A Dkos Golden Egg

Yet another excellent example of making something complex appear easy. In my opinion, this writing of diarist ZerlinaM is exemplary and the injected humor is like well placed trills in a Baroque aria.

Blacks and The GOP: From Reconstruction to the Obama Era
by ZerlinaM
Excerpt:
Then something happened - the geniuses in Congress (they still sucked even back then) passed the Kansas-Nebrask Act of 1854 which finally pissed the anti-slavery folks off to the point where they started their own party, kind of like today's Tea Party crowd except nobody had Nazi signs. In a nutshell, the Act expanded slavery into the new territories. There were a number of anti-slavery groups around at that time (The Free Soil Party, the Whig Party, and even a number of members of the Democratic Party) but the Kansas-Nebraska Act pushed them all over the edge. Nothing like a little Congressional legislation to drive people crazy right? So all of those anti-slavery groups got together and formed a brand new party - the Republican Party.
Read more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/8/12/890531/-Blacks-and-The-GOP:-From-Reconstruction-to-the-Obama-Era

Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-SPAN and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB