Johann Friedrich Blumenbach died in January. Well, it was January 22, but in 1840. Why should you care? You should care because he was the first racial profiler.  The original name calling, label maker.

"He believed that like skin color, cranial profile, etc., went hand in hand with declarations of group character and aptitude."

Blumenbach, born May 11, 1752 was a German physiologist and anthropologist. His thesis paper written about the difference in people and titled the Natural Varieties of Mankind was considered one of the most influential papers of his time and basically established the way different races are seen in the world today. The separation of the people by race was established in order to institute the separation by social and economic differences. 

. It is amazing how the mere words of another person can effect and change the course of history, and the wealth, health and well being of another. Mere words, whether based on truth, personal beliefs or delusion can make or break a world, a nation, a life, mere words. There is nothing in the law of nature that makes one color of person superior to another despite the fact cultural differences, language barrier, and the color of skin all fused together to form a case set against another group of people.
The idea of the Caucasian race to be superior to other races has been spread across the entire world. How people have been accepted and treated within the context of a given society or culture has a direct impact on how they perform in that society. Racial beliefs constitute myths about the diversity in the human species and about the abilities and behavior of people placed into "racial" categories.

 The myths combined the perception of behavior and physical features together in the public mind, and blocked the ability to understand behavior is not a genetic determination of a person. Temperaments, dispositions, and personalities, regardless of genetic, are developed by the life we live. Blumenbach's theory was based on his study of 60 human skulls, with these skulls Blumenbach divided humans in to five races, Caucasian (white), Mongolian (yellow), Malayan (brown), Ethiopian (black), and American (red).
He believed that like skin color, cranial profile, etc., went hand in hand with declarations of group character and aptitude. *The "fairness" and relatively high brows of Caucasians were held to be apt physical expressions of a loftier mentality and a more generous spirit. *The epicanthic folds around the eyes of Mongolians and their slightly sallow outer epidermal layer bespoke their supposedly crafty, literal-minded nature
*The dark skin and relatively sloping craniums of Ethiopians were taken as proof of a closer genetic relations to the apes. Despite the fact the skin of chimpanzees and gorillas beneath the hair is whiter than the average Caucasian skin and orangutans and some monkey species have foreheads fully as vertical as the typical Englishman or German.

Blumenbach's analysis sealed the fate of every race other than Caucasian as inferior.
 Looking over the list of the awesome people that have made America the fantastic country it is today, it is has been proven time and time again that the 'inferior' label placed on many races is false. Basically what it all boils down to is the fact one set of people decided they were better than another, used the unknown about the Indians and Africans' culture to foster the belief further and spurred the lies and discrimination to justify the psychological, and physical torture aimed at another group of people
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Later in life Blumenbach decided to do further anatomical research and come up with the belief that Africans were not inferior to the rest of mankind. Unfortunately these later ideas were far less influential than his earlier assertions with regard to the perceived relative qualities of the different so-called races. It goes to show, once we label or brand something, it is hard to change the conceptual relationship in man's mind. Blumenbach died January 22, 1840. His classification and the scientific concept of human races was widely accepted for about two hundred years, but in the late twentieth century, it came to light that Homo sapiens could not be divided into races or subspecies. After Blumenbach's time, the term Caucasian no longer was associated with peoples from the Caucasus but continued to be used as a racial indicator. Wow, amazing how one person's opinion, a mere word shaped America. We are a nation that thrives on 'mere' words to shape our actions and thoughts...mere can almost be integrated into our name A-mer-i-ca.

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 Beads on a String-America's Racially Intertwined Biographical History, is the first to give SARAH COLLINS RUDOLPH the 5th Little Girl from the 16th Street Church Bombing, rightful honor in the pages of history.

SARAH COLLINS RUDOLPH was the only child among the young girls in the church basement restroom to survive the horrific bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church on September 15, 1963, she was twelve years old and basically forgotten in history. Her sister Addie Mae Collins was killed along with Cynthia Wesley, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson. Collins Rudolph said the only way her sister Addie could be identified was from her shoe, her face was unrecognizable. "That's something I will never forget, because it was something that should not have happened… Somebody putting a bomb where we go to praise and worship God…and every time I think about it, I always say you have to have a lot of hate on the inside of you to blow up a church…and kill four innocent young girls." It is sad when major components and key people in history are forgotten; looked over, ignored. However it is said, we are failing our children and ourselves by eliminating history. Teaching to tests and not explaining and applaud real life.

