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An Open Letter to The Democratic Party
The Lincoln Heritage Institute ^ | 3APR08 | Lt. Colonel Frances Rice,U.S. Army Retired

Posted on 04/03/2008 7:40:56 PM PDT by morque2001

"We, African American citizens of the United States, declare and assert:

Whereas in the early 1600's 20 African men and women were landed in Virginia from a Dutch ship as slaves and from that tiny seed grew the poisoned fruit of plantation slavery which shaped the course of American development,

Whereas reconciliation and healing always begin with an apology and an effort to repay those who have been wronged,

Whereas the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices committed against African Americans during the past two hundred years, nor for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices and current soft bigotry of low expectations are having on us today,

Whereas the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery and, after the Civil War, established Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes and other repressive legislation that were designed to disenfranchise African Americans,

Whereas the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, and their primary goal was to intimidate and terrorize African American voters, Republicans who moved South to protect African Americans and any other whites who supported them,

Whereas, according to leading historians (both black and white), the horrific atrocities committed against African Americans during slavery and Reconstruction were financed, sponsored, and promoted by the Democratic Party and their Ku Klux Klan supporters,

Whereas from 1870 to 1930, in an effort to deny African Americans their civil rights and to keep African Americans from voting Republican, thousands of African Americans were shot, beaten, lynched, mutilated, and burned to death by Ku Klux Klan terrorists from the Democratic Party,

Whereas Democratic Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission,

Whereas the Democratic party has used racist demagoguery to deceive African Americans about the history of the Republican Party that: (a) started as the anti-slavery party in 1854, (b) fought to free African Americans from slavery, (c) designed Reconstruction, a ten-year period of unprecedented political power for African Americans, (d) passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting African Americans freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote, (e) passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting African Americans protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, (f) passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 granting African Americans protection from the Jim Crow laws, (g) established Affirmative Action programs to help African Americans proper with Republican President Richard Nixon's 1969 Philadelphia Plan that set the first goals and timetables and his 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act that made Affirmative Action Programs the law of our nation, and (h) never sponsored or launched a program, passed laws, or engaged in practices that resulted in the death of millions of African Americans,

Whereas Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka (a 1954 decision by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was appointed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower) was a landmark civil rights case that was designed to overturn the racist practices that were established by the Democratic Party,

Whereas after Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the vote of African Americans, he banned African American newspapers from the military shortly after taking office because he was convinced the newspapers were communists,

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law, opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was later criticized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for ignoring civil rights issues.

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy authorized the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) to investigate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on suspicion of being a communist,

Whereas Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, made a 14-hour filibuster speech in the Senate in June 1964 in an unsuccessful effort to block passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and was heralded in April 2004 by Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd as a senator who would have been a great leader during the Civil War,

Whereas when the 1964 Civil Rights Act came up for vote, Senator Al Gore, Sr. and the rest of the Southern Democrats voted against the bill,

Whereas in the House of Representatives only 61 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act as compared to 80 percent of Republicans, and in the Senate only 69 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, compared to 82 percent of the Republicans,

Whereas Democratic President Bill Clinton sent troops to Europe to protect the citizens of Bosnia and Kosovo while allowing an estimated 800,000 black Rwandans to be massacred in Africa, vetoed the welfare reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan,

Whereas Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore created harmful racial division when he falsely claimed that the 2000 presidential election was "stolen" from him and that African Americans in Florida were disenfranchised, even though a second recount of Florida votes by the "Miami Herald" and a consortium of major news organizations confirmed that he lost the election, and a ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission declared that African Americans were not denied the right to vote,

Whereas the Democratic Party's soft bigotry of low expectations and social promotions have consigned African Americans to economic bondage and created a culture of dependency on government social programs,

Whereas the Democratic Party's use of deception and fear to block welfare reform, the faith-based initiative and school choice that would help African Americans prosper is consistent with the Democratic Party's heritage of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and kukluxery, a perversion of moral sentiment among leaders of the Democratic Party whose racist legacy bode ill until this generation of African Americans,

Now, therefore, for the above and other documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs inflicted upon African Americans, we demand a formal written apology and other appropriate remuneration from the leadership of the Democratic party.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; america; apology; blacks; democrat; negro; openletter; spartansixdelta
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I checked Free Republic as thoroughly as I could, and could not find where this is posted. But it is totally worth the read, and definitely worth spreading around!
1 posted on 04/03/2008 7:40:58 PM PDT by morque2001
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To: morque2001

racist bump


2 posted on 04/03/2008 7:45:07 PM PDT by Luigi Vasellini (What do you call 2 toddlers and some duct tape??........muslim body armor!!!!!!!)
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To: morque2001

BTT!


