Posted by Tina
PJ Media and Campus Reform give us indication that college professors are to often not much more than mouthpieces for the progressive left. A USC campus professor rant (video) will give you some idea of the quality of education in America’s colleges:
In a 15 min. video secretly captured by USC student Tyler Talgo, political science Professor Darry Sragow also appears to endorse the illegal suppression of Republican votes.
“You lose their information on the election in the mail,” he suggested when a student asked him how to keep Republicans from voting. “I mean there is lots of ways to do it [SIC].”
A teaching assistant (TA), who also appeared to work for the university, then seemed to suggest Black Panthers could be placed at polling stations to intimidate Republican voters.
Rather than rebuking the TA, Sragow appeared to confirm the suggestion.
“Yeah, yeah,” he said. “You can do that.”
See also (larger video) at Campus Reform that reported the professor characterized California Republicans as:
…”losers” and stupid and racist.
“California Republicans I just showed you are 30 percent registration in this state because they are really stupid and racist,” he said.” [T]he republican party in California as I say all the time on the record in print on the radio and on tv is the last vestige of angry old white people.”
“Old white guys are stubborn sons of bitches,” he added.
This jerk should lose his job!
Now there is a good look at Chris’ mentors and trainers.
Re “The least flexible voter …”
As opposed to the most easily manipulated voter. Darry Sragow really shovels it into those eager open minds.
“Now there is a good look at Chris’ mentors and trainers.”
When you assume, you really just make an ass out of you. I’ve never had a professor say anything like this. If one did, I would stand up and say something. I have several Republican and conservative friends, some of whom are in college classes with me, and I have defended them in class before when hearing others make generalizations about all Republicans or conservatives.
I even defended the Tea Party once, early on, because I went to the first protest here in Fresno. My class was saying they were just a bunch of racists, and I pointed out that I didn’t see any racist signs at the event I went to, although it was the whitest crowd I’ve ever seen gathered in Fresno. 😉 But there was a group called “Blacks Against Obama,” and there were some funny and witty signs and speakers. I now believe there is a strain of racism in the Tea Party, but I don’t believe it is fair to apply the lable of “racist” to every member of the group.
I don’t believe generalizations like this are ever helpful. Characterizing all Republicans as racist is bigoted and wrong, and I’ve said so here many times.
Here’s an anecdote you’ll appreciate: One of my Republican friends said she was once asked to write a praise poem to Barack Obama in her beginning poetry class. She decided to write a satirical one instead that mocked Obama. She still got an A, but the assignment never should have been given. College instructors should never tell students what to think. Now granted, many of my professors have had liberal leanings, but they encourage discussion and they don’t shut down debate or make those with a conservative opinion feel bad. They also didn’t grade based on political alignment, but on depth of thought and analysis. They were good people. They were vocal about their opinions in class, because that’s part of what college is, but they were also respectful of others and encouraged critical thinking, even if it led to disagreement. Unfortunately there are too many people on both sides today who don’t understand how to do that.
USC is a private school. Of course, anyone wishing to pay their ridiculously expensive tuition for blather like this has my sympathies.
Interesting bit of fluff, Chris. But it doesn’t explain your consistent behavior in this forum — defending the indefensible, rationalizing the irrational, apologizing for the unapologetic, ignoring the obvious meaning of words, twisting them to suit your purposes, frivolously demanding explicitness when the meaning and thrust of statements are clear, whining about ad hominem attacks while committing nearly every single fallacy in the book, and generally sucking up to every outrage from the left even when you may (generously) express some reservations.
However, this professor does (as an example) explain your behavior.
In any case, your handlers have done their job well turning you into the good little boot-licking left-wing progressive attack chihuahua that you are. You will never be able to think for yourself, and that saddens me.
In any case I wonder what do you think you gain by shaming yourself so? But then I realize that progressive little Nazi’s like you have no shame. You are just a knee-jerk liberal who is a legend in his own mind.
Re: Princess :
USC is a private school. Of course, anyone wishing to pay their ridiculously expensive tuition for blather like this has my sympathies.
USC receives millions in government funding, just like 99% of so called private institutions.
Like no one saw this coming —
Government Spending Per Household Exceeds Median Household Income
http://www.sumnerbooks.com/books/view/completely-predictable
I think even for a private school, this is inappropriate and unbecoming of an educator. But I get your point, Princess.
More proof that indoctrination is going on, this one on 8th graders. The assisgnment was give to all of the 8th grade classes. A copy of the worksheet is included in the article.
