The following information comes directly from a copy NBRA
Newsletter, (National Black Republican Association) sent to
me personally by Frances Rice, Chairman. This is an
outstanding newsletter, one that should be read by everyone.
In his "I Have a Dream" speech, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
said: "I have a dream that my four children will one day live
in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their
skin, but by the content of their character."
Character is defined as the essence of a person and determines
a person’s judgment, or what a person will do when no one is
looking. Dr. King’s admonishment is relevant during this 2008
election, and black Americans should evaluate the candidates
based on competence to be our Commander in Chief, not skin
color.
~~~
We need the right president, not just a black president.
The Democratic Party Today
● Democrats are liberals who have been running black
communities for the past 40 years with socialist policies that
have turned black communities into economic and social
wastelands. Black Democrat Juan Williams exposed the
deplorable conditions in black communities in his book
"Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-end Movements and
Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America.”
● Democrats oppose programs that will help blacks get out
of poverty, such as the Faithbased Initiative that would put
church-based social programs on an equal footing with secular
groups when competing for federal grants. Democrats oppose
school choice scholarships that would help black children get
out of failing schools. Democrats oppose Social Security
reform even though blacks lose $10,000 in the current
system because blacks have a five-year shorter life
expectancy. Democrats favor same-sex marriage and
partial-birth abortion.
The Republican Party Today
● Since the War on Poverty of the 1960’s, over $7 trillion
has been spent on poverty programs. Under President
George W. Bush, record money has been spent on
education, job training and health care. Over $1.4 billion
has been spent for overall education - a record 137%
increase, and $13.1 billion was spent for the No Child Left
Behind Act. Bush has also spent $18.8 million for
Historically Black Colleges, $24 billion for small business
loans and grants, and $10 billion for Medicaid, the
state-federal health insurance for the poor. Since 2001,
access to free community health centers has been extended
to 2.2 million poor people. In May 2003, Bush provided $15
billion, three times more money than President Bill Clinton,
to fight AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean
● All Americans received tax cuts under Bush’s tax cut plan
108 million average families received $2,500. Over 3.8
million more poor people were freed from the tax rolls
entirely, and poor blacks received an additional gift of
$1,000 per child plus $1,658 per family under the Earned
Income Tax Credit program. “Tax cuts for the rich” is a
deceptive Democratic Party talking point.
● Bush has appointed more blacks to high level positions
than any president in our nation’s history, including:
Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, Director of
Personnel Management, Assistant Attorney General,
Chairman of the FCC, Director of HUD, Secretary of
Education, and Assistant Secretary of Education.
Republicans support merit-based Affirmative Action as
was started by President Richard Nixon in 1969, not the
Democrats’ unfair quota system of today.
● During Hurricane Katrina, the Democrats running New
Orleans and Louisiana failed blacks. Red Cross food was
refused by the Mayor, and over 1,000 buses were left in
parking lots and became ruined by the flood. The 1878
Posse Comitatus Act prevents a president from sending
federal troops to a state without the governor’s consent.
The Louisiana Governor denied Bush consent for days.
Democrats blocked Bush’s 2001 energy bill which had
$540 million for levee repairs.
● Republicans support school choice scholarships,
protecting the sanctity of life and preserving marriage
as a union between one man and one woman. Studies
show blacks think conservative, but vote liberal.
~~~
The Myth of Republican Racism
● Author Michael Scheuer revealed that the Democratic
Party is the party of the four S’s: Slavery, Secession,
Segregation and now Socialism. Democrats started the
Ku Klux Klan, passed the Jim Crow laws and fought very
piece of civil rights legislation from the 1860’s through
the 1960’s. For facts about racist Democrats, read
“A Short History of Reconstruction” by Dr. Eric Foner.
● From the founding of the Republican Party as the
anti-slavery in 1854 until today, the Republican Party
has championed freedom and equality for blacks.
Republicans amended the Constitution to grant blacks
freedom, citizenship and the right to vote. Republicans
started the NAACP and HBCU’s. Republicans pushed
to pass every piece of civil rights legislation from the
1860's to the 1960's, including the Civil Rights Act of
1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 that were
overturned by Democrats with the 1894 Repeal Act
after they took over Congress in 1892.
● Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois,
not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, pushed
through the civil rights laws of the 1960’s. Dirksen
was key to the passage of civil rights laws in 1957,
1960, 1964, 1965 and 1968. The chief opponents of
the 1964 Civil Rights Act were Democrat Senators
Sam Arvin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd, a
former member of the Ku Klux Klan who is still in
Congress. None of those racist Democrats became
Republicans.
● Contrary to claims by Democrats today, the racist
Democrats remained Democrats and declared they
would vote for a “yellow dog” before a Republican
because the Republican Party was the party for blacks.
● Democrat Public Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull"
Connor in Birmingham let loose dogs and fire hoses on
blacks. South Carolina Democrat Governor Ernest
Hollings hoisted the Confederate Flag over that state’s
capitol. Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox
waved ax handles to stop blacks from patronizing his
restaurant. In 1954, Democrat Arkansas Governor
Orville Faubus blocked desegregation of a Little Rock
public school. Democrat Alabama Governor George
Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse
in 1963 and thundered, "Segregation now, segregation
tomorrow, segregation forever." None of these racist
Democrats became Republicans.
● Senator Barry Goldwater was a Libertarian, not a
racist. Goldwater was a member of the Arizona NAACP
and helped desegregate the Arizona National Guard.
He supported the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960.
He honestly believed that the more extensive 1964 Civil
Rights Act was an unconstitutionally grant of federal
government power over private citizens.
● President Richard Nixon’s 1970’s “Southern Strategy”
began a 30-year odyssey to get fair-minded people in the
South to stop voting for racist Democrats who were
discriminating against blacks. Georgia finally switched in
2004. Louisiana has begun switching by electing a man of
color, Republican Bobby Jindal, as governor in 2007.
Democrats were content when the racist South voted solidly
Democrat for 100 years, but now castigate Republicans
because some Southerners have gotten over their racial
animosity and joined Republicans in treating blacks fairly.
● Democrat Senator Christopher Dodd praised former
Klansman Senator Byrd as someone who would have been
"a great senator for any moment," including the Civil War.
Yet, Democrats denounced Senator Trent Lott for his
remarks about Senator Strom Thurmond. However,
Senator Thurmond was never in the Ku Klux Klan
and, after he became a Republican, defended blacks
against lynching and iscriminatory poll taxes imposed
on blacks by Democrats.
● Democrats do not mention that former Vice President
Al Gore first brought up the issue of Willie Horton against
Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis during the
1988 primary election. Notably, former Republican
G.H. W. Bush simply raised the Horton issue against
Dukakis during the general election.
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