@wordsmith: While I’ll admit theres some level of excitment, but it’s excitment that there is a man worth while, with the vision, and leadership skills to move us forward, and he happens to be black, a plus. And he has a real chance at winning. Thats the excitment. On the most part.

Wow…that seems to echo my sentiments here.

I think his non-whiteness, is part of the excitement and appeal. He has the innate charm and charisma; but part of the packaging is definitely based around his very mixed- and deeply American- background of heritage and ethnicity. He’s an American mutt. And that resonates with many of us. But I’m not sure he’d be where he is today, if it weren’t for this “black identity” of his. He’d just be another John Edwards.

I think it’s accurate to say that race is clearly factoring into this election, in one shape and another.

“Undecided people are having a difficult time just culturally making the change, making the move for the first African American president in the history of the United States of America,”

Try to point out Obama’s historic ties to socialism, and his proposed policies proving he is still socialist, and they cry “racism!”. Talk about a “distraction”.

I wish the mainstream would call Dems out on this- that they are the ones making this an issue about race, to force guilt votes for Obama to prove to the world and to ourselves that we have moved beyond race. What a fairy tale crock and a dishonest slander of those who oppose an Obama presidency based upon policy and ideological differences.

And are we including racists that are black? Or only white racists? It’s just all conjecture, theory. There will never be a poll with the question “are you a racist” that will be answered with a modicum of honesty.

What *is*, however, undeniably true is that an Obama loss is already being labeled as a race issue even today… the latest race card played by ol’ slow Joe Biden himself.

“Undecided people are having a difficult time just culturally making the change, making the move for the first African American president in the history of the United States of America,” the Democratic vice-presidential nominee said at a San Francisco fundraiser Saturday evening. “So we need to respond. We need to respond at the moment, immediately, not wait, not hang around, not assume any of this won’t stick.”

“You see these vicious attacks on Barack’s character,” Biden told supporters. “I mean, this is dangerous stuff these guys are doing. This stuff is on the edge. It’s on the edge. You know, there’s some folks out there in the community nationwide that aren’t as stable as others. It’s a very small minority. But having these rallies where people are showing up saying, you know, the things they’re saying - I don’t even want to repeat them — it’s not a healthy thing.”

Try to point out Obama’s historic ties to socialism, and his proposed policies proving he is still socialist, and they cry “racism!”. Talk about a “distraction”.

The talking point against Obama’s socialism is the pat answer about the bailout. And yes… the bailout was started by the GOP POTUS. But it was shoved down our throats by 100% DNC… with love… and battled by only a few genuine conservatives. Who *also* caved.

But with an Obama-Pelosi-Reid govt, that socialism will grow out of control. Perhaps a more moderate Congress could keep a socialist Obama reined in. But that’s the the future in our cards.

The DNC will attempt to guilt voters into an Obama Presidency by calling every one racists in advance.

And to them, I spit in their eye and call them progressive Marxists…. no matter what color their candidate.

If you think all blacks are voting because of the issues you need to do a little more investigation and I have just the article for you to start on.

Check this page out first.

“Right now I have flowers to plant.”

“I think I actually learned a few things myself.”

You know, I do have to hand it to those Lefties. In order to answer them, I need to do research and think about how to put it together (more stuff I might get good at if I do it long enough), and I end up learning a lot that I wouldn’t have otherwise. So, I guess they are good for something, in a backhanded sort of way. Better than that, though, are the many conservative bloggers who really have it together, from whom I actually learn a lot of what I need to know.

Anyway, good results with your flowers. Here’s the first flower of the only plant that came up from a whole pack of seeds. A little fuzzy, but nice effect, I think. I just took that less than an hour ago by flashlight with my cellphone cam.

Wow, you guys/gals really brought it on while I was away.

Thanks for the time and effort that you spent on the research.

I think I actually learned a few things myself.

I’ll have a few things to say regarding the issue with the Baptists later on.

Right now I have flowers to plant.

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2008/04/obama-and-ayers.html

And I can guarantee that Barack Hussein Obama, if elected (G-d forbid) will consistantly deliver what the people neither desire nor need.

