THE FBLC DENOUNCES THE RACIAL MOTIVATED ATTACKS UPON DR. CONDOLEEZZA RICE

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THE FAITH BASED LEADERSHIP COUNCIL DENOUNCES THE RACIAL MOTIVATED ATTACKS UPON DR. CONDOLEEZZA RICE

(Washington DC)---- The Faith Based Leadership Council (FBLC)(formerly the National Faith Based Initiative Coalition), a group of over 200 black clergy and members of the Faith Based Community, denounced the racial motivated attacks upon Dr. Condoleezza Rice by Editorial Cartoonists Jeff Danziger, Pat Oliphant, Garry Trudeau, the Washington Post and New York Times.

The three cartoonists have for several months used racial stereotypes to conduct their personal character assassination of Dr. Rice’s integrity because she has made the choice to serve in the Bush Administration.

“These cartoonists believe that the liberal views of the Washington Post and New York Times somehow provides cover for them to engage in racist attacks upon Dr. Rice and any other minority in the Bush Administration,” said Oliver N.E. Kellman Jr. Executive Director of the FBLC. “Mr. Danziger’s, Mr. Oliphant’s and Mr. Trudeau’s racist depictions of Dr. Rice are of the most twisted Ku Klux Klan/Skinhead Mindset. “I am astonished that the NAACP, Rainbow-Push and other traditional civil rights groups did not denounce this type of trash from the very first day it was reported.” “Instead, they are silent witnesses to this racially motivated character assassination because of Dr. Rice’s politics.”

“The FBIC believes in the advancement of all Americans, no matter their political affiliation, gender or ethnic background said Kellman. “Dr. Rice has been singled out for persecution by a handful of bigoted liberals who have characterized her as a steppin and fetchin sambo, I believe that they feel threatened and disturbed by the fact that Dr. Rice will soon be the most powerful Black woman in the United States as Secretary of State.” “The Washington Post and New York Times should feel shame for becoming vehicles for racism and bigotry by those on the left.”

The FBIC is calling upon the cartoonists, the Washington Post and the New York Times to publicly apologize to Dr. Rice. White liberals in the media have come to feel that they can openly attack any Black conservative that chooses to serve the nation.

The FBIC is calling upon the Justice Department to conduct a full investigation into these incidents, where the Civil Rights of Dr. Rice and General Colin Powell may have been violated by the promotion of racial bigotry towards persons of color serving their nation.

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"“These cartoonists believe that the liberal views of the Washington Post and New York Times somehow provides cover for them to engage in racist attacks upon Dr. Rice and any other minority in the Bush Administration,” said Oliver N.E. Kellman Jr. Executive Director of the FBLC. “Mr. Danziger’s, Mr. Oliphant’s and Mr. Trudeau’s racist depictions of Dr. Rice are of the most twisted Ku Klux Klan/Skinhead Mindset. “I am astonished that the NAACP, Rainbow-Push and other traditional civil rights groups did not denounce this type of trash from the very first day it was reported.” “Instead, they are silent witnesses to this racially motivated character assassination because of Dr. Rice’s politics.”

"“The FBIC believes in the advancement of all Americans, no matter their political affiliation, gender or ethnic background said Kellman. “Dr. Rice has been singled out for persecution by a handful of bigoted liberals who have characterized her as a steppin and fetchin sambo, I believe that they feel threatened and disturbed by the fact that Dr. Rice will soon be the most powerful Black woman in the United States as Secretary of State.” “The Washington Post and New York Times should feel shame for becoming vehicles for racism and bigotry by those on the left.” "

The real racists are the members of the Slave Party since before the Civil War and to the present.

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Aunt Jemia
AP | 11-19-04 | James A Carlson

Posted on 11/19/2004 10:27:24 AM PST by squirt-gun

U.S. National - AP Radio Host Calls Rice 'Aunt Jemima'

Fri Nov 19,12:33 AM ET

U.S. National - AP

By JAMES A. CARLSON, Associated Press Writer

MILWAUKEE - A radio talk show host drew criticism Thursday after calling Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) an "Aunt Jemima" and saying she isn't competent to be secretary of state.

John Sylvester, the program director and morning personality on WTDY-AM in Madison, said in a phone interview Thursday that he used the term on Wednesday's show to describe Rice and other blacks as having only a subservient role in the Bush administration.

Rice has served as President Bush (news - web sites)'s national security adviser and was named this week to replace the departing Colin Powell (news - web sites) as secretary of state.

Sylvester, who is white, also referred to Powell as an "Uncle Tom" — a contemptuous term for a black whose behavior toward whites is regarded as fawning or servile.

He said Thursday night that he was referring to remarks by singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte that the price of admittance for blacks to the Bush White House was subservience.

As for Rice, "they're using her for an illusion of inclusion," he said, adding that he feels her history as national security adviser showed a lack of competence.

Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz called the remarks "racially insensitive," while Sen. Russ Feingold (news, bio, voting record), D-Wis., said in a statement he joined "all Wisconsinites in rejecting" the statements.

Linda Hoskins of the NAACP's Madison branch said she could not comment on Sylvester's remarks until she had heard them in their entirety.

The station's corporate office received about 100 calls about his comments, Sylvester said.

He added that he has a long history of commitment to civil rights and has supported Madison's black community.

He said he was planning a giveaway on Friday's show of Aunt Jemima pancake mix and syrup. "I will apologize to Aunt Jemima," he said.

