Liberal Democrats and the Minority Voter

Democrats are going after the black vote by deliberately spreading false information.  Apparently it has worked pretty well in the past, but this may be changing.

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Eat, Pray, Love and Be Black but Don't Be a Republican.  Don't make the mistake as a black person like I did and choose to be a Republican because you believe in opportunity, educational freedom (school choice, vouchers, charter schools), economic growth and small government.  If you do, you will be called awful names by black Democrats.  You will likely be hunted down by the "black police" to determine if you're "black enough" and subjected to relentless name-calling and mocking such as "you just want to be white" or "how can you be a Republican."  To which, I respond, "How can you be a Democrat?"

Now We Know Who Was Right about Obama.  To the surprise of many, we now know that Obama does not pay attention to the black community — he doesn't visit them, talk to them, encourage them, propose policies to benefit them.  He hasn't helped this suffering community, and when he does go to speechify, this is what he says:  ["]Take off your bedroom slippers.  Put on your marching shoes.  Stop complainin'.  Stop grumblin'.  Stop cryin'.  We are going to press on.  We have work to do.["]  What work is Obama referring to — jobs for the black community?  No, the work is the re-election work he feels blacks owe him!

Obama has Failed African Americans.  Obama has added more debt in three years than all previous presidents combined, from Washington to Clinton.  As a result, he became the first President to preside over the downgrade of America's sovereign debt rating.  It is just my opinion, but I believe that among Obama's legacy will be the likelihood that it will be a generation or more before another Black politician is elected to lead the nation.

Is Joan Walsh The Most Bigoted Journalist in Media?  Calling the use of the term 'food stamp,' racist towards blacks, when a majority of those on food stamps are white, can only make sense in the mind of a bigot projecting their own true brand of racism.  Projection is a staple of the left.  It is why they continue to harbor some of the more egregious offenders on the topic, whilst playing the race card at every turn.

Will Obama steal the 2012 election?  The administration is trying to whip up minority frenzy, propagating the myth of widespread ballot suppression.  The goal is to foster a sense of racial persecution of blacks, intending to maximize voter turnout in November.  The results, however, will be to poison race relations further.  Mr. Holder is cynically playing the race card in order to achieve President Obama's overriding ambition:  re-election.

A Full Nelson on Voting Rights.  Those who don't believe it's going to be a long and nasty 11 months before Election Day should just look at how Attorney General Eric Holder and Democrats across the country are accusing Republicans of attempting to keep Democratic core constituents — minorities, young people, the poor, the disabled, etc. — away from the polls.  These charges are a symptom and preview of that party's campaign, which promises to be built on little more than attempting to gin up racial and social class resentments.

Race: The Ultimate Weapon of the Left.  If Herman Cain were elected president of the United States, racial politics, far from waning, would, if anything, gain in intensity — and so would be the case if any other Republican wins the presidency, or even if Obama is reelected, for that matter.  Whatever happens, the hardy perennial of race politics will survive and thrive.  It is utterly unreasonable to expect the left to lay down its tools and walk away from a claim it has been mining with such spectacular success for so many years.

Conservatism 101 for Those Not Paying Attention.  You and I are politically well-informed.  But there are many Americans like my family who do not follow politics as closely as we do.  Their political views are shaped by liberal media hit-pieces, spin, and sound bites.  About 99.9 % of my family are Democrats because Marcus family tradition taught us that the democrats are "for the little guy."  Republicans are "rich white racists."  Liberal media and the Democratic Party jointly support and promote this silly, simple lie, which still wins the Democrats 95% of the black vote.

Obama's Zip-a-Dee-Do-Dah Black Agenda.  After three years of ignoring his largest voter base, the White House held an African-American Policy Conference November 9th.  The White House also issued a report, in case you haven't been paying attention, "outlining how the President's policies directly impact the African American community."  Reading this report you would think blacks are living Zip-a-dee-do-dah days under the Obama administration.  This will come as a surprise to the Congressional Black Caucus and the 16% of black Americans who are jobless and on a downward economic spiral.  Obama is loath to refer to himself as black much less give audience to a black agenda.

Democrat says Democratic Party bosses use voter fraud.  Top Democrats are aggressively pushing the claim that Republicans' worries about voter fraud are an insincere excuse to suppress voting by African-Americans and Hispanics.  But former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis told The Daily Caller that anti-fraud measures are needed to protect African-Americans from corrupt political bosses — many of them African-Americans themselves — who run Democratic Party machines in the South.

Why don't Democrats get the white vote?  Contrary to the popular myth that the Republican Southern strategy was to play up white racism, the opposite was true.  Most Republicans in Congress voted for the Civil Rights legislation enacted under Lyndon Johnson.  Only 1 of the 22 Dixiecrats in the Senate — Strom Thurmond — jumped to the Republican Party.  Indeed, Bob Byrd rose to become the leader of the Senate Democrats.

Blacks Still 'Played' and Controlled by Tired Old Democrat Paradigms.  Many blacks erroneously believe the GOP consists of rich racist white people.  In reality, the GOP was founded to free blacks.  Only five years after slavery, there were black congressmen, all Republicans.  The KKK, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and denying blacks the right to vote where all birthed by Democrats.  Even today, Democrats are still "keeping blacks in their place" — telling them they need lowered standards, affirmative action, special programs, and freebies to succeed.  Democrats constantly send blacks the message they are not as smart was whites.  For example, Democrats say having to show ID when voting disenfranchises blacks.  his is merely a tactic by which the Democrats implement voter fraud.  However, in the process, they are saying blacks are too stupid to find their way to the DMV or other places to acquire proper ID.  This is just one example of numerous ways Democrats tell blacks they are inferior and need Democrats' help to succeed.

The liberal lynching of Herman Cain.  Liberals are determined to destroy Herman Cain.  The Republican presidential candidate is tied or ahead of the presumptive front-runner, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.  He has been running an anti-establishment, insurgent campaign that champions sweeping tax reform and a pro-growth agenda.  He is a Southern populist who touts his private-sector experience.  He also is an authentic black conservative.  For this, he is being politically lynched by liberals in the media.  All that's missing is the noose and the tree.

Top 10 Joe Bidenisms.  [#4]  Obama "articulate" and "clean":  During the 2008 presidential election, Biden seemingly discovered that blacks can have sound hygiene.  Imagine the howls of racism if a conservative had uttered this statement:  "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.  I mean, that's a storybook, man."

It's worse, Rush.  Liberals cannot complain.  Paula Jones shut them up on the subject of sexual harassment in 1998 when — after years of ridicule — Paula Jones made Bill Clinton give her every dime she asked for to settle out-of-court a lawsuit in which he perjured himself, which would cost him his law license and almost cost him his presidency.  What can James Carville say about Herman Cain?

The "Borking" of Herman Cain?  It has the feel of an ambush, this sexual-harassment story involving Herman Cain. ... The emotional response is understandable.  Ever since the orchestrated, scurrilous character assassination aimed at judge Robert Bork, conservatives have been perpetually on edge, waiting for the next slander of a public figure who represents a threat to liberal power.

Four Lily White Liberals Smear a Black Man.  Just as Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain predicted, he has become the most recent victim of the race-baiting left's high-tech lynching of prominent, conservative black men.  Days before the Cain sexual harassment smear emerged from the sewers of liberal trash journalism, MSNBC's Martin Bashir hosted contributor Karen Finney who proclaimed that conservatives only liked Cain because, "they think he's a black man who knows his place."

Morass of sexual harassment.  The accusations of sexual harassment against Herman Cain are so far small potatoes, and badly baked at that.  On a scale of 1 to 10, they're hovering around 2.  Looking back, the accusations of Anita Hill against Clarence Thomas weren't so weighty, either. ... But when you remember that a sitting president with a reputation as an aspiring lady killer survived in office after he was impeached for lying about sex with a White House intern, we haven't yet defined sexual harassment.  It probably depends on what the meaning of "is" is.

That was then. This is N.O.W.  [Compare] what was said by National Organization President Patricia Ireland about Paula Jones on April 2, 1998, and what NOW is saying now about Herman Cain.

Barack Obama 'Acting Stupidly'.  Without saying anything, Barack Obama's silence speaks louder than all his empty words.  The President who likes to define himself as a champion of racial equality and promoter of civility has thus far stood by in silence as liberals attempt to lower the stature of Herman Cain by portraying him as a conservative version of Stepin Fetchit.  By failing to address the prejudicial remarks directed at Herman Cain, the President of the United States is revealing a side of himself that reeks of a form of discriminatory selectiveness that should further discredit his claim to be the purveyor of civility and racial justice.

"A Black Man Who Knows His Place".  Karen Finney is not just any Democrat; she was the spokeswoman for the Democrat National Committee, served in the Clinton White House, was the press secretary for Hillary Clinton's New York Senate race, and is a veteran of four Presidential Campaigns.  Tasked with analyzing Herman Cain's surge in the GOP's Presidential campaign for MSNBC last week, Finney offered up the most outrageous, insulting, demeaning single sentence we have ever heard — particularly by someone who supposedly speaks for an entire national political party.

Black tea partier calls Democrats the 'party of the KKK'.  Conservative activist Apostle Claver Kamau-Imani, founder and chairman of Raging Elephants, told the Daily Caller that abortion in the United States amounts to "genocide ... of African American babies."  And he sent liberals on MSNBC into fits of horror Wednesday [10/26/2011] after he spoke to a Houston tea party rally and called Democrats "racists" and "the party of the Ku Klux Klan."  "If anybody is racist it is the Democratic Party," he said.  "They're the racists, the party of the Ku Klux Klan, the party of Jim Crow, the party of Bull Conner, the party of segregation."  "They are the racists, not us.  We're their friends, we're the emancipators, we're the liberators, we're the ones who believe in freedom."

Top 10 Bad Signs for Obama.  [#5]  Maxine Waters:  It is cause for concern when the congresswoman from South Central Los Angeles goes on the attack against the first black President. ... Also disillusioned are black voters who live in areas with high unemployment.  Even a slightly depressed turnout in black areas will be a disaster on Election Day for Obama.

Can I Get an Amen?  The media has been invested in the control of the black vote.  As part of the brainwashing machine, for decades, they have allied closely with Democrats and liberals to halt any progress towards political independence among the minority voter.  How?  By coining the term "minority," which in the first place implies inferiority and in the second place replaces logical and sound counsel to solving problems with a paranoid and emotional underdog worldview.

Herman Cain to Blacks: Divorce the Democratic Party.  Cain is a clear and present danger to the Democratic Party — and their invaluable near-monolithic black vote.  Cain says things like:  "African-Americans have been brainwashed" into voting for the Democratic Party; "If you (Wall Street protestors) don't have a job or you're not rich, blame yourself"; "People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve"; and "I don't believe racism in this country today holds anybody back in a big way."  How do some influential left-wing blacks react?  Not well.

It's Hard To Be a Racist.  Black people are a one-party people in a two-party system.  That means Democratic politicians have learned to take the black vote for granted, and Republicans make little effort to get it.  That's not smart for blacks to set themselves up that way.

Arrogant White Liberal Tells Herman Cain How to Be Black.  When I see a characterless liberal political hack occupying my beloved country's Oval Office, I refuse to join the flock of black sheep worshiping him because we share the same skin color.  To my relatives who have thrown their Christian values, principles, and brains out the window to give their black idol a pass, you guys are the ones who should be ashamed of yourselves.

'Stop Whining'?  If there was ever any doubt that the Democrats take the black vote for granted, that doubt should have been put to rest when Barack Obama told the Congressional Black Caucus, "Stop whining!"  Have you ever before heard either a Democratic or a Republican leader tell his party's strongest supporters, "Stop whining"?  Blacks have a lot to complain about, not just about this Democratic administration but about many other Democratic administrations, national and local, over the years.

Blacks leave Obama.  According to a Washington Post/ABC News survey, [Obama's] favorability rating among African-Americans has dropped off a cliff, plunging from 83 percent five months ago to a mere 58 percent today — a drop of 25 points, a bit more than a point per week!

Wallace Kuralt's era of sterilization.  Compassionate.  Visionary.  A champion of women and the poor.  That's the reputation that Wallace Kuralt built as Mecklenburg County's welfare director from 1945 to 1972.  Today, the building where Charlotte's poor come for help bears his name — a name made even more prominent when his newscaster son, Charles Kuralt, rose to fame.  But as architect of Mecklenburg's program of eugenic sterilization — state-ordered surgery to stop the poor and disabled from bearing children — Kuralt helped write one of the most shameful chapters of North Carolina history.

