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How the Republican Party Lost Virtually the Entire Black Vote in 88 "Years
In 1928, The Chicago Defender warned the GOP that it was in danger of alienating African-Americans. They didn’t listen, and the fall came fast.
chicagomag.com/city-life/July…
In 1928, The Chicago Defender warned the GOP that it was in danger of alienating African-Americans. They didn’t listen, and the fall came fast.
chicagomag.com/city-life/July…
Herbert Hoover at Howard University in 1932. His policies and rhetoric were the beginning of the end for the black Republican vote. 
"In the final weeks of the 1928 General Election, The Defender printed a series of articles and editorials that listed postwar grievances with the Republican Party. In Washington D.C., where the federal government was in direct authority, Republican presidents Harding and
Coolidge, as well as Republican majorities in the U.S. Congress, had not only acquiesced to the segregation of public transit, but failed to stop or even criticize parades by thousands of Ku Klux Klansmen before the White House.
The newspaper was particularly dissatisfied with the current Republican nominee for president, Herbert Hoover, who had spoken favorably of making the party “lily white” and excluded African Americans from their traditional role in that year’s Republican National Convention.
He's related to @MargaretHoover.
@MargaretHoover That's his great-granddaughter.
@MargaretHoover Continuing -
"Most troubling of all was the candidate’s covert backing from the Ku Klux Klan, whose members despised the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Al Smith, because he was Catholic."
"Most troubling of all was the candidate’s covert backing from the Ku Klux Klan, whose members despised the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Al Smith, because he was Catholic."
@MargaretHoover But the official Lily White line is that The Blacks left the Republican party for food stamps -not the truth which was racism. They want you to think we left for welfare, and, that is why I say that so many of them are nasty, DEMONIC, vile, hideous racist. Absolutely DEPLOARBLE.
@MargaretHoover They NEVER take RESPONSIBILYTY for the consequences of their racist behavior, and instead they would rather PROJECT all of what they did to black people, and spin the story around, to say that the Blacks are not being responsible, that they are ones that are lazy.
It's a LIE.
It's a LIE.
