I’m sharing another great post from Mike Bski, the science teacher from Ohio. Here is the X link. The text follows for those who don’t use X. If you do use X, why not give Mike a follow?

Let me give you a Black History lesson they don’t teach anymore.

The Republican Party was literally BORN to free Black Americans. Founded March 20, 1854, in Ripon, Wisconsin, specifically to oppose the spread of slavery. Not metaphorically. Not sort of. LITERALLY.

That was the singular founding purpose.

And then Republicans DELIVERED.

13th Amendment — abolished slavery. UNANIMOUS Republican support. Minimal Democratic backing.

14th Amendment — equal protection under law. Same story. 15th Amendment — voting rights regardless of race. Democrats fought it.

Then came Reconstruction — and Black Americans made history. ALL of them Republicans:

Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels (MS) — first Black U.S. Senator, sworn in February 25, 1870.
Senator Blanche K. Bruce (MS) — elected 1875, served a full six-year term.
Rep. Joseph H. Rainey (SC) — first Black U.S. Representative, December 12, 1870.
Rep. Robert C. DeLarge (SC)
Rep. Robert B. Elliott (SC)
Rep. Jefferson Long (GA)
Rep. Benjamin S. Turner (AL)
Rep. Josiah T. Walls (FL)
Rep. Robert Smalls (SC)
Rep. John Hyman (NC)
Rep. Jeremiah Haralson (AL)
Rep. Richard Cain (SC)
Rep. James T. Rapier (AL)
Rep. John Roy Lynch (MS)
Rep. Charles E. Nash (LA)
Rep. John Adams Hyman (NC)

16 Black Republicans in Congress between 1870 and 1901. Roughly 2,000 Black men held elective office during Reconstruction. ALL made possible by Republican governance and federal protection of civil rights.

Then Democrats systematically terrorized them out of office. The KKK — the DEMOCRATIC Party’s paramilitary wing — lynched Black voters, drove Republican officeholders out of town, and burned down the progress Republicans built.

B/W 1950 KKK members wearing white robes standing beneath large burning cross at dusk / documentary

The 28-year gap that followed? Ended in 1929 when Oscar DePriest (R-IL) returned a Black man to Congress.

The FIRST Black Democrat in Congress? Arthur Mitchell — Illinois, 1935. That means for the ENTIRE HISTORY of Black representation in Congress up to that point, every single one was a Republican.

Now stop for a second and look at WHERE these men were elected.

Mississippi. South Carolina. Alabama. Florida. Georgia. North Carolina. Louisiana.

THE DEEP SOUTH. The former Confederacy. The heart of what had just been the slave states.

Black Americans in MISSISSIPPI were electing Republican senators in 1870. Black voters in SOUTH CAROLINA were sending Republicans to the House. In ALABAMA. In GEORGIA. In the states that had LITERALLY fought a war to keep them in chains just five years earlier.

If the “Great Party Switch” were real — if Republicans were secretly always the racists and Democrats were secretly always the champions of Black freedom — then HOW did Black Americans in the most oppressive states in the country keep electing Republicans? Were they stupid? Were they confused?

Or did they know EXACTLY which party had freed them, armed them with constitutional amendments, and put them in office?

They knew. Because it was not subtle.

Now let me address the myth I know someone in the comments is already typing:

“BuT tHe PaRtIeS sWiTcHeD.”

No. They did not. What changed was the METHOD of control, not the party doing the controlling.

In the 1950s, Black Americans had HIGHER rates of intact two-parent families than white Americans — roughly 80-85%. After Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society welfare programs? Today, fewer than 30% of Black children are raised in two-parent households. Out-of-wedlock births among Black Americans went from 21% in 1965 to over 77% today.

That is not racism. That is POLICY. Democratic policy — with marriage penalties BUILT IN. Benefits for single mothers that DISAPPEARED if they married. A system that INCENTIVIZED fatherlessness and PUNISHED family formation.

Democrats traded plantations for housing projects. Chains for welfare checks. Overseers for social workers. Same result: a permanent underclass dependent on the Democratic Party for survival and therefore VOTING for the Democratic Party every two years.

Quinn’s Law #1: “Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent.”

They claimed to help Black families. They destroyed Black family structure. They claimed to offer opportunity. They manufactured dependency. The 45 Communist Goals for America, read into the Congressional Record in 1963, listed Goal #40 as:
“Discredit the family as an institution.” ACHIEVED — and disproportionately in the Black community.

This is not ancient history. This is happening RIGHT NOW. Every time a Democrat candidate shows up in a Black neighborhood holding a microphone before an election and disappears the day after — that is the same pattern. Every time a successful Black conservative is called a sellout, an Uncle Tom, or worse — that is the same pattern. Every time a Black family is told that personal responsibility, education, and two-parent households are “acting white” — that is the same pattern.

The Republican Party was built to free Black Americans. That mission did not end in 1865.

The Democratic Party was built on the labor of enslaved Black Americans. That addiction to controlling Black Americans did not end either. It just got better marketing.

But what do I know — I am only a high school science teacher who actually assigns his students primary sources instead of Twitter threads.