Democrats, Race PIMPS, and the right to Vote

[Bonnie]

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Last week, civil-rights leaders in America gathered in Atlanta to do a little friendly Bush bashing, issue some nasty statements about blacks who also happen to be conservative, and celebrate the 40th anniversary of the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

The observance was rich with irony.

It seems that today's "civil-rights leadership" is completely ignorant of the history of civil rights in this nation, standing with the wrong group of people on the issue, and making hateful statements toward those who truly have worked for genuine equality.


But since Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are more concerned with growing their own power base and enriching themselves – as opposed to say making genuine strides in the areas of racial conflict – who should expect anything less?

Harry Belafonte, Dick Gregory, and the Reverend Jackson were all on their best game for sound bytes to the media in last week's events. Belafonte taking the unique opportunity to show that though he stands tall as a figure in the black community on the issue of criticizing the GOP, he can also show an anti-Semitic streak with the best of them. Apparently the comments he made – in essence, saying that Jews had served at the highest levels of the Third Reich, and furthermore attempting to carry that analogy across to the Bush administration where Secretaries of State Powell, and Rice have served with distinction – didn't really come off very well.

He apologized, sort of, and then went right back to blaming George Bush for the problems of the racial divide in America. Gregory added comments that again invoked Hitler as Bush or Bush as Hitler – to be honest, they all seem to run together now. And Jackson tried his old hand at making a rhyme, in time, on a dime, with a lime, about a crime ... uh, uh, it was sublime.

After all the Bush-hating had been expressed, the gathering of the civil-rights groups involved came together to commemorate the 40 years of equal opportunity African Americans have exercised in the voting booth since the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. After which they immediately began to claim all over again that Bush was sending aliens into the homes of black people to hypnotize them and convince large numbers of them to vote against renewing the Voting Rights Act when it sunsets in 2007.

Can you say it with me? "Time, Dime, Lime, Crime, Sublime ..."

My only problem was the reality of what was being celebrated.

For those of you who went to public school, let me explain. (I'll use small words.) In 1965, the Voting Rights Act as signed by President Lyndon Baines Johnson, was hailed as the final serving of justice that had previously never seen the light of day. And though I realize that most of you who were educated in public school were never taught this, 1965 was the second time blacks had been legally guaranteed full participation in the political process, and we're not talking about merely the right to vote.

You see, 90 years previous, in 1875, the final of 23 federally protected civil-rights laws were passed that guaranteed blacks total equality in every walk of life – they also banned segregation, guaranteed the right to own property and, perhaps most importantly, guaranteed that blacks would always have a seat at the table of the American dialogue when it came to setting public policy.

So what happened? How did all 23 civil-rights laws get overturned, tossed out, and how did blacks end up as second-class citizens not even a full generation following the end of the Civil War?

Easy answer: Democrats came to power in 1893 and wiped out every one of the laws that Republicans had passed. When the Dems gained the House, Senate, and presidency in 1893, segregation was again made legal, violence against blacks originating from the Ku Klux Klan was no longer banned, and lynchings went into full swing. By the way, are you aware that the KKK was an organization which Democrats themselves started?

Even the civil-rights legislation that was passed in 1963, '64, and '65 originated from the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower – a Republican – but had been killed in Senate committees by Democrats. Finally, facing mounting pressure to do the only just and moral thing, the Kennedy administration began the push and Johnson signed the final law in 1965. But the Democrat-controlled Congress and president were still showing their racists stripes even then. How? They put a sunset provision into the Voting Rights Act of 42 years.

In other words, once their hand was forced to allow blacks to vote, even though they were credited at the time with tremendous foresight and moral courage, the racist Democratic Party didn't believe that the right to vote was something that should have been made permanent, but rather allowed to come up for later review.

It was these race pimps who Jesse and his ilk were bowing at the altar of last week.

It just demonstrates that as long as "civil-rights leaders" care more about themselves than the issue of actual civil rights, they are more likely to lead their followers over a cliff – if it brings them more prestige on a personal level.


Blacks in America don't need leaders "who speak for them" in today's world. All of my black friends are doing quite well thinking for themselves. And if you wish to look at someone who is truly talking about things that blacks are concerned about, try talking to black pastors like Bishop Harry Jackson from Washington, D.C., who has not forgotten that true morality is at the heart of the debate over true equality.

In the meantime, let's at least order some remedial history classes for the Reverend Jackson and the rest of the racial streetwalkers.

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