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Running the Liberal Hate Maze
by Ezola Foster (2000 Reform Party V.P. Nominee)
"In recent years, the public has been assailed with rhetoric condemning "the politics of hate," which according to leftist commentators and politicians is the exclusive domain of conservatives and traditionalists. In the final weeks of the 1998 congressional campaign, Bill Clinton used several political addresses before predominantly black congregations to insinuate that the Republican congressional majority was motivated by hatred of black Americans. At the same time, the Democratic National Committee ran radio advertisements that said, in so many words, that every time a vote was cast for a Republican candidate, a black church would go up in flames.
This campaign of misrepresentation became an exercise in self-parody during the impeachment struggle, with Bill Clinton’s partisans insisting that his critics were acting from disguised racist motives. Radical black essayist Toni Morrison even conferred upon Bill Clinton the unlikely title of America’s "first black President," the better to "authenticate" the supposedly racist motives of his critics. More recently, Donna Brazille, the manager of Vice President Al Gore’s floundering presidential campaign, told the Washington Post that she was determined not to let "the white boys win" — once again advancing the notion that opposition to the variety of socialist politics embodied by Gore is ultimately propelled by white racism.
As used by the Left, the term "racism" — like "sexism" and the recently minted expression "homophobia" — has no objective meaning. As a black conservative American, I can attest from personal experience that the Left excels at the politics of race hatred. For defending Bible-based values, the traditional family, and our constitutional system, I have been assailed as a "conservative Uncle Tom," a "racist," a "homophobe," and other unsavory epithets that cannot be repeated in a family magazine. I spent 17 years as an activist in the Democrat Party before I came to the conclusion that the left wing that controls the Party is motivated not by a love of the oppressed, but rather by hatred for the values I cherish and those who defend them.
"We must hate," Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin exhorted his followers. "Hatred is the essence of communism." Lenin gathered around him a movement of those who regarded themselves as victims and who were motivated by hatred for Russian society; once the Bolsheviks came to power they created a regime that left behind tens of millions of corpses and the ruins of a wrecked nation. America’s Establishment-anointed "Black Leaders" — Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, Maxine Waters, and others — faithfully follow Lenin’s destructive blueprint.
Leninist politics is based entirely upon lies, and the most important lie told by Leninist race-baiters like Jesse Jackson is that black Americans are not individuals, but rather part of one undifferentiated "community" — headed, of course, by Jackson and other "Black Leaders." When I was a candidate for the California State Assembly in 1984, I saw billboards throughout Watts and South Central Los Angeles proclaiming, "ONE VOICE! ONE PEOPLE! ONE VOTE!" Those billboards were placed in support of Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaign.
The evil that the Jackson campaign slogan represents can be better appreciated if it is presented in rough German translation: "EIN VOLK! EIN REICH! EIN FUHRER!" ("One people, one kingdom, one leader.")
The Jackson campaign was using exactly the same rhetoric, and the same race-based politics that had been used so successfully by Lenin’s German disciple, Adolf Hitler. Thus it was appropriate that Jackson supporter Maxine Waters, as a congressman, vocally supported the Brownshirt-like street thugs who tore South-Central Los Angeles apart during the 1992 "Rodney King" riots. It was also appropriate that Waters was a devoted defender of Bill Clinton during the impeachment hearings, insisting that whatever offenses Mr. Clinton may have committed against the rule of law, he was her leader — her Führer — in the struggle against the "radical right."
Socialist Slave Masters
Along with a small but growing number of conservative black leaders, I have challenged the chokehold that Establishment-ordained "black leaders" have on black Americans. Left-wing groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Urban League, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam, Jesse Jackson’s PUSH and Rainbow Coalition, and the Congressional Black Caucus do indeed speak with "one voice," but they do not speak for black Americans and are not accountable to the people they presume to represent. Not since slavery have blacks had to endure such strong masters. It is a painful irony that descendants of the very people who were brought to America as slaves centuries ago are now being exploited in an effort to enslave Americans of all races, colors, and creeds under the yoke of socialism.
Socialism is based upon the redistribution of wealth from the productive to the parasitical. The growing demand that black Americans be given "reparations" for slavery offers a new twist on socialism by seeking race-based redistribution of wealth — from white Americans, the supposed beneficiaries of slavery, to black Americans, the descendants of slaves. This is, in fact, a natural outgrowth of the institutionalized racism known as "affirmative action," which assumes that all whites are "privileged" and all non-whites are "victims."
A "reparations" bill sponsored by Representative John Conyers (D-MI) has been floating around Congress since 1989. Not surprisingly, most black, left-wing politicians support the proposal. However, many prominent black "conservatives" have been seduced into supporting the reparations movement as well. Star Parker, a Republican leader whose conservative credentials were certified by no less an authority than Rush Limbaugh, insists that "each descendant of a slave should get his million dollars.... I don’t care how much it costs; America can afford it."
Miss Parker is not unique. My husband and I were seated alongside several other black Republican leaders during the closing dinner speech of the 1995 Christian Coalition "Road to Victory" conference in Washington, D.C. We were the only ones at our table who did not applaud when the speaker, Rev. E.V. Hill, called for America to pay slavery reparations to blacks. My husband and I were hardly surprised that Rev. Hill would endorse this socialist proposal, since during the mid-1980s, as the media was hyping him as "Mr. Republican of South-Central Los Angeles," we learned from his own lips that he was an ally of Jesse Jackson and Maxine Waters, and that he did not appreciate our criticism of these Establishment-chosen "black leaders."
During the same period we became aware of the fact that the California Black Republican Council selected delegates who would parrot the Democrat Party’s socialist line within the Republican Party, thereby blocking the emergence of authentic conservative views among black Republicans.
All of this illustrates that the race-based application of Lenin’s collectivist strategy is faithfully followed by leaders of both major parties. And it is not just black Americans who find themselves trapped in this system. Americans from many backgrounds are corralled into a constituency and assigned "leaders," whose role is to act on behalf of their "communities" in the drive to socialize our nation. Americans who refuse to cooperate in this corrupt game are denounced for being outside the "mainstream"; if they continue to resist, they are denounced as "extremists" and "haters."
Fighting for Family Values
In the late 1980s, after learning of plans by the California State Department of Education to instruct schoolchildren as young as kindergarten age in "mutual masturbation and homosexuality," I organized a group of Watts parents to protest this assault upon our children.
For our organization we chose the name Black Americans for Family Values, which certainly met any test of truth in advertising. We also suspected that having a "minority" angle to our organization’s name would attract media attention — and our suspicions were correct.
The "minority" angle earned extensive media coverage of our organization’s work at the 1987 California Republican Party Convention. As a delegate at that convention I introduced three "family values" resolutions, one of which sought to deny convention credentials to groups seeking to advance support for homosexuality.
Another condemned pro-homosexuality propaganda disguised as "AIDS education"; a third demanded that operators of "dial-a-porn" services be prosecuted. These resolutions so enraged representatives of the Log Cabin Club — a homosexual pressure group attached to the Republican Party — that they engineered my arrest on trespassing charges as a way of preventing me from distributing literature at the convention.
However, when I returned to the convention the following day, our group succeeded in winning approval of two of our resolutions.
As a teacher at South-Central L.A.’s Bell High School, I discovered that our students had been targeted by a homosexual recruitment program called "Project 10." The chief instigator behind this effort was a homosexual activist teacher named Rodney Polte, who celebrated national "Coming Out Day For Teachers" by wearing a t-shirt reading, "I’m not gay — my boyfriend is."
Polte would also bring his "lover" to the classroom to lecture his students about their "lifestyle."
Many of Polte’s students attended my classes as well, and they were sickened and intimidated by the militant homosexual activist. They were particularly revolted by posters on the walls of his classroom depicting "half-naked men" in erotic poses. A bulletin board in Polte’s classroom displayed a homosexual newspaper complete with classified advertisements referring to sex with "young boys" and animals, and other degenerate practices.
A battle ensued with the Gay and Lesbian Commission of the Los Angeles Unified School District, which predictably attacked Polte’s critics as being motivated by "homophobia" — that is, "hatred" of homosexuals.
However, the battle was won after a brave parent and her daughter, along with an interpreter (the parent didn’t speak English), appeared with me on Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson’s cable television program to describe what it was like for schoolchildren to be sentenced to serve time in Polte’s pornography-filled classroom.
Immediately thereafter, the disgusting material was removed from Polte’s classroom, and the homosexual radicals were forced into temporary retreat — and I earned the label "homophobe."
For condemning affirmative action, I’ve been branded an "Uncle Tom." For opposing bilingual education and illegal immigration, I’ve been pilloried as a "racist."
My commitment to Bible-based moral principles has provoked left-wing activists to denounce me as a "right-wing Christian extremist." I have heard the hate-drenched rhetoric of the Left, and I have seen the faces of leftists contorted in hatred as they hurl their epithets at me.
