Yeah and all yall got is Donnie & Marie.
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Today is an extraordinary day. Today is an historic day. It will be something to tell my grandchildren that prior to President Obama's nomination, there had never been a african-american who had even come close to being nominated and have my grandchildren ask, "What's an african-american, Papaw?"
I'M SURE THESE FACTS WILL NOT ALTER YOUR OPINION.
Aren't you missing Angela Davis for the CPUSA?
I'M SURE THESE FACTS WILL NOT ALTER YOUR OPINION.
I'm sure these FACTS will not deter you from thinking you are right. As I said, he was the first to make it through a convention for a MAJOR PARTY, but not the first.
Frederick Douglass, 1872, VP on the ticket of the Equal Rights Party, with suffragist Victoria Claflin Woodhull running as president
George Edwin Taylor, 1904, ran for president on the National Liberty Party
Eldridge Cleaver, 1968, on the Peace & Freedom Party
Lenora B. Fulani, 1988, on the New Alliance Party's ticket. She is the first African-American to get on the ballot for president in all 50 states. She ran again in 1992.
Today is an extraordinary day. Today is an historic day. It will be something to tell my grandchildren that prior to President Obama's nomination, there had never been a african-american who had even come close to being nominated and have my grandchildren ask, "What's an african-american, Papaw?"
Ok, fine. Whatever. But none of them ever came close to winning.
Ok, fine. Whatever. But none of them ever came close to winning.
Well, now you know something you didn't know yesterday.