Black History Month @ PoetPatriot.com

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Black History Month

Black History Month is celebrated in February.
Celebrating one diverse history in the unity of American diversities.
History - Sayings - Poetry

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
with Republican
Vice President
Richard M. Nixon
in 1957.

These are the resources @ PoetPatriot.com for your celebration of Black History Month.

Black History Month

Black and the Political Parties
    Slavery was an issue in politics since the forming of America, however and unfortunately it was also entrenched in the American economy.
    In 1854 the Republican Party was formed with it's primary goal being to abolish slavery. Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican President. Although Lincoln's goal in fighting the Civil War was to preserve the Union, his Emancipation Proclamation was a spoil of war. Following Emancipation Blacks began to run for government offices. The first 23 Blacks elected to the U.S. Congress were Republican.
     The Democratic Party opposed every attempt at equality in society even to enact laws to restrict voting to black citizens. The "Jim Crow Laws" were enacted by Democrats and supported along with segregation in schools and society by the Democrat Party.
Black Poets
Jupiter Hammon was the first American Black to have a poem published.
Phyllis Wheatley was the first American Black to have a book of poetry published.
See - The Poet Jupiter

Black Patriots
Blacks have served in the service for Liberty since the origin of American Liberty. Slaves served with and against their masters in the Civil War.
Few heroes were recorded - Black American Patriots of the American Revolution in Rhyme

Black Presidents?
Barack Hussein Obama is the first Black-American to become President of the United States.
Other Presidents have had some Black in their ancestry; Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. Those presidents had been socially accepted as white.

"I Have a Dream"
Excerpts from the Speech by
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'"

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Dr. King with Richard M. Nixon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
with Vice President
Richard M. Nixon
in 1957.

Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. and other Civil Rights Leaders met with the Republican Eisenhower Administration to discuss the Democrat opposition to the Republican Civil Rights agenda.

Dr. Martin Luther King
with President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
in 1957.
Dr. King with President Eisenhower

   Republicans Proposed and Enacted the Civil Rights Amendments of 1957 and 1964. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed by President Johnson but had been opposed by the Democrat Party.

Dr. Martin Luther King
and President
John Kennedy met
to discuss possible
support for the
Civil Rights agenda.

    The Democratic Party fought the Civil Rights Act of 1964, even fillibustering against it as a last ditch effort to kill the Amendment. Civil Rights leader, Fanny Lou Hamer, was barred from attending the 1964 Atlantic City Democratic National Convention, because of her Black agenda. President Kennedy had began meeting with Dr. King in support of Civil Rights though the Democrat Party remained against it. The multiple apperances between the two men; the assassinations; and President Johnson signing the Bill, overshawdowed the fact that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a Republican success. The misperception still exists today.
    The Democrat Party to gain votes began to use the Civil Rights agenda to buy Black votes by enacting "civil rights" laws that would use color rather than 'content of character' to improve the plight of the Black. Reverse discriminaton in Affirmative Action was opposed by the Republican Party. The Republican Party still stands on the principal of by one's initiative and "content of their character," The Democrat Party continues to appeal to the vanity without regard for actual outcome or fairness between the races.
(c) January, 2012, Roger W Hancock www.PoetPatriot.com