The "Black" NRA - A Short History & Video

This is a really, really good YouTube video. Short, sweet, to-the-point, and oh so true.
Before you watch the video I would just like to back up some facts that they briefly mention:

• After the Civil War, it was nearly impossible to find an African American Democrat. They aligned themselves with the Republican party (started by abolitionists) (1), who had fought against the Democrats (pro-slavery party) for their freedom. The Republicans enacted the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, and later added the 14th and 15th amendments (the basis of all current racial civil rights) to keep the democratic party from compromising this freedom for the blacks. "....As African-American US Rep. John Roy Lynch (MS) noted, "The opposition to civil rights in the South is confined almost exclusively to States under democratic control . . ."" (2) and later "As black US Rep. Richard H. Cain (Republican from SC) explained in 1875: "The bad blood of the South comes because the Negroes are Republicans. If they would only cease to be Republicans and vote the straight-out Democratic ticket there would be no trouble. Then the bad blood would sink entirely out of sight."" (3) 
• The KKK was started by Democrats to attack Republicans, black and white. - "As the civil rights secured on the federal level began to move forward across the nation, Democrats worked hard at the State level to regain control of the State legislatures and halt the progress made by blacks and Republicans. To support this effort, a Democrat constituency group was formed to fight both blacks and Republicans. The name of this group? The Ku Klux Klan. In fact, extensive hearings held by the U. S. Congress in 1868 document the role of the KKK in working with southern Democrats to halt voting by blacks. " - Eugene V. Smalley, A Brief History of the Republican Party (New York: John B. Alden, 1885), pp. 49-50.
• Don't forget the attack on the State Republican Convention in Louisianna in 1866 where 40 blacks and 20 whites where killed, and 150 others were wounded... by Democrats. - Hughes, Meltzer, and Lincoln, Pictorial History (1983), p. 199; see also The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson online, "The New Orleans Massacre" (at http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/06FirstImpeachmentDiscussion s/iiib-8a.htm); and Harper's Weekly online, "The Riot in New Orleans" (at http://www.blackhistory.harpweek.com/7Illustrations/Reco nstruction/RiotInNewOrleans.htm).

(1) - "Following a vote in Congress to extend slavery into the Northwestern Territory in May, 1854, twenty House Members coalesced themselves into a group they titled "The Republican Party." Its declared purpose was to support the original anti-slavery principles of the federal government. The first Republican Platform (1856) therefore declared:

Resolved. That with our Republican fathers, we hold it to be a self-evident truth that all men are endowed with the inalienable right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. . . . That, as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, it becomes our duty to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it for the purpose of establishing slavery." - (Exert taken from WallBuilders.com - Black History Issue 2001)

(2) - Woodson, Negro Orators and Their Orations, p. 375, Rep. John R. Lynch from his speech on the Civil Rights Bill on February 3, 1875.
(3) - Neglected Voices online, Representative Richard H. Cain, responding on February 3, 1875, to arguments that the Bill would unconstitutionally infringe the rights of whites (at ht tp://www.law.nyu.edu/davidp/neglectedvoices/RaineyFeb031875.html).