The incident came after a radio host in Milwaukee had his talk show taken off the air all of last week after he used word "wetback" to refer to undocumented Mexican immigrants, sparking protests from Hispanics.

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The Democratic Party: Modern Day Slave Master
Toronto Free Press ^ | November 19, 2004 | J. Matt Barber

Posted on 11/19/2004 11:00:09 AM PST by nickcarraway

As a little girl in segregated Birmingham Alabama, Condoleezza Rice, like so many other black Americans, often experienced systematic racism rooted in old-fashioned hatred. On a balmy September morning in 1963 that hatred manifest to sight, the vile portrait of pure evil. A group of radical white supremacists bombed a Birmingham church in a black neighborhood killing four little girls. One of those little girls, Denise McNair, was a friend to Condoleezza Rice.

From her humble beginnings in the Deep South, to one of the President’s most trusted confidants, Dr. Rice has overwhelmingly surpassed external expectations and diligently achieved internal aspirations to become the most powerful black woman in United States history. If her nomination survives Senate confirmation, which is fully expected, she will hold our Nation’s highest Cabinet level position: Secretary of State.

In light of her countless laudable achievements and historical milestones, surely Dr. Rice is a beacon of pride for all who purport to support the black race — she is undoubtedly respected and revered by those who delight in the American dream fulfilled and on display — such a story will certainly be the fabric of hope and inspiration, woven throughout the hearts and minds of America’s black youth for decades to come… No… so very regrettably and predictably, such is not the case…not as long as Democrats have anything to say about it.

You see, the Democratic Party, the liberal "mainstream" media and the rest of the cultural elites are having a very hard time handling Dr. Rice’s rise to power. They’ve waged a disgraceful, racist and cowardly back-door assault against her. Why? Little Ms. Condoleezza has wandered away from the plantation. She refuses to slave in the cotton fields of "progressive" ideology. If she is allowed credibility and is perceived as an acceptable role model, then perhaps black Democrats, heretofore taken for granted, will begin to recognize her achievements as legitimate and honorable, and worse…begin to share her socially and fiscally conservative, Republican values. If this happens…all is lost.

In a manner that is objectively and demonstrably racist, liberal Democrats and the media have collectively assumed the persona of David Duke. Here’s but a snippet: In his recent comic strip, Doonesbury creator and liberal Democrat Garry Trudeau depicts Dr. Rice as an un-educated idiot, and refers to her as "Brown Sugar." In his recent cartoon, liberal Democrat and Boston Globe syndicated cartoonist Pat Oliphant characterizes Dr. Rice as a squawking parrot perched upon President Bush’s finger, blindly, mindlessly and dutifully observing his every whim. Her lips are exaggerated in a grossly bulbous and ethnically stereotypical fashion. And, with his recent masterpiece, liberal Democrat and LA Times editorial cartoonist Jeff Danziger reminds us all of the days when the KKK actually had some pull. His cartoon portrays Dr. Rice as, what can only be described as a tattered barefoot slave "mammy" (probably Prissy from Gone with the Wind). She sits in a rocking chair with her legs spread. On her lap she holds an aluminum tube like an infant (ostensibly a tube of the uranium enrichment variety). She attempts to feed the tube with a bottle and then, in the stereotypical vernacular of a "colored," says, "I knows all about aluminum tubes. Correction. I don't know nuthin' about aluminum tubes."

Yet, we wait. We wait for Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to explode on the scene demanding that Trudeau, Oliphant and Danziger be skewered alive and pealed. We wait for the NAACP, and the droves of other liberal Democrats who fancy themselves as America’s (self appointed) "black leadership" to demand that all three be fired and banished to Nebraska, Oklahoma or some other Red-State. But, we wait in vain. Instead, we hear the deafening and ever so telling clamor of indifferent silence. They’re cut from the same cloth you see — they play for the same team — the same rules don’t apply — integrity be damned! One need only imagine the utter pandemonium had a conservative Republican conceptualized and produced the same racist refuse.

Still, on the larger front in the battle between Republicans and Democrats for the hearts, minds, souls and votes of black Americans, it’s quite simple. The Democratic Party’s survival is dependent upon blacks being dependent upon the Democratic Party. Confusing? Not really. One of the Party’s chief tenets, and that which is most central to its survival, is the perpetual maintenance of Black America’s dependence on Big (Democrat controlled) Government — it’s the Party’s notion that another promised entitlement yields another black vote. For the Democratic Party to live another day, save another tree, kill another baby…the backward fiction that a successful black-man is not really a black-man at all, must live on. Once that is gone and the secret gets out — Checkmate! — Game-over.

Perhaps the marked hypocrisy revealed in the Democratic Party’s recent deplorable and racist treatment of Condoleezza Rice has done enough to reveal the man behind the curtain — to expose black America to the reality that they have been, for far too long, taken for granted — used — exploited by the Democratic Party. And as more and more black Americans begin to embrace the success oriented, values driven, economically sound principles held by the Republican party and shared by such great Americans as Condoleezza Rice, Clarance Thomas and Colin Powell, then perhaps more and more black Americans will resolve to break free and walk away from the Democratic Party’s beguiling chains of bondage.

J. Matt Barber is a non-practicing attorney, an undefeated heavyweight professional boxer (Matt "Bam Bam" Barber), and a jazz drummer in the Chicago Land area. In addition to his Law Degree, Barber holds a Master of Arts in Public Policy from Regent University (Virginia Beach, VA). Matt is a Contributor to the Washington Times "Insight Magazine," and a Columnist and Contributing Editor for TheConservativeVoice.com e-news publication.

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