Posted on 11/18/2004 11:14:33 AM PST by Miami Vice
" Clarence Thomas is not my idea of what a black man is,” said my wealthy, white, liberal hostess. The fact that this white bread suburbanite should feel qualified to define what a black person is, or is not, was amusing.
Liberals –both black and white - revile black Republicans as Oreo’s or Uncle Toms. Such is the case with Dr. Condoleeza Rice, the recent Secretary of State designate of the Bush administration.
The invective directed at Dr. Rice by liberals is incredible and appalling. Cartoonist Pat Oliphant portrayed Dr. Rice as a parrot being told what to do by President Bush. Cartoonist Garry Trudeau implied Rice is a fool who never heard of Al-Qaeda. Cartoonist Jeff Danziger caricatured Dr. Rice saying, “ I knows all about them aluminum tubes.”
This is nothing new though, USA Today’s black journalist DeWayne Wickham wrote in 2000, “With his nomination assured, George W. Bush has plenty of time to pull away from the right-wing fringe that dominates the GOP's selection process - and their black sycophants - and make a serious effort to build a more racially diverse Republican Party.”
In other words, according to black Democratic Party sycophant DeWayne Wickham, if you do not think like him, you are not black like him. This is merely the African-American version of the white liberal’s Red State/Blue State dichotomy, which posits Red Staters are not quite human and Blue Staters are enlightened.
Wickham was a panelist for a recent symposium about African American concerns about the Bush administration. He said, “The Republican Party is like the South African Nationalist Party of the 1940’s.”
Fellow panelist, African American journalist Donna Britt of the Washington Post said, “ Voting for Bush was irrational behavior.” She claimed Republicans used fear so people will act against their own self-interest. Britt is parroting the white liberal mantra that working class and poor people who vote Republican do not know what is in their own interests.
Why such vitriol for black Republicans? The reason – so the myth goes – is that Republicans did not help civil rights initiatives that liberals and Democrats sacrificed to implement.
This is a blatant lie.
The idea that racial civil rights programs were the sole province of liberal Democrats is an urban legend promoted by Democrats to keep African - Americans voting for them. A cursory examination of history will reveal that civil rights legislation was implemented, proposed and/or endorsed by Republicans.
It was during the Eisenhower presidency that the 1957 Civil Rights Act was passed. Eisenhower’s Attorney General, Herbert Brownell, crafted the legislation in March 1956. Brownell wanted a new division within the federal Justice Department to monitor civil rights abuses. It was because of Brownell that the Kennedy administration was able to intervene on behalf of civil rights activists.
Ironically, some Democrats criticized Eisenhower for pandering to the black vote.
It was Eisenhower who desegregated public facilities in DC during his first term -Truman did not do it. It was Eisenhower who enforced school the Supreme Court school desegregation order in 1957.
Fifty years earlier it was a Republican, Teddy Roosevelt, who invited the African-American leader Booker T. Washington to the White House. Contrast this to the Democrat segregationist President Woodrow Wilson.
Republican Senator Jacob Javitz once proposed an amendment to a mental health bill (S.1576) to deny funds to states with segregated mental health facilities. The Democrats denied the amendment.
It was Richard Nixon who implemented affirmative action. A policy about which Jesse Jackson is a fanatic.
James Meredith, brother of the slain black civil rights activist, is an avowed conservative Republican - as are black pundits Armstrong Williams, Leroy Elder, and Deroy Murdock. African-American intellectuals Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele are conservatives.
Steele wrote an essay in 1999 saying that it is lonely being a black conservative. Given the vilification they receive from black Democrats it is no wonder. Black civil rights leaders, who have cast their lot with the Democratic Party, are concerned about being able to deliver Democrats the black vote - the source of their power and wealth. They are concerned about the elimination of their monopoly of the black vote.
The criticism of black Republicans by liberal blacks has absolutely nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with their fealty to the Democratic Party - they are Blue Staters.