“when he left his state senate seat, there were more than 12,000 kids in failing schools in his district (according to the No Child Left Behind standards). … Obama had seven years in the Illinois General Assembly to do something about perhaps the worst urban public school system in America. HE DID NOTHING (my emphasis) except propagate the status quo. It is Sen. Obama who has countenanced the pernicious philosophy of “separate but equal” for the children of low income families during his time in public life.”

“The fact is that white southern baptist conservatives NOW overwhelmingly identify with the republican party. White southern baptist conservatives were slave owners, klan members, and supporters of jim crow.” — H.A.

But that isn’t the main problem with Obama, which is related more to what I touched on in the first paragraph of this post, and if I have time later I will address that.

This will be the Democrats downfall. Identity politics sorks if you have the White Candidate thatis supposedly forthe AA, Women, Latinos or whatever other groups you can come up with. Identity Politicsis exactly what I was talking about. that is what the Democrat Party is all about. they put peopl into groups, not individuals, andI think that that is racist in itself. On the other side, conservatives judge and look at people as individuals.

Mata Harley had pointed out that on Obama’s website, he has a category labeled “people”, and what he’s done is divide his supporters up into special interest groups, including doing so along ethnic lines.

I get mixed messages by those who want to look past skin color and see only the content of character, but who think the path to doing so is by anchoring oneself to racial identity, and the promotion of racial interests.

Looking under the category, “African-Americans”:

It is an exciting time for African Americans, who will play a pivotal role in this election. We want to ensure that you have what you need to share your ideas and turn your enthusiasm for Barack into action that can help lift up your families and communities.

There is no better advocate for African Americans than Barack Obama. Barack knows your story, because it is his story.

That’s racial identity politics.

As far as dixiecrats and democrat segregationists migrating over to the Republican Party, Gerard Alexander of the University of Virginia wrote this:

The myth that links the GOP with racism leads us to expect that the GOP should have advanced first and most strongly where the politics of white solidarity were most intense. The GOP should have entrenched itself first among Deep South whites and only later in the periphery. The GOP should have appealed at least as much, if not more, therefore, to the less educated, working-class whites who were not ints natural voters elsewhere in the country but who were George Wallace’s base. The GOP should have received more support from native white Southerners raised on the region’s traditional racism than from white immigrants to the region from the Midwest and elsewhere. And as the Southern electorate aged over the ensuing decades, older voters should have identified as Republicans at higher rates than younger ones raised in a less racist era.

Each prediction is wrong. The evidence suggest that the GOP advanced in the SOuth because it attracted much the same upwardly mobile (and non-union) economic and religious conservatives that it did elsewhere in the country.

He goes on to point out that the realignment of Southern voters did not begin in the Deep South, but in peripheral states. Eisenhower was not well-supported in the Deep South, but did well with the peripheral states. Nixon was also preferred over Wallace in 1968 by peripheral southern states. Alexander writes:

In the 1960’s and 70’s, nearly three-quarters of GOP House victories were in the peripheral rather than the Deep South, with the GOP winning twice as often in urban as rural districts.

Republicans also benefited from the immigration of million of midwestern and northeastern voters to the south in the 50’s. They brought two things with them: more enlightened views on race-relations, and their membership in the Republican Party.

Here’s just a partial list of a history of Republican “racism”:

March 20, 1854
Opponents of Democrats’ pro-slavery policies meet in Ripon, Wisconsin to establish the Republican Party

May 30, 1854
Democrat President Franklin Pierce signs Democrats’ Kansas-Nebraska Act, expanding slavery into U.S. territories; opponents unite to form the Republican Party

June 16, 1854
Newspaper editor Horace Greeley calls on opponents of slavery to unite in the Republican Party

July 6, 1854
First state Republican Party officially organized in Jackson, Michigan, to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies

February 11, 1856
Republican Montgomery Blair argues before U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of his client, the slave Dred Scott; later served in President Lincoln’s Cabinet

February 22, 1856
First national meeting of the Republican Party, in Pittsburgh, to coordinate opposition to Democrats’ pro-slavery policies

March 27, 1856
First meeting of Republican National Committee in Washington, DC to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies

