HARRY REID TWISTS CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY TO BASH GOP By Frances Rice Confident that liberal historians have successfully re-written civil rights history, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid brazenly compared Republican health care reform opponents to supporters of slavery, ignoring the fact that the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery while the Republican Party fought to end it.  Not satisfied with just playing the race card on the senate floor, the Nevada Democrat also accused Republicans of opposing women's suffrage, never mind that the Republican Party also championed women's rights. Democrats sang a different tune when inner-city minister Rev. Wayne Perryman sued the Democratic Party for that party's 150-year history of racism, a case that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court.  Democrats came into court and, under oath, admitted their racist past that Sen. Reid is now trying to foist on the shoulders of Republicans.  In court, Democrats refused to apologize for their racism and, using an army of lawyers, relied on the legal technicality of "standing" to avoid a court order against them, knowing they can take the black vote for granted. So, what did the Democrats admit under oath?  Below are highlights of civil rights history.  For additional details, see the NBRA Civil Rights Newsletter posted on the website of the National Black Republican Association. As author Michael Scheuer stated, the Democratic Party is the party of the four S's:  slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.  Democrats have been running black communities for the past 40 years, and the failed socialist policies of the Democrats have turned those communities into economic and social wastelands.  Incredibly, Democrats blame Republicans for the deplorable conditions created by Democrats.  Since the so-called War on Poverty of the 1960's, over nine trillion dollars have been spent on poverty-related programs, with no movement in the poverty needle. Etched in history and exposed in Perryman's book, "Unfounded Loyalty", is the sordid details of Democratic Party racism - past and present.  The Democratic Party, through its racist agenda and "States' Rights" claim to own slaves, sought to protect and preserve the institution of slavery from 1792 to 1865, thus keeping enslaved millions of blacks. Democrats formed the Confederacy, seceded from the Union and fought a Civil War (1861 to 1865), a war where over 600,000 citizens were killed, including many thousands of blacks.   In his book, Perryman also provides the details about how the Republican Party was started in 1854 as the anti-slavery party, fought to free blacks from slavery and championed civil rights for blacks and women. During the Civil War, Republican President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 which ordered the freeing of slaves in states that were rebelling against Union forces.  Republicans passed the Thirteenth Amendment on January 31, 1865 that was ratified on December 6, 1865 to abolish all slavery in the United States. Democrats passed discriminatory Black Codes in 1865 to suppress, restrict, and deny blacks the same privileges as whites.  The Codes forced blacks to serve as apprentices to their former slave masters.  Democrats also prevented blacks from getting the promised "40 acres and a mule". In 1866, the Ku Klux Klan was started by Democrats to lynch and terrorize Republicans, black and white, and the Ku Klux Klan became the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.  Over 3,000 Republicans were killed by the Klan, of whom 1,000 were white and 2,000 were black.  Details about the Democratic Party and the Ku Klux Klan can be found in the book "A Short History of Reconstruction" by Dr. Eric Foner. To counter the discriminatory and terrorizing actions by Democrats, Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 that were designed to establish a new government system in the Democrat-controlled South, one that was fair to blacks.  Further, the Fourteenth Amendment championed by Republicans was ratified in 1868 that granted blacks citizenship.  The Fifteenth Amendment also championed by Republicans was ratified in 1870 that granted blacks the right to vote. Determined to stop blacks from having equal rights, Democrats passed discriminatory Jim Crow Laws starting in 1875 to restrict the rights of blacks to use public facilities.  In response, Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875 which prohibited racial discrimination in public facilities. Shamefully, Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws, and when the Democrats regained control of Congress in 1892, they passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans. Further, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with Democrats and against blacks in the case of "Plessy v. Ferguson" in 1896 where the Supreme Court established the "separate but equal" doctrine.  That opinion stated that it was not a violation of the U.S. Constitution to have separate facilities for blacks.  It took Republicans nearly six decades to end these restrictions and finally get the civil rights laws of the 1950's and 1960's passed over the objection of the Democrats. During the civil rights era of the 1960's, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. fought to stop Democrats from denying civil rights to blacks.  It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican as has been affirmed by one of his nieces. Dr. King fought against Democrat Public Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor in Birmingham who let loose vicious dogs and turned skin-burning fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators. Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox famously brandished ax handles to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.   Democrat Alabama Governor George Wallace blocked the entrance of two black students at the University of Alabama in 1963 and thundered, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever".   All of these racist Democrats remained Democrats until the day they died. In fact, racist Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than a Republican because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks. The so-called "Dixiecrats" remained Democrats and did not migrate to the Republican Party.  The Dixiecrats were a group of Southern Democrats who, in the 1948 national election, formed a third party, the State's Rights Democratic Party with the slogan:  "Segregation Forever!"  