oscar Dunn, 11th Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana

Edward Duplex, Mayor of Wheatland, California (1888)

Larry Elder, talk radio host and commentator

Robert Brown Elliott, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina

Melvin H. Evans, former U.S. Representative from, and former Governor of, the U.S. Virgin Islands

James L. Farmer, Jr., civil rights leader

Michel Faulkner, pastor, former defensive lineman for the New York Jets, a 2010 nominee for New York's 15th congressional district

Arthur Fletcher, official in the administrations of Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush; considered the "father of affirmative action"

Gary Franks, former U.S. Representative from Connecticut

Ryan Frazier, Aurora City Councilman, 2010 nominee for Colorado's 7th congressional district

Samuel B. Fuller, founder and president of the Fuller Products Company, publisher of the New York Age and Pittsburgh Courier, head of the South Side Chicago NAACP, president of the National Negro Business League, and a prominent black Republican

Virginia Fuller, 2010 and 2012 Congressional Candidate

James Garner, former mayor of the Village of Hempstead, New York, 2004 Congressional candidate

Robert A. George, editorial writer for the New York Post, blogger and pundit

James Golden, producer on the Rush Limbaugh radio talk show

Elbert Guillory, current state senator in Louisiana's 24th district

Ken Hamblin, Radio host, political commentator, author, television personality

Jeremiah Haralson, former U.S. Representative from Alabama

Bill Hardiman, former Michigan State Senator, 2010 Congressional Candidate

Erika Harold, 2003 Miss America, delegate to the 2004 Republican National Convention, 2012 Congressional Candidate

Ted Hayes, activist for the homeless

Amy Holmes, CNN political commentator and independent social conservative

Deborah Honeycutt, 2006, 2008, 2010 congressional candidate;

T.R.M. Howard, Mississippi civil rights leader, surgeon, entrepreneur and mentor to Medgar Evers and Fannie Lou Hamer

Zora Neale Hurston, Folklorist, anthropologist, novelist, short story writer

John Adams Hyman, former U.S. Representative from North Carolina

Niger Innis, commentator and activist

Alphonso Jackson, thirteenth Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Raynard Jackson, political consultant and political analyst for WUSA*9 TV (CBS affiliate) in Washington, DC

Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson, first African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School; pro-life movement leader; Republican candidate for U.S. House and U.S. Senate

Wallace B. Jefferson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas

James Weldon Johnson, first Black manager of the NAACP, president of the Colored Republican Club

E.W. Jackson, GOP nominee for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 2013, President of STAND and CETF, Marine Corps Veteran, former Small Business Owner, graduate of Harvard Law School

Alan Keyes, former member of the Republican party and nominee for the U.S. Senate

Alveda King, minister, political activist, author, niece of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King, Sr., Reverend, missionary, civil rights leader, father of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stephen N. Lackey, fundraiser, philanthropist

John Mercer Langston, former U.S. Representative from Virginia

Jefferson Franklin Long, former U.S. Representative from Georgia

Mia Love, mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, 2012 Congressional candidate

John Roy Lynch, former U.S. Representative from Mississippi

Lenny McAllister, political analyst, community activist, and author

Angela McGlowan, political analyst, 2010 Congressional candidate

James Meredith, civil rights leader

Thomas Ezekiel Miller, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina

Eric Motley, former Deputy Associate Director, Office of Presidential Personnel in Bush Administration

George Washington Murray, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina

E. Frederic Morrow, first African-American to hold an executive position at the White House. He served under President Dwight D. Eisenhower as Administrative Officer for Special Projects from 1955 to 1961.

Charles Edmund Nash, former U.S Representative from Louisiana

Sophia A. Nelson, Lawyer, author, political commentator

Constance Berry Newman, U.S. diplomat; former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; member of International Republican Institute

James E. O'Hara, Congressman from North Carolina

Rod Paige, seventh U.S. Secretary of Education

Sherman Parker, Missouri state representative, ran for U.S. House of Representatives

Vernon Parker, mayor of Paradise Valley, Arizona, 2010 Congressional candidate

Star Parker, author, political commentator, 2010 Congressional candidate

Edward J. Perkins, first African-American U.S. ambassador to South Africa

Jesse Lee Peterson, civil rights activist, founder of Brotherhood of New Destiny

Joseph C. Phillips, actor, columnist, commentator

Pio Pico, last governor of Mexican California. Formed the Republican Party in California.

Samuel Pierce, former HUD Secretary

P. B. S. Pinchback, twenty-fourth governor of Louisiana; first African-American governor of a U.S. state

Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State

Michael Powell, 24th Chairman of the FCC

Pierre-Richard Prosper, former Bush Administration war crimes official

Joseph H. Rainey, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina, first African American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives

James T. Rapier, former U.S. Representative from Alabama

Hiram Rhodes Revels, former U.S. Senator from Mississippi, first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate

Condoleezza Rice, 66th United States Secretary of State

Jack E. Robinson III, former party nominee for U.S. House, U.S. Senate, and Secretary of the Commonwealth in Massachusetts

Vernon Robinson, former candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina

Joe Rogers, former Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, youngest Lieutenant Governor in Colorado history

Carson Ross Mayor of Blue Springs, MO, Fmr. Missouri State Rep

Jackie Robinson, baseball player (changed parties after Goldwater nomination).