May 22, 1856
For denouncing Democrats’ pro-slavery policy, Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) is beaten nearly to death on floor of Senate by U.S. Rep. Preston Brooks (D-SC), takes three years to recover

March 6, 1857
Republican Supreme Court Justice John McLean issues strenuous dissent from decision by 7 Democrats in infamous Dred Scott case that African-Americans had no rights “which any white man was bound to respect”

June 26, 1857
Abraham Lincoln declares Republican position that slavery is “cruelly wrong,” while Democrats “cultivate and excite hatred” for blacks

October 13, 1858
During Lincoln-Douglas debates, U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas (D-IL) states: “I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever”; Douglas became Democratic Party’s 1860 presidential nominee

October 25, 1858
U.S. Senator William Seward (R-NY) describes Democratic Party as “inextricably committed to the designs of the slaveholders”; as President Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State, helped draft Emancipation Proclamation

June 4, 1860
Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) delivers his classic address, The Barbarism of Slavery

April 7, 1862
President Lincoln concludes treaty with Britain for suppression of slave trade

April 16, 1862
President Lincoln signs bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia; in Congress, 99% of Republicans vote yes, 83% of Democrats vote no

July 2, 1862
U.S. Rep. Justin Morrill (R-VT) wins passage of Land Grant Act, establishing colleges open to African-Americans, including such students as George Washington Carver

July 17, 1862
Over unanimous Democrat opposition, Republican Congress passes Confiscation Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy “shall be forever free”

August 19, 1862
Republican newspaper editor Horace Greeley writes Prayer of Twenty Millions, calling on President Lincoln to declare emancipation

August 25, 1862
President Abraham Lincoln authorizes enlistment of African-American soldiers in U.S. Army

September 22, 1862
Republican President Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation

January 1, 1863
Emancipation Proclamation, implementing the Republicans’ Confiscation Act of 1862, takes effect

February 9, 1864
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton deliver over 100,000 signatures to U.S. Senate supporting Republicans’ plans for constitutional amendment to ban slavery

June 15, 1864
Republican Congress votes equal pay for African-American troops serving in U.S. Army during Civil War

June 28, 1864
Republican majority in Congress repeals Fugitive Slave Acts

October 29, 1864
African-American abolitionist Sojourner Truth says of President Lincoln: “I never was treated by anyone with more kindness and cordiality than were shown to me by that great and good man”

January 31, 1865
13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. House with unanimous Republican support, intense Democrat opposition

March 3, 1865
Republican Congress establishes Freedmen’s Bureau to provide health care, education, and technical assistance to emancipated slaves

April 8, 1865
13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate with 100% Republican support, 63% Democrat opposition

June 19, 1865
On “Juneteenth,” U.S. troops land in Galveston, TX to enforce ban on slavery that had been declared more than two years before by the Emancipation Proclamation

November 22, 1865
Republicans denounce Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting “black codes,” which institutionalized racial discrimination

December 6, 1865
Republican Party’s 13th Amendment, banning slavery, is ratified

February 5, 1866
U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-PA) introduces legislation, successfully opposed by Democrat President Andrew Johnson, to implement “40 acres and a mule” relief by distributing land to former slaves

April 9, 1866
Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Johnson’s veto; Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on African-Americans, becomes law

April 19, 1866
Thousands assemble in Washington, DC to celebrate Republican Party’s abolition of slavery

May 10, 1866
U.S. House passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens; 100% of Democrats vote no

June 8, 1866
U.S. Senate passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the law to all citizens; 94% of Republicans vote yes and 100% of Democrats vote no

July 16, 1866
Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of Freedman’s Bureau Act, which protected former slaves from “black codes” denying their rights

July 28, 1866
Republican Congress authorizes formation of the Buffalo Soldiers, two regiments of African-American cavalrymen

July 30, 1866
Democrat-controlled City of New Orleans orders police to storm racially-integrated Republican meeting; raid kills 40 and wounds more than 150

January 8, 1867
Republicans override Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of law granting voting rights to African-Americans in D.C.

