My friend and I were talking about Obama’s speech on race. The very thing that he was trying to transcend in this campaign, to prove that Americans in general had changed, that a man was not judged by the color of his skin but by the content of this character. Even though I knew RACE is always the front runner, I had HOPE this time, it would not!
For me (52) and my mother (75) this political year has been the most important one in our life time. To have the chance to vote for a woman or a black man for the president of the United States, oh well a glorious time in America’s ugly history.
What I would like to know how anyone got a tape of Rev. Wright from seven (7) years ago? My friend says the news media has people looking for “the dirt” on different topics and ultimately came across this “dirt”. Most black churches tape the service for purchase or to be used by the shut-ins. I think they were looking at his church because it was reported that the church gave Minister Farrakhan an award. And there are a lot of people who HATE Minister Farrakhan! I’m not one of them. I don’t agree with everything he says but most of what he says is true. I know what the Nation of Islam has done for Blacks in America. Blacks that don’t agree with that statement are lying to themselves and you.
All this madness about Rev. Wright makes me wonder:
Are we voting for Rev. Wright or Senator Barack Obama?
The racists of the campaigns, the major political parties, the news media had to move on to people he associated with BECAUSE they couldn’t get shit on him. I can get some shit on Hillary and John.
My friend and I had this discussion about churches and the differences. NO ONE confronts the pastor of their church. Look at the cases of little boys that have been molested by the priest, you know the Catholic priests. Some never stop going to the church and look at the length of time it took most of them to come forward. I went to a mixed church with my parents for years and part of my adult life. There were things that I didn’t agree with, I didn’t leave, I didn’t tell the minister I didn’t like what he said! THE DOCTRINE OVERRULED THOSE FEWS SERMONS I DID NOT AGREE WITH!!
America is a contradiction.
How is it that individuals in America have to pay for their crimes (courts, lawyers, judges, juries, prisons)? Why is it different for America? THE GOVERNMENT OF AMERICA HAS COMMITTED CRIMES against other countries and men !!!! Once someone says that, ok correction when a black person says it, they hate America. I don't hate America. I believe you pay for what you do, what goes around comes around. I believe there are spiritual laws, when you break them there is a penalty attached even if you repent. When a black person states that there were Jews involved with the slave trade, they become anti-Semitic. No one denies the Holocaust including Germany. When a black person speaks about self reliance, self love, self help they become hate filled or even racist.
Why do some people get mad when you tell the truth? Then they try and turn it around you.
They pick out some small portion of what Barack says like “typical white person” and get offended. When the truth is when a white person sees one black man or a group of black young men, THEY BECOME FRIGHTEN, OR SCARED. There have been studies done on it. The only way a white person would say that’s not true is if they have never been around black men and had that experience. The truth is if I see a group of white young men, I’m scared too of what they might do.
Here are some truths:
Eugenics
Sterilization program (Blacks) in North Carolina
Tuskegee experiment
Unfair sentencing laws
In America you never pay for your crime, it follows you and stops
you from getting a job and voting.
Scientist created the first reported case of AIDS in Africa
from the polo vaccine
I could go on, some of you will get my point but most of you will not.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
America, Advocate of Democracy, the world is watching you!
The news media has played a tape of a ministers’ sermon from (7) seven years ago.
They (powers of racism) took 3 minutes (if that) of a 1 ½ hour tape, played it on every news channel everyday, about (10) ten times a day..... (12) twelve days to make sure every white person hears it, so they can stop voting for that NIGGA! Yes I said it, cause that’s what they say behind closed doors to each other.
That isn’t news, that’s something else.
Now a candidate, who happens to be black, has to give a speech about race? Someone had to tell it…..someone that has a wide, mixed or diverse perspective. Lay it on the table!
It turned out this way because no one thought Barack would get this far, his message of changing Washington was dismissed.
I condemn the Clinton Campaign for starting us down this road. I condemn the News Media for staying on the road. It appears to me GOD planned it this way.
European powers justified enslaving Africans because “of a biblical account of a curse on Noah’s sons.” They used God and the Bible. They characterized blacks as superstitious, overly talkative, lacking intelligence and ungifted in the arts.
I have taken parts of speeches given starting in 1789 which is 219 years to this year.
Definition of Racism is: a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others. Belief in racial superiority; a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine, discrimination; hatred or intolerance of another race or races.
In 1789, an unknown Author wrote: I am one of that unfortunate race of men who are distinguished from the rest of the human species by a black skin and woolly hair—disadvantages of very little moment in themselves, but which prove to us a source of greatest misery, because there are men who will not be persuaded that it is possible for a human soul to be lodged within a sable body. Cruel that you are! You make us slaves; you implant in our minds all the vices which are in some degree inseparable from that condition; and you then impiously impute to nature, and to God, the origin of those vices, to which you alone have given birth; and punish in us the crimes of which you are yourselves the authors.
1858, John S. Rock spoke: Our fathers fought nobly for freedom, but they were not victorious. They fought for liberty, but they got slavery. The white man was benefited, but the black man was injured. I do not envy the white American the little liberty which he enjoys. It is his right, and he ought to have it. I wish him success, though I do not think he deserves it. But I would have all men free. We have had much sad experience in this country, and it would be strange indeed if we do not profit by some of the lessons which we have so dearly paid for.