Even so, they continued to be Democrats for all local and state elections, as well as for all future national elections. The Democratic Party supported the Topeka, Kansas school board in opposition to school integration in the 1954 "Brown v. Topeka Board of Education" Supreme Court decision by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was appointed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower.  This landmark decision ended school segregation and declared that the "separate but equal" doctrine created by the 1896 "Plessy v. Ferguson" decision violated the 14th Amendment. After the Brown decision, Democrat Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of a Little Rock public school.  President Eisenhower sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate the schools and pushed through the 1957 Civil Rights Act.  In 1958, Eisenhower established a permanent US Civil Rights Commission that had been rejected by prior Democrat presidents, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Little known is the fact that Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, pushed through the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act.  In fact, Dirksen was instrumental in the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964, 1965 and 1968.   Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hailed Senator Dirksen's "able and courageous Leadership", and "The Chicago Defender", the largest black-owned daily at that time, praised Senator Dirksen "for the grand manner of his generalship behind the passage of the best civil rights measures that have ever been enacted into law since Reconstruction". The chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act were Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd (a former official in the Ku Klux Klan).  Democrat Senator Byrd who conducted a filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act is still in Congress.  None of those racist Democrats became Republicans. Democrats ignore the pivotal role played by Senator Dirksen in obtaining passage of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act, while heralding President Johnson as a civil rights advocate for signing the bill.  Notably, in his 4,500-word State of the Union Address delivered on January 4, 1965, Johnson mentioned scores of topics for federal action, but only thirty five words were devoted to civil rights.  He did not mention one word about voting rights.  Information about Johnson's anemic civil rights policy positions can be found in the "Public Papers of the President, Lyndon B. Johnson," 1965, vol. 1, p.1-9. In their campaign to unfairly paint the Republican Party today as racist, Democrats point to President Johnson's prediction that there would be an exodus from the Democratic Party because of Johnson's signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  Omitted from the Democrats' rewritten history is what Johnson actually meant by his prediction. Johnson's statement was not made out of a concern that racist Democrats would suddenly join the Republican Party that was fighting for the civil rights of blacks.  Instead, Johnson feared that the racist Democrats would again form a third party, such as the short-lived States Rights Democratic Party.  In fact, Alabama's Democrat Governor George C. Wallace in 1968 started the American Independent Party that attracted other racist candidates, including Democrat Atlanta Mayor (later Governor of Georgia) Lester Maddox. Democrat President John F. Kennedy is also lauded as a civil rights advocate.  In reality, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act while he was a senator.  After he became president, John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph who was a black Republican.  Dr. King criticized Kennedy for ignoring civil rights issues.  This criticism was one of the reasons that Kennedy, through his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King. When the King family sought help with getting Dr. King out of a Birmingham jail, Richard Nixon did not respond because he knew that no individual Republican could have any control over the actions of the racist Democrats in the South.  Kennedy's civil rights advisor, Harris Wofford who was a personal friend of Dr. King, made a telephone call on behalf of President Kennedy without Kennedy's knowledge that resulted in Dr. King's release.  Kennedy was angry about the call because he feared that he would lose the Southern vote.  History shows, though, that the call By Wofford eventually worked in Kennedy's favor and is the primary reason so many blacks wrongly revere Kennedy today. In the arsenal of the Democrats is a condemnation of Republican President Richard Nixon for his so-called "Southern Strategy."  These same Democrats expressed no concern when the racially segregated South voted solidly for Democrats for over 100 years, yet unfairly deride Republicans because of the thirty-year odyssey of the South switching to the Republican Party that began in the 1970's.  Nixon's "Southern Strategy" was an effort on his part to get fair-minded people in the South to stop voting for Democrats who did not share their values and were discriminating against blacks.  Georgia did not switch until 2004, and Louisiana was controlled by Democrats until the election of Republican Governor Bobby Jindal in 2007. As the co-architect of Nixon's "Southern Strategy", Pat Buchanan provided a first-hand account of the origin and intent of that strategy in a 2002 article.  In that article, Buchanan wrote that when Nixon kicked off his historic comeback in 1966 with a column about the South (written by Buchanan), Nixon declared that the Republican Party would be built on a foundation of states rights, human rights, small government and a strong national defense, and leave it to the "party of Maddox, Mahoney and Wallace to squeeze the last ounce of political juice out of the rotting fruit of racial injustice". The fact that Republicans today are not racist is explained clearly in the article"The Myth of the Racist Republicans" by Gerard Alexander that is posted on the Claremont Institute's website. Democrats generate false charges of racism against the Republican Party in order to keep blacks from voting for Republicans by making unfair accusations against Republican leaders such as Trent Lott who Democrats denounced for his remarks about Senator Strom Thurmond.  However, there was silence when Democrat Senator Christopher Dodd praised Senator Byrd, a former official in the Ku Klux Klan, as someone who would have been "a great senator for any moment."  Senator Thurmond was never in the Ku Klux Klan.  After Thurmond had a change of heart and joined the party of freedom and equality for blacks - the Republican Party - Thurmond defended blacks against lynching and the discriminatory poll taxes imposed on blacks by Democrats. While claiming to care about diversity, Democrats readily demean black Republicans who do not toe the Democratic Party's liberal agenda line, denigrating them as "sellouts", "Uncle Toms", "House Negroes", "House N-word", and worse. The time is now for Democrats, starting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, to stop using race baiting as a political weapon and apologize to blacks for their history of racism so that our nation can finally heal our racial wounds. The NBRA delivered a petition in 2007 to Sen. Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demanding an apology for the Democratic Party's racist history.  We also sent an open letter to President Barack Obama requesting that he, as the leader of the Democratic Party, issue a formal proclamation of apology for the documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs inflicted upon black Americans by the Democratic Party for over 150 years. It's the right thing to do, but we won't hold our breath. Frances Rice is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, a lawyer and chairman of the National Black Republican Association.  She can be contacted at: www.NBRA.info

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OBAMA'S SOCIALIST STAKE IN THE HEART OF AMERICA By Frances Rice   Unfazed by the damage caused to our nation by out-of-control spending, President Barack Obama and the Democrats in the US House of Representatives passed a massive, trillion-dollar government-run healthcare revamp bill.   "Tough road ahead in Senate for health care bill" is an AP story about the 1,990-page, $1.2 trillion legislation for a government take over of our healthcare system.  To pay for the expansion of coverage, the bill cuts Medicare's spending for seniors by more than $400 billion and imposes a growth-killing tax on our nation's job producers.     Now, Democrats in the US Senate are poised to use the "nuclear option" - a change from the normal 60-vote requirement to a simple majority vote - in order to prevent a Republican-led filibuster of a Senate version of the disastrous Pelosi-ObamaCare legislation that imposes jail time on average Americans for not having health insurance.   Ignored by Obama and the Democrats in the US Congress is the message Americans from across the political spectrum sent on election day 2009.  Voters in Virginia and New Jersey elected Republicans as their governors, resoundingly repudiating the socialist agenda of Obama.    The combination of Obama's lack of experience and socialist agenda are disastrous for our country.  In short order, Obama's presidency has produced record spending on wasteful social programs with the stimulus bill, massive budget deficits, crushing unemployment, tight credit, and a take-over of part of our private sector.  Slim are our chances for a sustainable economic recovery.   "Broader Measure of U.S. Unemployment Stands at 17.5%" by David Leonhardt shows that the official record high unemployment rate is now 10.2%, but the actual rate is a lot worse, 17.5 percent—the highest on records dating from 1994—when the calculation includes those who have settled for part-time jobs or stopped looking for work.  Nearly eight months after the stimulus bill, 49 of 50 States have lost jobs, with 26% overall teen unemployment and 41.9% black teen unemployment.    Under Obama, our money, media and entire government apparatus are being used to fundamentally change our country into a failed socialist nation.  In the article "Dismantling America", Thomas Sowell provides details about how Obama has begun the process of dismantling America from within and exposing us to dangerous enemies outside.   The article "Obama Surrounds Himself with the Most Extreme Appointees in American History" by Steve Baldwin exposes the bevy of unaccountable Communist and Marxist czars who are helping Obama push America into economic collapse.      America is a grand experiment that makes possible unprecedented prosperity and individual liberty, due to the establishment by our founders of our limited form of government by the people and for the people.  A form of government that Obama has vowed to fundamentally change into a failed socialist system with the rights of the people determined by the government for the government.   So, the question becomes will enough Americans wake up in time to save our country from going the way of the Roman Empire, the Soviet Union and other fallen nations where the people surrendered their liberty to the government in exchange for cradle to grave benefits?  On election days in 2010 and 2012, we will know the answer.   Frances Rice, a lawyer and retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, is Chairman of the National Black Republican Association and may be contacted at www.NBRA.info

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THE ATTACK ON RUSH LIMBAUGH - AN ANATOMY OF FABRICATED RACISM By Frances Rice Fear is as effective in enslaving us as iron shackles.  One more nail was hammered deeply into America's freedom coffin when a group of private sector entrepreneurs were intimidated by race hustlers into ousting talk show host Rush Limbaugh from the consortium formed to buy the St. Louis Rams. Armed with nothing more than demonstrably false charges of racism, fabricated to destroy Limbaugh, several black NFL players claimed publicly that they would never play for a team owned by Limbaugh.  Into the cauldron of racial slime jumped the usual race mongering suspects, The Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton - aided by the liberal media, including CNN, MSNBC and their ilk.  The phony charge of racism is continuously used as a weapon to silence conservatives who dare stand up for our nation's traditional values and oppose the radical socialist agenda of Democrats and the Obama Administration.  Limbaugh deserves our gratitude for showing no fear of the race-baiters, fighting back and helping to preserve the freedoms that have made this country great. Frances Rice, a retired lawyer and US Army Lieutenant Colonel, is chairman of the National Black Republican Association and may be contacted at: www.NBRA.info

