{"id":4800,"date":"2009-10-14T16:26:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T23:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4800"},"modified":"2009-10-14T16:26:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T23:26:31","slug":"late-nineteenth-century-puerto-rican-republican-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/10\/14\/late-nineteenth-century-puerto-rican-republican-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Nineteenth Century Puerto Rican Republican Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

This “Americans Heroes and Famous Republicans” slideshow <\/a>has been getting\u00c2\u00a0the greatest\u00c2\u00a0amount of attention, from a page that has been mocked<\/a> mercilessly<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and on<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0since Launch.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The observation lies around the fact that what we have a pretty\u00c2\u00a0good domination\u00c2\u00a0from\u00c2\u00a0 from the birth of the Republican Party in the second half of the nineteenth, Senator Everett Dirkson<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in 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<\/p>\n

The message that the new gop page wants to relay is, to quote their quote of Mary Terrell<\/a>, “\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Every right that has been bestowed upon blacks was initiated by the Republican Party\u00e2\u20ac\u009d,\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>said\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0on behalf of the President Harding campaign.\u00c2\u00a0 That is\u00c2\u00a0a generally paternalistic attitude that misses a few points, but to put in its historic context, it\u00c2\u00a0was said on behalf of President Warren Harding roughly ninety freaking years ago.
\nAnd 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.\u00c2\u00a0 No mention of poor Harding.<\/p>\n

This take on party history was apparently mined from the Michael Zak book Back to Basics<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 But, looking down this assortment of Abolitionists and female Temperance leaders<\/a>, heavily weighted to the nineteenth century, and knowing that Jackie Robinson is the most mocked inclusion, I am still drawn to…<\/p>\n

Wait, who’s this guy?<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This “Americans Heroes and Famous Republicans” slideshow has been getting\u00c2\u00a0the greatest\u00c2\u00a0amount of attention, from a page that has been mocked mercilessly\u00c2\u00a0and on\u00c2\u00a0since Launch.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The observation lies around the fact that what we have a pretty\u00c2\u00a0good domination\u00c2\u00a0from\u00c2\u00a0 from the birth of the Republican Party in the second half of the nineteenth, Senator Everett Dirkson\u00c2\u00a0in their white-washed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4811,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions\/4811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}