On the Right Side of History

As many of you may know, I founded the Nevada Republican Black Caucus as a way to educate, encourage and ultimately bring more blacks back to their historical roots within the Republican Party. As you can imagine, this has been a daunting task.

Historically, blacks have been On the Right Side of History but in the past few decades we have gone off the reservation. I'd like to remind my brothers and sisters of color the reason why we have and should continue to be On the Right Side of History.

There are marked differences between the historical Democrat Party and the historical Republican Party. There can be no mistaking the two groups. It is like night and day. Dry and wet. Black and white. If anyone, coming from a different planet were to given a prospectus on the two parties it wouldn't take him or her long to distinguish their differences and how they came to be. Why blacks who have historically been a part of the Republican Party are now predominately entrenched in the Democrat Party is what we will briefly discuss here today.



On the Left Side of History

The Democrat Party can be characterized as being the following:
1800's-1960 absolutely racist- They fought in the civil war of 1861-1865 to keep slavery alive in the southern states.
They invented the KKK after the Civil War to keep blacks and non-blacks from voting Republican
They instituted Jim Crow Laws- to stop blacks from voting
They Created Poll taxes, Segregation, Lynchings and in one case closed down an entire school district to stop the intermingling of black and white children.
They fought against Voting Rights for Blacks
They fought against Citizenship Rights for Blacks
They fought against Freedom for Blacks.



Democrat President Woodrow Wilson had the first screening of the KKK film "A Birth of A Nation" in the White house


Democrats during the 1920 Democrat National Convention walked out in mass because blacks were allowed to speak.
Established Roe v Wade the historic Abortion Rights Case
Fought Against Civil Rights marchers (Bull Connor)
Fought against integration in schools (Gov. George Wallace)
Established a system of segregation throughout the South whose effects can still be felt to this day.
Fought for LGBTQ Rights
Defeated DOMA
Ushered in Obama who amassed more debt in 8 years that all other Presidents combined
Anti small Government
Anti limited government  Spending
Anti border control and responsible immigration policy
Anti Military
Pro Abortion (which is the #1 Killer of African Americans)
Pro Gay Marriage
Defeated efforts to give parents school choice in education funding.
Lead the charge for the biggest expansion of Government with the takeover of the US healthcare system. (ObamaCare)
Started riots to stop US citizens from excersizing their rights to Free speech
Systematically trying to disarm US citizens in view of our 2 Amendment Rights to bear arms.





On the Right Side of History

Republicans
Established the Underground Railroad
Establish the Abolitionist movement
In 1854 was established as the anti-slavery Party
Fought and died to end slavery during the Civil War.
The first blacks elected to political office shortly after the Civil War we all Republican
Signed the Emancipation Proclamation
Signed the 13 Amendment to the Constitution (Ending Slavery)
Signed the 14th Amendment to the Constitution (giving US Citizenship to freed Slaves)
Signed the 15th Amendment to the Constitution (gave voting Rights to freed slaves)
Signed the Voting Rights Acts of 1957
Passed the Civil Rights Bill of 1961
Helped to fund many of the Historically Black Colleges
Passed the Suffrage Act allowing women to vote

The short list of landmark legislation and battles won by the Republican Party outline a cause for freedom and liberty for all people. These accomplishments cannot be underestimated. They serve as the pillars of black empowerment and freedom. Without even one of them blacks would not be able to function in American society with the freedoms we now enjoy. These same freedoms were all opposed by Democrat lawmakers and liberals. If the Democrats had gotten their way, Blacks would still be picking cotton on some plantation and the America we have today would not exist.
Our struggle is to keep the great advances which were fought and died for so many years ago.



Although blacks have left the Party of Lincoln, for the Party of Slavery, this does not diminish the great role black and white republicans have had in shaping America. It is up to us to help return blacks to The Right Side of History.