8th Grade Crossword Puzzle Definitions: Conservatism = ‘Restricting Personal Freedoms,’ Liberalism = ‘Personal Freedom for Everyone’:
A mother at a Wisconsin public school said her daughter’s eighth grade class was assigned a worksheet with some eyebrow-raising definitions for “conservatism” and “liberalism.”
Conservatism, it stated in part, believes in “preserving traditional moral values by restricting personal freedoms” while liberalism is for “equality and personal freedom for everyone.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/11/8th-grade-crossword-puzzle-definitions-at-wis-school-conservatism-restricting-personal-freedoms-liberalism-personal-freedom-for-everyone/
On a completely different note, this is just too funny! A Chris type progressive if there ever was one!
Sebelius Tries To Blame GOP For Coming ObamaCare Failures
http://tinyurl.com/dxppkxs
“USC receives millions in government funding, just like 99% of so called private institutions.”
That’s a good point, Pie. Another reason why this conduct is intolerable even at a private school.
Thank you Tyler, for your expose.
The Prof should be reassigned to employment more suited to his mental abilities.
Like sweeping the parking lot . . . .
Just when I think it can’t get any worse, it does.
Dad Furious After Finding This Crayon-Written Paper in Florida 4th-Grader’s Backpack: ‘I Am Willing to Give Up Some of My Constitutional Rights…to Be Safer’:
“Harvey’s son attends Cedar Hills Elementary in Jacksonville, Fla. Back in January, a local attorney came in to teach the students about the Bill of Rights. But after the attorney left, fourth-grade teacher Cheryl Sabb dictated the sentence to part of the class and had them copy it down, he said.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/12/dad-furious-after-finding-this-crayon-written-paper-in-florida-4th-graders-backpack-i-am-willing-to-give-up-some-of-my-constitutional-rights/
Re J. Soden : “The Prof should be reassigned to employment more suited to his mental abilities.
Like sweeping the parking lot”
I am deeply saddened that J. Soden sees fit to denigrate honest work in such a caviler and demeaning manner. The students at USC may well be better served by the janitors than the teaching staff.
Rand Paul’s speech at Howard Univ.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/312014-1
Peggy, I think that sentence could be a good debate starter in the classroom at a certain level, but not in fourth grade! At that level I don’t think kids can really tackle a subject so complex.
That Rand Paul speech was painfully embarassing. Saying that people had called him “either brave or crazy” for going to the historically black college was condescending and rude. Then there was the awkward exchange where he asked the group if they knew that the NAACP was founded by Republicans. They responded with a resounding “yes,” and Paul was clearly flustered, as if he expected none of them to know their own history!
He also lied when he said, “I’ve never wavered in my support for civil rights or the Civil Rights Act.”
And, as John Stewart pointed out, in Paul’s effort to act as if the Republican Party of today is the same as the party of Lincoln, Paul “yada yada yada’d” over the last 50 years of the Republican party, ignoring the Southern Strategy that was pioneered by Nixon and has been used ever since.
His speech shows exactly why Republicans have had trouble reacing African-Americans. If you want to get more than 7% of the black vote in the next presidential election, you’re going to have to try a less condescending approach, one that acknowledges the problematic aspects of the Republican party’s strategies regarding blacks in the past. You need to admit that losing blacks was an *intentional* move by those at the top of the party (see the Nixon tapes), apologize, and pledge to never use the Southern strategy again. Pretending that this history never existed is not going to get you anywhere.
Peggy: Reason # 102,304 why Chris is a dangerous progressive idiot.
It takes a progressive to think that giving up constitutional rights is a “complex” issue. 4th graders should have more sense than that.
Yeah, and I always go to John Stewart for my information.
Chris: “His speech shows exactly why Republicans have had trouble reacing African-Americans. If you want to get more than 7% of the black vote in the next presidential election, you’re going to have to try a less condescending approach, one that acknowledges the problematic aspects of the Republican party’s strategies regarding blacks in the past. You need to admit that losing blacks was an *intentional* move by those at the top of the party (see the Nixon tapes), apologize, and pledge to never use the Southern strategy again. Pretending that this history never existed is not going to get you anywhere.”
You really are a child Chris and a boring one to boot with your endless demands that I/we need to “admit” anything because you believe you’re right.
The Republicans lost the black vote because we let the Democrats define who and what we were instead of fighting back and defending the truth. The Democrats have rewritten history to the point a lot of blacks do not know the truth about the civil rights and who was on their side and who was against their freedom and equal opportunities and they are organizing and ready to right the wrongs and claim the life the 13th Amendment guaranteed them, but the Democrats have denied them by keeping them in the plantations of today located in every inner city ghetto like those is Detroit, DC New York and most every major and small city in the US.