I have seen Communist-led mobs of street thugs beat Americans in the streets of Los Angeles for the offense of peacefully celebrating the Fourth of July. Amid all of this I have asked myself, "How is it that we’re the ones accused of practicing the ‘politics of hatred’?"
As it has been wisely said, a "hate group" is any group of people whom leftists hate. I have come to understand that Americans who eschew the politics of collective grievance, and seek What’s Right for All Americans (to quote the title of my book), can expect to be assailed as "haters" by those who quite earnestly hate them.
Our hope resides in the possibility that a sufficient number of Americans of all backgrounds will find their way out of the leftist hate maze and embrace the principles of individual liberty and personal responsibility upon which our nation was founded."
--Ezola Foster
Ezola Foster is a great American, solid conservative, woman of principle, strong-willed, and of great character - and you're hearing this from a Bushie...
She makes a lot of sense to me-- too bad the Jackals of the Press will treat her to silence.
Americans need more different opinions, not less.
...EZOLA = A TRUTHTELLER in the Year of the TRUTHTELLERS. I first met VP Candidate Ezola Foster at -THE JEDI JESSE-... Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson's ...1st National Day of Repudiation of Jesse Jackson... on MLK Day this last January. In a straight forward 10 Mins Speech Ezola clearly defined the source of a lot of the confusion in our Country that we have suffered ever since the Decade of the 1960's. In her view there is a way of seeing things as they really are, and then there are those that would have us not seeing things clearly at all. EZOLA-THE VP CANDIDATE and her Friend -THE JEDI JESSE- are here to help us all see the Light.
I think the GOP is frightened of this woman. She will draw many conservatives who are wavering in their support of the annointed princeling of the GOP. Watch for the attacks on this woman from the Bush camp, as well as the poverty pimps and race hustlers on the left.
Bump!
Ezola could push Pat from 2.0% to 2.5% or perhaps to 1.5%.
Yes, the proverty pimps and race hustlers will attack this courageous woman, but I'll be surprised if the Bush camp does. Their best policy, though I have no truck with this crowd either, is to ignore Mrs. Foster. Democratic hacks, such as Maxine Waters and Jesses Jackson, will not be able to resist the temptation.
She helps the Buchanan ticket.
Whoa!!!!! A kindred soul! By the numbers, all the way down the line. Dooms her!
Too bad we can't vote for a Keyes - Foster ticket.
I love her, what a great choice Pat has made!
I shall proundly vote my conscience in November for
Buchanan/Foster 2000!!!GPG!
This is a great piece. Bump.
"Ezola Foster is a great American, solid conservative, woman of principle, strong-willed, and of great character - and you're hearing this from a Bushie..."
DITTO
As I read this, my first prediction was that she would draw black votes away from the Gore/Lieberman ticket.
I attended a Republican fundraiser the other day and spoke to several of the black Republicans there. They are upset that Republicans don't bother to ask for the black vote. They don't campaign in black neighborhoods or speak at black churches. Ezola Foster will.
This article is thought provoking and certainly supports a lot of Conservative thinking. I want to know more about Ezola Foster. What is her background? What issues are most important to her? What is her vision for this election...is she in it to win or just to run? How does she feel about the NATO bombing of Kosovo? (This one irritates me more than ever...it's being ignored by both parties)
Too bad we can't vote for a Keyes - Foster ticket
. . . or even a Foster - Keyes ticket
on the Republican line!
I will, God willing, cast an effective vote against Gore/Clinton this November.
Socialism is based upon the redistribution of wealth from the productive to the parasitical.
Hey gcul - I thought Buchanan was a socialist.
Apparently, like all the other Buchanan lies spewed here, he's not.
Thanks JH2...unlike the other Bushies you have class.
To my fellow conservative Freepers. Ezola is the quintessential conservative. Unlike the well-known RINOS,she also knows what the meaning of "conservative" is. Patrick made a good choice.
By the way, has anyone noticed the attacks by some of our more infamous Freepers (such as Sakic)? Boys and girls, it should be obvious that Sakic is not a conservative. If you keep up with his posts, you will observe that he has liberal leanings. Nothing kind posted in this thread about Ezola, just attacks.
Oy vey! We have a liberal in our midst...he goes by the name Sakic.
She's very good. Anyone know her stand on the abortion issue?
DITTOS, JH2! And yes, from another Bushie.
I find it exciting that of the 3 major parties, 2 are for Conservative, Republican values in America.
