Save The Drama For Your Mama
It makes me want to holler!
First, I want to say that the Republican Party has made numerous faux pas’s and sponsored many comedies of errors, such as the "Southern Strategy," in the last 40 years. That is one reason why many African Americans are disconnected with the Republican Party. One of the biggest faux pas’s is allowing the Party to be “colored” with some Dixiecrat Democrats who invaded the Party in the 60’s and 70’s, but still cling to their White supremacist views. The Party is suffering to this day for that disaster. However, some of the Dixiecrats, like William Fulbright, still whistled Dixie in the Democratic Party.
I will not let the Democratic Party off the hook because their history of “commitment to helping the excluded, the disenfranchised, and the poor” is very dubious, as I will prove to you. Don’t just take my word for it. With a library and the Internet, you can prove it for yourself too. Shouldn’t you think for yourself?
I’m independent politically. I stand with the man of integrity or the woman of integrity, not a political party. However, history is set in stone and cannot be ignored. Why have many African Americans have been hoodwinked and bamboozled for decades? Why is it that many African Americans believe political urban legends? Was the "40 Acres and a Mule" really a myth? A friend told me a worker in his office thought that Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat. Another friend told me she thought that the slave masters in the South were Republican. Another friend told me she thought the same thing.
Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. of Illinois brought the truth out by saying: “before the Civil War, the Democratic slave masters used to hold anti-black conventions.” They were 100% Democrat. There were no Republican slave masters y’all, aight? Look it up. Was the Republican Party formed to support and expand slavery, as many African Americans today believe? The Republican Party was formed in the 1850’s for the purpose of abolishing slavery and polygamy. The Republican National Committee website (http://www.rnc.com) says: “The Republican Party was born in the early 1850's by anti-slavery activists and individuals who believed that government should grant western lands to settlers free of charge.” Look at a portion of the 1860 platform: “That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom; That as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that ‘no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law,’ it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to Slavery in any Territory of the United States….That we brand the recent re-opening of the African slave- trade, under the cover of our national flag, aided by perversions of judicial power, as a shame to (a) crime against humanity and a burning (for) our country and age; and we call upon Congress to take prompt and efficient measures for the total and final suppression of that execrable traffic.” All the slave masters were 100% Democrat. They hated Republicans. It was impossible for a Republican to own slaves because owning slaves went against his principles. Democrats formed the terrorist organization the Ku Klux Klan in the 1870’s. Republicans, Black or white were forbidden to join. Actually for Republicans to have contact to them was usually fatal. All this information can be freely verified in libraries and on the Internet. Go to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) website (http://www.democrats.org/about/history.html). Look at these paragraphs concerning their history: “In 1848, the National Convention established the Democratic National Committee, now the longest running political organization in the world. The Convention charged the DNC with the responsibility of promoting "the Democratic cause" between the conventions and preparing for the next convention. (Part of “the Democratic cause” was protecting the institution of slavery in 1848.) Then the next paragraph immediately says: “As the 19th Century came to a close, the American electorate changed more and more rapidly. The Democratic Party embraced the immigrants who flooded into cities and industrial centers, built a political base by bringing them into the American mainstream, and helped create the most powerful economic engine in history.” We leave 1848 and timewarp to the late 19th Century? Why the 50-year gap in the DNC history? Why not talk about the Civil War and Reconstruction? Why not talk about the first Black government officials on state and federal levels? Are they afraid to reveal that they were 100% Republican Black elected officials? A Black elected official I know personally admitted he did not know until recently that there were Blacks in Congress in the 19th Century. Why not talk about the constitutional amendments that formally abolished slavery and declared that the former slaves are citizens of the United States? Why do they leave them out? What do they have to hide? The late Ron Brown, former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee said: “The common thread of Democratic history, from Thomas Jefferson to Bill Clinton, has been an abiding faith in the judgment of hardworking American families, and a commitment to helping the excluded, the disenfranchised and the poor strengthen our nation by earning themselves a piece of the American Dream. We remember that this great land was sculpted by immigrants and slaves, their children and grandchildren…." STOP! Wait a minute! From Thomas Jefferson to Bill Clinton helping the excluded, the disenfranchised and the poor? I hate to bring this up, but Jefferson owned those slaves Ron Brown refered to. In 1791, Black inventor and mathematician Benjamin Banneker wrote to Jefferson: “Sir, how pitiful it is to reflect that, although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind and of His equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges which He hath conferred upon them, you should at the same time counteract His mercies in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves.” All other slave holders were all Democrats to a man, and other Democratic Presidents before the Civil War did not oppose slavery. The Democrats kept in bondage the excluded, the disenfranched and the poor. Rest in peace Ron Brown, but were you ignorant of your own party’s history or did you lie through your teeth?
