Open Letter from African Americans to the Democratic Party

Whereas in the early 1600’s 20 African men and women were landed in Virginia from a Dutch ship as slaves and from that tiny seed grew the poisoned fruit of plantation slavery which shaped the course of American development,

Whereas reconciliation and healing always begin with an apology and an effort to repay those who have been wronged,

Whereas the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices committed against African Americans during the past two hundred years, nor for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices and current soft bigotry of low expectations are having on us today,

Whereas the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery and, after the Civil War, established Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes and other repressive legislation that were designed to disenfranchise African Americans,

Whereas the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, and their primary goal was to intimidate and terrorize African American voters, Republicans who moved South to protect African Americans and any other whites who supported them,

Whereas, according to leading historians (both black and white), the horrific atrocities committed against African Americans during slavery and Reconstruction were financed, sponsored, and promoted by the Democratic Party and their Ku Klux Klan supporters,

Whereas from 1870 to 1930, in an effort to deny African Americans their civil rights and to keep African Americans from voting Republican, thousands of African Americans were shot, beaten, lynched, mutilated, and burned to death by Ku Klux Klan terrorists from the Democratic Party,

Whereas Democratic Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission,

Whereas the Democratic party has used racist demagoguery to deceive African Americans about the history of the Republican Party that: (a) started as the anti-slavery party in 1854, (b) fought to free African Americans from slavery, (c) designed Reconstruction, a ten-year period of unprecedented political power for African Americans, (d) passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting African Americans freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote, (e) passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting African Americans protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, (f) passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 granting African Americans protection from the Jim Crow laws, (g) established Affirmative Action programs to help African Americans proper with Republican President Richard Nixon's 1969 Philadelphia Plan that set the first goals and timetables and his 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act that made Affirmative Action Programs the law of our nation, and (h) never sponsored or launched a program, passed laws, or engaged in practices that resulted in the death of millions of African Americans,

Whereas Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka (a 1954 decision by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was appointed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower) was a landmark civil rights case that was designed to overturn the racist practices that were established by the Democratic Party,

Whereas after Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the vote of African Americans, he banned African American newspapers from the military shortly after taking office because he was convinced the newspapers were communists,

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law, opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was later criticized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for ignoring civil rights issues.

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy authorized the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) to investigate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on suspicion of being a communist,

Whereas Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, made a 14-hour filibuster speech in the Senate in June 1964 in an unsuccessful effort to block passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and was heralded in April 2004 by Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd as a senator who would have been a great leader during the Civil War,

Whereas when the 1964 Civil Rights Act came up for vote, Senator Al Gore, Sr. and the rest of the Southern Democrats voted against the bill,

Whereas in the House of Representatives only 61 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act as compared to 80 percent of Republicans, and in the Senate only 69 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, compared to 82 percent of the Republicans,

Whereas Democratic President Bill Clinton sent troops to Europe to protect the citizens of Bosnia and Kosovo while allowing an estimated 800,000 black Rwandans to be massacred in Africa, vetoed the welfare reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan,

Whereas Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore created harmful racial division when he falsely claimed that the 2000 presidential election was “stolen” from him and that African Americans in Florida were disenfranchised, even though a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations confirmed that he lost the election, and a ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission declared that African Americans were not denied the right to vote,

Whereas the Democratic Party's soft bigotry of low expectations and social promotions have consigned African Americans to economic bondage and created a culture of dependency on government social programs,

Whereas the Democratic Party's use of deception and fear to block welfare reform, the faith-based initiative and school choice that would help African Americans prosper is consistent with the Democratic Party's heritage of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and kukluxery, a perversion of moral sentiment among leaders of the Democratic Party whose racist legacy bode ill until this generation of African Americans,

Now, therefore, for the above and other documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs inflicted upon African Americans, we demand a formal written apology and other appropriate remuneration from the leadership of the Democratic party.

