The Republican history they think blacks don't know

[Correll]

These events are part of republican history and are major reasons blacks left the party.

1876 US ELECTION: The Corrupt Bargain -- Republicans (Hayes) made a back room deal with the Democrats to gain control of the Presidency

The period after the Civil War, 1865 - 1877, was called the Reconstruction period. Abraham Lincoln started planning for the reconstruction of the South during the Civil War as Union soldiers occupied huge areas of the South.

The Compromise of 1876 and the removal of federal troops from the South by order of President Rutherford B. Hayes on May 1, 1877 ended Reconstruction. Reconstruction was the time between 1865 and 1877 when the federal government set the laws in which the southern states were allowed to be readmitted back into the United States. All former Confederate states were admitted back into the country by 1870.

FACT: The Republicans (Hayes) sold out African Americans in the South to gain power of the White House.
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I am a republicans and it is true that I think that the vast majority of blacks do not know the particulars of that political deal.


However, I think the vast majority of blacks have a general understanding that, in the past, a lot of shady political deals of all kinds were done, and that quite often they got fucked.


The blacks did started switching parties during FDR's New Deal. Social Programs to help the poor and unemployed were to much of a draw, they had to support them even though they knew the dems were the party of racism.


So, your point is wrong.

 

[depotoo]

Such crap-

BUT THE CITY had exhausted itself and the strains did not ease. Life was actually becoming harsher. L. O. Crosby, the state's flood dictator, suggested to [Commerce Secretary and national flood czar Herbert] Hoover, "Believe food and feed rations for refugees and animals should be cut in half while water is up and no work to do." The recommendation stunned Hoover, brought back to him that Mississippi was a different world. He vetoed cutting food for people but approved cutting feed to animals.
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On March 2, 1877, the commission voted along strict party lines to award all the contested electoral votes to Hayes, who was thus elected with 185 electoral votes to Tilden’s 184.
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The 1927 flood had national political effects. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, who directed the Red Cross’s efforts to provide massive flood relief, won national attention for his humanitarianism. The subsequent publicity he received was a large factor in his successful 1929 bid for the presidency. The end of the flood also signaled a political upheaval in Louisiana and may have opened the door for populist leaders such Huey Long. Finally, the flood became a major factor prompting the migration of African Americans from the South to cities in the North and West.

 

[Hiryuu]

The average annual household income in 1927 (according to the US Census) was $342.00 annually.
The poverty line for a house of four is $24,339 (2015) and 71.6 times the average household income in 1927.

Best guess, things have changed.

 

[Taz]

Stop living in the past.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana

I can't remember who he is.

 

[TNHarley]

Bipartisan deal and the OP only wants to bash one party?
Around here we call that a DERP thread

 

[Hiryuu]

I can't remember who he is.

"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
George Santayana

 

[Kosh]

Stop living in the past.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana

And yet the far left wants to erase their own past and pretend it never happened!

 

[Kosh]

These events are part of republican history and are major reasons blacks left the party.

1876 US ELECTION: The Corrupt Bargain -- Republicans (Hayes) made a back room deal with the Democrats to gain control of the Presidency

The period after the Civil War, 1865 - 1877, was called the Reconstruction period. Abraham Lincoln started planning for the reconstruction of the South during the Civil War as Union soldiers occupied huge areas of the South.

The Compromise of 1876 and the removal of federal troops from the South by order of President Rutherford B. Hayes on May 1, 1877 ended Reconstruction. Reconstruction was the time between 1865 and 1877 when the federal government set the laws in which the southern states were allowed to be readmitted back into the United States. All former Confederate states were admitted back into the country by 1870.

FACT: The Republicans (Hayes) sold out African Americans in the South to gain power of the White House.

1927 Great Mississippi River Flood: Republicans (Hoover) made a back room deal with Robert Russa Moton and then experienced selective amnesia...

The final Report of the Colored Advisory Commission Appointed with The American National Red Cross and the President's Committee on Relief Work in the Mississippi Valley Flood disaster of 1927. Extremely scarce copy, owned by The Freeman Institute Black History Collection. The American National Red Cross, Washington DC, 1927 (illustrated 30 pages). Less than a month after the nation's biggest flood disaster, a 17-member commission of prominent African Americans, led by Tuskegee Institute's Robert Moton submitted their report on the disaster. They had been charged with learning whether African American victims of the flood were subject to discrimination "in matters of treatment, living conditions, work details, and relief given."