July 19, 1867
Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of legislation protecting voting rights of African-Americans

March 30, 1868
Republicans begin impeachment trial of Democrat President Andrew Johnson, who declared: “This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government of white men”

May 20, 1868
Republican National Convention marks debut of African-American politicians on national stage; two – Pinckney Pinchback and James Harris – attend as delegates, and several serve as presidential electors

September 3, 1868
25 African-Americans in Georgia legislature, all Republicans, expelled by Democrat majority; later reinstated by Republican Congress

September 12, 1868
Civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and all other African-Americans in Georgia Senate, every one a Republican, expelled by Democrat majority; would later be reinstated by Republican Congress

September 28, 1868
Democrats in Opelousas, Louisiana murder nearly 300 African-Americans who tried to prevent an assault against a Republican newspaper editor

October 7, 1868
Republicans denounce Democratic Party’s national campaign theme: “This is a white man’s country: Let white men rule”

October 22, 1868
While campaigning for re-election, Republican U.S. Rep. James Hinds (R-AR) is assassinated by Democrat terrorists who organized as the Ku Klux Klan

November 3, 1868
Republican Ulysses Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour in presidential election; Seymour had denounced Emancipation Proclamation

December 10, 1869
Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs FIRST-in-nation law granting women right to vote and to hold public office

February 3, 1870
After passing House with 98% Republican support and 97% Democrat opposition, Republicans’ 15th Amendment is ratified, granting vote to all Americans regardless of race

May 19, 1870
African-American John Langston, law professor and future Republican Congressman from Virginia, delivers influential speech supporting President Ulysses Grant’s civil rights policies

May 31, 1870
President U.S. Grant signs Republicans’ Enforcement Act, providing stiff penalties for depriving any American’s civil rights

June 22, 1870
Republican Congress creates U.S. Department of Justice, to safeguard the civil rights of African-Americans against Democrats in the South

September 6, 1870
Women vote in Wyoming, in FIRST election after women’s suffrage signed into law by Republican Gov. John Campbell

February 28, 1871
Republican Congress passes Enforcement Act providing federal protection for African-American voters

March 22, 1871
Spartansburg Republican newspaper denounces Ku Klux Klan campaign to eradicate the Republican Party in South Carolina

April 20, 1871
Republican Congress enacts the Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic Party-affiliated terrorist groups which oppressed African-Americans

October 10, 1871
Following warnings by Philadelphia Democrats against black voting, African-American Republican civil rights activist Octavius Catto murdered by Democratic Party operative; his military funeral was attended by thousands

October 18, 1871
After violence against Republicans in South Carolina, President Ulysses Grant deploys U.S. troops to combat Democrat terrorists who formed the Ku Klux Klan

November 18, 1872
Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting, after boasting to Elizabeth Cady Stanton that she voted for “the Republican ticket, straight”

January 17, 1874
Armed Democrats seize Texas state government, ending Republican efforts to racially integrate government

September 14, 1874
Democrat white supremacists seize Louisiana statehouse in attempt to overthrow racially-integrated administration of Republican Governor William Kellogg; 27 killed

March 1, 1875
Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing access to public accommodations without regard to race, signed by Republican President U.S. Grant; passed with 92% Republican support over 100% Democrat opposition

September 20, 1876
Former state Attorney General Robert Ingersoll (R-IL) tells veterans: “Every man that loved slavery better than liberty was a Democrat… I am a Republican because it is the only free party that ever existed”

January 10, 1878
U.S. Senator Aaron Sargent (R-CA) introduces Susan B. Anthony amendment for women’s suffrage; Democrat-controlled Senate defeated it 4 times before election of Republican House and Senate guaranteed its approval in 1919

July 14, 1884
Republicans criticize Democratic Party’s nomination of racist U.S. Senator Thomas Hendricks (D-IN) for vice president; he had voted against the 13th Amendment banning slavery

August 30, 1890
Republican President Benjamin Harrison signs legislation by U.S. Senator Justin Morrill (R-VT) making African-Americans eligible for land-grant colleges in the South

June 7, 1892
In a FIRST for a major U.S. political party, two women – Theresa Jenkins and Cora Carleton – attend Republican National Convention in an official capacity, as alternate delegates