Dwayne Sawyer, State Auditor of Indiana

Paul H. Scott, Michigan State Representative

Tim Scott. U.S. Senator from South Carolina (Appointed 2013) and former Representative, South Carolina's 1st Congressional District

Marvin Scott. Congressional Candidate

Winsome Sears. Former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 2004 Congressional Candidate

Robert Smalls, South Carolina

Joshua I. Smith, appointed commissioner of Minority Business Development by President George H. W. Bush

Princella Smith, 2010 Congressional Candidate, She PAC member

DeForest "Buster" Soaries, former New Jersey Secretary of State

Thomas Sowell, economist, writer and commentator

Michael S. Steele, political commentator, former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, former candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2006 and former elected chairman of the Republican National Committee (2009-2010)

Shelby Steele, author

Thomas Stith, III, former member of the city council of Durham, North Carolina, 2004 Candidate for Lieutenant Governor, 2007 mayoral candidate for Durham, North Carolina

Lynn Swann, former NFL player, former Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate

Noel C. Taylor, mayor of Roanoke, Virginia from 1975 to 1992[6]

Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court

Thurman Thomas, former Buffalo Bill, Republican activist, supported and campaigned for 2010 New York Republican Gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino

Sojourner Truth, abolitionist speaker and suffrage advocate

Harriet Tubman, abolitionist speaker and suffrage advocate

Benjamin S. Turner, Alabama Congressman

David Tyree, former New York Giant, anti-same-sex marriage advocate

James L. Usry, former mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey

William T. Vernon, Register of the Treasury under President Theodore Roosevelt

Dale Wainwright, Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court

Tara Wall, journalist, commentator, media strategist

Josiah Walls, former U.S. Representative from Florida, and one of the first African-Americans to serve in the U.S. House

Booker T. Washington, educator and activist

Maurice Washington, Nevada State Senator

J. C. Watts, former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma

Ida B. Wells, civil rights advocate, co-founder of the NAACP

Allen West, former U.S. Representative from Florida

J. Ernest Wilkins, Sr., Assistant Secretary of Labor under President Eisenhower[8]

Armstrong Williams, radio and television commentator

Michael L. Williams, Texas Railroad Commissioner

Walter E. Williams, author, commentator, economist

Vern Williams, member of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel

Barb Davis White, 2010 Congressional Candidate

William F. Yardley, anti-segregation advocate, first African American candidate for governor of Tennessee (1876)

It's comical and sad, all at the same time, to see the ways rightwingers try to convince black Americans that they're their friends.

 

[Pogo]

LOL....educate yourself kid...Shaka was the big dog.

Ah - you don't get the meaning.

Why am I not surprised...

LOL, I have no regard for your opinion kid....I've known you across a few boards

Ah... no, I doubt that.

My opinion is irrelevant. You're the one who just outed himself.

 

[candycorn]

To complete the education of the liberal left.

BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY: THE UNTOLD STORY
NOTE: All answers are "b."



1. What Party was founded as the anti-slavery Party and fought to free blacks from slavery?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



2. What was the Party of Abraham Lincoln who signed the emancipation proclamation that resulted in the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



3. What Party passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting blacks freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



4. What Party passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting blacks protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, and was the Party of most blacks prior to the 1960’s, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



5. What was the Party of the founding fathers of the NAACP?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



6. What was the Party of President Dwight Eisenhower who sent U.S. troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools, established the Civil Rights Commission in 1958, and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



7. What Party, by the greatest percentage, passed the Civil Rights Acts of the 1950’s and 1960’s?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



8. What was the Party of President Richard Nixon who instituted the first Affirmative Action program in 1969 with the Philadelphia Plan that established goals and timetables?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



9. What is the Party of President George W. Bush who appointed more blacks to high-level positions than any president in history and who spent record money education, job training and health care to help black Americans prosper?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY: THE UNTOLD STORY

NOTE: All answers are "b."



10. What Party fought to keep blacks in slavery and was the Party of the Ku Klux Klan?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



11. What Party from 1870 to 1930 used fraud, whippings, lynching, murder, intimidation, and mutilation to get the black vote, and passed the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws which legalized racial discrimination and denied blacks their rights as citizens?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



12. What was the Party of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry Truman who rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



13. What was the Party of President Lyndon Johnson, who called Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “that [N-word] preacher” because he opposed the Viet Nam War; and President John F. Kennedy who voted against the 1957 Civil Rights law as a Senator, then as president opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after becoming president and the FBI investigate Dr. King on suspicion of being a communist?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



14. What is the Party of the late Senators Robert Byrd who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Ernest “Fritz” Hollings who hoisted the Confederate flag over the state capitol in South Carolina while governor, and Ted Kennedy who called black judicial nominees “Neanderthals” while blocking their appointments?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



15. What was the Party of President Bill Clinton who failed to fight the terrorists after the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, sent troops to war in Bosnia and Kosovo without Congressional approval, vetoed the Welfare Reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



16. What is the Party of Vice President Al Gore whose father voted against the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s, and who lost the 2000 election as confirmed by a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations and the ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission that blacks were not denied the right to vote?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



17. What Party is against school vouchers, against school prayers, and takes the black vote for granted without ever acknowledging their racist past or apologizing for trying to expand slavery, lynching blacks and passing the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that caused great harm to blacks?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party

18. What does any of this have to do with the reality of how the two parties are today. It is history and totally irrellivent. The entire thread is irrellivent.

