Americans for Prosperity North Carolina
Re: Trip to Washington D.C. Oct 2nd-3rd
If you recently witnessed the large protest in our nations capital you know what a difference the people can make when they speak their minds. I hope you will consider traveling with us to Washington October 2nd and 3rd for the Defending the American Dream Summit.
The Americans for Prosperity Defending the American Dream Summit is your chance to make your voice heard against the massive government take over of our lives.
Our bus package includes the registration fee for the conference (and the three meals included in this fee), the bus ride, the hotel stay, the Town Hall rally at the Capitol, and visits with some of our NC Congressional delegation. The cost is $149. which is a really great deal. The only other money you would need for this trip would be for lunch on the way up and dinner on the way back. I attach a flier that we have put together just for North Carolinians. Please don't hesitate to call if you have any questions. Please note the special registration site where you should register online. http://www.ncdefendthedream.com/ The flier also contains information on how to register by check, if you prefer.
The bus leaves early Friday a.m. The camaraderie is worth taking the bus! Times from each city will be determined soon. You get on the bus and we take care of the rest. We stop for a quick lunch and then we go straight to Capitol Hill for a rally and to meet with some of our NC elected officials if they have a break in their sessions. Then, back on the bus to our hotel, the Marriott Crystal Gateway to check in and get ready for a great reception and Tribute to Ronald Reagan dinner Friday night. Lots of speakers, etc.
Bus Departure Locations
Charlotte
Greensboro
Southern Pines
Raleigh
N. Raleigh
Town of Wake Forest Wilmington
Jacksonville
Goldsboro
Kinston
Elizabeth City
Sanford
Murfreesboro
We had a great time last year. Then, you are on your own until the next day when we have a general session with many interesting speakers, lunch with other North Carolinians, and then an afternoon of panels on emerging issues. We get home late Saturday night .
$149 covers everything except lunch on the way up to DC and dinner on the way back to NC. This is based on sharing a room with a friend, family member or another AFP member that we match you up with. If you want to pay $199 you get your own room..
Contact me if you have other questions
Dallas Woodhouse
North Carolina State Director
Americans for Prosperity-North Carolina
919-839-1011 ext 3
919-671-1050 Cell
200 West Morgan Street
Suite 100
Raleigh, NC 27601
Dallas.Woodhouse@afphq.org
Advancing every North Carolinian's right to economic freedom and opportunity
Please join Americans For Prosperity by visiting: http://americansforprosperity.org/coming-soon
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Back on Uncle Sam's plantation
Star Parker - Syndicated ColumnistSix years ago I wrote a book called Uncle Sam's Plantation . I wrote the book to tell my own story of what I saw living inside the welfare state and my own transformation out of it.
I said in that book that indeed there are two Americas -- a poor America on socialism and a wealthy America on capitalism.
I talked about government programs like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS), Emergency Assistance to Needy Families with Children (EANF), Section 8 Housing, and Food Stamps.
A vast sea of perhaps well-intentioned government programs, all initially set into motion in the 1960s by Democrats, that were going to lift the nation's poor out of poverty.
A benevolent Uncle Sam welcomed mostly poor black Americans onto the government plantation. Those who accepted the invitation switched mindsets from "How do I take care of myself?" to "What do I have to do to stay on the plantation?"
Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems -- the kind of problems that are inevitable when individuals turn responsibility for their lives over to others.
The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city schools, and broken black families.
Through God's grace, I found my way out. It was then that I understood what freedom meant and how great this country is.
I had the privilege of working on welfare reform in 1996 which was passed by a Republican controlled Congress.
I thought we were on the road to moving socialism out of our poor black communities and replacing it with wealth-producing American capitalism.
But, incredibly, we are now going in the opposite direction.
Instead of poor America on socialism becoming more like rich American on capitalism, rich America on capitalism is becoming like poor America on socialism.
Uncle Sam has welcomed our banks onto the plantation and they have said, "Thank you, Suh."
Now, instead of thinking about what creative things need to be done to serve customers, they are thinking about what they have to tell Massah in order to get their cash.
There is some kind of irony that this is all happening under our first black president on the 200th anniversary of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln.
Worse, socialism seems to be the element of our new young president. And maybe even more troubling, our corporate executives seem happy to move onto the plantation.
