If Barack Obama Really Understood Black History,

He would not be a Democrat 

There was a big problem with Barack’s mea culpa speech in
Philadelphia, defending his racist pastor, Jeremiah White. He failed to mention
that over 300,000 white Americans gave their lives to end slavery. He didn’t
mention that in 1854, abolitionists left the Democratic Party and founded the
Republican Party specifically for the purpose of ending slavery and giving
equal rights to all those who had been in bondage. And when he does mention the
3/5ths clause in the Constitution, he totally got it wrong, the way most Americans
do. News flash . . . it was the abolitionists who insisted on it so that the
slave holding states could not have their slaves counting as constituents so
they could get more pro-slavery representation in congress. This is one of the
most powerful battles fought by whites, to end slavery,  that has been mischaracterized as being
racist.

He needs to read the history of this battle for equality
and realize that the party he embraces today was the party that voted against
the 13^th, 14^th and 15^th Amendments, while the
Republicans supported them unanimously. He needs to acknowledge that the two
dozen civil rights bills that were passed by the Republicans were overturned by
the Democrats when they regained control of the House, Senate and White House
at the end of the 19^th Century.

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was at this time that the Democratic Party instituted Jim Crow laws. It was not
whites that did this against blacks, it was bigoted, racist Democrats who would
choose to divide a nation rather than give freedom to those they considered
inferior. Had blacks been voting equally in both political parties, there never
would have been literacy tests, poll taxes or other restrictions to voting. But
because all blacks at this time identified with the party of Lincoln and were
actually the ones starting Republican parties in southern states, and running
and getting elected as Republicans, the Democrats knew that to kill a black was
killing a Republican.

If he watched the award-winning
documentary, Emancipation Revelation Revolution (ERRVideo.com), he would learn
that the first black Democrat, Barbara Jordan, was elected in the south in
1972, 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 fighting
integration, standing in school house doors, firing water canons at innocent
people were all Democrats. And if his parents really were a part of the civil
rights movement, he would realize that without whites fighting side by side to
overturn laws that had been put in place by his very own party, it may have
been another generation before the civil rights movement could happen.

It was not white versus black, it
was racists, bigoted Democrats against blacks and whites who
disagreed with them. If he saw our movie he would be reminded of three young
white men who worked with CORE who were murdered, just for doing the right
thing. He would see the incredible sacrifices that white men, such as Senator
Charles Sumner endured for the cause of liberty for oppressed slaves. He was
attacked on the Senate floor by pro-slavery Democratic congressman, Preston
Brooks, who stormed the Senate side of the Capitol and tried to beat Sumner to
death with his cane because he dared to introduce yet another piece of
anti-slavery legislation. Brooks received hundreds of canes from adoring fans,
while Senator Sumner struggled for three years to survive. When he did, the
first thing he did when he returned to the Senate was to re-introduce a bill
that would abolish slavery. This man was a white Republican. Preston Brooks was
a white Democrat. Race had nothing to do with their individual passion to
destroy or preserve slavery. It was a passion born of moral values and an
understanding of good and evil. That is the discussion today that pastors are
supposed 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 preach
the “audacity of despair and racism” is an affront to all the people who have
given their lives through the years to see racism destroyed. But that death
blow has always been deflected by the Democratic party that has had a vested
interest in class and race warfare to keep their power base motivated and
returning to the polls. Barack says, “I have asserted a firm conviction that working
together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds,” yet he sits week
after week listening to sermons that say just the opposite. But those days are gone as we rip
off the tacky, thin verneer of elitism and bigotry that has propelled them to
power.

It is ironic that
in his speech he challenges the listener by saying, “We can’t accept politics
that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism,” when he belongs to the very
party that has always done that, to the point where the new liberal plantation
has erected philosophical barriers around all blacks, condemning those who dare
to challenge the liberal status quo and escape this manipulation and
intimidation. They are called Aunt Jamima, like Condi Rice, or house negroes
like Colin Powell, or forced to endure high tech lynchings like Clarence
Thomas. They have Oreo Cookies thrown at them like Michael Steele and are
accused of acting white if they identify themselves as Republicans or
conservatives.

That is “the racist spectacle
we 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’t
get the real conflict that is alive and well in this country, and why should
he? He belongs to the party of the overseer of the philosophical plantation
that intimidates and marginalizes blacks that dare support conservative values
or Republican ideas.

So, if Barack was
honest about his desire to “heal the nation,” he needs to learn American black
history, and take his pastor aside and tell him about it and challenge him to
be 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 not
have allowed himself to be sucked into that dark undertow of racial politics
that has already robbed our nation of too many amazing blessings.

Nina May is
the producer/director of the award-winning documentary, Emancipation Revelation
Revolution, 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 that
liberal plantation and embrace conservative values. To learn more about the
movie go to www.ERRVideo.com

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