Obama's Rehabilitation Tour, or 'I Promise I'm a Leftist'.  Poor President Obama.  His leftist backers have momentarily fallen out of love with him for not destroying the country fast enough.  Obama must ask himself, "What would Hugo Chavez do?"  Obama decided to embark on a personal rehabilitation tour.  He first stopped by the annual awards dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus and told blacks to "stop complainin'.  Stop grumblin'.  Stop cryin'."  Don't they realize that it's the Republicans' fault that black unemployment is nearly double the national average, at 16.7 percent?

Beating the Racism Card.  It's well-understood that the Democrats were the party of racism and the strongest force keeping segregation alive.  Many of liberalism's grand heroes were not only racists, but crazy racists, obsessive, unbalanced, and cruel.  Woodrow Wilson had blacks fired en masse from the Postal Service, where they had found an employment niche similar to that of the Irish with the police.  He attempted the same with the Navy, where blacks had found a place as ship's stewards.  Millard Tydings is a liberal hero for opposing the monstrous Joe McCarthy.  He was also a racist of the type who couldn't bear having a black individual enter the same room.

Black Unemployment Jumped To Staggering New Highs In August.  While the overall U.S. employment situation is dismal, today's jobs report shows the crisis is much worse for minorities.  The unemployment rate for black Americans spiked to a shocking 16.7% in August, up from 15.9% the previous month.  It's now the highest it has been during Barack Obama's presidency, up from the previous record of 16.5% in March and April 2010.

Would Democrats please drop the race baiting?  There's only one problem with Carson's comment.  (OK, so there are about a couple of hundred things wrong with Carson's comment.)  Carson is a Democrat.  When blacks were left "hanging on trees" during the era when lynching was prevalent, the folks doing it were members of his party, not Republicans.  Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., obviously determined not to be outdone, went Carson one better.

Blacks' Dilemma With Obama.  For the highly politicized parts of black America, the point has always been to keep race in American politics.  For black political culture that dominated after the civil rights movement, the point was not just equal treatment under the law, but special treatment under the law.  Plus the assumption that more black political power — defined by more blacks holding office — would mean that blacks would be better off.  In other words, post-civil rights movement black political culture embraced an agenda exactly the opposite of what the civil rights movement was about.

Obama Baits the Dependency Trap.  [Scroll down]  It's a mystery how anyone could honestly believe that strengthening the chains of dependency will produce self-sufficient citizens.  Fourteen point four percent of Americans use food stamps.  Of the households using food stamps, one in three is black, according to the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.  Getting free food from Nanny State surely takes the sting away from fatherlessness — and adds to the pressure for cradle-to-grave welfare.

Garofalo: Herman Cain a paid prop to 'deflect' charges of GOP racism.  Janeane Garofalo knows why long-shot Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is in the 2012 race.  Not to be elected, or to shine a bright light on issues he wants to advance.  No, says Garofalo:  He's some sort of plant set up to insulate the GOP from charges of racism.

Garofalo: Herman Cain Is A Stooge For Racists.  Has-been comedian and Air America host Janeane Garofalo? turned up on Keith Olbermann's little corner of Nowheresville last night, to unload some really deep thoughts about Republican racism and presidential candidate Herman Cain.  Cain is an outsider candidate and successful businessman who worked wonders for Godfather's Pizza.  Oh, and by the way, he's black.  That's the most important thing — indeed, the only thing about him that matters — to the race-crazed Garofalo.

Janeane Garofalo's 'Racist Dogwhistle'.  Thanks to Barack Obama's failed presidency, the desperate Left is left with nothing to defend and can only personally destroy, and so they've created a world where the words "basketball," "clouds" and "food stamps" are all racist.  The only thing that's not racist, however, is actual racism, especially when that racism is directed at a Black Republican.

American Blacks Cannot Be Blamed For Barack Obama.  Here we have man with a white American mother and an East African father.  No connection to West Africa whatsoever.  He spent his early years in Hawaii, one of the most racially diverse areas in the United States.  He was raised in large part by his white grandparents.  He spent several years in Indonesia as the stepson of an Indonesian Muslim.  After returning to the U.S. he attended some of the country's leading universities including Columbia and Harvard.  Virtually his entire professional life has been spent among white elites.

The Number One Killer in the Black Community.  New York City, the home of Planned Parenthood, aborts nearly 60% of all black pregnancies.  Yet abortion activists denounce any effort to address this epidemic of abortion. ... With a $1 billion annual budget and $1 billion in assets, Planned Parenthood has historically targeted African-Americans with birth control through population control efforts.  Today, the nation's largest abortion chain kills 332,278 (disproportionately black) in the latest year reported, providing only 7,021 women prenatal care and 977 adoption referrals.

Why do blacks still let Obama off the hook?  A Chicago Sun Times article, headlined "The disappearing black middle class," reports on the disproportionate effect of these hard economic times on blacks.  According to the data, taken from the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute, median net worth of white households fell from $134,280 in 2004 to $97,860 in 2009, while over the same period median black household net worth went from $13,450 to $2,170.  The national unemployment rate stands at 9.2 percent, while black unemployment is over 16 percent.

Obama and the Coming Democalypse.  In 2007, best year of the Bush era, white households had a median net worth of $134,280, compared with $13,450 for black households.  Of course they did.  It was, after all, America's first black president, Bill Clinton, who pushed the sub-prime mortgage drug on the black community, with the help of Fannie Mae kingpin James A. Johnson and the ACORN street dealers.  When you lose your sub-prime dream home, your net worth takes a big hit.

Militant Blacks: Mr Bigshot, who do you think you are?  Black leaders from Louis "Judaism is a gutter religion" Farrakhan to Cynthia "Flotilla" McKinney are screaming from the mountaintops.  President Barack Hussein Obama, "their brother" has turned against fellow blacks.  But, they explain — and this is a big BUT, the mean ole' whites made him that do it.  No snickering allowed, now — I have the videos.

Holder's Justice Department bullying banks.  A cadre of racialists bent on achieving social justice via reparations from banks to minority communities has been installed by Eric Holder in the Department of Justice.  They are using legal bullying tactics to intimidate banks into once again loaning mortgage money to people who have no ability to pay it back.  Banks have even been forced to post signs in the facilities informing customers that welfare payments can count as income to apply to mortgage applications.

Holder Launches Witch Hunt Against Biased Banks.  In what could be a repeat of the easy-lending cycle that led to the housing crisis, the Justice Department has asked several banks to relax their mortgage underwriting standards and approve loans for minorities with poor credit as part of a new crackdown on alleged discrimination, according to court documents reviewed by IBD.  Prosecutions have already generated more than $20 million in loan set-asides and other subsidies from banks that have settled out of court rather than battle the federal government and risk being branded racist.  An additional 60 banks are under investigation, a DOJ spokeswoman says.

Democrats Should Know Jim Crow, They Created Him.  Likening Republican policies aimed at preserving voter integrity in states from Florida to California to poll taxes and literacy tests of the Jim Crow era proves Democrats are desperate.  Obama's tax-and-spend agenda stinks on ice.  So his segregation mudslingers — in this case, Clinton — must rely on shopworn clichés that stir racial animus to fire up his left-wing base.  Are Clinton and Shultz insinuating that minorities, college students and the elderly are all born Democrats, that they are more likely to vote for Democratic candidates than Republican candidates?  Is this what Democratic elites think of their constituents?  Do Democrats believe blacks and Latinos, old people and youngsters, are too stupid to acquire a photo I.D. by next November?

Blacks Hit Hardest by Obama's Liberal Agenda.  According to CBS News, while the national average is a depressing 9.1%, black unemployment stands at a dismal 16.2%.  Worse still, black teens 16 to 19 face 41% unemployment.  CBS News, noting the historical disparity between black unemployment and the national average, adds that these are "Depression-era levels."

DNC Chair: GOP Aims to "Literally Drag" the Country Back to Jim Crow Era.  Lost the maelstrom of Weinergate was this delightful piece of intellectually honest, measured rhetoric from new DNC Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL).  Thank goodness for Democrats, our nation's self-appointed civility police force.

Voter ID is no Jim Crow — I would know.  Having experienced the psychological pain of Jim Crow laws first-hand, I won't allow those who likely only read about Jim Crow in history books to trivialize it.  That's why I'm outraged about a recent edition of TV One's "Washington Watch" in which host Roland Martin and Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) compared state-level voter identification rules to Jim Crow.  To the contrary, requiring valid identification in exchange for something as sacred as a ballot is a pragmatic approach to governing.

Asking Voters for ID Is Not a Race Issue.  I don't get why [E.J.] Dionne thinks some people would have a hard time producing ID because of the color of their skin.  I can understand other reasons — homeless people might have a difficult time proving their place of residence, or illiterate people might not be able to fill in the paperwork — but to imply that getting and using an ID is somehow too difficult or onerous for some racial groups seems very condescending to me.  What does skin color or ethnic background have to do with it?  When we ask people to produce ID to get healthcare, as I had to, or to prove their identity to get an Amtrak ticket, no one says this is a return to segregation.

How's That Hope and Change Working Out for Obama Supporters?  Barack Obama captured a staggering 96% of the African-American vote in the 2008 election, an increase even above their traditional backing of the Democrats' candidate. ... When Obama took office in January 2009, the nation's unemployment rate stood at 7.6%.  For African-Americans, as a group, the unemployment rate was 12.6%.  Fast forward two-and-a-half years and, according to the latest data released for May 2011, the nation's unemployment rate is 9.1%.  The present rate of unemployment rate for blacks is 16.2%.  So, while the overall unemployment rate has risen by 1.5% since Obama took office, the rate of unemployment for blacks is 3.6% higher.

Chicago's Violent Flash Mobs.  The Chicago Democrats have controlled the city for more than fifty years.  The mayors Daley instituted policies that not only segregated the city and the schools, but also insured the survival of the Democratic Party at the expense of many neighborhoods.  The Chicago Defender newspaper documented how Democrat politicians in Chicago set up physical barriers to integration.  The Chicago Defender claims, "The Dan Ryan Expressway was conceived in clout and racism and born into a pattern of racial segregation that's earned it the reputation as world-famous symbol of how Chicago's politicians used to create ghettos." Barack Obama and the Betrayal of Black America.  When Barack Obama was elected as the president of the United States, black liberals dreamily believed that the numerous maladies in the black community would cease to exist.  They believed that his election was indicative of a vigorous wind of political and social change that was blowing across the country.  Barack Obama himself vowed that his election would demarcate the conclusion of grisly "politics as usual" from the commencement of political and democratic freshness.  However, as this administration continues on, it is abundantly clear that Obama has not only failed to deliver in a general sense, but he has also completely betrayed his most loyal constituency — the black community.

Who gets nearly free internet and computers?  Who are the lucky beneficiaries among all the Americans who fit this category?  Are you sitting down?  Poor blacks in Obama's hometown in Chicago are the ones getting the sweet deal.  Is it also a coincidence that Rahm Emanuel, Obama's former Chief of Staff, was recently elected mayor and may need to boost his reputation among this same group of people...

Obama's ineligibility: We know.  [Scroll down]  Both Obama and his minions see him as the reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln.  A more accurate likeness would be Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.  In actuality, progress is an anathema to the left because as soon as individuals from any group improve their lives, they begin to migrate away from the left-wing.  So, in order for the left to maintain a constituency, they promote racial and ethnic polarization, exploit frustrated blue collar workers and open the borders to illegal immigration.  The left can only survive through unhappiness and pessimism.

Did someone mention Robert Mugabe?

Seven Of The Most Ridiculous Cries Of Racism Ever Made.  Black Americans have been voting heavily Democratic for almost 50 years and it has been an utter and complete disaster for them.  Never has any constituency in American politics been so loyal to a political party with so little to show for it.  Yet, all the Left has to do is say, "Those Republicans are racist," and it locks in 90% of the black vote.

Osama Bin Laden's strategy sounds familiar.  Captured documents reveal that Osama Bin Laden wanted to use race and class warfare to weaken America?  Isn't that what the Democratic Party has been doing for the past half century?

Liberalism, Black America's Greatest Enemy.  Liberal entitlement/welfare policies are exploitative.  They encourage a destructive cycle of out of wedlock births and government dependency.  Sadly, these poor souls created by government to be insecure in regards to their ability continue to vote Democrat to keep the freebies coming.

