The Republicrat Party? Will somebody please tell the Senator that his party won the Senate?

washingtondispatch ^ | 1/9/2003 | La Shawn Barber

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"That’s the effect of living backwards,” the Queen said kindly: “it always makes one a little giddy at first…” Through the Looking Glass--Lewis Carroll

In Lewis Carroll’s classic story, Through the Looking Glass, little Alice of Wonderland fame steps through a mirror into a reverse image of her drawing room. What follows is a tale of absurdity and nonsense where nothing is what it seems. Alice finds a world that had been just beyond her perception. Like Alice, conservatives may soon find themselves in a through-the-looking-glass world of their own.

Last month, two-term Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas proposed forming a congressional committee on race relations to address building a black history museum on the National Mall, issuing a national apology for racial segregation, and paying reparations for slavery. Poised to squander gains made by the Republicans in the recent elections, Sen. Brownback said: “Unless the Republican Party steps up and addresses [race issues], we’ll be constantly taking charges that we’re not sensitive on race issues.”

Government-mandated racial segregation has been extinct for 50 years, slavery for 140. On whose behalf will the Senator apologize? All whites? Or just the dead ones who made the laws and owned the slaves? To whom will he apologize? To all blacks, or just the dead ones to whom an apology is owed? And guilt-ridden politicians won’t have to pay the reparations; taxpayers will. Are the paychecks of black Americans exempt? Certain free black men owned slaves, too. Will their descendants have to pay? Who are they? See Slavery Reparations: The Latest Scam.

Will somebody please tell the Senator that his party won the Senate?

His timing couldn’t be worse. In the next few months, Democrats are set to unleash on President Bush all their frustration about his high approval ratings and the sting of their recent election blows. President Bush says of the coming attacks: “To me, that’s just going to be background noise. My job is to protect the American people and work to create confidence in our economy so that people can find work.” War with Iraq is imminent. Our nation needs focused, principled leaders. Now is not the time to become “Republicrats.”

Thank Sen. Lott for this mess. The “Lott Effect” is powerful stuff. It’s got Republicans running scared. Fear of being called a racist has some conservatives doing back flips. First, Sen. Lott backpedaled on his stance against racial discrimination (affirmative action) to come out in support of it. Overnight. Second, fighting for his political life, he ingratiated himself before a black audience on Black Entertainment Television. Now Sen. Brownback is apparently caving in to a handful of black “leaders.”

Will somebody please tell the Senator that it’s racist to assume all blacks support apologies and reparations?

As a member of the majority party, Sen. Brownback needs to form a committee to investigate why Republicans like himself believe the ends--black voters--justify the means--exacerbating racial tension. What was the point of winning the election if you’re just going to act and sound like Democrats?

If Sen. Brownback wants to attract black voters to the Republican Party, he could start by respecting their history of perseverance in the face of legal discrimination, not by perpetuating racial animosity. Martin Luther King once said: “If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, ‘There lived a great people--a black people--who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.’” Words to live by.

Jim Crow was a scandalous mess and a national embarrassment. But the courage and dignity of black Americans who faced legal discrimination would be honored by recognizing those same values in blacks today, not by placating collective guilt.

If Sen. Brownback wants to be the first member of the new Republicrat Party, he should take it up with his constituents. Had the good people of Kansas wanted a liberal, they would’ve voted one into office.

In her backwards world, little Alice finds herself a pawn in a giant chess game in Through the Looking Glass. For Republicans to adopt liberal tactics out of fear is to make pawns of black Americans on the giant chessboard of partisan power-grabbing. The Democrats have already made the moves; don’t play the game.

Will somebody please tell the Senator?

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Certain free black men owned slaves, too. Will their descendants have to pay? Who are they?

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Free Black Slaveowners in South Carolina
Domestic slavery was quite common in West Africa, although the Europeans organized the trade to a much greater magnitude and value.

