Posted on 10/29/2014 8:49:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The left’s behavior in the months leading up to this year’s midterm elections reveals far more than mere anxiety about their results.
There is real concern that they might be losing their grip on African-Americans, their most reliable constituency.
They should be worried. African-Americans who, more than any other group, were promised “hope and change” in 2008 have seen plenty of reasons to lose hope, because the changes seen during Barack Obama’s first six years have done them serious harm.
Democrats have gotten used to counting on well over 90 percent of blacks voting in their favor. If that figure had come down to even 75 percent in the 2012 presidential election with those abandoning ship voting for Mitt Romney, Barack Obama’s 3.5 million popular-vote margin would have vanished.
One activist recently lamented [1] that blacks “think the president is a savior.” Well, that’s what many blacks believe they were promised. This lady clearly thought so six years ago:
The guess here is that the woman interviewed still has to worry about putting gas in her car. Even after the recent fall in prices, it’s still almost twice as much [2] per gallon as it was in late 2008.
Actually, to my surprise and surely the left’s chagrin, my guess was right. It turns out that in July 2014, the once euphoric Peggy Joseph was very disappointed [3] in what had since transpired:
“(The) mortgage got worse and gas prices got higher.”
“During that time, we needed a change. But a change for the better, not for the worse.”
…
“The man behind the curtain is not who we thought or expected him to be.”
The black community’s suffering is deeply baked into the economic numbers.
Black employment per the government’s Household Survey has increased by 1.4 million since the recession officially ended in June 2009. The good news ends there. Unfortunately, analysts at Sentier Research, working with Census Bureau data, tell us that during that same period, black household income fell sharply [4], and by far more than in any other ethnic group:
Looking at household wealth [5], “virtually no progress has been made” in narrowing racial disparities. On average, almost everyone is poorer, and those who were poor already with less to lose have been hardest hit.
Speaking of being poor, the African-American poverty rate in 2013 was 27.2 percent [6]. That’s a 2.5-point increase since 2008, and 1.4 points since 2009. At 12.3 percent, the white poverty rate in 2013 was less than half that of blacks, and had fallen to where it was in 2009.
It has long since become obvious that the left can’t credibly argue that their policies have provided African-Americans any kind of tangible economic benefit. This has forced them to resort to the politics of perpetual outrage.
This explains why the race-baiting industry, with fundamentally dishonest [7] establishment press assistance, tried — and spectacularly failed [8] on substance — to make a national case out of Trayvon Martin. It explains why they have turned Ferguson, Missouri, into a virtual urban battleground. That effort, primarily an attempt to railroad a cop who was by most accounts defending himself against his attacker instead of letting the attacker kill him, also appears to be on track to fail [9].
The need for perpetual outrage also explains why the Obama administration continues to litigate against requiring identification to vote and to cast anyone who dares oppose them as presumptively racist. If anything, identification requirements aren’t strong enough, given recent evidence that tens or even hundreds of thousands of non-citizens are illegally voting [10].
But the merits of their bogus attempts at prosecution or their legal arguments really don’t matter. Only fanning the outrage does.
By their actions, the left is betraying its belief that the only way to keep African-Americans in a failed economy marching in lockstep on the liberal plantation is to deliver a continuous stream of disinformation supposedly showing that the system is irretrievably stacked against them.
Just wait until the plantation’s inhabitants figure out that the people doing the stacking are the very people who pose as their best friends.
Most people believe that President Obama’s deferral of unilateral — and unconstitutional — executive action on immigration was done to avoid a serious backlash in the midterm elections. I believe that it was primarily a targeted decision.
Allowing the euphemism known as [11] “a path to legal status for millions of undocumented workers” will suddenly create a tidal wave of competition for low-paying jobs at law-abiding employers. Disproportionately low-skilled African-Americans are already having a hard enough time finding jobs. A much fiercer fight for low-paying jobs will keep wages depressed. If the Obama administration were to somehow get its way and enact a $10.10 per hour minimum wage, that would only leave more disgruntled job seekers on the sidelines.