As Rand stated the Democrats got the black votes because they put food on their tables with the instant rewards for voting democrat, while the Republicans failed to convey the message the food could have been the reward of their labor and not the handout from their new master if they had chosen the equal opportunity path instead of the share croppers portion.
The blacks are organizing Chris, just check out the Frederick Douglas Republican website to see how they are reaching out to set the record straight by telling the truth. And things ARE changing because an educated man is a free man when he learns the truth instead of lies.
From the Frederick Douglas Republican website:
“In October 2009, KCarl Smith resigned from his motivational speaking career and rededicated himself to defending liberty. This former U.S. Army officer, took on a new challenge- becoming a political agitator. He became the founding servant-leader of The ConservativeMESSENGER.
KCarl began the ConservativeMESSENGER with his flagship presentation, “The Making of A Champion Party” and a unique mantra, A Frederick Douglass Republican™. Inspired by the life of Frederick Douglass and a student of his writings, KCarl narrowed the focus of this grassroots initiative to five specific objectives:
Re-ignite America’s passion for Liberty
Save the souls of the Politically Lost (politico-schizophrenics)
Restore the Republican Party’s Political Distinction
Change how the GOP relates to minorities
Create an atmosphere for political dialogue without accusations of racism.
In less than one year’s time, KCarl had perfected the Frederick Douglass Republican™ Methodology, advocating and expounding upon the Life-Empowering Values of Frederick Douglass:
Respect for the Constitution- “The American Constitution is a written instrument full and complete in itself. No court in America, no Congress, no President, can add a single word thereto, or take a single word there from. It is a great national enactment done by the people, and can only be altered, amended, or added to by the people.” ~ Frederick Douglass
Respect for Life – Douglass Championed women’s rights and was the face of the Abolitionist Movement.
Belief in Individual Responsibility – Douglass viewed entitlements as a detriment to freed slaves because it robs one the chance of self-sufficiency
Belief in Limited Government – Douglass believed the role of government is to protect the freedom of opportunity for its citizens.
KCarl has taken this strategy to Tea Party and Conservative groups across the country, educating and empowering attendees on how to effectively espouse the conservative message, pushing past the veil of assumed racism and Uncle Tom-ism. The result: the birth of the Frederick Douglass Republican™ Movement.
Who are Frederick Douglass Republicans? Everyday people- filled with passion and conviction- who have come together as a unified front, committed to help the Republican Party once again become the “party of freedom and progress”.
No longer satisfied with the status quo, Frederick Douglass Republicans are willing to fight for liberty and justice; and to seize the God-given right to self-rule.
Frederick Douglass Republicans are not bound by race, color, religion or creed but are bound by our rich American Heritage.”
http://frederickdouglassrepublican.com/about/
Read the words of other bloggers.
THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE – MLK A Message From the Grave:
“The TRUTH is that we the people have the power to defeat these oppressors. Our will is our power; and our labor is our wealth.
The power to resist is in our power to say we don’t need your trinkets and toys, we don’t need your benefits, we don’t need your protection, we don’t need your pity. And most of all, we don’t need your “news,” and we don’t need your “MONEY.” Enough is enough.
We have the POWER; we only need the knowledge to enable us to make the right choices. The TRUTH is the only thing that can save us now. And we, the bloggers of America, are determined to package and deliver it. You, the readers, must help us reach those who don’t have access to the internet.
They killed the messenger; but, his message will NEVER die.
Thank you, MLK. May you rest in peace.
Let’s take our country back from those who wish to destroy it and the world along with it.
Let’s make America fulfill its promise to US – the people.”
And another blogger.
Invoke MLK to give poisonous race-hustling a veneer of legitimacy…
by Bosch Fawstin
Yesterday, the first black president was inaugurated for his second term, and he chose to do so on the birthday of a man who, unlike him, truly fought for a world where men would be judged, not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Today’s black leaders have betrayed what Martin Luther King Jr. stood for, but they still invoke him in order to give their poisonous race-hustling a veneer of legitimacy. I thought about King’s most famous words on the night of the inauguration and, being an artist, turned them into an illustration:
http://john8322.blogspot.com/2013/01/invoke-mlk-to-give-poisonous-race.html
The CBC appears to be for Democrats and blacks only, even though the non-black representative serves a predominately black population. Note also who received the scholarship awards.
Congressional Black Caucus (CBC):
“The Congressional Black Caucus is an organization representing the black members of the United States Congress. Membership is exclusive to African-Americans,[1]
Black Republicans in the CBC – The caucus is officially non-partisan, but in practice the vast majority of African Americans elected to Congress have been members of the Democratic Party. In addition the CBC’s agenda to help the historically disenfranchised, improve health care and social mobility etc. has traditionally given it a strong association with Democratic ideals.