Given my parents integrity, as a kid, I never imagined until I was around 15 years old, that the news media were as grossly biased as they slowly revealed themselves to be ... the more closely I read and began to check the facts.

I had an advantage of knowing what what happening, being on the inside of "the loop" on some matters, but I was un-armed with the facts, because I could not talk about them, and they were not available in the news media of the day, my formative years in junior high and high school.

I used to marvel at the absence of good information that the left took advantage of, to effectively stack the deck against the men and women fighting against communist tryanny. My contemporaries fashioned many essays that were almalgamations of the adjectives supplied to them by the "liberal media," purported to be "facts."

I never saw much effort by anybody Republican or democrat-republican, to counter that with what was really happening and had happened. The silent majority had a good instinct for what was happening, but they were not polished dilitants and "intellectual" gadflies such as, Michael Kinsley (schoolmate, as you know) comes to mind.

Because people were busy, they did not have, and I certainly, with my poor writing skills, had no, time to work up a solid, deliberative argument against the propositions of un-limited government's singular blessing of freedom from capitalist oppression (read: get a job) from which my contemporaries sought political refuge.

The closer came the date of matriculation, the more defiant and in need of some support base other than themselves, they sought.

They began to hurl and spit out adjectives that painted all that represented individual responsibility, as being "fascist," "terrorist," "tyrannical," and other words from Lenin's Thesarus of Spinning Good to Mean.

William Buckley's National Review, occasional Wall Street Journals, and the "News Watch" columns in Walter Annenberg's TV Guide, were the only sources of information that offered any argument against the left wing nuts' hive of witch hunts --- "news stories" --- that they spun around any man or woman who had the nerve to defy the "brilliant intellectuals" at ABCNBCCBS^CCCP^Academia.

Along came the Heritage Foundation.

Along came Accuracy in Media.

That was the 1970's. There were still plenty of people who knew about fighting socialist terror, be it Stalin's, Hitler's, Mao's, Minh's, or Castro's.

President Clinton's embarrassing performance woke up many people among the silent majority, and word kind of got around. See again, the Reagan victory map (Republicans, blue states) for the 1980 Presidential election.

Conservatives and Republicans began to understand that much of the troubles with our government and culture sliding away to the extreme left, was a lack of a conservative media base, and consequently a lack of a conservative context to compete in the public eye with the left wing nuts then, as now, claiming to represent "the middle."

Conservatives naturally recoiled from the vitriol of the "student left" sponsored by Senators Humphrey, McGovern, Clark, Douglas, Fullbright, and Kennedy (et al). Yet, the conservatives ventured to simply retort with using the word, liberal. Incredible, in response to all that had transpired, much of America knew that the left was nuts and that in summation, the left could be summarily described to be both grossly in error and in support of socialist extremes ... as being liberals ... and the liberals knew it, too.

Since then, and still vastly outnumbered by the left wing conspiracy to destroy America, a step at a time, here and there, some new, relatively conservative and practical news media have established themselves to further support of our liberties, country, Constitution, and American culture.

Still, we are far from having or maintaining some balance in the face of the continuing liberal domination of the news media and campus media (academia).

Over all that time, pelted all the way by the petulant left wing nuts, well eventually, a person picks up one of those stick and stones hurled at them, and fires back.

Oh the shouts of surprise and of "discrimination" and of "suffering" and of "being victims" and "being censored" as their own weapons land among the left.

Because the leftists are liers who have projected upon others, these same leftists' own inventions and failings. They cannot bear to look in the mirror, terrorists and terrorism, because they cannot live with themselves. They are all the time going to great lengths to not be burdened with living with themselves, by either not living with themselves or drowning everybody else in their misery.

When the relief of God's grace, terrorizes them.

Probably that, because they fear greatly not finding the love on earth that they are convinced they need, the fix, in real time, right now.

You might say, that most terrorist are scared to death, so far extreme, that they desire to experience the moment of death, as they desire to glimpse at least an instant of life.

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