Why Liberals Hate Clarence Thomas and Sarah Palin.  Slaves who had the temerity to run away from their plantation "home" paid dearly if they were caught and returned.  Measures were taken to make them an example to others who might harbor similar thoughts about freedom.  Among those measures were brutal public beatings of rebels to which other slaves were forced to bear witness and digest with great clarity the price of rebelliousness.  Such is the fate today of those uppity souls who choose to challenge the authority and legitimacy of our inexorably growing government plantation.

Powerful Illinois Democrats, State Police Covering Up Racial Incident?  Breitbart Media has worked for days to get to the bottom of a seemingly highly-charged story allegedly involving racism from a high profile Democrat and now former law enforcement official that may reach into the upper-level of Illinois state government, including the office of Governor Pat Quinn.  Based upon sources in Carlinville, Illinois, at least on the surface, it appears as though powerful Democrats and perhaps even the State Police may be attempting to cover up a racial incident involving now resigned Democrat County Chair and former head of Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's southern security detail, Kenneth Snider.

Democrats, environmentalists pushing Blacks out of their neighborhoods.  The black population of San Francisco is less than half of what it was in 1970, and it fell another 19 percent in the past decade. ... Blacks are being forced out of San Francisco, and out of other communities on the San Francisco Peninsula, by high housing prices.  At one time, housing prices in San Francisco were much like housing prices elsewhere in the country.  But the building restrictions — and outright bans — resulting from the political crusades of environmentalist zealots sent housing prices skyrocketing in San Francisco, San Jose and most of the communities in between.  Housing prices in these communities soared to about three times the national average.

Church group blasts Obama for abandoning Defense of Marriage Act.  A coalition of 34,000 black churches is blasting President Barack Obama's decision to stop defending the federal law that bans recognition of gay marriage.  The Rev. Anthony Evans, who heads the National Black Church Initiative, says Obama "has violated the Christian faith" by failing to uphold Jesus' teaching that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Razing Cain:  The age of civility, like the era of post-racial politics, is a mirage created by liberals to mute criticism of their policies by committed conservatives.  Otherwise, we wouldn't see the continued abuse heaped by liberals on women and minorities who dare to be conservative, members of the Tea Party or the GOP, or all of the above.

The Dreck Girl.  The Democrat Party, whose roots are in the Ku Klux Klan, big city machine politics, giant and corrupt unions, and fatuous Leftism provide few bright lights in American history.  Robert Byrd, chosen by Democrats to lead them in the Senate, was not an aberration.  Democrats appointed men who joined or planned to join three Klansman to the Supreme Court, one to be Attorney General, and even one President, Harry Truman, although when he found out the Klan hated Catholics, withdrew his application.

How Not to Help Blacks Find Employment.  Since the 1960s and the War on Poverty, Washington has spent billions, everything from job training programs, to tax incentives, to anti-discrimination laws to eradicate this gap, all to no avail.  Given a half century of failure, efforts to narrow differences have grown increasingly desperate.  The latest is the federal government's attempt to equalize how black and white job candidates appear to prospective employers even if they differ substantially — just ban employers from checking credit and criminal histories so as not to "unreasonably" disadvantage black job applicants.

Progressives Do Not Represent the Constitution.  While the Democrats search for ways to resurrect their failed agenda, Latinos all over the country are being coerced into becoming a radical force for change.  They want us to create chaos and civil unrest, only to help ensure that their leftist ideology will be perpetrated on the United States.  Latinos, beware — these are the same ploys that power-hungry rulers have utilized for decades to tighten their grip on our communities and make us pawns in their leftist socialist agendas that, in the end, fail to create jobs or bring opportunities that allow our families to prosper.

Welfare Creep in Laredo.  [Scroll down]  Poke around the Assurance Wireless web site a bit, and you find that this program, which is already available elsewhere and similar to existing programs, is made possible by the Universal Service Fund.  That was set up in 1996, ostensibly to expand communications networks.  At the time, some predicted that it would end up as some sort of welfare.  And so it has. ... Laredo's cell phone giveaway is an example.  The city is going for a one year grant from the USF, under the full and reasonable assumption that once the federal spigot is turned on, it won't be turned off no matter how dire our deficit situation gets.  Any threats to the free phone program will be blamed on the horrible, heartless Republicans, of course.  Democrats like [Veronica] Gonzalez believe that this is their party's route back to power:  drive up dependence, smear the Republicans for resisting, secure the Hispanic vote to the Democratic Party forever.

Why Do Blacks Still Buy The Government Plantation Lie?  Blacks still by and large see government dependence as the remedy rather than the disease, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.  They still choose to listen to left wing black political leadership and media who have careers in keeping it all going.  Consider that it was welfare state government policies that caused this economic collapse to begin with.  And that it was community activist groups claiming to represent the interests of minorities who lobbied for these policies.

Race and the 2010 Elections.  Will the NAACP be celebrating the arrival of two new black faces to the U.S. House of Representatives?  Don't hold your breath.  They certainly will not.  These two new black congressmen are Republicans.  There's a powerful message here that should and must be digested.  We have arrived in post-racial America but establishment blacks — lodged in the political left — refuse to accept it and are doing all they can to get black citizens to refuse to accept it.

Destroying Schools to Achieve Racial Justice.  [Scroll down]  This policy clearly panders to blacks, the sole demographic group not yet disenchanted with the president.  Arne Duncan even announced it on the 45th anniversary of the famous Birmingham, AL "Blood Sunday" civil rights march.  But, rhetoric aside, the measure will undermine education for many education-hungry blacks in racially mixed schools by subverting school discipline.  To be impolite, given a choice of helping blacks versus draping a destructive policy in feel-good historical rhetoric, Obama elects the anti-education option.  This sin is inexcusable — a sign of moral depravity, not just inept policy-making.

The Democrat Plantation.  How many black Americans know the Republican Party was formed in 1854 as the anti-slavery party — even as Democrats founded the Ku Klux Klan in 1866?  How many know President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, (who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1957) along with his brother Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, had Martin Luther King wire-tapped by the FBI in the hope they could prove he was a Communist?  How many Americans of any ethnic persuasion know Martin Luther King was a Republican?  How many know it was Republicans who established the NAACP?

Let's Take This Country Back.  One thing is for sure:  Black Democrats love handouts.  They know that the Congressional Black Caucus will continue to fight for these handouts, which black Democrats now consider "entitlements."  Payback for slavery.  These days anything black Democrats want is considered an entitlement.  Gucci purses and 60-inch flat-screen TVs in their taxpayer-funded, government-gifted homes — all are entitlements.  For black Democrats, the government is supposed to provide food, shelter, clothing, cars (tricked out, of course), cable TV and PlayStations (the in-home babysitters), childcare, health care, and, of course, a check.

Is Black Support for Obama Racist?  Black approval of President Obama is virtually unchanged at 91 percent since his inauguration.  Now, unless we believe that 91 percent of blacks are truly as radical as Obama (and every indication is that blacks are far more conservative than he is), then what explains how Obama could have 91% approval, when even among Democrats as a whole, that number is lower at just 79 percent?  Worse, black poverty is higher now than under President Bush.  In fact, during the Bush years, black unemployment was actually lower than during Clinton's terms (you know, "the first black president"), at an average of 9 percent and certainly lower than the 16.3 percent it stands at today.

The Most Profound Victims of the Obama Hoax.  The Fourth Great Awakening in American history continues to expand among those who drank the Obama Campaign Kool-Aid.  Statistically, the most zealous believers in hope and change are the most profound victims of the Obama Hoax — poor, young, unemployed blacks.

African-American leaders express dissatisfaction with President Obama.  With President Barack Obama's approval ratings dipping below 50%, members of his strongest voting bloc have also started to voice displeasure with the way he has chosen to govern.

The Left's Lust for Black Gangstas.  Fox correspondent Erik Rush has just published a book, Negrophilia, with a profound premise.  A biracial conservative, Rush decries the Left's slobbering love affair with blacks.  Like necrophilia, liberals' obsession with black people is a sick and creepy fetish.  In 50 years, this country has traveled from segregating blacks to elevating them onto pedestals.  But not all blacks, of course; not Condi Rice or Thomas Sowell or Rush himself.  Liberals save their lust for liberal PhDs like Cornel West, as well the black urban underclass.

Stop Racial Pandering.  Harry Reid has stuck his foot in his mouth once again, this time suggesting he doesn't know "how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican."  Really?  You can't be both Hispanic and Republican?  I guess Marco Rubio, Susana Martinez, John Sanchez, and Brian Sandoval — to name just the top tier of Republican Hispanics who have won their party's nomination for statewide office this year — had either better quit the GOP or change their names.  This kind of racial stereotyping is offensive.

Obama's Race War.  The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1865 by racist whites seeking to fight against radical Republican efforts to reconstruct the South.  The KKK targeted both blacks and white Republicans; they even targeted some Southern white Democrats who weren't sufficiently anti-black.  The KKK's argument:  Blacks, by their mere presence and attempts to participate in the political process, were destroying the dignity of the white South.

The Ku Klux Klan, Terrorist Wing of the Democratic Party.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) has falsely accused the Tea Party of having ties to the Ku Klux Klan.  Speaking at the NAACP convention, she said:  "All those who wore sheets a long time ago lifted them off to wear Tea Party clothing." ... It would have been far more truthful for the congresswoman to have admitted the fact that all those who wore sheets a long time ago lifted them to wear Democratic Party clothing.  Yes, the Ku Klux Klan was established by the Democratic Party.

The Democratic Party:  Keeping Blacks Down Since 1964.  Shortly after President Lyndon Baines Johnson announced an "unconditional war on poverty" in his State of the Union Address in 1964, his administration embarked on an expansion of bureaucracy rarely seen in American history.  Moreover, within two years of signaling the start of that war, LBJ interwove it with civil rights initiatives so that opposition to the War on Poverty could be branded "racism" by Democrats running against opponents of big government.  Time has shown that if there was any racism attached to the War on the Poverty it was the racism which Democrats brought to the table.

The Slave Mentality.  [Scroll down]  There is little argument that blacks are the biggest sufferers of the slave mentality today.  Most blacks believe the government will take care of us from the cradle to the grave.  What they don't know is that the government carefully guards that ratio of black votes versus black sycophants, employing stealth weapons like placing abortion clinics mainly in black neighborhoods, ignoring crime in black neighborhoods, and essentially ushering blacks to prison.

Are Liberals Breaking Up with Obama?  [Scroll down]  At the end of the day, every one of these folks who rallied the votes for Obama — based on nothing but his skin color and teleprompted eloquence — have done far more damage to the cause of African-American parity than if they had refused to indulge their identity politics and had looked at the candidate's bona fides with a skeptical, purely investigative eye.

Which is the racial, profiling party?  Because liberals consciously notice the color, the ethnicity, the gender, the class, the physical ableness of an individual before anointment as candidate, friend, colleague, employee rather than the person the answer is... liberals!

Helen Of Oy!  With the state of Israel facing an existential threat, journalism's grand dame advocates ethnic cleansing as a Mideast solution.  Liberal intolerance has come out of the closet.

Does Obama Hate Black People?  With his actions as an Illinois state senator, U.S. senator, and now president, Barack Obama has rightfully earned his title as the most pro-abortion politician in American history ... The president has expanded the welfare state, the unemployment rolls, and advocated against school voucher programs, all issues which disproportionately affect blacks.  His position on abortion is perhaps the most alarming because it has become evident that he is using all the resources available to him to ensure that black babies here and abroad never reach their first breath.  Yet, in the midst of all of these issues, Black Americans continue to blindly support the president and his radical agenda.

This is what liberals think of black men:
 Bill Maher Disappointed Obama Isn't A 'Real Black President' With A Gun In His Pants.  Last night [5/28/2010], Bill Maher lamented President Barack Obama's "professorial" personality, noting with a hint of betrayal in his voice that he was expecting a "real black president" — you know, the kind that "lifts up his shirt so they can see the gun in his pants."

Obama's Leadership Deficit.  Appearing on CNN with Anderson Cooper, film director Spike Lee implored President Obama to infuse his handling of the Gulf oil spill with more emotion.  Demonstrating the astute analysis we have come to expect from the director, Lee implored Obama to "one time, go off."  Perhaps he is of the same mind as Bill Maher, that the authentic black man is one who is always armed and resorts to violence and loud-talking when things do not go his way.