1868, Rev. Henry Turner spoke: We will light a torch of truth that will never be extinguished the impression that will run through the country, as people picture in their mind's eye these poor black men, in all parts of this Southern country, pleading for their rights. When you expel us, you make us forever your political foes, and you will never find a black man to vote a Democratic ticket again; for, so help me God, I will go through all the length and breadth of the land, where a man of my race is to be found, and advise him to beware of the Democratic party. Justice is the great doctrine taught in the Bible.
1893, Ida B Wells spoke on lynching: The power of the State, country and city, and civil authorities and the strong arm of the military power were all on the side of the mob and of lawlessness. Few of our men possessed firearms, our only company's guns were confiscated, and the only white man who sell a colored man a gun, was himself jailed, and his store closed. We were helpless in our great strength. It was our first object lesson in the doctrine of white supremacy; an illustration of the South's cardinal principle no matter what the attainments, character or standing of an Afro-American, the laws of the South will not protect him against a white man.
1922 Wyatt Johnson spoke: Since their emancipation from slavery the masses of American Negroes have lived by the strength of a simple but deeply moving faith. They have believed in the love and providence of a just and holy God.
In 1923 James W. Johnson spoke: The Negro in the matter of the ballot demands only that he be given his right as an American citizen. He is justified in making this demand because of his undoubted Americanism, an Americanism which began when he first set foot on the shores of this country more than three hundred years ago, antedating even the Pilgrim Fathers; an Americanism which has woven him into the woof and warp of the country and which has impelled him to play his part in every war in which the country has been engaged, from the Revolution down to the late World War. Through his whole history in this country he has worked with patience; and in spite of discouragement he has never turned his back on the light. Whatever may be his shortcomings, however slow may have been his progress, however disappointing may have been his achievements, he has never consciously sought the backward path. He has always kept his face to the light and continued to struggle forward and upward in spite of obstacles, making his humble contributions to the common prosperity and glory of our land. And it is his land. With conscious pride the Negro says:
"This land is ours by right of birth. This land is ours by right of toil; We helped to turn its virgin earth, Our sweat is in its fruitful soil.
1963 Dr. Martin L. King spoke: One hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later the Negro is still languishing in the comers of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.
1964 Malcolm X spoke: We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party. I can prove it
In 1965 Malcolm once again spoke to my spirit: You're in a society that's just as capable of building gas ovens for black people as Hitler's society was... Now, what effect does [the struggle over Africa] have on us? Why should the black man in America concern himself since he's been away from the African continent for three or four hundred years? Why should we concern ourselves? What impact does what happens to them have upon us? Number one, you have to realize that up until 1959 Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. Having complete control over Africa, the colonial powers of Europe projected the image of Africa negatively. They always project Africa in a negative light: jungle savages, cannibals, nothing civilized. Why then, naturally it was so negative that it was negative to you and me, and you and I began to hate it. We didn't want anybody telling us anything about Africa, much less calling us Africans. In hating Africa and in hating the Africans, we ended up hating ourselves, without even realizing it. Because you can't hate the roots of a tree, and not hate the tree. You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
Dr King in 1967 had to break the silence of the Vietnam War: They must see Americans as strange liberators. The Vietnamese people proclaimed their own independence in 1945 after a combined French and Japanese occupation, and before the Communist revolution in China. They were led by Ho Chi Minh. Even though they quoted the American Declaration of Independence in their own document of freedom, we refused to recognize them. Instead, we decided to support France in its reconquest of her former colony.
Our government felt then that the Vietnamese people were not "ready" for independence, and we again fell victim to the deadly Western arrogance that has poisoned the international atmosphere for so long. With that tragic decision we rejected a revolutionary government seeking self-determination, and a government that had been established not by China (for whom the Vietnamese have no great love) but by clearly indigenous forces that included some Communists. For the peasants this new government meant real land reform, one of the most important needs in their lives. For nine years following 1945 we denied the people of Vietnam the right of independence. For nine years we vigorously supported the French in their abortive effort to recolonize Vietnam.
In 1994 General Colin Powell said African Americans have come too far and we have too far yet to go to take a detour into the swamp of hatred. We, as a people who have suffered so much from the hatred of others must not now show tolerance for any movement or philosophy that has at its core the hatred of Jews or anyone else. Our future lies in the philosophy of love and understanding and caring and building. Not of hatred and tearing down.We know that. We must stand up for it and speak up for it!
Institutional and cultural racism has outlived slavery and I get angry when you act it hasn't.
They (powers of racism) took 3 minutes (if that) of a 1 ½ hour tape, played it on every news channel everyday, about (10) ten times a day..... (12) twelve days to make sure every white person hears it, so they can stop voting for that NIGGA! Yes I said it, cause that’s what they say behind closed doors to each other.
That isn’t news, that’s something else.
Now a candidate, who happens to be black, has to give a speech about race? Someone had to tell it…..someone that has a wide, mixed or diverse perspective. Lay it on the table!
It turned out this way because no one thought Barack would get this far, his message of changing Washington was dismissed.
I condemn the Clinton Campaign for starting us down this road. I condemn the News Media for staying on the road. It appears to me GOD planned it this way.
