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Yelling...ENOUGH with the Race Thing!
LloydMarcus.com ^ | 07-18-2009 | Lloyd Marcus

Posted on 07/19/2009 5:10:07 PM PDT by Lloyd Marcus

Race! Race! Race! As the kids say, “Gag me with Race!” I just read my Republican Senator Mel Martinez's statement on why he is voting to confirm Sonia Sotomayor:

“Judge Sotomayor's rise to the Supreme Court is testimony to the fact that the American dream continues to be attainable. Given her qualifications and testimony this week, I intend to vote in favor of her confirmation.”

Excuse me Mel, but the woman is a leftist who will make decisions based on her “feelings” rather than the law. So as a supposed republican, why the heck would you vote for her? Is it because she is Hispanic? When will we ever get past race in this country?

Voting for Sotomayor simply because she will be the first Hispanic is the same racist reason many voted for Barack Obama. Studies and polls proved that many voters did not have a clue, nor did they care what Obama would do once in office. His black skin color trumped everything. “Let's vote for the handsome well spoken black Santa Claus. This will kill two birds with one stone. One, it will prove we are a progressive country. Two, he promises to screw the rich. Cool!”

Annoyingly, even conservatives kept congratulating me on our first black president. I know they meant well. But what I was hearing is “This man is going to destroy our country, but you should be proud Lloyd because he is black like you”.

While proclaiming race should not matter, the democrats are notorious for making everything about race. Everywhere democrats go, they immediately count black faces. If the ratio to whites is not high enough, they break out their “racist” rubber stamp.

I remember when the “democrat race exploiters” attacked Major League baseball because not enough blacks were attending the games. Why should MLB be burdened with getting blacks to attend? Are they expected to come up with a racist stereotypical campaign like, “Yo, Ya'll Come”! The democrats would probably love such a stereotypical campaign as they tend to perceive “authentic” blacks as lovers of rap music and guests on the Maury show having a DNA test to determine the father of the child of a woman who has slept with twenty men.

I was in the audience at a county grant review hearing. These elderly white veterans were seeking a grant for their museum which displays and restores WWII airplanes. The grant panel lectured and chastised them because not enough African Americans attended their museum. I spoke with the veteran gentlemen outside. The said, “We have tried to get African Americans to attend, but they seem uninterested”. They even asked me to be on their board. No thanks, my plate is pretty full. It was unsettling witnessing these veterans humiliatingly put on the defensive attempting to counter the panel's implied charge of racism.

I am president of a non profit Arts Center. A grant required that we list the percentages of every ethnic group we have serviced. I thought, I can not do this because we do not keep those kinds of records nor do we even think of such nonsense. We simply serve our community, red, yellow, black and white, helping working class artists to fulfill their creative dreams. “So sorry 12 year old Sarah. You wrote a wonderful song to you terminally ill dad, but we can not record it because you are white and it would throw off our racial percentages for this quarter”.

It makes me so crazy that republicans are so successfully branded as racists, while in reality, the party built on exploiting race and minorities is the democrats.

OK, I realize I wandered a bit. Back to Sotomayor. The fact that she is Hispanic or female should not matter. The only relevant question should be, “Will this nominee uphold the Constitution?” We must stop allowing race to trump reason and common sense. The stakes are far too high. I am talking about the future of America and our children. Do we want them living in a world with racial quotas? Or, a world similar to the TV show Star Trek, where all that matters is integrity and excellence in what you do?

Lloyd Marcus, Singer/Songwriter of the “American Tea Party Anthem”

President, NAACPC (National Association for the Advancement of Conservative People of Color) LloydMarcus.com


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: martinez; race; sotomayor; wwii

1 posted on 07/19/2009 5:10:08 PM PDT by Lloyd Marcus
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To: Lloyd Marcus

Mel is brown nosing for votes, as usual.


2 posted on 07/19/2009 5:13:29 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: Lloyd Marcus

3 posted on 07/19/2009 5:14:55 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Lloyd Marcus

Ever since somebody uttered the words “affirmative action,” the Civil Rights movement of MLK Jr. has been DEAD, replaced with the Race Industry.

