Posted by
Patrick Delohery on Monday, October 12, 2009 7:00:01 PM
The election of 1860 pitted the abolitionist’s party, the Republicans, against the slave-owners, the Democrats. When Lincoln won the election, the war was on, starting with the attack on Fort Sumter; the Democrats had declared war on the United States. After more than 500,000 of America's finest young men died, the Union was saved and slavery was abolished, in spite of the best efforts of the Democrats.
The civil rights act of 1964 was opposed by the Democrat Party. Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat and a former Grand Dragon in the Klu Klux Klan, and Al Gore's father, led the opposition. If not for Republican Senator, Everett Dirksen, and his colleagues, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would not have become realities, at least not then...but they don't teach that in our schools...incredible...
So, one might ask; why does 90% of the Black American vote, in election after election, go for the Democrats? It's really very basic; they control the mainstream media, the schools and the universities; they control the debate and what information is, or, more importantly, isn't taught. They have a vested interest in keeping Black Americans uneducated; they are a reliable, deliberately cultivated constituency. If you think I'm out of my mind, read Star Parker's book; Uncle Sam's Plantation; read Thomas Sowell's book; Inside American Education; read Ward Connerly's book; Lessons from my Uncle James: Beyond Skin Color to the Content of Our Character...all Black Conservatives. Contrast these works to Obama's 'Dreams from My Father: A story of Race and Inheritance' and his repeated references to the inequities he attributes to 'rich-white people'. These references are so contrary to Martin Luther King's view of America, and many, many Black Americans, that it literally astonishes me that he has any credibility in Black America at all. To suggest that the Republican Party is a Party of racists demonstrates an extraordinary, and deliberate, level of historical ignorance in America...again, a tribute to the effectiveness of how well the Democrats control the debate. They sure had me fooled for most of my adult life... Breaking the monopoly that the Democrats have over our media, and our schools, is the only way that Black Americans will ever be free...and the main reason that I support school vouchers and other market-education vehicles.