Fixed Race.  Comedian Bill Maher stereotypes black people as ghetto hoodlums and there's no outcry.  The long-standing racial double standard always shields the left.

The Error of Rand Paul:  The new left is appalled — appalled! — that Paul might suggest that in a free market society that supports private property rights, a business owner has the right to decide with whom he will or will not do business.  However, leftists are remarkably silent — even supportive of — community activists urging their black neighbors to "buy black;" Jewish and Islamic merchants who only buy from Jewish and Islamic venders; universities with segregated dormitories and graduation ceremonies; racial preferences in college admissions, or racially gerrymandered electoral districts.

Obama's Supreme Court Choice:  No Evangelicals Need Apply.  Justice Clarence Thomas was only the second black American to be nominated to the Supreme Court.  His confirmation hearings, however, were hardly the stuff of "let's make history."  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joe Biden, after promising Judge Thomas a fair hearing, enabled the worst kind of gutter rumor and "over the transom" innuendo to be introduced against the dignified and principled Clarence Thomas.  All of this was broadcast on national television.

Are Liberals Anti-WASP?  Not since Thurgood Marshall, 43 years ago, has a Democratic president chosen an African-American.  The lone sitting black justice is Clarence Thomas, nominated by George H. W. Bush.  And Thomas was made to run a gauntlet by Senate liberals.

From One Hispanic to Others — Arizona, You're Being Had By the Media.  Ask any American of every ethnicity how often they are asked for picture ID.  The answer is it happens on a daily basis — checking into hotels, using credit cards, at job interviews.  We should be used to this by now.  The only place we don't have to be documented is at the voting booth.  If voters had to prove their eligibility the Democrats would lose their base and their power.

Democrats reek of George Wallace.  Charges of intolerance are leveled routinely at those who question the administration's policies.  To listen to the accusers, one would think the entire history of racial discrimination and discord in this nation were properly laid at the feet of Republicans.  History teaches otherwise.

Hypocrisy in the Liberal Establishment.  It is absolutely clear that in 2010 conservative and Republican American blacks can't express their views without fear of reprisal and retaliation.  Is this the intent of the Civil Rights movement that blacks can only be free if they agree with the Democratic Party way of thinking?

Subsistence as Freedom.  The Democrats' political endgame requires citizens to accept subsistence as the new definition of freedom.  Democrats created a political and socioeconomic system where citizens are divided into racial, social, and economic classes.  Democrats concoct government programs, sold under the guise of compassion and equality, to an unwitting but fully complicit populace addicted to handouts, freebies, and benefits paid for by the sweat and equity of others.  Welcome to the 21st-century definition of freedom according to the Democrats.

Obama's Quiet War on Red States.  [Scroll down slowly]  The admonition goes that the poor will always be among us, but today's poor needn't become a permanent underclass, which has happened in big cities, especially those in blue states (think Newark, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Detroit).  These poor — mostly black and Hispanic — are the prisoners of big-city Democratic machines, which, allied with leaders in minority and poor communities, have stymied the "up and out" dynamic that was once a feature of poverty in America.  The poor are always with today's Democrats because in exchange for subsidizing the poor, Democrats get whole blocs of votes in return — votes that perpetuate their political power.

Reversing race-based politics.  From the department of silver linings:  A bad ruling based on a bad law may lead to the bad law being overturned.  The bad ruling occurred after the black-majority town of Kinston, N.C., chose by a two-thirds vote — including a majority in black precincts — to switch to a nonpartisan voting system. ... In short, Ms. King said those black voters didn't have enough sense to understand their own interests when they chose to hold elections without party labels.

The Abolition of the Family:  [Scroll down slowly]  It is not by accident that over 70% of black children in America are born out of wedlock.  Almost 50% of young black men in America are unemployed.  And without a job, a man has no incentive to start or remain with his family.  The Obama administration has done next to nothing to stimulate those parts of the economy that provide employment for young men and, therefore, protect and strengthen the family.  This is the dirtiest and nastiest of not-so-secret secrets that no one seems to want to address.

Where are the black tea partiers?  Keith Olbermann has famously asked where the Black tea-partiers are.  The Associated Press writes that they are indeed out there.  They are brave to participate, too, given the hateful, racist rhetoric they report from liberals who want them to shut up and go away.

ACORN and the Ku Klux Klan:  ACORN does indeed operate like the Mafia, but it more closely resembles another organization that began as an affiliate of the Democratic Party, the Ku Klux Klan.  Aside from intimidating some bank executives, ACORN does not engage in violence, but like the KKK it has vote fraud as a top priority.  There have been two distinct organizations known as the Ku Klux Klan.  The modern-day KKK, with whom most people are familiar, was spawned in 1915 by the Hollywood epic Birth of a Nation, premiered at the White House by a Democrat president, Woodrow Wilson.  Cross-burning and other rituals were actually inspired by the movie.  The Klan came to dominate the Democratic Party so thoroughly that the 1924 Democratic National Convention was known as the "Klanbake." ... In some areas, leadership of the Ku Klux Klan and the Democratic Party were indistinguishable.

I have a dream, too.  Domestically, Obama is at odds with African Americans big time.  He allowed DC's successful school voucher program to lapse, which benefitted the Teachers' Union but not DC's African American children.  His Black voter base in California supported Proposition 8 (which defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman only).  Obama, on the other hand, seeks to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.  Obama's staunch support of Planned Parenthood is baffling since Margaret Sanger, a eugenicist who targeted Black neighborhoods, founded that organization.

How the Left Reveals Itself:  I have recently come to the conclusion that leftists reveal their innermost thoughts when attacking those with whom they disagree.  This was perhaps illustrated most clearly when, after President Obama's recent State of the Union address:  MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews revealed that for an hour he forgot the president was black.

The Fraud of Progressive Nobility:  Forty years of Great Society-inspired welfarism have brought a 70 percent illegitimate birthrate among Blacks — a 218 percent explosion since the LBJ years.  The non-Hispanic white illegitimacy rate hovers below 12 percent.  Amid a finger-pointing blame fest, "minority advocates" still supply the crutches on which minorities lean.  For instance, affirmative action strengthens the haplessness in "protected classes" that motivated liberals to "protect" those classes in the first place.

Black History Month Should Be about Black History.  [Scroll down]  I mean, after all, it is a part of history.  But what is so wrong is that these race exploiters imply that current race relations in America have not come very far from the days of blacks being lynched.  Thus, Black History Month in reality is the liberal democrats' annual fundraiser and promo campaign for more entitlement programs.

Harry Reid's Negro Problem:  Democrats regularly say things that would end the career of any conservative who said them.  And still, blacks give 90 percent of their votes to the Democrats.

Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations:  "For an hour, I forgot that Obama was black," said Chris Mathews, the host of MS-NBC's "Hardball," after he finished watching President Obama's State of the Union address.  Did Mathews mean that he's not used to hearing from articulate blacks who sound just like educated whites?

Donny Deutsch, 'Coconut' Bigot, Typical Democrat.  In settings like MSNBC (but usually backstage) the term coconut (brown on the outside white on the inside) is generally used to castigate "Hispanics" who ignore marching orders barked by Democratic/MSM drill sergeants — same as "Oreo" for similarly uppity blacks.

Justice concludes black voters need Democratic Party.  Voters in this small city decided overwhelmingly last year to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections, but the Obama administration recently overruled the electorate and decided that equal rights for black voters cannot be achieved without the Democratic Party.  The Justice Department's ruling, which affects races for City Council and mayor, went so far as to say partisan elections are needed so that black voters can elect their "candidates of choice" — identified by the department as those who are Democrats and almost exclusively black.

Justice Department Says Blacks in N.C. Town Can't Get Elected Without Democratic Party Label.  The U.S. Department of Justice is refusing to allow the town of Kinston, N.C., to hold nonpartisan local elections on the grounds that African Americans cannot win election without being listed as Democrats on the ballot.

Justice Department to blacks:  We know better.  Black voters across the land should be offended by the Obama Justice Department.  In a decision last month, the department effectively told black voters in the town of Kinston, N.C., that they are too stupid to choose their own elected officials unless the candidates are identified by party label.  In doing so, the department overruled Kinston's black voters themselves, who helped vote overwhelmingly to join most other North Carolina towns in holding nonpartisan local elections.

Libs Scold Black Conservatives.  The liberal media celebrates black achievement only when it comes from an I made it in spite of America's racism point of view.  Blacks who proclaim, "I achieved because America is the greatest land of opportunity on the planet for all who choose to go for it" are vilified by the media, branded Uncle Toms and traitors to their race.  The Left's message is clear.  To be authentically black and faithful to their race, blacks must not achieve on their own.  They must view themselves as eternal victims and reserve at least a minimal resentment against white America.

The Real History of Civil Rights.  [Scroll down]  When the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which would end segregation nationwide, came to Congress for a vote, a number of Senators did, in fact, threaten to filibuster the bill as Harry Reid stated.  What Harry Reid did not mention is that 80% of those Senators that threatened to filibuster the Civil Rights Act were Democrats.  In fact, 31% of Democrats in Congress voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  That means about 1/3 of the Democrat Party refused to end segregation nationwide.

Reid's Teachable Moment.  Harry Reid is an obvious product of a government education that he and other Liberals are inflicting on the rest of America, and he should be the poster child for school choice.  In his recent comment regarding Republicans' efforts to block "healthcare" legislation, Reid invoked the ghosts of Democrats past, claiming that Republicans tried to block emancipation and civil rights for blacks.  I believe Reid gave America yet another teachable moment.

Reid Compares Opponents of Health Care Reform to Supporters of Slavery.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took his GOP-blasting rhetoric to a new level Monday [12/7/2009], comparing Republicans who oppose health care reform to lawmakers who clung to the institution of slavery more than a century ago.

Harry Reid's main focus:  Harry Reid.  Harry Reid began the week in familiar fashion, by detonating an improvised literary device on the Senate floor.  It bombed.  Instead of merely scolding Republicans for their filibuster of the health-care legislation, he compared them to slaveholders and racists.

Peanut Farmer Allergies.  The Democrats know that without the support of black Americans their political party is doomed — at least until they can addict the immigrants who have arrived over our southern border.  Get them dependent on Fedzilla handouts, and the Democrats believe they can own their votes.  Meanwhile, the condition of black America continues to erode because our government keeps it so.  How sad.  How totally unnecessary.  But this is the heavy toll of genuflecting at the altar of Fedzilla for the past 50 years.

Why I am no longer an African American.  As a black woman in the Age of Obama, I don't see anything that reveals that Blacks in America have anything to celebrate. ... It is obvious that the inspiration for the classification of African American has nothing to do with those born of African descent.  It is a radical group of Black Americans who hold to the anti-American views of those shared by Jeremiah Wright, Professor Gates, Jesse Jackson, President Obama and many others who came out of the radical Civil Rights Movement.  Because of these things, I now part ways with the classification of African American because I hold no allegiance to Africa.

Who's a Racist?  Do Barack Obama and the Democrat Party foster racism and use it as a political tool?  The cold, hard truth that no one on the Left wants to admit is that they do.

Stop playing the race card.  As an American who happens to be black, I say to those who are playing the race card in the healthcare debate:  Stop it!  The very people who do all the hand-wringing about racism are the first to use it to divide us, and we are tired of it.  The racial denigration of those who show up at town meetings as "angry white folks" is disgusting.

Barack and Me.  I've been a committed conservative and, with the exception of one year where I listed myself as an independent, a registered Republican since 1978.  What makes that rather unremarkable statement more intriguing is that I'm an American who happens to be black.  Anyone who follows politics knows that puts me in rare and sometimes lonely company.

Democrats Jumping the Race-Card Shark..  A rather inconvenient fact, however, is that the only reported act of racial violence so far happened on Tuesday [9/15/2009] on a public school bus in St. Louis and the offenders were black, the victim white.  An apparently unprovoked attack on a high school student took place over — get this — a seat on the bus..  The irony is downright nerve-wrenching.  A black student beat the white student to the cheers of his black classmates and the bus driver supposedly did nothing to intervene.  KKK in reverse?  That's a lot more violence than Rosa Parks got over her seat on the bus.  In fact, Rosa Parks wasn't on the receiving end of anything more than arrogant stares.

