The significance of Carol Moseley Braun (Which party is racist)

Townhall ^ | January 18, 2004 | Jay Bryant

[RockDoc]

Carol Moseley Braun, who ended her presidential campaign this week, is frequently and accurately described as the only African-American woman ever to serve in the United States Senate.

But, assiduous newsreader though I am, I have never seen her identified by the following descriptor, which in addition to being equally accurate is vastly more remarkable:

Carol Moseley Braun is the only African-American Democrat ever to serve in the United States Senate.

Isn't that really astonishing? A political party that for the past seventy years has claimed the allegiance of as many as ninety per cent of the black voters of this country has elected precisely one of them to the Senate. And the only way Moseley Braun won was by challenging and defeating the Illinois Democratic Party's anointed and endorsed candidate – incumbent Senator Alan J. Dixon in 1992.

I paused in mid column just now and did some rough math, which suggests that somewhere between a quarter and a third of all Democrats are African-Americans. So if we applied the concept of affirmative action quotas to the Democratic Senate membership, there should be approximately twelve black Democratic Senators in the current Congress. But in fact, there are none. There weren't any in the last Congress either, or the one before that. Except for Moseley Braun's single six-year term, there have never been any black Democratic Senators.

There have been three black Republican Senators: Hiram Revels, Blanche Kelso Bruce and Edward Brooke.

Oh, Democrats will let African-Americans serve in the House of Representatives, but only after carefully carving out black-majority, which is to say segregated, districts for them. Well, you can't expect white Democrats to vote for one of them, can you?

So the Democratic Party's policy, throughout the modern, post-World War II era has been to create separate-but-equal congressional districts. Keep blacks in the ghetto – the urban plantation. The handful of African-American Republican members of Congress, by contrast, have come from suburban and rural areas, where they have been, often enthusiastically, supported by Republican voters. Moreover, whenever the Republican Party has attempted to run black candidates in black areas, they lose overwhelmingly, and this pattern holds for other offices, too.

White Republicans have no problem whatsoever voting for black Republicans, when they can find one to vote for. Black Democrats won't vote for a black Republican. White Democrats won't vote for a black Democrat. Which is the racist party?

Yet when President Bush laid a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King this week, a group of several hundred demonstrators booed him. The demonstration itself is not important – any liberal organization that can't produce on a given occasion five hundred or so sign-waving demonstrators just isn't trying. But the fact that such an event has credibility, particularly with many African-Americans, is important, and it is through such public relations techniques that the animus of blacks toward Republicans continues, generation after generation.

When, the next day, the President appointed Charles Pickering to a seat on the Federal Appeals Court, leading Democrats trotted out their invective again, feeding the myth of Republican racism by charging, wholly irresponsibly, that Pickering is a bigot – this on the unimpeachable evidence that he is a Mississippi Republican (as were, by the way former Senators Revels and Bruce). The Pickering appointment, Vermont's Howard Dean sneered, was the "ultimate hypocrisy" by Bush.

Nonsense. The ultimate hypocrisy is that the Democratic Party pretends to be the party of civil rights. It is not, to which the lonely career of Carol Moseley Braun stands as the perfect rule-proving exception.

If Democrats are eager to play the race card against white, particularly southern white, Republicans, they positively slam the card down on the table when it comes to black Republicans. Before Clarence Thomas, there was Massachusetts' Brooke, who was defeated in his bid for a third Senate term in a vicious, slanderous, politics-of- personal destruction campaign run by the Kennedys for the benefit of Paul Tsongas in 1978.

Today, Colin Powell is insulted as a "house nigger," California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown's nomination to the Federal bench is filibustered by the same hypocrites who claim Pickering is a racist and even Condoleezza Rice is pilloried for the apostasy of having strayed off the plantation and joined the Republicans.

The massahs were Democrats. The whip-toting overseers were Democrats. The Klansmen were Democrats. The filibusterers of the Civil Rights bills in the 1960's were Democrats. The liberals whose welfare-state policies destroyed families in post- Great Society inner cities were Democrats. That such a party gets to claim the allegiance of so many African-American voters is one of the great con jobs of all time.

[RockDoc]

"The massahs were Democrats. The whip-toting overseers were Democrats. The Klansmen were Democrats. The filibusterers of the Civil Rights bills in the 1960's were Democrats. The liberals whose welfare-state policies destroyed families in post- Great Society inner cities were Democrats. That such a party gets to claim the allegiance of so many African-American voters is one of the great con jobs of all time" - Now ain't that the truth.

[Always Right]

I paused in mid column just now and did some rough math, which suggests that somewhere between a quarter and a third of all Democrats are African-Americans.