I also hate to bring this up too, but in 1994, President Bill Clinton, our “first Black president,” knowingly allowed 800,000 Black Africans to die in genocide in Rwanda. Why did he do that? He let thousands more die and to be taken into slavery in Southern Sudan, even after the Congressional Black Caucus and other Congressman and Senators brought it to his attention. Why did he do that? His Secretary of State Madeline Albright said that the human rights situation in Sudan was “not marketable to the American People.” I’m part of the American people. That was very presumptuous of her to assume that I would not care about Black Africans as I’m Black according to the last time I checked my skin. What did I say about “the excluded, the disenfranchised and the poor”? Is not genocide the Supreme Exclusion and Disenfranchisement? And Bill Clinton (who was sued while Governor of Arkansas for violating the 1965 Voting Rights Act, refused to sign Arkansas civil rights legislation as Governor, signed into law in Arkansas "Confederate Flag Day” as Governor, oversaw the execution of a brain-damaged Black convict as Governor, never did anything to stem the rising Black incarceration rates as President, and never changed the sentencing disparity between powder and crack cocaine as President) is a member of the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame? If Clinton was our first Black president, wasn’t he an Uncle Tom and an Oreo cookie? Wasn’t he a White man in a Black president’s body? He must have been a sellout, right? Kevin Alexander Gray, a civil rights organizer in South Carolina, said in Counterpunch.com (http://www.counterpunch.org/gray1207.html): “No other president in United States history has managed to get so much black support for giving so little. But what makes Clinton's race act so successful is that black America never asked him to do much to begin with….The joke that refuses to go away has Clinton as America's first black president, a sentiment enthusiastically affirmed by black celebrities, elites and quasi-intellectuals. In his bit, comedian Chris Rock used Clinton's ‘persecution over a '$300 haircut’ to support the claim. Former Southern Christian Leadership Conference head Joseph Lowery said that blacks like Clinton because ‘he plays the saxophone.’ Harvard professor Alvin Poussaint joked, Clinton ‘must have black ancestry.’ Back in 1998 during the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, writer Toni Morrison said, ‘black skin notwithstanding: this is our first black President’ citing his dysfunctional upbringing as commonality with black males. But the joke's an insult. The punchline is that Clinton is decadent and promiscuous, got rhythm, got caught and got over -- so he's black!” I personally heard a Black man say he liked Clinton because “he got away with messing around with the ladies.” Bill Clinton has absolutely nothing in common with me as a Black man.
And was not Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, a former Democratic Senator chosen for the court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democratic segregationist and a former member of the KKK?
I discovered some other facts that are documentated and that you can research. Did you know the “racist” Barry Goldwater was a founding member of the Arizona NAACP? Yes, and he was a member until his death in 1998! Do you actually think a person you would think may be a KKK member would be a founding member of a Black organization until his death? As an Air National Guard Colonel in the 1940’s, he desegregated the Arizona Air National Guard, 2 years BEFORE President Truman desegregated the entire Armed Forces. Go to http://mdcurrington.tripod.com/mdc/barry_goldwater.html on the Internet and read the details. My mother, who is 83 years old, believed for the last 40 years that Barry
Goldwater was a White supremacist. (I grew up believing he was a racist.) Now my mother’s 40-year bitterness toward Goldwater evaporated. She loves Goldwater now. She understands he voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act based on his libertarian philosophy as far as the federal government intruding into private affairs and not because of “racism.” Also Goldwater voted for two Civil Rights bills during the Eisenhower administration while the majority of his Southern Democratic colleagues voted against them. How can a White supremacist give years of financial support to the NAACP until his death? Who would you rather have, a White Republican Senator who was a member of the NAACP or a White Democratic Senator who was a member of the KKK?