Prior to 2011, no Republican had maintained membership in the Congressional Black Caucus. Only six black Republicans have been elected to Congress since the caucus was founded…. In 2011 Allen West joined the caucus and became the first ongoing Republican member in the group’s history, while fellow Black Republican Tim Scott declined.[4] West lost his re-election bid in 2012, once again leaving the CBC without a Republican member.[5]
Non-Black Membership – As most people would assume, the ‘Black’ in Congressional Black Caucus, refers to the ethnicity of the congressperson although others would presume that it refers to the constituency which the caucus champions. This principle was put to a test in January 2007.[6] Freshman Representative Steve Cohen, D-TN., who is white, pledged to apply for membership during his election campaign to represent his constituency, which is 60% African American. Hearn further reported that although the bylaws of the caucus do not make race a prerequisite for membership, former and current members of the caucus agreed that the group should remain “exclusively black”. Rep. William Lacy Clay, Jr., D-MO., the son of Rep. William Lacy Clay Sr., D-MO., a co-founder of the caucus, is quoted as saying, “Mr. Cohen asked for admission, and he got his answer. He’s white and the caucus is black. It’s time to move on. We have racial policies to pursue and we are pursuing them, as Mr. Cohen has learned. It’s an unwritten rule. It’s understood.” In response to the decision, Rep. Cohen referred to his campaign promise as “a social faux pas” because “It’s their caucus and they do things their way. You don’t force your way in. You need to be invited.” Clay issued an official statement from his office:
Quite simply, Rep. Cohen will have to accept what the rest of the country will have to accept—there has been an unofficial Congressional White Caucus for over 200 years, and now it’s our turn to say who can join ‘the club.’ He does not, and cannot, meet the membership criteria, unless he can change his skin color. Primarily, we are concerned with the needs and concerns of the black population, and we will not allow white America to infringe on those objectives.”
Funding – In late 1994, after Republicans attained a majority in the House, they announced plans to rescind funding for 28 “legislative service organizations” which received taxpayer funding and occupied offices at the Capitol, including the CBC. Then-chairman Kweisi Mfume protested the decision. The House did abolish the legislative service organizations, including the CBC, by a voice vote on H.Res.6 on January 4, 1995, which prohibited “the establishment or continuation of any legislative service organization…” [11] The CBC reconstituted as a Congressional Member Organization.[12]
In February 2010, The New York Times reported the caucus received 55 million dollars in contributions from corporations between 2004 and 2008. Most of that money went to social events and the organization’s headquarters building on Embassy Row. Scholarships controlled by the caucus were a source of public concern in September 2009 when it was reported Sanford Bishop and other members directed the money to members of their families and political allies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Congressional_Caucus
Former Congressional Black Caucus Member Migrates to the GOP:
“In a blog post, Davis elaborates on his decision to leave the Democratic party which was due, in part, on a weakened Alabama Democratic Party which has lost the support of “more and more Alabamians every year.” He observed that parties change and that the current administration “is not Bill Clinton’s Democratic Party (and he knows that even if he can’t say it).”
Davis writes:
“On the specifics, I have regularly criticized an agenda that would punish businesses and job creators with more taxes just as they are trying to thrive again. I have taken issue with an administration that has lapsed into a bloc by bloc appeal to group grievances when the country is already too fractured: frankly, the symbolism of Barack Obama winning has not given us the substance of a united country. You have also seen me write that faith institutions should not be compelled to violate their teachings because faith is a freedom, too. You’ve read that in my view, the law can’t continue to favor one race over another in offering hard-earned slots in colleges: America has changed, and we are now diverse enough that we don’t need to accommodate a racial spoils system. And you know from these pages that I still think the way we have gone about mending the flaws in our healthcare system is the wrong way—it goes further than we need and costs more than we can bear.
Taken together, these are hardly the enthusiasms of a Democrat circa 2012, and they wouldn’t be defensible in a Democratic primary. But they are the thoughts and values of ten years of learning, and seeing things I once thought were true fall into disarray. So, if I were to leave the sidelines, it would be as a member of the Republican Party that is fighting the drift in this country in a way that comes closest to my way of thinking: wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities.”
http://www.libertynews.com/2012/06/former-congressional-black-caucus-member-migrates-to-the-gop/
Sorry about the run on sentence, but you got my intent.
Pie, Chris isn’t dangerous BECAUSE he’s a progressive and he’s young. Progressive movments always fail and children grow up to be adults, hopefully, or they remain child-like their whole life.