These yutz's don't realize that threads like this only highlight how far they've fallen in the view of minorities and women.

 

[BlackSand]

When did the Repubs decide they no longer needed the support of minorities?

Uh ... After they abolished slavery, recognized minorities as equals and recognized their right to vote.
When Republicans started treating minorities like they were equal ... Is exactly when the Democrats who have never thought minorities are equal ... Started screaming louder.

.

 

[Antares]

To complete the education of the liberal left.

BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY: THE UNTOLD STORY
NOTE: All answers are "b."



1. What Party was founded as the anti-slavery Party and fought to free blacks from slavery?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



2. What was the Party of Abraham Lincoln who signed the emancipation proclamation that resulted in the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



3. What Party passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting blacks freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



4. What Party passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting blacks protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, and was the Party of most blacks prior to the 1960’s, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



5. What was the Party of the founding fathers of the NAACP?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



6. What was the Party of President Dwight Eisenhower who sent U.S. troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools, established the Civil Rights Commission in 1958, and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



7. What Party, by the greatest percentage, passed the Civil Rights Acts of the 1950’s and 1960’s?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



8. What was the Party of President Richard Nixon who instituted the first Affirmative Action program in 1969 with the Philadelphia Plan that established goals and timetables?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



9. What is the Party of President George W. Bush who appointed more blacks to high-level positions than any president in history and who spent record money education, job training and health care to help black Americans prosper?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY: THE UNTOLD STORY

NOTE: All answers are "b."



10. What Party fought to keep blacks in slavery and was the Party of the Ku Klux Klan?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



11. What Party from 1870 to 1930 used fraud, whippings, lynching, murder, intimidation, and mutilation to get the black vote, and passed the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws which legalized racial discrimination and denied blacks their rights as citizens?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



12. What was the Party of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry Truman who rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



13. What was the Party of President Lyndon Johnson, who called Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “that [N-word] preacher” because he opposed the Viet Nam War; and President John F. Kennedy who voted against the 1957 Civil Rights law as a Senator, then as president opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after becoming president and the FBI investigate Dr. King on suspicion of being a communist?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



14. What is the Party of the late Senators Robert Byrd who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Ernest “Fritz” Hollings who hoisted the Confederate flag over the state capitol in South Carolina while governor, and Ted Kennedy who called black judicial nominees “Neanderthals” while blocking their appointments?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



15. What was the Party of President Bill Clinton who failed to fight the terrorists after the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, sent troops to war in Bosnia and Kosovo without Congressional approval, vetoed the Welfare Reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



16. What is the Party of Vice President Al Gore whose father voted against the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s, and who lost the 2000 election as confirmed by a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations and the ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission that blacks were not denied the right to vote?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



17. What Party is against school vouchers, against school prayers, and takes the black vote for granted without ever acknowledging their racist past or apologizing for trying to expand slavery, lynching blacks and passing the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that caused great harm to blacks?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party

18. What does any of this have to do with the reality of how the two parties are today. It is history and totally irrellivent. The entire thread is irrellivent.

These yutz's don't realize that threads like this only highlight how far they've fallen in the view of minorities and women.

You completely miss the point......

We don't give a shit that sluts like you want us to pay for your desire to spend all that time on your back at our expense......

We also know that not one living black today has been owned by anyone.....all of you need to grow the fuck up and take responsibility for your bullshit.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Was Jefferson Davis a liberal?

More so then Lincoln.

And what were Davis's liberal positions, exactly? Be specific.

 

[Pogo]

To complete the education of the liberal left.

BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY: THE UNTOLD STORY
NOTE: All answers are "b."



1. What Party was founded as the anti-slavery Party and fought to free blacks from slavery?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



2. What was the Party of Abraham Lincoln who signed the emancipation proclamation that resulted in the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



3. What Party passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting blacks freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



4. What Party passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting blacks protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, and was the Party of most blacks prior to the 1960’s, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



5. What was the Party of the founding fathers of the NAACP?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



6. What was the Party of President Dwight Eisenhower who sent U.S. troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools, established the Civil Rights Commission in 1958, and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



7. What Party, by the greatest percentage, passed the Civil Rights Acts of the 1950’s and 1960’s?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



8. What was the Party of President Richard Nixon who instituted the first Affirmative Action program in 1969 with the Philadelphia Plan that established goals and timetables?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



9. What is the Party of President George W. Bush who appointed more blacks to high-level positions than any president in history and who spent record money education, job training and health care to help black Americans prosper?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party



BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY: THE UNTOLD STORY

NOTE: All answers are "b."



