[JulieRNR21]

Frances Rice is an attorney and an African-American woman who served in the Army for 20 years before retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. While in the Army she served as a company commander, an adjutant in a basic combat training brigade and a prosecutor in courts-marital.

Upon retiring, she was awarded the Legion of Merit. She is currently serving on the Board of the Military Officers Association of Sarasota, the SaraMana Black Republican Club and the SaraMana Community Development Corporation, a non-profit organization that helps low-income residents become homeowners and small business owners. In these positions, she puts both her Juris Doctorate and MBA degrees to good use.

She was recently appointed by Governor Jeb Bush to serve on the Medal of Merit Board for the state of Florida. Frances is married to Peter Rice, a retired diplomat from the U.S. Department of State.

[Kackikat]

"WOW", I can't wait to hear the democratic reply!

[Mears]

I'm speechless! Do you suppose we will be seeing this in our daily newspapers any time soon?

I wasn't even aware of many of these facts.

[Skooz]

Uh huh. And this November 96% of the black vote will go to...........?

It's hilarious when I hear a black person complaining that the Democrats are taking the black vote for granted. No voting block in the history of planet earth has so consistently demonstrated the rightfulness of being taken for granted.

[First_Salute]

Bump.

[etcetera]

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,..."

Newspapers can be communists?

So if the Dems did all this, why do Blacks vote for them?

[JulieRNR21]

Mega PING.....Please read this 'Open Letter' written by my friend, Frances Rice.....and ping your friends.

[NTegraT]

I'm just a smidge concerned about the "remuneration" part of this. When they've come for the Democrat Party on this, then they'll come to the rest of us for "remuneration."

[BluSky]

Good historical post.

Those that vote 'democrat' will: Ignore. Deny. Attack.

Those that vote 'democrat' will also, put the blinders back on.

[First_Salute]

See Cosby says tough words needed to right wrongs, Atlanta-Journal Constitution, May 22, 2004, by Bo Emerson, posted to Free Republic on May 22, 2004, by mhking.

See What's Holding Blacks Back, city-journal.org, Winter 2001, by John H. McWhorter, posted to Free Republic on March 28, 2001, by Pokey78.

[grumple]

bump

[subterfuge]

Rack it!!

[swheats]

A real Black History lesson. Ya don't hear any of this during Black History 'week'.

Thanks for posting and kudos to the author for a job well done.

[arthurus]

Unfortunately it starts off wrong. The first boatload were not slaves. They were indentured servants who worked themselves out of their servitude or died before they lasted that long. Slavery or indenture are not much different in the period of the indenture but that one ends. Slavery does not and is inherited.

[lilylangtree]

Wonder what the Congressional Black Caucus has to say since they're just love demoncRATS? For that matter, what does ole Jesse "Shakedown" Jackson, Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan have to say since they're black American demoncRATS?

[Brandi in AZ]

"Frances Rice is an attorney and an African-American woman who served in the Army for 20 years before retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. While in the Army she served as a company commander, an adjutant in a basic combat training brigade and a prosecutor in courts-marital.
Upon retiring, she was awarded the Legion of Merit."

And when we think of women who serve in our Armed Forces, let us think more of women like Col. Rice, and less of women like Pvt. Lindsey England. There are many more of the former than of the latter.

[Lando Lincoln]

Whereas a Republican president delivered the Emancipation Proclamation.

Lando

[Trillian]

Bump.

[ricks_place]

WOW!!!

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Unfortunately the author is pulling on Superman's cape and spitting into the wind with this letter.

[RJL]

Bump