Posted on 04/15/2005 10:09:05 AM PDT by natelivingston
I believe the complaint is that Mr. D was removed thus giving the program approximately 0% African-American representation.
Awesome article! It's only too bad that you're not engaging anyone in conversation here, as a lot of people are giving good thought to their replies.
It is true, sadly, that the Dems are the historical party of racism, oppresion, Jim Crow, etc. They don't care about you unless you start to question their stranglehold on your votes. They demand blind obedience, at the cost of your success, your self-reliance, your freedoms, your financial well-being... and what do they give in return? Governments in every city, rife with corruption that make it difficult for hard-working black families to be prosperous and create wealth for themselves, to own businesses, etc.
True black leaders, people who are inspirations to people of ALL races such as Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Condoleeza Rice... are hated by the Democratic elite, while phonies like Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson have no message of real empowerment, self-reliance or anything else positive but are elevated to status as living gods.
It is obviously the hope of many people from various races and backgrounds that the barriers that blacks and whites worked so long and hard to break down, can be overcome, and the IDEALS they all worked so hard for can some day be achieved: Where people can be individuals, free from class warfare and racism, free to be self-reliant, free to own property and businesses, free to create and save wealth for their families and maximize life in the most free and prosperous nation on Earth.
Welcome to Free Republic!
Sorry, normally I wouldn't point out such an error because we all do it, but that one was particularly cute. (Or rude!)
From "Guess Who's Back" by Rakim F/ Chuck D (getlyrics.com version)
Yo, my rhymes and lyrics, find spirits like a seance
Since fat Cray-ons, I write and display chaos
My plan is ?, the diagram know where the damage
I take advantage, until your crowd go bananas
What a rush I hear cuts and I lust to touch
Microphones get clutches by the illustrious
Word spread I inherited, many ways to say the unsaid
Born with three 7's in my head
In time no one can seem to blow your mind as far as this
To find you'll need philosophers and anthropologists
Astrologists, professors from your smartest colleges
With knowledge and scholarships, when Ra be droppin this
Some of the things I know, will be in your next Bible
When I die go bury me and my notebook in Cairo
With the great God from Egypt manifest was write rhymes
Align with the stars, I come back to bless the mic
the dems also tossed sammie davis jr for encouraging blacks to vote for jack kennedy after that dem got elected, too.
Every time I see this kind of opinion from Black Americans, I am happy. It's high time all Blacks realize the simple fact that the Democrat party is using them.
How many high level Blacks did Clinton have in his administration compared to Bush? Common, wake up.
NAte, thanks for telling us about this, and thanks for giving Sean a fair shake. I don't know how much you read here, or if you read the Hannity threads, but if you do, you know that there's a love/hate relationship with him. One thing he's right about -- the liberals are not the friends of the black community. The conservatives may or may not be the "friends" of the black community, but I think there is a determination to treat blacks like everybody else, to shoot for a level playing field like Dr. King talked about back in the day. THAT is the way we get to a fair and equitable society.
Here is my opinion. Sports show us that blacks can not only compete and excel, they can reign supreme in competition. THIS IS NOT A FACTOR OF GENETIC PHYSICAL GIFTS, Sports are primarily mental -- discipline and desire and belief in oneself. If we could get all the african americans competing in that mindset we could erase the legacy underclass stigma, along with the race-baiters and the poverty pimps in a relatively short period of time.
Didn't the article say that D was one of two??
BUMP
I respect Tony Brown. He has had some very good shows with Ward Connelly on there.
I seem to have recently read it was even gutsier than what the above suggests. Governor Orville Faubus had called out the National Guard to BLOCK the court-ordered integration, and Eisenhower called in the freakin' 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION SCREAMING EAGLES to go up against the reservists.
I read this around the time Jeb Bush was cowed into not calling on the Fla Natl Gd. to clear out a few local cops ordered into action by a state probate judge to stop a court ordered, cruel and most unusual execution of a brain damaged woman in Florida.
But I digress...
Ah, yes. My bad. I was just angry they took him off, I still have a soft spot in my heart for PE.
Before the election the were rolling in Soros money, now they have to make it the old fashioned way.
Well, hello Nate!
I remember listening to you on Hannity. It sounds like you are getting Hannitized.
I like your article. You are starting to see the truth that the white liberal strong-hold of the Democrat Party has been lying to African-Americans for a long, long, long time.
You and fellow African-Americans would be welcomed with open arms to come join our debates on FR.
It shows a good step that you actually took the time to become a member and post your article here.
Right now, the GOP is the party of true diversity and can offer more to you and your friends than just empty promises.
I for one would be truly interested to see a strong, black commentator get a good talk show going.
BTW, did you hear the bet that Leo Terrell made with Jesse Lee Peterson about a month ago? Blackwell for Governor in '06!
I pray that the African American community will wake up one day and realize that their enemy keeps them very close and that ememy is the Democrat Party.
The format is adequate, Nate, its the content that needs work....
Suggest reading the "tone" of a few threads here..
Caution: some blacks and whites here are extremely extreme extremists.. and could care less what color you are.. or whether you are a house slave or a field slave.. because SOCIALISM is Slavery by Government. And willing government slaves can be mocked and savaged unmercifully.. rightfully so.. Capitalism is BOSS here.. Socialism is for sissy fags and other dependant VICTIMS...
Did you read the post entitled: "Court Decides Reparations Suit Against Democrats"
That article should explain everything you ever wanted to know about why the democratic party acts the way they do toward African Americans.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1383873/posts
I meant the text that he entered into the Body of Comment section.
Is Blackwell going to run? If he does he's got my vote!
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