“Black History and the Republican Party”
| “Black History and the Republican Party” |
| Today once again marks the beginning of Black History Month, and some would say so what, big deal, we don’t need this. Actually, this is a very important month for the history of the Republican, Grand Ole Party. Now, let’s not forget that it was ol’ Joe Biden who once quipped to Charlemagne da god on his podcast that if you didn’t vote for him you ain’t Black. Imagine if a Republican presidential candidate had said something similar? I recall the Marxist left backlash against presidential candidate Trump when he said an absolute truth in North Carolina to the Black community, what do you have to lose voting for me? The history of the Republican party is the complete antithesis to the other political party. It was in 1854 when the Republican party was established, on a single issue, to end slavery in America. From its humble beginning in Ripon Wisconsin, came the first Republican party presidential nominee, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln initially tried to skirt the issue of slavery in order to preserve the Union, but he realized that he could not escape from it. Lincoln found a trusting relationship with a former slave and free abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, and January 1, 1863 came the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves in the Southern (Democrat) states. Another monumental endeavor was the creation of the first uniformed Black military regiment, the 55th Massachusetts. Lincoln did not stop there as he made the true abolition of slavery in America his objective. Thus we had the 13th Amendment to our Constitution ending slavery in America. It was a Republican legislative pursuit and not supported by Democrats. And to follow on, there was the 14th Amendment, preferring citizenship, and the 15th Amendment, the right to vote. This was not something Democrats embraced and they created the first domestic terrorist organization, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). But, in this Black History Month, we must recognize the relationship of the Republican party to Blacks in the State of Texas. It would be two years after the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation that Blacks in Texas would learn that they were free…June 19th, 1865, known today as Juneteenth. That day, Union Major General Gordon Granger landed in Galveston Texas to issue General Order No. 3, announcing the end of legalized slavery in Texas. MG Granger was escorted by Black federal troops to deliver the edict. The celebration of Juneteenth has nothing to do with the Democrat party, other than ending an institution that they vehemently supported, which they would later replace with Jim Crow laws and segregation. And even more important for Republicans in Texas would be two years later, on American Independence Day, July 4th, 1867. There would be 150 of those recently emancipated Black men, along with 20 white men, who would establish the Republican Party of Texas in Houston, today, the Nation’s largest State GOP. It would be 19 years later, 1886, that a Black man, Norris Wright Cuney would be the Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, an office he held for 10 years. Cuney was born a slave in Hempstead Texas but would have over 100K blacks voting Republican in Texas. Norris Wright Cuney was the embodiment of the reason why the Republican Party was established in 1854. We also can celebrate this Black History Month a Black Republican State Senator, Matthew Gaines. Matthew Gaines was born into slavery in Alexandria, Louisiana and was sold into Texas. During Reconstruction, Gaines would become a Texas State Senator, one of the first Black legislators in the Lone Star State. He fought to secure constitutional rights and establish a system of public education for freed Black Texans, similar to the work of Booker T. Washington. As a Texas State Senator, Gaines was instrumental in the creation of the two preeminent Agricultural and Mechanical Universities, Texas A&M and Prairie View A&M, one for whites, and the other for Blacks. Matthew Gaines has the distinct honor of being buried on the campus of Texas A&M University, along with a former Republican President and Vice President, George Herbert Walker Bush. Again, a reminder of why the Republican Party was established in 1854. My point? Republicans should not be dismissive about Black History Month, matter of fact, Republicans should embrace and celebrate it. Philosophically, I am a constitutional conservative, but my political party is Republican. I am proud of that history, the bond between the Republican party and Blacks. It is a bond to ensure the promises of the Declaration of Independence to all, and it always shall be. The Republican party has always fought for individual freedom, rights, and liberties for Blacks, never forget that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed because of Senate Republicans, led by Everett Dirksen…much to the chagrin and dismay of Democrats. But, Lyndon Johnson, a virulent racist Democrat president, saw how the passage could be leveraged in order to draw Blacks into a new type of slavery, economic. And today the Republican party seeks to extend economic freedom, while the Marxist let seeks to proliferate the bondage of economic enslavement. Republicans like Texas State Senator Matthew Gaines, and Booker T. Washington, saw the importance of a quality education to enable growth and self-reliance. Today, Black leftists, and their white slave masters, refute policies such as parental choice and educational freedom, preferring to relegate inner city Black children to failing centers of Marxist indoctrination and lessons on victimhood. This Black History Month, and each month, Republicans should tout the truth, their history, and stop allowing the people who have always sought to enslave the Black community to usurp the story. I find it humorous, utterly laughable, and a little offensive, when people make insidious statements about why Blacks are conservative, Republican. The real question should be why wouldn’t they be? The history of the Democrat political party and the Black community is horrific, and when considering the agenda of Margaret Sanger and her organization Planned Parenthood, genocidal. Republicans, tell your story, and stop allowing the left, the Democrat party to lie, deceive, and continue to destroy the Black community. Steadfast and Loyal. |