Rev. Al Sharpton (who I respect for traveling to Sudan and exposing chattel slavery there) said at the recent Democratic Convention in Boston: “Mr. President, you said would we have more leverage if both parties got our votes, but we didn't come this far playing political games. It was those that earned our vote that got our vote. We got the Civil Rights Act under a Democrat (President Lyndon Baines Johnson) We got the Voting Rights Act under a Democrat. We got the right to organize under Democrats.” Rev. Sharpton, I really wish you would have mentioned too that it was because of Democrats, not because of Republicans, that we needed the protection of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The Southern Democrats were the segregationists, not the Republicans. The Southern Democrats were responsible for Jim Crow, not the Republicans. Sue me if I'm wrong. Look it up. Someone posted on http://www.movie-fan-forum.com: “republicans opposed civil rights act in the 60s saying it was a case of government intruding in the lives of individuals.” That is an error. I have asked several people if a majority of Democrats or Republicans in Congress supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act. All but one said it was the Democratic majority. Therefore they believed it was a Democratic victory for civil rights. Have the Democrats claimed a victory they never earned? Here is the historical record that you can look up today on the Internet: In 1964, in the Senate, 82% of the Republicans voted for the Act while only 69% of the Democrats voted for it. Every last danged Southern Democratic Senator voted against it. In the House of Representatives, 80% of the Republicans voted for the Act, while only 61% of the Democrats voted for it. Ninety-two of the 103 Southern Democrats in the House voted against it (www.frankenlies.com/civilrights.htm). Also the ignored or forgotten 1957 Civil Rights Act (which Strom Thurmond tried to torpedo) and the 1960 Civil Rights Act, designed to protect us from the Southern Democrats, were passed by the majority of Republicans in Congress and signed into law by a Republican President. Republicans, not Democrats, historically have been in the majority in support of civil rights legislation from the beginning of their history. Look it up. Even Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy was no outstanding exponent for civil rights. Check this out. Who said, "The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!"? It was Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen speaking of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He must have been a Democrat, right? He was a Republican. Yet I remember when I was little hearing a man say after he died, "He shoulda died a long time ago!" Yet Dirksen wanted this man to have his civil rights protected. Look everything up and prove me wrong.
Yes, Republican Senator Trent Lott was nothing to shout about. (Same for the late Democrat Dixiecrat record-breaking-filibustering, Republican-switching Senator Strom Thurmond). Whatever is in the heart, the mouth speaketh. After he spoketh, all hell broketh loose. However, Democratic Senator Robert Byrd recently said on national television, “There are white niggers.” You would have thought he was a fan of a Spike Lee joint (“Niggers is a beautiful thing” – from Bamboozled). But with Byrd, former U.S. Senator and former Ambassador to New Zealand Carol Mosely Braun defended him. An older Black man I knew who hated with venom White and Black Republicans defended Byrd too. By the way, Senator Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, the "Invisible Empire of the South," years ago. He even recruited for the Klan as a “kleagle.” Has Senator Byrd been on record for officially renouncing and denouncing the KKK's terrorist history? Has the Klan ever called him a “traitor” for denouncing them? What if Trent Lott was an ex-Klan member and said “white niggers” on national television? We would have shouted “Crucify! Crucify!” right? We would have ran him out of town. Was it because Byrd is a Democrat that we make excuses for him making racial slurs and being a ex- KKK member, but we never ever make excuses for Republicans, the bad guys? I recall somewhere reading about a Black Democrat who actually said when he called in on a talk show he gave a White Democrat a pass, but he would not give a White Republican a pass. Is that not dysfunctional if not hypocritical? Is we sick, massa? Hey, when I was little I thought that the Democrats were good and the Republicans were evil, like the bad guys from James Bond films. (Richard Nixon was Dr. No.) Shouldn’t you think for yourself?
(Hey Senator Byrd, also please explain why you led the filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Goldwater's flawed reasons were libertarian in nature.What were your reasons?)
Rev. Sharpton said we never got our 40 acres and a mule. Yes, we did, and they were taken away by a Democrat. Reparations to Black slaves were discussed by Republicans after the Civil War. Political activist and researcher M.D. Currington (websites: http://mdcurrington.tripod.com/mdc and http://moteandbeam.tripod.com ) writes, “On January 12, 1865, General William Tecumseh Sherman and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton met with twenty Black community leaders in Savannah, Georgia to discuss freedom and reparations for former Black slaves.…on January 16, 1865, General Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15, which set aside 7,600 square miles in a 30-mile wide tract of land along the Atlantic coast stretching from Charleston, South Carolina to St. John’s River near Jacksonville, Florida, for the exclusive settlement by Blacks…This Field Order also guaranteed former slaves U.S. military protection, 40 acres of tillable land per Black family, other provisions such as a mule or horse in order to work the land, and any other animal that was no longer useful to the military. By June 1865, over 40,000 former slaves were settled on 40-acre tracts of land. Over 400,000 acres were allocated. In September of 1865, Democrat President Andrew Johnson reversed Field Order No. 15, issued special pardons, and returned the land to former
slaveowners.” The Republicans gaveth, yet the Democrats took it away. Shouldn’t we taketh back from them that was given to us?
Have you noticed that John Kerry chose rather quickly a rich white Southern male to be his running mate? Why could he not choose any of the qualified Black members of Congress, such as Representative Bobby Rush of Illinois, Representative Donald Payne of New Jersey, or Representative Harold Ford of Tennessee? What happened to “inclusion”? The DNC election a few years ago for Chairman chose white Terry McAuliffe, a Party fundraiser, over Black Maynard Jackson, a former mayor of Atlanta. I wonder why Congresswoman Maxine Waters was highly upset that McAuliffe was elected over Jackson. Somebody tell me why when over 90% of African Americans vote Democrat, we do not see some reflection of that support in the top leadership of the Democratic Party? Why can’t 90% of the leadership in the Democratic National Committee be Black? Wouldn’t that be a good thing? Or even 50% of the Presidential/Vice Presidential candidates for 2004 be Black. They claim they are inclusive, right? Is you is or is you ain’t my baby? (Tom the Cat of "Tom and Jerry" sang that song.) No offense. I'm just trying to make a point.
And let’s talk about Uncle Tom’s, the title character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel. Don’t we call Black people who seem to bow to the white folks and sellout to them “slap-happy, amos-'n- andyin', black-stooge, bootlickin', handkerchief-head Negro, pleaser-and-appeaser, chicken-eatin', knee-shakin', prefabricated, jiv'n, jivin', jiving, snow-black, butt-kissing, co-caucasian, howdy-doody, shoeshine-boy, tree-top, white-bread, crumb-snatchin', backstabbin', behind-scratchin', zip-coon, foot-shuffln', hafrican, aunt-jemima, thomasina, window-dressin', homey-kinda, cotton-pickin', Rev.-Pork-Chop, buckdancin', Judas, lawn-jockey, big-shot-coon, Kingfisher, homo-Tomus-americanus, wooly-head, black-anglo-saxon, black-skunk, bought-and-sold, opporTOMist, thank-ya-boss, stooge, integratin', inauthentic, un-cola, uppity, tomfool, turn-the-other-cheek, shifty-eyed, bug-eyed, waterboy, whitewardly-mobile, zebra, Stepin-Fetchit, low-belly-creepin', rent-a-Tom, self-hatin', sell-out, speak-when-spoken-to, house-boy, high-yaller, turncoat, Uncle Remus, Sambo, jigaboo, feet-shufflin’, de-blacked, bourgie, caste-flunky, cocktail-sippin', yassah-yassah-yassah, me-too-boss, darky Uncle Tom’s”? And we call them even worse things than that too. Unfortunately, there are many who really do fit this job description. However, many other African Americans all across the United States who refuse to bow to the "Party Line" and refuse to bow to the self-appointed "Keepers of the Blackness" and who dare to think independently are also pinned with that moniker. Because of fear of the "Thought Police S.W.A.T. Teams," many Black independent thinkers and those who start to think independently are forced to stay in the closet and keep their thoughts to themselves. Some of them even publicly feign digust of "Uncle Tom's" just to keep the heat off themselves. It is time for all of these Black independent thinkers to courageously come out of the closet and say "we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore!," just like Network. M.D. Currington, a former loyal Black Democratic attack dog, writes: “Black women were the first to use the term to describe Black men who left the Republican Party to join the Democratic Party (Ed. - historically the racist party of slavery and repression). The Honorable Marcus
Garvey (was) the first public figure to call Black Democrats Uncle Tom’s. As a matter of fact, one of the best known figures that Garvey called an Uncle Tom was W.E.B. Dubois. Dubois was very critical of the ‘Back to Africa’ (movement) led by Garvey’s United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Garvey called Dubois an ‘Uncle Tom.’ Dubois responded by calling Garvey ‘the most dangerous Black man in America.’ Garvey followed with calling Dubois ‘purely and simply a white man’s nigger…’ (Ed.- Presumably Garvey slammed Dubois in that fashion because Dubois was the only Black officer of the NAACP at the time.) The most unusual phenomenon about the term ‘Uncle Tom’ is that it is currently directed to Black Republicans and not to Black Democrats, even though the ideas of these Black Republicans have not changed since the abolition of slavery.” (By the way, I call all Blacks who refuse to address the issue of Black genocide and refuse to oppose it in all its forms true “Uncle Tom sellouts.”)
Have you seen the motion picture Bulworth with Warren Beatty and Halle Berry? Beatty played a fictional Democratic Senator named Jay Bulworth. There was a scene in a Black church that goes like this … LADY: “Are you saying the Democratic Party don’t care about the African American community?” BULWORTH: “Isn’t that obvious?… What are you going to do? Vote Republican??? C'mon C'mon.You’re not going to vote Republican! Let’s call a spade a spade….” Rent or buy Bulworth.
Considering the real truths you have just learned, isn’t fact stranger than fiction? Have we all been bamboozed, hoodwinked, and maybe even misled all these years? Think for yourself. The Honorable Marcus Garvey said: “Nobody frees a slave. A slave must free himself.” If you are on a political plantation, you should be like the skeleton who said to the other skeleton in the museum: “If we had any guts, we’d get out of here.”
Tell your Daddy, tell your Mama, don’t believe the DNC drama.
Robert Oliver is a writer and a commentator who has been active for over a year in bringing public awareness to the genocide and enslavement of thousands of Blacks in the African country of Sudan. You can reach him at stormwatch1989@aol.com.
