Tblick: "...the fall of the african american started with the democratic party.
Actually, the fall started on July 2, 1916.
Why, you ask? How so?
Exactly my response to your statement.
Tblick: "Why do they forget it was the republican party that freed them, gave them rights, helped them go to school and be the first to pass civil rights laws..."
The Republican Party had nothing to do with freeing Negro slaves; Lincoln did it all on his own with the stroke of his pen.
The Republican Party gave them no rights, never helped them go anywhere, and it was the Democratic Party of President Lyndon Johnson which was the first to pass the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
Democratic Alabama Governor George C. Wallace did more to help Negroes go to school than did any Republican.
He not only funded and built colleges and schools throughout Alabama, but provided all textbooks free of charge to all students.
It was the Republican Party of Barry Goldwater which denounced Civil Rights for Negroes as a "Communist Plot".
As a matter of record, the only political party prior to 1960's, which ever stood on the platform of equal rights for all races was the Communist Party U.S.A.
The Republican Party of George W. Bush is more liberal and more socialist than the Democrats of the 1960's/1970's, and its domestic as well as foreign policy is almost identical to that of our former enemies the U.S.S.R. .
In fact, a good case can be made that the Communist Parties of the Soviet Union and China were socially more conservative than our current Republicans; at least the Communists arrested and imprisoned homosexual queers, drug addicts, and scam artists.
Or...perhaps the Negroes do remember everything the Republicans did for them, and they just haven't had time to avenge themselves.