Posted on 10/19/2005 1:30:05 PM PDT by paltz
Has Steele in Maryland announced yet he is running for the Senate? A Black Conservative Republic Senator from Maryland! That will make the Hysteric Left's heads explode!!!!
Are you sure about Denzel Washington?
And, it'll be fun to watch!!!
How wonderful for me. Tue Oct 25th is my B-day! Thank you God for this most wonderful Birthday present!
Amen. The Democrats abuse the black community and it needs to be brought to light. Republicans need to take the courage to point this out. Ignoring the situation isn't helping.
Missing from this list is a long list of great black conservative writers.
First we must begin with Thomas Sowell. His books, especially the "Vision" trilogy are beyond measure and rank up there with Kirk and Hayek as far as I am concerned.
We then need to include Shelby Steele and Walter Williams. I think that as far as general conservatism, Larry Elder makes the list as well.
Odd that they would spell Frederick Douglass with only one s the first couple times and then change to spelling it Douglass, as I have always seen it, in the middle of the article.
I love these kinds of stories. I can't understand why a large majority of blacks aren't Republicans. It just doesn't make sense that they vote the way they do.
Yes. let us never forget that:
It was a democratic president and his attorney general brother who illegally wiretapped Martin luther king and sicced the FBI on him.
It was the at the democratic convention that the "freedom democrats" were prevented from forming a mixed-race delegation.
It was break-away democrats, who formed the anti-integration states rights democratic party, whose presidential candidate, Strom Thurmond said:
"I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the n*gger race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches."
And that it was Republican president and war hero Dwight Eisenhower who sent federal troops to Arkansas to enforce Brown vs the Board of Education when it was resisted by arkansas' democratic governor, Orval Faubus.
Yes. let us never forget that:
It was a democratic president and his attorney general brother who illegally wiretapped Martin luther king and sicced the FBI on him.
It was the at the democratic convention that the "freedom democrats" were prevented from forming a mixed-race delegation.
It was break-away democrats, who formed the anti-integration states rights democratic party, whose presidential candidate, Strom Thurmond said:
"I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the n*gger race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches."
And that it was Republican president and war hero Dwight Eisenhower who sent federal troops to Arkansas to enforce Brown vs the Board of Education when it was resisted by arkansas' democratic governor, Orval Faubus.
And it was our greatest Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, who prosecuted the war which freed the slaves.
Streep: "It was a question about when you put Jesus on the campaign bus to stump for you, you have to really listen to what he says, because he says, 'If a man smite thee on the cheek, let you turn the other that he may smite it also.' And he says, 'He who lives by the sword dies by the sword.' And he says, 'Love thine enemy.' Jesus could have raised an army against the people that persecuted him. He didn't. So that's what I was pointing out in my speech, and I couldn't really imagine Jesus, like I couldn't imagine how Jesus would vote. Jesus was the Prince of Peace. Would the Prince of Peace vote for a war President?"
Washington: "And it's open to interpretation. Jesus also went into the temple and kicked everybody out."
Streep: "That's kicking the money-changers out of the temple."
Washington: "Well, you're right. So —"
Streep: "The money-changers should get out of Congress, I agree. And I agree, but he didn't —"
Washington: "He didn't. He didn't only say turn the other cheek though. You’ve got to read the whole book. That's not what all he said."
Streep: "Oh, I do read the whole book."
Washington: "I do too. And that's not all he said."
Streep: "What does he say that said 'pick up a stick and kill somebody?'"
Washington: "Like I said, he did go into the temple and cleared the place well —"
Streep: "Of money, yeah."
Washington: "Okay, well, we're all —"
Streep: "Money's bad."
Washington: "We all make money. So does that make us bad? Maybe he's talking about us?"
Doesn't make him a Republican, but he does show better support for the troops.
Couric: "And how do you feel about the current political situation?"
Washington: "You know, I haven't seen 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' because I live in America. I grew up here. I'm an ex-slave. I'm a result of what this country can do. So it's nothing new to me. I'm not surprised at all. It's just business as usual. What I want to talk about is, what are we doing right now, today, for these young kids that are coming home? Are we embracing them? I don't hear about them being lifted up. I mean, I'm not just talking about a parade but —"
Couric: "Are they getting the support they need."
Washington: "Are they getting the support and love they need from us? And maybe that story's being told, but I sure haven't seen it that much in the news. Yeah, they're pointing fingers about who was right and whose wrong and who started what and where the weapons of mass destruction. But these kids are coming home."
Streep: "Uh-huh."
Washington: "You know, I have a son, 19, 19-year-olds are coming home completely different."
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Funny you should ask that. I got an email from the MDGOP today as follows:
"A VERY SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
"The time has come for Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele to make a special announcement regarding the future of his public service.
"Please join your fellow Marylanders for live music and refreshments on Tuesday, October 25th at the Novak Field House at Prince George’s Community College at 11:15 AM. Please RSVP to (443) 603-1288.
"Your support is very important, so make sure you’re on hand for this very special announcement as we celebrate a stronger, more prosperous tomorrow for the great state of Maryland. See you there!"
If I can possibly do so I will be there.
That's why I think this rings hollow to a lot of blacks. Yes, men like Strom Thurmond were Democrats in the 1950s and 1960s but that just raises the question of why they turned Republican when the Democrats embraced blacks. It does look like a lot of racist ex-Democrats found a happy home in the Republican party. This, of course, ignores men like "Sheets" Byrd, Wallace, and others who stayed Democrat as well as the fact that most of these Republicans, like the Democrats who stayed Democrats, softened their stance on civil rights and black over the years. But I can see why this isn't all that convincing of an argument to a lot of blacks.
Why after 40 years of "embracing Blacks" are all the wost concentrations of black poverty in Democrat Urban strongholds, places like New Orleans, where the Democrat Party has run both the City and the State for the last 70 years? But that's right, feelings are so much more important then basic facts for the Left now aren't they. Sorry, one day American Blacks are going to wake up to how the Plantation Liberalism of the Democratic Party has been used to keep them in a form of indentured servitude for the last 40 years.
You've more or less answered your own question. A few "Dixiecrats" crossed the line to the Republican Party. The rest remained in the Democratic Party.
Those who joined the Republicans accepted the Republican position on race, which has always been "color-blind citizenship". That was our position all through the bad old days, and it remains so today.
People who obsess about race, people who think its impossible or undesireable or unrealistic to ignore race for whatever reason have remained in the Democratic Party, and really thats where they belong. Those people for whom race is of secondary importance, or of no importance whatever, find their home usually in the Republican Party.
While its frustrating for us, having stood by our principles all through the bad old days, to see black voters pulling levers mostly for the party that beat and hung and murdered them for a century, at another level its only right that they have forced their way into this party and made it their own. There would be no victory in joining the Republicans, who were always open to them, but who were always powerless in the South. The victory for them was in seizing a place in the party that actually ran things in the south.
So thats fine. Still, a few come our way, folks who think about things, folks who think of themselves as Americans first and a color secondly or not at all. When the country's entire communications media are controlled by your political enemies, for anyone to figure out who you are and want to join you requires that they be able to think for themselves, and be willing to stand alone against the crowd.
These are the folks we want. And in a 50-50 country, we only need a few to cross the line our way.
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