10. What Party fought to keep blacks in slavery and was the Party of the Ku Klux Klan?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



11. What Party from 1870 to 1930 used fraud, whippings, lynching, murder, intimidation, and mutilation to get the black vote, and passed the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws which legalized racial discrimination and denied blacks their rights as citizens?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



12. What was the Party of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry Truman who rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



13. What was the Party of President Lyndon Johnson, who called Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “that [N-word] preacher” because he opposed the Viet Nam War; and President John F. Kennedy who voted against the 1957 Civil Rights law as a Senator, then as president opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after becoming president and the FBI investigate Dr. King on suspicion of being a communist?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



14. What is the Party of the late Senators Robert Byrd who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Ernest “Fritz” Hollings who hoisted the Confederate flag over the state capitol in South Carolina while governor, and Ted Kennedy who called black judicial nominees “Neanderthals” while blocking their appointments?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



15. What was the Party of President Bill Clinton who failed to fight the terrorists after the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, sent troops to war in Bosnia and Kosovo without Congressional approval, vetoed the Welfare Reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



16. What is the Party of Vice President Al Gore whose father voted against the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s, and who lost the 2000 election as confirmed by a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations and the ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission that blacks were not denied the right to vote?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party



17. What Party is against school vouchers, against school prayers, and takes the black vote for granted without ever acknowledging their racist past or apologizing for trying to expand slavery, lynching blacks and passing the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that caused great harm to blacks?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party

18. What does any of this have to do with the reality of how the two parties are today. It is history and totally irrellivent. The entire thread is irrellivent.

These yutz's don't realize that threads like this only highlight how far they've fallen in the view of minorities and women.

That "quiz" is a joke overflowing with fallacies. Such as: political parties don't pass Amendments. Such as attributing a party to the KKK. Such as claiming MLK as a Republican. Such as claiming the founders of the NAACP as well (of W.E.B. DuBois for example: )

"Although Du Bois generally endorsed socialist principles, his politics were strictly pragmatic: In 1929, Du Bois endorsed Democrat Jimmy Walker for mayor of New York, rather than the socialist Norman Thomas, believing that Walker could do more immediate good for blacks, even though Thomas' platform was more consistent with Du Bois's views.[161] Throughout the 1920s, Du Bois and the NAACP shifted support back and forth between the Republican party and the Democratic party, induced by promises from the candidates to fight lynchings, improve working conditions, or support voting rights in the South; invariably, the candidates failed to deliver on their promises.[162]" (Wiki)

Or another founder, Mary White Ovington:
>> Ovington joined the Republican Party in 1905, but was a self declared Liberal as many Republicans were at that time, where she met people including Daniel De Leon, Asa Philip Randolph, Floyd Dell, Max Eastman and Jack London, who argued that racial problems were as much a matter of class as of race. << (Wiki)

Or on another founder, Archibald Grimké:
>> He became increasingly active in politics, and was chosen for the Republican Party's state convention in 1884. That year he was also appointed to the board of a state hospital for the insane. Grimké became involved in the women's rights movement, which his aunts had supported, and addressed it in the Hub. He was elected as president of the Massachusetts Women's Suffrage Association, a black organization. Believing that the Republicans were not doing enough, he left the party in 1886.[2] << (Wiki)

--- which just underscores the folly of trying to paint any political party as monolithic in its idealism about race as well as trying to sell the illusion that any party's ideals are static in time. As well as the stretch engaged to find tokens for one of them.

Racism is a social scourge, not a political ideal. You don't find it in a political affiliation. You find it in frank personal admissions like Roo just did.

 

[Antares]

LOL.....you go on and believe that kid....while my wife who is Black laughs at you and your silly shit

 

[paperview]

Was Jefferson Davis a liberal?

More so then Lincoln.

And what were Davis's liberal positions, exactly? Be specific.

I already asked him that.

Like the other sticky questions that muck up his jam, he declined to answer.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Just out of curiosity,

when did the Republican Party become the party of 'blacks only vote Democrat because they want more free stuff'?

That wasn't the party of Lincoln, obviously. Did it start with Reagan? I think that's about right.

 

[Clementine]

13th amendment: abolished slavery
100% republican support, 23% democrat support

14th amendment: gave citizenship to freed slaves
94% republican support, 0% democrat support

15th amendment: right to vote for all
100% republican support, 0% democrat support

Obamacare
0% republican support
100% democrat support


Need I say more?

Yea you do need to say more. When was it that the Republican party decided they no longer wanted to support minorities?

When did the Repubs decide they no longer needed the support of minorities?


And if ANY political party decided to make a minority (blacks and Hispanic) a political scapegoat, how long do you think the minority will support this political party?

Republicans support all Americans, regardless of race. It's the Democrats who consistently separate people into groups and then treat them differently.

It's the Democrats who judge people by color and assume that all races think alike. That is why they think all Hispanics want illegal immigration and all blacks want a nanny government. When Romney went to talk to the NAACP members during his campaign, he talked about education and jobs. He was quickly told by the Democrats in attendance that he didn't address any concerns that the blacks had. He mentioned nothing about increasing welfare or Obamaphones, yet some people applauded quite loudly. I guess maybe Dems better rethink things since color doesn't always give a clue as to what is inside.

