I WONDER

I cannot help but wonder why African Americans so blindly adhere to the Democratic Party when the following matters are considered. It was the Republican Party under Lincoln, pressured by New England abolitionists who presumably freed the slaves by means of the Emancipation Proclamation. This was followed by the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution BY THE REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION, which codified the provisions of the Proclamation . Further, in the latter half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th it was the Democratic party of the deep south with its Jim Crow laws, etc who kept the blacks down and made a mockery of the Constitution.