Some Blacks Now Have Doubts About Obama.  According to the Pew Research Center, the president's approval rating nationwide is now 10 points lower than last April.  Included in this is a three-point drop in his approval among blacks.  You might say, Star, a drop in approval ratings among blacks from 95 percent to 92 percent is trivial.  But I say not so.  If we assume this reflects the 16 million blacks who voted for Obama last November, a three point shift means there are about a half million blacks who now have buyer's remorse.  This is meaningful.  You take real risks going against the establishment in black America.

The White-Racism Chorus.  Did Attorney General Eric Holder really want honest talk when in February he called for "frank conversations" about race?  "Honest" talk, as the MSM and much of the chattering Left defines it, consists of slamming most whites as racist. ...[Jimmy] Carter has concluded that Obama critics are "overwhelmingly" racist.

The race bullies:  When "communist" was the allegation of the day, it lost its sting in due course.  Today, in spite of sixty years of immense black progress since Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights laws, the media and Demagogues love to read "racism!" into the minds of ordinary, decent Americans.  It is pure a Stalinist tactic to shut up opposition.  It is done with malice aforethought as a power play.  For Democrats there are no "racists" on the Left, just revered old Ku Klux Klanners like Senator Robert Byrd.

Meet Your Lords and Masters.  It's bad enough that Robert Byrd is a former Exalted Cyclops of the KKK, but the earmark king of the Senate is also a 93 year old sick-bed senator who rarely makes it into work.  Unquestionably, he's too ill to pay attention to his job day-to-day, but you can count on his aides to wheel him in, beat the buzzards away from him with a stick and show him which lever to pull any time the Democrats need a key vote in the Senate.  Whatever may be said of Robert Byrd, one thing is for sure:  he doesn't belong in the Senate anymore, if he ever did in the first place.

Post mortem:
 Sen. Robert Byrd not only was a KKK member but led his local Klan chapter.  A quick check of this morning's obituaries reveal that in the eyes of the traditional media, Byrd the Progressive Porker is much more important than Bob the Exalted Cyclops.  Byrd joined the Klan at the ripe young age of 24 — hardly a young'un by today's standards, much less those of 1944, when Byrd refused to join the military because he might have to serve alongside "race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds," according to a letter Byrd wrote to Sen. Theodore Bilbo at the height of World War II.

Good Riddance, Robert Byrd.  When Robert Byrd was a young man, he organized a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in his hometown of Crab Orchard and at the young age of 24 rose to the high office of "Exalted Cyclops."  He quickly climbed the KKK ranks, ascending all the way to "grand Kleagle," a powerful recruitment head.

Byrd Tributes Go Overboard.  [Scroll down]  The common interpretation is that Byrd's is a story of redemption.  A one-time Exalted Cyclops of the KKK, Byrd recruited some 150 members to the chapter he led — that's led, not "joined," by the way.  (If you doubt his commitment to the cause, try to recruit 150 people to do anything, never mind have them pay a hefty fee up front.)  Byrd filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act.  As Bruce Bartlett notes in his book "Wrong on Race," Byrd knew he would fail, but he stood on bedrock principle that integration was evil.  His individual filibuster, the second longest in American history, fills 86 pages of fine print in the Congressional Record.  "Only a true believer," writes Bartlett, "would ever undertake such a futile effort."

Misplaced eulogies for Robert Byrd.  After Robert Carlyle Byrd died on Monday while trying to struggle through yet another record-breaking term in the U.S. Senate, the obituaries either ignored or downplayed what made him interesting, his egomania and his racism.

Robert Byrd & His Racist Party.  Being a liberal means never having to say you're sorry.  No matter how egregious one's sins against the stated principles of American liberalism, American liberals will welcome the sinner back as long as he atones through service to American liberalism.  So convinced of the goodness of their own cause, liberals self-servingly view liberalism as an indemnity against past transgressions, as proven by this past year's beatifications of one senator who left a woman to suffocate in her own air pocket at Chappaquiddick and of his longtime colleague who served as a recruiter for the KKK.  And why wouldn't a former Klansman such as Byrd feel comfortable in the Democratic Party?

It's not racism, it's being an American.  Charges of racism are among the most serious that can be made in America because of our nation's history on race relations.  There is no doubt America has come a long way in healing past wounds, but there is certainly more to be done.  That is why I am outraged that Democrats today, including former president Jimmy Carter, are injecting race into the debate over President Obama's policies.

The 'Racism' Canard:  In the wake of Joe Wilson's crude outburst, many network commentators (and Jimmy Carter, of course) are weighing in on the new racism that supposedly explains 1) rising opposition to Obamacare and 2) the president's sinking polls. ... To prove their charge, those who allege racism would have to show empirically that the present angry rhetoric eclipses what was said about and done to Bush.  It does not yet.  We don't see the word "hate" used in mainstream publications like The New Republic and the Guardian, as it was during the Bush years.

Why I must be a racist.  Because I was concerned that Barack Obama associated with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, I am a racist.  Because I think that Joe Wilson's "you lie" comment was true, but they way he said it and the venue he said it in was inappropriate, I am a racist.  Because I am worried that the health care plans pushed by President Obama will diminish the quality of medical care for my Caucasian parents and children (and end up raising their taxes too) I am a racist.

Dear White Liberal America:  Thank you very, very much.  You see us poor helpless inferior blacks (oh forgive me, I must be politically correct, "African Americans"), and you want to help us using your superior intellect.  After all, we could not possibly succeed in this racist, homophobic and greedy country without your assistance.

The Democrats' own history with race.  For decades, it has been a template of the major media that Republicans are the party of racism.  It repeats uncritically any charges of Republican racism, no matter how unfounded.  Democrats, on the other hand, are always given a pass whenever they commit racist offenses.  Even a cursory review, however, will show that the media template is totally contrary to history.

The Myth that Liberals Care About Hispanic Americans:  The liberals will tell you they're the best friends Hispanic immigrants have ever had because they believe anyone who manages to sneak across the border should be made into a citizen.  Meanwhile, Hispanic immigrants in this country who spent years waiting and spent thousands of dollars in fees to get through a bureaucratic nightmare because they loved and respected this country, are being played for chumps.

The Other 'Hispanic' Nominee.  Then-President George W. Bush, in 2001, nominated him to the prestigious U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  Had Estrada secured the nomination — and had Republicans retained the White House in 2008 — many would have placed Estrada on the list of possible future Supreme Court justices.  He, not Sotomayor, could have become that court's first Hispanic justice.  Instead, the "minority-sensitive" Democrats treated him like a child molester.

Barbara Boxer Exposed as 'Racial'.   [The video clip in this article] contains an honest, gut level outburst from an indignant black man who has obviously reached the limit of his patience with liberal white condescension.

Davis hits party wall in Alabama.  As he embarks on his bid to become the first African-American governor of a Deep South state since Reconstruction, Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) is meeting stiff resistance from an unlikely source:  key members of Alabama's Democratic establishment.

Obama's shameful silence.  [Scroll down]  When congressional Democrats recently doomed the Opportunity Scholarship Program for poor children in the District [of Columbia], the education president didn't say a word.  Of the 1,700 students, starting in kindergarten, in this private-school voucher program, 90 percent are black and 9 percent are Hispanic.

Dr. Frankenstein, Meet Barack Obama.  Those on the Left actually believe that those of us who don't see Barack Obama in the same flattering light they do must be racists.  I'm certain they won't believe me when I say I don't know any Republicans who dislike or distrust him because of his race, but it happens to be the truth.  How is it that liberals figure we're racist for not adoring Obama, but don't regard themselves as racists when they bellow their hatred of Clarence Thomas, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Condi Rice, Michael Steele and Ward Connerly?

Why the GOP Can't Win With Minorities:  Today conservatism is stigmatized in our culture as an antiminority political philosophy.  In certain quarters, conservatism is simply racism by another name.  And minorities who openly identify themselves as conservatives are still novelties, fish out of water.

Are liberal Jews secular millenarians?  Why do liberal Jews constantly vote for power-hungry statists, when Jews have a history of persecution by all-powerful states?  Like Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union, just to name two.  It's not just liberal Jews.  Christians who don't really believe much in their faith also tend to lean Left.  In Britain that's been an open secret for decades.  It is a staple joke in novels and political commentary.  Much of the Church of England hierarchy has become agnostic or atheist, and also statist, socialist, and pro-Islamist.  One follows the other.

Why American Jews Vote so Liberal and Why They Shouldn't.  Time and time again, I read in websites and blogs around the internet the question and puzzling paradox posed by Gentiles who strongly support Israel, how can it be that so many Jews continue to blindly vote for ultra-liberal causes that are inherently ultra-critical of Israel and even subliminally of Jews.

Soros Unmasked.  We have learned that J Street is not the grassroots group it has made itself out to be; rather, it is but one anti-Israel organization that George Soros had founded and funded.  It isn't simply $750,000 for J Street to advance its (or rather, Soros's) Israel-bashing agenda.  There is also Human Rights Watch.  As many others have documented, Human Rights Watch is another exercise in false advertising. ... The pattern is clear here:  where there is a well-funded group seeking to undermine the U.S.-Israel relationship, delegitimize Israel, or push for America's retreat from the world, it's a good bet Soros is behind it.

5 Reasons Black Americans Should Give Up On The Democratic Party.  [Scroll down]  For a lot of black Americans, a vote for the Democratic Party is a vote to lose their job to an illegal alien, trap their kids in a lousy school, and get criminals released back into their neighborhood.  Even someone like Louis Farrakhan, who has campaigned for numerous Democrats over the years, is in favor of corporal punishment, building small businesses, and he believes that welfare is a trap that keeps black Americans mired in poverty.  Incidentally — it is.

It's time for the Jewish vote to defect from the Democratic Party.  The Republican upset victory in the special election for New York's heavily Jewish 9th Congressional District has set off alarm bells in Democratic political circles.  The White House is launching an outreach effort to American Jews to convince them that Mr. Obama is the best friend Israel has ever had in Washington.  If that were even remotely true, there would be no desperate need for outreach.

The Man Who Would Be God.  To this day, FDR holds a warm spot in the hearts of most Jews for reasons I can't begin to imagine.  There is nothing in FDR's record that shows he had positive feelings about Jews.  Some people have even suggested that, with his patrician background, he probably had a negative attitude.  But the fact remains that he refused to let the Jews aboard the St. Louis disembark and instead forced the ship and its passengers to return to Europe, back into the hands of the Nazis.  For good measure, FDR, although urged by many, also refused to bomb the railroad tracks leading to the concentration camps.

House Leadership Takes Suicidal Stand Against Its African-American Base.  A nationwide poll exclusively of African-Americans nationwide just released by the National Center for Public Policy Research found that 76 percent of African-Americans want action on climate change delayed until after the economy recovers.  The 800 African-Americans surveyed were overwhelmingly Democrat:  80 percent self-identified as Democrats, 67 percent self-reported being "strong" Democrats.  Only 4 percent self-identified as Republican.

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 No matter what the Democrats do to the average black voter, he or she will probably never vote for another party. It doesn't matter that abortion predominantly kills black babies.  It doesn't matter that the always-increasing minimum wage hurts blacks more than anybody else.  Ask black people on the street corner why they are loyal to the Democrat party, and they'll tell you it is because the Democrats are the ones who are perpetuating the welfare state.  Black Americans apparently don't mind depending upon Uncle Sam for a handout.  Just keep sending the checks, and no questions will be axed.

Powerful Democrat Calls Illegal Aliens 'Free Loaders and Scam Artists'.  Most liberals regard illegal aliens as "Undocumented Democrats" and a veritable gold mine of opportunity for holding on to political power by coddling to those here unlawfully.  For that reason, most Democrat politicians have abandoned patriotic concern about homeland security, the rule of law, stability of the American economy and social order, and preservation of American language and culture.  In fact, one can search high and low for a liberal with a patriotic, pro-America stance on illegal immigration, and that search will usually be futile.

Gospel of dependence from National Urban League.  Shouldn't it embarrass black Americans that one the nation's largest and most prestigious civil rights organizations offers a long list of proposals to improve black life in our country, and every single proposal is a government program? ... There's not a single proposal that I could find in a several hundred-page report about improving black life that does not start with government.  The civil rights movement once was about freedom and liberation.  Now it's about government dependency.  We should be ashamed.