In an op-Ed on the opinion page of the Washington Post , Mr. Obama is clear that the goal of his trillion dollar spending plan is much more than short term economic stimulus.
"This plan is more than a prescription for short-term spending -- it's a strategy for America' s long-term growth and opportunity in areas such as renewable energy, healthcare, and education."
Perhaps more incredibly, Obama seems to think that government taking over an economy is a new idea. Or that massive growth in government can take place "with unprecedented transparency and accountability."
Yes, sir, we heard it from Jimmy Carter when he created the Department of Energy, the Synfuels Corporation, and the Department of Education.
Or how about the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 -- The War on Poverty -- which President Johnson said "...does not merely expand old programs or improve what is already being done. It charts a new course. It strikes at the causes, not just the consequences of poverty."
Trillions of dollars later, black poverty is the same. But black families are not, with triple the incidence of single-parent homes and out-of-wedlock births.
It's not complicated. Americans can accept Barack Obama's invitation to move onto the plantation. Or they can choose personal responsibility and freedom.
Does anyone really need to think about what the choice should be?
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Sean Hannity - Obama & Friends History of Radicalisam
Friends,
This past Sunday evening Sean Hannity was to have a special on Obama's past on Fox News Network. For some 'unknown' reason this show was cancelled. It was well done and the factual information well presented in a highly truthful format. Below are six different segment links on YouTube which is the entire show which was posted there. I implore all of you to watch these six segments, less than an hour of your time.
My organization, the Organization of Conservative Americans, is now going to add another direction to our work. We are embarking on exposing Obama as a non U.S. citizen, who legally should not be President of the U.S. This may well be a monumental task, but with the support of all of you and conservatives throughout this great nation we believe that we can accomplish this prior to the DNC National Convention in 2012. If anyone has information, links, etc. on who Obama truely is, please forward that info to our Director of Media Relations at the following email address; info@OCAmericans.org, or email me directly.
Please watch the YouTube links below:Here are the 6 segments if they haven't been removed before you get to them.
Thank you all for your help in saving this great nation from this insipient socialism and we will need to continue the good fight until this radical and his administration are voted out of office.
James Koerner, Director & CEO
Organization of Conservative Americans
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
SAVE FREE RADIO !
Tired of the negative press they’ve received from suing college kids and grandmothers, the major record companies have now turned their sights on your local radio stations. The foreign owned record companies are spending millions of dollars lobbying Congress to pass a bill that would establish a “performance tax” - forcing local radio to pay for the music that is currently provided to you, the listener, free of charge.
Like all businesses, radio stations across the country are struggling to stay afloat - over 250 stations have been forced off the air in the last year alone. If passed, this bill would guarantee many more stations would fail, and those that survive would not be the stations you recognize today. It is you, the listener that will feel true impact of this tax most as it would ensure a decline in the diversity and quality of programming you expect and deserve from free radio. Click here to learn more.
Free radio needs your help in opposing the major record companies’ money grab!
You can help stop the major record companies, and keep government bureaucrats from deciding the price of the music you enjoy by signing onto our petition. This petition will be delivered to your representatives in Washington.
You can contact your Senators and Representatives directly by calling the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121. To find out who your Senators and Representatives are, click here. Call your Members of Congress today, and tell them to oppose the performance tax, by co-sponsoring the “Supporting Local Radio Freedom Act”.
Together, we can ensure that free radio continues to serve your local market with the highest quality service and programming.
Thank you for your support!
saveyourradio.org
Like all businesses, radio stations across the country are struggling to stay afloat - over 250 stations have been forced off the air in the last year alone. If passed, this bill would guarantee many more stations would fail, and those that survive would not be the stations you recognize today. It is you, the listener that will feel true impact of this tax most as it would ensure a decline in the diversity and quality of programming you expect and deserve from free radio. Click here to learn more.
Free radio needs your help in opposing the major record companies’ money grab!
You can help stop the major record companies, and keep government bureaucrats from deciding the price of the music you enjoy by signing onto our petition. This petition will be delivered to your representatives in Washington.
