Late Nineteenth Century Puerto Rican Republican Heroes
This “Americans Heroes and Famous Republicans” slideshow has been getting the greatest amount of attention, from a page that has been mocked mercilessly and on since Launch.  The observation lies around the fact that what we have a pretty good domination from from the birth of the Republican Party in the second half of the nineteenth, Senator Everett Dirkson in their white-washed version of the history of the Civil Rights Era, Jackie Robinson before denouncing the party in 1964, Susan B Anthony, a couple of other
The message that the new gop page wants to relay is, to quote their quote of Mary Terrell, “  “Every right that has been bestowed upon blacks was initiated by the Republican Partyâ€, said  on behalf of the President Harding campaign. That is a generally paternalistic attitude that misses a few points, but to put in its historic context, it was said on behalf of President Warren Harding roughly ninety freaking years ago.
And regarding the exclusive club that Harding is in, the Line of Presidents of the United States, the “GOP Hereoes” consists of Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan. No mention of poor Harding.
This take on party history was apparently mined from the Michael Zak book Back to Basics. But, looking down this assortment of Abolitionists and female Temperance leaders, heavily weighted to the nineteenth century, and knowing that Jackie Robinson is the most mocked inclusion, I am still drawn to…
Wait, who’s this guy?
As much as we question whether the Republican Party of the late nineteenth century has too much relation to the Republican Party of the early twenty-first, I have to wonder if the Republican Party of the mainline United States has much relation to the Republican Party of the Puerto Rican colony at the time of Theodore Roosevelt’s rough-riders.