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BE CIVIL? By Frances Rice It's a sure sign that Republicans are winning a debate on issues when Democrats, aided by well-meaning civility police pundits and activists, demand that Republicans stop showing their passion and "be civil". I am still waiting for those with such a keen sense of civility to demand that Democrats cease their unrelenting and uncivil, even racist, attacks on black Republicans. I won't hold my breath. High on the Democrats' list of those to be denigrated are accomplished black Republicans who do not toe the Democrats' liberal agenda line. Shamefully, Democrats do not want poor black children to have as role models any black person who does not engage in victim mongering and works hard to become prosperous rather than become dependent on government handouts. The message that Democrats gives to poor blacks is despicable. If you remain poor, uneducated and vote for Democrats, we will celebrate your victimhood. If you get a good education, get a good job and vote for Republicans, we will denigrate you as "acting white", a "sellout", an "Uncle Tom", a "House Negro", a "House N-word", a "Lawn Jockey", and worse.. Brazenly, on the left-wing Internet website called "The News Blog," Democrats posted a doctored photograph of then Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele (now chairman of the RNC) when he was running for a Senate seat, depicting Steele as a "Simple Sambo" with a blackened minstrel-style face, nappy hair and big, think red lips. The cartoon caption read: "Simple Sambo wants to move to the big house". This contemptible racist stereotype is the same one Democrats used to demean black men during the era of slavery and segregation. In addition to other outrageous racist images of Dr. Condoleezza Rice produced by several Democrats, cartoonist Jeff Danziger depicted Dr. Rice as an ignorant, barefoot "mammy", reminiscent of the stereotyped black woman in the movie "Gone with the Wind" about the slave era black woman who remarked: "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies". This is the type of racist stereotype Democrats used to demean black women during the era of slavery and segregation. Democrats now love Gen. Colin Powell, but spewed out racist attacks on Powell before he endorsed Obama and embraced the liberal agenda of higher taxes and a bigger government to provide poverty producing handouts to blacks. A video was shot by WKRN Video Journalist Beau Fleenor at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee that shows Al Sharpton demeaning Gen. Powell and Dr. Rice, when Sharpton was asked to give his opinions about whether Powell and Rice were "House Negroes". That video can be found on the Internet. An article that appeared in a Portland, Oregon paper was one of many exposing how hardly a ripple of protest was made by black Democrats when Harry Belafonte publicly denounced Gen. Powell as a "House Negro". With impunity, the late Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy called black judicial nominees, including Judge Janice Rogers Brown, "Neanderthals". Democrat Senator Harry Reid slurred Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as an incompetent Negro who could not write good English. "Slap at Thomas stinks of racism," was the headline of the New York Daily News' December 7, 2004 editorial. Even black Democrats will be maligned if they dare step off of the Democratic Party's political plantation. When black Democrat Juan Williams wrote his book entitled "Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-end Movements and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America" that exposed the deplorable conditions in black communities caused by the Democrats running those communities, Williams was denounced on national TV by another black Democrat as a "Happy Negro". For details about how Democrats during the 1960's even smeared Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was a Republican, see the article posted on the NBRA website. "Civility, Ours and Theirs" is an article that provides more details about how Democrats vilify black Republicans while wagging their finger at Republicans about being civil.  Our political discourse can be elevated to the high standards demanded by the civility police only when Democrats are also required to play by the rules of civility. Frances Rice, a retired lawyer and US Army Lieutenant Colonel, is chairman of the National Black Republican Association and may be contacted at: www.NBRA.info

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OBAMA – CARTER'S BLACK BOY By Frances Rice During the 2008 election in a video, former Democrat President Jimmy Carter, without batting an eye, called Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama a "black boy".   Carter's racial slur earned him not one word of condemnation.  If a Republican politician had called Obama a "black boy", a phrase most blacks deem to be an offensive epithet, that person would have been labeled a racist and drummed out of the political arena by Democrats and their liberal media allies.  Unscathed by his insensitive remark, Carter now has the audacity to scold average Americans, calling them racist, merely for protesting against Obama's government-run, rationed health care scheme and out-of-control spending designed to turn our country into a failed socialist nation. "A million march to US Capitol to protest against 'Obama the socialist'" by David Gardner shows how the White House was shocked by the massive rally of Americans in Washington, the biggest crowd of people since Obama took office in January.  The reaction of the White House was to attack the protestors, calling them a "mob" of racists. The charge of racism is like fire, a dangerous weapon that can be used to destroy all it touches.  Without regard to the damage caused to our nation, Obama, aided by Carter and other race hustlers, continuously fans the flames of racism to intimidate into silence Americans – black and white – who oppose Obama's socialist policies. In his book "The Drama of Obama Regarding Race", inner-city minister Rev. Wayne Perryman provides a clear-eyed look into how the Democrats – from the time of slavery until the age of Obama – have used racial politics for partisan political gain. "Some Blacks Now Have Doubts About Obama" by Star Parker exposes how – despite slurs, intimidation, and widely reported physical attacks from union thugs – a few brave black souls have showed up at tea party protest rallies.   "Black Tea Party Express Tour Team Member Experienced Racism" is an article by black Singer/Songwriter Lloyd Marcus who traveled with the Tea Party Express Tour of 16 states and 34 rallies before ending at the Taxpayers' March on Washington. Marcus explains how during the tour he experienced vicious racial verbal attacks, not from tea party protesters, but from the left – people who support President Obama's radial socialist agenda. The video entitled "Tea Party Racism Rev Perryman Says Enough" gives details about Perryman's participation in tea party protests. In his video, Perryman expertly and accurately summarizes the Democratic Party's 150-year history of racism, demonstrating the absurdity of Democrats trashing him and other average Americans as racists when the Democratic Party is the architect of modern-day racism.  