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First, I want to say that the Republican Party has made numerous faux pas’s and sponsored many comedies of errors, such as the "Southern Strategy," in the last 40 years. That is one reason why many African Americans are disconnected with the Republican Party. One of the biggest faux pas’s is allowing the Party to be “colored” with some Dixiecrat Democrats who invaded the Party in the 60’s and 70’s, but still cling to their White supremacist views. The Party is suffering to this day for that disaster. However, some of the Dixiecrats, like William Fulbright, still whistled Dixie in the Democratic Party.
I will not let the Democratic Party off the hook because their history of “commitment to helping the excluded, the disenfranchised, and the poor” is very dubious, as I will prove to you. Don’t just take my word for it. With a library and the Internet, you can prove it for yourself too. Shouldn’t you think for yourself?
I’m independent politically. I stand with the man of integrity or the woman of integrity, not a political party. However, history is set in stone and cannot be ignored. Why have many African Americans have been hoodwinked and bamboozled for decades? Why is it that many African Americans believe political urban legends? Was the "40 Acres and a Mule" really a myth? A friend told me a worker in his office thought that Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat. Another friend told me she thought that the slave masters in the South were Republican. Another friend told me she thought the same thing.
Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. of Illinois brought the truth out by saying: “before the Civil War, the Democratic slave masters used to hold anti-black conventions.” They were 100% Democrat. There were no Republican slave masters y’all, aight? Look it up. Was the Republican Party formed to support and expand slavery, as many African Americans today believe? The Republican Party was formed in the 1850’s for the purpose of abolishing slavery and polygamy. The Republican National Committee website (http://www.rnc.com) says: “The Republican Party was born in the early 1850's by anti-slavery activists and individuals who believed that government should grant western lands to settlers free of charge.” Look at a portion of the 1860 platform: “That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom; That as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that ‘no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law,’ it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to Slavery in any Territory of the United States….That we brand the recent re-opening of the African slave- trade, under the cover of our national flag, aided by perversions of judicial power, as a shame to (a) crime against humanity and a burning (for) our country and age; and we call upon Congress to take prompt and efficient measures for the total and final suppression of that execrable traffic.” All the slave masters were 100% Democrat. They hated Republicans. It was impossible for a Republican to own slaves because owning slaves went against his principles. Democrats formed the terrorist organization the Ku Klux Klan in the 1870’s. Republicans, Black or white were forbidden to join. Actually for Republicans to have contact to them was usually fatal. All this information can be freely verified in libraries and on the Internet. Go to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) website (http://www.democrats.org/about/history.html). Look at these paragraphs concerning their history: “In 1848, the National Convention established the Democratic National Committee, now the longest running political organization in the world. The Convention charged the DNC with the responsibility of promoting "the Democratic cause" between the conventions and preparing for the next convention. (Part of “the Democratic cause” was protecting the institution of slavery in 1848.) Then the next paragraph immediately says: “As the 19th Century came to a close, the American electorate changed more and more rapidly. The Democratic Party embraced the immigrants who flooded into cities and industrial centers, built a political base by bringing them into the American mainstream, and helped create the most powerful economic engine in history.” We leave 1848 and timewarp to the late 19th Century? Why the 50-year gap in the DNC history? Why not talk about the Civil War and Reconstruction? Why not talk about the first Black government officials on state and federal levels? Are they afraid to reveal that they were 100% Republican Black elected officials? A Black elected official I know personally admitted he did not know until recently that there were Blacks in Congress in the 19th Century. Why not talk about the constitutional amendments that formally abolished slavery and declared that the former slaves are citizens of the United States? Why do they leave them out? What do they have to hide? The late Ron Brown, former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee said: “The common thread of Democratic history, from Thomas Jefferson to Bill Clinton, has been an abiding faith in the judgment of hardworking American families, and a commitment to helping the excluded, the disenfranchised and the poor strengthen our nation by earning themselves a piece of the American Dream. We remember that this great land was sculpted by immigrants and slaves, their children and grandchildren…." STOP! Wait a minute! From Thomas Jefferson to Bill Clinton helping the excluded, the disenfranchised and the poor? I hate to bring this up, but Jefferson owned those slaves Ron Brown refered to. In 1791, Black inventor and mathematician Benjamin Banneker wrote to Jefferson: “Sir, how pitiful it is to reflect that, although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind and of His equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges which He hath conferred upon them, you should at the same time counteract His mercies in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves.” All other slave holders were all Democrats to a man, and other Democratic Presidents before the Civil War did not oppose slavery. The Democrats kept in bondage the excluded, the disenfranched and the poor. Rest in peace Ron Brown, but were you ignorant of your own party’s history or did you lie through your teeth?