America Apologizes to Britain for Obama.  In 1998, Bill Clinton offered apologies on behalf of "all of America" for crimes of the past. ... Clinton was infamously dishonest and unrepentant about his own lies and crimes.  But Clinton was all too eager to apologize for America on account of crimes which "America" never committed.  Democrats, not Americans, were responsible for slavery and for Jim Crow.  Democrats in the North as well as the South won white votes by their racial bigotry.  Clinton might well, as the leader of the Democrat Party, have apologized to the Republican Party for having defended slavery, opposed the enfranchisement and true emancipation of blacks, and for having men like Robert "KKK" Byrd as the modern leader of Senate Democrats, for having placed Klansmen like Hugo Black and Tom Clark on the Supreme Court.

Modern Feminists and their Folly:  [Scroll down slowly]  But perhaps the saddest aspect of the failed sexual revolution is what's been done to the aspirations of young minority women, who've come to believe that success can only come from their bodies rather than their minds.  My daughter teaches sixth grade at an inner city school and was shocked to learn that her female students are obsessed with sex and their greatest ambition seems to be appearing in a hip hop video with a rap star.  These are the ones that have the rapper fully clothed mouthing obscenities surrounded by naked gyrating teenagers.

Back on Uncle Sam's Plantation.  A vast sea of perhaps well intentioned government programs, all initially set into motion in the 1960's, that were going to lift the nation's poor out of poverty.  A benevolent Uncle Sam welcomed mostly poor black Americans onto the government plantation.  Those who accepted the invitation switched mindsets from "How do I take care of myself?" to "What do I have to do to stay on the plantation?"  Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems.  The kind of problems that are inevitable when individuals turn responsibility for their lives over to others.

Remember Gonzales and Estrada.  [Miguel] Estrada has a compelling life story, perhaps even more compelling than Sotomayor's.  He was born in Honduras and immigrated to America with a limited understanding of English.  He still succeeded as a law student, U.S. attorney and member of the Justice Department prior to his nomination for the D.C. court in 2001.  His bid ended, however, after a two-year filibuster by Senate Democrats.  Due to the D.C. court's influence, Estrada could have become the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court when vacancies cropped up during Bush's second term.  But Democrats would have no part of it.

Will Holder discuss these five racial issues?  Here are five racial matters Americans must talk about but liberals avoid like leprosy:  [#1]  The 1965 Moynihan Report:  Also known as "The Negro Family:  The Case for National Action," the report noted the increase in the absence of fathers in the nation's black households and then predicted, with chilling accuracy, what the consequences would be if the situation got worse.  It did:  some 25 percent of black children were born out of wedlock; today that figure is close to 70 percent.  Black leaders in 1965 dismissed Moynihan and his report.  So much for honest, gutsy dialogue.

The Blood of Patriots and Tyrants.  Even the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was opposed by 35% of congressional Democrats, who controlled congress at the time.  It passed only because it was supported by 81% of Republicans.  Today, 95% of the black vote goes to Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  In 2008, 68% of the "youth vote" went to Barack Hussein Obama.  Neither would be true had either known anything about history.  Now they must learn history the hard way.

Democrats: The Missing Years.  The DNC website section labeled "Party History," … is in fact scrubbed clean of the not-so-little dirty secret that fueled Democrats' political successes for over a century and a half and made American life a hell on earth for black Americans. … So what's missing?  There is no reference to the number of Democratic Party platforms supporting slavery.  There were six from 1840-1860.  There is no reference to the number of Democratic presidents who owned slaves.  There were seven from 1800-1861.  There is no reference to the number of Democratic Party platforms that either supported segregation outright or were silent on the subject.  There were 20, from 1868-1948.  There is no reference to "Jim Crow" as in "Jim Crow laws," nor is there reference to the role Democrats played in creating them.

The GOP Is the Party of Civil Rights.  Everyone knows this, but it's worth repeating:  The Republican Party is the party of Abraham Lincoln and was established in 1854 to block the expansion of slavery.  The Democratic Party was the party of slavery:  Its two founders, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, owned large numbers of slaves, and every party platform before the Civil War defended the institution unequivocally.  After the war, it was the Republican Party that rammed through the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution over Democratic opposition.

False pride and the liberal imagination:  Is the election of Barack Obama a victory for racial tolerance and equality?  Or is Obama just a clever politician surfing the fathomless supply of white guilt, like the three famous Revs --- Jesse, Al and J-Rite?  Is Obama the bearer of post-racial forgiveness, or is he just good at the ole' slice and dice?  In a way it doesn't matter.  To liberals a black president equals goodness and virtue.

Obama And His Silly White Women Behind Him.  If anybody really believes that Race is not an issue in this 2008 election, then they are grossly deceived, because that denial is being used as a shield to deflect criticism from the Obamaniacs when they spew out their accusations of racism against whites and anybody else who won't go along with their predominantly black agendas, which many have yet to understand their agendas have been in place for decades.  And they have made no secret that those plans are in place to the exclusion of everybody else except the blacks and all those whom they now call "people of color."  But, is that what the majority of Americans want for America?  I believe not!

Democrats Should Fear the 'Brady Effect'.  As legions of Barack Obama's supporters (both inside and outside the mainstream media) wait with giddy anticipation to celebrate victory on November 5, they can't seem to block creeping doubt from their minds.  What if the outcome doesn't all fall neatly into place like their polls project?  How can such a scenario be explained?  Their answer is an old canard:  Latent racism in America.

Dem Playbook Shows Dirty Tactics.  Documents obtained by Townhall show the Democratic Party encouraged party activists to accuse the GOP of intimidating minorities on Election Day even if no evidence of intimidation existed in the 2004 presidential election.  The tactic is being used again in 2008, this time to downplay fraud charges against a predominantly minority non-profit supporting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Are Christians Imprisoned By Obama Blackness and White Guilt?  Let's speak truthfully.  As I see it, Obama would never have been elected to this prestigious position, had it not been for the white vote.  Regardless of how many times Obama protested that (his) Race was not an issue in this 2008 Presidential election, he played the black folk like a fiddle.

Splitting blacks from white Americans was always part of the plan, according to Bill Ayers himself, and according to his radical buds like J-Wright. … So the Left had to find a new, miserable proletariat, and right there were the inner city blacks, uprooted from their Christian families and work ethic in the South, often feeling lost and vulnerable.  That's where Black Liberation Theology came in and the Black Muslims.  That's where ACORN recruited its heavies.  That's where the Democrats get their most obedient voters to this very day.

An Open Letter to Black Obama Supporters.  In two previous notably liberal administrations, socialist ideas were entertained:  Bloat government to its largest degree and cause people to become dependent upon it for their livelihood.  Under Franklin Delano Roosevelt the longest lasting experiment with Socialism was instituted.  Social Security has now become what people think of as a stream of money flowing from the government.  Perhaps in Urban America you know a number of people who get Social Security benefits who aren't even retired (which is what it was originally intended for) or disabled, or even in legitimate need of it.  Every check of Social Security that goes to an undeserving recipient plunges Black America into deeper poverty.

Democratic Congressman Warns Jews, Blacks to Beware of Palin.  Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings on Wednesday [9/24/2008] warned two minority groups to beware of Sarah Palin because "anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks."  Hastings, who is black and a Democrat, made the comment in Florida at a panel discussion hosted by the National Jewish Democratic Council.

Obama Is Stoking Racial Antagonism.  I understand the rough and tumble of politics.  But Barack Obama — the supposedly postpartisan, postracial candidate of hope and change — has gone where few modern candidates have gone before.  Mr. Obama's campaign is now trafficking in prejudice of its own making.  And in doing so, it is playing with political dynamite.

How Can a "Fellow Black Republican" Oppose Obama?  Do you know that Democrats opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution — abolishing slavery, granting citizenship rights to newly freed slaves, and guaranteeing the right to vote (at least on paper) to blacks, respectively?  Do you know that most of the politicians who stood for segregation were Southern Democrats?  Do you know that the Ku Klux Klan was founded by Democrats, one of whose goals was to stop the spread of the Republican Party?  Do you know that, as a percentage of the party, more Republicans than Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Democrats Have Kept Racism Alive.  There was a big problem with Barack's mea culpa speech in Philadelphia, defending his racist pastor, Jeremiah White.  He failed to mention that over 300,000 white Americans gave their lives to end slavery.  He didn't mention that in 1854, abolitionists left the Democratic Party and founded the Republican Party specifically for the purpose of ending slavery and giving equal rights to all those who had been in bondage.

Obama the Magic Negro-Gate:  When will the GOP — on the issue of race — go on the offense?  After all, for 100 years, the Democratic Party showed its tone deafness to the rights of blacks.  Democrats opposed the 13th Amendment (freeing the slaves), the 14th Amendment (making ex-slaves citizens) and the 15th Amendment (that, on paper at least, gave blacks the right to vote).  Democrats founded the Ku Klux Klan — some even call it the "terrorist wing of the Democratic Party."  And a greater percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Get Back in the Kitchen, Sarah!  If you're a liberal icon like Jimmy Carter, you can refer to Barack Obama as a "black boy" without anyone batting an eye.  If you're a liberal like Joe Biden, you can "praise" Obama as clean and articulate or joke about Indians and Dunkin Donuts' with barely a whisper of disapproval from the monolithically liberal mainstream media.  If you're a liberal cartoonist like Ted Rall, you can caption Condoleezza Rice as the president's "House Nigga."  If you're a liberal talk show host like Sly Sylvester, you can refer to her as Aunt Jemima. … And the quickest path to the top of the liberal class is to ridicule Justice Clarence Thomas.

The Party Of Anti-Achievement.  [Sarah Palin's] selection should have been celebrated from sea to shining sea.  But the coordinated attack on Palin and her family proves once again that the Democrat Party is the antithesis of everything they claim to champion.  They ARE anti-woman and anti-minority, that is unless that celebrated woman and minority are Democrats.

Clinton's diminishing of black voters.  [Scroll down]  Yet here is Clinton dancing all over stereotypes.  There is no way you can say in the same sentence, "hard-working Americans, white Americans," without diminishing black Americans as lazy. ... All the love built up between the Clintons and black folks became love and war when a black man stood between them and their castle.

The Slavery Apology Backfire:  News flash: the Democrats will not be wasting any time at their Denver Convention apologizing for slavery — or segregation either.  They aren't even ashamed enough to apologize for giving a double thumbs-up to lynching African-Americans.

The Tragedy of Campaign '08.  Democrats have kept their liberal and black base together by claiming that their policy differences with Republicans over entitlements and other domestic matters are the consequence of the alleged racism of white Republicans.  It is a false charge but it has helped the Democrats at the polls, even as it has made many blacks unnecessarily sensitive about their minority status.

Planned Parenthood Puts A Hit Out On Black Children.  Planned Parenthood Facilities around the country have been accused of accepting contributions from racist donors.  A group of concerned people conducted their own "sting" operation which has exposed a willingness of Planned Parenthood employees to accommodate racist donors.  In fact, clinic personnel in Ohio, New Mexico, Idaho and Oklahoma have been captured on tape pandering to a potential donor with a racist agenda.

Bamboozled Obama's big black lie:  It was the Republican Party that fought for the freedoms of blacks in Congress following the conclusion of the Civil War.  State chapters of the Republican Party were started by blacks in most southern states.  The first black congressional members, some of whom had been former slaves only months previous, were all Republican.

Two Cheers for Obama.  As author Bruce Bartlett details in Wrong on Race:  The Democratic Party's Buried Past, Democrats have a long history of anti-black statements and sentiments that far exceed the so-called code words of Nixon's alleged "Southern strategy," in which the phrase "law and order" somehow magically converted white resentment into electoral votes.  Too bad this primary's rhetoric was not that benign.

Visitors from a Weird Planet:  Back in the 1960s, the Democrats went in for social engineering in a big way.  They concentrated particularly on black Americans.  One of the first things they did was to increase welfare, but only to those homes that didn't have men living in them.  That not only created dependency on the part of black women and children, but, inevitably, led young blacks to grow up without male authority figures around to keep them in line.  The results weren't too great for the grown-ups, either.

Digging Up Democratic Skeletons:  Democrats ... supported slavery, opposed civil rights legislation, instituted the "Black Codes," and created the Jim Crow system.  The Republican Party, in contrast, was founded in opposition to slavery, and supported post-Civil War and Civil Rights Movement-era legislation.

