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The historical record is sitting right there for anyone who bothers to look at it.Republicans were founded in 1854 as the anti-slavery party. Every Republican in Congress voted for the 13th Amendment that abolished slavery. The 14th Amendment that made freed slaves citizens, Republican. The 15th Amendment that gave Black men the right to vote, Republican.Democrats fought every single one of them.The Ku Klux Klan was not some neutral terror outfit that fell out of the sky. It was born as the paramilitary arm of the Southern Democratic Party, hunting Black voters and Republican organizers across the Reconstruction South. Jim Crow laws, the poll taxes, the literacy tests, the lynchings, all of it was written and enforced by Democratic state legislatures and Democratic governors.When the 1964 Civil Rights Act finally came up for a vote, 80 percent of House Republicans voted yes. Only 60 percent of House Democrats did. In the Senate, 82 percent of Republicans voted yes against 69 percent of Democrats.The filibuster that nearly killed the bill was led by Senate Democrats, including Robert Byrd, a former Klansman who Hillary Clinton would later call her mentor and friend.The first Black senator, Hiram Revels of Mississippi, was a Republican sworn in on February 25, 1870. The first Black members of the U.S. House were every last one Republicans, all the way through the 1920s.But somehow the party that fought tooth and nail against every civil rights advance for a century has convinced America it is the savior of Black voters. And the party that wrote the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments is now smeared as the party of Jim Crow 2.0.It is the single greatest con in American political history.Democrats do not want to solve anything in Black communities. They need the grievance. They need the outrage. Because the moment Black voters look at the actual record, the Democratic Party loses its most reliable voting bloc overnight.That is what they are really afraid of.