
<p>In celebration of Black History Month, I will be contributing occasional commentaries in an informal series of essays. ; I will be filling in some of the notable gaps in the current expressions of black history. ; I have often jested that Black History Month should be reduced to two weeks since only half the history gets told.</p>



<p>During Black History Month, our educational systems will be flooded with portrayals of various elements of the history of black Americans. ; There will also be all kinds of documentaries, public service announcements, newspaper features and magazine cover articles. ; Virtually all them will appropriately describe the horrors of slavery and racial oppression against black Americans.</p>



<p>There will be gruesome descriptions and images of horrific injustices and inhumanity afflicted on slaves – and later on those oppressed under violent racial prejudice during the era of segregation. ; There will be examples of racial oppression to this day. ;</p>



<p>The information will be filled with “what,” “when” and “where,” but the “who” will be missing. ; ;</p>



<p>Who were the people who relied on slavery and defended it to the point of Civil War? ; Who were the folks that imposed the brutal and deadly segregation and institutional racism on tens of millions of blacks for more than 100 years after the Civil War? ; And most importantly, what was the institutional structure than enabled and empowered this reign of terror on Africans, who would later become African Americans? ; You will not hear the answers to those questions in the politically biased and sanitized modern versions of black history be presented in schools and in the public media.</p>



<p>So, who are those unidentified people? ; What is their base of power? ; The answers are simple. ; Throughout history, they were Democrats, and their base of power was … the Democratic Party.</p>



<p>Among the most egregious examples of revisionist history and whitewashing the past (no pun intended) has been the virtual elimination of the role of the Democratic Party – by name.</p>



<p>A couple years ago, it was the movie “Selma” – which told the story of Martin Luther King’s march from the Edmund Pettus Bridge to the Alabama state capitol in Richmond. ; It was an outstanding movie. ; It resulted in one of my few agreements with Al Sharpton – that David Oyelowo, portraying King, should have been at least nominated in the Best Actor category, if not the winner. ; ;</p>



<p>In the movie, there were all the bad actors – from Governor George Wallace on down. ; There were references to the Ku Klux Klan. ; Depictions of police brutality. ; Lots of names. ; Lots of racist organizations and operations. ; But nowhere in the movie did you hear the word “democrat.” ; That strategic deletion transcends most of the history we will see and hear during Black History Month. ; It is neither an accidental nor insignificant omission.</p>



<p>Often when I make references to the role of the Democratic Party in racial oppression, I am told that is old news … ancient history.  ; Well … this if Black HISTORY Month, so that diversion does not apply. ; And even if it did, the oppression goes on today in virtually every one of America’s Democrat-controlled cities.</p>



<p>In future Black History Month commentaries, I may also draw upon sections of my <em>magnum opus</em> – a manuscript being readied for publication on the long history of Democratic Party oppression of black America.</p>



<p>So, there ‘tis.</p>

The part of Black history that gets overlooked