You can contact your Senators and Representatives directly by calling the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121. To find out who your Senators and Representatives are, click here. Call your Members of Congress today, and tell them to oppose the performance tax, by co-sponsoring the “Supporting Local Radio Freedom Act”.
Together, we can ensure that free radio continues to serve your local market with the highest quality service and programming.
Thank you for your support!
saveyourradio.org
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
By Ada M. Fisher, MD
The Health Reform bills being debated before Congress is largely about who pays the bill and mistakenly equates access with insurance. Even those with good insurance know if you call for an appointment you may have to wait weeks to be seen so why do folks think adding more to the waiting list is somehow going to insure access?
The debate really isn’t about nationalized health care for in many respects we have some forms of it with Medicaid, Medicare and Veterans Affairs Health Care. What Congress is proposing no matter what folks are being told is socialized medicine in a larger sense. Those nations which have some form of it such as Russia, Canada or Cuba still have a separate accommodation for those with money. When their systems don’t work, ask large distinguished teaching hospitals in the USA about the number of foreigners who come for specialized care including organ transplants while citizens, who paid the taxes which largely fund these facilities, are pushed to the back of the line.
Health care shouldn’t be paid for by burdening those who played by the rules and became economically successful as we are demanding of the rich. Why would anyone want to make money or become successful in this country if they are going to have to pay for everything for everyone else when in simply being mediocre they could get it for free?
I’d like to see the legislators who are lawyers require of their legal colleagues the delivery of free services as we now are requiring from the health professions. While at it, please allow legal assistants to practice law without the case load or malpractice liability physicians face. And finally ask that lawyers stand by and willingly allow their profession to become nationalized with a universal payer and fixed fees of say $50 per hour regardless of the time put into a case. That is what is being asked of health professionals who often owe hundreds of thousands of dollars for student loans and malpractice cost which aren’t being relieved or reimburse by a nationalized system though we are asking them to bear responsibility as our last gatekeepers of quality care.
Americans needs to get real and wake up!?! Increasing the nationalization of health care threatens the elimination of personal and medical privacy as well as disruptions to quality care. This health care reform legislation is a boon for the insurance industries, a guarantee of payments to pharmaceutical companies, an economic killer to physicians in private practice who are wont to complain publicly for fear of being considered money grubbers and devoid of any patient responsibility for compliance in both cost co-pays based on a sliding scale as well as following recommendations to continue receiving treatments.
Michael Moore, asked the wrong questions in his expose of medicine while in Cuba for he didn’t ask what innovations to improve the lives of its citizens it had made, what programs for the disabled and their compensation was available, what research into genetic diseases and conditions which are rare they are doing, and all of those other things we do better than any other nation. If you don’t believe me, examine the roster of the Nobel prizes in science and medicine. This nation has been going for the gold in these fields and unfortunately lagging behind in most others as our children become entranced with style over substance in their choices for career options.
The HMOs—Health Maintenance Organizations have experience which shows that trying to control cost has not always worked as planned. The Romney Massachusetts Health Care Coverage for all citizens met the first criteria of coverage but now threatens to bankrupt that state with its strangling cost. While the big elephants in the room worker’s compensation, mental illness, elderly assisted living, retiree care, Medicare and Medicaid health payments and other burgeoning needs which will overwhelm the system aren’t even being addressed. Doctors, Nurses and other Health Providers must have the say in their relationship with their patients not third party payers, the government or hospital plan administrators. The Public Health System should be shored up as the entry level to care since each of this nation’s 3,145 counties have one and this simple move will not only allow access while putting the focus on preventative care.
Before attempts at muzzling its facts were undertaken, even the Congressional Budget Office noted the Health Reform Act will insure neither access nor affordability, just long lines with delays and diluted offerings. America Wake Up! Don’t let Congress further socialize medicine thereby giving us its proposed poor substitutes which negatively impact your choices.
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DR. ADA M. FISHER IS A PHYSICIAN, LICENSED TEACHER FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION IN MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE, PREVIOUSLY ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER, AND THE NC REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEEWMAN. CONTACT HER AT P. O. BOX 777; SALISBURY, NC 28145; TELEPHONE (704)223-2321; DRFISHER@DRADAMFISHER.ORG
Thursday, August 6, 2009
By Any Other Name
By John Hood
Carolina Journal Online
August 6, 2009RALEIGH – As lawmakers, reporters, and political observers assess the winners and losers in the long-awaited 2009-11 state budget deal, I will advise my readers not to pay attention. At the moment, it is a waste of your time.
