Black voters would be wise to go Republican

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The black community should return to the

party started to liberate and elevate it.

The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, ended slavery. Confederate Democrats gave their lives to expand slavery, and Union Republicans gave their lives to end it. The 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, was supported by 100% of Republicans and only 23% of Democrats. The 14th Amendment, which gave citizenship to freed slaves, was supported by 94% of Republicans and 0% of Democrats. The 15th Amendment, which gave freed black men the right to vote, was supported by 100% Republicans and 0% Democrats.

Democrats are the party of George Wallace, Bull Conner, black codes and Jim Crow laws, while Republicans championed civil rights acts in the 1960s.

Democrats supported the Ku Klux Klan in order to stop the Republican Party by intimidating and murdering thousands of black and white Republicans. Martin Luther King ’s father himself was a Republican.

Has Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society entitlement state helped or harmed the black community? Cities like Milwaukee, Chicago, Baltimore and D.C. have some of the highest black unemployment and murder rates, and have been run exclusively by Democrats for the last 50 years.

Democrats shamelessly exploit minorities for votes, assigning victimhood and hopeless dependency. Republicans believe in the unlimited potential of every individual.

Think before voting. Bob Woeber Jr. Venetia, Pa.

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