An Open Letter to the Democratic Party

Lincoln Heritage Institute ^ | 3-18-08 (?) | Lt. Colonel Frances Rice,U.S. Army Retired

[Anti-Hillary]

"We, African American citizens of the United States, declare and assert:

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.

[Anti-Hillary]

This is SO right on!!!!!

[gondramB]

From Bullworth

>>Angry black woman: Are you sayin’ the Democratic Party don’t care about the African-American community?
Bullworth: Isn’t that OBVIOUS? You got half your kids are out of work and the other half are in jail. Do you see ANY Democrat doing anything about it? Certainly not me! So what’re you gonna do, vote Republican? Come on! Come on, you’re not gonna vote Republican! Let’s call a spade a spade!
[Loud, angry booing]
Bullworth: I mean - come on! You can have a Billion Man March! If you don’t put down that malt liquor and chicken wings, and get behind someone other than a running back who stabs his wife, you’re NEVER gonna get rid of somebody like me! <<

[bonfire]

bttt

[Gator113]

That was good!

[Enchante]

All campaign fundraising by Obama, Shrillary and the DNC should be required by law to go to paying reparations to descendants of slaves.

Also round up all funds and assets accumulated by all Democrat officials, all race hustlers ala Sharpton and Jackson, etc. Let the Demagogues pay reparations for their infamous follies.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Can someone, for Sh*ts and Grins drop that into KOS just for the hell of it?

[Bobalu]

soft bigotry of low expectations

This is the most horrible of all types of bigotry.
In essence it is holding yourself as superior to a group, elevating yourself to their master and protector...a terrible thing.

[skr]

Excellent take

[wardaddy]

It may be somewhat factually accurate to a degree but once again it lifts black responsiblity from themselves to something third party.

Victims again...this time of Democrats.

Sorry, I ain’t buying...this logic is part of the problem, blacks and the culture they have created or allowed gets a pass/not....blacks are victims of themselves and only they can fix themselves.

It’s mighty presumptuous and a bit inherently racist to think otherwise....as in blacks can’t fix themselves without (fill in the blank’s) help.....white folks, government, Democrats, GOP etc

[Shery]

WOW!!! Right on!

[landerwy]

I am waiting for the DNC to respond.

Crickets chirping......

I thought so. Deafing silence.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

I am a white man. I have never owned slaves or lynched anyone.

Why does it seems like they are trying to make me feel responsible for what was done 50 to 200 years ago.

[RussP]

I think you’ve missed the point. He’s just trying to wake them up to the historical reality. And from what I can tell, he is doing a good job of it.

[Gator113]

$ $

[RussP]

Good question. And I’d like to know why, when the issue of slavery comes up, nobody ever seems to mention that the Republican Party was founded specifically to end it. And we know which party they had to fight.

[piytar]

Victims again...this time of Democrats.

Sorry, I ain’t buying...this logic is part of the problem, blacks and the culture they have created or allowed gets a pass/not....blacks are victims of themselves and only they can fix themselves.

Your point makes logical sense, but it ignores one very significant thing: The Democrat party has been enslaving (literally), depriving, emasculating (ADC that wrecked the family structure, govt dependency that punishes self improvement, govt schools that make the same nearly impossible, bought off or ignorant "leaders" who lead them to blame "whitey," "pastors" who teach ultimately self-destructive hate and victimhood, ad nauseum), and using the African American population in this country for political gain over the past several decades.

Sorry, but few if any populations could survive such a protracted, insidious, and plain evil assault. The only one I can think of is the Jewish population. The plight of African Americans in the US is all the more evil because the enslaved (it's just under different terms now) have been convinced through enforced ignorance instilled by govt run schools socialist "feel good" indoctrination centers and traitors in their midst to vote their Democrat "masters" into power.

Obama's pitch is just another form of the same in better looking packaging. It is the same "blame whitey, vote for me" version of the same old strategy. It is truly sick if you understand it.

African Americans' only hope is to pull themselves up and ally themselves who don't care one whit about their race but rather want to deal with them as individuals. Why? Because that is the only way to achieve true valid self-worth, which is the only way out of being a slave.

The irony is that when this comes to a head, probably at the DNC convention in Denver, the indoctrination will trump the actual facts, and "whitey," conservatives, and Republicans will get most of the blame. The people who have KNOWINGLY and INTENTIONALLY assaulted their bretheren over the past will get a pass and in fact will probably gain politically from it.

Conservatives and the GOP are not blameless, though: We have let the socialists (aka Democrats) and race baiters get away with their subjugation of the African American population for years and years. I know, when you try to reach out (I have), you often get bit and you ego gets hurt. Well, that is the true place where "turn the other cheek" should apply. Hey, not saying it's easy, but the alternatives are truly awful. OK, rant off.

[D-fendr]

bumpus

[WesternPacific]

In the late 1960s I changed schools and for the first time had black classmates. They didn't like me and I couldn't understand why, but again they didn't like any of the white kids.
In the early 1970s I joined the Military and was told I was racist. I didn't really understand what it meant. I also realized Black's dislike for White people had turned to hate. I didn't even know these Blacks, who were mainly from northern cities, and they actually hated me.
In the late 1970s I was told by several companies that they wanted to hire me but couldn't because I wasn't a minority.
In the 1980s White guilt was emphasized and for the last 20+ years I have been told I should feel sorry for actions against a class of people who have, in my lifetime, been given preferential treatment in employment, social services, education, and every opportunity to succeed.
Blacks wonder why we don't get it. Why we won't apologize for Black tribes capturing other blacks and selling them to slave traders. Why we won't apologize for every social ill that has been bestowed on the Black community. Why we won't apologize for a prison system that is full of young Black men and women. Why we won't provide billions of dollars in payments to every Black man, woman, and child for America's past actions in slavery.
Well, I for one haven't done anything to apologize for. My family never owned slaves. I have never been on welfare or been allowed to partake of any other social program thus leaving that money to be available to minorities who won't work. I have paid taxes my entire adult life so that my government can give it away and develop a class of people believing they are entitled to be given free everything I have worked and sacrificed for.
No Mr. Obama, I don't understand your preacher's hate for America, white people, and your support for that hate. If you want to threaten a Quite Riot, bring it on because I believe I am not the only one that is feed-up with your nonsense.

[buzzer]

“I am a white man. I have never owned slaves or lynched anyone.

Why does it seems like they are trying to make me feel responsible for what was done 50 to 200 years ago.”

Good question. But if you wanna see what exceeding responibility for the past means, take a look at the germans. They’re still sorry for everything all the time that happend betwenn 1933 and 1945. Some examples ?

- Saying that the building Autobahn was a good idea, is not compliant with political correctness, because the autobahn system was pushed by Hitler.
(http://www.europolitan.de/Kultur/TV—Medien/Hitler-Autobahn-gelobt/278,11614,0,0.html)

- They didn’t go on war with iraq because it is against their understanding of political correctness to have german soldiers fighting on foreign soil.
(http://www.spiegel.de/politik/debatte/0,1518,539842,00.html)

This is really ‘feeling bad for what some people did wrong a long time ago’ at it’s best.

[RoadKingSE]

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.

Vote for Barry (Silent middle name) O'Bama. He's promoting CHANGE. Is that close to the number you had in mind Colonel?