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Barack & the History of Racism
By Nina May

Barack didn’t mention in his mea culpa speech in Philadelphia that over 250,000 white Americans gave their lives to end slavery. He doesn’t mention that in 1854, abolitionists left the Democrat Party and founded the Republican Party created specifically for the purpose of ending slavery and giving equal rights to all those who had been in bondage.

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.

It 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.

The anger of segregation was tempered by an opportunity to succeed in a world where whites could not condemn or destroy. This is when amazing black colleges and universities blossomed and exploded with incredible talent and energy. This is when black businesses and industry flourished out of the necessity that segregation created. There were no hand wringing or angry sermons directed at white guilt and racial division. The sermons focused on what was good, what was virtuous, what was lovely. The peer pressure was to succeed, to get an education, to compete and grow, not sit around, whining, blaming whitey for your problems. If there is anger, it should be against big government solutions to big government problems that politicians like Barack and Hillary always claim is the only way to run a country.

Democrats have created this plantation of government handouts that suggest blacks are incapable of making responsible decisions separate from the government. They are not trusted with the same benefits of freedom that whites are and must be placated with the lie that all whites are racists and all blacks are the poor victims of that racism. It is a lie that needs to be exposed, destroyed and renounced, not fed and nurtured the way Rev. Wright continues to do.

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.

It is ironic that he challenges the listener by saying, “We can 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 knew his American black history, he would 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.

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Note: If Barack Obama had watched the award-winning documentary, Emancipation Revelation Revolution, 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. www.ERRVideo.com

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. Nina is an artist, writer, producer and commentator, and has had her own TV show, “An American Renaissance,” and wrote and produced a daily radio commentary for over 1200 stations. Contact: Kelly Alexander at kellyalexander43@aol.com or call 703-595-0112