I also hate to bring this up too, but in 1994, President Bill Clinton, our “first Black president,” knowingly allowed 800,000 Black Africans to die in genocide in Rwanda. Why did he do that? He let thousands more die and to be taken into slavery in Southern Sudan, even after the Congressional Black Caucus and other Congressman and Senators brought it to his attention. Why did he do that? His Secretary of State Madeline Albright said that the human rights situation in Sudan was “not marketable to the American People.” I’m part of the American people. That was very presumptuous of her to assume that I would not care about Black Africans as I’m Black according to the last time I checked my skin. What did I say about “the excluded, the disenfranchised and the poor”? Is not genocide the Supreme Exclusion and Disenfranchisement? And Bill Clinton (who was sued while Governor of Arkansas for violating the 1965 Voting Rights Act, refused to sign Arkansas civil rights legislation as Governor, signed into law in Arkansas "Confederate Flag Day” as Governor, oversaw the execution of a brain-damaged Black convict as Governor, never did anything to stem the rising Black incarceration rates as President, and never changed the sentencing disparity between powder and crack cocaine as President) is a member of the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame? If Clinton was our first Black president, wasn’t he an Uncle Tom and an Oreo cookie? Wasn’t he a White man in a Black president’s body? He must have been a sellout, right? Kevin Alexander Gray, a civil rights organizer in South Carolina, said in Counterpunch.com (http://www.counterpunch.org/gray1207.html): “No other president in United States history has managed to get so much black support for giving so little. But what makes Clinton's race act so successful is that black America never asked him to do much to begin with….The joke that refuses to go away has Clinton as America's first black president, a sentiment enthusiastically affirmed by black celebrities, elites and quasi-intellectuals. In his bit, comedian Chris Rock used Clinton's ‘persecution over a '$300 haircut’ to support the claim. Former Southern Christian Leadership Conference head Joseph Lowery said that blacks like Clinton because ‘he plays the saxophone.’ Harvard professor Alvin Poussaint joked, Clinton ‘must have black ancestry.’ Back in 1998 during the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, writer Toni Morrison said, ‘black skin notwithstanding: this is our first black President’ citing his dysfunctional upbringing as commonality with black males. But the joke's an insult. The punchline is that Clinton is decadent and promiscuous, got rhythm, got caught and got over -- so he's black!” I personally heard a Black man say he liked Clinton because “he got away with messing around with the ladies.” Bill Clinton has absolutely nothing in common with me as a Black man.
And was not Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, a former Democratic Senator chosen for the court by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democratic segregationist and a former member of the KKK?
I discovered some other facts that are documentated and that you can research. Did you know the “racist” Barry Goldwater was a founding member of the Arizona NAACP? Yes, and he was a member until his death in 1998! Do you actually think a person you would think may be a KKK member would be a founding member of a Black organization until his death? As an Air National Guard Colonel in the 1940’s, he desegregated the Arizona Air National Guard, 2 years BEFORE President Truman desegregated the entire Armed Forces. Go to http://mdcurrington.tripod.com/mdc/barry_goldwater.html on the Internet and read the details. My mother, who is 83 years old, believed for the last 40 years that Barry
Goldwater was a White supremacist. (I grew up believing he was a racist.) Now my mother’s 40-year bitterness toward Goldwater evaporated. She loves Goldwater now. She understands he voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act based on his libertarian philosophy as far as the federal government intruding into private affairs and not because of “racism.” Also Goldwater voted for two Civil Rights bills during the Eisenhower administration while the majority of his Southern Democratic colleagues voted against them. How can a White supremacist give years of financial support to the NAACP until his death? Who would you rather have, a White Republican Senator who was a member of the NAACP or a White Democratic Senator who was a member of the KKK?
