Racists! That incendiary charge hurled by Democrats at
Tea Party activists protesting against ObamaCare was shown to be totally false
by Jack Cashill in his article "A
Closer Look at the Capitol Steps Conspiracy".
Given the Democratic Party's 150-year record of racist
rhetoric and racial violence - from the days of slavery until today - it is
astonishing to see Democrats sanctimoniously playing the race card. A display
of unmitigated gall describes how Democrats are falsely comparing anti-ObamaCare
protestors to the anti-civil rights racists of the 1960's who were Democrats.
Democrats get away with this racial hypocrisy because they know with absolute
certainty that the true history of civil rights has long been buried, and the
racism exhibited today by Democrats against blacks, particularly black
Republicans, will be ignored by the mainstream
media.
For instance, the liberal media expressed no outrage and
not one word of condemnation was uttered by any Democrat after SEIU (Service
Employees International Union) thugs attacked Kenneth Gladney, a black man.
Gladney was beaten, kicked and called a racist name while working as a vendor at
a health care reform town hall meeting in St. Louis on August 6, 2009 called by
U.S. Rep. Democrat Russ Carnahan.
The assault was a calculated attempt to intimidate and
silence Tea Party protestors and town hall activists. On the morning of the
Gladney attack, the White House presented to Senate Democrats a “battle plan” to
quell the protests. The advice given to the Democrats by the White House was to
"punch back twice as hard", and the first casualty was Kenneth Gladney. In the
emergency room of the St. John's Mercy Medical Center, Gladney was treated for
injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face suffered in the
attack.
The
six people arrested in the Gladney case, including a Post-Dispatch reporter,
were charged with mere misdemeanor ordinance violations, with a total of ten
charges spread out among the six offenders. Not one Democrat rushed to a
microphone to denounce the attack against Gladney as a "hate
crime".
Based on the lack of any outrage by Democrats over the
Gladney beating, it seems that the newly enacted "hate crime"
legislation pushed by Democrats would not apply to cases of hateful
brutality against black Republicans. The Hate Crimes Prevention Act was signed
into law by President Barack Obama on October 28, 2009 and is designed to punish
crimes of violence against people because of their race, color, religion,
national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.
At the core of why
Democrats are feverishly painting conservatives and Republicans as racist,
especially Tea Party activists, is the need to divert the public's attention
away from the fact that President Barack Obama and the Democrats in control of
Congress are slowly and deliberately transforming America from a free society
with a representative form of government into a socialist dictatorship. A
move applauded by the Cuban Communist dictator Fidel Castro.
Obama is now governing as a hard-core leftist, after
campaigning for president as a centrist. His cynical charade was designed to
convince the majority of white Americans to vote for him, the very citizens
Obama now castigates as racist.
What Obama and the Democrats are
ignoring while trying to silence protestors with charges of racism is the fact
that average American citizens are angry because they do not want socialism.
They understand that ObamaCare and Obama's out-of-control spending will produce
massive deficits, high costs for consumer goods and fewer jobs. Citizens have
tried to communicate this message to Obama and the Democrats in every way
possible, from protesting in record numbers to historic votes against Democrats
in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts.
Obama and the Democrats have
chosen, at their peril, to ignore the will of the people and enact the
economy-wrecking ObamaCare with one-party rule, bribing unprincipled Democrats
with sleazy deals.
The powerful video posted on YouTube called "America Rising: An Open
Letter to Democrat Politicians Patriotic Resistance" implores Americans to
hold Democrats accountable in the 2010 elections.
A video posted on YouTube called "We The People" provides
an inspiring call for us to take back our country from the socialists.
In the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this call
is made for all Americans to unite, engage in nonviolent civil disobedience and
vote in November to stop the Democrats from shredding our Constitution and
governing without the consent of the governed.
History shows that during the 1960's Democrats used
racist slurs and brutality against Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a
Republican until the day he died, and other nonviolent activists who were
trying to stop the Democrats from denying civil rights to black Americans.
Today, Democrats are using similar reprehensible tactics against conservatives
and Republicans, especially black Republicans, who are trying to stop the
Democrats from stripping civil liberties from all
Americans.
While claiming to be racially sensitive, Democrats use
racist invectives to denigrate black Republicans, demeaning them as "sellouts",
"Uncle Toms", "House Negroes", "House N-word", or worse. The list of black
Republicans attacked by Democrats is long and includes RNC Chairman Michael
Steel, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, General Colin Powell and Justice Clarence Thomas.
