And this I need to share because sometimes reality is way funnier than fiction: Robert Smalls was a Republican who founded the Republican Party of South-freaking-Carolina. I wonder how proud he would be of that now.
Uhh... duh? Did you forget that the Republican Party was founded to prevent the expansion of slavery into western territories with the express goal of abolishing it completely? Abraham Lincoln was the very first Republican President. That’s how we got our 13th Amendment.
By 1900 no congressional Democrat was African American but 22 Republicans were. The first elected African American Democrat was in 1935 though the party filibustered the Republican-led Civil Rights Act decades later.
It’s funny that you would think it’s “funny” for a black man to be a Republican, especially in his day and age. It was only in recent decades that your idea of the Republicans became normal.