Thank you for this fine article reviewing a book I just read yesterday (an easy one-day read) and found very impressive.You did a lot of work, and it seems that you didn't get as big a response as your effort - and certainly the content thereof - deserves.
Why don't we try pinging this thing a bit?
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Thank you for including me on the PING list - I wouldn’t have missed this one for anything!
It’s a triple read so I don’t miss out on any of the nuances - wonderful thoughts presented.
Again my appreciation to you and your mission to inform us.
Thanks for the ping. Thanks for the review. Informative. Educational. Interesting.
Thanks to all contributors to this thread.
Yes the resident nutcracker certainly did a lot of work.
Wonder how close, if ever, Steele looked deep into the eyes of Obama's supporters at rallies visa vi photos, TV?
Supporters whose faces are of all colors, all ages.
*That* same look is on the faces of the thousands, maybe millions who lined Berlin's boulevards in during the 30s as heir Hitler's motorcades passed.
The exact same.
Obama's a cult figure on a scale the world's not seen in a very, long time and the result of timing and years of conditioning.
What Obama has is too infrequent to be described, during their time, it's that rare.
Unfortunately he must be elected, bring whatever he will to the republic, before it's learned who the real racists are and always have been.
Obama not being able to effectively reach either whites or blacks, because of his racial makeup?
HA!!
Let us again recall heir Hitler who was not a *pure* Aryan, he was an Austrian.
Apparently, the Germans didn't know.
All the Aryan race propaganda crap was *for* those who'd be asked to die for the megalomaniac's delusions of grandeur, produced by sock puppet Goebbels' Leni Riefenstahls etc, no one can deny the success.
Is there anyone who feels Obama's sock puppets are any less skilled than Goebbels?
Will receive any less support in the way of out-n-out propaganda from the republic's quisling mediots?
Think, again.
Yesterday was primary day here in WI, local Talk Radio had an all day request asking those intent on voting for Obama to call in & tell why.
Overwhelming number of callers were black, the most often cited two reasons: "About time *we* finally get one of our own running for POTUS" -- "We want the kind of change ONLY Obama can bring." -or there about.
What I heard may have been the dialog of "challengers" *&* "Bargainers", who knows.
To me it sure sounded like racism redefined, only this racism was Okay.
As we all know by now Obama carried WI, easily.
Interestingly enough not one of Obama's white supporters (calling) mentioned Obama's race, not once.
While 9 of 10 blacks reasoning, "because he's black" and NONE could cite one single thing Obama ever did while holding public office, state or federal.
Payoff of *Classic Conditioning*?
The OP nutcracker will have to say, I know what it sounds like to me.
Defining the behavior anyway one chooses does not alter the likelihood things look pretty good right now for Obama.
Nothing Hillary or McLame or their camps --or anyone else, for that matter-- comes up with now to smear Obama's going to mean a hill of beans since none will stick in the ears, minds & hearts who're going to "die" for the guy.
It isn't about whether allegation(s) are true or not, it's about an "Establishment power" trying --yet again-- to "lynch" another Blackman.
Period.
*Those*, are the rules.
So.
A black male with a Muslim name running for POTUS while the republic's engaged in a struggle of wills with Islam, and, odds on favorite to win?
Unbelievable?
Believe it.
How & why it happened won't matter.
...it did.
White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Destroyed The Promise Of The Civil Rights Era.
Steele presumably refers to the second Civil Rights Era when Democrats reluctantly abandoned their century old fight against the spirit of the first Civil Rights Era paid for with the blood of Republican Christians.
Celebrating a Century and a Half of Civil Rights Achievement by the Republican Party
Republicans held our first state convention in Jackson, Michigan on July 6, 1854. That fall, the GOP swept to victory throughout the North. Other anti-slavery Members of Congress joined the party, so that less than two years later, on February 2, 1856, Republicans elected a Republican Speaker of the House. The Republican National Committee first met the next month, to coordinate opposition to the pro-slavery policies of the Democrats, also known then as "slaveocrats."
And that summer, Republicans held our first national convention. There, we nominated our first presidential candidate, the Georgia-born form California Senator John Fremont. Four years later, we won the White House for the "Great Emancipator."
As the nation sacrificed during the Civil War, Republicans planned the most significant amendments ever to our Constitution and enacted - despite fierce opposition from the Democrats - the 13th Amendment to ban slavery, the 14th Amendment to protect all Americans regardless of the color of their skin, and the 15th Amendment to extend voting rights to African-Americans. The Republicans' 1875 Civil Rights Act guaranteed equal access to public accommodations without regard to race. Struck down by the Supreme Court in 1883, this law would be reborn as the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
"Every man that wanted the privilege of whipping another man to make him work for nothing, and pay him with lashes on his naked back, was a Democrat. Every man that raised bloodhounds to pursue human beings was a Democrat. Every man that cursed Abraham Lincoln because he issued the Emancipation Proclamation was a Democrat." - Robert Ingersoll, 1876.
For its first 80 years, the Republican Party was the only one to provide a home for Afican-Americans. Until well into the 20th century, every African-American Member of Congress was a Republican. The same was true for nearly all state legislators and other elected officials.
Emancipating Slaves
"It was the Christian Church more than any other agency that was responsible for the emancipation of the slaves," said Dr. Maier. He cited William Wilberforce, an evangelical Christian and member of the British Parliament in the early 19th century, who dedicated his life to abolishing the slave trade.
Likewise, in America it was Christians who agitated for an end to slavery. The Underground Railroad was run by Quakers and other devout Christians. In 1835, two-thirds of the members of the abolition society were ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
"If you pick up credible history, you’ll find that some of the little small denominations today played great roles in fighting against slavery," said Dr. E.V. Hill, pastor of Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. "If Jesus had not come, the slave—and people who were in slavery—and my fore-parents would not have heard the good news of freedom."
Thanks for the ping, I would have missed this otherwise. Very interesting!