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Have you ever wondered how it is- activist, believers in change - tend to say things which inevitably, come true? Even to the point of predicting their deaths? I hate the idea of starting such a research, so I'll mention this one, because his song resonates with the feelings of many who are oppressed.

 Sam Cooke, after standing up for his rights as a human , pinned the song, "A CHANGE IS GONNA COME" a bold move during the struggle for equal Civil Rights. I am not surprised that he was brutally murdered a few months after his stand for equality. This month, my plan is to slant into the minds of America and the world, I am Black 365 days of the year. Worthy of recognition beyond the 28 days, deserving applause everyday-along with the other races and faces of America. We need to get beyond those minimum days, week, or month of recognition for other ethnicities.

Return daily to see who is being recognized and applauded.

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Sit and make a point. Have you heard the adage, stand for something? A good strategy , but there comes a time when marching around  will not make a statement or a difference.

This was the case, February 1, 1960 when the Greensboro Four took a seat at the counter of the Woolsworth.

GREENSBORO FOUR were civil rights activists. Four black freshmen at North Carolina A&T State University, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr., and David Richmond, took seats at the segregated lunch counter of F. W. Woolworth's in Greensboro, N.C. They were refused service and sat peacefully until the store closed. They returned the next day, along with about 25 other students, and their requests were again denied.

The Greensboro Four inspired similar sit-ins across the state and by the end of February; such protests were taking place across the South. Finally in July, Woolworth's integrated all of its stores. The four have become icons of the civil rights movement.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

1) JIBREEL KHAZAN (Ezell Blair Jr.) - One of the original four who took part in the Woolworth sit-ins. A Greensboro native, he graduated from Dudley High School and received a B.S. in sociology from North Carolina A&T State University in 1963. While a student at A&T, Khazan was president of the junior class, the student government association, the campus NAACP and the Greensboro Congress for Racial Equality. He attended law school at Howard University for almost a year. He became a member of the New England Islamic Center in 1968 and took on his present name.

 2)FRANKLIN EUGENE MCCAIN  One of the original four who took part in the Woolworth sit-ins. He was born in Union County, and reared in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Eastern High School in Washington. He received a B.S. degree in chemistry and biology from North Carolina A&T State University in 1964. While he was an A&T student, he roomed with David Richmond -- another of the original sit-in participants -- and around the corner from Ezell Blair Jr. and Joseph McNeil on the second floor of Scott Hall. He joined the Celanese Corporation in Charlotte in 1965 as a chemist and was head of the company's office in Shelby, while continuing to live in Charlotte. He was married to the former Bettye Davis until his death, January 2014. They have three sons.

3) lJOSEPH ALFRED MCNEIL - One of the original four taking part in the Woolworth sit-ins. A Wilmington native, he graduated from Williston Senior High School. McNeil earned a degree in engineering physics from North Carolina A&T State University in 1963. His roommate at Scott Hall on the A&T campus was another sit-in participant; Ezell Blair Jr. McNeil spent six years as a U.S. Air Force officer and attained the rank of captain. He is now a major general in the Air Force Reserves. He worked in computer sales for IBM, as a commercial banker for Bankers Trust in New York City, and as a stock broker for E.F. Hutton in Fayetteville. He now resides in Hempstead, N.Y. He is married to the former Ina Brown, and they have five children. 

4) DAVID LEINAIL RICHMOND was one of the original four, taking part in the Woolworth sit-ins. He was born in Greensboro and graduated from Dudley High School. At A&T, he majored in business administration and accounting. After leaving A&T, he became a counselor-coordinator for the CETA program in Greensboro. He lived in the mountain community of Franklin for nine years, and then returned to Greensboro to take care of his parents and work as a housekeeping porter for Greensboro Health Care Center. In 1980, the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce awarded him the Levi Coffin Award for "leadership in human rights, human relations, and human resources development in Greensboro." He was married and divorced twice and has two children with Yvonne Bryson. His son, Chip Richmond, was a starter on the football team at Wake Forest University. Richmond died of lung cancer on Dec. 7, 1990. He was 49 years old. A &T awarded him a posthumous honorary doctorate degree.