I believe that Obama’s immigration deferral was largely done to keep black voters on the plantation this time around, and to buy Democrats some time to figure out how to brainwash those they are shafting. As a result, the party will probably keep or win a few House, Senate and gubernatorial elections which are currently too close to call but would have become certain losses without the immigration deferral.
Once Obama opens the immigration floodgates, the chances of a serious backlash in the black community, which has already endured so much and received so little in return, are far from small.
I sense an historic opportunity here to open up African-Americans’ hearts and minds. Are sensible, free-market, compassionate conservatives up to the challenge?
An Open Letter to the Democratic Party (From Black
Woman)
Lincoln Heritage Institute ^ | 3-18-08 | Lt. Colonel Frances Rice,
“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.
SHOCK VIDEO: “They Are Abusing Us”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUSRZo1BE5o&feature=player_embedded
Blacks have trapped themselves on a plantation of ignorance and militance, and Democrats own that plantation. The Republican left tries to buy into it, but blacks know from whence come the goodies. If plantation blacks are unhappy, it is because Democrats haven’t given them all they feel entitled to. Democrats can’t do that. No one can.
There is nothing left but for blacks to get even more angry, arrogant and violent, and direct that hatred at whites, at white privilege, and white authority. They can’t possibly aim blame where it belongs, at blacks. ...So while we might see black displeasure at Democrats, it doesn’t represent a changing demographic that will help Republicans.
Eh, maybe a few are waking up ..... But for the most part, the majority will still go out and pull the anti whitey lever.... You don’t turn that kind of thinking around in one election .....
But I hope I’m wrong ....
Too many have trusted too long in their Marxist-taught pastors and pastors’ wives and community spokespersons who should have been jailed for inciting to riot on many occasions.
What really needs to be done is to simply blanket the black community with the message “When you’re in the voting booth, nobody knows who you’re voting for.”
Let them know that even if they have to succumb to social pressure to *say* they support Obama, Democrats, etc., once they get behind the privacy of those curtains, all of it can safely go out the window and they can vote their conscience.
Remove the power of peer pressure, and you can do a lot to undercut the power the Democrats have over black Americans.
Sly. But reveals lack of familiarty with the southern culture.
For over a thousand years, Europe was ruled by royals, kings and their court and no one ever thought that would end.
The demonRATs control over American blacks has only gone on for 50 years, it will change, but I don't know if I'll live to see it happen.
Keep the faith.
Minorities are susceptible to group think. Ts the French Revolution minus the personality.
If Ferguson explodes (and it will eventually), it could take the Democrats with it.
Free government money is an addictive drug. Now we have added millions to the Disability rolls. They will vote for Democrats every time.
IMNVHO, That's our group-think. If Ferguson explodes, which I am sure is the Democrat "Plan," they will own the big states forever.
Even if the Republicans (whatever TF they are) were to take a substantial majority of white voters, we have to remember that white voters are on track to become "minority voters." "Republicans:" that's who an explosion in Ferguson could blow away.
Two reasons why the Democrats suffer due to the riots:
1) It feeds the fears of the women voters about crime. It reminds people that they can’t depend on the police when the shizzle goes down. People become more tolerant of gun ownership.
2) It reminds minorities that nothing has changed under Obama. They are still getting shot down by the police from behind while kneeling with their hands raised...... in the narrative.
Blacks will not vote GOP in any large number—the best we can expect is they will stay home.
Brown is the new black.
82-Year-Old Black Grandma Votes Republican “Because of What Democrats Have Done to My People”
FrontPage Mag ^ | 10/29/2014 | Daniel Greenfield
Not exactly what C-SPAN expected to run right before airing someone from the Center for American Progress.
A self-described “82-year-old black senior citizen grandmother” named Joyce called C-SPAN to explain why she voted for the Republican candidate in every race on the ballot this cycle.
I voted straight Republican because I have noticed for years what the Democrat Party has done to my people,” she said. “Unemployment is higher in the black community that it is — double with unemployment than it is anywhere else.”
“There’s no way I could continue to say I’m a Christian and stay with the Democrat Party,” she continued. “They advocate the killing of babies and taking from the doers and giving to the ones sitting doing nothing.”
SHOCK VIDEO: “They Are Abusing Us”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUSRZo1BE5o&feature=player_embedded
OK by me
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