Additional information about the Democratic Party's shameful history of racism – for which they have never apologized – can be found in the NBRA Civil Rights Newsletter that is posted on the NBRA website.    Democrats seem not to understand that a backlash has begun against their insidious use of racial politics.  Average Americans, incensed about being unfairly tarnished as racists, are fighting back.  Showing that the Democrats' charge of racism has lost its sting, some people are scoffing at the accusation and even laughing in the faces of the race-baiters.  The video "Testing The Racism Theory" demonstrates this attitude and exposes the hypocrisy of Democrats who favor white Democrat candidates over black Republicans.  Why is it not racist when Democrats demean black professionals such as Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Gen. Colin Powell, Justice Clarence Thomas and RNC Chairman Michael Steele, denigrating them as 'sellouts', "House Negroes" and 'Uncle Toms'? Racist pictures and cartoons of black Republicans generated by Democrats are included in the article "Simple Sambo and Ignorant Mammy", and more details about racism in the Democratic Party are in the article"Can Republicans Win Back the Black Vote?" The article "Backlash: The Race-Baiters Get Carded" by Christian Toto provides a hard-hitting assessment about Democratic Party race mongers.  Toto describes them as an "appalling crop of hustlers" who are keeping racism alive even though voters have chosen this country's first black president.  "But like the proverbial boy who cried wolf," Toto opined, "the race card loses its potency each time it's unfairly applied."  "It's not racism, it's being an American" by RNC Chairman Michael Steele is an article that explains why Steele is "outraged that Democrats today, including former President Jimmy Carter, are injecting race into the debate over President Obama's policies".    Author Larry Elder provides a levelheaded view of race in America in his article"Jimmy Carter and the Elvis Factor".  Elder wrote: "The notion that we can reach a sort of non-racist, non-sexist, non-homophobic nirvana is romantic, unrealistic and nonsensical. Wing nuts will, unfortunately, always be with us.  It is, however, even more unfortunate that a former President of the United States sits among them".   Frances Rice is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, a lawyer and chairman of the National Black Republican Association.  She can be contacted at:  www.NBRA.Info  __________________ It's not racism, it's being an American By Michael Steele Charges of racism are among the most serious that can be made in America because of our nation's history on race relations. There is no doubt America has come a long way in healing past wounds, but there is certainly more to be done. That is why I am outraged that Democrats today, including former President Jimmy Carter, are injecting race into the debate over President Obama's policies. Voicing opposition to the president's policy proposals is not being a racist. It is being an American. Such assertions by leaders of the Democratic Party are a pathetic attempt to shift attention away from the president's wildly unpopular government-run health care plan that the American people simply oppose. Injecting race into the debate over critical issues facing American families does not create jobs, reform our health care system or reduce the growing deficit. It only divides Americans rather than uniting us to find solutions to challenges facing our nation. This summer, Americans had an opportunity to witness the miracle of our political system. All over the country ordinary American men and women, concerned about the Democrats' policies coming out of Washington, took a stand and expressed their opposition. It was grassroots American political activism at its finest. Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike voiced their opinions in public forums to public officials. It was a shining example of how our Republic was designed to function. This activism has not faded with the summer sun. Last week Americans from all walks of life flooded Washington D.C. and continued their public opposition to President Obama's government-run experiments. As an African American, I know what racism is and that is not racism. Just like the millions of African Americans in this country who have fought and overcome on their way to the American dream, I have experienced racism firsthand. It is something you never forget. The civil rights movement helped to elevate the nation's conscience on matters of race. Proud Americans, black and white, fought for too long and too hard to have the claim of racism be used in such a cavalier fashion. Blind charges of racism, where none exist, not only are an affront to those who have suffered the effects of racism, but it weakens our efforts to address true acts of racism and makes them more difficult to overcome. It is becoming increasingly clear that some in the Democratic Party need a serious history lesson. Slavery was racist, Jim Crow laws were racist, segregation was racist - opposing a radical political agenda is not. Americans of all races and political mindsets applauded the election of America's first African American president; it was a proud moment for every American. But our pride in electing an African-American president does not override our right to disagree with President Obama's policies. It is obvious certain politicians are attempting to exploit racial anger to make up for their own policy failings. Americans have an obligation to stand up for what they believe in and that is exactly what they are doing. As a whole, Americans are exercising their First Amendment rights and are rejecting President Obama's massive government-run experiments. They want common sense reforms and economic security. These principles are not found in the Democrats' health care plans. The Democrats' health care plan is the antithesis of these ideals. President Obama's campaign promised to move America beyond the bitter divides of yesterday. But for leaders of the Democrat Party to characterize Americans' disapproval of the president's policies as being based on race is an outrage and troubling sign about the lengths Democrats will go to disparage all who disagree with them. Playing the race card