February One The Story of the Greensboro Four

 February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four is an intimate look at how four African-American freshmen at North Carolina A&T University took a stand for justice by sitting down at a Woolworth whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, Project Directors: Rebecca Cerese and Dr. Steven Channing Executive Producer: Dr. Steven Channing Producer: Rebecca Cerese Co-Producers: Cynthia Hill and Daniel Blake Smith Videographer: Warren Gentry Editor: Tom Vickers Website: pbs.org /independentlens/februaryone/

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"Nothing in life really changes unless the education of man changes. If the way of thinking remains the same, the way of accomplishing things remain the same."

So, how is that freedom to get a free education working for you?

Enjoying your time being able to read anywhere and everywhere?

Happy you and your children can walk into any educational structure, sit down and expect to be taught without fear of harm? Well, It's time to pay up for your right to be educated. Nothing in life comes free. Face it, if you were born in America before the Civil Rights Movement, your ability to get educated was forstalled by hate.

  When I read articles of people arguing about the educational system, I see people acting as if they are in a bubble. Screaming and hollering about the teaching quality for their child, in their schools, without worrying about the overall picture.

Your child will learn nothing if they don't see the value in having a good education. If they are not taught what it cost in lives, abuse, deaths in order for them to be able to be freely educated, they will see school as a torture and no matter how much money is poured into the system, it will fail.

The Civil Rights Movement and the fight for integration was not a staging for Black people, it was a fight for the rights of a people of color and minorities.

Nothing in life really changes unless the education of man changes. If the way of thinking remains the same, the way of accomplishing things remain the same.

It's time to pay these people back. Teach your child the real American history, teach them America and history was not made in black and white. Teach them, and demand your schools teach them what their ancestors and our ancestors did to make America great. Educate your children from birth, before they start school and while they are in school. You are, after all, their first teacher. Introduce them to the first and only American history book that celebrates every race/ethnicity.
The only book that will show them the value of being educated and in school. Everyone is valuable.

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Through the gate they opened,  we can freely pass. THE LITTLE ROCK NINE:
as they later came to be called, were the first black teenagers to attend all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. These remarkable young African-American students challenged segregation in the Deep South and won. Although Brown v. Board of Education outlawed segregation in schools, many racist school systems defied the law by intimidating and threatening black students-Central High School was a notorious example. But the Little Rock Nine were determined to attend the school and receive the same education offered to white students, no matter what. On the first day of school, the governor of Arkansas ordered the state's National Guard to block the black students from entering the school. President Eisenhower had to send in federal troops to protect the students. During their ordeal the Little Rock Nine were advised by Little Rock journalist and activist Daisy Bates. Bates and the Little Rock Nine received the Spingarn Medal in 1958. In 1996, seven of the Little Rock Nine appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show. They came face to face with a few of the white students who tormented them as well as one student who befriended them.
The students referred to as the Little Rock Nine were:

1) Ernest Green was born September 22, 1941, to Ernest G. Green, Sr. and Lothaire S. Green. Following his brush with national fame, Green attended Michigan State University as the beneficiary of a scholarship provided by an anonymous donor. While at Michigan State, he continued to engage in activism and protests supporting the Civil Rights movement. He later learned that the anonymous donor was John A. Hannah, the president of Michigan State, and ironically, an occasional target of protests by Civil Rights activists including Green. Green graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1962 and a Master of Arts in 1964. In 1965, he received an apprenticeship in building trades from the Adolph Institute, a program designed to help minority women in the South with career development issues. From 1968 to 1976, he served as Director of the A. Philip Randolph Education Fund. From 1977 to 1981, he served as an Assistant Secretary of Labor during Jimmy Carter's administration. Since 1981, he has been employed as a private consultant. From 1981 to 1985 he was a partner with Green and Herman; from 1985 to 1986 he owned E. Green and Associates from, since 1985 has been with Lehman Brothers.

2) Elizabeth Eckford- born 1942. In 1958 Elizabeth Eckford moved to St. Louis where she achieved the necessary qualifications to study for a B.A. in history. After graduating she became the first African American in St. Louis to work in a bank in a non-janitorial position. Eckford returned to Little Rock in the 1960s and worked in the public schools as a substitute teacher. In 1996, seven of the Little Rock Nine, including Elizabeth Eckford, appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show. They came face to face with a few of the white students who tormented them as well as one student who befriended them. On the morning of January 1, 2003, Elizabeth Eckford's son Erin Eckford was shot and killed by police in Little Rock.