When Romney or any other Republican speaks to Hispanics, they are quickly criticized for not promising amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens. Of course, Dems don't see any different between legal immigrants and illegal aliens. The people who do see the difference and might even resent it a little are those who followed all of our laws. They had too much pride and too much decency to slip under the fence and start making demands. They wanted to be real Americans. Dems don't have time for real Americans. They prefer those who hate America, such as some of the illegals and all of the communists.

Republicans talk to Americans and assume that the average person wants to take full advantage of the rights granted them. They assume people want to be the best they can be and go from there. They realize that government was meant to have a limited role, that it's merely a necessary evil, and they respect that.

Democrats talk to groups separately and have completely different messages for each. They often pit one group against the other. When talking to wealthy friends at fund raisers, the talk centers on fair taxes and helping the economy. When they talk to blacks, the message is about increasing welfare and making the mean old wealthy people pay more taxes. When they talk to Hispanics, it's all about amnesty and promising to go after the "enemies" who want people to obey the immigration laws.

Democrats don't believe in the strength of people. They believe in government and constantly talk of what government can do for people. They see people who need to be coddled and cared for from cradle to grave. They see a nation of idiots who are waiting for some liberal to come and tell them what to do. If not for liberals, we'd all be sitting in a corner drooling on ourselves because we cannot begin to function without being given directions. We are so helpless we cannot even pick out our own light bulbs, let alone our own insurance.

Democrats like to make people feel like victims who need the lawyers (which most Dem presidents have been) to go after some deep pockets and make things right. The message is sit tight and wait for government to help you.

Republicans like to make people feel like they can succeed using what is available to them in this country. The message is get off your ass and discover your true potential.

There is a double standard when it comes to educating the public on some things. The Dems said the ads to discourage drug use were stupid and they were made fun of by the leftists in Hollywood. Maybe that had something to do with many youngsters not taking them seriously. Of course, the right was told to STFU when they wanted to be more aggressive at educating people on drugs and even STDs. The left said don't frighten people by telling them how easy it is to contract the AIDS virus.

It's different now that they are launching their war on food. The Dems don't make ads to educate people, they just ban stuff. Too bad they didn't get that aggressive with meth.

The day will come when it's a bigger crime to eat a donut than it is to put cocaine up your nose.

It's insane that I haven't been able to buy a good asthma inhaler for 2 years now, but I can still purchase aerosol cleaners, paint and hairspray.

Yes, it's our government at work.

Re-writing history and pretending that Democrats used to be Republicans and vice versa is asinine, but Dems forge ahead with shit knowing that enough airheads will believe anything. Just because they don't want to carry the baggage of the Democrat party being against ending slavery, then coming up with welfare to use the newly freed slaves to their advantage, they lie about it and hope that the majority of the country is now as fucking stupid as most of their supporters.

I won't get too involved in discussing the Dems war on women. If Sandra Fluke is your idea of an intelligent women, you are a sad, sad person. Of course, they think women's rights mean getting abortions and little else. Yea, we vote and they are okay with that. But they don't put as many women in high positions or pay them as well as the men. They are waaay worse when it comes to that than Repubs.

 

[paperview]

Ah, so Antares = Roo.

Now I remember, the racist poster who just couldn't use the n word enough.

That helps clear that up/

 

[JakeStarkey]

And the above is what will defeat the GOP nationally for a generation if we can't suppress these idiots on the far right from as if they were speaking for Republicans.

They are not.

 

[JakeStarkey]

And it is he, the once and forever Roo, this makes sense. Roo had a lightening flash over ACA but could not suppress the race issues. Talk about confused. Get over it, kid.

 

[paperview]

And it is he, the once and forever Roo, this makes sense. Roo had a lightening flash over ACA but could not suppress the race issues. Talk about confused. Get over it, kid.

It's him. Antares = Roo.

Verified.

 

[Pogo]

And it is he, the once and forever Roo, this makes sense. Roo had a lightening flash over ACA but could not suppress the race issues. Talk about confused. Get over it, kid.

It's him. Antares = Roo.

Verified.

A "Rooincarnation" as it says right under his handle.

There's no doubt. Check this post where he quotes Roo, click back to the Roo post and see what it says.

 

[TemplarKormac]

In alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll those years since ..oh, 1929, you'd think pubs could have found a way to elect just a few more black folks.

