{"id":30462,"date":"2010-11-07T09:12:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/historical-trend-of-black-republicans-in-congress-coming-back\/"},"modified":"2010-11-07T09:12:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T09:12:44","slug":"historical-trend-of-black-republicans-in-congress-coming-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/historical-trend-of-black-republicans-in-congress-coming-back.php","title":{"rendered":"Historical trend of Black Republicans in Congress coming back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TNQVrZXfj2I\/AAAAAAAAOSU\/1EB2cxY04zY\/s1600\/blackhistory.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ade5c_blackhistory.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>by Michael Zak<\/p><p>Grand Old Partisan salutes Allen West (R-FL) and Tim Scott (R-SC), who were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday. When they take their seats in January, it will be the first time since Rep. Gary Franks (R-CT) and Rep. JC Watts (R-OK) in the 1990s that more than one African-American Republican served in Congress. Prior to that, in 1891 there were three African-American Republican congressmen: Rep. John Mercer Langston (R-VA), Rep. Henry Cheatham (R-NC), and Rep. Thomas Miller (R-SC). <\/p><p>See the Grand Old Partisan <a href=\"http:\/\/grandoldpartisan.typepad.com\/\">blog<\/a> for more information about the heritage of the Republican Party. <\/p><p>The book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Back-Basics-Republican-Party-Third\/dp\/0970006322\">Back to Basics<\/a> for the Republican Party shows Republicans how they would benefit tremendously from appreciating the heritage of the GOP.<\/p><p><em>Note - Michael Zak has been a frequent guest on LR's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/libertarian\">radio show<\/a> \"Libertarian Politics Live.\" <\/em><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ade5c_7828681836623105417-4464683972112108420?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Michael ZakGrand Old Partisan salutes Allen West (R-FL) and Tim Scott (R-SC), who were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday. When they take their seats in January, it will be the first time since Rep. Gary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/historical-trend-of-black-republicans-in-congress-coming-back.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}