European powers justified enslaving Africans because “of a biblical account of a curse on Noah’s sons.” They used God and the Bible. They characterized blacks as superstitious, overly talkative, lacking intelligence and ungifted in the arts.
I have taken parts of speeches given starting in 1789 which is 219 years to this year.
Definition of Racism is: a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others. Belief in racial superiority; a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine, discrimination; hatred or intolerance of another race or races.
In 1789, an unknown Author wrote: I am one of that unfortunate race of men who are distinguished from the rest of the human species by a black skin and woolly hair—disadvantages of very little moment in themselves, but which prove to us a source of greatest misery, because there are men who will not be persuaded that it is possible for a human soul to be lodged within a sable body. Cruel that you are! You make us slaves; you implant in our minds all the vices which are in some degree inseparable from that condition; and you then impiously impute to nature, and to God, the origin of those vices, to which you alone have given birth; and punish in us the crimes of which you are yourselves the authors.
1858, John S. Rock spoke: Our fathers fought nobly for freedom, but they were not victorious. They fought for liberty, but they got slavery. The white man was benefited, but the black man was injured. I do not envy the white American the little liberty which he enjoys. It is his right, and he ought to have it. I wish him success, though I do not think he deserves it. But I would have all men free. We have had much sad experience in this country, and it would be strange indeed if we do not profit by some of the lessons which we have so dearly paid for.
1868, Rev. Henry Turner spoke: We will light a torch of truth that will never be extinguished the impression that will run through the country, as people picture in their mind's eye these poor black men, in all parts of this Southern country, pleading for their rights. When you expel us, you make us forever your political foes, and you will never find a black man to vote a Democratic ticket again; for, so help me God, I will go through all the length and breadth of the land, where a man of my race is to be found, and advise him to beware of the Democratic party. Justice is the great doctrine taught in the Bible.
1893, Ida B Wells spoke on lynching: The power of the State, country and city, and civil authorities and the strong arm of the military power were all on the side of the mob and of lawlessness. Few of our men possessed firearms, our only company's guns were confiscated, and the only white man who sell a colored man a gun, was himself jailed, and his store closed. We were helpless in our great strength. It was our first object lesson in the doctrine of white supremacy; an illustration of the South's cardinal principle no matter what the attainments, character or standing of an Afro-American, the laws of the South will not protect him against a white man.
1922 Wyatt Johnson spoke: Since their emancipation from slavery the masses of American Negroes have lived by the strength of a simple but deeply moving faith. They have believed in the love and providence of a just and holy God.
In 1923 James W. Johnson spoke: The Negro in the matter of the ballot demands only that he be given his right as an American citizen. He is justified in making this demand because of his undoubted Americanism, an Americanism which began when he first set foot on the shores of this country more than three hundred years ago, antedating even the Pilgrim Fathers; an Americanism which has woven him into the woof and warp of the country and which has impelled him to play his part in every war in which the country has been engaged, from the Revolution down to the late World War. Through his whole history in this country he has worked with patience; and in spite of discouragement he has never turned his back on the light. Whatever may be his shortcomings, however slow may have been his progress, however disappointing may have been his achievements, he has never consciously sought the backward path. He has always kept his face to the light and continued to struggle forward and upward in spite of obstacles, making his humble contributions to the common prosperity and glory of our land. And it is his land. With conscious pride the Negro says:
"This land is ours by right of birth. This land is ours by right of toil; We helped to turn its virgin earth, Our sweat is in its fruitful soil.
1963 Dr. Martin L. King spoke: One hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later the Negro is still languishing in the comers of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.
1964 Malcolm X spoke: We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party. I can prove it
In 1965 Malcolm once again spoke to my spirit: You're in a society that's just as capable of building gas ovens for black people as Hitler's society was... Now, what effect does [the struggle over Africa] have on us? Why should the black man in America concern himself since he's been away from the African continent for three or four hundred years? Why should we concern ourselves? What impact does what happens to them have upon us? Number one, you have to realize that up until 1959 Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. Having complete control over Africa, the colonial powers of Europe projected the image of Africa negatively. They always project Africa in a negative light: jungle savages, cannibals, nothing civilized. Why then, naturally it was so negative that it was negative to you and me, and you and I began to hate it. We didn't want anybody telling us anything about Africa, much less calling us Africans. In hating Africa and in hating the Africans, we ended up hating ourselves, without even realizing it. Because you can't hate the roots of a tree, and not hate the tree. You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
Dr King in 1967 had to break the silence of the Vietnam War: They must see Americans as strange liberators. The Vietnamese people proclaimed their own independence in 1945 after a combined French and Japanese occupation, and before the Communist revolution in China. They were led by Ho Chi Minh. Even though they quoted the American Declaration of Independence in their own document of freedom, we refused to recognize them. Instead, we decided to support France in its reconquest of her former colony.
Our government felt then that the Vietnamese people were not "ready" for independence, and we again fell victim to the deadly Western arrogance that has poisoned the international atmosphere for so long. With that tragic decision we rejected a revolutionary government seeking self-determination, and a government that had been established not by China (for whom the Vietnamese have no great love) but by clearly indigenous forces that included some Communists. For the peasants this new government meant real land reform, one of the most important needs in their lives. For nine years following 1945 we denied the people of Vietnam the right of independence. For nine years we vigorously supported the French in their abortive effort to recolonize Vietnam.