Here is a list of African Americans elected to Congress since 1929.
(compiled before the 2010 election, so it does not reflect current count):
.
Pay special attention to the party affiliation:

Oscar Stanton De Priest Republican Illinois 1929-1935
Arthur W. Mitchell Democrat Illinois 1935-1943
William L. Dawson Democrat Illinois 1943-1970
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Democrat New York 1945-1967, 1967-1971
Charles Diggs Democrat Michigan 1955-1980
Robert N.C. Nix, Sr. Democrat Pennsylvania 1958-1979
John Conyers Democrat 1965-present
Bill Clay Democrat Missouri 1969-2001
Louis Stokes Democrat Ohio 1969-1999
Shirley Chisholm Democrat New York 1969-1983
George W. Collins Democrat Illinois 1970-1972
Ron Dellums Democrat California 1971-1998
Ralph Metcalfe Democrat Illinois 1971-1978
Parren Mitchell Democrat Maryland 1971-1987
Charles B. Rangel Democrat New York 1971-present
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke Democrat California 1973-1979
Cardiss Collins Democrat Illinois 1973-1997
Barbara Jordan Democrat Texas 1973-1979
Andrew Young Democrat Georgia 1973-1977
Harold Ford, Sr. Democrat Tennessee 1975-1997
Julian C. Dixon Democrat California 1979-2000
William H. Gray, III Democrat Pennsylvania 1979-1991
Mickey Leland Democrat Texas 1979-1989
Bennett M. Stewart Democrat Illinois 1979-1981
George W. Crockett, Jr. Democrat Michigan 1980-1991
Mervyn M. Dymally Democrat California 1981-1993
Gus Savage Democrat Illinois 1981-1993
Harold Washington Democrat Illinois 1981-1983
Katie Hall Democrat Indiana 1982-1985
Major Owens Democrat New York 1983-2007
Ed Towns Democrat New York 1983-present
Alan Wheat Democrat Missouri 1983-1995
Charles Hayes Democrat Illinois 1983-1993
Alton R. Waldon, Jr. Democrat New York 1986-1987
Mike Espy Democrat Mississippi 1987-1993
Floyd H. Flake Democrat New York 1987-1998
John Lewis Democrat Georgia 1987-present
Kweisi Mfume Democrat Maryland 1987-1996
Donald M. Payne Democrat New Jersey 1989-present
Craig Anthony Washington Democrat Texas 1989-1995
Barbara-Rose Collins Democrat Michigan 1991-1997
Gary Franks Republican Connecticut 1991-1997
William J. Jefferson Democrat Louisiana 1991-2009
Maxine Waters Democrat California 1991-present
Lucien E. Blackwell Democrat Pennsylvania 1991-1995
Eva M. Clayton Democrat North Carolina 1992-2003
Sanford Bishop Democrat Georgia 1993-present
Corrine Brown Democrat Florida 1993-present
Jim Clyburn Democrat South Carolina 1993-present
Cleo Fields Democrat Louisiana 1993-1997
Alcee Hastings Democrat Florida 1993-present
Earl Hilliard Democrat Alabama 1993-2003
Eddie Bernice Johnson Democrat Texas 1993-present
Cynthia McKinney Democrat Georgia 1993-2003, 2005-2007
Carrie P. Meek Democrat Florida 1993-2003
Mel Reynolds Democrat Illinois 1993-1995
Bobby Rush Democrat Illinois 1993-present
Robert C. Scott Democrat Virginia 1993-present
Walter Tucker Democrat California 1993-1995
Mel Watt Democrat North Carolina 1993-present
Albert Wynn Democrat Maryland 1993-2008
Bennie Thompson Democrat Mississippi 1993-present
Chaka Fattah Democrat Pennsylvania 1995-present
Sheila Jackson-Lee Democrat Texas 1995-present
J. C. Watts Republican Oklahoma 1995-2003
Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democrat Illinois 1995-present
Juanita Millender-McDonald Democrat California 1996-2007
Elijah Cummings Democrat Maryland 1996-present
Julia Carson Democrat Indiana 1997-2007
Danny K. Davis Democrat Illinois 1997-present
Harold Ford, Jr. Democrat Tennessee 1997-2007
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick Democrat Michigan 1997-present
Gregory W. Meeks Democrat New York 1998-present
Barbara Lee Democrat California 1998-present
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Democrat Ohio 1999-2008
William Lacy Clay, Jr. Democrat Missouri 2001-present
Diane Watson Democrat California 2001-present
Frank Ballance Democrat North Carolina 2003-2004
Artur Davis Democrat Alabama 2003-present
Denise Majette Democrat Georgia 2003-2005
Kendrick Meek Democrat Florida 2003-present
David Scott Democrat Georgia 2003-present
G. K. Butterfield Democrat North Carolina 2004-present
Emanuel Cleaver Democrat Missouri 2005-present
Al Green Democrat Texas 2005-present
Gwen Moore Democrat Wisconsin 2005-present
Yvette D. Clarke Democrat New York 2007-present
Keith Ellison Democrat Minnesota 2007-present
Hank Johnson Democrat Georgia 2007-present
Laura Richardson Democrat California 2007-present
André Carson Democrat Indiana 2008-present
Donna Edwards Democrat Maryland 2008-present
Marcia Fudge Democrat Ohio 2008-present

...in allllllllllllllllllllllllllllll those years...THREE republicans.
93 democrats. ---> Since 1929.
Grand Total: THREE REPUBLICANS.
THREE.

*note again this was compiled pre-2010 elections. Since then a few more added, including the one termer West, and the Senator that was installed by the Governor (not elected as Senator)

Two can play at the game.