Obama's Trap:  The truth is, liberals don't find Reverend Wright shocking.  Liberals find themselves nodding in silent agreement with much of what he preaches.  Furthermore, they aren't offended by the notion of rewarding a domestic terrorist from the 1960's with professorship at a major state university.  Even more damaging is the notion that they really don't practice zero tolerance on racism and bigotry — they're happy to ignore it if it's being practiced by part of their base.

It's Time to Call the Democrats on Race Demagogy.  The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is a very popular preacher of racial anger in Chicago.  So is Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, Cynthia McKinney, Professor Nikki Giovanni at Virginia Tech and far too many others.  They always get favorable media coverage, because they are speaking for the Left.  If you look at conservative blacks, you see exactly the opposite….  So the Left, and its mouthpiece the Democrats, have chosen the destructive demagogues and not the peace makers.  So be it.  But it's high time to call them on it.

Did someone mention Jeremiah Wright?

Racially Stacked New Deal.  [President Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the first president to put a Klansman on the U. S. Supreme Court — a move that Woodrow Wilson is never known to have contemplated.  Although FDR proclaimed ignorance of this colorful aspect of Hugo Black's past when asked about it in the 1930s, the justice himself offered a far different recollection in a 1968 memo.

The Democratic Party's Stealth War On Black Americans:  If you look back through American history and find a black American being enslaved, lynched, railroaded, or persecuted, 99 times out of a hundred, you'll find a Democrat behind it.  The hated and feared KKK?  Throughout most of its history, it was little more than a hooded, thuggish arm of the Democratic Party.

The Real Agenda of Black Liberation Theology.  In an article in the Washington Post, unnamed ministers commented that black liberation theology "encourages a preacher to speak forcefully against the institutions of oppression…"  And what might these institutions be?  They are not specified.  But it is safe to say that they are not the welfare state or the Democratic Party.  Given that black liberation theology is a product of the dreary leftist politics of the twentieth century, the very vehicles employed by the left to advance statism certainly can't be the culprits.  For the left, black liberation theology makes for close to a perfect faith.  It is a political creed larded with religion.  It serves not to reconcile and unite blacks with the larger cultural, but to keep them separate.

Insulting Blacks:  Commemorating a key point in American history is one thing, but a white person mimicking black dialect is demeaning and insulting.  And, if it buys her votes from those in attendance, not much flattering can be said about them. … Mrs. Clinton is not alone in demeaning talk to black people; she's in good company with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who talk of "going from the outhouse to the White House" and "from disgrace to amazing grace" and other such nonsense.

The Clinton strategy?  Having polarized blacks and whites, the Democratic primary campaign was already becoming sleazy.  And now that Latinos have been added to the mix, it's become surreal.  We're being told that Latinos won't vote for Barack Obama because he's black.  The implication is that Latinos are racist.

Primary Colors:  In 2001, President Bill Clinton was honored as the nation's "first black president" by the Congressional Black Caucus.  Ironically, his co-president and now Sen. Hillary Clinton is trying mightily to keep Sen. Barack Obama from becoming the genuine article, and both have become embroiled in a controversy over race and who should get credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Bill's Red Neck:  In the acrid aftermath of the South Carolina primary, I think it is safe to say that novelist Toni Morrison was dealing in fiction when she pronounced Bill Clinton our first black president.  After watching him huff and puff up the issue of race in a way that Americans have not seen since the presidential campaigns of the late George Wallace, the former Boy President, rather than being our first black president, is our second redneck president.

Bill Clinton Plays the Race Card — and Loses.  By invoking Jesse Jackson's name, Clinton attempted to portray Obama as the "black candidate."  Clinton knows that the race-driven Jackson polarizes people.  By branding Obama as Jackson-esque, Clinton hoped to peel away Obama's support from white voters and thus — pardon the expression — ghettoize Obama's candidacy.

Stung by political correctness.  Hilarously, the frontrunners for the US Democrats presidential candidacy — Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama — are now enmeshed in a web of political correctness spun by their party's reliance on race and gender politics for much of its popular appeal.

What an Obama Presidency Would Mean:  The Democratic Party has for years given lip service to the African-American community.  They have talked about prominence without fulfilling the promise.  They patronize without empowering.  Worst of all, this unholy bond has done more to decimate and deplete our community than slavery and Jim Crow laws ever could have accomplished.  This allegiance has destroyed millions of our children; children created but denied access to the American dream, children aborted.  The Democrat Party has been a major contributor to the African American slippery slide down the slope of depravity.

Liberals demean blacks again.  It is obvious that liberals are hanging onto a nostalgic vision of blacks as a victim group in need of protection by liberals.  Nothing could be more patronizing and ultimately dehumanizing.  Blacks are not a endangered species, and certainly don't need liberals fretting about where they choose to live their lives, as if they were a herd of Arctic caribou.

Hillary's Plantation Politics:  It was Clinton who introduced race tension into the election.  After Obama told a crowd in South Carolina at the time of Martin Luther King's birthday that the slain civil rights leader's crusade was not a "false hope," Clinton stepped in to point out that President Lyndon Johnson (the white patron) got the Civil Rights Act passed.  And then, of course, the senator's surrogate, husband Bill, minimized Obama's landslide victory in South Carolina as a black thing, pointing out that Jesse Jackson also did well there in 1984 and 1988.

Bill Clinton is not black.  It seems odd that I would have to make that statement; I have nothing against Bill Clinton, but I do have something against those who, for whatever reason, have convinced themselves that Clinton is not only black, but was also, "The First Black President."

Obama's Oblique Race Card.  While Republican candidate Mike Huckabee has gained the most media attention for using religion to promote his candidacy, Barack Obama has made the most effective use of speech patterns from American church sermonizing.

Black Dreams, White Liberals.  The analogy Clinton was implying was obvious:  I'm Lyndon Johnson, unlovely doer; he's Martin Luther King, charismatic dreamer.  Vote for me if you want results.  Forty years ago, that arrangement — white president enacting African American dreams — was necessary because discrimination denied blacks their own autonomous political options.  Today, that arrangement — white liberals acting as tribune for blacks in return for their political loyalty — is a demeaning anachronism.  That's what the fury at Hillary was all about, although no one was willing to say so explicitly.

Bill Has A 'Dream'.  Bill Clinton showed yesterday [1/21 or 1/20 ??] why he made it into the book "The Art of Napping."  During an appearance at the Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Harlem, the former president was caught nodding off.  Clinton was there during a service to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., while his wife was nearby at Abyssinian Baptist Church, where she was endorsed by its minister, Rev. Calvin Butts.

Bill gets some shut-eye at MLK day event.  He's been a pit bull when it comes to Barack Obama, but yesterday all Bill Clinton could manage was a cat nap.  And it was, to say the least, poorly timed.  According to the New York Post, Clinton took a snooze in the middle of a service to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Harlem on Sunday.

Blaspheming Hillary plays up to Harlem Baptists.  How can these parishioners sing "What A Friend We Have In Jesus" while at the same time shaking hands and clapping applause for the devil's agenda?  That's what goes on when Hillary steps inside a Christian sanctuary -- it's called anathema.  It's known in biblical terms as "hypocrisy."

Racial Role Reversal:  When the accuser in the Duke case charged rape, the district attorney — in the midst of a tough primary election — saw an opportunity to curry favor with Durham's black community and exploit the town-gown tension found in every college town.  He ran with it, inflaming public opinion against the accused at every opportunity.

Did someone mention the Duke Lacrosse Case?

Lott avenges media double standard.  Just days before the recent elections, Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.) and former Congressman, Ambassador and Mayor Andrew Young lent their voices to a radio ad designed to promote the African-American Democratic candidate for chairman of Fulton County, Georgia's largest.  The ad partly said and partially hinted that should the Republican candidate be elected, blacks would see their lives returned to the days of being fire-hosed in the streets, among other Jim Crow-type sufferings.

The Importance Of Being Ernesto: After Hurricane Katrina, Democrats exploited a natural disaster that devastated predominantly white and black areas in both Louisiana and Mississippi as an example of Bush administration racism.  National Committee Chairman Howard Dean marked the disaster's anniversary by charging that "Katrina ended any effective ability by Republicans to appeal to African-Americans."

Bamboozled Obama's big black lie:  It was the Republican Party that fought for the freedoms of blacks in Congress following the conclusion of the Civil War.  State chapters of the Republican Party were started by blacks in most southern states.  The first black congressional members, some of whom had been former slaves only months previous, were all Republican.

Low black voter turnout — who's to blame?  Twice as many blacks, according to a recent Pew Research Center report, now say they have little or no confidence in the voting system, compared to 2004.  And 29 percent of blacks believe their vote will not be accurately tallied, compared to 8 percent of whites. … But who told blacks that devious Republicans steal their votes?  Jesse Jackson, perhaps the most widely quoted "black leader," accused election officials in 2000 of stealing the black vote.

Selective race-baiting.  Going back to the Nixon era, Republicans have gained office in the South not because of their record on national defense or abortion or taxes but because every conservative victory is proof of Southern racism successfully exploited. … There is no fairness, no balance.  There is only the rational conclusion that the "news" media have decided once again that one party must be supported and the other must be defeated.

Preserving a vision:  Both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had a higher percentage of Congressional Republicans voting for their enactment than the percentage of Congressional Democrats.  You can check it out in The Congressional Record.  As for black economic advances, the most dramatic reduction in poverty among blacks occurred between 1940 and 1960, when the black poverty rate was cut almost in half, without any major government programs of the Great Society kind that began in the 1960s.

Hey, Liberals!  Lecture me about racism when you've stopped creating more of it.  All of their theories, of course, are predicated on the idea that Tennesseans, and all Southern conservatives, are troglodytic racists who are boorish enough to vote against a man because he's black and simultaneously sophisticated enough to pick up on very subtle coded political messages about his race.  I just don't buy it.

Why Liberals Still Think Like The KKK.  When the party of left-wing America founded the Ku Klux Klan they did so because they wished to seize the rights of an entire people group, intimidate them into voting for the candidates they decided, and for anyone so messy as to get in the way they became people who did not deserve to live.  One of the sitting members of the Unites States Senate who participated in Klan activity still sits seated by the same party that founded the Klan.  His name is Robert Byrd.

Cultural Whiplash:  Take for example the remarks, a couple of years ago, of the long-time senator from the great state of West Virginia, Robert Byrd.  Old Bob, the former Ku Klux Klan member, used the "N" word a couple of times while being interviewed on television.  Now, you might think that all hell broke loose; that the Washington Post headlined the event with a front-page story (upper half), or that Dan Rather and the CBS News opened their broadcast with Dan tearing his garments in protest.  Alas, if you thought that you'd be wrong.  You see, Bob Byrd is a neo-Marxist Democrat, and, well, things are just different with those folks, and one of things that are different is that they get a pass when it comes to the charge of "racism," even when they are "racists."

History of America's Racist Left:  Bilbo, Faubus, Wallace — all the memorable political bigots were Democrats, not Republicans.  Today, a remnant of that Democratic Party survives in West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, who can boast of having served as both Majority Leader in the Senate and Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan.

The Republicans Passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.  the chief opponents were Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, of later Watergate fame, Albert Gore Sr., and Robert Byrd. Senator Byrd, a former Klansman whom Democrats still call "the conscience of the Senate", filibustered against the civil rights bill for fourteen straight hours before the final vote.  The House of Representatives passed the bill by 289 to 126, a vote in which 79% of Republicans and 63% of Democrats voted yes.

The Decline of Affirmative Action:  On February 8, 1964, Congressman Howard W. Smith [Democrat] of Virginia made a colossal miscalculation in the House of Representatives.  In an attempt to block the CRA, he suggested inserting the word "sex" after the word "religion" whenever it appeared in Title VII, which guaranteed "fair" employment practices.  By tying it to the then controversial women's movement, Smith hoped to kill the Civil Rights Act.

Byrd is about to be the longest-serving senator.  Byrd admits his obituary will include a personal blemish — his time spent early in his life as part of the Ku Klux Klan and the more than 14-hour filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Fighting dirty for the black vote.  Donna Brazile is uneasy.  She has noticed something highly threatening to her party, and she's sounding the alarm.  In a column for Roll Call newspaper, Brazile, Al Gore's campaign manager, warns her fellow Democrats that Republicans are seeking to make inroads into the African-American vote.  "Once they (black voters) start listening to Republicans, some may even like what they hear."

