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An Open Letter From African Americans To the Democrat Party
Net | Jim Rice

Posted on 06/02/2013 6:08:37 PM PDT by Truth2012

Open Letter from African Americans to the Democratic Party

Open Letter from African Americans to the Democratic Party

Email from the author | 6/3/04 | Frances Rice

By Frances Rice

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.

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Frances Rice is an attorney and an African-American woman who served in the Army for 20 years before retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. While in the Army she served as a company commander, an adjutant in a basic combat training brigade and a prosecutor in courts-marital.

Upon retiring, she was awarded the Legion of Merit. She is currently serving on the Board of the Military Officers Association of Sarasota, the SaraMana Black Republican Club and the SaraMana Community Development Corporation, a non-profit organization that helps low-income residents become homeowners and small business owners. In these positions, she puts both her Juris Doctorate and MBA degrees to good use.

She was recently appointed by Governor Jeb Bush to serve on the Medal of Merit Board for the state of Florida. Frances is married to Peter Rice, a retired diplomat from the U.S. Department of State.


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This was originally posted in 2004, by Freeper Hooisermama ,http://www.freerepublic.com/~hoosiermama/. The post was used today, by a pastor from Mt.Zion Church, at a Durham North Carolina, GOP party event. We were gathered to celebrate Freedom and the Origins of the Republican Party. www.durhamgop.com We all thought this is an excellent time to re-post this oldie. Please pass it around. It got an excellent reception from the crowd I was with today.
1 posted on 06/02/2013 6:08:37 PM PDT by Truth2012
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To: Truth2012
Yet, 95% of black voters voted dimoRAT. Funny. Ha ha funny.

and other appropriate remuneration

Reparations? Thomas Jefferson owned Jesse Jackson's ancestors? So I'm expected to pay Jesse Jackson? Sure. Let's just avoid the middleman. I'll send a check straight to Jesse. Why not?

2 posted on 06/02/2013 6:12:27 PM PDT by LouAvul (In a state of disbelief as to how liberals destroyed America in a mere 40 years.)
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To: Truth2012

Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor Candidate, EW Jackson’s message to black Christians 8 months ago: Exodus from the Democrat Party

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_FrySY8oYM


3 posted on 06/02/2013 6:16:59 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: Truth2012

And I wanted to add that it is very important to understand the differences between the messages of Dr. martin Luther King, Jr., and Saul Alinksy and Malcolm X.

Some community organizers want to preserve and protect civil liberties for ALL MEN ( are created equal and endowed by their creator), and some community organizers want the power , for their cronies, to decide who gets which rights and when. There is a lot of money and power in controlling who gets to benefit from which rights.

And this is all an age old struggle. It is Biblical, and it is relevant.. but just like the old negro spiritual goes- keep your eyes on the prize.

Freedom,in America means for ALL people. Not for certain people.

It is time we remind the world, including the GOP, that it is the Republican Party who protects and defends civil rights for ALL people.

The Democrats never did anything for Civil Rights.


4 posted on 06/02/2013 6:19:37 PM PDT by Truth2012
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To: LouAvul

Reparations should come straight from the DNC.


5 posted on 06/02/2013 6:28:25 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Obama's Enemies List - Yes, you are a crook.)
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To: Truth2012


6 posted on 06/02/2013 6:29:01 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Truth2012
Two words,Frances.....EBT....ObamaPhone.
7 posted on 06/02/2013 6:30:25 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
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To: LouAvul
Here's an organization who gets it, The Frederick Douglass Republicans.
8 posted on 06/02/2013 6:32:29 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Truth2012

Thank you for this post!!!!

I LOVE Francis Rice!

All dims and progs should take her test. I can guarentee them, they would FAIL!

http://www.nbra.info/DYK-HistoryTest


9 posted on 06/02/2013 6:34:15 PM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: Truth2012
Bttt.

5.56mm

10 posted on 06/02/2013 6:36:52 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Mortrey; hoosiermama

:) Cool. It was actually Hoosiermama who first posted this, back in 2004!!

I am just reposting it for her, because I was at a GOP event today, and FR was quoted and sourced.

I just learned of Ms. Rice today!

I like her!


11 posted on 06/02/2013 6:39:07 PM PDT by Truth2012
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To: Truth2012

Thanks truth !

Hope all appreciate the repost!
It’s as appropriate now as when originally written and posted!

Am proud to say my ancestors were abolishonists and did their part!
They were also Republicans and targets of Democrats even back then!


12 posted on 06/02/2013 6:44:20 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: Truth2012

Tomorrow, some black commentators will say “Francis Rice, you do not speak for me!”


13 posted on 06/02/2013 6:45:44 PM PDT by uncitizen (Brown skin is not a get away with treason free card!)
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To: Nachum; LucyT; onyx; thouworm; penelopesire; MestaMachine; holdonnow; null and void; ...

Seems appropriate with the Zimmerman case starting the week that this should resurface and be reposted. The only way to fight bigotry of the “looks just like me” variety is with truth!
Rice speaks the truth. Let it be heard loud and strong!


14 posted on 06/02/2013 6:57:48 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: Truth2012; manc; wymck; ghost26; PJammers; myuval; tiredofreeloaders; WBITT; bigcheese; Yulee; ...
Thank you for this post! I am honored to say that I got to personally meet Frances Rice. She is a true American patriot!
Also proud to say she is a Floridian! :)
16 posted on 06/02/2013 7:14:48 PM PDT by seekthetruth (I want a Commander In Chief who honors and supports our Military!)
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Fr needs a like button!


17 posted on 06/02/2013 7:22:35 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then!)
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To: seekthetruth

Long read but a good one, thanks seek!


18 posted on 06/02/2013 7:44:45 PM PDT by 3D-JOY
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OTOH...

Thanks Truth2012.


20 posted on 06/02/2013 7:57:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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