Posted on 03/23/2008 5:27:08 AM PDT by coffee260
A Letter from Wayne Perryman
from the office
of
Rev. Wayne Perryman
January 9, 2006
Congressional Black Caucus National Bar Association
NAACP National Urban League
Dr. Cornell West Professor Charles Ogletree
Senator Hillary Clinton Senator Joseph Biden
Senator Barack Obama Senator Edward Kennedy
Senator Joseph Lieberman Senator Barbara Boxer
Senator Pat Roberts Senator Carl Levin
Senator Diane Feinstein Cong. John Conyers
Cong. Jesse Jackson Jr. Cong. Harold Ford
Senator Mary Landrieu Senator Sam Brownback
Senator Bill Frist Cong. Elijah Cummings
Attention Congressional & Community Leaders:
I thought it would only be fitting and proper to provide an explanation as to what brought about the Reparations lawsuit against the Democratic Party. Before I share with you the chain of events that led to the lawsuit, I thought that perhaps I should give you a brief background on myself and my past political affiliation.
I am the author of several books, a former radio talk show host, a former newspaper publisher, a corporate consultant, a community activist and an inner-city minister located in Seattle Washington. In addition to working with gang members and professional athletes, I spend my leisure time doing research. In 1993, based on personal research, I challenged major Christian Publishers and scholars that continued to produce publications promoting the Curse of Ham theory (a theory that justified slavery from a Christian perspective). My efforts resulted in a public apology and the removal of the 400 year old curse theory from all of their publications including removing it from the Encyclopedia Britannica. My book: The 1993 Trial On The Curse of Ham was based on that research.
Most of my adult life I have voted for, and worked with a number of Democratic candidates at the local level. In 1996, I served as a member of the Washington State Black Clergy to Re-elect President Bill Clinton and worked closely with the co-chair. After President Clinton was re-elected, I was challenged by a group of young people from our church regarding the history of the Democratic Party and their relationship with blacks. Their challenge prompted me to devote a considerable amount of time researching the subject.
My research included reviewing Congressional Records from 1860 to present, reading the works of several renowned history professors (both black and white) and looking at the Democratic Platform from the early 1800s to 1954. In addition to these documents I reviewed the research of those who produced the books: Without Sanctuary, 100 Years of Lynchings and added to my library PBS and the History Channels series on The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow and Reconstruction: The Second Civil War. Excerpts from those books and film documentaries were included as exhibits in my Reparations lawsuit against the Democratic Party.
The graphic depictions of whites fighting over the private parts of black men (penises, fingers, ears) after hanging them and igniting them with kerosene, is forever embedded in my mind. I can still hear the cries of the victims wives and children pleading and begging for the lives of their loved ones while Democratic national and local elected officials joined the crowd and cheered. The lynching of Mary Turner, the nine-month pregnant mother was even more horrific and graphic. All of these events took place under the banner of States Rights in regions controlled by Democratic governors, mayors, judges, sheriffs, Congressmen and U.S. Senators. Like Dr King, my parents lived through those times in Atlanta and I never fully appreciated what they and other blacks went through until I had completed my research.
In addition to lynchings and terrorist attacks by the Democrats terrorist organizations (as revealed in the 1871 Senate hearings), Democrats legislated Black Codes, Jim Crow laws and a multitude of other repressive legislation at the federal and state levels (and repealed other key pieces of Civil Rights legislation) all in an effort to deny blacks their rights as citizens. The entire system of racism in America was meticulously thought-out and carried-out by a powerful political machine. And that political machine according to historians, was the Democratic Party - the party of White Supremacy.
Based on these findings, I wrote my latest book: Unfounded Loyalty, and sent a letter to the DNC requesting that they issue an apology to African Americans. In 2005, I sent a second letter to the DNC, again requesting an apology (see attached). When the DNC ignored the first request, I filed my first lawsuit on December 10, 2004. Prior to my letters, members of the Congressional Black Caucus sent former Congressman JC Watts the letter below (on January 28, 1999). In that letter the Caucus told Mr. Watts and his Republican counterparts to:Clearly and publicly distance themselves from the CCC and any other white supremacist, anti-semitic or hate groups . In my letter to the DNC, I expressed similar sentiments. I told the DNC An apology is one of the only ways modern-day Democrats can distance themselves from the partys racist past while bringing some closure to the African American Community. Instead of apologizing, Howard Dean hired one of the most powerful law-firms in the country, to defend the partys racist past.
Without an apology and repentance there is no way the Democratic Party can ever sincerely honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ms Rosa Parks; two individuals who literally gave their lives to destroy the racist programs, policies and practices that were established by the Democratic Party. And without an apology and repentance there is no way the Democratic Party can ever respect African Americans. Their past programs and practices from slavery through Jim Crow which literally destroyed the lives of millions of blacks, was an act of mass murder. And to hire an attorney to defend that racist past is not only an official endorsement of murder - it is an insult to the entire black race and to those whites who gave their lives to eliminate racial injustice. .
I look forward to your response.
Sincerely
Rev. Wayne Perryman
I hope he is not holding his breath!
Ugh Huh.. I heard that... He will a get a reponse the day after a memorial is raised to Joe McCarthy..
