In 1933, Carter G. Woodson published his classic book entitled, “The Mis-Education of the Negro.” The premise of his book was that Blacks need to be self reliant and not look for others to do for us what we can (and should) do for ourselves. Woodson thought that the dominant society was teaching Blacks to have an attitude of dependency and subservience, as opposed to controlling their own destiny and teaching their children the truth about the contributions Blacks made to this country’s history. Woodson was a prolific journalist, author, and a historian who was known as the “Father of Black History.”

According to Woodson, “History shows that it does not matter who is in power… those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they did in the beginning.” Woodson continues, “When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his ‘proper place’ and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.”

Susan was a very bright child learning how to read and to write by the time that she was three years old. One of Susan Anthony’s early role-models had been a teacher in the group home school where her father taught her named Mary Perkins. Mary Perkins projected a progressive and independent image of women to Susan which instilled within Susan a belief in woman’s equality. Susan’s mother, Lucy, had also been a student in Daniel’s school before the pair fell-in-love and married by 1817. Lucy was a progressive minded woman who attended women’s rights conventions in the 1850’s although she shunned association with her husband Daniel’s Quaker friends throughout their married lives.

Zora Neale Hurston embodied Republican sentiments concerning race-relations and African-American People. Infuriating many people including Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Richard Wright because of her “right-wing” and ultraconservative perspective, by the time of her death, at the age of sixty-nine, Hurston had become an obscure writer dying in a welfare home for the aged.

Pearl Bailey was considered The Ambassador of Love by many people with-in The Republican Party as well as around the world. Pearl Bailey was born in the same home town, of Newport News, Virginia, and in the same birth year as the legendary jazz singer, named Ella Fitzgerald, on March 29th, 1918. Bailey eventually served as a United Nations’ Goodwill Ambassador under several Republican Presidential Administrations.

Eldridge Cleaver endorsed Ronald Reagan for President in both 1980 and in 1984. He also ran for office as a Republican against Ron Dellums in 1984, and against Alan Cranston in 1986.

In 1888, at the Republican National Convention, Douglass also received one vote as President of The United States making him the first African-American to receive any vote at all as President of the United States in the United States. And, in 1892, he was appointed Commissioner to The Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition by The Haitian Government. Frederick Douglass was also referred to as “the founder of The American Civil Rights Movement.”

A staunch Republican and friend of President Dwight Eisenhower, Howard was also a committed feminist whose clinics offered safe abortions in the period before Roe v. Wade. But those who knew T.R.M. Howard (who died in 1976, at age 68) still speak about his energy, charisma and commitment. ‘The man was dynamic,’ recalled Mamie Till-Mobley. ‘I just thought he was the greatest in the world.’”

HHR blog just got news that RNC Chairman Michael Steele is visiting Howard University the nations premire black univeristy (founded by Republicans) The College Republican Chapter is having a Town Hall meeting next Tuesday with Chairman Steele on its campus in Washington,DC. According to HHR sources he will be coming for an open dialogue with the students not only at Howard but the DC community at large. It will be September 1st, 2009 at 6:30pm in the West Ballroom in the Armour J. Blackburn Student Center which is the Student Center on Howard Universities Main campus in Washington DC.

I was shocked to learn about the history of the democrat party and how that party laid the foundation that has influenced race relations in America in the past. Those past political actions by the democrat party continue, to this day, to exploit the impoverished condition of black Americans, which were caused by the democrat party for the purpose of gaining political power.

by TJ Thompson  Our nation has an epidemic of failing public schools.  This is not confined to urban schools either.  My alma mater,  Shelbyville High School, in Shelbyville, Indiana was profiled in a Time Magazine article titled “Dropout Nation”, as well as on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’.  You can read that article here: http://bit.ly/S0QVx and the Oprah [...]

By 1868, John Langston had organized the law department at Howard University becoming its first department dean. He also served, for a period of time, as the acting President of The University. By 1888, after having served as consul-general to Haiti; and after having become The President of Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute in 1885, John Mercer Langston was once again catapulted into The National Spotlight when he won a seat in The United States House of Representatives. His victory was contested for eighteen months because he was the first African-American elected to Congress from Virginia. Eventually, however, he was able to take his seat.

  Now that we have bailed out the banks, could it be as Fayetteville, NC conservative talk show host David Taylor suggested that we are letting the auto industry flounder because a car gives you a potential source of equity to borrow against.  By making it so that you can only get money through banks [...]

By Cleo E. Brown Hallie Quinn Brown, who was an Educator, Lecturer, Civil Rights Activist, and a Human Rights Activist , worked against and beat the odds all of her life. Born on March 10th, 1848 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania she was the fifth of six children born to her parents named Frances Jane Scoggins and [...]

 By Lenny McAllister Americans supporting President Obama have constantly compared his moxy, poise, and organization favorably to President Bush. They have called him a champion of the people while calling Bush, among other things, a war criminal. They have tossed Obama softball questions and rosy compliments while hurling insults and throwing shoes at Bush.  Many [...]

REASON MAGAZINE – On May 6, 2009, concerned parents, students, and others gathered in Washington, D.C.’s Freedom Plaza. They came to voice support for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, a school-voucher program authorized by Congress in 2004 (as the seat of the federal government, the District is overseen by Congress). The program gives 1,700 students [...]