Just goes to show that America is truly a melting pot.Kenny Smith once sent for DNA testing to compare Snoop Dog to Charles Barkley to see who was more black. Turns out after the results that Barkley was blacker and whiter than Snoop Dog and Snoop Dog was actually predominantly Native American. Don't let your eyes decieve you..being an American should be colorless.
The naacp was founded by white republicans. I don't see why she would need to lie about her background.
Very. Post civil war, radical republicans pushed for civil rights for the freed slaves. http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history Founding group The NAACP was formed partly in response to the continuing horrific practice of lynching and the 1908 race riot in Springfield, the capital of Illinois and resting place of President Abraham Lincoln. Appalled at the violence that was committed against blacks, a group of white liberals that included Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard, both the descendants of abolitionists, William English Walling and Dr. Henry Moscowitz issued a call for a meeting to discuss racial justice. Some 60 people, seven of whom were African American (including W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell), signed the call, which was released on the centennial of Lincoln's birth.
I've heard of whitewashing but never republiwashing. The founders of the NAACP were hardly republicans but I like what you're doing. I think this could really catch on. So who should we republiwash next? JFK? MLK?
Oswald Garrison Villard Villard was also a founder of the American Anti-Imperialist League which favored independence for the territories captured in the Spanish–American War. To further the cause, he worked to organize "a third ticket" in 1900 to challenge William Jennings Bryan and William McKinley. He was joined in this effort by several key veterans of the 1896 National Democratic Party. Not surprisingly, Villard made a personal appeal to ex-president Grover Cleveland, a hero of the gold Democrats, urging him to be the candidate. Cleveland demurred, asserting that voters no longer cared what he had to say. Villard also consistently used the editorial page of the Evening Post to argue against imperialism and expansionism.[1] ... While Villard continued to champion civil liberties, civil rights, and anti-imperialism after World War I, he had largely abandoned his previous belief in laissez-faire economics. During the 1930s, he welcomed the advent of the New Deal and called for nationalization of major industries. In 1943, Villard engaged in a debate with philosopher Ayn Rand on the topic of collectivism versus individualism, sponsored by the American Economic Association, which was published in a number of newspapers.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Garrison_Villard Mary White Ovington Influenced by the ideas of William Morris, Ovington joined the Socialist Party of America in 1905, where she met people including A. Philip Randolph, Floyd Dell, Max Eastman and Jack London, who argued that racial problems were as much a matter of class as of race. She wrote for radical journals and newspapers such as The Masses, New York Evening Post and the New York Call. She also worked with Ray Stannard Baker and influenced the content of his book, Following the Color Line, published in 1908. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_White_Ovington
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_English_Walling William English Walling (1877–1936) (known as "English" to friends and family) was an Americanlaborreformer and SocialistRepublican born into a wealthy family in Louisville, Kentucky. He founded the National Women's Trade Union League in 1903. Moved by his investigation of a 1908 race riot in Springfield, Illinois, he was among the co-founders of the NAACP in 1909.[1] ... Walling was among the white founders of the NAACP, whose founding members included blacks, such as W.E.B. Du Bois from the Niagara Movement. They had some of their first meetings in his New York apartment.[6] Walling served initially as chairman of the NAACP Executive Committee (1910–1911).[6] Walling became a member of the Republican Party, but quit in 1917 due to the party's opposition to the US entering World War I.
Seriously, why do you do that? It's like you argue just for the sake of arguing or you think people are too stupid to click the links you provided. Denny, I don't care of Martians created the NAACP. It doesn't really matter. Anyway, for everyone else reading this here are the parts that Denny didn't include. Walling became involved in labor and political movements, first working at Hull House in Chicago, an early settlement house. He vowed to live on the equivalent of a worker's wage. Moving to New York City in 1900, he worked as a factory inspector. In 1903 he founded the National Women's Trade Union League. In 1906, following a lengthy trip to Russia to report on the abortive Russian Revolution of 1905 he married Anna Strunsky, a Jewish immigrant and an aspiring novelist from San Francisco. (She had lived as a child with her family on the Lower East Side before they moved to California.)[3] They had four children together: Rosamond, Anna, Georgia and Hayden. In 1908 Walling published Russia's Message, a book inspired by the social unrest he and his wife had observed in Russia.[4] He joined the Socialist Party (1910–17), but finally resigned because of its anti-war stance. Walling became convinced that US intervention in the war was needed to defeat the Central Powers. In 1908 Walling and his wife Anna went to Springfield, Illinois to investigate a race riot that occurred on August 14 of ethnic whites against blacks, related especially to job competition and social change. As a result, Walling wrote an article, "The Race War in the North," for the September 3 issue of The Independent. He said, "the spirit of the abolitionists, of Lincoln and Lovejoy, must be revived and we must come to treat the negro on a plane of absolute political and capitalist equality, or Vardaman and Tillman will soon have transferred the race war to the North."[5] He appealed for a "large and powerful body of citizens to come to their aid."[5] Mary White Ovington wrote to him in support. She was one among a number of people, white and black, Christians and Jews, who were moved to create a new organization to work for civil rights.[6] Walling was among the white founders of the NAACP, whose founding members included blacks, such as W.E.B. Du Bois from the Niagara Movement. They had some of their first meetings in his New York apartment.[6] Walling served initially as chairman of the NAACP Executive Committee (1910–1911).[6] Walling became a member of the Republican Party, but quit in 1917 due to the party's opposition to the US entering World War I. His marriage to Anna Strunsky ended at this time, in part due to their disagreement over the United States' role in the conflict.[3] He later worked full-time for the American Federation of Labor.[2] His books included Socialism As It Is - A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement (1912/1918). He published two other books on socialism by 1914, The Larger Aspects of Socialism, and Progressivism and After. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_English_Walling Denny, this guy may have belonged to the Republican party for a brief time because of his opinions on WWI but he wasn't a Republican. This man was a Socialist. Like I said, I don't give two shits about the political beliefs of the founders of the NAACP but it's pretty clear that most of them were Socialists.
Dude, republicans were liberal, socialist, and progressives back then. All things civil rights through the mid 1960s were republican. Republicans freed the slaves, passed the fourteenth amendment, the first two civil rights acts, elected the first dozens of blacks to congress, appointed the justices that wrote brown v board of education, passed the women's vote, and the 1964 civil rights laws. As much as you can find that one of the founders was a socialist, they were only disaffected republicans. Think of Teddy Roosevelt. He was a progressive, ran as a republican, ran again as a republican in 2012. Formed the Bull-Moose Party to run as a third party candidate. He campaigned for the republican presidential candidate in 1916. I'd say he was a republican. There were 60 who showed up for the first naacp meeting. At least two were republican, if not most of them. Only 7 were black, all those republicans. Google mugwumps if you care to learn some of the history. The Libertarian Party was founded by republicans, too.
LOL, that seems pretty obvious. Here is some trivia for you, the Tea Party was founded by republicans, too.
If it splits off into a third party, they're still republicans. Like, independents in the senate or house caucus with on party or the other. Bernie Sanders is running for president as a democrat. He's never been in the Democratic Party that I remember. Doesn't make him a democrat.
But according to you someone who joins the republican party for a few months in support for entering WWI makes him a republican for life.
