LOST OPPORTUNITY; LET'S BURN THE RACE CARD

At this date, my post is moot, but then again; it was moot when I started to write it - the opportunity was already lost. But there are lessons to be learned by elected Republicans in that we MUST take on the PC BS of the left that mutes us. We must get the truth out, and be allowed once again to speak freely. So, here is what I've been working on lately:

Conservatives and Republicans have lost yet another golden opportunity to destroy the power of the DNC over blacks. I am speaking of Trent Lott's appearance on Black Entertainment TV recently. I can't single out Lott in this though; elected Republicans all are cowards when it comes to the race card, even black Republicans.

This was an opportunity to point out to a predominantly hostile black audience exactly who it has been over the years that has been keeping them down, and who has actually been championing their rights, from equal protection to voting rights, even to affirmative action! Yet, again this opportunity was blown.

The proper response would not have been to say we need more of the same. Rather it would have been to state that it was a well intentioned first step when Richard Nixon, by Executive Order, mandated affirmative action, but it hasn't progressed much beyond that point. It helped a lot of minorities, but mostly the benefits were limited to minority owned small businesses which began to pop up all over and thrive. Minorities finally had a good chance to succeed in an area they were historically shut out from. Sadly, 30 years later we have hardly progressed beyond that point. Also sadly, it was interpreted to mean quotas rather creating a really level playing field. While affirmative action helped a lot of blacks and other minorities, some were actually harmed, while even more were left unaffected in any way. Not everyone is cut out to own their own business, in many ways it is a very scary way to make a living. It is almost like selling everything you own and taking the money to the horse track; the odds are only slightly better. I salute those that have that much in the way of guts; I know I don't.

After the "interviewer" picks himself off the floor from hearing that Nixon (the ultimate evil to Liberals) actually was the one to institute their sacred affirmative action, and after answering the required question about this statement the next would most likely be how have blacks been hurt by affirmative action. Now it would be time for the kill.

Let's take a hypothetical example here. Let's call him George, a very smart black man, a recent high school graduate from an inner city school. He got straight A's in school, and he's borderline genius. Let's say that his SAT score was 600 and he applies to 2 universities, Stanford and Gainesville. Gainesville requires a SAT of 600, exactly George's score, but Stanford requires 700, 100 points above what George scored. The whole reason for the SAT is to test a potential student's preparation for a particular school. Both are fine schools, and produce fantastic graduates who are welcome in any business or industry. Under normal conditions, Stanford would reject George, fearing that he wasn't prepared for their curriculum, and they would be right; regardless of his IQ. However, because of the way affirmative action has been implemented, with quotas, Stanford needs a certain number of black students. Many potential black students come from inferior schools, which don't prepare them for a really prestigious school. But Stanford needs to make its quota, so it lowers its requirement for certain minority students. George is accepted to Stanford, and is elated; he didn't think he'd make the cut. Of course he chooses Stanford, but he's got one foot out the door before he even gets on the plane; his school didn't prepare him for Stanford. He struggles, tries his best, but Stanford didn't bring down their curriculum to the level George is prepared for, they just lowered their entry standards for him. He gets frustrated, gets low grades, and eventually drops out. However, had he gone to Gainesville, he'd have had to work hard; it would have been a challenge for him, but a challenge that he would have risen to, because he had a chance there. He wouldn't have been competing against students who came from elite private schools which are reserved for the rich, or at least the upper middle class. He'd have been competing for grades against students with the same level of preparation he had, and beating the heck out of them. Even had he stuck it out at Stanford, and gotten a degree there, he'd have been miserable; literally having to work twice as hard for half the results - even though he was smarter than most of the student body and staff! He just wasn't prepared for that school. Plus, it's better to graduate from Gainesville with an A or B average than a D from Stanford; much more is learned when you master a subject.

Rather than requiring certain numbers in universities, what we really should be doing is getting our primary education system up to par. Most public schools cannot compare to the results seen in private schools. However, blacks, and many other minorities are prevented from sending their kids to private schools because of lower income. When it is a choice of putting food on the table, or sending the kids to private school; food will always win out. In the affluent suburbs, if there is a bad teacher who can't relate to the kids, and can't therefore teach them, that teacher is run out. This is because there is competition in the suburbs; the parents can legitimately threaten to take their kids out of the public school system - they can afford to. The bad teachers get sent to the inner city schools where the parents don't have that ability, and the school boards know it.