3) Jefferson Thomas- born in 1942 was one of the Little Rock Nine. He graduated from Central High School in 1960. He is now an accountant with the U.S. Department of Defense.

4) Terrence Roberts- born 1941 in Little Rock, Arkansas gained national prominence as one of the Little Rock Nine. After one year at Little Rock Central High School, he moved to Los Angeles with his family and completed high school. He earned a doctoral degree and now teaches at University of California and Antioch University. He is also a clinical psychologist.

5) Carlotta Walls Lanier was the youngest member of the "Little Rock Nine" the nine African American students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957. She returned her senior year in 1959. She now lives in Englewood, Colorado, and is involved in real estate.

6) Minnijean Brown-Trickey. On September 25, 1957, under the gaze of 1,200 armed soldiers and a worldwide audience, Minnijean Brown Trickey faced down an angry mob and helped to desegregate Central High. She was later expelled from Little Rock Central High School in 1958 for several reasons, among them an incident in which she allegedly dumped a bowl of chili on a white student in the cafeteria who had been harassing her. This seminal event in American history was just the beginning of Minnijean's long career as a crusader for civil rights. She has spent her life fighting for the rights of minority groups and the dispossessed. For her work, she has received the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, the Wolf Award, the Spingarn Medal, and many other citations and awards. Minnijean Brown Trickey's life has been a powerful example of what one person can do to make the world a better place. Under the Clinton administration, she served for a time as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior responsible for diversity.

7) Gloria Ray Karlmark born Gloria Ray in 1942 was 15 when she attempted to enter Little Rock Central High School. During her life, Karlmark served as an executive officer for a Dutch company and publisher of a European computer magazine. She now resides in the Netherlands.

8) Thelma Mothershed-Wair was the youngest to begin going to Central High. She has a heart problem, which in turn made it harder for her to adjust. Wair graduated from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill with a bachelor's degree in home economics and earned a master's in Guidance & Counseling and an Administrative Certificate in Education from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville in 1970 and 1985, respectively. Wair served as an educator in the East St. Louis School System for 28 years before retiring in 1994 from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville.

9) Melba Pattillo Beals is a journalist.  Born December 7, 1941 was not yet 14 years old when in May, 1955, she volunteered to go to Central High, an all-white school. Two years later, she was enrolled as a student at Central High. At the age of fifteen, Melba Pattillo saw her life change drastically. Though she made it through high school, it wasn't easy. White students spat at and mocked the integrating students. The Nine also faced mobs that forced President Eisenhower to send in the 101st Airborne Division to protect their lives after the governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, used troops to block the Nine's entry to the school. At age seventeen she began writing for major newspapers and magazines. She later earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. She was the only black person there who later graduated. While in college, she met John Beals, a white man, whom she later married. She had one daughter, Kellie, who is now a grown woman, and twin sons, Matthew and Evan. To date; she is the only one of the Little Rock Nine to write a book. Warriors Don't Cry chronicles the events of 1957 during the Little Rock crisis, based partly on diaries she kept during that period. She also wrote White is a State of Mind, which begins where Warriors left off. In 1958, the NAACP awarded the prestigious Spingarn Medal to Pattillo Beals and to the other members of the Little Rock Nine, together with civil rights leader Daisy Bates, who had advised the group during their struggles at Central High.

The integration crisis was a major event during the American civil rights movement. Earlier in 1957, the Little Rock school board had voted to integrate their school system. The decision was not expected to meet much resistance since Arkansas was considered a fairly progressive southern state. A crisis erupted, however, when Governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus called up the Arkansas National Guard on September 4 to prevent the Little Rock Nine from attending Central High. The students tried again without success to attend on September 23, 1957. The next day, September 24, President Dwight D. Eisenhower deployed elements of the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock to protect the students. The students were admitted, but endured a year of physical and verbal abuse. The next year, 1958, Little Rock closed its public schools to avoid integration. Little Rock Central High School still functions as part of the Little Rock School District and now houses a Civil Rights Museum to commemorate the events of 1957. The Little Rock Nine were awarded the highest civilian honor, the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor on November 9, 1999. Only three hundred others have received this.

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I can't understand why the world keeps trying to delude themselves with neutral comments. Honestly, you aren't a racist if you see color. It means you aren't blind.

