I read an article lately describing how some Blacks in America do not feel any particular affinity for the Independence Day holiday, the celebration of a document asserting the rights of all men to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that was written by Thomas Jefferson, a slave owner and the first President from what would become the modern Democratic Party.
I suppose that, for Blacks, another choice for Independence Day could be Juneteeth, the commemoration of the date when slaves in Texas learned that, as a result of a second internecine conflict, they had been freed by Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president.
LBJ may have signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but it took a Republican-controlled Congress to pass it.
How is it, then, that the Democratic Party can claim to be the party of Blacks in America?
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