In 1994 General Colin Powell said African Americans have come too far and we have too far yet to go to take a detour into the swamp of hatred. We, as a people who have suffered so much from the hatred of others must not now show tolerance for any movement or philosophy that has at its core the hatred of Jews or anyone else. Our future lies in the philosophy of love and understanding and caring and building. Not of hatred and tearing down.We know that. We must stand up for it and speak up for it!
Institutional and cultural racism has outlived slavery and I get angry when you act it hasn't.
Monday, March 17, 2008
For the record, I am not a volunteer for Barack Obama’s campaign. If I were I would not be there long, he would have had to ask me to leave the campaign.
I’m watching the campaigns, the news media and people in general. Hillary Clinton claimed the media was not treating her fair. Then what I noticed is they (TV news) started giving her a free pass.
This is what I observed:
G. Ferraro came out and said what ever she said.
She said it more than once,
defended it more than once
and we watched that for five (5) days.
Someone,
(news media, Clinton Campaign, or the Republican Party, maybe it was someone at the church)from somewhere looked for something,
anything someone said
that could be linked to Obama any kind of way.
Seven (7) years ago will do
and I watched it for ten (10) days.
Obama then had to come out, denounce, reject, and apologize for it. All Hillary had to say was, I don’t agree with what Ferraro say and I don’t have to apologize for it, I didn’t say it. I agree with her! On the same token, Obama doesn’t have to apologize for someone else’s words either.
Mr. Hagee (John McCain endorser), a minister that deals with prophesy is no different than Rev. Wright’s message that day. NO ONE listens to either one of these men’s message in its entirety. If you pick a little part of a sermon, what you hear sounds like something else (that's the point too). Both have taken their message from the Bible and whether we like it or not, like everything else in this world is left to man’s interpretation. I don’t know about you but I don’t agree with everything every minister says. After all, white people used the Bible to justify enslaving Africans, could anything be worst??? History shows that all white people didn’t agree with slavery.
The media looks for anything they can twist into becoming news. The use of race and gender for rating only shows the world that America has not changed.
I’m watching the campaigns, the news media and people in general. Hillary Clinton claimed the media was not treating her fair. Then what I noticed is they (TV news) started giving her a free pass.
This is what I observed:
G. Ferraro came out and said what ever she said.
She said it more than once,
defended it more than once
and we watched that for five (5) days.
Someone,
(news media, Clinton Campaign, or the Republican Party, maybe it was someone at the church)from somewhere looked for something,
anything someone said
that could be linked to Obama any kind of way.
Seven (7) years ago will do
and I watched it for ten (10) days.
Obama then had to come out, denounce, reject, and apologize for it. All Hillary had to say was, I don’t agree with what Ferraro say and I don’t have to apologize for it, I didn’t say it. I agree with her! On the same token, Obama doesn’t have to apologize for someone else’s words either.
Mr. Hagee (John McCain endorser), a minister that deals with prophesy is no different than Rev. Wright’s message that day. NO ONE listens to either one of these men’s message in its entirety. If you pick a little part of a sermon, what you hear sounds like something else (that's the point too). Both have taken their message from the Bible and whether we like it or not, like everything else in this world is left to man’s interpretation. I don’t know about you but I don’t agree with everything every minister says. After all, white people used the Bible to justify enslaving Africans, could anything be worst??? History shows that all white people didn’t agree with slavery.
The media looks for anything they can twist into becoming news. The use of race and gender for rating only shows the world that America has not changed.
When did I become a democrat?
As I sit watching MSNBC to see the latest mishaps of the campaigns; I thought, what a disaster! John McCain is going to win the election, because the democratic party is going to be divided deeply. I wonder who history will blame.
I began to wonder, why am I a democrat? Is it because my parents are? What is the democratic philosophy and history? For that matter what are republicans about? I do know that I am becoming more and more turned off with American politics. I decided to do a study on the political parties. I’m thinking about becoming a independent (I know what that is without studying it)
Here's the short leasson. The Republican Party was formed in 1854 to oppose the expansion of slavery into Kansas. Activists denounced “Slave Power” that the powerful class of southern slaveholders who were conspiring to control the federal government and have nationwide slavery. In 1860, Lincoln was elected and a new ear of republican dominance came to the forefront. Reconstruction was how to deal with ex-Confederates and freed slaves and became major issues. By 1864 there were Radical Republicans and the Grand Old Party. During the Progressive Age 1896-1932, Blacks moved toward Roosevelt and by 1940 the majority of northern blacks were democrat and Southern Blacks were split, and the disenfranchised preferred the Republicans. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had a NEW DEAL. The goal was to “give relief, reform and recovery to people and the economy of the United States during the Great Depression.” The “First New Deal of 1933” was to help all groups; the “Second New Deal” was to redistribute power away from big business. FDR, the governor of New York addressed the problems of the depression. He told the people of America that, “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal with the American people and he won by a landslide.