Come closer, no closer and I'll tell you a secret:

It is what you do with your vision of color and how you treat the other person which determines your state of racism.
Now, if you ask me if I see color, I'll have to say, "Hell yes,  I see colors."
 I learned them in kindergarten." Do I let it determine how I treat another person? No. Do I let the misconception of another person determine how I love or treat myself?  No.

In kindergarten, I learned each of the colors by name and decided I loved them all. I have no favorite color.

Recently, I read a post on a topic I thought had died, but why would it? The same thing has been going on since Jim Crow era, established the paper bag test, and continues today.  The ridiculous internal race war between cultures. Light Skin Versus Dark Skin Debate.There are varied renditions of this bias in every ethnicity. For some idiotic reason the entire world decided the porcelain skin tone was the color to be. Even the White people don't believe that. If they did, why are they preferring to tan and take a chance of dying from skin cancer for a little color? The issue with pigmentation  is more than skin deep. It lies in the internal psyche of man and the only way to change the miseducation is to retrain the thinking pattern. Toss the stereotype and learn the beauty and humanity of an ethnicity, one person at a time. If you look closely, even the crayons in the boxes are different. Same company (WORLD) different perception.


This video shows how hate is serious between the Black race. It's sad how our children have no qualm in showing disrespect to people of their own race.

One of the main reasons the color strife continues is because of the lack of history education in schools. 12 years a Slave book/ movie should be required reading/viewing once a child reaches the age of 12(middle school) ,the age of enlightenment. Or earlier if your child can handle it. Then they will realize,  not one person or color is better than another.

All races have gone through some form of domination, cruelty, and slavery. Some totally worse than others, but we need to work pass that.

We need to teach our children better. Not by teaching the same things in a different form or media. Not by celebrating one group this month and another the next, that's just keeping the rift alive. I mean get together and acknowledge everyone. Color can not be washed out. We must work together.We must celebrate everyone.

I believe schools should teach a full, truthful  American history on the daily, where every race is congratulated on their accomplishments and contributions to the growth of America. Another way to teach pride in everyone. America was not built on Black and White.
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“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”  Anaïs Nin

 Anaïs Nin (born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell) (February 21, 1903, Neuilly-sur-Seine – January 14, 1977) was a French author who became famous for her published journals. Nin is also famous for her erotica.

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“I feel that we as Americans are all equal and held together by a common thread. Like a treasured beaded necklace of different colors held together on a string, we are held together by our necessities and our circumstances and our humanity. Every color helps to make the necklace beautiful. We can never be a totally separate entity! Americans of all colors are so integrated that if we hurt one, we hurt all. Just like that necklace of treasured beads, leave one out and the gap is seen. Break the chain and many of us are lost.”Ey Wade

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"We in America understand the many imperfections of democracy and the malignant disease corroding its very heart. We must be united in the effort to make an America in which our people can find happiness. It is a great wrong that anyone in America, whether he be brown or white, should be illiterate or hungry or miserable."

Bulosan- "America is in the Heart"

 Carlos Sampayan Bulosan (born November 24, 1913) was a Filipino American novelist and poet best-known for the semi-autobiographical America Is in the Heart. As a progressive writer of labor struggles, he was blacklisted by the FBI due to his labor organizing and socialist writings. Denied a means to provide for himself, his later years were of hardship and flight. He died in Seattle suffering from an advanced stage of bronchopneumonia. He is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle. He died in Seattle, Washington on September 13, 1956.

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“Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never given; it is won.”

Philip Randolph

Asa Philip Randolph (April 15, 1889 – May 16, 1979) was a prominent twentieth-century African-American civil rights leader and the founder of both the March on Washington Movement and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a landmark for labor and particularly for African-American labor organizing.

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THE SWITCH FROM BAD GUYS TO GOOD GUYS.

This is part of my series, "Wow, I didn't know that."

I grew up believing the Democratic party was the group always there for the AA people. Did you know it hasn't been that many years since African Americans, stopped supporting the Republican Party and tied it's vote to the Democrats? Did you know the  Republican party used to be known as the anti-slave party?
 Democratic resistance to the Republican efforts to protect the civil rights of all Americans lasted into the 20th century. In the South, those Democrats who most bitterly opposed equality for blacks founded the Ku Klux Klan, which operated as the party’s terrorist  wing.

