#VIRGINIA: The Lily White Republican Movement
A Republican response to being labeled the Party of the Negro
Despite black support, the Republican party increased efforts to recover white votes through a "lily white" movement.
www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/politics/…
A Republican response to being labeled the Party of the Negro
Despite black support, the Republican party increased efforts to recover white votes through a "lily white" movement.
www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/politics/…
A History: Virginia Black Republicanism
Imagine walking into the corridors of White Supremacy; like an African King reclaiming your fucking crown 👑?
If you can grasp this ...
Tnen you'll better understand who Mr. John Langston Mercer was.
Black Excellence on Fucking Fire🔥!
Imagine walking into the corridors of White Supremacy; like an African King reclaiming your fucking crown 👑?
If you can grasp this ...
Tnen you'll better understand who Mr. John Langston Mercer was.
Black Excellence on Fucking Fire🔥!
Momma Africa Reclaiming Her Time!
Virginia Black Republicanism: John Mercer Langston
John Mercer Langston, a graduate of Oberlin College and Oberlin resident for 15 years, was a black leader of conviction and influence, a visionary reformer, and an accomplished statesman and lawyer.
www2.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/O…
John Mercer Langston, a graduate of Oberlin College and Oberlin resident for 15 years, was a black leader of conviction and influence, a visionary reformer, and an accomplished statesman and lawyer.
www2.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/O…
Langston's early career was based in Ohio where, with his older brother Charles Henry Langston, he began his lifelong work for African-American freedom, education, equal rights and suffrage.
"In 1855 he was one of the first African Americans in the United States elected to public office when elected as a town clerk in Ohio."
The brothers were the grandfather and great-uncle, respectively, of the renowned poet Langston Hughes.
Do you feel Oya's wind?
Do you have faith in providence?
"Looky here, America
What you done done-
Let things drift
Until the riots come.”
― Langston Hughes
Do you have faith in providence?
"Looky here, America
What you done done-
Let things drift
Until the riots come.”
― Langston Hughes
And will not God give JUSTICE to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily.”
— Yeshua
— Yeshua
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
#BlackRepublicanHistory
#VIRGINIA: The Lily White Republican Movement vs. Black Virginia Conservatism
A White Virginian Republican response to being labeled the Party of the Negro
www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/politics/…
#VIRGINIA: The Lily White Republican Movement vs. Black Virginia Conservatism
A White Virginian Republican response to being labeled the Party of the Negro
www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/politics/…
If you’re a Black Conservative from the state of Virginia (home of the Confederacy), you’ve got some strong 💪🏾 Black & Conservative roots.
Virginia Black Republicanism was not gonna sit back and let Lily White Republicans destroy them.
They fought back.
Virginia Black Republicanism was not gonna sit back and let Lily White Republicans destroy them.
They fought back.
Letter from Lily-White Republican, H. Rives (Candidate for Mayor of #Charlottesville, Va) to J. Snowden Wood (Republican County Chairman).
Dear Sir,
“To push the colored man forward when the Democratic party is disrupted and so many leaders and many of the rank and file ...
Dear Sir,
“To push the colored man forward when the Democratic party is disrupted and so many leaders and many of the rank and file ...
... rank and file ARE COMING OVER TO US is just what the Democrats of this county wish you to do, ... that they may call us the 'Nigger Party,' and thus arouse prejudice".
"In "WILL IT WORK," published August 13, 1900, The Daily Progress questioned the feasibility and fairness of excluding African Americans from the Virginia Republican Party."
Source: www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/politics/…
@SonnieJohnson
Source: www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/politics/…
@SonnieJohnson
Due to Republicans embracing racism; you start to see evidence for an early relationship building between progressives and black Republicans. It is my view that they are actually conservative -- Black conservatives who are opposed to racism.
Think #BernieBros vs Biden.
Think #BernieBros vs Biden.
At the turn-of-the-century White Supremacy (The Lily White Movement) in the GOP forced black conservatism out of one party and into another, and today, we are still seeing the result of that history:
#Bernie vs African American Southern voters is one example.
#Bernie vs African American Southern voters is one example.
But it didn't necessarily mean they abandoned all of their conservative instincts.
That is to say...
The divide over Joe Biden between Black Democrats and #BernieBros might be much deeper but certainly has a conservative feel and angle: African Americans are leaning toward the tried and tested vs. the untried and potentially risky.
The divide over Joe Biden between Black Democrats and #BernieBros might be much deeper but certainly has a conservative feel and angle: African Americans are leaning toward the tried and tested vs. the untried and potentially risky.
That's a conservative disposition.
Meet Lily-WhiteRepublican: Bascom Slemp (Virginia)
A cruel man who made the GOP in Virginia WHITE, by divorcing it from its NEGRO element.
