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BLACK REPUBLICANS PLASTER BILLBOARDS IN DENVER" MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS A REPUBLICAN! How great is this? The National Black Republican Association is running 50 billboards across lunatic central - Denver, host to the DNC. How many people know Martin Luther King was a Republican? Or that the Republican party was the party of the abolition of slavery? Or that the Republicans were the party of civil rights? Check out some of these leading lights of the GOP through American history. You must read:The Democrats' Missing History A Walk in the Democratic Party’s Racist Graveyard By Frances Rice Unveiled: Democrats’ Racist...

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Sen. Barack Obama isn't just inspiring black voters to register in large numbers as he gets closer to being the Democratic presidential nominee. Evidence indicates that he's motivating some black Republicans to switch parties. The only three states that track voting registration by party and race show black Republican registration dropping slightly since the beginning of the year.

BLACK REPUBLICAN FORUM - PRESS RELEASE For information contact: Frances Rice at 1-866-905-6701 The 2008 Black Republican Forum was co-sponsored by the National Black Republican Association (NBRA) and the American Forum Series and was held at the Women’s National Republican Club (WNRC) in New York City on August 6, 2008. Afternoon Sessions featured national black Republican leaders including Niger Innis, Bob Parks, Deneen Borelli, Mychal Massie, Jennifer Carroll, Deborah Honeycutt, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Star Parker, Ward Connerly, Princella Smith, Dr. Timothy Johnson and Colonel Allen West. Topics included Media Bias: Perception vs. Reality, Urban Issues in the 21st Century,...

Michael Steele has been chosen to once again address the Republican National Convention. Steele, who was a speaker in New York City in 2004, will speak on the second night of the RNC at the Excel Energy Center in St. Paul. Steele received high marks from party members for his address from the floor of the RNC four years ago when he was Lt. Governor.

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The historic circumstances of the Barack Obama candidacy are likely to reduce black support for the Republican nominee. But there are African-Americans who support John McCain. Among them is Justin Jordan, a junior at Texas Southern University who says he is unimpressed by Obama.

From New York City:The Silent Majority attended two fabulous events this week! Lt. Col. Allen West, who is running for Congress in Florida, spoke to the Young Republicans at the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Club. And then the next day, at the Women’s Republican Club, the future of the Republican party was alive and well …showcased by the Black Republican Forum.  First we would like to recommend watching the video of Colonel West.See video here: http://www.mydeo.com/videorequest.asp?XID=49778&CID=210823 West is one fabulous speaker. Florida. The Country! Deserves more people like Allen West in Congress!  VOTE for Allen West if you are a Floridian. And remember, those...

Press Release For information contact: Frances Rice at 1-866-905-6701 As one pundit said: "Dogs don't bark at parked cars". A New York Times Company newspaper, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune (SHT), has struck again and published a second a hit piece on me, this time with our grassroots organization, the National Black Republican Association (NBRA) also in the crosshairs. The first time the SHT attacked me was during the 2004 election. SHT editors worked in concert with the MoveOn.org crowd, operatives for the John Kerry for president campaign and leaders of the Sarasota County Democratic Party to deny me my freedom of...

Black Republican leader Frances Rice runs against the grain of most Democrats when she calls them racist. She doesn’t care. That is her belief and she isn’t backing down. Her “Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican” (Rice article on why MLK was a Republican) billboards angered many on both sides of the aisle. She is still waiting for the Democrats to prove her wrong on the MLK billboards without any challenge to the contrary yet. She is one woman I respect because she admits the truth about her race’s racist history and it’s connection to the Democrat Party without...

At age 64, well into her retirement from the Army, Frances Rice is at the center of a contentious campaign on race and politics -- and she has never been happier. Frances Rice, 64, grew up in Atlanta. She says growing up in poverty and segregation set her against the Democratic Party. Now, as she works to bring blacks to the ranks of the GOP, she says she feels that she is making a difference in politics. But her tactics are not winning everyone over. The leader of the Sarasota-based National Black Republican Association is a minority within a minority....

I do want John McCain to win in November. Consider the alternative. I've personally been told to tread easy and not make the McCain Campaign mad, but there's certain things that need be said, and I'm proud of my tendency of saying things that need be said by those who don't want to make waves. John McCain's overtures to black groups like the NAACP, and now the Urban League may make for well-needed press, but at the same time, why do Republicans continue to ignore the one group of black folk they KNOW will vote for them: black Republicans?

