Other little known (or, more accurately, little acknowledged) fact:
In addition to having their own "History Month" blacks have their own history.
That history excludes any credit to Republicans for the civil rights gains made, specifically in civil rights laws passed. For instance, while they do seem to understand that Lincoln emancipated the black populations of the slave states they do not remember that he was a Republican. They also forget that the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 would not have been possible without the votes of Republicans. And, today's holiday...MLK Day...was signed into law by President Reagan. Perhaps most curious is the memory purge of southern Democrats' membership in the KKK and the Democrat promotion of the abortion agenda which has its origins in black genocide. Instead, they have their own imagined history in which Republicans have always worked to keep them down while brave Democrats have championed them.
There are a great many things in this life that I do not understand. On that list and close to the top is why black people (collectively and in general) continue to vote for Democrats and continue to imagine that Republicans, all evidence to the contrary, work against their best interests. You would think that after many, many generations of failed black social justice policies and laws driven by Democrats that maybe, just maybe, eyes would begin to open. But no. Some things seem completely intractable to change and this may be one of them. It profoundly saddens me.