shows that Democrats are willing to deal from the bottom of the deck. Our political system has no place for this. President Obama should join me in calling for an end to these attacks by members of his party and a renewal of honest debate. __________________ Jimmy Carter and the Elvis Factor By Larry Elder    The former President is not content having left office with high inflation, high interest rates and high unemployment. Nor is he content with having signed into law the Community Reinvestment Act -- strengthened by President Bill Clinton -- which played a major roll in the eventual housing market meltdown. Nor is he content with having cut the legs from under the Shah of Iran, which led to the establishment of the Islamic theocracy in Iran -- a state that pursues a nuclear weapon, funds the terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah, and continues to undermine the fledgling democracy of Iraq. Nor is he content -- as ex-President -- with writing a book in which he likened the state of Israel and its treatment of the Palestinians to South Africa under apartheid. Now the former President claims the opposition to President Obama in general -- and his attempt at "health care reform" in particular -- stems from ... "racism"! "I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American," Carter said in an NBC interview. "Racism ... still exists, and I think it's bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people, not just in the South but around the country, that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country." That same day, during a town hall meeting at his presidential center in Atlanta, Carter also called Rep. Joe Wilson's "you lie!" outburst -- shouted at Obama during his health care address to Congress -- racist. "I think it's based on racism," Carter said. "There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president." Let's analyze this. The President overwhelmingly carried "the black vote." Recently, California voters changed the state's constitution to abolish same-sex marriage. Obama publicly opposed this change. Yet opposition to same-sex marriage by black voters -- the very ones who voted for the President -- helped to strike down same-sex marriage. Black voters differentiated their general support for the President from their opposition to him on the issue of same-sex marriage. Similarly, most Republicans who voted against the President in November 2008 support his decision to increase our troop commitment in Afghanistan. Republicans, not unlike the black voters in California, differentiated their opposition to the election of the President from their support for his decision on an issue -- the war against Islamofascists in Afghanistan -- with which they agree. In 2000, many Republicans urged a black man, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell, to run for president. If Powell had chosen to pursue it and had secured the Republican Party's nomination, he could well have become the country's first black president -- with broad GOP support. In 2006, a black man, then-Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, ran for U.S. Senate as a Republican. Then-Sen. Barack Obama campaigned against him and in favor of his white Democratic opponent. Obama told an audience at the historically black Bowie State University: "Listen, I think it's great that the Republican Party has discovered black people. But here's the thing. ... You don't vote for somebody because of what they look like. You vote for somebody because of what they stand for." Did this make Obama a "racist" against his own people by opposing a fellow black? Mr. Carter, please ponder the following question. Why, in 1993, did "racist" conservatives oppose President Clinton's attempt at government seizure of health care? Clinton, remember, was -- and remains -- white. Do some Americans oppose the President because of his race? Yes, 3 percent. Back in 1958, only 35 percent of whites said they would vote for a black president. By 2006, a mere 3 percent of all voters said they would not vote for a black president. Call it the "Elvis Factor." A local branch of the Anti-Defamation League, a few years ago, invited me to speak. Before my speech, the head of the organization addressed the audience and gave them the results of the latest poll on American anti-Semitism. Good news, he said, anti-Semitism stood at a historical low -- 12 percent. Before I began my prepared remarks, I commented on the poll results. "Yes," I said, "this is good news that anti-Semitism has declined to its lowest point. But don't expect that number to get much lower. A recent poll found that 10 percent of Americans believe Elvis Presley is still alive, and 8 percent believe that if you send him a letter -- he will get it." The audience laughed. But there was a serious point. The notion that we can reach a sort of non-racist, non-sexist, non-homophobic nirvana is romantic, unrealistic and nonsensical. Wing nuts will, unfortunately, always be with us. It is, however, even more unfortunate that a former President of the United States sits among them.

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OBAMA – A CHARMING LIAR? By Frances Rice President Barack Obama is a charming liar.  That assertion was made by a liberal talk show host on Air America, a far left-wing radio station.  Where is the caterwauling about racism or a lack of "civility" from Democrats and liberals in the mainstream media or else where.  When ardent Obama supporters start calling him a liar, it's a sure sign that the wool has been pulled off of the Obama wolf. In a laughable attempt to keep the Obama fig leaf of truthfulness in place, Democrats and their media allies are now castigating Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina for spontaneously and truthfully calling Obama a liar during Obama's address to a joint session of Congress.  There was no such hand wringing when Democrats booed President George W. Bush when he addressed Congress.  Ignored is the fact that Obama during his speech trashed as liars average Americans, Republican leaders and all who do not agree with Obama's radical government-run, rationed health care agenda.  Lost in the media coverage is the fact that laughter erupted in Congress during Obama's speech when he readily admitted that details of his healthcare plan still need to be worked out.  Sadly, Obama's duplicitous speech was an insulting campaign ploy to further deceive Americans and divide our nation. From the moment he stepped onto the national stage to campaign for the presidency, Obama has consistently lied to the American people in order to convince us to trust him with our economic and national security.  