The state of public education in this country is indeed dire … if it’s produced a population stupid enough to take “the blaze” for an outlet of serious journalism.
Besides, I thought The Patriot Act was your idea?
Libby, The Blaze is a good reliable source of news that reports on a very large range of subjects, including the Gosnell trial from its very beginning. At least it and Fox are not like the MSM that lie by omission by selecting which stories will promote their biases. Readers at least can pick and choose from a large offering which stories interest them.
Can’t be an informed individual if we’re denied the information or it’s edited like MSNBC/NBC, CNN and others have been found guilty of. Yes, I know Fox has made a couple of mistakes, but they admitted them and corrected them. But, nothing like the long list for MSNBC.
I wrote: “You need to admit that losing blacks was an *intentional* move by those at the top of the party (see the Nixon tapes), apologize, and pledge to never use the Southern strategy again.”
Peggy wrote: “You really are a child Chris and a boring one to boot with your endless demands that I/we need to “admit” anything because you believe you’re right.”
Peggy, as usual, this is not a question of what I “believe.” This is a question of facts. Facts which you didn’t even attempt to challenge in your reply.
What have I said that you believe is factually incorrect? Are you denying that the Republican party intentionally tried to disassociate itself from African-Americans in order to win the votes of Southern whites?
This isn’t a matter of opinion. There is documented proof of this, that is very easy to find.
I don’t think I’m being unreasonable by asking you to admit to things that are unarguably, factually true. To call me a “child,” when you are the one who refuses to admit to facts, is absurd.
Lee Atwater, political strategist for Reagan and Bush 1, described the Southern Strategy in an interview:
“You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.””
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E6DF1E30F935A35753C1A9639C8B63
Michael Steele, former head of the RNC, acknowledged the problem as well:
“For the last 40-plus years we had a “Southern Strategy” that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South. Well, guess what happened in 1992, folks, “Bubba” went back home to the Democratic Party and voted for Bill Clinton.”
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/touchy_subject_steele_slammed_for_criticizing_gops.php
Rand’s speech, as well as your comments here, totally ignore this strategy. Again: The loss of blacks from the Republican Party was an intentional move by the party. That is simply a fact.
The problem is not that blacks don’t know their own history. They know more about their own history than you do, Peggy, and it is extremely condescending of you to claim otherwise. It is also condescending to accuse them of living on a “plantation;” that is just as racist as Democrats who call Black Republicans “Uncle Toms.”
So, again: If you want to win back black voters, you have to admit your own party’s responsiblity in losing them in the first place. Pointing the finger at everyone else and refusing to take responsibility is not going to get you anywhere. Nor is getting angry and defensive when certain facts are pointed out to you. I am not a bully or a tyrant for expecting you to acknowledge the difference between facts and opinion.
“The Blaze is a good reliable source of news that reports on a very large range of subjects ….”
Yeah? Obama’s Secret Army? I don’t think so. I think The Blaze panders to your predudices.
Now there are studious, subtle ways to do that, a la Harpers … and then there’s “Obama’s Secret Army” and indications numerous and obsessive fixations on the man’s vocabulary.
That site reads like a paranoid fantasy.
Chris: “Are you denying that the Republican party intentionally tried to disassociate itself from African-Americans in order to win the votes of Southern whites?”
Good grief! How about you admit that during that time Democrats intentionally and falsely tried to paint themselves as the great friend of the blacks and Republicans as the racist in order to “have them damn N*****s voting democrat for the next 100 years. They’ve spent the last fifty plus years rewriting history in politics and the classroom to reflect the lie.
ALL politicians are strategists!!! ALL politicians plot to win blocks of voters if they think they have a chance to pull them in. Lying to black voters and telling them that white republicans hate them is the lowest form of this type of strategy. Democrats even got people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpten to race bait for them…in this game progressives are the lowest form of life!
Tina: “Good grief! How about you admit…”
Ah, personal responsibility.
I have admitted that it’s wrong to characterize all Republicans as racist. I’ve criticized several Democrats for doing so. I’ve admitted that calling black Republicans “Uncle Toms” is wrong, and racist.
Now it’s your turn to do some self-reflection of your own.
So, Tina: Do you admit that the Republican party intentionally alienated blacks in order to attract Southern whites?
I’ll remind you, several Republican strategists are on record to admitting this. There are also the Nixon tapes to consider.
Do you believe that Republicans had any responsibility in losing the black vote? Or is it all the fault of the Democrats, and blacks are just too ignorant to see this?
Oh, but Chris you do it all of the time. You claim your facts are correct and Tina’s or anyone else’s that differs from your point of view is wrong and you demand they admit it.
