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Ha, Ha, Ha, love it!!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd don't forget that the KKK was created by dumbocrats.
ReplyDeleteIt's not taught because it isn't true. This meme confuses senators and representatives. There have only been 10 black US senators, 4 of whom were Republicans.
ReplyDeleteHere is some history rarely taught: White men who had fought for the Confederacy were disenfranchised by the Republicans during Reconstruction in an effort to get black Republican politicians elected. This in turn was cited as an excuse by Southern Democrats to disenfranchise black voters when Reconstruction ended.
And it won't continue with racist Tony Campbell, especially after Gov. Hogan duped him for third party candidate Neal Simon.
ReplyDeleteI guess you were never taught that the Republican party of that day didn't resemble today's republican party in the slightest, in fact the parties ideologies have practically switched since then.
ReplyDeleteHere is also a debunking from 2016 on this VERY false meme:
No. There haven’t even been 23 Black U.S. Senators in the entire history of the country, just 10.
The first three were Republicans:
Hiram Rhodes Revels (Mississippi, 1870–71)
Blanche Bruce (Mississippi, 1875–1881)
Edward Brooke (Massachusetts, 1967–79)
The reason for the long break was that the Redeemer Movement took control of the South in the 1870’s and managed, through intimidation and the passage of laws designed to disenfranchise freedmen, in retaking control for the Democrats.
The first Black Democratic Senator, and the first Black woman, was Carol Moseley Braun, from Illinois (1993–99). Barack Obama, also from Illinois, was the fifth Black Senator (2005–08). He only served half his term because he got a better job. The sixth was Roland Burris (2009–10), who kept Obama’s Illinois seat warm until a special election.
The fourth Black Republican Senator is Tim Scott of South Carolina, elected in 2013 and up for re-election this fall. He’s expected to win re-election, which would make him only the second to serve more than one term, after Brooke.
Mo Cowan of Massachusetts kept a seat warm for a few months in 2013 after John Kerry resigned. Cory Booker, from New Jersey, is up for re-election in 2020. And California’s Kamala Harris is up for re-election in 2023. They are all Democrats.
So there have been six Democrats and four Republicans among the 10 Black Americans who have served in the U.S. Senate.