Rev. Al Sharpton (who I respect for traveling to Sudan and exposing chattel slavery there) said at the recent Democratic Convention in Boston: “Mr. President, you said would we have more leverage if both parties got our votes, but we didn't come this far playing political games. It was those that earned our vote that got our vote. We got the Civil Rights Act under a Democrat (President Lyndon Baines Johnson) We got the Voting Rights Act under a Democrat. We got the right to organize under Democrats.” Rev. Sharpton, I really wish you would have mentioned too that it was because of Democrats, not because of Republicans, that we needed the protection of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The Southern Democrats were the segregationists, not the Republicans. The Southern Democrats were responsible for Jim Crow, not the Republicans. Sue me if I'm wrong. Look it up. Someone posted on http://www.movie-fan-forum.com: “republicans opposed civil rights act in the 60s saying it was a case of government intruding in the lives of individuals.” That is an error. I have asked several people if a majority of Democrats or Republicans in Congress supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act. All but one said it was the Democratic majority. Therefore they believed it was a Democratic victory for civil rights. Have the Democrats claimed a victory they never earned? Here is the historical record that you can look up today on the Internet: In 1964, in the Senate, 82% of the Republicans voted for the Act while only 69% of the Democrats voted for it. Every last danged Southern Democratic Senator voted against it. In the House of Representatives, 80% of the Republicans voted for the Act, while only 61% of the Democrats voted for it. Ninety-two of the 103 Southern Democrats in the House voted against it (www.frankenlies.com/civilrights.htm). Also the ignored or forgotten 1957 Civil Rights Act (which Strom Thurmond tried to torpedo) and the 1960 Civil Rights Act, designed to protect us from the Southern Democrats, were passed by the majority of Republicans in Congress and signed into law by a Republican President. Republicans, not Democrats, historically have been in the majority in support of civil rights legislation from the beginning of their history. Look it up. Even Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy was no outstanding exponent for civil rights. Check this out. Who said, "The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!"? It was Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen speaking of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He must have been a Democrat, right? He was a Republican. Yet I remember when I was little hearing a man say after he died, "He shoulda died a long time ago!" Yet Dirksen wanted this man to have his civil rights protected. Look everything up and prove me wrong.
Yes, Republican Senator Trent Lott was nothing to shout about. (Same for the late Democrat Dixiecrat record-breaking-filibustering, Republican-switching Senator Strom Thurmond). Whatever is in the heart, the mouth speaketh. After he spoketh, all hell broketh loose. However, Democratic Senator Robert Byrd recently said on national television, “There are white niggers.” You would have thought he was a fan of a Spike Lee joint (“Niggers is a beautiful thing” – from Bamboozled). But with Byrd, former U.S. Senator and former Ambassador to New Zealand Carol Mosely Braun defended him. An older Black man I knew who hated with venom White and Black Republicans defended Byrd too. By the way, Senator Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, the "Invisible Empire of the South," years ago. He even recruited for the Klan as a “kleagle.” Has Senator Byrd been on record for officially renouncing and denouncing the KKK's terrorist history? Has the Klan ever called him a “traitor” for denouncing them? What if Trent Lott was an ex-Klan member and said “white niggers” on national television? We would have shouted “Crucify! Crucify!” right? We would have ran him out of town. Was it because Byrd is a Democrat that we make excuses for him making racial slurs and being a ex- KKK member, but we never ever make excuses for Republicans, the bad guys? I recall somewhere reading about a Black Democrat who actually said when he called in on a talk show he gave a White Democrat a pass, but he would not give a White Republican a pass. Is that not dysfunctional if not hypocritical? Is we sick, massa? Hey, when I was little I thought that the Democrats were good and the Republicans were evil, like the bad guys from James Bond films. (Richard Nixon was Dr. No.) Shouldn’t you think for yourself?
(Hey Senator Byrd, also please explain why you led the filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Goldwater's flawed reasons were libertarian in nature.What were your reasons?)
Rev. Sharpton said we never got our 40 acres and a mule. Yes, we did, and they were taken away by a Democrat. Reparations to Black slaves were discussed by Republicans after the Civil War. Political activist and researcher M.D. Currington (websites: http://mdcurrington.tripod.com/mdc and http://moteandbeam.tripod.com ) writes, “On January 12, 1865, General William Tecumseh Sherman and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton met with twenty Black community leaders in Savannah, Georgia to discuss freedom and reparations for former Black slaves.…on January 16, 1865, General Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15, which set aside 7,600 square miles in a 30-mile wide tract of land along the Atlantic coast stretching from Charleston, South Carolina to St. John’s River near Jacksonville, Florida, for the exclusive settlement by Blacks…This Field Order also guaranteed former slaves U.S. military protection, 40 acres of tillable land per Black family, other provisions such as a mule or horse in order to work the land, and any other animal that was no longer useful to the military. By June 1865, over 40,000 former slaves were settled on 40-acre tracts of land. Over 400,000 acres were allocated. In September of 1865, Democrat President Andrew Johnson reversed Field Order No. 15, issued special pardons, and returned the land to former
slaveowners.” The Republicans gaveth, yet the Democrats took it away. Shouldn’t we taketh back from them that was given to us?
Have you noticed that John Kerry chose rather quickly a rich white Southern male to be his running mate? Why could he not choose any of the qualified Black members of Congress, such as Representative Bobby Rush of Illinois, Representative Donald Payne of New Jersey, or Representative Harold Ford of Tennessee? What happened to “inclusion”? The DNC election a few years ago for Chairman chose white Terry McAuliffe, a Party fundraiser, over Black Maynard Jackson, a former mayor of Atlanta. I wonder why Congresswoman Maxine Waters was highly upset that McAuliffe was elected over Jackson. Somebody tell me why when over 90% of African Americans vote Democrat, we do not see some reflection of that support in the top leadership of the Democratic Party? Why can’t 90% of the leadership in the Democratic National Committee be Black? Wouldn’t that be a good thing? Or even 50% of the Presidential/Vice Presidential candidates for 2004 be Black. They claim they are inclusive, right? Is you is or is you ain’t my baby? (Tom the Cat of "Tom and Jerry" sang that song.) No offense. I'm just trying to make a point.