You did it with me on Ayn Rand where I challenged you and provided volumes of information and quotes. But, there’s been complete silence from you since I posted my facts. You somehow believe you have the ability to be inside of someone’s head and know what they believed decades ago. Very convenient for you when the individual is no longer around.
You’re doing it again with this “Southern Strategy.” Taking what a person said, which may be out of context, and try to apply it to the whole Republican party is ridicules. How about we take what Obama said in 2006, where he criticized Bush for his lack of leadership because of the deficit. Using your process of reasoning decades from now Obama would be known for being against big spending and increasing the deficit. When we all know the truth is he increased it more than Bush did in half the time.
Saying the Republicans have been anti blacks is just not the truth and I don’t care how you try and paint it. The party of Lincoln and the 14th Amendment has always been there for the blacks and other minorities. The Democrats are the ones who wanted to keep them slaves, opposed the 14th Amendment and has figured out how to keep them dependent on the government to this very day. The gov’t has become their new masters where their housing, food, and all of their other needs and wants are provided for instead of encouraging them to become equals to everyone else where they could be free to provide for themselves. Call it a plantation, a ghetto or the slums it boils down to similar living conditions provided for by someone else, in most cases, and people who live there want to escape. Master? Democrat? Both want the same thing, whether it’s crop or a vote.
Rand Paul was correct in his speech at Howard U when he explained how the Democrats won the majority of the minority votes, and Republicans failed to explain better how they wanted to help minorities by helping them help themselves to a better life. Instant rewards won over long range benefits.
Thankfully, there appears to be more blacks speaking out who realized they’ve been used and have formed organizations like the Fredrick Douglas Republicans and are going out to explain the truth and how they’ve been lied to in the past. The Hispanic have also formed groups and are doing the same. Republicans have had it with progressives and are speaking out to tell the truth and to stop letting the Democrats define them any more.
Yes, Chris you are a bully and a child still and you’ll continue to be one until you accept the fact you are not always right, everyone does not have to agree with you and you do not have the ability to know what other people think, feel and believe.
Chris; ““You start out in 1954 … “For the last 40-plus years”
You quote two underlings, how about we go all the way to the top. Here is the TRUTH from the head man himself President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
From Wikipedia:
Eisenhower told District of Columbia officials to make Washington a model for the rest of the country in integrating black and white public school children.[167][168] He proposed to Congress the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 and signed those acts into law.
Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote to Eisenhower to thank him for his actions, writing “The overwhelming majority of southerners, Negro and white, stand firmly behind your resolute action to restore law and order in Little Rock”.
“I propose to use whatever authority exists in the office of the President to end segregation…”
“Wherever Federal Funds are expended … , I do not see how any American can justify … a discrimination in the expenditure of those funds”.
“We have not taken and we shall not take a single backward step. There must be no second class citizens in this country.”
Civil rights:
While President Truman had begun the process of desegregating the Armed Forces in 1948, actual implementation had been slow. Eisenhower made clear his stance in his first State of the Union message in February 1953, saying “I propose to use whatever authority exists in the office of the President to end segregation in the District of Columbia, including the Federal Government, and any segregation in the Armed Forces”.[163] When he encountered opposition from the services, he used government control of military spending to force the change through, stating “Wherever Federal Funds are expended … , I do not see how any American can justify … a discrimination in the expenditure of those funds”.[164] When Robert B. Anderson, Eisenhower’s first Secretary of the Navy argued that the Navy must recognize the “customs and usages prevailing in certain geographic areas of our country which the Navy had no part in creating”, Eisenhower overruled him: “We have not taken and we shall not take a single backward step. There must be no second class citizens in this country.”[165]
The administration declared racial discrimination a national security issue, as Communists around the world used the racial discrimination and history of violence in the U.S. as a point of propaganda attack.[166] The day after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education, that segregated schools were unconstitutional, Eisenhower told District of Columbia officials to make Washington a model for the rest of the country in integrating black and white public school children.[167][168] He proposed to Congress the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 and signed those acts into law. The 1957 act for the first time established a permanent civil rights office inside the Justice Department and a Civil Rights Commission to hear testimony about abuses of voting rights. Although both acts were much weaker than subsequent civil rights legislation, they constituted the first significant civil rights acts since 1875.[169]
In 1957, the state of Arkansas refused to honor a federal court order to integrate their public school system stemming from the Brown decision. Eisenhower demanded that Arkansas governor Orval Faubus obey the court order. When Faubus balked, the president placed the Arkansas National Guard under federal control and sent in the 101st Airborne Division. They escorted and protected nine black students’ entry to Little Rock Central High School, an all-white public school, for the first time since the Reconstruction era.[170] Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote to Eisenhower to thank him for his actions, writing “The overwhelming majority of southerners, Negro and white, stand firmly behind your resolute action to restore law and order in Little Rock”.[171]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower
Take them there facts Chris and chew on them a while.