Black Republicans in general:

Claude Allen, former White House Domestic Policy Advisor

Renee Amoore, health care advocate & founder and president of The Amoore Group, Inc.; former candidate for Republican
National Committee Co-Chairwoman

Caesar Antoine, 13th Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana

J. Kenneth Blackwell, former Secretary of State of Ohio, former gubernatorial candidate

Michelle Bernard, journalist, author, columnist

Lynette Boggs, former Las Vegas City Councilwoman, former Clark County, NV commissioner, former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives

Peter Boulware, former NFL linebacker and Republican candidate for the Florida House of Representatives, District 9.

Jennette Bradley, former Treasurer of the State of Ohio

Randy Brock, former State Auditor of Vermont, current State Senator of Vermont

Stephen Broden, conservative commentator, Life Always board member (a pro-life organization) and evangelical pastor, 2010 Congressional candidate

Edward Brooke, former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, first African American elected by popular vote to the U.S. Senate

Janice Rogers Brown, a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals

Blanche Bruce, former U.S. Senator from Mississippi, first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate

Keith Butler, Republican national committeeman from Michigan, former councilman for Detroit, minister and former U.S. Senatorial candidate

Herman Cain, businessman, media personality, and former candidate for President of the United States in 2012.

Jennifer Carroll, Lieutenant Governor of Florida[1]

Ben Carson, political commentator and pediatric neurosurgeon

Ron Christie, former advisor to Vice-President Dick Cheney[2]

Octavius Valentine Catto, civil rights activist and African American baseball pioneer

Henry P. Cheatham, former U.S. Representative from North Carolina

Eldridge Cleaver, author and civil rights leader

William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr., fourth United States Secretary of Transportation, first African American Supreme Court Clerk

Ward Connerly, political activist, businessman, and former University of California Regent

Norris Wright Cuney, Chairman of the Texas Republican Party (1886-1896)

Randy Daniels, former Secretary of State of New York, 2006 Gubernatorial candidate

Artur Davis, former Democratic Alabama Congressman, speaker at 2012 Republican National Convention, potential Republican candidate

Oscar Stanton de Priest, former U.S. Representative from Illinois

Robert DeLarge, South Carolina congressman

Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, editor, orator, author, and statesman

Oscar Dunn, 11th Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana

Edward Duplex, Mayor of Wheatland, California (1888)

Larry Elder, talk radio host and commentator

Robert Brown Elliott, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina

Melvin H. Evans, former U.S. Representative from, and former Governor of, the U.S. Virgin Islands

James L. Farmer, Jr., civil rights leader

Michel Faulkner, pastor, former defensive lineman for the New York Jets, a 2010 nominee for New York's 15th congressional district

Arthur Fletcher, official in the administrations of Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush; considered the "father of affirmative action"

Gary Franks, former U.S. Representative from Connecticut

Ryan Frazier, Aurora City Councilman, 2010 nominee for Colorado's 7th congressional district

Samuel B. Fuller, founder and president of the Fuller Products Company, publisher of the New York Age and Pittsburgh Courier, head of the South Side Chicago NAACP, president of the National Negro Business League, and a prominent black Republican

Virginia Fuller, 2010 and 2012 Congressional Candidate

James Garner, former mayor of the Village of Hempstead, New York, 2004 Congressional candidate

Robert A. George, editorial writer for the New York Post, blogger and pundit

James Golden, producer on the Rush Limbaugh radio talk show

Elbert Guillory, current state senator in Louisiana's 24th district

Ken Hamblin, Radio host, political commentator, author, television personality

Jeremiah Haralson, former U.S. Representative from Alabama

Bill Hardiman, former Michigan State Senator, 2010 Congressional Candidate

Erika Harold, 2003 Miss America, delegate to the 2004 Republican National Convention, 2012 Congressional Candidate

Ted Hayes, activist for the homeless

Amy Holmes, CNN political commentator and independent social conservative

Deborah Honeycutt, 2006, 2008, 2010 congressional candidate;

T.R.M. Howard, Mississippi civil rights leader, surgeon, entrepreneur and mentor to Medgar Evers and Fannie Lou Hamer

Zora Neale Hurston, Folklorist, anthropologist, novelist, short story writer

John Adams Hyman, former U.S. Representative from North Carolina

Niger Innis, commentator and activist

Alphonso Jackson, thirteenth Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Raynard Jackson, political consultant and political analyst for WUSA*9 TV (CBS affiliate) in Washington, DC

Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson, first African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School; pro-life movement leader; Republican candidate for U.S. House and U.S. Senate

Wallace B. Jefferson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas

James Weldon Johnson, first Black manager of the NAACP, president of the Colored Republican Club

E.W. Jackson, GOP nominee for Lt. Governor of Virginia in 2013, President of STAND and CETF, Marine Corps Veteran, former Small Business Owner, graduate of Harvard Law School

Alan Keyes, former member of the Republican party and nominee for the U.S. Senate

Alveda King, minister, political activist, author, niece of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King, Sr., Reverend, missionary, civil rights leader, father of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stephen N. Lackey, fundraiser, philanthropist

John Mercer Langston, former U.S. Representative from Virginia

Jefferson Franklin Long, former U.S. Representative from Georgia

Mia Love, mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, 2012 Congressional candidate

John Roy Lynch, former U.S. Representative from Mississippi

Lenny McAllister, political analyst, community activist, and author

Angela McGlowan, political analyst, 2010 Congressional candidate

James Meredith, civil rights leader

Thomas Ezekiel Miller, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina

Eric Motley, former Deputy Associate Director, Office of Presidential Personnel in Bush Administration

George Washington Murray, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina

E. Frederic Morrow, first African-American to hold an executive position at the White House. He served under President Dwight D. Eisenhower as Administrative Officer for Special Projects from 1955 to 1961.

