don t. attorney general merrick garland facing the self righteous indignation of ted cruz and other republicans. new reporting tension between the fbi and justice department over the mar-a-lago raid. cpac is back, home of normal conservatives nothing more than a clown show. it does reflect the current state of the republican party. and from performative to alarming, republicans and ron desantis s florida are cracking down on lgbtq people and moving to cancel the entire democratic party. we begin tonight with a lingering question from the 2016 presidential election. what was going on inside the fbi? remember, just 11 days before the election, fbi director james comey announced that the agency was reopening its investigation into hillary clinton. effectively costing her the election. the motivation behind comey s move seemed to be coming from the fbi s new york field office, which, according to reuters, had a faction of investigators based in the office known to be host
New York. On April 4, 1968, 56 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a distinguished fighter for peace, equality and justice, was assassinated in the city of Memphis (Tennessee, USA). He was then a prominent leader of the progressive and anti-war movement in the United States and around the world.
In the early 1920s, Mamie George Williams helped register 40,000 Black women in Georgia to vote, overcoming Jim Crow laws that sought to deny them the franchise.
black americans. they literally called themselves the black and tans. but as the 1800s ended, some of those white republicans weren t too happy about the gains made by their black counterparts and wanted to eliminate them. the lily white movement emerged within the republican party as an organized effort to drive black folks of party leadership. at the same time, black americans were moving north in the great migration. and their votes were being courted by big city democrats. this happened in the waning days of reconstruction when it began, which means white racist republicanism pre-dates the 1960s. racism is a complicated religion afterall. the true story about our political parties, it is the stuff today s republicans don t want you to learn. it s how they continue to lie and gaslight and coopt the abolitionist legacy of abraham lyndon this bill in florida to cancel the modern day democratic party because southern democrats advocated for slavery during the
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In a previous piece, I posted my livestream addressing the history between the Republican Party and the black community. I discussed the historical events and decisions that led African Americans to overwhelmingly support the Democratic Party.
As the initial video was three hours long, I decided to break it up into smaller chunks to make it easier to consume. In this first section, I discuss the Lily-White movement that arose in the GOP shortly after the end of Reconstruction and how it spread to southern states.
In the presentation, I detail how the movement eventually took power in various state’s Republican Parties and systematically began ousting black leaders in a bid to appeal to southern white voters. The movement led to the GOP’s alienating black voters to the extent that they began seriously considering the Democratic Party despite the fact that it was also full of southern whites who weren’t too keen on the notion that blacks should be