On the left-wing Internet website called "The News
Blog," Democrats posted a doctored photograph of RNC Chairman Michael Steele
while he was the Lt. Governor of Maryland and running for a Senate seat.
Democrats depicted Steele as a "Simple Sambo" with a blackened minstrel-style
face, nappy hair and big, think red lips. The cartoon caption read: "Simple
Sambo wants to move to the big house". This contemptible racist stereotype is
the same one Democrats used to demean black men during the era of slavery and
segregation.
Dr. Condoleezza Rice was the object of particularly
vicious racist attacks by Democrats. In addition to several other appalling
images of Dr. Rice produced by several Democrats, cartoonist Jeff Danziger
denigrated Dr. Rice as an ignorant, barefoot "mammy", reminiscent of the
stereotyped black woman in the movie "Gone with the Wind" about the slave era
black woman who remarked: "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies". This
is the type of racist stereotype Democrats used to demean black women during the
era of slavery and segregation.
A
video was shot by WKRN Video Journalist Beau Fleenor at Tennessee State
University in Nashville, Tennessee that shows Al Sharpton demeaning Gen. Powell
and Dr. Rice, when Sharpton was asked to give his opinions about whether Powell
and Rice were "House Negroes".
An article that
appeared in a Portland, Oregon paper was one of many exposing how hardly a
ripple of protest was made by black Democrats when Harry Belafonte publicly
denounced Gen. Powell as a "House Negro".
Posted on the Internet is an article entitled "A
Black Man, The Progressive's Perfect Trojan Horse" by black entertainer
Lloyd Marcus exposing Democratic Party racism toward black Tea Party
protestors.
The truth about Democratic Party racism can be harsh
medicine, but is sorely needed to finally eject the race-baiting poison injected
into our body politic by Democrats, the architects of modern-day racism. As
stated by author Michael Scheuer, the Democratic Party is the party of the four
S's: slavery secession, segregation and now socialism. A prominent pundit
affirmed that the Republican Party is the party of the four F's: family, faith,
freedom and fairness. Civil rights history details are in the NBRA Civil Rights
Newsletter that is posted on the website of the National Black Republican
Association.
Written out of our history books are the following
facts. The Republican Party was started in 1854 as the anti-slavery party and,
after the Civil War, Republicans amended the US Constitution to grant blacks
freedom (13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote
(15th Amendment). Republicans then passed the civil rights laws to ensure
blacks could exercise their Constitutional rights, including the Civil Rights
Acts of 1866, 1867 and 1875. After Democrats took control of Congress in 1892,
Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil rights legislation
enacted by the Republicans. It took Republicans nearly six decades to finally
achieve passage of civil rights legislation in the 1950's and 1960's pushed
through by Republican Senator Everett Dirksen over the objection of the
Democrats.
In addition to their reprehensible of record of fighting
against civil rights legislation, Democrats have a long history of racial
violence. Recorded by liberal professor Dr.
Eric Foner in his book "A Short History of Reconstruction", is the
horrifying fact that Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan in 1866 to lynch and
terrorize Republicans - black and white. The Klan became the terrorist arm of
the Democratic Party, killing over 2,000 black Republicans and over 1,000 white
Republicans.
The violence against the 1960's era civil rights
protestors was inflicted by Democrats. Democrat Public Safety Commissioner
Eugene "Bull" Connor in Birmingham let loose vicious dogs and turned
skin-burning fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators. Democrat Georgia
Governor Lester Maddox famously brandished ax handles to prevent blacks from
patronizing his restaurant. In 1954, Democrat Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus
tried to prevent desegregation of a Little Rock public school. Democrat Alabama
Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963 and
thundered, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation
forever."
All of these racist Democrats remained Democrats until
the day they died. One survivor from that era, Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, a
former recruiter in the Ku Klux Klan, is still a Democrat and a prominent leader
in the Democrat-controlled Congress where he was honored by his fellow Democrats
as the "conscience of the Senate." It does not even make common sense to
believe that after the Republicans spent over 150 years fighting the Democrats
and won, the racist Democrats suddenly rushed into the arms of the Republicans.
In fact Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than
any one in the Republican Party, the party for
blacks.
If our soldiers did and do voluntarily put their lives
on the line to preserve our freedoms, then we can do no less. If Dr. King had
the courage to fight for civil rights for blacks in the face of racist slurs by
Democrats and threats of imprisonment or death, then we surely have the courage
to stand up for our civil liberties in the face of such threats. This we owe to
ourselves, our country and future generations..
Frances Rice is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and Chairman of
the National Black Republican Association. She may be contacted at: www.NBRA.info