Posted on 12/10/2002 10:13:13 PM PST by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:59:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Several black Democrats, scolding Sen. Trent Lott for his remarks at Sen. Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party and saying his apology is insufficient to allay their anger, directed some of their ire yesterday at Sen. Tom Daschle for defending his Republican colleague.
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Fonda shouldn't be in prison. Hanoi, maybe. Or maybe a cemetery. But not prison.
I find it really difficult to believe that this is what Lott really meant....or that anyone who's been such a prominent figure in mainstream politicals for so long, wouldn't know that such a statement is political suicide.
Of course if he wasn't refering to segregation, why hasn't he just come out and clarified what he really meant by "all these problems" ?
That should be easy enough. What's he waiting for?
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When I first heard it I thought of affirmative action. Which would make the statement both timely and prescient as the US Supreme Court is set to hear the first case in what 25 years on the issue?
I, for one, am sick of the tyranny of the Left, which seeks to shut down everyone's freedom of speech, association, religious expression, and other Constitutional rights, all to serve the cause of getting and keeping power in Leftist hands. They use "political correctness" as a club with which to beat the rest of us into submission. I am also sick of those who, in fear of the Leftist tyranny, are willing to cave to them at the slightest hint of their phony outrage. Didn't we learn the hard way that it's all about Leftist power and ideology, not about human decency, when NOW and most other women's groups were silent regarding Bill Clinton's blatant sexual harrassment and even credible charges of rape against him? How many times do we need to re-learn this lesson?
As the article goes on to point out, Rep. Cummings was mistaken about Lott, who is not in the line of presidential succession. On the other hand, KKK Byrd is fourth in the line of presidential succession, as president pro tempore of the Senate. If the present flap results in the RATs retaining a majority in the Senate, Byrd will stay in that line of succession.
Posted on 07/09/2002 2:16 PM EDT by Trueblackman
Immediate Media Release July 8, 2002
AARLC Headquarters Ronald Reagan Building 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 700 Washington, District of Columbia 20005 Contact Person: Kevin L. Martin Govt.& Political Affairs Director 202-675-8338
NAACP Chairman Julian Bond is a bigoted “plantation” racist out of step with Black America.
The African American Republican Leadership Council calls the recent comments of NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, made during the recent NAACP convention, in Houston, Texas, vitriolic, bane, irresponsible, simply put, “bigoted” and void of any semblance of leadership expected of this once august organization.
His continued attacks on President Bush, this government and now, on up and coming African American public policies seekers must stop. It is the responsibility of the NAACP to reel in this loose cannon and visit his removal from leadership immediately as he has become an embarrassment to Black America and out of step with NAACP members that disagree with his level of unwarranted attacks.
This 62-year-old former Georgia Democrat lawmaker has made it no secret of his personal hatred of President Bush, the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the 2000 recount, now school choice and younger African Americans wanting to play an integral role in the advancement of people of color, but with opposing public policies solutions.
The Chairman is hell bent on maintaining a racist plantation mentality that all African Americans dare not think for themselves and nor seek to set their own destiny that differs from his yesteryears out of date and out of step with reality “myopic box”. It is clear that Chairman Bond does not acknowledge the 40 + percent of African Americans Support President Bush today and the 58 percent of African Americans that say the liberal democrats take them for granted. He needs to take his head out of his possum hideout. A day has dawn and it is well into spring.
It is understandable that his anger stems from the NAACP’s failed 12 million dollars effort to use mass media scare tactics to increase African American Voter turnout in the 2000 general election with the now infamous James Byrd Ad. This however, does not give him any reason to berate African Americans wanting to run for elected office with their own notion of public service nor does it give him the right to tell African Americans in failed public schools that they should not have a choice to send their kids to public schools when the NAACP itself offers scholarships to students to be used in any institutions, public or private. If that policy is good for the NAACP and its dwindling membership, shouldn’t it be good enough for regular John Brown and Jane Doe kids.