This is why we need to end the monopoly of the public schools on education dollars; we need vouchers so that all parents, rich or poor are empowered to send their kids to schools that will serve their children's future needs. The elitists have been blocking my party from allowing vouchers to empower poor parents. It seems they don't want their children rubbing shoulders with poor kids. They don't want their kids to have the competition from minority children. Oddly, these same people claim to be the champions of your rights and your children's future.

Right here we would have won over ¼ of the black vote. Most blacks want the ability to send their kids to the school of their choice; but are blocked by the DNC who is in the debt of the Teachers Union. This fact is hidden from them by the main-line press. Also hidden from the public is the fact that Democrats have been the ones to fight hardest against any form of equality among the races. Once blacks got backing on their right to vote (thanks to the Republicans), then Democrats changed their public profile, and pretended to support black rights; while still trying to destroy their ability to get ahead at the same time.

One of the problems we have had in the issue of race is that only one side is allowed to debate the issue, and this does not make for a real debate. I made a comment that I thought nothing of, and I was demonized for it. When I made that comment, I wasn't even thinking that Sen. Thurmond had been a segregationist; in the 30 yrs I have known him he has not been. We have become friends, and agreed on many issues, including education vouchers for poor kids. However, when it comes to the race issue; we are bared from speaking because we are white Republicans. In every sentence we utter, we must watch for the PC police. If we don't utter the Democrat party line on certain issues; we are demonized. Yet, Democrats like the now Sen. Hollings can hoist the Confederate Flag over the Capital in South Carolina, and that's ok; but the current Republican Governor is tarred and feathered with the issue. Sen. Byrd, a former leader of the KKK can use the "N" word on national TV, and that's ok; he's a Democrat. I don't know of any Republican Senators who were even members of the KKK, much less leaders. The double standard needs to be lifted; and blame placed where it belongs. By silencing half the nation, the cause of empowering the poor is not helped. We need an open and honest debate on the issues of both race and poverty, but with the current PC situation we can't have one. There is no reason that blacks today still tend to cling to the bottom of the economic scale; except that policies that would help them to progress are not allowed a fair hearing. Only the DNC party line is accepted for public consumption, all other views are shut out. They are shut out by the fear of being labeled a racist. This only perpetuates the status quo.

A frank discussion of this nature is needed for not only the Republicans to achieve their agenda, but also for poor minorities to begin to move up the ladder.

The Black Soul is Dead and We Are to Blame
Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND) ^ | dec 2002 | Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