National Black Republican Association In her article, "A Covenant With Life: Reclaiming MLK’s Legacy", MLK's niece, Dr. Alveda C. King, affirms that her uncle Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican   This appears in a Priests for Life Fall/Winter 2008 publication, linked as above from the NBRA website.A Covenant With Life:Reclaiming MLK’s LegacyBy Dr. Alveda C. King – Niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.America has entered into a covenant or a culture of death.  May God have mercy, and restore us to a covenant of life!<snip>"My grandfather, Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr., or “Daddy King”, was a...

If anyone could lay claim totheir state's Republican Party, it's Deborah Burstion-Donbraye of Cleveland. The 53-year-old international business consultant is the former outreach director for the Ohio Republican Party, for starters. She helped deliver the swing state to President Bush in his 2004 re-election bid in which he garnered 16 percent of the black vote. Among her Republican credentials, Mrs. Burstion-Donbraye worked in several high-level positions during the Reagan and Bush administrations of the late 1980s and was the press secretary for George W. Bush's Texas gubernatorial campaign in 1994. In the 1980s, she was an assistant national desk editor...

According a very poor analysis offered this week by the Politico, which was highlighted by Drudge for all of about half a hour before he realized how false it was and removed it, the “GOP is heading into the 2008 election without a single minority candidate with a plausible chance of winning a campaign for the House, the Senate or governor.” (snip) Governor Jindal is one of the nation’s foremost chief executives. But the leadership he exemplifies is even more abundantly found in one of the GOP’s foremost congressional candidates, Lt. Col. Allen West. And one would have to be...

Recent comments by well-known black Republicans J.C. Watts and Armstrong Williams that they're conflicted about the upcoming presidential elections and are contemplating voting for Barack Obama have sent shock waves through the Republican Party. I'm hearing many black Republicans echoing similar sentiments. They say that because of the historical significance of casting a vote for the first legitimate black presidential candidate, they may cross party lines. These statements don't surprise me.

Mr. Elder, I am shocked that you oppose Barack Obama and belong to the Republican Party. We must get over ourselves and realize there is room at the top for everyone and we must get there by helping each other -- instead of agreeing with policies and old politics that are proven not to work. To endorse John McCain, a person who will not make it easier for the underprivileged, is just too much. How can a fellow black American feel this way? Your Former Supporter Dear Former Supporter, Do you have any Republican friends, let alone black ones? If...

My advice to Senator Obama is to run as a Man and Leader, and the American people will evaluate you as such, not as a victim. This is a Presidential race, based solely on a capacity to lead the United States of America. It is not about skin tone...however, perhaps we should come to expect these immature statements. It also seems rather humorous that the Presidential candidate who was supposed to be such a "uniter" and transcend race is the one talking about it the most. If Senator Obama was confident in his abilities and character, he would not need...

While Hillary’s supporters are currently engaged in, at least for now, an attempt to hijack the Democrat presidential nomination away from Barack Obama, or at worse (for them), elect John McCain in November, a new rift is being revealed from within the Republican Party. Some black Republicans are hinting at jumping ship and voting for Barack Obama, not because they are in line with his many election year promises, but it would appear simply because he’s black. “I don't necessarily like his policies; I don't like much that he advocates, but for the first time in my life, history thrusts...

Former Oklahoma congressman J.C. Watts says he's thinking about voting for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The last black Republican to serve in the U.S. House, Watts says he criticizes his party for neglecting the black community

COLUMBIA (AP) _ South Carolina Republicans have overwhelmingly elected their first black member to the Republican National Committee, which currently has no blacks among its 168 members. Glenn McCall had 402 votes to 172.5 for Drew McKissick, based on a tally kept as the counties were polled and called out their results. McKissick called for the convention to name McCall the new committeeman by acclamation. McCall is the second black elected by a state party to the RNC this year. Michigan Republicans earlier elected Keith Butler. The RNC says it will affirm Butler’s and McCall’s elections in a September meeting....

It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: Slavery, Secession, Segregation and now Socialism. It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the...

Left-Wing Racism Remembered   By Floyd and Mary Beth BrownFrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, May 19, 2008 Did you know…Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican? Every civil rights law, beginning in the 1860s through the 1950s and 1960s, was fought against by Democrats? Or the KKK had links to the Democratic Party? Not only are these questions addressed by the National Black Republicans Association (NBRA), but also more surprising facts. A few months ago, we had the privilege to meet the chairwoman of NBRA, a brave and gusty woman named Frances Rice. “The double standard looms large when Democrats practice...

Frances Rice will appear on Loud & Clear (1450 WCTC in New Jersey) to discuss the aggressive efforts of the National Black Republican Association to "wake up" black voters and "shed the light of truth on the racist past and failed socialism of the Democratic Party." She will be the guest of Keith Rasmussen and Maggie Glynn who host Loud & Clear on 1450 WCTC - 3 pm to 6 pm (Eastern). She will join Loud & Clear at 3:15 pm. Frances Rice is a lawyer, retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and Chairwoman of the National Black Republican Association . She...

