Democrats Have Kept Racism Alive
Posted on: Monday, March 31st, 2008 by Nina May
If Barack Obama Really Understood Black History, He would not be a DemocratThere was a big problem with Barack’s mea culpa speech inPhiladelphia, defending his racist pastor, Jeremiah White. He failed to mentionthat over 300,000 white Americans gave their lives to end slavery. He didn’tmention that in 1854, abolitionists left the Democratic Party and founded theRepublican Party specifically for the purpose of ending slavery and givingequal rights to all those who had been in bondage. And when he does mention the3/5ths clause in the Constitution, he totally got it wrong, the way most Americansdo. News flash . . . it was the abolitionists who insisted on it so that theslave holding states could not have their slaves counting as constituents sothey could get more pro-slavery representation in congress. This is one of themost powerful battles fought by whites, to end slavery, that has been mischaracterized as beingracist.
He needs to read the history of this battle for equalityand realize that the party he embraces today was the party that voted againstthe 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, while theRepublicans supported them unanimously. He needs to acknowledge that the twodozen civil rights bills that were passed by the Republicans were overturned bythe Democrats when they regained control of the House, Senate and White Houseat the end of the 19th Century.
Itwas at this time that the Democratic Party instituted Jim Crow laws. It was notwhites that did this against blacks, it was bigoted, racist Democrats who wouldchoose to divide a nation rather than give freedom to those they consideredinferior. Had blacks been voting equally in both political parties, there neverwould have been literacy tests, poll taxes or other restrictions to voting. Butbecause all blacks at this time identified with the party of Lincoln and wereactually the ones starting Republican parties in southern states, and runningand getting elected as Republicans, the Democrats knew that to kill a black waskilling a Republican.
If he watched the award-winningdocumentary, Emancipation Revelation Revolution (ERRVideo.com), he would learnthat the first black Democrat, Barbara Jordan, was elected in the south in1972, 100 years after black Republicans had been running and winning for years.And it took a federal law to force redistricting in Texas to get her elected.He would be reminded that almost all the southern governors fightingintegration, standing in school house doors, firing water canons at innocentpeople were all Democrats. And if his parents really were a part of the civilrights movement, he would realize that without whites fighting side by side tooverturn laws that had been put in place by his very own party, it may havebeen another generation before the civil rights movement could happen.
It was not white versus black, itwas racists, bigoted Democrats against blacks and whites whodisagreed with them. If he saw our movie he would be reminded of three youngwhite men who worked with CORE who were murdered, just for doing the rightthing. He would see the incredible sacrifices that white men, such as SenatorCharles Sumner endured for the cause of liberty for oppressed slaves. He wasattacked on the Senate floor by pro-slavery Democratic congressman, PrestonBrooks, who stormed the Senate side of the Capitol and tried to beat Sumner todeath with his cane because he dared to introduce yet another piece ofanti-slavery legislation. Brooks received hundreds of canes from adoring fans,while Senator Sumner struggled for three years to survive. When he did, thefirst thing he did when he returned to the Senate was to re-introduce a billthat would abolish slavery. This man was a white Republican. Preston Brooks wasa white Democrat. Race had nothing to do with their individual passion todestroy or preserve slavery. It was a passion born of moral values and anunderstanding of good and evil. That is the discussion today that pastors aresupposed to be having and preaching and encouraging their flock to understand.Rev. Wright did not get the memo and gets an “F” in black history.
For Obama and his pastor to preachthe “audacity of despair and racism” is an affront to all the people who havegiven their lives through the years to see racism destroyed. But that deathblow has always been deflected by the Democratic party that has had a vestedinterest in class and race warfare to keep their power base motivated andreturning to the polls. Barack says, “I have asserted a firm conviction that workingtogether we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds,” yet he sits weekafter week listening to sermons that say just the opposite. But those days are gone as we ripoff the tacky, thin verneer of elitism and bigotry that has propelled them topower.
It is ironic thatin his speech he challenges the listener by saying, “We can’t accept politicsthat breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism,” when he belongs to the veryparty that has always done that, to the point where the new liberal plantationhas erected philosophical barriers around all blacks, condemning those who dareto challenge the liberal status quo and escape this manipulation andintimidation. They are called Aunt Jamima, like Condi Rice, or house negroeslike Colin Powell, or forced to endure high tech lynchings like ClarenceThomas. They have Oreo Cookies thrown at them like Michael Steele and areaccused of acting white if they identify themselves as Republicans orconservatives.
That is “the racist spectaclewe are not allowed to talk about.” When blacks have to whisper at polling booths that they are Republican,for fear of reprisal from their liberal neighbors, then Barack really doesn’tget the real conflict that is alive and well in this country, and why shouldhe? He belongs to the party of the overseer of the philosophical plantationthat intimidates and marginalizes blacks that dare support conservative valuesor Republican ideas.
So, if Barack washonest about his desire to “heal the nation,” he needs to learn American blackhistory, and take his pastor aside and tell him about it and challenge him tobe more Christ-like when he preaches. If he knew real American black history,he would not belong to the party of segregationists and bigots and would nothave allowed himself to be sucked into that dark undertow of racial politicsthat has already robbed our nation of too many amazing blessings.
Nina May isthe producer/director of the award-winning documentary, Emancipation RevelationRevolution, which tells the history of the civil rights movement in America,the role that both parties played in it, and what happens to blacks who leave thatliberal plantation and embrace conservative values. To learn more about themovie go to www.ERRVideo.com
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