Chairman Bond continues to blame conservative and republicans in general for all American’s ills; and speaking before 4000 people (most of them over the age of 40) Mr. Bond yet again alleges unnamed specific civil rights violations and conspiracies by republicans and conservatives. Having nothing to present as factual in any allegation he has made to date, Chairman Bond is now moving his rant and rave against young African American who are seeking elected office by challenging older African American Democrats that have failed Black America for decades. Is the NAACP advancing age discrimination now as a civil right?
As a further apparent fact that Mr. Bond is out of step with mainstream Black community, most African Americans view on today’s issues often labeled as only republican and conservative by the liberal democrats is very much in sync and on target with the Black community. His denied that African Americans are innately conservative is only a rouse to stymie African Americans from voting and supporting conservative African American candidates and other republican public policies office seekers. 60 percent of Black folks support school choice just as he does with his NAACP scholarships to students to use in any school of their parents’ choosing. Chairman Bond should call himself, Chairman Hypocrite, as he has no bond with rank and file the NAACPers, and way out of step with mainstream Black America. His days are spent and gone. His usefulness today is but a black hole out there in days long sunset. Can Mr. Hypocrite be rehabilitated?
No way in this world, maybe another. Contrary to Mr. Hypocrite, promoting true voter reform, it is the ACLU and NAACP of Pennsylvania that are threatening to bring suit to block a bill that would require people to show photo-ID at the polls to vote in order to prove they are who they claim.
No Mr. Bond would rather continue the long Democrat tradition of dead people, dogs and vacant lots showing up to vote as long as they are voting Democrat and to keep this under wraps and bamboozle Black. Under his leadership, the best the NAACP can offer up, is people showing up with phone and gas bills in hand to prove they live at a current residence. They make the claim that anything else more puts a burden on older and disabled Americans. What an insult to these Americans. Nowhere in Mr. Bond’s ranting and raving will you find the fact that in Baltimore, Maryland where the NAACP has it national headquarters, 50% of all public school children in this heavily African American City must attend summer school this year, a result of failed public schools. The Chairman is certainly the one passing out snake oil to keep his membership and Black America from getting rid of him and other failed liberal democrat so-called leadership as exemplified in Alabama, when Black voters took matters into their own hands. The liberal democrat elected and organizational pimps have simply failed not only Black America but also all America.
Mr. Bond much like the liberal democrat lapdog that he is, will remain oppose to school choice for those needy parents who are concerned about their children’s education. Mr. Bond would rather whine that billions more should be poured down the abyss that is public education Teachers’ Union private “plantation” coal mine. Mr. Bond seems keenly unaware of the fact that African American Males in general spend more that 6 years in college getting a 4-year degree, with the first 2 years spend taking remedial courses because of their lacking in basic Math and English proficiency.
Mr. Bond seems keenly unaware that under President Bush, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) are receiving more federal funding than under the last Democrat President Bill Clinton and has finally received a real voice at the table thanks to outgoing Congressmen J.C. Watts and AARLC. It was # 41 that started this support for HBCU, with no thanks from tomfoolery failed leaders like Mr. Bond.
Nowhere in Mr. Bond’s ranting will you find the fact that the NAACP is opposed to the death penalty or will you find that the brother of James Byrd has all of a sudden had a change of heart and quietly wants the 2 killers of his brother that where sentence to death to have their sentence commuted to life in prison now that the TV cameras have stopped rolling.
Chairman Bond has proven that the NAACP is now a ghost of it former self and much like the Ku Klux Klansmen Ghost Riders of the pasted, people like Chairman Hypocrite are opposed to African American advancing politically and educationally as all Americans and expects people who are younger than Mr. Bond to remain quiet while he continues to “open mouth and insert foot” embarrassing all African Americans. Sir your time has come. Pack up. There are more of us young ones, and as ordained by nature, we will advance our people leaving it up to them to choose whomever they deem fit to support up to them.
I am NOT defending Lott. I almost fell out of my seat when I heard it -- and I looked up and he had NO CLUE what he had just said -- and he's the leader of the GOP in the Senate.
Now, I figure if I, sitting down here in Raleigh, NC, can figure it out, he OR HIS STAFF should have been able to.
He HAS to go.
Black live birth rates continue well above white and total rates in USA. There is little evidence that blacks have abortions any more than similarly placed non-blacks, according to income and marital status, school attending status etc.
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