African-American liberals are not black - they are blue.
And which party was it again that passed all of the Jim Crow apartheid laws?
NOW (http://www.now.org/) still has not released a statement on the nomination of Dr. Rice to Secretary of State.
What did J. William Fulbright or Albert Arnold Gore, Sr. do for the Civil Rights movement (other than resist it)?
Funny - I know a lot of democrats on the south side of Chicago and they are the biggest RACISTS you'll ever meet. Just ask any black kid who happens to stumble into the wrong neighborhood.
She needs to drop about 100+ pounds..
In the Marines, we didn't refer to "white" and "black" Marines. If you were describing a Marine to someone, and it was necessary to describe his appearance, you'd say "light green" or "dark green". What that meant was that we were all "green" (meaning Marines), and that was the most important thing.
So if someone wants to talke raise and political affiliation, it would be "light blue" and the "dark blue". But the most important thing is that we're all Blue.
I think he meant Blue like in Blue States. I am certainly not a Blue Stater
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Oh, hell, then its dark red and light red.
hahahaha
Good one
From a post on FR a while ago (I didn't retain who posted it, but it was from the description of a book called Unfounded Loyalty) -
Our nation's top historians reveal that the Democratic Party gave us the Ku Klux Klan, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws and other repressive legislation which resulted in the multitude of murders, lynchings, mutilations, and intimidations (of thousands of black and white Republicans). On the issue of slavery: historians say the Democrats gave their lives to expand it, the Republicans gave their lives to ban it.
Regarding the Republican Party, historians report that while Democrats were busy passing laws to hurt blacks, Republicans devoted their time to passing laws to help blacks. Republicans were primarily responsible for the following Civil Rights legislation:
1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2. The 13th Amendment
3. The 14th Amendment
4. The 15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6. The Civil Rights of 1866
7. The Enforcement Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of 1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
11. The Freeman Bureau
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1957
13. The Civil Rights Act of 1960
14. The United State Civil Rights Commission
And gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following legislation
15. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
17. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
18. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
19. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
20. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
21. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
22. Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
23. Civil Rights Act of 1983
24. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988
Good post!
"The Forced Act of 1871" ?
Was Clinton around back then?
You are beginning to get the picture. It is not about civil rights (black vs white), Homosexuality (straight vs gay), feminism (tradition vs. progressive),separation of church and state (athiest vs. believers), abortion (choice vs.pro-life. It's about keeping THE POT STURRED UP, using every possible issue to divide and conquer our nation.MARK THOSE WHO CAUSE DIVISIONS AMONG YOU AND DRIVE THEM OUT !! Those who constantly (harp on) direct us to all our problems know that by doing so they will make the situations worse and thereby continue to divide and conquer us as a nation till our culture here is DISSOLVED............stop getting on their band wagons and taking up their phony causes because you then become their "USEFULL IDIOT" and become complicit in the death of our nation........
All good points, but Republicans didn't lead the charge in breaking down Jim Crow.
Democrats, socialists, and communists got their heads broken and lives taken while organizing voter drives and demonstrations. Not Republicans, conservatives, or libertarians - with few exceptions.
Or so goes the accepted history - true as far as I know.
THe motivatins of the Communists were not related to civil rights, The Democrats certainly did do a lot - and Democrats tried to prevent it.
However, it is not true that Republicans did nothing
Didn't say they did nothing, just that they did virtually nothing at the street level, nothing they got credit for.
No civil disobedience, no jail terms, no dog bites, no deaths. The right didn't put their bodies on the line, so the left gets all the credit.
I could be wrong, along with most of America that gets its news from the MSM.
No. I do remember the uproar when a mid-level DC bureaucrat used the term. Correctly. And all the usual suspects howled that he shouldn't use it, because they're too ignorant to know what it means. So his boss (the black Mayor of D.C.) fired him. And then quietly hired him for a higher level, better paid job in a different department.
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