BACKGROUND: Secretary of Commerce during the Coolidge administration, Herbert Hoover had his eye on the presidency. When President Coolidge placed Hoover in command of all flood relief operations during the disaster, it seemed to be the perfect vehicle to raise his national profile and revive his reputation as the "Great Humanitarian." Drawing on lessons he had learned feeding the starving European victims of World War I, Hoover swept into action. He cut through bureaucratic red tape, got aid to victims devastated by the flood and was dubbed a hero by the national press. There was only one thing that could tarnish Hoover's glowing image -- the treatment of African Americans in the Washington County levee camps. Hoover had visited the area and had approved the local flood relief committee's decision, under the leadership of Will Percy, to keep the African American refugees on the levee.

Moton's Final Report​

But as conditions deteriorated in the camps, word slowly filtered North, and the scandal threatened to derail Hoover's presidential ambitions. Hoover's friends urged him to get what they called "the big Negroes" in the Republican Party to quiet his critics, and Hoover turned to Robert Moton for the job. Hoover formed the Colored Advisory Commission, led by Moton and staffed by prominent African Americans, to investigate the allegations of abuses in the flood area. The commission conducted a thorough investigation and reported back to Moton on the deplorable conditions. Moton presented the findings to Hoover, and advocated immediate improvements to aid the flood's neediest victims.

FACT: Herbert Hoover experienced "selective amnesia" with the non-delivery of his promise to Robert Russa Moton...which made Moton angry.....angry enough to launch an anti-Republican movement. Enter the New Deal in the 1930s and one can see how the anti-GOP movement has steadily changed the way African Americans have voted.


Great Mississippi Flood of 1927: Blacks put in Concentration Camps

http://originalpeople.org/great-mississippi-flood-of-1927/

Black Oppression and the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927

Black Lives Sacrificed to Flood Control

In 1927 as the rivers spilled over, black work gangs were rounded up to toil in dangerous and ultimately pointless attempts to stay the water. In Mounds Landing, Mississippi, north of the main Delta town of Greenville, over 2,000 black men were forced at gunpoint to fill and throw sandbags onto the levee. On April 21, the levee was breached, releasing water with a force greater than Niagara Falls. Many in the work gangs who were reinforcing the levee were swept into the torrent. The official account, by a National Guard officer at the site, stated, “No lives were lost among the Guardsmen.”

The federal government didn’t contribute a dime of direct aid to the thousands of flood victims, despite a record budget surplus. The Red Cross established racially segregated camps in the flood zones. Black families lived in floorless tents in the mud without cots, chairs or utensils, eating inferior rationed food. Sometimes forced to work on the levees without pay, black men had to wear tags identifying that they were laborers in order to receive rations, and to show which plantation they “belonged to.” Women with no working husband did not get supplies unless they had a letter from a white man.

Policing the camps, the National Guard supervised the workers, whipping and beating the men. At least one black woman was gang-raped and killed by Guardsmen. Typhoid, measles, mumps, malaria and venereal diseases ran rampant among destitute tenant farmers and mill workers already weakened from illnesses endemic to poverty, such as tuberculosis and pellagra. The Chicago Defender (4 June 1927) even reported that “those who die are cut open, filled with sand then tossed into the Mississippi River.” Such horrors were stark proof that the poisonous legacy of chattel slavery still infected the land some 60 years after the Civil War.

Black Oppression and the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927

Note: The responses from the usual suspects to this informative posts are collectively idiot-grams, of the willfully ignorant. Sad.

And note the far left will support the rewriting of history to support their religious cause.

 

[MarcATL]

It's coming to see these "stop living in the past" type responses from those who start bitching, moaning and wailing about "Stop erasing our HISTORY!" when it comes to these racist statues...

LoLz!!!!

 

[Hiryuu]

It's coming to see these "stop living in the past" type responses from those who start bitching, moaning and wailing about "Stop erasing our HISTORY!" when it comes to these racist statues...

LoLz!!!!

Not nearly as funny as someone scared of a statue. I'm sure the statue can appreciate that though.

 

[Taz]

I can't remember who he is.

"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
George Santayana

Sorry, I'm not up on the beaner philosophy.

 

[Hiryuu]

Sorry, I'm not up on the beaner philosophy.

Neither am I, but pretty handy with Google.

 

[Taz]

Sorry, I'm not up on the beaner philosophy.

Neither am I, but pretty handy with Google.