I’m going on vacation tomorrow. Be back in about two weeks. Have a good time without me.
Chris: “Do you believe that Republicans had any responsibility in losing the black vote? Or is it all the fault of the Democrats, and blacks are just too ignorant to see this?”
A. Republicans are responsible for losing the black vote. Botched political calculation yes; racism no.*
B. Democrats are responsible for enslaving the black vote through pandering, despicable lies about their opponents, denial about their own history and worst of all rewriting history.
C. I have NEVER implied OR SAID that blacks are “too ignorant”. YOU OWN THOSE WORDS KID!
* An excerpt from a Larry Elder column at TownHall:
The things we learn in books or history class and especially recordings don’t always place things in proper context. I hope this gives you a little more perspective; there’s no way to give you the experience of the turbulence and discord of the times or the nasty way Nixon was treated by Democrats long before Watergate.
I repeat: “ALL politicians are strategists!!! ALL politicians plot to win blocks of voters if they think they have a chance to pull them in. Lying to black voters and telling them that white republicans hate them is the lowest form of this type of strategy. Democrats even got people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to race bait for them…in this game progressives are the lowest form of life!”
And no, I will not back off again or play anymore silly games of moral equivalence with you.
Hey Chris, I decided to do a little reading about the Jim Crow laws which led me to Truman presidency and guess what I found? You’re going to love this!! It was really easy to find too.
“Truman insisted upon a strong civil rights plank in the Democratic Party platform, prompting southern Democrats to bolt from the party. “
Wow Chris, the Democrats BOLTED because they did NOT support CIVIL RIGHTS for BLACKS. I wonder if that’s the same group that founded the KKK.
I’ll keep looking and let you know what I find tonight. Love having the actual history out there on the internet out of the reach of progressive instructors who have rewritten it to brainwash you and your generation. Doesn’t that just get your goat knowing you were lied to?
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1670.html
Hi Chris, I’m back,
Oh my goodness Chris, guess what I found again. Yup, guess what was started at the same time all of those Democrats left the party? The third KKK uprising. What a coincident, huh?
“The third KKK emerged after World War II and was associated with opposing the Civil Rights Movement and progress among minorities.”
“Third KKK
The “Ku Klux Klan” name was used by many independent local groups opposing the Civil Rights Movement and desegregation, especially in the 1950s and 1960s. During this period, they often forged alliances with Southern police departments, as in Birmingham, Alabama; or with governor’s offices, as with George Wallace of Alabama.[24] Several members of KKK groups were convicted of murder in the deaths of civil rights workers and children in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Today, researchers estimate that there may be 150 Klan chapters with upwards of 5,000 members nationwide.[25]
Today, many sources classify the Klan as a “subversive or terrorist organization”.[25][26][27][28] In April 1997, FBI agents arrested four members of the True Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Dallas for conspiracy to commit robbery and to blow up a natural gas processing plant.[29] In 1999, the city council of Charleston, South Carolina passed a resolution declaring the Klan to be a terrorist organization.[30] In 2004, a professor at the University of Louisville began a campaign to have the Klan declared a terrorist organization in order to ban it from campus.[31]”
Geeez Chris, they’re even classified now as a “Terrorist” group and this is the organization you are so proud to be a member of and to defend.
Resistance:
“Union Army veterans in mountainous Blount County, Alabama, organized “the anti-Ku Klux”. They put an end to violence by threatening Klansmen with reprisals unless they stopped whipping Unionists and burning black churches and schools. Armed blacks formed their own defense in Bennettsville, South Carolina and patrolled the streets to protect their homes.[55]
National sentiment gathered to crack down on the Klan, even though some Democrats at the national level questioned whether the Klan really existed or believed that it was just a creation of nervous Southern Republican governors.[56] Many southern states began to pass anti-Klan legislation.
 Wikisource has original text related to this article:
Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
In January 1871, Pennsylvania Republican Senator John Scott convened a Congressional committee which took testimony from 52 witnesses about Klan atrocities. They accumulated 12 volumes of horrifying testimony. In February, former Union General and Congressman Benjamin Franklin Butler of Massachusetts introduced the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (Ku Klux Klan Act). This added to the enmity that southern white Democrats bore toward him.”
I can’t believe my eyes Chris. The “white Democrats” really hated Butler because he introduced the Civil Rights Act of 1871.