ACORN:  The largest radical group in America, with 175,000 dues-paying member families, and more than 850 chapters in 70 US cities.  Implicated in numerous reports of fraudulent voter registration, vote-rigging, voter intimidation, and vote-for-pay scams during the 2004 election.  Maintains close ties to organized labor.

Democrats Plan Race-Based Campaign Against Black Candidate in Maryland.  Democrats plan a race-based campaign against a candidate who aims to be Maryland's first black man elected to the U. S. Senate, according to a confidential Democratic Party campaign document obtained by The New York Sun.  The target of the emerging smear campaign is Michael Steele, the Republican nominee for a seat vacated by Paul Sarbanes, a liberal Democrat who has represented Maryland in the Senate for 30 years.

The credibility of black conservatism.  Liberals, particularly black liberals, will claim this incident simply confirms what they have known all along. … In their view, liberalism is coded into black DNA.  It is a genetic impossibility for a black to actually believe that government should be limited and that every person, regardless of circumstance, must take personal responsibility for his or her own life.

The recurring politics of race exploitation.  There are far too many people, in their ideological confusion, who believe conservatism is inherently racist.  That's presumably why they don't feel they're required to produce evidence to prove their claims.  They've already tried and convicted conservatives of racism; the particular infractions they cite are merely symptomatic of their prejudice.

Stop and think:  Part III.  No special interest group within the Democratic party has as much influence — domination might be a better word — as the teachers' unions.  The top priority of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers is their members' jobs. ... Parents may think that public schools exist to educate their children but, to the teachers' unions, these schools exist to provide their members with jobs, with iron-class tenure, and with pay increases based on seniority, not performance.  If maintaining that status quo means sacrificing the education of a whole generation of young blacks, the teachers' unions will do it.

Failing their own:  I'm thinking of a cabal of radical legislators who don't reflect the views of average Americans or even the interests of their own constituents.  They use wedge issues, play the race card and push their party to the ideological extreme.  They collude with outside activists, many of whom use religion as a Trojan horse for a radical political agenda.  Sound like those perennial paladins of villainy, the congressional GOP?  Guess again.  This is the Congressional Black Caucus.

The Attacks on Condoleezza Rice:  The attacks on Condoleezza Rice by some of the Democrats is something to behold.  It's been nearly half a century since a white person, any white person, dared criticize a black person.  And the criticism here is not polite.  It is about as harsh as it gets in the public arena — repeatedly calling a person in a high level government position a bald-faced liar goes way beyond a difference of opinion.  It is even more unusual not to hear a loud chorus of black people and black organizations, supported by the national media, coming to her defense.  Most of the time, there is a black organization or black person on every corner poised to scream racism whenever a white person criticizes a black person.  Where is Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus, and others?

What about the Religious Left?:  For years the Reverend Jesse Jackson has asserted that political engagement from the pulpit is an essential part of the church's moral responsibility.  In 1988, Jackson's presidential campaign was financed in part with cash donations openly collected in black churches.

The All American skin game:  How'd we get here?  Well, that's a long story.  But let's start with Bush's victory in 2000, which presented a real dilemma for Democrats who'd spent the 1990s playing the race card like it was an expiring coupon. … Having been shellacked by this approach to politics for so long, many Republicans have bought into it. … If the standard created by Democrats is that ideological diversity is meaningless, and only skin color and gender count, your best shot at putting conservatives on the court is to find blacks, Hispanics and women who agree with your philosophy.

Of Ants and Immigrants:  Of course, since these immigrants are largely uneducated, largely poor migrants coming here to make a better living, they will give their loyalty to whomever offers them the most — which means their children will be loyal Democrats because the Republicans cannot compete with Democrats when it comes to booty doled from the public treasury.  Who can blame them?  Conservatism is for those with a greater stake in society.  These people came here for economic reasons, and the Democrats will give them more.

A tale of two incumbents in Georgia.  For years, the GOP has felt that it was under-represented in Georgia's U.S. congressional delegation.  In a state that voted overwhelmingly for George W. Bush twice, the congressional districts had been gerrymandered by the Democratic General Assembly to provide more Democratic seats that demographics realistically allotted.

Don't let Democrats get away with race-baiting.  There they go again:  The Democrats are race-baiting — attempting to suggest that the Republicans purposely excluded or miscounted the votes of African-Americans in the 2004 election.  And why not?  It worked so well last time around.  The myth that African American votes went uncounted in Florida has achieved the status of conventional wisdom — never mind the little detail that it is completely false.

Senator Reid only betrays his ignorance.  I was around during [Supreme Court Justice Clarence] Thomas' 1991 confirmation hearings.  I remember that black Americans overwhelmingly supported his nomination.  I was told about the focus group meetings where the Democrats discovered that they could discredit Thomas by focusing on his marriage to a white woman, and by labeling him unqualified.  After that, every time a Democrat appeared on TV, references to Thomas' white wife and charges that he was unqualified poured out of their mouths.  The Democrats tapped into a latent river of racism.  It worked.

Speaking of Liberal Disrespect for Blacks:  Even if you don't want to characterize some of these infernal liberal cartoons lampooning and demeaning Condoleezza Rice as racist, could we at least agree that white liberals treat blacks disrespectfully when they engage in such expressions?  Don't they just assume they will get a pass when they refer to Dr. Rice as "Aunt Jemima" and Secretary Powell as an Uncle Tom?  What makes them think they can say such garbage with impunity?

Dean and the Democrats are frozen in a time warp.  Surely [Democratic National Committee] Chairman [Howard] Dean knows that our secretary of state is an African-American woman from Alabama.  Or that there are now three black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.  I wonder if he appreciates that the percentage of black households earning over $75,000 a year has more than quadrupled over the last 40 years.  Or that there are now over 1 million blacks in this country with advanced degrees.  Perhaps Dean didn't take notice that 1.5 million blacks voted for George W. Bush in 2004 — double the black vote that he got in 2000.

More nuance and flipflops.  The Democratic Party keeps agonizing over why it lost the election and how to recover.  Let me suggest this:  Quit undermining the electoral process in the name of protecting it.  And quit exploiting African-American voters by stirring fear in their hearts over fraudulent claims that Republicans want to disenfranchise them.

The Democratic party:  Modern day slave master.  The Democratic Party, the liberal "mainstream" media and the rest of the cultural elites are having a very hard time handling Dr. Rice's rise to power.  They've waged a disgraceful, racist and cowardly back-door assault against her.  Why?  Little Ms. Condoleezza has wandered away from the plantation.  She refuses to slave in the cotton fields of "progressive" ideology.

Why Democrats are tagged as the party without values:  To most Americans, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are race-baiting demagogues.  Yet they are heroes to the Democratic Party.  Most Americans do not see their country as the bigoted and racist nation regularly depicted by both black and white Democratic leaders.  To most Americans, a man who wears women's clothing to work is a pathetic person in need of psychotherapy.  To the Democratic Party, he is a man whose cross-dressing is merely another expression of multiculturalism.

When liberals play the race card:  Look at the treatment of prominent black Republicans like National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell.  Liberal critics pull no punches in using race to criticize them.  Political cartoonists Pat Oliphant and Jeff Danziger drew political cartoons accentuating Dr. Rice's black features and depict her speaking in rural Southern dialect.  Garry Trudeau referred to her as "Brown Sugar" in his comic strip, "Doonesbury."

Conservatives, liberals and blacks:  If there is one general characteristic of white liberals, it's their condescending and demeaning attitude toward blacks.

Is the Democratic Party racist?  The Democrats have successfully maintained their power base on the backs of black people.  Without them, the Democrats would go the way of the Whigs.

Dems fire minorities without a conscience:  The Democratic Party is taking blacks for granted.  Again.  The Associated Press is reporting that the Democratic National Committee laid off 10 black staffers this week.

"Black History Month" Renamed To Promote Anti-War Agenda:  Liberal Democrats in New York City have renamed Black History Month to reflect the anti-war sentiments expressed by protest groups and political leaders such as presidential candidate Al Sharpton.

Democrats:  Party of Angry White Men?  Where are all the good ole' boys?  They sure aren't over at the White House, where Ann Veneman, Gale Norton, Elaine Chao, Rod Paige, Colin Powell, Norm Mineta, Mel Martinez and Christy Todd Whitman make up almost half the president's cabinet, along with inner-circle advisors Karen Hughes and Condoleeza Rice.  And they aren't at the Supreme Court, where Republicans appointed the first woman and second black man.  And they certainly weren't at GOPAC, where JC Watts and a cabinet of women now hold the GOP future, running the entire Republican farm system.  Contrast this to the blatant tokenism of the Clinton cabinet which boasted such luminaries as Janet Reno, Hazel O'Leary and Jocelyn Elders.  Apparently, the battle to see which party makes the real commitment to a color blind meritorious nation is over.  And Republicans won.

Conservatives, liberals and blacks:  According to a Washington Times story (July 14, 2004), Democratic hopeful Sen. John Kerry, in a speech about education to a predominantly black audience, said that there are more blacks in prison than in college.  "That's unacceptable, but it's not their fault," he said.  Do you think Kerry would also say that white inmates are faultless?  Aside from Kerry being factually wrong about the black prison population vs. the black college population, his vision differs little from one that holds that blacks are a rudderless, victimized people who cannot control their destiny and whose best hope depends upon the benevolence of white people.


The Coretta Scott King Funeral

This event took place in February 2006, but the information below is presented here in an effort to keep it from going down the media memory hole.  Mrs. King's funeral was called Wellstone II because of its striking similarity to the funeral for Senator Paul Wellstone in October 2002, where a solemn ceremony was turned into a cheap political rally benefiting the Democratic Party, just because the major news organizations were there to cover it.  (See Honor & Civility, RIP.)

Video:  Coretta Scott King Funeral Turned Into Bush Bashing Event.  Only liberals can get away with using the funeral of the wife of a civil rights leader to preach your Bush hate and anti-War rhetoric, and only liberals would do so.

Paul Wellstone II:  The Coretta Scott King "Funeral".  Today's "funeral" service seemed like it the Paul Wellstone "funeral", or as Instapundit called it, a campaign rally.  Ed Driscoll similarly said that this was a 'pep rally'.  The only thing different today was that the President didn't walk out, like then Gov. Jesse Ventura did.  If President Bush and the First Lady did walk out, I would have supported them 100%.

Wellstoning the King Funeral:  [Jimmy Carter] never has a good word for anyone but himself, or a third world dictator, and he has never managed to behave in a classy manner -- not when he can do the easier, trashier thing and get his accolades from the usual suspects, and lots of coverage.

Dad Slams Attack On Bush At King Rite.  Former President George H.W. Bush has expressed dismay and anger at attacks on his son, President Bush, at the funeral for Coretta Scott King.

Back to the peanut gallery, Jimmy.  Carter, in case you haven't heard, didn't mention WMDs but did bring up federal wiretaps and racial discrimination. … This coming from the man who a little over a year ago traveled to Cuba and appeared at a baseball game with Fidel Castro — and they were wearing matching shirts, by the way.  And of course Carter went out of his way to insinuate that President Bush had somehow contrived to discriminate against thousands of black folks in Katrina's aftermath — and on and on and on.  I was ashamed to be from the same state.

A class act.  In some form or fashion, I have known the players in what I am about to describe as a series of regrettable moments at the funeral of Coretta Scott King.  The one I know least, President George W. Bush, won both my sympathy and respect for gallantly enduring the slings and arrows pointed directly at him during what should have been a celebration of a great woman, but instead turned into a political rally.

Turning a funeral pulpit into a political soapbox:  It's sad to say but it must be said.  It should be clear to anyone who watched the tasteless politicization of Coretta Scott King's funeral by a black minister and by a former president why the black community remains, after all these years, as troubled as it is.

Showtime at Coretta Scott King's funeral.  The "funeral" of Coretta Scott King turned into an ugly, disrespectful political rally. … There stood Oprah Winfrey, the most powerful woman in television, with her net worth estimated by Forbes magazine at $1.3 billion.  And she recently signed a $55 million deal with XM Satellite Radio.

Jimmy Carter's Values:  While some commentators took former President Jimmy Carter to task for his misleading and political comments at the Coretta Scott King funeral about wiretapping, his ridiculous claims about the victims of Hurricane Katrina went largely unchallenged.

And now... here's Wellstone III.

"The great irony, is that abortion has done
  what the Klan only dreamed of."

— Dr. Alveda King,    
niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.    
Sources:  [1] [2] [3]    


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