"He has kicked Negroes out of his own party convention" and "brazenly declared himself opposed to Negro suffrage”.
A cruel man who made the GOP in Virginia WHITE, by divorcing it from its NEGRO element.
"He has kicked Negroes out of his own party convention" and "brazenly declared himself opposed to Negro suffrage”.
Primary Sources: The Black & Tan Republicans vs. The Lilly White Republicans
BEFORE the New Deal.
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BEFORE the New Deal.
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From KevinMurphy.com
In his first weeks in office, President Coolidge made two moves that suggested to all observers he was planning an aggressive run for the 1924 nomination. "The first important act of Dr. Coolidge,
In his first weeks in office, President Coolidge made two moves that suggested to all observers he was planning an aggressive run for the 1924 nomination. "The first important act of Dr. Coolidge,
... after the crown settled over his ears," noted H.L. Mencken, was to appoint as his personal secretary - the equivalent of today's Chief of Staff - C. Bascom Slemp, a man known for his aptitude at securing southern delegates by means both fair and foul.”
He has fascinating hands ..
Doesn't he? Hmm..
Doesn't he? Hmm..
"[W]hatever his merits as a husband and a father," Mencken wrote, Slemp "is surely no statesman; he is a politician pure and simple, and he has specialized in the herding of Republican jobholders in the South.“
His appointment thus indicates a plain effort to line up these cattle for 1924." The Crisis thought the choice of Slemp - who "has physically kicked Negroes even out of his own party convention" and "brazenly declared himself opposed to Negro suffrage"
- "is a blow so serious and fatal that we have not ceased to gasp at it."
Surveying the arguments against Slemp, the recently-established TIME Magazine noted first, "that he was appointed…to round up Southern delegates for Mr. Coolidge," second, "that he is a "Lily White '...
... politician trying to make the Republican organization in the South white, by divorcing it from the Negro element."
A Lily White politician TRYING [not entirely successful, yet] to make the Republican organization in the South white, by divorcing it from the Negro element".
Why would they want to do this? And, more importantly for who? Who are the individuals that this racial purge of blacks is being carried out for? Who?
We have a clue.
The Newly Arrived White Immigrants from Europe.
We have a clue.
The Newly Arrived White Immigrants from Europe.
We have early evidence for why and who?
“The NEGRO troubles are resulting in the great masses of colored people shutting out WHITE immigration.”
— James P. Newcomb (The “Lily White” Republican leader in Texas, 1884)
“The NEGRO troubles are resulting in the great masses of colored people shutting out WHITE immigration.”
— James P. Newcomb (The “Lily White” Republican leader in Texas, 1884)
The Negro troubles are resulting in the great masses of colored people shutting out white #immigration. There is but one way open to Republican success,that is that the white republican come forward and take charge of party management.”
— James P. Newcom
— James P. Newcom
That Lily-White Monster is ...
Mr- James Pearson Newcomb.
He was a journalist and the Secretary of State of Texas.
"Appointed by Governor Edmund J. Davis" -- he was also the leader of Texas's Lily White Movement.
His goal: Wage a race war on Black Republicanism.
@AllenWest
Mr- James Pearson Newcomb.
He was a journalist and the Secretary of State of Texas.
"Appointed by Governor Edmund J. Davis" -- he was also the leader of Texas's Lily White Movement.
His goal: Wage a race war on Black Republicanism.
@AllenWest
“The NEGRO troubles are resulting in the great masses of colored people shutting out WHITE immigration.”
— James P. Newcomb (The “Lily White” Republican leader in Texas, 1884)
Troubles like slavery and Reconstruction he refers to as "Troubles".
— James P. Newcomb (The “Lily White” Republican leader in Texas, 1884)
Troubles like slavery and Reconstruction he refers to as "Troubles".
"The NEGRO troubles are resulting in the great masses of colored people shutting out WHITE immigration.”
But we've seen this tactic before; ...
In South America.
In South America.
"#Blanqueamiento, #branqueamento, or whitening, is a social, political, and economic practice used in many post-colonial countries in the Americas and Oceania to "improve the race" (mejorar la raza) towards a supposed ideal of whiteness".
Old habits are hard to die...
And, that's a very, very, good thing for Black Conservatism: we can hunt globally for footprints left behind ....
And, that's a very, very, good thing for Black Conservatism: we can hunt globally for footprints left behind ....
Redemption of Ham
(A Redenção de Cam)
The painting depicts a black grandmother, mulatta mother, white father and their #quadroonchild, hence three generations of racial hypergamy through whitening.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanqueam…
(A Redenção de Cam)
The painting depicts a black grandmother, mulatta mother, white father and their #quadroonchild, hence three generations of racial hypergamy through whitening.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanqueam…
