from Black Quill & Ink
FROM THE EDITOR OF BQI: In recent months several articles have been published in BQI discussing the increasing numbers of Black Americans returning to the GOP. In the articles “Returning to Our Roots” and most recently “The GOP is the New Black”, writers discussed this phenomenon and what it might mean to the current political landscape. In the article below, contributing writer Lori Gillespie provides a brief account of the history of the Black experience in America and how this experience was affected by the American political two party systems.
“He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people for whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.”
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