The soul of the black community is dead
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust; a fire still burns in those very few who have clung to the values of old, but our days as a people of character, unshakeable spirit, and respectability are, for all intents and purposes, dead. Though I had long been pained at what I perceived to be the gradual decline of the black community, it donned on me in recent months that the dismal and prolonged downturn of my people had greatly accelerated. Tonight I again take survey of my brethren; spiritually, we are no more.
This revelation knocked the wind out of me. It had been largely to the purpose of helping blacks wake up and see the error of their ways that I committed myself to some 13 years ago. I thought then that, though blacks had already fallen so far, there was a great chance to overcome. But with this new realization I now sat motionless, wondering if the battle had been lost, if we had eternally surrendered. Or if there was hope.
After an internally tumultuous and spiritually troublesome wait, an answer came on this question. It went as follows:
I saw the death of Jesus Christ. I saw the death of the black soul. I saw the miraculous resurrection of Christ. And therein, I saw the glimmer of hope. The only hope of the black community is for a resurrection of miraculous proportions. Blacks of today must atone for the sins of our fathers to command the mercy and love that would precipitate such a resurrection.
A daunting task this is. Whereas Christ died with a holy nature, the black soul has died in the gallows of weakness and immorality. A representative snapshot of the black community today:
Seventy percent of black babies born out of wedlock has lent itself to an epidemic of fatherlessness. The black woman carries no respect for a man of such weakness and harbors perpetual hatred for this man who bedded, and then abandoned, her. The father's absence made the mother the influential figure to the family. But her anger toward the man who left her is so great that she cannot be a positive influence. The black youth is victimized by his mother's dominant hatred. With no father as a figure of guidance and respect, the child can't help but yield to this force of darkness.
So the young black man comes to what he is today-incidentally a perfect representation of the overall downfall of the black community. No direction. No drive. No soul. Generally today, young black men carry with them no sense of responsibility to be productive, no aversion to undisciplined behavior, nor any indication that they can overcome the sin into which they're born. Rather than work and strive to move up in the world, they opt to abuse drugs, chase women, and act like immature fools.
Usually when one is born into dire circumstances he is accompanied by a sense of desperation to succeed. He innately feels that he must work hard, harder than all those around him just to be able to survive. The young black man of today feels none of this. His focus is on his next joint. The emasculation of the young black man by the dominant black women has destroyed this drive. His innate sense now is to lust after a woman. In doing so, the black man is forever subject to "momma."
Meanwhile, young black girls do as their mothers do and adopt the same vicious, emasculatory techniques. Thus a cycle perpetuates. With few strong examples of God's commandments among black men, unprecedented destruction nears.
Not all of the members of the black community are like this-but this is, sad to say, an accurate representation of the evil that has taken hold of black America. This outright rejection of God by the black community has so angered Him that, I believe, He has decidedly pulled the plug on our people. Spit in God's face, and, well, he let's you do so, but from hereon you're on your own.
The penance that the black community is going to have to pay to regain God's favor is incalculable. Ever since the black community began viciously forsaking God in the early sixties, all the plague and curse spoken of in Deuteronomy has come to pass. The dawn of the civil rights movement was the dawn of unprecedented sin in the black community. This forty-year history of unconstrained sin began with the black man's weakness in letting women take over, therein committing an outright insult of God.
God ordained a spiritual order of God in Christ, Christ in man, man over woman, and woman over children. Black men have lost their connection with Christ and in their weakness, women have become the head of the temporal realm. This is a violation of God's established order and will never work. This violation has reached such epic proportions that black women today are not only in charge of the home, but they hold great power in public schools and are now becoming the head of the black church! It is because black men refuse to be strong and speak against this that God has seemingly let the black community go. So far lost have we become that it is going to require a huge step up by black men to regain God's blessing.
Just a few men stepping up will not absolve this sin. Many will have to come forward prepared to sacrifice greatly to rediscover our once sacred relationship with Him. We all know by now that none of our leaders will lift a finger to this end. They have made it clear that their sole purpose is to push us farther downward, all the while taking satisfaction in their growing power and wealth. Therefore we must self-mobilize. We no longer have leaders to rely upon-we have only ourselves. So great is the demoralization in the black community, particularly among young black men, that it will take a great many of us in an unparalleled effort over an indefinite time frame if we have any hope.
I once heard Mel Gibson say in a movie, "I have long feared that my sins would come back to visit me, and the cost is more than I can bear." Well those sins have come back to visit the black community with a vengeance, and the cost may be more than we can bear. But at least out of respect for the values we once held dear and the strength we once had as a people, we are obligated to attempt with all our hearts to regain that ideal, or die trying. We must now forget all our petty angers, our weaknesses, and our unfounded rage and come forward prepared for the great penance that lies ahead. And we must do so without self-pity.
After all, the black soul is dead and we ourselves are to blame.

You are correct that what I wrote as a suggestion wouldn't work in that arena, as written. It would have to have been boiled down alot.

The sound bite issue is one of our problems. The main-line press wants to just give 15 seconds to an issue. This works well for emotion driven bites like; "Save the Whales" or "Republican environmental policies will kill more people", or "Republicans want to starve your children". However our arguments tend toward logic and intelegent thought; they can't easily be boiled down to 15 second bites.

This is why we really need to fight the left head on. They still have way too much power, given that they have control of most of the press. For weeks Lott was front page, above the fold every day, in today's paper, Sen Murray who supports Been'Luden's "humanitarian efforts" managed to make it onto page 8 in a small bit, without a photo. Gee, which statement was worse?

Ideally, this should be made from Bush; and he COULD do it sucessfully. Saddly, I don't think he will do so; he tends to soft step on a lot of issues.

Ok, yes; I am getting frustrated here. We have the moral high ground, but it seems we can't let anyone know that. We need to find a way to do so.

We CAN take the black vote away from the Socialists who keep them down, if we can get our message, and the truth about our opponents out.

MARK A SITY

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