For once someone understands what the RATS are all about. Only now they want to enslave everybody.
“i look forward to your response.”
response? response? we don’t give no stinking responses!
I supported Herman Cain in his run for the Senate. And if he ever runs again, I would probably support him again.
I also consider Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams two of the finest economists and minds extant today. In case you dont know them, both are black.
Sowell, Williams and Cain among others — have spoken out against those fellow blacks who castigate and vilify America for a slavery now long in our past. And ALL thinking men and women oppose the periodic calls for reparations.
The fact is that the modern descendants of slaves brought here in chains in admittedly miserable, soul-gutting conditions now calling for reparations need to remember something:
They should not only be glad to be in America, they should be glad to be ANYWHERE!
Had their ancestors NOT been brought OUT of Africa many by Muslim slave raiders —the blood of those ancestors would have run into the earth over there several centuries ago, victims of the OTHER black tribes that captured them in one of the interminable tribal conflicts STILL ravaging that sad continent and these modern day would-be “plaintiffs” would not even exist.
And I would remind you that slavery is STILL practiced in parts of Africa (mainly by muslims) and Asia today.
95% of the African slaves who were transported across the Atlantic went to South and Central America, mainly to Portuguese, Spanish and French possessions, and that less than 5% of the slaves who crossed the Atlantic went to the United States, it was remarkable that the vast majority of academic research, films, books and articles concerning the slave trade concentrated only on the American involvement, as though slavery was a uniquely American aberration.
And should the great-great-great grandchildren of SLAVE OWNING BLACKS also be subject to PAYING these reparations? If so, how do we find THEM?
And I have traced MY family back to the SLAVS. For those who dont know, that word means slave. Do I qualify for reparations? From whom??
The official US Census of 1830 lists 3,775 free blacks who owned 12,740 black slaves. Furthermore, the story outlines the history of slavery here, and the first slave owner, the Father of American slavery, was Mr Anthony Johnson, of Northampton, Virginia. His slave was John Casor, the first slave for life. Both were black Africans. The story is very readable, and outlines cases of free black women owning their husbands, free black parents selling their children into slavery to white owners, and absentee free black slave owners, who leased their slaves to plantation owners.
-”Selling Poor Steven”, American Heritage Magazine, Feb/Mar 1993 (Vol. 441) p 90
Of course, a full telling of Black History would not be complete without a telling of the origin of slavery in the Virginia colony:
Virginia, Guide to The Old Dominion, WPA Writers’ Program, Oxford University Press, NY, 1940, p. 378
And the holier-than-thou Northern liberals are strangely silent on recent archeological evidence from NEW YORK CITY clearly tracing the financing of the slave trade to NORTHERN BUSINESSMEN!!
At the height of his remarkable boxing career, Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay), once declared Im glad my great-grandpa got on that boat.
And author Robert Hitt Neill tells of attending a Tennessee Mountain Writers Conference years ago with several other authors. Among them was Alex Hailey, celebrated author of Roots. Watching a TV news show, a group of them watched a demonstration in a Southern state against the Rebel flag incorporated into that states flag. The very next report covered a famine in Africa. Graphic images showed dead bodies, starving children with distended tummies and runny noses and dying people covered with flies, too weak to brush them away.
Mr. Hailey intoned in a low, serious voice, Every time an American black sees a story like that, they should find a Confederate flag and kiss it. He then pointed to the TV screen and continued, Because these would be me and my descendants, except for American slavery. I thank God that my family and I are here instead of there.
Next problem!
The rise and fall of Jim Crow. Documentary by PBS. I’m going to have to get a copy of this. Jaw dropping that it was ever produced at all.
“The Democratic Party identified itself as the “white man’s party” and demonized the Republican Party as being “Negro dominated.”
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_org_democratic.html
I can never understand how the democrats came to get the black vote when it was the republicans that did much more for them over time. It was the democrats in the south that kept blacks from voting. And if not for the Republicans the Civil Rights Act would never have made it. The democrats were trying to block it!
What gets me is what Johnson said if he got the Civil Rights Act passed.
Once, while on a trip with two governors, Johnson reportedly made the following comment in explaining why the civil rights bill was so important to him. He said it was simple: Ill have them ni@@ers voting Democratic for two hundred years.
AND
Mr. Dallek quotes him (Johnson) defending the Supreme Court appointment of the very well-known Thurgood Marshall, rather than a black judge less identified with the civil rights cause, by saying to a staff member, Son, when I appoint a ni@@er to the court, I want everyone to know hes a ni@@er
It’s pathetic how easily they were manipulated!
As a result of all the demonrat "help", we have watched the black family self destruct with republicans once again somehow getting the blame with many in the black community still stuck in the victim mentality the 60s civil rights movement struggled to overcome and doing their best to pass that on to anyone who will listen.
For all his research he never learned that it’s the “DEMOCRAT” party not the Democatic Party.
Sheeesh . . .I’m soooo tired of correcting people on this!
Don’t forget this from President Johnson when he referred to Dr. King as “ that n!@@er preacher.
Oh I don’t forget but I’m not really the one who needs to know things like that. The people that do need to know are the ones that forget or just don’t know.
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