You see, the spending numbers bandied about during the House and Senate floor debates, and even the ones contained in the official budget documents, are incomplete and misleading. They don’t include a breakout of the $1.3 billion in new federal bailout funds that North Carolina will use to paper over its budget deficit. That’s money that will be spent, on programs ranging from Medicaid to the public schools, but is not reflected in the spending totals you’re reading about. ...
There is probably going to be some real year-to-year cut in HHS spending. But in other cases, such as the University of North Carolina, it doesn’t seem likely that there will be any reduction at all once federal funds are properly accounted for. Let me try to explain what happened as simply as I can.
In summer 2008, not foreseeing the coming economic recession, legislators and the Easley administration adopted a $21.4 billion spending plan. Shortly afterward, it became obvious that revenues weren’t going to meet projections, so the Easley administration began cutting back.By the time Gov. Perdue took office, the fiscal situation had worsened considerably.
If one simply took the now-outdated $21.4 billion spending plan and adjusted it for expanded growth in program caseloads, the resulting “continuation budget” for FY 2009-10 would have been $22.1 billion. That’s the figure some are citing as the baseline from which the new budget was written, which is how they come up with gargantuan estimates of fiscal deficits and budget cuts. It is, however, entirely fictional.
The true spending total for FY 2008-09 was about $20.3 billion, a 5 percent cut from the authorized budget. Obviously, North Carolina survived it.Now move ahead to the 2009-10 fiscal year. Budget officials projected that preexisting state taxes and fees would bring in approximately $17.6 billion.
As I said, another $1.3 billion was available in new federal funds, yielding total revenue just shy of $19 billion.Here’s how the legislature and governor responded in the new budget deal. They approved $1 billion in higher tax rates, raised $56 million in fees, swiped $83 million in local revenues, transferred $98 million from other state accounts, and assumed that increased tax-code enforcement would squeeze another $210 million from taxpayers. These actions added $1.4 billion in revenue, all immediately spent.The net result?
The true General Fund spending total this year will be just over $20.3 billion – slightly above the true spending total for 2008-09.So when you see big headlines and hear scary news broadcasts about the General Assembly’s massive new round of budget cuts, just ignore them. They are meaningless. ...
The 2009 budget process was anything but transparent. As written, the 2009-10 budget is flat-out opaque. Its creators hope you won’t be able to see through it, or through them. Prove them wrong.
Click here to read the full article from the Carolina Journal Online: http://www.carolinajournal.com/jhdailyjournal/display_jhdailyjournal.html?id=5563
Carolina Journal Online
August 6, 2009RALEIGH – As lawmakers, reporters, and political observers assess the winners and losers in the long-awaited 2009-11 state budget deal, I will advise my readers not to pay attention. At the moment, it is a waste of your time.
You see, the spending numbers bandied about during the House and Senate floor debates, and even the ones contained in the official budget documents, are incomplete and misleading. They don’t include a breakout of the $1.3 billion in new federal bailout funds that North Carolina will use to paper over its budget deficit. That’s money that will be spent, on programs ranging from Medicaid to the public schools, but is not reflected in the spending totals you’re reading about. ...
There is probably going to be some real year-to-year cut in HHS spending. But in other cases, such as the University of North Carolina, it doesn’t seem likely that there will be any reduction at all once federal funds are properly accounted for. Let me try to explain what happened as simply as I can.
In summer 2008, not foreseeing the coming economic recession, legislators and the Easley administration adopted a $21.4 billion spending plan. Shortly afterward, it became obvious that revenues weren’t going to meet projections, so the Easley administration began cutting back.By the time Gov. Perdue took office, the fiscal situation had worsened considerably.
If one simply took the now-outdated $21.4 billion spending plan and adjusted it for expanded growth in program caseloads, the resulting “continuation budget” for FY 2009-10 would have been $22.1 billion. That’s the figure some are citing as the baseline from which the new budget was written, which is how they come up with gargantuan estimates of fiscal deficits and budget cuts. It is, however, entirely fictional.
