From the Democrat Hall of Shame
October 16, 2006

Thank you Michael Zak for all your hard work to bring the true Republican history and message to us all.

Your friends Jim and Holly from Fond du Lac.

Today marks a horrendous outrage committed by Democrats in opposition to the civil rights movement.

A century ago, despite the Democrats’ continued terrorizing Republican organizational activity in the South, many courageous Republicans were standing up to their oppressors. One of those great southern leaders was Booker T. Washington, the famed African-American educator and founder of Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute. But even a man as distinguished as this, and even in the 20th century, was opposed by a racist Democratic Party.

A month after taking office in 1901, on October 16 Republican President Theodore Roosevelt invited an African-American to dinner at the White House. Of his guest, the President said: "I do not know a white man of the South who is as good a man as Booker T. Washington today."
The fury with which many Democrats reacted to this one gesture of respect for an African-American astonished Roosevelt. The Democrats raised hell in the media. They said it was a scandal, and a travesty, and an atrocity. Several Democrat- controlled state legislatures passed resolutions censuring the President. Some of the Democrat protestors went so far as to demand that the President throw away whatever silverware and china Washington had used.

The purpose of the meeting had been to discuss reviving the Republican Party in the South, a goal which Roosevelt was forced to abandon. Not until the Reagan era did our Grand Old Party regain its political dominance of the region.

The Republican Party should stop throwing away political capital, because the more we Republicans know about the history of our Party, the more the Democrats will worry about the future of theirs.

Contact Michael Zak (Grand_Old_Partisan@hotmail.com) to invite him to speak at Lincoln/Reagan dinners, conventions, and other Republican events. For more information, see www.republicanbasics.com.

Michael Zak is the author of Back to Basics for the Republican Party, a history of the GOP from the civil rights perspective.


Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the country, showing office- holders, candidates, and activists how they would benefit tremendously from knowing and appreciating our Party's heritage of civil rights achievement. His book, Back to Basics for the Republican Party, is the acclaimed history of the GOP from the civil rights perspective.

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