Wayne Perryman: Unfounded Loyalty - Islander attempts to trace history of race and politics [Book]

Mercer Island Reporter ^ | January 16, 2003 | Stephen Weigand

[Fixit]

Before Mr Perryman's appearance on C-Span yesterday (from the LA Book expo, right after the O'Reilly/Franken showdown), Mr. Perryman's book was listed as Amazon top seller # 1.7Million+.

After his appearance it is now in the top one hundred. (Currently #92!.)

[onyx]

GREAT post, Fixit! Thanks! Such inspiration on a Sunday morning!

FYI for "ping lists"

[CaraM]

I saw him on CSPAN last night and will go out and buy the book next week. The key is that Mr. Perryman is black. He can reach people that a white writer could not reach. This is great timing with over a year left before the elections. Sounds like it would make a great gift for all my black democrat friends.

[CaraM]

I tried to post this information this morning but you beat me to it. I'm bumping it. This book is worth mentioning.

[Fixit]

Looks like his C-Span appearance had quite an effect!

Mr. Perryman's book is now #82 on Amazon!

[mhking]

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[Katya]

As part of that past, Perryman likened the white-supremacist Ku Klux Klan as the ``terrorist arm of the Democratic Party''

Priceless.....

[onyx]

This article and Perryman's book needs some pings!

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"Sounds like it would make a great gift for all my black democrat friends"


lol very true

[Miss Marple]

An early-evening ping for this book! Excellent, especially falling on the heels of the attempt to fire ten black workers from the DNC.

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Unfounded Loyalty: An In-Depth Look Into the Love Affair Between Blacks and Democrats
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[lysie]

Great post. This man should be on all the tv/radio talk shows.

[PJ-Comix]

Included in the little-known history that Perryman learned was the fact that the Republican Party was founded to emancipate blacks from slavery and that white Republicans founded many black colleges and universities. The abolitionist movement to end slavery was a faith-based movement.

What's so little known about this? I've known this stuff for years. BTW, Andrew Carnegie was a very big donor to black colleges in the South, including Tuskegee.

[Randjuke]

``Yes, Trent Lott made a very stupid, ill-advised statement. But he has never been responsible for the number of murders the Democrats and their terrorist supporters have caused and brought about on the African American community.''

YEAHHH!! Woo-hoo! You go, Mr. Perryman!

[section9]

It won't be too long, of course, before the words "Uncle Tom", "Oreo Cookie", and "Sellout" start cascading from the lips of the Usual Suspects.

The most important thing Perry has done is to have identified the Klan as an instrument of State Terror. During Jim Crow, the Democratic Party ran the South with an iron hand. Election Day was the Democratic Primary. Only whites could vote. Blacks, like Condi Rice's father, John, were registered, if at all, in the Republican Party. Literacy tests abounded. The entire edifice, of course, came apart when Johnson decided to go after black voters by pushing for the Civil Rights Act.

But he has highlighted the Klan's role as an instrument of political terror, and that is all to the good.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Common Tator]

Do you know which two Republicans Senators in the last 50 years have gotten the most black votes in elections? Which Republicans do well with Blacks? Do you know? They are Trent Lott who got nearly 40 percent of the Black vote in 2000 in Mississippi. The other great Republican vote getter was Strom Thurman. In his last run for office he got nearly half the black vote. Dubya got only 10 percent in both Mississippi and South Carolina.

If Bush who nationwide got less than 10 percent of the black vote constantly has Rove talking about how to get 20 percent of the black vote. If Bush and Rove what to know how to get 30 to 40 percent of the Black vote they had best emulate Thurman and Lott. They consistantly have done it.

If Thurman and Lott are racist.. someone needs to tell a the black voters who know both of them first hand. A much larger number of blacks in South Carolina think Bush is racist than think Strom Thurman is racist.

Strom was never as racist as Senator Byrd of West Virginia was. When the supreme court ruled in 1954 Strom followed the ruleing. Strom was the first southern senator to hire black staffers in the senate. Strom gave a lot of Black people their first chance. Ask Black Columnist Armstrong Williams what he things of Strom.

When Strom retired there were black staffers at the party where Lott spoke. In fact at that party Strom's son recognized a black staffer and said this staffer was more than just a senate employee, he was family.. And although he would not be working for Strom anymore (the son phrased it as "not having to put up with Dad anymore") they wanted him to stay in touch with his Thurman family.

How many black staffers will be at Teddy Kennedy's retirement party?

[Once-Ler]

They are Trent Lott who got nearly 40 percent of the Black vote in 2000 in Mississippi.

I'd like to be able to repeat that fact, but I have searched the web and only found a press release from Sen Lott that claimed 25% of the black vote in 2000 and an ABCnews story that says he got 11%.
Could you please give a source for your figure?

[Common Tator]

There is no exact way to tell. The exit polls were way off as we know.

But here is the logic. There are several counties in Mississippi that are almost entirely black. I examined the returns from those counties. If Lott only had 10 percent of the black vote you would expect these counties to go 86 to 88 percent for Lott's Democratic opponent. If we assume that all whites and 10 percent of the blacks voted for Lott that would make Lott's expected percentage of the vote in those nearly all black counties to be in the 10 to 14 percent range.

Yet the vote in those counties ranged from 37 to 49 plus percent for Lott. There is no way lott got less than 35 percent of the black vote even if you assume Lott got 100 percent of the white vote. If you assume that some 5 or 10 percent of Whites voted for the Democrat, then Lott was close to 40 percent or more of the black vote in 2000.

When a candidate gets no less than 35% and as high as 48% percent of the votes in counties with with very few white voters, the conclusion to me seems sound.

[Once-Ler]

When a candidate gets no less than 35% and as high as 48% percent of the votes in counties with with very few white voters, the conclusion to me seems sound.

Yes it does.
You are absolutely correct the numbers don't add up. VNS claimed that blacks comprised 37% of the total 2000 Miss vote for President. I doubt the percent of black vote for US Senate was a lot smaller. Lott won with 68% of 915,000 votes for the US Senate. If ABC was correct and only 11% of the blacks voted for Lott, then Lott must have gotten 101.7% of the white vote by my calculations.

Thank you for the explanation.

I also wanted to mention I’m enjoying your columns at www.raymalone.com immensely.
Thanks for posting your wisdom

[Susannah]

This sounds like a good book to purchase and donate to school libraries.

Just one statement confuses me>

``Republicans need to re-learn compassion,'' Perryman said