By Horace Anderson
For Headline Surfer
DAYTONA BEACH -- It’s Black History Month, the time when we African-Americans recall our many important contributions to the development of the United States and remember the history of our progress from slaves to free people, to a state of equality so nearly complete that we just re-elected a black president.
We rejoice in the support we enjoy from the Democratic Party and most of us think that things were always this way. But that isn’t true.
Everyone knows that the man who led the Civil War to free the slaves and who issued the Emancipation Proclamation was Abraham Lincoln - a Republican.