Democratic Party is an account of the oldest political party in the United States. Democrats strongly favored expansion to new farm lands, therefore they went after the American Indians and all that were not killed were put on reservations. The party favored War with Mexico and opposed immigration and was divided on the issue of slavery. In 1860 the Democrats were unable to stop the election of Republican Abraham Lincoln, even as they feared his election would lead to the Civil War. The party split in two, the War Democrats, who supported the military policies of President Lincoln, and the Copperheads, who strongly opposed them.
The democratic party benefited from white Southerners' resentment of Reconstruction.
African Americans fought in every war America has had.
Harry Truman integrated the armed forces and provided equal treatment and opportunity for Black servicemen; it split the northern and southern branches of the party.
African Americans, who had traditionally given strong support to the Republican Party since its inception as the "anti-slavery party," shifted to the Democratic Party due to its New Deal economic opportunities and support for civil rights of Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
The election of John F. Kennedy in 1960 re-energized the party. His youth, vigor and intelligence caught the popular imagination with new programs like the Peace Corps.
Integration and the civil rights movement caused controversy in the white south. Arkansas, Georgia and Alabama to name a few states resisted integration, you know what followed walk-ins, sit-ins, marching, bombing, killing, non-resistant, fire hoses and dogs, and riots.
So, let me recap:
Blacks were largely republican because the party opposed the expansion of slavery. At the time of the great depression, FDR (democrat) had a New Deal to help all of Americans in a time of need. Northern blacks supported FDR while southern blacks remained republican. Black voters began to just support democratic candidates. We became loyal to a party that was not interested in the concerns of Black people. We gave our loyalty to FDR which translated into becoming democrat for life.
Life is to short. I sit and watch, I know I must do something different.
Which leads me to another question: Why do we stay loyal even when we know we should move on?
I began to wonder, why am I a democrat? Is it because my parents are? What is the democratic philosophy and history? For that matter what are republicans about? I do know that I am becoming more and more turned off with American politics. I decided to do a study on the political parties. I’m thinking about becoming a independent (I know what that is without studying it)
Here's the short leasson. The Republican Party was formed in 1854 to oppose the expansion of slavery into Kansas. Activists denounced “Slave Power” that the powerful class of southern slaveholders who were conspiring to control the federal government and have nationwide slavery. In 1860, Lincoln was elected and a new ear of republican dominance came to the forefront. Reconstruction was how to deal with ex-Confederates and freed slaves and became major issues. By 1864 there were Radical Republicans and the Grand Old Party. During the Progressive Age 1896-1932, Blacks moved toward Roosevelt and by 1940 the majority of northern blacks were democrat and Southern Blacks were split, and the disenfranchised preferred the Republicans. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had a NEW DEAL. The goal was to “give relief, reform and recovery to people and the economy of the United States during the Great Depression.” The “First New Deal of 1933” was to help all groups; the “Second New Deal” was to redistribute power away from big business. FDR, the governor of New York addressed the problems of the depression. He told the people of America that, “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal with the American people and he won by a landslide.
Democratic Party is an account of the oldest political party in the United States. Democrats strongly favored expansion to new farm lands, therefore they went after the American Indians and all that were not killed were put on reservations. The party favored War with Mexico and opposed immigration and was divided on the issue of slavery. In 1860 the Democrats were unable to stop the election of Republican Abraham Lincoln, even as they feared his election would lead to the Civil War. The party split in two, the War Democrats, who supported the military policies of President Lincoln, and the Copperheads, who strongly opposed them.
The democratic party benefited from white Southerners' resentment of Reconstruction.
African Americans fought in every war America has had.
Harry Truman integrated the armed forces and provided equal treatment and opportunity for Black servicemen; it split the northern and southern branches of the party.
African Americans, who had traditionally given strong support to the Republican Party since its inception as the "anti-slavery party," shifted to the Democratic Party due to its New Deal economic opportunities and support for civil rights of Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
The election of John F. Kennedy in 1960 re-energized the party. His youth, vigor and intelligence caught the popular imagination with new programs like the Peace Corps.
Integration and the civil rights movement caused controversy in the white south. Arkansas, Georgia and Alabama to name a few states resisted integration, you know what followed walk-ins, sit-ins, marching, bombing, killing, non-resistant, fire hoses and dogs, and riots.
So, let me recap:
Blacks were largely republican because the party opposed the expansion of slavery. At the time of the great depression, FDR (democrat) had a New Deal to help all of Americans in a time of need. Northern blacks supported FDR while southern blacks remained republican. Black voters began to just support democratic candidates. We became loyal to a party that was not interested in the concerns of Black people. We gave our loyalty to FDR which translated into becoming democrat for life.
Life is to short. I sit and watch, I know I must do something different.
Which leads me to another question: Why do we stay loyal even when we know we should move on?
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
G. F. – A Angry White Woman
Let me see……can you spell that name please? Who is she? Oh yeah, the first woman vice presidential candidate
G E R A L D I N E-------------F E R R A R O.
A suppose to be advocate for women’s rights and since she went there, I will too, “white women’s rights”!
Her books, “Ferraro, My Story” and “Geraldine Ferraro: Changing History” titles should tell you something about this women. I have two words, SELF-ABSORBED!
She told a FOX News interviewer, "I got up and the question was asked, 'Why do you think Barack Obama is in the place he is today" as the party's delegate front-runner?
