Thread by @VoteDarlene

.@PARISDENNARD Since you got @BurgessOwens attention on this, please go further and tell the whole story. Brooke was THE FIRST to be elected by popular vote. The first two to win election were pre-17th Amendment. So, they’d both won in their state legislature. The men were

Hiram Revels in 1870 and Blanche Bruce in 1874. Both were from the seceding state of Mississippi. Revels was elected to replace Democrat Albert Brown who’d given up his seat when MS seceded. The other was Confederate President Jefferson Davis. They chose a white man to fill that

seat. During Reconstruction, African Americans gained voting rights and THEY VOTED. Not every body was happy about the enfranchisement of blacks people. About 2000 black men were elected to public office. Then the Compromise of 1877 happened. Republican Rutherford B Hayes made

the deal with the 4 states in electoral dispute that if they gave him their electoral votes, he’d looked the other way and the federal government would not interfere with how the South treated their Negros.
This ended Reconstruction. The Republicans lost Mississippi legislature,

which meant Bruce did not win re-election. African Americans were disenfranchised, and they all lost their seats. Edward Brooke would become the first Black man to be elected SINCE RECONSTRUCTION. Blacks were mostly disenfranchised because of the Compromise of 1877.

89 YEARS!

Now, fast forward to the year of 2021. A man named @BurgessOwens wins the election for the U.S Congress to represent the 4th District of Utah. One of the first things he does as a newly sworn in congressman was to vote to reject the certified election results from the state of

Pennsylvania. This would have effectively thrown away the vote of millions of Americans that were overwhelming African Americans. During the one debate he decided to show up for, he gave a BS answer that he was proud of his actions and he did so because he’d once lived in PA.

Mind you, the votes the #TFG wanted to toss out were for ALL of Pennsylvania. It was just the votes from Philadelphia County where the city of Philadelphia is located. Philadelphia is 41% black. Owens’ reason for going along with this AFTER the mob stormed the US Capitol

was, ‘they have cheat.’ Burgess Owens was one of 3 Utah Members of Congress that made an effort to toss out the vote of millions of Americans all because Black people voted for a democrat.

If Burgess Owens @SenMikeLee and @RepChrisStewart had been successful to install #TFG as

President, what do you think would have happened? I have a pretty good idea.

There are a lot of things I don’t know, but I know a lot about this. I’ve invested a lot of money and a lot of time to make it my business to know this part of our nation’s history. It’s important.

I’m glad Owens’ Twitter handler has taken an interest in this history, too. But if they get information about US history from Owens, it’s garbage in and garbage out. This is not a Republican vs Democrat story. It’s bigger than that. It’s about values and molding a political

party to fit those values. You are welcome to peruse my extensive library. I’m quite proud of it.