What have Republicans done To/For Black people?
To:
Made cannabis a schedule1 narcotic. A designation that has not been overturned so far. (Here's hoping that is Obama's walk off)
Created the war on drugs, to target blacks: http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/
Illegally traded arms for cocaine, while illegally supporting the Contras in the Nicaraguan war, Then turned that cocaine into a salable product (crack) to non wealthy people, then dumped that product on the inner cities.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/special/cia.html
Then created special penalties for that very product, thanks to George Bush Sr's plea to America about the crack epidemic (an epidemic that he created, personally) on TV:
These penalties, known as mandatory minimum sentencing targeted crack (and blacks) but not regular cocaine (which his son, the future dimwit of the country, and many other people, including myself) used by making much harsher penalties for crack.
Just to name a few.
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Here's what I've read.
Don't know if it's right or wrong.
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation because he(?) and his generals thought this would spark a massive slave rebellion.
From Lincoln's Speech, Sept. 18, 1858.
"While I was at the hotel to-day, an elderly gentleman called upon me to know whether I was really in favor of producing a perfect equality between the negroes and white people. While I had not proposed to myself on this occasion to say much on that subject, yet as the question was asked me I thought I would occupy perhaps five minutes in saying something in regard to it.
I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the black and white races -- that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making VOTERS or jurors of negroes, NOR OF QUALIFYING THEM HOLD OFFICE, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any of her man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."
http://www.nytimes.com/1860/12/28/news/mr-lincoln-and-negro-equality.html