Posted on 02/25/2008 12:14:51 PM PST by EveningStar
Frances Rice, chairman of the National Black Republican Association, describes the Democratic Party as the architect of modern day racism.
Rice, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and lawyer, says in an interview it was Republicans who pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress. Now, she says, Republicans stand for empowering blacks to help them out of poverty. In contrast, Rice says, the Democrats push to keep blacks dependent on government handouts and encourage them to see themselves as victims...
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This is true.....
Smart man, brave man. He better have someone covering his back from now on. Dems don’t take kindly to the truth.
Smart brave woman, too.
;-)
Frances Rice ‘08!!!.......
That’s a real no-[expletive]er for anyone who has even the faintest clue as to American history. And plenty of this stuff is within living memory. Sadly, some Americans have sold themselves to the highest bidder.
Apostasy - Barack Obama will save minorities with redistributing the wealth. Obama 08!
Not black enough. And, because she's black and a woman, her rise through the ranks will be seen by whites to be an affirmative action anecdote; meaning many a qualified white male was passed over in her favor for political expediency.
It's nice that she's right, however. Just saying, nobody's going to listen. Unfortunately.
WOMAN Frances not Francis
Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark!
OH, there will be plenty who listen, and they will be democrats who will call her every smarmy name in the book,
and do their best to see she is discredited for speaking the truth.
This Marine salutes her!
She’s another Uncle Tom (are there Aunt Toms ?) who has wondered off the plantation.
And slowly they turn. Sheesh, lets wake up folks.
To anyone paying attention this is an obvious fact The people have been brainwashed, some willingly some by stupidity, to assume it is the ignoring of race that creates racism. It will take many such voices to overcome the true racism that exists. Like I always tell people its not the race or religion or gender that determines who I would like as my neighbor but their politics.
They don’t teach such things in the schools so it can’t be true. /s
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And not only that, but syndicated columnist Leon Pitts (Black) actually mentioned this twice in recent columns, even if only to use it as a means to criticize Republicans. I know, it’s weird logic.
Yes, I salute her, too, lest there be any doubt!
Glad to hear Col Rice step up and say this...
But there needs to be more of this from GOP leaders....need more leadership w stones to point out the DNC is the party of slavery, racism, denial of rights, vote fraud, Jim Crow, segregation, lynching, etc....
A couple examples....
Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Senator Al Gore, Sr. And after he became president, John F. Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King.
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Given the circumstances of that era, it is understandable why Dr. King was a Republican. It was the Republicans who fought to free blacks from slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment). Republicans passed the civil rights laws of the 1860's, including the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 that was designed to establish a new government system in the Democrat-controlled South, one that was fair to blacks. Republicans also started the NAACP and affirmative action with Republican President Richard Nixon‘s 1969 Philadelphia Plan (crafted by black Republican Art Fletcher) that set the nation‘s first goals and timetables. Although affirmative action now has been turned by the Democrats into an unfair quota system, affirmative action was begun by Nixon to counter the harm caused to blacks when Democrat President Woodrow Wilson in 1912 kicked all of the blacks out of federal government jobs.
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