Political role:
“The members of the first Klan in the South were exclusively Democrats. The second Klan expanded with new chapters in the Midwest and West, where for a time, its members were courted by both Republicans and Democrats. The KKK state organizations endorsed candidates from either party that supported its goals; Prohibition in particular helped the Klan and some Republicans to make common cause in the Midwest.
The Klan had numerous members in every part of the United States, but was particularly strong in the South and Midwest. At its peak, claimed Klan membership exceeded four million and comprised 20% of the adult white male population in many broad geographic regions, and 40% in some areas.
In the South, Klan members were still Democratic, as it was a one-party region for whites. Klan chapters were closely allied with Democratic police, sheriffs, and other functionaries of local government. Since disfranchisement of most African Americans and many poor whites around the start of the 20th century, the only political activity for whites took place within the Democratic Party.
In Alabama, Klan members advocated better public schools, effective prohibition enforcement, expanded road construction, and other political measures to benefit lower-class white people. By 1925, the Klan was a political force in the state, as leaders such as J. Thomas Heflin, David Bibb Graves, and Hugo Black tried to build political power against the Black Belt planters, who had long dominated the state.[108] In 1926, with Klan support, Bibb Graves won the Alabama governor’s office. He was a former Klan chapter head. He pushed for increased education funding, better public health, new highway construction, and pro-labor legislation. Because the Alabama state legislature refused to redistrict until 1972, and then under court order, the Klan was unable to break the planters’ and rural areas’ hold on legislative power. Scholars and biographers have recently examined Hugo Black’s Klan role. Ball finds regarding the KKK that Black “sympathized with the group’s economic, nativist, and anti-Catholic beliefs.”[109] Newman says Black “disliked the Catholic Church as an institution” and gave over 100 anti-Catholic speeches in his 1926 election campaign to KKK meetings across Alabama.[110] Black was elected US senator in 1926 as a Democrat. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 appointed Black to the Supreme Court without knowing how active in the Klan he had been in the 1920s. He was confirmed by his fellow Senators before the full KKK connection was known; Justice Black said he left the Klan when he became a senator.[111]”
Did you read that Chris? One of your Democrat KKK members even made it to the Supreme Court in 1937. I’ll just bet he was just a sweet heart when it came to civil rights and equality for everyone per our Constitution.
Well, I’m tired. Good night.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan
Just one more thing Chris and then I promise I’m out of here. I just had to address this so I could enjoy not thinking of it and you while I’m gone.
Further proof the Democrats lied to the minorities to get their votes is found in the social issues like abortion. The majority of Hispanics and Blacks are God fearing, Jesus believing, Bible reading, church goers. Yet, somehow they have been convinced the party that supports baby killing abortions is the one that represents their social values.
At my age I don’t ever remember knowing a Hispanic that wasn’t a Catholic. Now put your brain cells to work and think just how they could have been convinced to vote AGAINST the very values they believed in. They were lied to!! The Republican party has always been against abortion and has been in national and state platform statements.
The Republicans are at fault too for letting this happen, because they allowed it to happen. As I said before they allowed the Democrats to define them and didn’t defend themselves.
Did you know Moses is considered one of the meekest men in the Bible? I didn’t until it was explained to me why he was. How could a man who led the Israelites out of Egypt after fighting the pharaoh to set them free, destroyed the tablets when he came down and found the people with their gold idols be a meek man was my question. He was meek because he complied to God’s will above his own. He did the right thing for the benefit of the people instead of himself. He gave and he sacrificed to make life better for his people. We need more men and woman who will follow Moses’ example today.
Now, tell me how people who believe in the Bible could support a political party that represents the complete opposite. A party where the majority of delegates at its national convention wanted to remove God from their platform. Yes, I know you can read the transcripts where it says the motioned passed to put God back in, but listening to the audio is just more proof of another Democrat party lie.
I’m done. Have to go.
Have a safe and fun trip peggy!
Howdy! This post couldn’t be written any better! Reading through this post reminds me of my old room mate! He always kept talking about this. I will forward this article to him. Fairly certain he will have a good read. Thank you for sharing!
Peggy: ” How could a man who led the Israelites out of Egypt after fighting the pharaoh to set them free, destroyed the tablets when he came down and found the people with their gold idols be a meek man was my question. He was meek because he complied to God’s will above his own. He did the right thing for the benefit of the people instead of himself. He gave and he sacrificed to make life better for his people.”
This is a more apt description of the patriarch. Feminists have always missed the mark in thinking patriarchy is control or power over the family/community rather than leadership from a strong yet humbled position.