3 posted on 04/03/2008 7:49:53 PM PDT by AuntB ('If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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To: morque2001
You talking about this guy?

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4 posted on 04/03/2008 8:33:23 PM PDT by geo40xyz ((McCain, Obama or Hillarybeast possibility of 4 Supreme Court Justices, Gore @UN. The WINNER is?))
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To: morque2001
But it is totally worth the read, and definitely worth spreading around!

Definitely! Thanks for the post.

5 posted on 04/03/2008 8:35:03 PM PDT by TopQuark
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To: morque2001

No reason why any member of the general public cannot do a little online research and write a brief tract on a subject close to their heart such as this.


6 posted on 04/03/2008 11:12:34 PM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: morque2001

As much as I’d like the Democrats have their butts handed to them, no reparations.


7 posted on 04/03/2008 11:18:21 PM PDT by wastedyears (The US Military is what goes Bump in the night.)
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To: morque2001

Oh, this is simply awesome!


8 posted on 04/03/2008 11:31:35 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: morque2001
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9 posted on 04/04/2008 1:02:37 AM PDT by xuberalles ("Barack Obama: Change Is A Dime Bag!" http://www.cafepress.com/titillatingtees.225246874)
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10 posted on 04/04/2008 1:02:55 AM PDT by xuberalles ("Barack Obama: Change Is A Dime Bag!" http://www.cafepress.com/titillatingtees.225246874)
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To: xuberalles
From President Truman's Special Message to the Congress on Civil Rights, February 2, 1948:

"I recommend, therefore, that the Congress enact legislation at this session directed toward the following specific objectives:

1. Establishing a permanent Commission on Civil Rights, a Joint Congressional Committee on Civil Rights, and a Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice.

2. Strengthening existing civil rights statutes.

3. Providing Federal protection against lynching."

11 posted on 04/04/2008 1:26:22 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: morque2001

BUMP!


12 posted on 04/04/2008 8:51:09 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

BUMP again!


13 posted on 04/04/2008 9:06:28 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: morque2001; Tired of Taxes

great article, this history lesson should be taught in the schools too.


14 posted on 04/05/2008 5:19:03 PM PDT by Coleus (Abortion and Physician-assisted Murder (aka-Euthanasia), Don't Democrats just kill ya?)
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To: morque2001; 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; ...

Excellent article, however, she forgot to mention how the democrat party is consistently enabling the murder of 30% of black babies in the USA through abortion and how that the republican party is trying to save them.


15 posted on 04/05/2008 6:31:47 PM PDT by Coleus (Abortion and Physician-assisted Murder (aka-Euthanasia), Don't Democrats just kill ya?)
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16 posted on 04/05/2008 6:34:20 PM PDT by Coleus (Abortion and Physician-assisted Murder (aka-Euthanasia), Don't Democrats just kill ya?)
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To: Coleus

Kukluxery by the donkeys, Heaven forfend!


17 posted on 04/05/2008 7:06:17 PM PDT by neverdem (I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
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To: Coleus

Yes, when I was at NYU, the Margaret Sanger Papers were right down the hall from my office at one time.

Kind of like living next door to a gang of Nazis.


18 posted on 04/05/2008 8:04:53 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: morque2001
the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery and, after the Civil War, established Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes and other repressive legislation that were designed to disenfranchise African Americans,

Whereas the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, and their primary goal was to intimidate and terrorize African American voters, Republicans who moved South to protect African Americans and any other whites who supported them,

Whereas, according to leading historians (both black and white), the horrific atrocities committed against African Americans during slavery and Reconstruction were financed, sponsored, and promoted by the Democratic Party and their Ku Klux Klan supporters,

Great post.

19 posted on 04/06/2008 10:14:06 AM PDT by GOPJ (The new Wall Street game: Privatize profits and socialize losses.Freeper Mad_Tom_Rackham)
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To: xuberalles

xub, my eye sight isn’t what it used to be, how about an enlargement on the font on the box? I would love a copy of that!


20 posted on 04/06/2008 7:51:10 PM PDT by MountainFlower (There but by the grace of God go I.)
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