Charles Edmund Nash, former U.S Representative from Louisiana

Sophia A. Nelson, Lawyer, author, political commentator

Constance Berry Newman, U.S. diplomat; former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; member of International Republican Institute

James E. O'Hara, Congressman from North Carolina

Rod Paige, seventh U.S. Secretary of Education

Sherman Parker, Missouri state representative, ran for U.S. House of Representatives

Vernon Parker, mayor of Paradise Valley, Arizona, 2010 Congressional candidate

Star Parker, author, political commentator, 2010 Congressional candidate

Edward J. Perkins, first African-American U.S. ambassador to South Africa

Jesse Lee Peterson, civil rights activist, founder of Brotherhood of New Destiny

Joseph C. Phillips, actor, columnist, commentator

Pio Pico, last governor of Mexican California. Formed the Republican Party in California.

Samuel Pierce, former HUD Secretary

P. B. S. Pinchback, twenty-fourth governor of Louisiana; first African-American governor of a U.S. state

Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State

Michael Powell, 24th Chairman of the FCC

Pierre-Richard Prosper, former Bush Administration war crimes official

Joseph H. Rainey, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina, first African American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives

James T. Rapier, former U.S. Representative from Alabama

Hiram Rhodes Revels, former U.S. Senator from Mississippi, first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate

Condoleezza Rice, 66th United States Secretary of State

Jack E. Robinson III, former party nominee for U.S. House, U.S. Senate, and Secretary of the Commonwealth in Massachusetts

Vernon Robinson, former candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina

Joe Rogers, former Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, youngest Lieutenant Governor in Colorado history

Carson Ross Mayor of Blue Springs, MO, Fmr. Missouri State Rep

Jackie Robinson, baseball player (changed parties after Goldwater nomination).

Dwayne Sawyer, State Auditor of Indiana

Paul H. Scott, Michigan State Representative

Tim Scott. U.S. Senator from South Carolina (Appointed 2013) and former Representative, South Carolina's 1st Congressional District

Marvin Scott. Congressional Candidate

Winsome Sears. Former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 2004 Congressional Candidate

Robert Smalls, South Carolina

Joshua I. Smith, appointed commissioner of Minority Business Development by President George H. W. Bush

Princella Smith, 2010 Congressional Candidate, She PAC member

DeForest "Buster" Soaries, former New Jersey Secretary of State

Thomas Sowell, economist, writer and commentator

Michael S. Steele, political commentator, former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, former candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2006 and former elected chairman of the Republican National Committee (2009-2010)

Shelby Steele, author

Thomas Stith, III, former member of the city council of Durham, North Carolina, 2004 Candidate for Lieutenant Governor, 2007 mayoral candidate for Durham, North Carolina

Lynn Swann, former NFL player, former Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate

Noel C. Taylor, mayor of Roanoke, Virginia from 1975 to 1992[6]

Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court

Thurman Thomas, former Buffalo Bill, Republican activist, supported and campaigned for 2010 New York Republican Gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino

Sojourner Truth, abolitionist speaker and suffrage advocate

Harriet Tubman, abolitionist speaker and suffrage advocate

Benjamin S. Turner, Alabama Congressman

David Tyree, former New York Giant, anti-same-sex marriage advocate

James L. Usry, former mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey

William T. Vernon, Register of the Treasury under President Theodore Roosevelt

Dale Wainwright, Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court

Tara Wall, journalist, commentator, media strategist

Josiah Walls, former U.S. Representative from Florida, and one of the first African-Americans to serve in the U.S. House

Booker T. Washington, educator and activist

Maurice Washington, Nevada State Senator

J. C. Watts, former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma

Ida B. Wells, civil rights advocate, co-founder of the NAACP

Allen West, former U.S. Representative from Florida

J. Ernest Wilkins, Sr., Assistant Secretary of Labor under President Eisenhower[8]

Armstrong Williams, radio and television commentator

Michael L. Williams, Texas Railroad Commissioner

Walter E. Williams, author, commentator, economist

Vern Williams, member of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel

Barb Davis White, 2010 Congressional Candidate

William F. Yardley, anti-segregation advocate, first African American candidate for governor of Tennessee (1876)

It's comical and sad, all at the same time, to see the ways rightwingers try to convince black Americans that they're their friends.

LOL. It's sad yet perplexing why you feel the need to keep them on a leash. "Vote for us or you're an Uncle Tom."

Seriously? Is that how you respond to me, Carbine?