I will first admit that I knew nothing about this lady prior to the Buchanan announcemen, and I am not a Buchanan supporter.
Having said that (and slipping into my asbestos suit as I write) I find this this article to be very impressive, its depth and eloquence couldn't possibly be challenged, and like John, I am inclined to believe that Ms. Foster is indeed a great American. I need to learn more about her as I believe she is worthy of support.
Now, I watched the highlights of the Reform party "convention" last night on TV, my wife (totally a non-political person) watched along with me.
What did we see? Fighting in hallways and streets, shouts and name calling, threats of legal action..........it didn't look good.
My wife couldn't believe what she was watching, and even though she's so not politically inclined, because of my interest she watched part of the Republican Convention. Her comment last night on the Reform Party was very telling. "Those people are crazy! They can't really think they can run the Country! They can't even run a meeting!"
I think that the image of the Reform Party (and by extension, Pat Buchanan) has been severely damaged, and right now, Mr. Perots' Party is viewed by most as a collection of kooks and right-wing rabble. The media last night was very unkind to the Reform Party, it broadcast every possible negative aspect of the Convention.
To gain ground, the Reformists need to find a better method of delivering their message, in FR as well as in America, and maybe they should seek incremental goals such as placement of candidates in State Legislatures and Congress, not just this "all or nothing" run at the Presidency every four years.
IMHO
I'll bump that.
Wow! Great essay. There has got to be a place in a Bush administration for someone this on the ball.
Good morning TexMex!
Very Impressed by this article.
Great Post! Thanks!
By the way, has anyone noticed the attacks by some of our more infamous Freepers (such as Sakic)?
I'm infamous? Cool. For the record I'll be voting Libertarian. Did anyone notice that "WeThePeople" could not dispute what I said, instead choosing to smear me? Did anyone notice that I did not smear Ezola? Remove your blinders and you have a much better chance at seeing.
"There has got to be a place in a Bush administration for someone this on the ball." I agree, but it will never happen. She is in favor of bringing troops home from Kosovo to station along the Southwest border to stop illegal immigration. GW does not agree with this. Mrs. Foster has said the Confederate flag is a part of history and as such should be honored. GW would not want to bring on that firestorm. Mrs. Foster is against managed trade such as NAFTA and GATT. GW is for these things. No way he would appoint her to a post.
This essey from VP candidate Ezola Foster had been posted here on August 11, 2000 by ResistorSister so complement this thread I feel compelled to post this link:
After reading ROGUE REMOVAL AS OFFICIAL U.S. FOREIGN POLICY I certainly hope that Americans are thinking people, who can see the differences.
Watch for the attacks on this woman from the Bush camp...
Ok, I'll bite. I'm voting for Bush, and frankly I like this lady. If everything in this article is true, WE (as a nation) need many, many more like her.
I hardly think you'll see anyone from the Bush camp "attacking" Ezola Foster. Matter of fact, I think I'm going to go find her book and buy it.
But there's still no way I'm voting for Pat Buchanan. It's more important to kick the scumballs (Clinton/Gore and the rest of their ilk) out of DC IMO.
peace.
...EZOLA-THE VP CANDIDATE -&- THE JEDI JESSE Lee Peterson have both been artticulating for years that Abortion is just killing the Negro Race in America, just like ALAN KEYES articulates the same for America = TRUTHTELLERS in the Year of the TRUTHTELLERS
Yes, snuffington. The gentlelady is strongly PRO LIFE.
Pat also mentioned he preferred a pro lifer on the ticket with him. Well, he has one now (with a lot of other good stands, too). I kinda' liked her "Freeper" antics when it came to the Log Cabin Republican Club. This lady is not going to apparantly be pushed around by anyone, no matter how intimidating on the one hand or sweet-talking on the other.
American
The gentlelady is strongly PRO LIFE.
That's a relief. I assumed from her association with Jesse Lee Peterson that this would be the case.
I hope they'll begin making this a larger issue in their campaign.
well, I don't want to get too much on the 'race' thing (because it wearies me how this distinction is always brought up in our American press and reporting; it is too "race" conscious), but one would like to see a showdown debate between Ms. Ezola Foster and Ms. Condoleeza Rice, on foreign policy issues. I'd put my money on Foster and her American Sovereignty over Condy Rice's NWO Globalism and weak trade policy any day.
Go America Go!!!
Don't push it.
So far you guys have not been interferred with and your little high-five party over Pat finally finding someone who would run with him has gone unmolested.