The true spending total for FY 2008-09 was about $20.3 billion, a 5 percent cut from the authorized budget. Obviously, North Carolina survived it.Now move ahead to the 2009-10 fiscal year. Budget officials projected that preexisting state taxes and fees would bring in approximately $17.6 billion.
As I said, another $1.3 billion was available in new federal funds, yielding total revenue just shy of $19 billion.Here’s how the legislature and governor responded in the new budget deal. They approved $1 billion in higher tax rates, raised $56 million in fees, swiped $83 million in local revenues, transferred $98 million from other state accounts, and assumed that increased tax-code enforcement would squeeze another $210 million from taxpayers. These actions added $1.4 billion in revenue, all immediately spent.The net result?
The true General Fund spending total this year will be just over $20.3 billion – slightly above the true spending total for 2008-09.So when you see big headlines and hear scary news broadcasts about the General Assembly’s massive new round of budget cuts, just ignore them. They are meaningless. ...
The 2009 budget process was anything but transparent. As written, the 2009-10 budget is flat-out opaque. Its creators hope you won’t be able to see through it, or through them. Prove them wrong.
Click here to read the full article from the Carolina Journal Online: http://www.carolinajournal.com/jhdailyjournal/display_jhdailyjournal.html?id=5563
Thursday, July 30, 2009
CAN REPUBLICANS WIN BACK THE BLACK VOTE?
By Frances Rice
“Why Is the Black Vote in the Democrats’ Pocket?” That is the title of an article by Juliette Ochieng which provides an analysis of why Republicans are having very little success attracting more blacks into the Republican Party. The article can be found on the Internet at: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/why-is-the-black-vote-in-the-democratic-pocket/
Ochieng opines that blacks have been trained by Democrats to expect political parties to provide quid pro quo. In other words, while Republicans want to help blacks pursue happiness (teach blacks how to fish so they can feed themselves for a lifetime), Democrats want to provide happiness to blacks (give them a fish so they can eat for a day).
The Democratic Party’s strategy of using handouts to garner the black votes, while working to keep blacks mired in poverty, was described as “plantation politics” by President Barack Obama on page 147 of his book “Dreams From My Father”. As a result of the politics of poverty practiced by Democrats, including Obama, the firm belief is now deeply rooted in the black community that the government must "do something” for blacks. Democrats have been running black communities for the past 40+ years and turned those communities into economic and social wastelands with their failed socialist policies. Yet, Democrats have the gall to blame Republicans for the deplorable conditions caused by the Democrats. Democrats also accuse Republicans of doing nothing to help poor blacks – a charge that resonates with victim mongers.
However, since the beginning of the so-called War on Poverty, over $ 9 trillion has been spent on poverty programs. According to the Washington Post, in one year alone under President George W. Bush, over $500 billion was spent on over 80 poverty-related programs, with little movement in the poverty needle. The problem with black poverty is not money – and it is not the Republican Party.
Notably, only 25% of blacks are poor and living in those dilapidated neighborhoods run by Democrats. The remaining 75% of blacks are prosperous and living in the larger society.
Shamefully, Democrats consistently fight efforts of Republicans to help poor blacks living in Democrat-controlled neighborhoods get out of poverty. Most egregious is the fight by Democrats to keep Republicans from providing school choice opportunity scholarships so that black parents can get their children out of failing schools. The money belongs to the people, not the buildings controlled by the teachers’ unions that are supporters of the Democratic Party.
Further, Democrats, aided by liberal journalists and teachers, hide information about black poverty that is embarrassing to Democrats. For instance, after the Civil War, blacks left the plantations run by Democrats with little more than the ragged clothes on their backs. Today, the combined wealth of blacks is over $1.4 trillion – up from the $644 billion in 2005 – a staggering figure that is equivalent to the GNP of the world's 16th largest economy. This is an incredible, historic achievement.
Whenever Republicans attempt to point out that it is the Democrats who are keeping those inner-city blacks mired in poverty, Democrats resort to playing the race card, falsely accusing the Republican Party of being the party of the racists who denied blacks civil rights during and prior to the 1960’s .
The blatant use of race-baiting by Democrats to win the black vote is why any strategy to attract blacks back into the Republican Party must include not only a focus on economic and social issues, but also information about the true history of civil rights.
The NBRA Civil Rights Newsletter that is posted on the Internet at: www.NBRA.info provides information that helps set the civil rights record straight. Referenced in the newsletter is an article published by the Claremont Institute entitled "The Myth of the Racist Republicans" that can be found on the Internet at: http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.928/article_detail.asp
Included in the newsletter are additional references such as "Unfounded Loyalty" by Rev. Wayne Perryman, "Wrong on Race" by Bruce Bartlett and "A Short History of Reconstruction" by Dr. Eric Foner, a renowned liberal historian whose biography can be found on the Internet at: http://www.ericfoner.com/
Perryman wrote his book after conducting years of research and then sued the Democratic Party, demanding an apology for that party’s 150-year history of racism based on the Democratic Party's “States Rights” claims. The Democrats admitted their racist past under oath in court, but refused to apologize because they know that they can take the black vote for granted.
It is frustrating to observe how most black Americans continue to support the Democratic Party, in spite of that party’s reprehensible history of racism and socialism that have caused so much harm to blacks. As author Michael Scheuer stated, the Democratic Party is the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.
At one time in our history, almost all blacks were Republicans because, since its inception in 1854 as the anti-slavery party, the Republican Party has always been the party of freedom and equality for blacks. Studies show that today, still, most blacks share the values of the Republican Party. Those same studies demonstrate that most blacks are very conservative and do not share the values of the Democratic Party that supports same-sex marriage, partial-birth abortion and banning God from the public square.
In order to keep blacks from voting their values or for Republicans, every election cycle, Democrats preach hatred against the Republican Party and get blacks to cast a protest vote against Republicans, and not a vote for Democrats.
The message that Democrats gives to poor blacks is despicable. If you remain poor, uneducated and vote for Democrats, we will celebrate your victimhood. If you get a good education, get a good job and vote for Republicans, we will denigrate you as "acting white”, a "sellout”, an "Uncle Tom”, a "House Negro”, a "House N-word", a "Lawn Jockey”, and worse.
Democrats talk tolerance, but practice intolerance, castigating any black person as a “traitor” to his or her race who does not toe the liberal agenda line.
When black Democrat Juan Williams wrote his book entitled "Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-end Movements and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America" that exposed the deplorable conditions in black communities, Williams was denounced on national TV by another black Democrat as a "Happy Negro".
Brazenly, on the left-wing Internet website called "The News Blog," Democrats posted a doctored photograph of then Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele (now chairman of the RNC) when he was running for a Senate seat, depicting Steele as a "Simple Sambo" with a blackened minstrel-style face, nappy hair and big, think red lips. The cartoon caption read: “Simple Sambo wants to move to the big house”. This contemptible racist stereotype is the same one Democrats used to demean black men during the era of slavery and segregation.
In addition to other outrageous racist images of Dr. Condoleezza Rice produced by several Democrats, cartoonist Jeff Danziger depicted Dr. Rice as an ignorant, barefoot "mammy", reminiscent of the stereotyped black woman in the movie “Gone with the Wind” about the slave era black woman who remarked: "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies". This is the type of racist stereotype Democrats used to demean black women during the era of slavery and segregation.
Democrats now love Gen. Colin Powell, but spewed out racist attacks on Powell before he endorsed Obama and embraced the liberal agenda of higher taxes and a bigger government to provide poverty-producing handouts to blacks. A video was shot by WKRN Video Journalist Beau Fleenor at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee that shows Al Sharpton demeaning Gen. Powell and Dr. Rice, when Sharpton was asked to give his opinions about whether Powell and Rice were “House Negroes". That video can be found on the Internet at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdVjrBY5-F0 An article that appeared in a Portland, Oregon paper was one of many exposing how hardly a ripple of protest was made by black Democrats when Harry Belafonte publicly denounced Gen. Powell as a "House Negro". It can be found on the Internet at: http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2002/10/27103.shtml
The denigration by Democrats of blacks who identify with the Republican Party makes it nearly impossible for the Republican Party to attract blacks into the party, and for black Republicans to get elected to office in black communities. Yet, Democrats have the temerity to point a finger of blame at the Republican Party for there being so few blacks in the Republican Party and for there being so few black Republican elected officials. Notably, the few black Republicans who get elected to public office do so in largely white Republican districts.
Those black Americans living in the Democrat-controlled neighborhoods who want to get out of poverty should seize control over their own destiny and stop voting monolithically for Democrats who use “plantation politics” to buy their votes while keeping blacks in poverty.
Democrats will forever maintain a ”lock” on the black vote, for as long as black Americans – including prosperous blacks who sympathize with poor blacks – continue believing the myth that the Republican Party is a racist party and clinging to the false notion that poor blacks are “victims” who need government handouts to survive.
Frances Rice is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, a lawyer and chairman of the National Black Republican Association. She can be contacted at: www.NBRA.Info
“Why Is the Black Vote in the Democrats’ Pocket?” That is the title of an article by Juliette Ochieng which provides an analysis of why Republicans are having very little success attracting more blacks into the Republican Party. The article can be found on the Internet at: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/why-is-the-black-vote-in-the-democratic-pocket/
Ochieng opines that blacks have been trained by Democrats to expect political parties to provide quid pro quo. In other words, while Republicans want to help blacks pursue happiness (teach blacks how to fish so they can feed themselves for a lifetime), Democrats want to provide happiness to blacks (give them a fish so they can eat for a day).
The Democratic Party’s strategy of using handouts to garner the black votes, while working to keep blacks mired in poverty, was described as “plantation politics” by President Barack Obama on page 147 of his book “Dreams From My Father”. As a result of the politics of poverty practiced by Democrats, including Obama, the firm belief is now deeply rooted in the black community that the government must "do something” for blacks. Democrats have been running black communities for the past 40+ years and turned those communities into economic and social wastelands with their failed socialist policies. Yet, Democrats have the gall to blame Republicans for the deplorable conditions caused by the Democrats. Democrats also accuse Republicans of doing nothing to help poor blacks – a charge that resonates with victim mongers.
However, since the beginning of the so-called War on Poverty, over $ 9 trillion has been spent on poverty programs. According to the Washington Post, in one year alone under President George W. Bush, over $500 billion was spent on over 80 poverty-related programs, with little movement in the poverty needle. The problem with black poverty is not money – and it is not the Republican Party.
Notably, only 25% of blacks are poor and living in those dilapidated neighborhoods run by Democrats. The remaining 75% of blacks are prosperous and living in the larger society.
Shamefully, Democrats consistently fight efforts of Republicans to help poor blacks living in Democrat-controlled neighborhoods get out of poverty. Most egregious is the fight by Democrats to keep Republicans from providing school choice opportunity scholarships so that black parents can get their children out of failing schools. The money belongs to the people, not the buildings controlled by the teachers’ unions that are supporters of the Democratic Party.
Further, Democrats, aided by liberal journalists and teachers, hide information about black poverty that is embarrassing to Democrats. For instance, after the Civil War, blacks left the plantations run by Democrats with little more than the ragged clothes on their backs. Today, the combined wealth of blacks is over $1.4 trillion – up from the $644 billion in 2005 – a staggering figure that is equivalent to the GNP of the world's 16th largest economy. This is an incredible, historic achievement.
Whenever Republicans attempt to point out that it is the Democrats who are keeping those inner-city blacks mired in poverty, Democrats resort to playing the race card, falsely accusing the Republican Party of being the party of the racists who denied blacks civil rights during and prior to the 1960’s .
The blatant use of race-baiting by Democrats to win the black vote is why any strategy to attract blacks back into the Republican Party must include not only a focus on economic and social issues, but also information about the true history of civil rights.
The NBRA Civil Rights Newsletter that is posted on the Internet at: www.NBRA.info provides information that helps set the civil rights record straight. Referenced in the newsletter is an article published by the Claremont Institute entitled "The Myth of the Racist Republicans" that can be found on the Internet at: http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.928/article_detail.asp
Included in the newsletter are additional references such as "Unfounded Loyalty" by Rev. Wayne Perryman, "Wrong on Race" by Bruce Bartlett and "A Short History of Reconstruction" by Dr. Eric Foner, a renowned liberal historian whose biography can be found on the Internet at: http://www.ericfoner.com/
Perryman wrote his book after conducting years of research and then sued the Democratic Party, demanding an apology for that party’s 150-year history of racism based on the Democratic Party's “States Rights” claims. The Democrats admitted their racist past under oath in court, but refused to apologize because they know that they can take the black vote for granted.
It is frustrating to observe how most black Americans continue to support the Democratic Party, in spite of that party’s reprehensible history of racism and socialism that have caused so much harm to blacks. As author Michael Scheuer stated, the Democratic Party is the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.
At one time in our history, almost all blacks were Republicans because, since its inception in 1854 as the anti-slavery party, the Republican Party has always been the party of freedom and equality for blacks. Studies show that today, still, most blacks share the values of the Republican Party. Those same studies demonstrate that most blacks are very conservative and do not share the values of the Democratic Party that supports same-sex marriage, partial-birth abortion and banning God from the public square.
In order to keep blacks from voting their values or for Republicans, every election cycle, Democrats preach hatred against the Republican Party and get blacks to cast a protest vote against Republicans, and not a vote for Democrats.
The message that Democrats gives to poor blacks is despicable. If you remain poor, uneducated and vote for Democrats, we will celebrate your victimhood. If you get a good education, get a good job and vote for Republicans, we will denigrate you as "acting white”, a "sellout”, an "Uncle Tom”, a "House Negro”, a "House N-word", a "Lawn Jockey”, and worse.
Democrats talk tolerance, but practice intolerance, castigating any black person as a “traitor” to his or her race who does not toe the liberal agenda line.
When black Democrat Juan Williams wrote his book entitled "Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-end Movements and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America" that exposed the deplorable conditions in black communities, Williams was denounced on national TV by another black Democrat as a "Happy Negro".
Brazenly, on the left-wing Internet website called "The News Blog," Democrats posted a doctored photograph of then Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele (now chairman of the RNC) when he was running for a Senate seat, depicting Steele as a "Simple Sambo" with a blackened minstrel-style face, nappy hair and big, think red lips. The cartoon caption read: “Simple Sambo wants to move to the big house”. This contemptible racist stereotype is the same one Democrats used to demean black men during the era of slavery and segregation.
In addition to other outrageous racist images of Dr. Condoleezza Rice produced by several Democrats, cartoonist Jeff Danziger depicted Dr. Rice as an ignorant, barefoot "mammy", reminiscent of the stereotyped black woman in the movie “Gone with the Wind” about the slave era black woman who remarked: "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies". This is the type of racist stereotype Democrats used to demean black women during the era of slavery and segregation.
Democrats now love Gen. Colin Powell, but spewed out racist attacks on Powell before he endorsed Obama and embraced the liberal agenda of higher taxes and a bigger government to provide poverty-producing handouts to blacks. A video was shot by WKRN Video Journalist Beau Fleenor at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee that shows Al Sharpton demeaning Gen. Powell and Dr. Rice, when Sharpton was asked to give his opinions about whether Powell and Rice were “House Negroes". That video can be found on the Internet at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdVjrBY5-F0 An article that appeared in a Portland, Oregon paper was one of many exposing how hardly a ripple of protest was made by black Democrats when Harry Belafonte publicly denounced Gen. Powell as a "House Negro". It can be found on the Internet at: http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2002/10/27103.shtml
The denigration by Democrats of blacks who identify with the Republican Party makes it nearly impossible for the Republican Party to attract blacks into the party, and for black Republicans to get elected to office in black communities. Yet, Democrats have the temerity to point a finger of blame at the Republican Party for there being so few blacks in the Republican Party and for there being so few black Republican elected officials. Notably, the few black Republicans who get elected to public office do so in largely white Republican districts.
Those black Americans living in the Democrat-controlled neighborhoods who want to get out of poverty should seize control over their own destiny and stop voting monolithically for Democrats who use “plantation politics” to buy their votes while keeping blacks in poverty.
Democrats will forever maintain a ”lock” on the black vote, for as long as black Americans – including prosperous blacks who sympathize with poor blacks – continue believing the myth that the Republican Party is a racist party and clinging to the false notion that poor blacks are “victims” who need government handouts to survive.
Frances Rice is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, a lawyer and chairman of the National Black Republican Association. She can be contacted at: www.NBRA.Info
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