...When Blacks have to whisper at polling booths
that they are Republican, for fear of reprisal from
their liberal neighbors, then Barack really doesn't
get the real conflict that is alive and well in this
country, and why should he? He belongs to the
party of the overseer of the philosophical
plantation that intimidates and marginalizes
Blacks that dare sup****t conservative values or
Republican ideas..."
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Democrats Have Kept Racism Alive
The Fifth Column Nina May
October 6, 2007
There was a big problem with Barack's mea culpa
speech in Philadelphia, defending his racist pastor,
Jeremiah White. He failed to mention that over
300,000 white Americans gave their lives to end
slavery. He didn't mention that in 1854,
abolitionists left the Democratic Party and founded
the Republican Party specifically for the purpose of
ending slavery and giving equal rights to all those
who had been in bondage. And when he does
mention the 3/5ths clause in the Constitution, he
totally got it wrong, the way most Americans do.
News flash...it was the abolitionists who insisted
on it so that the slave holding states could not
have their slaves counting as constituents so they
could get more pro-slavery representation in
congress. This is one of the most powerful battles
fought by whites, to end slavery, which has been
mischaracterized as being racist.
He needs to read the history of this battle for
equality and realize that the party he embraces
today was the party that voted against the 13th,
14th and 15th Amendments, while the Republicans
sup****ted them unanimously. He needs to
acknowledge that the two dozen civil rights bills
that were passed by the Republicans were
overturned by the Democrats when they regained
control of the House, Senate and White House at
the end of the 19th Century.
It was at this time that the Democratic Party
instituted Jim Crow laws. It was not whites that did
this against blacks, it was bigoted, racist
Democrats who would choose to divide a nation
rather than give freedom to those they considered
inferior. Had blacks been voting equally in both
political parties, there never would have been
literacy tests, poll taxes or other restrictions to
voting. But because all blacks at this time
identified with the party of Lincoln and were
actually the ones starting Republican parties in
southern states, and running and getting
elected as Republicans, the Democrats knew
that to kill a Black person was killing a Republican.
If he watched the award-winning do***entary,
Emancipation Revelation Revolution, he would
learn that the first Black Democrat, Barbara
Jordan, was elected in the south in 1972, 100
years after Black Republicans had been running
and winning for years. And it took a federal law
to force redistricting in Texas to get her elected.
He would be reminded that almost all the
southern governors fighting integration, standing
in school house doors, firing water canons at
innocent people were all Democrats. And if his
parents really were a part of the civil rights
movement, he would realize that without whites
fighting side by side to overturn laws that had
been put in place by his very own party, it may
have been another generation before the civil
rights movement could happen.
It was not white versus black; it was racists,
bigoted Democrats against blacks and whites
who disagreed with them. If he saw our movie
he would be reminded of three young white men
who worked with CORE who were murdered,
just for doing the right thing. He would see the
incredible sacrifices that white men, such as
Senator Charles Sumner endured for the cause
of liberty for oppressed slaves. He was attacked
on the Senate floor by pro-slavery Democratic
congressman, Preston Brooks, who stormed
the Senate side of the Capitol and tried to beat
Sumner to death with his cane because he dared
to introduce yet another piece of anti-slavery
legislation. Brooks received hundreds of canes
from adoring fans, while Senator Sumner
struggled for three years to survive. When he did,
the first thing he did when he returned to the
Senate was to re-introduce a bill that would abolish
slavery. This man was a white Republican. Preston
Brooks was a white Democrat. Race had nothing to
do with their individual passion to destroy or preserve
slavery. It was a passion born of moral values and an
understanding of good and evil. That is the discussion
today that pastors are supposed to be having and
preaching and encouraging their flock to understand.
Rev. Wright did not get the memo and gets an "F" in
Black history.
For Obama and his pastor to preach the "audacity of
despair and racism" is an affront to all the people
who have given their lives through the years to see
racism destroyed. But that death blow has always
been deflected by the Democratic Party that has had
a vested interest in class and race warfare to keep
their power base motivated and returning to the polls.
Barack says, "I have asserted a firm conviction that
working together we can move beyond some of our
old racial wounds," yet he sits week after week
listening to sermons that say just the opposite. But
those days are gone as we rip off the tacky, thin
veneer of elitism and bigotry that has propelled
them to power.
It is ironic that in his speech he challenges the
listener by saying, "We can't accept politics that
breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism," when
he belongs to the very party that has always done
that, to the point where the new liberal plantation
has erected philosophical barriers around all
blacks, condemning those who dare to challenge
the liberal status quo and escape this
manipulation and intimidation. They are called
Aunt Jamima, like Condi Rice, or house Negroes
like Colin Powell, or forced to endure high tech
lynchings like Clarence Thomas. They have Oreo
Cookies thrown at them like Michael Steele and
are accused of acting white if they identify
themselves as Republicans or conservatives.
That is "the racist spectacle we are not allowed
to talk about." When Blacks have to whisper at
polling booths that they are Republican, for fear
of reprisal from their liberal neighbors, then
Barack really doesn't get the real conflict that is
alive and well in this country, and why should
he? He belongs to the party of the overseer of
the philosophical plantation that intimidates and
marginalizes Blacks that dare sup****t
conservative values or Republican ideas.
So, if Barack was honest about his desire to "heal
the nation," he needs to learn American Black
history, and take his pastor aside and tell him
about it and challenge him to be more Christ-like
when he preaches. If he knew real American
Black history, he would not belong to the party of
segregationists and bigots and would not have
allowed himself to be sucked into that dark
undertow of racial politics that has already robbed
our nation of too many amazing blessings.
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Nina May is the Founder and Chairman of the
Renaissance Foundation, an international leader****p
organization with offices in the US and the Republic
of Korea. The Renaissance Foundation hosts
international seminars, exchanges and events that
bring business and political leaders of different
countries and cultural backgrounds together. She
maintains a website at www.ninamay.com. She is
the producer/director of the award-winning
do***entary, 'Emancipation Revelation Revolution',
which tells the history of the civil rights movement
in America and the role that both political parties
have played in it and what happens to blacks today
who leave the liberal plantation. See more about
the movie on www.ERRVideo.com.
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