Conde Rice and Dick Cheyne were severely flamed when they came into the spotlight, so our silence doesn't mean you can abuse it.
Play nicely and talk among yourselves.
Don't kid yourself. The GOP does not fear Foster. I applaud her message and hope that this message gets out into the mainstream public. Foster's message rings true, but she happens to be on a ticket to "nowhere". Her message isn't going to take votes away from Bush. In fact it may sway voters away from Gore and to Bush.
I disagree. I think Republicans are not afraid of Buchanan anymore, with good reason. Thus, they are happy to see a quality African-American woman with Ms. Foster's principles and integrity getting any spotlight.
She's a great spokesperson for American Conservatives.
I'm very impressed with Buchanan's selection of her.IMO she makes Globaleeza sound like a novice.
Unfortunately, at 1% in the polls I am forced to continue to reluctantly vote for Bush, as an America First Republican, I haven't moved off the reservation.
Ezola's Foster message needs to be heard,inspite of a tone deaf media and electorate.
I agree.
BUMP
BUMP!
Buchanan/Foster2000!
Ezola Foster will be an exceptional running mate. Her life experience, who she is, and what she stands for confounds and gives the lie to every establishment/media myth propounded to divide and control us. She will be a bone sticking in their collective throat, and a light unto a nation deceived.
This campaign is going to be grand! I can't wait.
Go Pat and Ezola Go!
Well, all except the Log Cabin Club... Rep. Kolbe's appearance at the convention was the GOP's unspoken message to homosexuals that all things come to those who wait--and the wait is soon to be over. LIP SERVICE TO FAMILY VALUES, but READ MY LIPS and you'll get a truer picture. The GOP is over--time for REFORM/Buchanan!
Mrs Foster is an angel of truth on the political front lines. What a role model of enlightened leadership both she and Pat represent. God can work miracles through two such hearts of light.
The GOP is over--time for REFORM/Buchanan!
You'll be eating those words come Weds. November 8th.
"Unfortunately, at 1% in the polls I am forced to continue to reluctantly vote for Bush, as an America First Republican, I haven't moved off the reservation."
But don't you see that not voting for these two principled candidates just because you don't think they can win is a faithless compromise of what you hold to be true in your heart? You must adhere to principles that transcend the pragmatic. It is the good people like you who are betraying the very principled, outspoken truths that you so admire in Mrs Foster. If she and Pat are willing to hold the line (with the dim 1% in the polls in view) then why can't you?! Do you think THEY love America any less?
Affirm the political candidate who validates your essential liberties; give Pat the gift of your strength and courage and hope and leave the rest to God.
I can only salute your steadfast support and respect the convictions you are holding to.
However it is my greatest fear that by not voting for Dubya,we could end up leaving the rest up to "Gore" instead of "God".
I do hope Buchanan/Foster's voices are heard in this election years debate.
America First Republican.
Bump ! Thanks !
I agree, she sounds like a great conservative. But as Veep and Buchanan as the President, they have no experience. I'm concerned it would set the conservative movement back. Take a lesson from the piece of crap liberals, incrementalism.
Sounds like a great lady to me with a bright future in the Republican Party. What does Fulani think of her and of not getting the VP spot?
BTTT
"However it is my greatest fear that by not voting for Dubya,we could end up leaving the rest up to "Gore" instead of "God". "
It really doesn't matter if you follow your conscience and vote for Buchanan/Foster and Gore wins, because in either instance God is still in control, and God can work a good purpose in any situation. It helps to remember that God wants His children back in the fold and sometimes it takes a catastraphe to bring people back to their Creator.
(This, from Runamuk's sidekick.)
Thanks! Tex Mex it's always good to hear from you! Thanks for keeping an open mind about Ezola Foster! she is a good choice. :-)
Go Pat Go!!!
sorry, wrong answer, stevio.
Remember that the Lt. Gov. of Minnesota was "just a school teacher" just prior to being elected. Such is the independent streak of the voter these days when he or she clearly sees an alternative to the Republicrats. It has already been shown that two individuals from a third party can in fact be elected to executive office, even in spite of your "no experience" statement. We will work to get Ezola a chat opportunity on FR and you and others can judge for yourself. Let's see Cheney take the same opportunity to address us Freepers.
Have a nice day!!! :
Hi, thanks for your comment! I agree, Ezola was a great choice for Pat Buchanan. This woman will so totally embarrass Fulani and other kooks who are no longer a part of the Reform Party, now that it has been cleaned and purged!
Thanks again! :-)
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