"I said in large measure, because he is black. I said, Let me also say in 1984 -- and if I have said it once, I have said it 20, 60, 100 times -- in 1984, if my name was Gerard Ferraro instead of Geraldine Ferraro, I would never have been the nominee for vice president," she said.
In her first interview with Daily Breeze, published late last week, Ferraro said, "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept."
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN WANTED!!!
They are pulling at the strings of white resentment of affirmative action, by suggesting that less-qualified black people are getting jobs that should go to hard-working and experienced white people.
I had a boss who felt like that, once. His own Ph.D. bullshit got him fired! And my less-qualified black ass is still here.
The news media already paints much of Pennsylvania as a racist state, and that is what Hillary is tapping into.
Now that Geraldine said it and people of all colors are calling her a bigot, her response is:
"I really think they're attacking me because I'm white," she said. "How's that?"
(ok is that a na-na-nana-na, moment!)
As I looked into Ferraro’s background a little further look what I found:
The cite is an April 15, 1988 Washington Post story (byline: Howard Kurtz), available only on Nexis.
Here's the full context:
Placid of demeanor but pointed in his rhetoric, Jackson struck out repeatedly today against those who suggest his race has been an asset in the campaign. President Reagan suggested Tuesday that people don't ask Jackson tough questions because of his race. And former representative Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that because of his "radical" views, "if Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race."
Asked about this at a campaign stop in Buffalo, Jackson at first seemed ready to pounce fiercely on his critics. But then he stopped, took a breath, and said quietly, "Millions of Americans have a point of view different from" Ferraro's.
Discussing the same point in Washington, Jackson said, "We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got North to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history."
ABSORB THAT!!!
This is what shufflin’ Magee Williams fired back that the Obama campaign was twisting Ferraro's remarks into "false, personal and politically calculated attacks." Everybody over there in the Clinton Campaign is crazy!
Magee, girl - Come on sis, masters’ house is on fire, save yourself!!
Friday, March 7, 2008
I'm tired of Clintons and Bushs!! Why aren't some of you!
I’ve been following the campaigns very closely, having late discussions with a close friend, having to turn the channel because I become angry with old white folks for being the same as they have always been and old black folks who have forgotten not to long ago they couldn’t sit in the front of the bus. They forgot we had to fight for the right to vote. Some of those old black politicians that counted on us to vote for them because they were black now don’t think we are ready for a black president and have given their support to the Clintons’. What a contradiction! Black people need to take another look at and remember those old elected officials at reelection. I will! I wish I had kept written notes of what I’m seeing
Let me make this very clear to you. I am a BLACK, 52 year old female NOT a female that’s black and 52. Anyone who knows me personally knows I’m BLACK FIRST! Call it anything you want because from the age of 13-14 been very interested in my history, and the plight of Black folks. White folks have done the same. I respected Dr. Martin L. King and believed in his movement but my choice was Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party. I believe that it is important for us to identify with Africa thus the term African American but in recent years (apartheid) white folks that have continued to invaded Africa calling our motherland theirs and becoming African American. They understand how important Africa is and most of us still don’t have a clue.
I’m very proud of Senator Barack Obama. I believe he has the qualities that can bring America’s politics’ together, crossing party lines. I also believe that racism is alive and well too. He can’t change the hearts of men, and evil is abounding. His mixed heritage makes him more acceptable to whites in American, especially the youth which to me appears to have a different take on things, the color of the skin has very little to do with it. Thank God for the youth of this country!!! There are many that think the young folks are stupid, not understanding the ways of the world, they are bamboozled by Barack’s message of hope & change. I submit to you that God gives the young wisdom too. The youth understands very well that they need hope & change and blacks should remember that was all slaves had.
Now, let me say this, one of those side things, Spanish speaking people, as far as I’m concerned if you come to this country that speaks English and refuse to try and learn the language, have your kids miss school to be the translator, your ACTIONS say this: AMERICA KISS MY ASS, I don’t have to learn the language. I was brought here by force, abduction or sale and had to learn the language. If you cross over a fence and come into this country illegally, YOU ARE A CRIMINAL, a home invader. I don’t think you should just stay here, reap the benefits of America then have the chance to kill three of our children (home on college break) execution style in a park. I was in the Social Security office the other day and they had two boxes one said “SPANISH ONLY APPLICATIONS” and the other said “ENGLISH ONLY APPLICATIONS”. I thought, wow I couldn’t go to a Spanish speaking country and get a English only application and wondered what was different on the Spanish only applications. I know I’m getting off the subject…….
This is a great time in history to have a Black man and a woman running for president. Senator Hillary Clinton never had me fooled, though. She fought New Yorkers about the senate seat because of residence; all she wanted to do is be the senator to the great New York. New York is a great place to get national exposure. I knew she would run for president, that is the American way. Hillary has lost eleven states in a row. If that had been Obama, they would have tried to force him out.
She wins Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island and her quote is “The nation is coming back and so is my campaign”. When I heard that comment, I thought “she really does think the nation has been wrong”, people are tired of the same old shit. The people of the nation are wrong because they are voting for a Black man. Was that the underlining message in that comment?
That’s how I took it.