Free black slaveowners resided in states as north as New York and as far south as Florida, extending westward into Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri. According to the federal census of 1830, free blacks owned more than 10,000 slaves in Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina, and Virginia. The majority of black slaveowners lived in Louisiana and planted sugar cane. The majority of black masters had not been slaves themselves. Yet, the ranks of black slave masters were diverse: some acquired slaves as soon as they had accumulated enough capital after their own freedom, others received slaves with their own freedom from their white masters, and others had been free for several generations.

http://www.uwec.edu/geography/Ivogeler/w188/south/charles/charles3.htm

[weikel]

What do you expect from someone who teamed up with Senator Joseph Loserman to try to censor the video game industry.

[FourtySeven]

Reparations is a dead issue; no one in their right mind will support it. But the author has a point about conservatives "doing back flips" to convince others they're not racist. It's time to stop that, now, because it's just like saying, "Oh, we're guilty all right, we just want to cover it up!".

Race really shouldn't be a factor anymore in politics; it's always a shame when it's brought up, by either side.

[Optimist]

PING

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I want to see Al Sharpton discuss the issue of Reparations conserning the Blacks that owned 10,000 slaves.

Checkmate!

[per loin]

Until white men find the courage to hear the word "racist" aimed at them, without falling to their knees quivering in fear, they are not men.

[FourtySeven]

That is another, separate issue that no one seems to want to discuss. One can only conclude that it's ok for black people to enslave black people. < shrug >

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It is now time for white America to realize that they are part of this same battle. The words “racist,” “bigot,” and “hatemonger,” coming from embittered followers of demagogues, mean nothing. The real strength is in those who give these words no mind and continue to stand against racism and for what is right. Enduring these attacks is a part of a blessed life. Christ said that whenever you stand up for right you will go through such attacks. If Christ had to endure, why shouldn’t we? After all, in enduring as Christ did, we come closer to God.

If Americans of all races can lay aside their fear to stand up for truth, we will all be blessed. If they do not lay aside this fear, then destruction will be widespread.

Jesse Lee Peterson

White Fear


White Fear (threat of being labeled “racist” causes whites to cower to the wishes of blacks)
washingtondispatch ^ | 2/12/2002 | Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/626881/posts

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A DAY AT THE RACISTS



The Lott Thing!
The Byrd Thing!
The Je$$e Jack$on Thing!
The Sharpton Thing!
The Profiling Thing!
The Reparations Thing!
The Hate Thing!
The Thought Police Thing!



It's time for the
REPUDIATION THING
and we'll discuss it with B.O.N.D.'s
JESSE LEE PETERSON
and see if he can dissolve the grey areas of spin
in the discussion of black and white.


ALSO...

Project21's Kevin Martin!!
(aka FR's Trueblackman)


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/819681/posts

[bourbon]

oh, man I had forgotten about the effort to censor the video game industry. Ugh!

Thanks for reminding me of that blot on Brownback's record.

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Brownback proposes panel on race relations
Washington Times ^ | 1/06/03 | James G. Lakely

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/817502/posts

[dalebert]

Great read. Thanks.

[Russell Scott]

Take a page from our President's success. If Senators would spend less time in cocktail lounges, and more time praying, a lot of their stupidity would evaporate.

[bankwalker]

If Senators would spend less time in cocktail lounges, and more time praying, a lot of their stupidity would evaporate.

I nominate this for quote of the day!

[hosepipe]

There you go.... Browny went and got himself propagandized by the race pimps...
pity...hope he doesn't get pregnant with bull sperm.... or congress will need another abortion... could be too late for that though..
i.e. Bob Barr going to work for the ACLU..............

[David Isaac]

I am convinced there is something in the Senate water supply or perhaps the very air in that chamber, that kills the brain cells of all who have any of said cells that actually function. That is the only way to explain actions in that body, as a whole, or the actions of any given senator of either party.

[Missouri]

Don't forget his pro-illegal alien record.

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BUMP