I suppose the Democratic Party has now forgotten the words of Booker T. Washington or chooses to ignore them since he was an advisor to the REPUBLICAN Party. He said:
Here are some good links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_for_slavery
Ohby the way guess the political party of the President to invite the 1st African American to the Whitehouse?
Teddy Roosevelt who invited Booker T. Washington in 1901.
I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race. No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction... Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the institution. Then, when we rid ourselves of prejudice, or racial feeling, and look facts in the face, we must acknowledge that, notwithstanding the cruelty and moral wrong of slavery, the ten million Negroes inhabiting this country, who themselves or whose ancestors went through the school of American slavery, are in a stronger and more hopeful condition, materially, intellectually, morally, and religiously, than is true of an equal number of black people in any other portion of the globe....This I say, not to justify slavery – on the other hand, I condemn it as an institution, as we all know that in America it was established for selfish and financial reasons, and not from a missionary motive – but to call attention to a fact, and to show how Providence so often uses men and institutions to accomplish a purpose. When persons ask me in these days how, in the midst of what sometimes seem hopelessly discouraging conditions, I can have such faith in the future of my race in this country, I remind them of the wilderness through which and out of which, a good Providence has already led us.
Here are some good links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_for_slavery
Ohby the way guess the political party of the President to invite the 1st African American to the Whitehouse?
Teddy Roosevelt who invited Booker T. Washington in 1901.