From 1890 to 1908, the white Democratic legislatures in every Southern state enacted new constitutions or amendments with provisions to disenfranchise most blacks and tens of thousands of poor whites. Provisions required complicated processes for poll taxes, residency, literacy tests, and other requirements which targeted the Blacks and basically stole our ability to vote.. When the Blacks began losing their right to vote, the Republican Party lost its ability to effectively compete.There was a dramatic drop in voter turnout as these measures took effect, a drop in participation that continued across the South.

The South became solidly white Democratic until past the middle of the 20th century. Pretty much 30 years. Effectively, Southern white Democrats controlled all the votes of the expanded population. Many of their representatives achieved powerful positions of seniority in Congress, giving them control of chairmanships of Congressional committees. Because African Americans could not be voters, they were prevented from being jurors and serving in local offices. Once things changed, desegregation hit the road ways, the Democrats had to really rethink their actions. As they began to accept the African Americans, their members who were still strongly prejudiced move over to the Republican party.

When John F. Kennedy showed his agreement with the Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement, it was like a flood gate and African Americans flocked and embraced the democrat part.
 The party's dramatic reversal on civil rights issues culminated when Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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WHY THE BIG CHANGE FROM GOOD GUYS TO BAD GUYS?

I have learned quit a bit through my study to know more about the political parties. I would never have figured  the Republican party was once viewed as the 'savior' of the African American people. On March 20, 1854 in Ripon, Wisconsin a group of anti-slavery activist men and women pulled together to form the Republican Party and to stop the Democrats.

Republicans in Congress also enacted the nation’s first-ever Civil Rights Act, which extended citizenship and equal rights to people of all races, all colors, and all creeds. I would never have known In 1875, the Republicans expanded these protections to give all citizens the right of equal access to all public accommodations. Struck down by the Supreme Court eight years later, this landmark legislation would be reborn as the 1964 Civil Rights Act.      
Republicans led the fight for women’s rights, and most suffragists were Republicans. These included two African-American women who were also co-founders of the NAACP: Ida Wells and Mary Terrell, great Republicans.

Despite fierce Democrat opposition, Republicans passed constitutional amendments banning slavery, extending the Bill of Rights to the states, guaranteeing equal protection of the laws and due process to all citizens, and extending the right to vote to persons of all races and backgrounds. Kind of funny to see how Republicans are know trying to do everything in their power, and losing I might add, to suppress the ability for African Americans, other minorities and the poor to be able to vote. Almost in the daily you can read headlines about judges over turning attempts if voter suppression. In Texas alone I'm disappointed in the attempted fraud by the claims of thousands, just in the month of September receiving letters proclaiming living individuals to be dead. Thank God, the voter purging was over turned and being overturned in many states.

 All of the 'first Blacks', women and other minorities in the political arena were of the Republican Party until 1935. That is until the white flight and the Negrophobe kicked in and the Southern Strategy was developed. In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to the Republican Party strategy of winning elections or to gain political support in the Southern section of the country by appealing to racism against African Americans. Some give the use of the term to Kevin Phillips, Nixon's political strategist. He believed the Democrats that still harbored hate for the Black race would leave their party and run over to the Republicans. Seems he was right. Those who could not handle desegregation, the fair treatment or advancement of colored people, became Republicans. This disgrace of a strategy continues on to this day and has grown to include the mockery of other minorities with promotion of racist commercials. Check out the 7 most racist commercials as posted on The Root.  I believe it shows how small minded, this party is when it stoops to hate mongering in order to win an election. Even sadder is when it is such an accepted practice, it is an expected occurrence for the Presidential debates. 


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The Democratic Donkey and the Republican Elephant

This is part of my series, "Wow, I didn't know that."

In an endeavor to fill my lust for facts, history and the knowledge of all things pertaining to this  political election year, I've decided to learn the basic information about America's major political parties and share them.

I never cared much about the elections or the icons used to represent the parties until recently, very recently. Have you ever wondered who decided which animal went to which party?

 Well, during the 1828 presidential election, Andrew Jackson's opponent called him a jackass. I can only assume Jackson had a sense of humor because he decided to use the image during his campaign. Once the famous political cartoonist of the time, Thomas Nast, used it in the newspaper it became the Democrats official symbol.