The exit polls showed that race matters. In other words, we’ll vote for a white woman but not a black man, the lesser of two evils. That doesn’t surprise me about Texas, aren’t there still lynching there? During Black History Month, President Bush said this, “For decades, the noose played a central part in a campaign of violence and fear against African Americans. Fathers were dragged from their homes in the dark of the night before the eyes of their terrified children. Summary executions were held by torchlight in front of hateful crowds. In many cases, law enforcement officers responsible for protecting the victims were complicit in their deeds [sic] and their deaths. For generations of African Americans, the noose was more than a tool of murder; it was a tool of intimidation that conveyed a sense of powerlessness to millions.The era of rampant lynching is a shameful chapter in American history. The noose is not a symbol of prairie justice, but of gross injustice. Displaying one is not a harmless prank. And lynching is not a word to be mentioned in jest. As a civil society, we must understand that noose displays and lynching jokes are deeply offensive. They are wrong. And they have no place in America today.” O’Reilly wanted to have a lynching party, if Michelle Obama wasn’t proud to be an American and let’s see, hum, does that statement make you proud?
Ohio, oh well! Exit Polls there: They thought she had more experience……which I don’t understand that either. She has experience at being the “wife of the president” and being a senator but ladies and gentleman, that’s it. If she got a call at 3 am in the White House, which Hillary would show up? The one of “entitlement” always shows up, that’s the one that made her dismiss Obama or I’ve been treated unfairly by the press because
I’m a woman, or the one who shows that sensitive side (tears?) because of the indiscretions of her husband or I’m playing nice, nice maybe the bitch will answer, you know the one who allows her campaign people to send out emails to start scandals; like he is a Muslim and threatens national security.
I don’t know Hillary personally but there’s something in her eyes. Maybe it’s her angry that I see. I have been in her place and I know how the betrayal of your man feels. Maybe it’s her arrogance and that senses of entitlement that she should be the Democratic Party nominate even without the popular vote, sending a clear message that your vote does not really count. Has not disclosed her financial records yet, should have been done! I believe she will push to the bitter end. She’s a fighter; swinging low blows and don’t believe the hype, she’s fighting for herself, not you! She will split the Democratic Party. She’s not willing to be Obama’s running mate, just something to say cause it sounded good.
In 1869, Frederick Douglass tried to persuade the white woman suffragists that voting rights for blacks must be won immediately, while women could afford to wait. "When women because they are women are dragged from their homes and hung upon lampposts, then they will have the urgency to obtain the ballot," said Douglass. One of the white women in the crowd cried out, "Is that not also true about black women?" "Yes, yes," Douglass replied, "but not because she is a woman but because she is black." White women in the audience were not convinced by Douglass's argument, and some of them even spoke out against black suffrage. “Life after the 13th Amendment, http://www.history.rochester.edu/”
Let me make this very clear to you. I am a BLACK, 52 year old female NOT a female that’s black and 52. Anyone who knows me personally knows I’m BLACK FIRST! Call it anything you want because from the age of 13-14 been very interested in my history, and the plight of Black folks. White folks have done the same. I respected Dr. Martin L. King and believed in his movement but my choice was Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party. I believe that it is important for us to identify with Africa thus the term African American but in recent years (apartheid) white folks that have continued to invaded Africa calling our motherland theirs and becoming African American. They understand how important Africa is and most of us still don’t have a clue.
I’m very proud of Senator Barack Obama. I believe he has the qualities that can bring America’s politics’ together, crossing party lines. I also believe that racism is alive and well too. He can’t change the hearts of men, and evil is abounding. His mixed heritage makes him more acceptable to whites in American, especially the youth which to me appears to have a different take on things, the color of the skin has very little to do with it. Thank God for the youth of this country!!! There are many that think the young folks are stupid, not understanding the ways of the world, they are bamboozled by Barack’s message of hope & change. I submit to you that God gives the young wisdom too. The youth understands very well that they need hope & change and blacks should remember that was all slaves had.
Now, let me say this, one of those side things, Spanish speaking people, as far as I’m concerned if you come to this country that speaks English and refuse to try and learn the language, have your kids miss school to be the translator, your ACTIONS say this: AMERICA KISS MY ASS, I don’t have to learn the language. I was brought here by force, abduction or sale and had to learn the language. If you cross over a fence and come into this country illegally, YOU ARE A CRIMINAL, a home invader. I don’t think you should just stay here, reap the benefits of America then have the chance to kill three of our children (home on college break) execution style in a park. I was in the Social Security office the other day and they had two boxes one said “SPANISH ONLY APPLICATIONS” and the other said “ENGLISH ONLY APPLICATIONS”. I thought, wow I couldn’t go to a Spanish speaking country and get a English only application and wondered what was different on the Spanish only applications. I know I’m getting off the subject…….
This is a great time in history to have a Black man and a woman running for president. Senator Hillary Clinton never had me fooled, though. She fought New Yorkers about the senate seat because of residence; all she wanted to do is be the senator to the great New York. New York is a great place to get national exposure. I knew she would run for president, that is the American way. Hillary has lost eleven states in a row. If that had been Obama, they would have tried to force him out.
