For almost one hundred years after the war ended, all the Democrat party's efforts would be devoted to elaborate political maneuvers to forestall the nightmarish scenario of blacks voting.
Since the Republican Party was formed to abolish slavery and was the driving force behind liberating slaves, blacks were expected to vote overwhelmingly for Republicans.
At a moment of greatest weakness, the Democrat-dominated state legislatures passed the Black Codes, followed by Jim Crow laws that enacted racial segregation and a host of discriminatory measures that prevented the former slaves from voting.
Their newfound conviction was that if they had to let blacks into the voting booth, they needed to create a political process ensuring that blacks would vote Democrat forever.
Over the years, the Democrats have corralled millions of black voters within the Democrat party by adroitly exploiting the source of grief.
Whether it is slavery, segregation, or redemption, the doctrinal objective of the Democrat party has always been in line with Goethe's famous observation, "The triumph of despotism is to force the slaves to declare themselves free. It may need no force; the slaves may proclaim their freedom quite sincerely: but they are nonetheless slaves."
During the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, the Democrat policies and the Trump economic prosperity agenda placed the black community at the intersection of two worlds-continuing dependency or Martin Luther King's vision that "The Negro and his compatriots for self-respect and human dignity will not be denied." Yet, the sobering reality is that dependency for most people is an incurable disease and, given a choice between working for a living or voting for a living, most people opt for the latter.
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