TALLAHASSEE -- For a sign of Florida Republicans' all-out effort to attract black voters, look no farther than the glossy full-colored The Black Republican magazine that launches broadsides like these: The KKK was the ''terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.'' Democrats, in addition to waging ''war on God,'' are still mired in sex and financial scandals. That's all tucked in the back of the Sarasota-based National Black Republican Association's 60-page mag, the first half of which touts Republican Gov. Charlie Crist's civil rights record and the Republican Party of Florida's minority outreach efforts that the association has helped coordinate. The...

NBRA billboard was put up just off of exit 145 of I-26 in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Help Make History – Join Our MLK Billboard Campaign Donate Today – Your Donation Will Help Put Up Billboards Across America - Click Here to donate to the NBRA

I started focusing on the political process in the mid-to-late 80's. For as long as I've been involved, it has been generally accepted that Ronald Reagan's success was keyed to his ability to bring the three legs of the conservative movement to stand together -- the foreign policy, economic, and social conservatives. Today, I believe the Republican and Democrat establishments would love nothing more than for the social conservatives to sit down and shut up, but they know this demographic can still really impact an election. It is harder for social conservatives to win elections by themselves these days. They...

NEW YORK (AP) -- After three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters is disclosing a past affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, whom she remembers as "exciting" and "brilliant." Appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" scheduled to air Tuesday, Walters shares details of her relationship with Brooke that lasted several years in the 1970s, according to a transcript of the show provided to The Associated Press. A moderate Republican from Massachusetts who took office in 1967, Brooke was the first African-American to be popularly elected to the Senate. Both he and Walters knew that public knowledge of their affair...

NEW YORK (AP) - entertainmentminute After three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters is disclosing a past affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, whom she remembers as "exciting" and "brilliant." Appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" scheduled to air Tuesday, Walters shares details of her relationship with Brooke that lasted several years in the 1970s, according to a transcript of the show provided to The Associated Press. A moderate Republican from Massachusetts who took office in 1967, Brooke was the first African-American to be popularly elected to the Senate. Both he and Walters knew that public knowledge of their...

NEW YORK (AP) -- After three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters is disclosing a past affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, whom she remembers as "exciting" and "brilliant." Appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" scheduled to air Tuesday, Walters shares details of her relationship with Brooke that lasted several years in the 1970s, according to a transcript of the show provided to The Associated Press. A moderate Republican from Massachusetts who took office in 1967, Brooke was the first African-American to be popularly elected to the Senate. Both he and Walters knew that public knowledge of their affair...

On April 18, former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele filled in for nationally syndicated talk-radio host Hugh Hewitt: most of Steele’s show was dominated by a discussion of the recent troubles of Barack Obama. With great clarity and wisdom, Steele spoke of the danger Obama’s extreme liberalism poses to the country, and the importance of voting for John McCain this fall. At one point, Steele talked about the heat he occasionally receives from those who wonder why he, as an African-American, supports McCain. Steele stated that while he is happy that Obama’s running, he will do everything he can to...

Friday marks 40 years since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed as he stood on the balcony of the Loraine Motel in Memphis. Claiming King as a member, the Tennessee Republican Party is honoring him. A release released by the state GOP Party states, in part, "Growing up in a republican household, Martin Luther King Jr. embraced the bedrock republican ideals of liberty and justice for all." Republican Party Chair Robin Smith added, "Dr. King... and his fellow republicans passed civil rights legislation over the objection of many democrats of that era." Some area democrats are angered...

“I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.” Martin Luther King, Jr. I am running for U.S. Congress in 2008. I believe that our United States government is facing a moral crisis. As a country we are in danger of forsaking the moral cornerstone upon which our nation was founded. No longer do many of our leaders make decisions based on constitutional imperatives, time-honored values, or Christian principles. Foundational phrases like “One Nation under God”and“In God We Trust, which symbolize the genesis of our...

The National Black Republican Association is promoting its nationwide educational campaign by erecting a billboard announcing “Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican.” ........The billboard is located at a busy intersection … and it is attracting a lot of attention,” said NBRA Chairman Frances Rice in a statement. “We welcome the opportunity to explain why Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican....Of interest is the fact that Orangeburg is the hometown of black Democrat Jim Clyburn who is the majority whip for the U.S. House of Representatives. We hope he appreciates our informing his black constituents about their civil...