She wins Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island and her quote is “The nation is coming back and so is my campaign”. When I heard that comment, I thought “she really does think the nation has been wrong”, people are tired of the same old shit. The people of the nation are wrong because they are voting for a Black man. Was that the underlining message in that comment?
That’s how I took it.
The exit polls showed that race matters. In other words, we’ll vote for a white woman but not a black man, the lesser of two evils. That doesn’t surprise me about Texas, aren’t there still lynching there? During Black History Month, President Bush said this, “For decades, the noose played a central part in a campaign of violence and fear against African Americans. Fathers were dragged from their homes in the dark of the night before the eyes of their terrified children. Summary executions were held by torchlight in front of hateful crowds. In many cases, law enforcement officers responsible for protecting the victims were complicit in their deeds [sic] and their deaths. For generations of African Americans, the noose was more than a tool of murder; it was a tool of intimidation that conveyed a sense of powerlessness to millions.The era of rampant lynching is a shameful chapter in American history. The noose is not a symbol of prairie justice, but of gross injustice. Displaying one is not a harmless prank. And lynching is not a word to be mentioned in jest. As a civil society, we must understand that noose displays and lynching jokes are deeply offensive. They are wrong. And they have no place in America today.” O’Reilly wanted to have a lynching party, if Michelle Obama wasn’t proud to be an American and let’s see, hum, does that statement make you proud?
Ohio, oh well! Exit Polls there: They thought she had more experience……which I don’t understand that either. She has experience at being the “wife of the president” and being a senator but ladies and gentleman, that’s it. If she got a call at 3 am in the White House, which Hillary would show up? The one of “entitlement” always shows up, that’s the one that made her dismiss Obama or I’ve been treated unfairly by the press because
I’m a woman, or the one who shows that sensitive side (tears?) because of the indiscretions of her husband or I’m playing nice, nice maybe the bitch will answer, you know the one who allows her campaign people to send out emails to start scandals; like he is a Muslim and threatens national security.I don’t know Hillary personally but there’s something in her eyes. Maybe it’s her angry that I see. I have been in her place and I know how the betrayal of your man feels. Maybe it’s her arrogance and that senses of entitlement that she should be the Democratic Party nominate even without the popular vote, sending a clear message that your vote does not really count. Has not disclosed her financial records yet, should have been done! I believe she will push to the bitter end. She’s a fighter; swinging low blows and don’t believe the hype, she’s fighting for herself, not you! She will split the Democratic Party. She’s not willing to be Obama’s running mate, just something to say cause it sounded good.
She reminds me so much of Bush and so far there has been twenty-four (24) years of Bushs’ and Clintons’.
Oh, I have to say this too, why do black women that feel this need to endorse Hillary? Cause what? She’s a woman!? You have a choice? You’ve always had a choice; don’t tell me it’s her experience, because she has none as a president! I heard her say the other day, “I have experience, John McCain has experience and you will have to ask Obama about his.” I didn’t quote her exactly but my mind said she’s teaming up with the other white guy, who is her rival against the black guy who is in her party. Interesting! Maybe you think she’ll be like her husband, and then dubb her the first “black female president” because her husband messed around on her. Ok another side note: hated that many of us thought it was cute to dubb Bill, "the first black president" because what........he played the sax, smoke some weed and had sex with someone other than his wife! Is that why you call him that? There are a lot of good, strong and powerful black men out there, many of you are married to them! Well that's why Bill thought he could say anything he wanted, anyway he wanted in North Carolina.
Oh, I have to say this too, why do black women that feel this need to endorse Hillary? Cause what? She’s a woman!? You have a choice? You’ve always had a choice; don’t tell me it’s her experience, because she has none as a president! I heard her say the other day, “I have experience, John McCain has experience and you will have to ask Obama about his.” I didn’t quote her exactly but my mind said she’s teaming up with the other white guy, who is her rival against the black guy who is in her party. Interesting! Maybe you think she’ll be like her husband, and then dubb her the first “black female president” because her husband messed around on her. Ok another side note: hated that many of us thought it was cute to dubb Bill, "the first black president" because what........he played the sax, smoke some weed and had sex with someone other than his wife! Is that why you call him that? There are a lot of good, strong and powerful black men out there, many of you are married to them! Well that's why Bill thought he could say anything he wanted, anyway he wanted in North Carolina.
Let me give you this bit of history about the vote of black people and I can give you more examples.
In 1869, Frederick Douglass tried to persuade the white woman suffragists that voting rights for blacks must be won immediately, while women could afford to wait. "When women because they are women are dragged from their homes and hung upon lampposts, then they will have the urgency to obtain the ballot," said Douglass. One of the white women in the crowd cried out, "Is that not also true about black women?" "Yes, yes," Douglass replied, "but not because she is a woman but because she is black." White women in the audience were not convinced by Douglass's argument, and some of them even spoke out against black suffrage. “Life after the 13th Amendment, http://www.history.rochester.edu/”
In other words, white women felt blacks should wait!
Just what has Hillary done for civil rights? If you're a woman first - what has she done for women? You don't have to tell me I'll look it up.
The US keeps pushing other countries of the world to become a democracy but when the world looks at us, what do they see? We can't justify what we do and how we move politically, because every one can see us now!
Till next time! peace.
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