Posted by Tina
I’m very happy to report that in addition to Pastor Brown in Florida there are other black leaders urging the black community to calm down. As reported in the Daily Caller a former NAACP leader is calling militant blacks out and taking a sensible position on the horrible shooting death of Trayvon Martin:
Former NAACP leader C.L. Bryant is accusing Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton of “exploiting” the Trayvon Martin tragedy to “racially divide this country.”
“His family should be outraged at the fact that they’re using this child as the bait to inflame racial passions,” Rev. C.L. Bryant said in a Monday interview with The Daily Caller.
The conservative black pastor who was once the chapter president of the Garland, Texas NAACP called Jackson and Sharpton “race hustlers” and said they are “acting as though they are buzzards circling the carcass of this young boy.”
Jackson, for example, recently said Martin’s death shows how “blacks are under attack” and “targeting, arresting, convicting blacks and ultimately killing us is big business.”
I hope this terrible tragedy leads to some real soul searching in the black community. As Jack wrote in his latest update to the Martin case, a bigger tragedy, a more shocking story, is the apparent acceptance and disregard of black on black crime within the black community.
Something good could come out of this horrible event if an honest examination and discussion of the problems that plague many minority communities would ensue. Strong black leaders, more than any other entity, have the power to speak truth and cajole and inspire positive change that no white person or government could. Even president Obama, having reached the highest office in the land, has not chosen to address the issue of black on black crime or the underlying problems that face black families.
Men like C.L. Bryant now have an opportunity to begin to address the underlying problems that have both destroyed the black family and fostered high levels of crime and low educational achievement.
Most Americans are not racist; most Americans would love to see blacks achieve the American dream that was the hoped for result of civil rights laws.
Great honest information as usual! Thank you ALL for your hard work and effort while telling the truth even if it doesn’t benefit you 🙂 America would be a much better place if people would judge others by the content of their character not by the color of their skin or their nationality.
God Bless!
Thank you John S for you kind words of support. Jack and I try not to run away from controversial issues and thaat means that we sometimes engage in heated battles. What I love about most who post here is that theyrecognize their own shortcomings and majke an attempt to temper and apologize.
Sure hope you will join us again any time the mood strikes. Part of the fun of blogging is hearing from new people. Every new commenter brings fresh eyes, knowledge and information that expands the discussion. It’s a great way to participate in the greater American conversation.
Wait, wait, wait a minuteThe democrats held a hearing about the Martin killing and invited the parents but no republicans. How unfair, narrow-minded and biased. Where is the outrage? like there was when the republicans held a hearing on health care inviting medical professionals to speak but didnt invite any women to speak about birth control.
Again, where is the outrage? Everyone knows its been the republican party that has promoted equality for all minorities while democrats promote a modern-day version of enslavement, with our government as masters buying votes with free entitlements and give-a-ways. So sad to see anyone give up their freedoms for a handout.
The good news is there is hope. More and more minorities are learning from our history and understanding the choice of being truly free and master of themselves vs. someone/something else having that right. Individuals like Herman Cain, Allen West, Cornel West, Alveda King and too many more to list are speaking out to offset the remarks made by the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Abe Lincoln was a republican, and black/African Americans have been members of the Republican party since 1870 when the very first blacks were elected as senators. Little is known of these facts because of the liberal takeover of our educational system and the altering of our school text books. David Bartons Wallbuilders organization has accumulated thousands of original documents on US history and has made them available through his website. http://wallbuilders.com
Here is one example:
The First Blacks In Congress Were All Republicans
The seven African Americans elected to the 41st and 42nd U.S. Congress.
Hiram Rhodes Revels of Mississippi was the first black elected as a United States senator, serving from 1870-1871 as a Republican. Revels completed the unfinished term of Jefferson Davis who was the former president of the confederacy. He was followed in the Senate by Republican Blanche K. Bruce, also of Mississippi.
Republican Joseph Rainey of South Carolina was the first black to enter the House of Representatives.
http://images.nbra.info/docs/library/NationalBlackRepublicanAssociation2009/First%20Blacks%20in%20Congress%20-%20All%20Republicans.pdf
Cornel Wests article published in 1986 addresses the different paths for blacks available from the liberal democrats vs. conservative republicans perspective. The complete article is long, but well worth the time to read.
Unmasking the Black Conservatives
by Cornel West
Cornel West is currently in the Afro-American Studies Department at Harvard University and a member of the Harvard Divinity School’s Faculty of Divinity. This article appeared in the Christian Century, July 16-23, 1986, p. 644. Copyright by the Christian Century Foundation and used by permission. Current articles and subscription information can be found at http://www.christiancentury.org. This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted & Winnie Brock.
The publication of Thomas Sowells Race and Economics in 1975 marked the rise of an aggressive and widely visible black conservative assault on the traditional liberal leadership of blacks in the United States. The promotion of conservative ideas is not new in Afro-American history. George S. Schuyler, for example, published a witty and acerbic column in an influential black newspaper, the Pittsburgh Courier, for decades, and his book Black and conservative is a minor classic in Afro-American letters. And Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most renowned Afro-American woman writers, wrote reactionary essays (some of which appeared in the Readers Digest) and gave her allegiance to the Republican Party — facts often overlooked by her contemporary feminist followers. Yet the bid for conservative hegemony in black political and intellectual leadership that was initiated by Sowell s book represents a new development in the post — civil rights era.
This bid is as yet highly unsuccessful, though it has generated much attention from the American media. Besides Sowell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, other prominent figures in the black conservative movement are Glenn C. Loury, a professor at Harvards Kennedy School of Government; Walter E. Williams, a professor of economics at George Mason University; I A. Parker, president of the Lincoln Institute for Research and Education, Inc.; Robert Woodson, president of the National Association of Neighborhood Enterprises; and Joseph Perkins, editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal. Though there are minor differences among these people, they all support the basic policies of the Reagan administration, including the major foreign policies, the opposition to affirmative action, the efforts to abolish or lower the adult minimum wage, the proposals for enterprise zones in inner cities, and the vast cutbacks in social programs for the poor.
Complete article here:
http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1046
I just spent a couple of hours reading from the fascinating and extensive Wikipedias list of black/African American republicans. I found the below individuals most interesting, but they are just a small example from our very beginning to today. Planning to spend many more hours reading more.
Jennifer Sandra Carroll, Lt. Gov. of Florida,
Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson, first African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School; pro-life movement leader; Republican candidate for U.S. House and U.S. Senate,
Alveda King, minister, political activist, author, niece of Martin Luther King Jr.
Blanche Bruce, former U.S. Senator from Mississippi, first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate
Po Pico was the last Governor of Alta California (now the State of California) under Mexican rule. He was thus of Spanish, African and Native American ancestry.
Harriet Tubman, abolitionist speaker and suffrage advocate
Ida B. Wells, civil rights advocate, co-founder of the NAACP
Complete list here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_Republicans
Go ahead democrats and exclude us from participating in a discussion about how to best serve minorities. Dont ask for our recommendations on how to resolve problems when they come up that dont result in riots and dead or alive bounty rewards being offered. Oh youll get the news coverage because of its sensationalism and well continue to be the ones who will be the true supporters of all individuals who want freedom and the opportunities granted us in this land of the free.
Wow Peggy, you sure did your homework! That was just outstanding. Mega thanks for saying what really needed to be said. Great timing. -Jack