Black Americans: What you don't know will hurt you

People have heard and often said, "What you don't know won't hurt you." Tragically, that is not true and is especially relevant and harmful to the black community.

Coming up Tuesday are the midterm congressional elections. The outcome will determine the congressional legislative agendas and could affect Americans for years to come. One of the issues you will hear covered on many news outlets is how blacks, and perhaps undocumented aliens, will vote this time. Unfortunately, many analysts and pundits feel, perhaps accurately, that the black vote will once again overwhelmingly favor Democrat candidates.

This is extremely interesting in view of the fact that during the worst times for blacks vis-a-vis civil rights, they voted overwhelmingly for Republicans who fought for black liberties. From the 1800s to the 1940s-1950s, blacks voted almost 100 percent for the Republican Party. The reason, as I point out in my book, "Black YellowDogs," is that all major civil rights gains, from freeing blacks from slavery to every civil rights bill through the 1960s, were introduced and passed by Republicans. The fact that Democrats would not allow blacks to vote may also have influenced black voting patterns.

Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves in 1865. The Republicans also are the authors of, and responsible for, passage of: 1) the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, 2) the 14th Amendment granting citizenship to blacks 3) the 15th Amendment giving black men the right to vote.

Additionally, every civil rights act was passed by a Republican Congress over the determined opposition of Democrats, including the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which, by the way, was not the first legislation granting civil rights to blacks. Unknown to many, especially blacks, is the fact that the Civil Rights Acts of 1866, 1870, 1871, 1875, 1956, 1957 and 1964 were all passed by a Republican majority and fiercely opposed by Democrats.

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Although the North won the Civil War, the Southern Democrat "Redeemer" governments that took over the governing of the Southern states after the war negated every single one of the civil rights acts. Not only that, but by 1877 the Democrats controlled every state in the South. The result? A vicious repression of the black vote – refusal to enact, overturning and/or refusing to enforce or support any portion of the 1875 Civil Rights Act.

Black office holders, appointed and supported by the Republicans, were subsequently kicked out. Every single black officeholder was removed, and all civil rights legislation immediately became null and void.

Unfortunately, this did not end with Reconstruction and Redeemer governments. Democrats, who controlled the Southern state legislatures, a powerful Democratic bloc at the national level, and a sympathetic Supreme Court ignored, circumvented or overturned every single civil right guaranteed to blacks by the Constitution. Not one single piece of civil rights legislation was passed by any Democrat-controlled Congress until Republican President Dwight Eisenhower signed Executive Order No. 10730 and sent federal troops to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

Most blacks in America are simply unaware of the fact that – despite the biased reporting common in the national media – every single modern civil rights act has been passed by a Republican Congress and only signed by Democrat presidents under threat of marches on Washington, D.C., by blacks.

Although Lyndon Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, he did so only under threats of marches on Washington by blacks. He also had an effective political strategy in mind, which he articulated aboard Air Force One to two southern governors. This is a direct quote: "I'll have those ni--ers voting Democratic for the next 200 years" ("Inside the White House" by Ronald Kessler).

It is tragic that the First Amendment has been so abused by the national media. No, I am not talking about prayer in schools. I refer to the founders' desire that the American people would be kept informed by an unbiased, unrestricted press so they might make intelligent decisions. What we have presently is a highly biased anti-American media "reporting the news." Unfortunately, much of what we hear today is not news but the opinions of reporters and commentators.

There is a biblical principle that is extremely relevant here:"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."If most blacks, and many whites, knew the real story, there could very well be a 2014 citizen march to the polls.

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