Yeah, they don't teach you that in the modern US public school system, do they? Check out Woodrow Wilson, Birth of a Nation. Shit, look up in Wiki prominent members of KKK in Congress, there's a couple of Rs, but many many Ds. Hell, only recently, Robert Byrd (Rest in Hell), former and long-running Senator from West Virginia was a FUCKING GRAND KLEGLE in the KKK. The Republicans started out as an abolitionist party (anti-slavery). You can read it for yourself, from a fucking PBS website, no less:
I mean, we giggle and shitpost N words here, but the party lived it. Biden thought Obama was "articulate and clean" for a black guy.