And let’s talk about Uncle Tom’s, the title character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel. Don’t we call Black people who seem to bow to the white folks and sellout to them “slap-happy, amos-'n- andyin', black-stooge, bootlickin', handkerchief-head Negro, pleaser-and-appeaser, chicken-eatin', knee-shakin', prefabricated, jiv'n, jivin', jiving, snow-black, butt-kissing, co-caucasian, howdy-doody, shoeshine-boy, tree-top, white-bread, crumb-snatchin', backstabbin', behind-scratchin', zip-coon, foot-shuffln', hafrican, aunt-jemima, thomasina, window-dressin', homey-kinda, cotton-pickin', Rev.-Pork-Chop, buckdancin', Judas, lawn-jockey, big-shot-coon, Kingfisher, homo-Tomus-americanus, wooly-head, black-anglo-saxon, black-skunk, bought-and-sold, opporTOMist, thank-ya-boss, stooge, integratin', inauthentic, un-cola, uppity, tomfool, turn-the-other-cheek, shifty-eyed, bug-eyed, waterboy, whitewardly-mobile, zebra, Stepin-Fetchit, low-belly-creepin', rent-a-Tom, self-hatin', sell-out, speak-when-spoken-to, house-boy, high-yaller, turncoat, Uncle Remus, Sambo, jigaboo, feet-shufflin’, de-blacked, bourgie, caste-flunky, cocktail-sippin', yassah-yassah-yassah, me-too-boss, darky Uncle Tom’s”? And we call them even worse things than that too. Unfortunately, there are many who really do fit this job description. However, many other African Americans all across the United States who refuse to bow to the "Party Line" and refuse to bow to the self-appointed "Keepers of the Blackness" and who dare to think independently are also pinned with that moniker. Because of fear of the "Thought Police S.W.A.T. Teams," many Black independent thinkers and those who start to think independently are forced to stay in the closet and keep their thoughts to themselves. Some of them even publicly feign digust of "Uncle Tom's" just to keep the heat off themselves. It is time for all of these Black independent thinkers to courageously come out of the closet and say "we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore!," just like Network. M.D. Currington, a former loyal Black Democratic attack dog, writes: “Black women were the first to use the term to describe Black men who left the Republican Party to join the Democratic Party (Ed. - historically the racist party of slavery and repression). The Honorable Marcus
Garvey (was) the first public figure to call Black Democrats Uncle Tom’s. As a matter of fact, one of the best known figures that Garvey called an Uncle Tom was W.E.B. Dubois. Dubois was very critical of the ‘Back to Africa’ (movement) led by Garvey’s United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Garvey called Dubois an ‘Uncle Tom.’ Dubois responded by calling Garvey ‘the most dangerous Black man in America.’ Garvey followed with calling Dubois ‘purely and simply a white man’s nigger…’ (Ed.- Presumably Garvey slammed Dubois in that fashion because Dubois was the only Black officer of the NAACP at the time.) The most unusual phenomenon about the term ‘Uncle Tom’ is that it is currently directed to Black Republicans and not to Black Democrats, even though the ideas of these Black Republicans have not changed since the abolition of slavery.” (By the way, I call all Blacks who refuse to address the issue of Black genocide and refuse to oppose it in all its forms true “Uncle Tom sellouts.”)
Have you seen the motion picture Bulworth with Warren Beatty and Halle Berry? Beatty played a fictional Democratic Senator named Jay Bulworth. There was a scene in a Black church that goes like this … LADY: “Are you saying the Democratic Party don’t care about the African American community?” BULWORTH: “Isn’t that obvious?… What are you going to do? Vote Republican??? C'mon C'mon.You’re not going to vote Republican! Let’s call a spade a spade….” Rent or buy Bulworth.
Considering the real truths you have just learned, isn’t fact stranger than fiction? Have we all been bamboozed, hoodwinked, and maybe even misled all these years? Think for yourself. The Honorable Marcus Garvey said: “Nobody frees a slave. A slave must free himself.” If you are on a political plantation, you should be like the skeleton who said to the other skeleton in the museum: “If we had any guts, we’d get out of here.”
Tell your Daddy, tell your Mama, don’t believe the DNC drama.
Robert Oliver is a writer and a commentator who has been active for over a year in bringing public awareness to the genocide and enslavement of thousands of Blacks in the African country of Sudan. You can reach him at stormwatch1989@aol.com.
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