There is a lot modern republicans choose not to tell as they try luring blacks into supporting a move back into Jim Crow. First, not all Republicans were for racial equality. The Party had several factions in the beginning. One was the Radical Republicans. The Radical lRepublicans were for the eradication of slavery. They were not conservatives.
During the Civil War period, Radical Republicans had great power and were able to get initiatives passed providing blacks with civil rights.The pressure from Radical Republicans was responsible for creating the14th Amendment and the implementation of the Reconstruction Acts over President Johnson’s veto. These two actions allowed protection to the newly freed blacks.
The influence of the Radical Republicans was gone once reconstruction ended, and the republican party began to turn away from issues affecting blacks. None of the majority or the base of todays Republican Party would be Radical Republicans.
The record of the Republican party is a list of broken promises,most notably during the Great Mississippi Flood. Because of this flood, more than 200,000 blacks were displaced and forced to live in “relief camps.” Walter White, then the president of the NAACP, left New York to visit Mississippi to see what was going on. White called these facilities concentration camps in a report. White’s report caught the attention of the Secretary of Commerce, who was a guy named Herbert Hoover. Hoover was in charge of flood relief. After the NAACP roasted the government, Hoover started looking for other prominent blacks to evaluate the conditions reported by White to address the criticism from the NAACP. Once he found what he wanted, Hoover created an advisory committee to investigate the NAACP’s complaints. It was named The Colored Advisory Commission.
The Colored Advisory Commission visited Mississippi to investigate the situation. On December 12, 1927, the Colored Advisory Commission sent Hoover a letter with the findings of their investigation. Moton presented the findings to Hoover and advocated for immediate assistance to those most in need. Hoover then asked Moton not to tell the public about what they saw. In return for this, Hoover hinted to Moton that if he got elected president, Moton would be part of the Hoover administration and promised that some of the land from the flood would be turned into African American-owned farms.
Believing Hoover’s promises, Moton made sure the Commission did not leak the full story of what they saw and were told by blacks who were suffering mightily due to the flood. Moton then pumped up Hoover’s candidacy in the African American community. Hoover had no intentions of putting blacks in his administration. Once he was elected President in1928, Hoover caught a case of amnesia and forgot about the promises he made to Moton and the black community.
Moton withdrew his support for Hoover and switched to the Democratic Party. His move created a historic shift as African Americans began to abandon the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln, the party of the Emancipation Proclamation, and turned to the Democratic Party. Despite Hoover’s deception, there were still blacks who stayed faithful to the Republican Party after years of the party ignoring blacks and breaking promises, until 1964. 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.
Blacks were republican for 100 years. We endured Jim Crow, while we were republican and stayed faithful to the party that was doing nothing to end it. These Republicans here keep posting this dumb shit as if blacks don't know the record. Todays Republicans are the Dixiecrats of the past, and like thee dixiecratts, they think blacks are stupid.
