Now let's get to the subject of this thread.
If reparations are paid to black Americans, they should come from the democrat party......obviously.
Obviously he said. These white extremists are a bunch of disingenuous liars.
The Second Confiscation Act in 1862 had provisions for the colonization of blacks who chose to leave. Both Dr. Henry Louis Gates and the 1619 Project have written about a meeting between blacks and Lincoln whereby he made insulting comments to them, blamed blacks for the Civil War, and demanded they accept his plan to resettle blacks outside of America. According to both sources, on Aug. 14, 1862, Lincoln met with black representatives at the White House to try getting blacks to accept getting shipped out of the country.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Did Lincoln Want to Ship Black People Back to Africa?
https://www.theroot.com/did-lincoln-want-to-ship-black people-back-to-africa-1790858389
Republicans authored an amendment to officially make slavery a constitutionally protected activity. The Republican Party is the party of The Corwin Amendment that would have cemented slavery as a constitutional right.
The Corwin Amendment,
The Able Doctor, or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught - The Heritage Post corwin-amendment/
Robert Longley, The Corwin Amendment, Enslavement, and Abraham Lincoln, Updated July 24, 2019,
https://www.thoughtco.com/corwin-amendment-slavery-andlincoln-416092
A Republican president, with the support of the Republican Party, ended reconstruction. The Republican Party is the party of the 1877 Compromise that ended reconstruction and paved the way for Jim Crow.
Louis Kleber, The Presidential Election of 1876, History Today Volume 20 Issue 11 November 1970,
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/presidentialelection-1876
The Compromise of 1877,
Khan Academy | Free Online Courses, Lessons & Practice humanities/us-history/civil-war-era/reconstruction/a/ compromise-of-187
Once blacks got a foothold in the Republican party and gained some semblance of political equality, white Republicans took steps to purge blacks from leadership positions. The Republican Party is the party of the Lily White movement, a group of Republicans who worked to purge blacks from the party.
Jeff Charles, Lily-White Movement: Why Black Americans Left The GOP, Liberty Nation News, April 02, 2021,
Lily-White Movement: Why Black Americans Left the GOP
Lily-white movement,
American History USA white-movement
By 1964, there were blacks whose families had been Republicans since emancipation. They stayed faithful to a party that really did nothing for blacks after Lincoln signed the proclamation. While Republican, blacks endured Jim Crow Apartheid nationwide, redlining, restrictive covenants, acts of terror, white instigated racial violence, and the refusal to respect the constitutional rights of black people. Despite years of loyal black support, in 1964 Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater for president. His nomination was a slap in the face of black people. Goldwater voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Republicans consistently broke promises or ignored issues that affected black people. In 1964, the Republican Party turned its back on blacks after nearly one hundred years of black support.
Reparations are owed by the governments of this nation who made the laws. The racism has been bi partisan.