Sorry, I meant I don't give a shit about beaners and their philosophy.

 

[Hiryuu]

Sorry, I meant I don't give a shit about beaners and their philosophy.

I'm gonna take a stab and guess you aren't a fan of philosophy in general.

 

[Taz]

Sorry, I meant I don't give a shit about beaners and their philosophy.

I'm gonna take a stab and guess you aren't a fan of philosophy in general.

Philosophy is for wimps.

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

Stop living in the past !!

And erect more confederate statues so we will never forget what happened in the past!!!!

I know it sounds contradictory, but its complicated!!!!

 

[Nosmo King]

On one hand it's hypocritical of the racists and Right Wingers to say this is 2018 not 1870. Those same racists and Right Wingers cite Democrat politicians as racists due to their policies of the past.

But, on the other hand, it's vital for everyone to realize that political parties change their ideologies over time, while racism remains constant. Democrats who controlled the south for better than one hundred years after the Civil War were Democrats because Lincoln was a Republican. That did not equate with current ideologies held by 21st century Democrats.

Republicans were once a very progressive party. At the turn of the 20th century, Republican ideology included labor and workplace safety reform, anti-trust legislation, refulations,on food and drug purity and so on. Policies that are anathema to modern Comservatives.

Three ideological shifts have happened within my lifetime. The 1948 Dixiecrat split where southern Democrats refused to back Harry Truman following his order to integrate the armed forces, Nixon's Southern Strategy where he gave succor to southern Comservatives who were Democrats, and the Trumpian movement where Republicans sold their souls for SCOTUS nominees and tax cuts. Three shifts just whil I was around.

Imagining that political parties are the same in policy today as they were 70, 90, 150 years ago displays a lack of historical context.

 

[Hiryuu]

Philosophy is for wimps.

Well, I'm not going to your argue with your philosophy on that.

 

[Hiryuu]

On one hand it's hypocritical of the racists and Right Wingers to say this is 2018 not 1870. Those same racists and Right Wingers cite Democrat politicians as racists due to their policies of the past.

But, on the other hand, it's vital for everyone to realize that political parties change their ideologies over time, while racism remains constant. Democrats who controlled the south for better than one hundred years after the Civil War were Democrats because Lincoln was a Republican. That did not equate with current ideologies held by 21st century Democrats.

Republicans were once a very progressive party. At the turn of the 20th century, Republican ideology included labor and workplace safety reform, anti-trust legislation, refulations,on food and drug purity and so on. Policies that are anathema to modern Comservatives.

Three ideological shifts have happened within my lifetime. The 1948 Dixiecrat split where southern Democrats refused to back Harry Truman following his order to integrate the armed forces, Nixon's Southern Strategy where he gave succor to southern Comservatives who were Democrats, and the Trumpian movement where Republicans sold their souls for SCOTUS nominees and tax cuts. Three shifts just whil I was around.

Imagining that political parties are the same in policy today as they were 70, 90, 150 years ago displays a lack of historical context.

The political parties are the same, and they both think you are incapable of taking care of yourself without their help. Race is just another tool in the toolbox they use to get your vote and keep you stupid.

 

[Nosmo King]

On one hand it's hypocritical of the racists and Right Wingers to say this is 2018 not 1870. Those same racists and Right Wingers cite Democrat politicians as racists due to their policies of the past.

But, on the other hand, it's vital for everyone to realize that political parties change their ideologies over time, while racism remains constant. Democrats who controlled the south for better than one hundred years after the Civil War were Democrats because Lincoln was a Republican. That did not equate with current ideologies held by 21st century Democrats.

Republicans were once a very progressive party. At the turn of the 20th century, Republican ideology included labor and workplace safety reform, anti-trust legislation, refulations,on food and drug purity and so on. Policies that are anathema to modern Comservatives.

Three ideological shifts have happened within my lifetime. The 1948 Dixiecrat split where southern Democrats refused to back Harry Truman following his order to integrate the armed forces, Nixon's Southern Strategy where he gave succor to southern Comservatives who were Democrats, and the Trumpian movement where Republicans sold their souls for SCOTUS nominees and tax cuts. Three shifts just whil I was around.

Imagining that political parties are the same in policy today as they were 70, 90, 150 years ago displays a lack of historical context.

The political parties are the same, and they both think you are incapable of taking care of yourself without their help. Race is just another tool in the toolbox they use to get your vote and keep you stupid.

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