Clay Cane > Quotes

“In March 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes became the nineteen president of the United States. The hell that followed was the seeds of Jim Crow beginning to sprout with Democrats and Republicans enabling more white terror. As agreed on in the Compromise of 1877, federal troops abandoned the South. Democrats tightened their hold on the former Confederacy. Reconstruction, a time designed to repair the nation after war, was a closed chapter. It wasn’t only slavery that led to Black America starting from behind the rest of the nation; it was the Democratic and Republican failure of Reconstruction.”
― Clay Cane, The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump

“supported the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, believed Roosevelt’s New Deal enslaved Black people,5 blasted the 1995 Million Man March while comparing the Nation of Islam to the Ku Klux Klan,6 and supported lifting sanctions against South Africa before apartheid had ended.”
― Clay Cane, The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump

“the attack and ultimate fall of Fort Sumter in April 1861, which sparked the Civil War,18 Lincoln”
― Clay Cane, The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump

“Nobel Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu said it best. While criticizing the Reagan administration’s “constructive engagement toward the white government” in South Africa, he called their policy “immoral, evil and totally un-Christian.”21”
― Clay Cane, The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump