On Aug 25, 8:08 am, "badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolfer...@gmail.com>
wrote:

They are neoCons who never read the neocon manuals.

On Aug 25, 12:39 pm, "edspyhil...@yahoo.com" <edspyhil...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

Listen, you need to take some remedial reading comprehension classes.
Maybe one of those Dubya unfunded No Child LEft Behind classes.  ;-)

I'm saying voters will not vote for Barack because he is black; they
will vote for McCain because he isn't black.  The rationale seems to
be vote for the guy who is not black.

We all are......

Well...consider:

http://www.wayneperryman.com/wp/?p=22

Rev. Wayne Perryman, associate pastor of Mt. Calvary Christian COGIC in
Seattle, Washington, first filed a significant reparations lawsuit
against the Democratic Party in 2004. The suit was dismissed two times
before Perryman refiled in 2005 and now the case is pending further
action in the U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, Docket #0535890.

Perryman’s lawsuit does not seek millions of dollars. It asks that the
Democratic Party issue a national apology for what he termed its past
racist policies and practices toward blacks-and that they fund
production of a series of documentaries which would record and preserve
the tainted legacy of the party with free distribution to all public and
private schools in the country.

These reported Democratic transgressions, Perryman outlined in his book,
“Unfounded Loyalty: An In-depth Look Into the Love Affair Between Blacks
and the Democrats.” In it, and in his lawsuit, the Seattle minister
details events which occurred from 1792 through 2002 which he claims
show the pattern of bias and racism from that political party.

Perryman explained his motivation in an open letter given to The
Louisiana Weekly, “I am a community activist and an inner-city minister
located in the Seattle Washington. In addition to working with gang
members and professional athletes, I spend my leisure time doing
research. In 1993, based on personal research, I challenged major
Christian Publishers and scholars that continued to produce publications
promoting the Curse of Ham theory (a theory that justified slavery from
a Christian perspective). My efforts resulted in a public apology and
the removal of the 400 year old curse theory from all of their
publications including removing it from the Encyclopedia Britannica. My
book: The 1993 Trial on the Curse of Ham was based on that research.”

“Most of my adult life I have voted for, and worked with a number of
Democratic candidates at the local level. In 1996, I served as a member
of the Washington State Black Clergy to Re-elect President Bill Clinton
and worked closely with the co-chair. After President Clinton was
re-elected, I was challenged by a group of young people from our church
regarding the history of the Democratic Party and their relationship
with blacks. Their challenge prompted me to devote a considerable amount
of time researching the subject.”

“My research included reviewing Congressional Records from 1860 to
present, reading the works of several renowned history professors (both
black and white) and looking at the Democratic Platform from the early
1800’s to 1954. In addition to these documents I reviewed the research
of those who produced the books: Without Sanctuary, 100 Years of
Lynchings and added to my library the History Channel’s series on The
Rise and Fall of Jim Crow and Reconstruction: The Second Civil War.
Excerpts from those books and film documentaries were included as
exhibits in my Reparations lawsuit against the Democratic Party.”

“The graphic depictions of whites fighting over the private parts of
black men (penises, fingers, ears) after hanging them and igniting them
with kerosene, is forever embedded in my mind. I can still hear the
cries of the victims’ wives and children pleading and begging for the
lives of their loved ones while Democratic national and local elected
officials joined the crowd and cheered. The lynching of Mary Turner, the
nine-month pregnant mother was even more horrific and graphic. All of
these events took place under the banner of “States Rights” in regions
controlled by Democratic governors, mayors, judges, sheriffs,
Congressmen and U.S. Senators. Like Dr King, my parents lived through
those times in Atlanta and I never fully appreciated what they and other
blacks went through until I had completed my research.”

“In addition to lynchings and terrorist attacks by the Democrat’s
terrorist organizations (as revealed in the 1871 Senate hearings),
Democrats legislated Black Codes, Jim Crow laws and a multitude of other
repressive legislation at the federal and state levels (and repealed
other key pieces of Civil Rights legislation) all in an effort to deny
blacks their rights as citizens. The entire system of racism in America
was meticulously thought-out and carried-out by a powerful political
machine. And that political machine according to Historians, was the
Democratic Party - the party of “White Supremacy.”

“Based on these findings, I sent the April 5, 2004 letter to the
D[emocratic] N[ational] C[ommittee] requesting that they issue an
apology to African Americans. In 2005, I sent a second letter to the
DNC, again requesting an apology. When the DNC ignored these requests, I
filed my first lawsuit on December 10, 2005.”

We are back in conservative world where saying makes it so.

Republicans bought and sold slaves.

True, and they were mostly southern Democrats like Strom
Thurmond, who later left the Democratic Party and became
Republicans when it became apparent that the Democrats
were going to support civil rights and leave their shameful
past behind.

Once again, disproportionately southern Democrats, many of
whom later became Republicans, where their racism was more
welcome, given Nixon's "southern strategy" outlined by his
adviser Kevin Phillips in a NYT interview in 1970:

  From now on, the Republicans are never going to get
  more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they
  don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be
  shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting
  Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats
  in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit
  the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the
  votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the
  whites will backslide into their old comfortable
  arrangement with the local Democrats.

Also, quite a few Republicans opposed the 1964 Civil Rights
act as well, including that conservative hero, Barry
Goldwater.

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:20:32 -0400, Hachiroku ???? <Trueno@e86.GTS>
wrote:

Dims are amusing.....