It is quite possibly more than a third of the votes for Democrats come from blacks. I have never seen this number publicized, but I am sure it is known.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Of course, it is politically-correct dogma that one cannot be an African-American politician without accepting most of the ideas of Karl Marx, who was (boo, hiss), a white European male. Go figure.

[Always Right]

This is why if you could chip away even 10 more percent of the black vote away from the Democrats, without losing your base, the Democrats would be doomed.

[Mel Gibson]

Carol Moseley Braun is the only African-American Democrat ever to serve in the United States Senate

Yes, and her constituents in Illinois threw her corrupt rearend out of office then the "noble" media felt the politically correct need to "reinvent" and "rehabilitate" her back into political respectibility.

[FreedomPoster]

>>White Republicans have no problem whatsoever voting for black Republicans, when they can find one to vote for.

He's got that right. Many GA FReepers, black and white, intend to do just that; Herman Cain is a heckuva candidate.

If we manage to get him through the primaries, I just hope we can get black Georgians to vote for him in numbers. That would be a truly historic event.

[Hardastarboard]

The Democratic Party supported physical slavery during the Civil War (and to an extent afterward - remember their record on civil rights during the 1960's - it was the Republicans that passed the Voting Rights Act, not the Dems).

Now the Democratic Party supports slavery of the economic sort - Marxism.

At least they've been ideologically consistent.

[sgtbono2002]

When I look at the blatant black racism of the Black Congressional Caucus in the House, I am kinda glad we dont have any Black Democratic Senators.

[glockmeister40]

I heard about her corruption and ethics charges. Do you have the details? I'm just curious.

[Flashlight]

ask a Republican and a Democrat about Alan Keyes. The Republican will say, "he's a smart guy and I like his values, etc." The Democrat will say, "he's that black guy token for the Republican party, etc."

[monocle]

Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Colin Powell, Condi Rice and Alan Keyes. Do the Democrats have any blacks with such intellectual capcity? Could the black community be rejecting these individuals because they are Republicans or because of the intellectual abilities? Remember academic achievement is a white thing.

[LowCountryJoe]

This is why if you could chip away even 10 more percent of the black vote away from the Democrats, without losing your base, the Democrats would be doomed.

There are only two ways to chip away at the so called "black vote":

1) Pander with the promise of entitlement expansion - in which case the conservative base dwindles.

2) Expose the "black vote" to conservative principles. Which is a pretty tough proposition given the obstacles - the latter of which are stereotypical - like the socialist mindset of instructors in higher education and education in general. The leftward slanted mainstream media. A gravitation by blacks toward well compensating government jobs. The us versus "the man" mentality. And, an urban culture that relentlessly "teaches" that being educated is "selling out" and that drugs, promiscuous sex, and violence is glamorous.

[buffyt]

WOW, I had never thought of that! She is the only one. And they CLAIM to be the party FOR the minorities! They don't walk the walk, they only talk the talk.

[RikaStrom]

Oh, Democrats will let African-Americans serve in the House of Representatives, but only after carefully carving out black-majority, which is to say segregated, districts for them. Well, you can't expect white Democrats to vote for one of them, can you?

Oh ouch. Now that's saying something really ugly about the democratic party. Not that it's news to us.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

"The massahs were Democrats. The whip-toting overseers were Democrats. The Klansmen were Democrats. The filibusterers of the Civil Rights bills in the 1960's were Democrats. The liberals whose welfare-state policies destroyed families in post- Great Society inner cities were Democrats. That such a party gets to claim the allegiance of so many African-American voters is one of the great con jobs of all time" - Worth repeating!

[snooker]

So the Democratic Party's policy, throughout the modern, post-World War II era has been to create separate-but-equal congressional districts. Keep blacks in the ghetto – the urban plantation.

The late Gov. Wallace would be proud. The democrats couldn't get away with it at the school house, but it's worked out just fine for them.

Democrat party ... party of the KKK and proud of it.

[Mel Gibson]

glockmeister40,

I had heard that she used campaign funds for a vacation trip to Africa with her boyfriend?. I performed a search on Google and found nothing. Unbelieveable, like it never existed. The voters of Illinois voted her out that's all that counts.

[StACase]

Another way to look it it is in modern times, It's two terms for a black Republican [Edward Brooke] and only one for a black Democrat [Carol Moseley Braun].

[StACase]

Another way to look at it ...

[Yaelle]

White Democrats will only accept black leaders who agree to keep blacks down. And most blacks go along with this, because everyone has been told that keeping blacks down is a shiny, pretty gift of "help."

All colors of Republicans want everyone to be judged on his own merits, no matter what their past has been like. Can you get there (legally) on your own two feet? Great! Who cares what you look like? And we are called the racists. Paging George Orwell.