Since becoming our president, he has betrayed that trust. During his first eight months in office, Obama has exhibited his admiration for dictators and disdain for our allies.  He offended the Queen of England and bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia.  He praised the Marxist Daniel Ortega, kissed Socialist Hugo Chavez on the cheek and endorsed the Socialist Evo Morales of Bolivia.  He sided with Hugo Chavez and Communist Fidel Castro against Honduras, a country that followed its constitution and stopped its president from illegally turning himself into that country's dictator.  Obama announced that he would meet with Iranians with no pre-conditions, while they're building their nuclear weapons. Obama displayed a blatant lack of concern for what is in the best interest of America when he circled the globe and publicly apologized for America's world leadership.  He told the Mexican president that Americans are responsible for the violence in Mexico.  He announced a cut in funding for our new missile defense system the day after an ICBM was launched by North Korea.  He released information on U.S. intelligence gathering despite contrary urgings of his own CIA director and the four prior CIA directors.  He ordered that the word "terrorism" be stricken from our discourse and replaced with the innocuous words "man made disasters."  He appointed a Homeland Security Chief who identified military veterans and abortion opponents as "dangers to the nation."  In a scary bid to increase the political power of the Democratic Party, Obama politicized the census by moving it out of the Department of Commerce and into the White House. His dogged determination to turn our country into a failed socialist nation was in full evidence when Obama nationalized General Motors and Chrysler.  He gave to the unions control over the two giant automobile manufacturers, while freezing out retired investors and allocating billions of taxpayer dollars to this socialist power grab.  As a further slap in our economic face, he expanded the corporate bailouts, including giving billions to AIG without pre-conditions.  Then, to add insult to injury, Obama doubled our national debt with his out-of-control spending. Obama is spending so brazenly because he is counting on Americans being lulled into complacency by the time of the 2010 elections.  By design, the bulk of the "stimulus" funds will be spent, just in time, to spur a false recovery.  The "recovery" will be hailed as proof of Obama's wisdom by the liberal media.  It will not matter that the so-called recovery will not be real, or that it won't last – as long as Obama and liberal Democrats stay in control of our government. Demonstrating his willingness to operate without regard for our laws, Obama fired two inspector generals (IG's) who were investigating illegal activities by Obama cronies.  Obama fired the IG's even though, by law, inspector generals are authorized to conduct investigations without interference from government officials.  Blatantly, Obama refused to prosecute Black Panthers caught on video intimidating voters at a polling place in Philadelphia during the 2008 election.  Further, Obama filled his cabinet with five people who have cheated on their taxes, and two of his other nominees withdrew after they were exposed as tax cheats. The lack of any check on Obama's power, due to a veto-proof Democrat-controlled Congress and a lap dog liberal media, has caused Obama to boldly assert his radical agenda and surround himself with a stable of over 30 advisors called "Czars".  These unaccountable Obama-appointees are beholden only to Obama.  They are not unanswerable to Congress or the American people, as was intended by our Constitution which requires congressional confirmation hearings and oversight of  political appointees.  Among those Czars are Communists, Marxists and other characters with troubling backgrounds and questionable credentials who should not be allowed anywhere near the White House.  Gone is media outrage over abuse of power or an imperial presidency, as well as any angst about the shredding of our Constitution. Truly disturbing is White House advisor Mark Lloyd, the "Diversity" Czar at the FCC, who was inspired by Marxist Saul Alinsky.  He is pushing a "confrontational movement" designed to give a dominant role to public broadcasting and silence voices in alternative and conservative media outlets. Most troubling of Obama's unaccountable appointees is the recently resigned "Green Job" Czar Van Jones, a self-described Communist.  Van Jones indicated his belief that America deserved to be attacked on September 11th and signed a petition that claimed the attacks were orchestrated by our own government.  He stated in a video that white environmentalists deliberately steer poisons into minority communities.  Just as chilling is Jones' desire to destroy our free enterprise system and replace it with Marxist-inspired socialism.  Van Jones made it into the White House because Obama shares Jones' radical views, as is demonstrated by Obama's past associations with Marxists and anti-American characters, such as unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and black theologian Rev. Jeremiah Wright who spewed out anti-America rhetoric. The Marxism embraced by Lloyd, Jones and Obama is anchored on the strong-armed tactics of tyrants.  A prime ploy is scapegoating the rich and all "enemies" of the ruling regime.  The latest Obama administration's "enemy" is the insurance industry. Other Marxist methods include controlling the media, exploiting ethnic hatreds and demonizing the opposition, as has been done to average Americans protesting Obama's disastrous public option, rationed-health care scheme.  Obama and his supporters scoffed at parents and called them racist for not wanting their children indoctrinated by Obama with his K-12 speech.  Obama's talking about the value of education was not the problem.  What rankled citizens was the lesson plan from the Department of Education – before it was changed under pressure from the public – that required children to write papers about how to help Obama achieve his radical agenda. The article "Another Failed Presidency" by Geoffrey P. Hunt explains how and why Obama considers himself to be a Third World Socialist, like his Kenyan biological father, the inspiration for Obama's book "Dreams From My Father".  Hunt opines that Obama's determined adherence to failed socialism is why he is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson. Charles Krauthammer in his article "Obama, the Mortal" recounts how Obama in his first address to Congress gave the boldest social democratic manifesto ever issued by a U.S. president.  