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Once again, Senator Barack Obama has won in Wisconsin and Hawaii to push his win streak to 10. Once again, his secret weapon behind all of this that we are not paying attention to are the young people who are voting for him. Republicans can no longer ignore the fact that this man may be the actual nominee for the Democratic Party. If Sen. Hillary Clinton split with Obama on March 4th between Texas and Ohio she is most likely finished. Republicans also have to realize that the youth vote has fueled Obama's message with Hollywood, Oprah and Will.i.am. To...

The Arizona African American Republican Committee is asking people to sign a petition to end the use of the N-word in all discourse, public and private. They are looking for 1000 signatures. Let's get 'em more! 

It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: Slavery, Secession, Segregation and now Socialism. It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the...

From Hayes' campaign announcement Ted Hayes DraftedUnited States CongressDistrict 35 Your encouragement and kind comments have made all the difference in the world for Ted. You were a major deciding factor in Drafting Ted Hayes for Congress. Having searched his soul and listened for the answers to his prayers, he is now ready to go forward. Ted is moving his activism and advocacy from the Streets of Los Angeles to the House of Representatives. On Monday December 31, 2007 Ted Hayes will file the required documents to run for Congress against Maxine Waters. Ted is a Registered Republican but will...

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Tavis Smiley, black journalist and TV host, is hosting a debate, and the leading Republican candidates aren't coming. The top four Republican candidates have announced they won't make it to his PBS-sponsored debate at Morgan State University Sept. 27. Now Smiley is using the occasion to assert that Republicans feel it's OK to "ignore people of color" and to call out black Republicans as disingenuous in claiming that their party can really be a home for blacks. To those black Republicans, Smiley says: "I don't wanna hear it anymore. If you want black folks to take your party seriously, then...

FP: Angela McGlowan, welcome to Frontpage Interview. McGlowan: It’s great to be with you. Frontpage does important work. The pleasure is all mine. FP: What inspired you to write this book? McGlowan: Well, like most black Americans, I grew up thinking I was supposed to be a Democrat. It wasn’t even something you questioned or thought twice about. Black equaled Democrat. Then after graduating from college I moved to Washington, DC, and began meeting prominent liberals and Democrats up close and personal. And that’s when I had an epiphany of sorts; I realized that the values my mother and father...

Republicans and President George W. Bush took a licking in the November 7 midterm election. The Democrats are now in charge of both houses--for the first time in 12 years. In the aftermath of the election, I listened to black talk shows, read emails I received from black organizations, and read newspaper columns written by black commentators. One point was very clear. They cared little for what blacks were going to get out of this Republican defeat. The mission for this election seemed to have been, "just keep the Republicans out of office." ----snip---- While other racial and ethnic groups...

<p>TONY WILLIAMS, the 26-year-old son of NPR correspondent and Fox News contributor Juan Williams, is cut from the same cloth as the older Williams in some ways, but definitely not in others. Father and son both hold heterodox opinions on matters of race, for instance, but the younger Williams is--gasp--a Republican. He even spent a summer working in Strom Thurmond's office. And now the young iconoclast is making a run for office, campaigning for a seat on Washington's city council, where Democrats occupy 11 of the 13 seats.</p>

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I've been incessantly busy, and for that, I apologize - time has not been as readily available to me over the past few months, but I'll do my best to stick my head in here a bit more often as we move forward. This listing came across my desk this weekend -- it is a detailed list of black Republican candidates for state and national offices this year. They are definitely worth taking a look at, and, provided they meet with your personal approval (after seriously considering their credentials and viewpoints, of course), are worthy of your support. Thanks for...

The sad truth is, and this is indeed depressing, is that Larry Elder has turned more into a party shill than the independent voice of a man who understood this world very clearly and knew what was universally correct and what was universally stupid.

Has anyone seen anywhere in the MSM a positive story about any of these three black conservative candidates?

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. -- Richmond Myrick, the principal of Largo High School, is a registered Democrat in overwhelmingly Democratic Prince George's County next to Washington, D.C. He has not been active politically and is not recorded as having made any contributions to candidates for federal office. Yet recently, he stood in the parking lot of Prince George's Community College adjoining his school to introduce Republican Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, whom he has endorsed for the U.S. Senate. Myrick is African American, as are most students at Largo High. So is Steele. If enough non-political blacks follow Myrick's course, Steele...

Hope springs eternal when black Republicans seek higher office, yet often the first question that hits them is what are they doing in the GOP. This election year, a man named Steele in Maryland and a former football star named Swann in Pennsylvania are among a small but determined number of black candidates trying to win one for the Republicans despite the Democratic Party's near lock on the black vote. Republican Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, a former seminarian with a law degree from Georgetown University, is seeking the open Senate seat in November. He is looking to translate one accomplishment...