Let's look at some FACTS, Really_Cool_Dude, starting with the US Senate:   Hiram Rhodes Revels, Republican, became the first African American United States Senator when he was elected to represent Mississippi (1870 - 1871) during the Reconstruction era.   Blanche Bruce, also a Republican from Mississippi, served as a US Senator (1875 - 1881).   Edward Brooke, a Republican from Massachusetts, served as a US Senator (1967 - 1979).   NOT UNTIL YEARS LATER was a Democrat black elected to the US Senate.  This happened when Carol Moseley Braun served from 1993 - 1999. Let's move on to blacks in the US House of Representatives. From 1869, when the first Republican black, Joseph Rainey, was elected to US House of Representatives, TWENTY-ONE BLACK REPUBLICANS WERE ELECTED TO THE HOUSE before the Democrats finally placed Arthur Mitchell as a Rep in House in 1935. I can list all 22 black Republicans, if you'd like, who served before a black Democrat did.  Let me know if you'd like their names. It just took the Democrats 123 years before they caught up with the Republicans and placed a black in the US Senate and 66 years before they caught up with the Republicans and placed a black in the US House.  Are you one of those rewriting history books - or do you JUST LIE, Really_UnCoolDude?