Krauthammer demonstrates how Obama is laboring under the mistaken belief that his election imbued him with the kind of "banana-republic plebiscite" to enlarge state power and increase our national debt with massive spending.  Obama's actions to implement his socialist vision for America inspired a powerful outburst of public outrage at tea parties and town hall meetings, legitimate anger that Obama and his minions derided as mob-like and "racist".  Krauthammer points out that while Obama was castigating protesting Americans, Obama's administration was "cutting backroom deals with every manner of special interest – from drug companies to auto unions to doctors – in which favors worth billions were quietly and opaquely exchanged".  "The Death Book for Veterans - Ex-soldiers don't need to be told they're a burden to society" by Jim Towey provides a chilling look into how government bureaucrats at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are using cost containment analysis to systematically deny health care to our veterans.  ObamaCare will put our entire nation on the slippery slope to the "death panel" end-of-life decisions being made now at the VA. Author Larry Elder wrote the following on the Patriot Post blog. "What does it take for some to wake up?  When Obama publicly asserts that some corporations, including 'Big Oil' and medical insurance companies, make 'obscene profits' (they don't compared with many other industries) and that his 'compensation czar' will look into executive compensation, what does that tell you? "When he argues that medical insurance companies need a 'public option' (before public opinion forced him to back away from it) to keep them 'honest,' what does that say? "When he arrogantly claims that fighting 'global warming' and tackling the 'health care crisis' are not just moral imperatives but also necessary to keep our economy robust (?!), what does that show? "Voters last year elected a left-wing former 'community organizer' with one of the Senate's most liberal voting records.  He seeks to take the country -- over the growing resistance of even those who voted for him -- to an idealized world of government-guaranteed equality of outcomes. "He wants a government-guaranteed 'level playing field' of wealth redistribution via taxing those deemed to have too much. "Obama's goals are open, blatant and confidently asserted, backed by a filibuster-proof, supermajority, Democratic-controlled Congress. "There is no Big Secret, no subterfuge, no bait-and-switch.  This is who and what he is." Larry Elder is correct.  During the 2008 election the liberal media helped Obama hide who he really is from the voting public.  Then, when Obama took the oath of office as president, he vowed to protect and defend our Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.  We now find that Obama and his appointed Czars have formed a sinister, shadowy government of domestic enemies against whom we have no defense. Obama's ultimate insult is that he has no remorse. Frances Rice, a retired lawyer and Army Lieutenant Colonel, is chairman of the National Black Republican Association and may be contacted at: www.NBRA.info

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NBRA NEWS: FEET TO THE FIRE VIDEO, A MUST SEE FEET TO THE FIRE VIDEO - Don't miss seeing our new NBRA video featuring the song "Feet to the Fire" by Lloyd Marcus that is posted on our website and YouTube. NBRA BLOG - Linked on our website is our NBRA Black Republican blog that includes our current and past articles that you may have missed.  We had over 5 million hits on our website in 2008 alone, and our blog site is also becoming very popular. NFRW CONVENTION - For those who will be in Florida during September, please note that NBRA Chairman Frances Rice will be a guest speaker at the National Federation of Republican Women's 35th Biennial Convention that will be held from September 10-13, 2009 in Orlando, Florida.  She will speak at 12:00 Noon on Sunday, September 13th during the NFRW's Awards Luncheon that will be held at the Caribe Royale Hotel & Convention Center.  Among the other confirmed speakers for the four-day convention are Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, Motivational Speaker Mason Weaver and Angela McGlowan, founder and CEO of Political Strategies & Insights.  For additional information visit the NFRW's website. CELEBRATING THE LINCOLN BICENTENNIAL – The NBRA is paying tribute to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial during 2009.   We encourage you to join in the celebration and plan bicentennial activities to honor the legacy of President Abraham Lincoln, our great Republican President.  To obtain information and materials for your Lincoln Bicentennial activities, contact Randy Wiseman, elementary education coordinator with the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois at:  Randy.Wiseman@illinois.gov Wayne Perryman, author of the book "Unfounded Loyalty" designed a marvelous poster for President Lincoln, using a portrait of Lincoln drawn by an 18 year old young lady from Longview, Washington.  The poster honors Lincoln and sets the record straight regarding his relationship with black Americans, reminding all Americans of the tremendous contribution that he made to the world at-large by re-uniting our country.  The Curator of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has added the poster to their permanent collection. NBRA EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN DONATIONS – We need your help.  All who wish to help put up our "Martin Luther King was a Republican" billboards around the country are encouraged to please send a donation by check or money order made payable to:  NBRA and send to:  5824 Bee Ridge Road, #419, Sarasota, FL  34233.  We are also partnering with groups of college and young Republicans, assisting them with their campaigns to educate young people about the core values of the Republican Party and the true history of civil rights.  Our effort includes purchasing copies of Perryman's poster for use in our NBRA educational campaign.  Thank you in advance for your contribution. THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S CULTURE OF CORRUPTION – Author Michele Malkin's new book "Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies" is a New York Times Bestseller.  If you want to gain an inside look into just how corrupt is the Obama Administration, this is a must read. It is available on the Internet website for Barnes & Noble.   www.NBRA.Info

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