I've read some articles that mention Thomas Nast as the inventor of the Republican symbol while others say he just pushed it along by putting a cartoon in Harper's Weekly in 1874 and

Republicans regard the donkey as stubborn, silly and ridiculous -- but the Democrats claim it is humble, homely, smart, courageous and loveable.

On the other hand, the Democrats think of the elephant as bungling, stupid, pompous and conservative -- but the Republicans think it is dignified, strong and intelligent.
labeling the elephant as the Republican Vote.   Fact Monster

So, do you have any idea who Thomas Nast is?
 Thomas Nast (September 27, 1840 – December 7, 1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist who is considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon".He was the scourge of Boss Tweed and the Tammany Hall political machine. Among his notable works were the creation of the modern version of Santa Claus and the political symbol of the elephant for the Republican Party. Contrary to popular belief, Nast did not create Uncle Sam (the male personification of the American people), Columbia, the female personification of American values, or the Democratic donkey, though he did popularize these symbols through his art. LEARN MORE
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Yes, when America went to the London Summer Olympics we brought the world out. We sent our multiracial ethnicity across the waters, accomplished some major feats and then we really did it...we lost our minds and took a major celebratory moment and used it to bash and dash the joy from a young athlete's heart. I applaud her for being strong and ignoring the ignorant adults. What does this bashing do to the ego and self esteem of Gabby and other little girls who look up to her? What a shame to waste a moment, an iota in history to be a crab and try to pull someone down.

What the heck were people thinking? As this child stated, and did it so eloquently was, ""Nothing is going to change," she said. "I'm going to wear my hair like this during beam and bar finals. You might as well just stop talking about it."?" Gabby made big a time triumph, will forever be in the pages of time, history, and yet a shadow over this major accomplishment will forever be in her mind and now in history. Her people, her American family, her African-American family cared more about the clips in her hair than the terrific accomplishment over a grueling sport. Read about her feat in London, here.

Get off your high horse you lazy, crab in the buckets and applaud this enormous asset to our history and our heritage.

Yes, we bring the world out. Let's just remember to do it with style and grace.

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Who was the Chinese American figure skater and media celebrity who  won nine U.S. championships, five world championships, and two Olympic medals? 

What better way to celebrate the Olympics then to give cheer and remember past American Olympians of all races.

Thanks for joining me as I shared a chapter from the book Beads on a String-America's Racially Intertwined Biographical History a book that applauds and lauds the biography of every American from every ethnicity.

Best of luck  Team America.

CONTRIBUTORS IN SPORTS

MICHELLE WING KWAN ( born Kwan Wing Shan on July 7, 1980 in Torrance, California), is an Chinese American figure skater and media celebrity who has won nine U.S. championships, five world championships, and two Olympic medals. She has remained competitive for over a decade and is the most decorated figure skater in U.S. history. Known for her consistency and expressive artistry on ice, she is widely considered to be one of the greatest figure skaters of all time despite having never won an Olympic gold medal.

BRIAN VILORIA (born November 24, 1980 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a Filipino-American professional boxer with an overall record of 19-1-0-1 (12 KO). He is a former World Boxing Council (WBC) light-flyweight champion. Nicknamed "The Hawaiian" and/or "Pinoy Punch" he won the world title as an amateur at the 1999 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Houston, Texas.

ALEXANDRA PAULINE "SASHA" COHEN (born October 26, 1984) is an American figure skater. She is the reigning U.S. National Champion and silver medalist at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Cohen was born in Westwood, California, a neighborhood in Los Angeles. Her mother, Galina Feldman, is a Jewish immigrant from Ukraine and a former ballet dancer; her father, Roger Cohen, is a Jewish American business consultant who used to practice law. Her sister, Natasha, is a concert pianist. Sasha is the Russian nickname for Alexandra. A gymnast from an early age, Cohen switched to figure skating when she was seven years old.

NAOMI NARI NAM (born July 6, 1985 in Anaheim, California), is an American figure skater. Naomi placed second in the senior ladies division at the United States Figure Skating Championships in 1999, behind Michelle Kwan. Touted as one of the "Baby Ballerinas" (along with Sasha Cohen, Jennifer Kirk, Sarah Hughes), she was groomed as a rising skating star, but a serious hip injury (stress fracture) sidelined her figure skating career. In 2003, following hip surgery, she won the Southwest Pacific Regional title but placed 5th at the Pacific Coast Sectionals. She failed to qualify for the 2004 U.S. Nationals.

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