We have been living under a Marxist government for forty years—CULTURAL MARXISM.

Cultural Marxism=Political Correctness=Frankfurt School.

Cultural Marxism has given us Soetoro—who is taking us back to ECONOMIC MARXISM.


4 posted on 07/19/2009 5:15:42 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Lloyd Marcus

Great article. Think I’ll give Mel a ring in the morning and let him know what I think of his assessment of Red Sonia.


5 posted on 07/19/2009 5:15:47 PM PDT by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: Lloyd Marcus

Thank you, again, for another great article.


6 posted on 07/19/2009 5:18:47 PM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of cat attacks while typing!)
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To: Lloyd Marcus

A few years ago, CSPAN showed a conference on illegal immigration that featured two people from Martinez’ office. They sounded just like the speakers from La Raza.


7 posted on 07/19/2009 5:22:09 PM PDT by freespirited (Honk if you miss Licorice.)
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To: Lloyd Marcus; All
“Judge Sotomayor's rise to the Supreme Court is testimony to the fact that the American dream continues to be attainable. Given her qualifications and testimony this week, I intend to vote in favor of her confirmation.”


8 posted on 07/19/2009 5:23:09 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see a REAL C.O.L.B. BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Lloyd Marcus

until every one is blind, there will be a race issue.... it’s part of the fallen nature of man....


9 posted on 07/19/2009 5:29:02 PM PDT by bareford101
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To: Lloyd Marcus

Excellent, Lloyd!
I’ll be sending it on in my email list.


10 posted on 07/19/2009 5:37:04 PM PDT by gibsosa
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To: Lloyd Marcus

Well....after all we have the history of George Wallace standing in the door, KKK hanging hapless Negroes, and “Whites Only” signs just 50 years ago, and votes denied based on race.

The pendulum always swings from one end to another.


11 posted on 07/19/2009 6:53:48 PM PDT by ajay_kumar (Elections have consequences. Socialist Liberals are now in charge.)
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To: Lloyd Marcus

In the past, since about 1977, proponents of affirmative action have said they just want a “level playing field”.

This was fine with many who thought eventually the field would be leveled, and affirmative action would outlive its usefulness.

Now we have a pro-affirmative action woman on the supreme court, and for what is likely to be 30 more years we will have institutionalized affirmative action, at least to the extent of her influence. She is not going to change her views. Why should she? The supreme court appointment is for life, and nobody will be able to challenge her deceptive posturing and lies from hearings after she is confirmed.


12 posted on 07/19/2009 6:55:24 PM PDT by zipper
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To: Lloyd Marcus

Mel Martinez is a RINO of the first order. Notice he is NOT running for re-election.


13 posted on 07/19/2009 6:59:41 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Lloyd Marcus

Hooray Lloyd! Thanks for posting (and great voice).


14 posted on 07/19/2009 7:15:04 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: ajay_kumar

Did you have a point to make?


15 posted on 07/19/2009 7:29:51 PM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine PFC- 1/16/09 - Parris Island - LC -6/4/09 - 29 Palms - Camp Pendleton 6/18)
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To: ajay_kumar
Well....after all we have the history of George Wallace standing in the door, KKK hanging hapless Negroes, and “Whites Only” signs just 50 years ago, and votes denied based on race.

And your point is...........?

16 posted on 07/19/2009 7:51:37 PM PDT by Sarajevo (You jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
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To: Sarajevo; don-o

The point is so obvious....I am surprised you asked. The people who were viciously discriminated solely based on race/color etc are programmed to be hyper-sensitive to racial issues. It is built into their DNA. Race will remain on the front burner until that entire generation has passed.


17 posted on 07/19/2009 8:28:03 PM PDT by ajay_kumar (Elections have consequences. Socialist Liberals are now in charge.)
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To: Lloyd Marcus; All
 
18 posted on 07/20/2009 1:39:06 AM PDT by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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