February 8, 1894
Democrat Congress and Democrat President Grover Cleveland join to repeal Republicans’ Enforcement Act, which had enabled African-Americans to vote

December 11, 1895
African-American Republican and former U.S. Rep. Thomas Miller (R-SC) denounces new state constitution written to disenfranchise African-Americans

May 18, 1896
Republican Justice John Marshall Harlan, dissenting from Supreme Court’s notorious Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal” decision, declares: “Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens”

December 31, 1898
Republican Theodore Roosevelt becomes Governor of New York; in 1900, he outlawed racial segregation in New York public schools

May 24, 1900
Republicans vote no in referendum for constitutional convention in Virginia, designed to create a new state constitution disenfranchising African-Americans

January 15, 1901
Republican Booker T. Washington protests Alabama Democratic Party’s refusal to permit voting by African-Americans

October 16, 1901
President Theodore Roosevelt invites Booker T. Washington to dine at White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country

May 29, 1902
Virginia Democrats implement new state constitution, condemned by Republicans as illegal, reducing African-American voter registration by 86%

February 12, 1909
On 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, African-American Republicans and women’s suffragists Ida Wells and Mary Terrell co-found the NAACP

June 18, 1912
African-American Robert Church, founder of Lincoln Leagues to register black voters in Tennessee, attends 1912 Republican National Convention as delegate; eventually serves as delegate at 8 conventions

August 1, 1916
Republican presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes, former New York Governor and U.S. Supreme Court Justice, endorses women’s suffrage constitutional amendment; he would become Secretary of State and Chief Justice

May 21, 1919
Republican House passes constitutional amendment granting women the vote with 85% of Republicans in favor, but only 54% of Democrats; in Senate, 80% of Republicans would vote yes, but almost half of Democrats no

April 18, 1920
Minnesota’s FIRST-in-the-nation anti-lynching law, promoted by African-American Republican Nellie Francis, signed by Republican Gov. Jacob Preus

August 18, 1920
Republican-authored 19th Amendment, giving women the vote, becomes part of Constitution; 26 of the 36 states to ratify had Republican-controlled legislatures

January 26, 1922
House passes bill authored by U.S. Rep. Leonidas Dyer (R-MO) making lynching a federal crime; Senate Democrats block it with filibuster

June 2, 1924
Republican President Calvin Coolidge signs bill passed by Republican Congress granting U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans

October 3, 1924
Republicans denounce three-time Democrat presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan for defending the Ku Klux Klan at 1924 Democratic National Convention

December 8, 1924
Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis argues in favor of “separate but equal”

June 12, 1929
First Lady Lou Hoover invites wife of U.S. Rep. Oscar De Priest (R-IL), an African-American, to tea at the White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country

August 17, 1937
Republicans organize opposition to former Ku Klux Klansman and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by FDR; his Klan background was hidden until after confirmation

June 24, 1940
Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces; for the balance of his terms in office, FDR refuses to order it

October 20, 1942
60 prominent African-Americans issue Durham Manifesto, calling on southern Democrats to abolish their all-white primaries

April 3, 1944
U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Texas Democratic Party’s “whites only” primary election system

February 18, 1946
Appointed by Republican President Calvin Coolidge, federal judge Paul McCormick ends segregation of Mexican-American children in California public schools

July 11, 1952
Republican Party platform condemns “duplicity and insincerity” of Democrats in racial matters

September 30, 1953
Earl Warren, California’s three-term Republican Governor and 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, nominated to be Chief Justice; wrote landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education

December 8, 1953
Eisenhower administration Asst. Attorney General Lee Rankin argues for plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education

May 17, 1954
Chief Justice Earl Warren, three-term Republican Governor (CA) and Republican vice presidential nominee in 1948, wins unanimous support of Supreme Court for school desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education

November 25, 1955
Eisenhower administration bans racial segregation of interstate bus travel

March 12, 1956
Ninety-seven Democrats in Congress condemn Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and pledge to continue segregation

June 5, 1956
Republican federal judge Frank Johnson rules in favor of Rosa Parks in decision striking down “blacks in the back of the bus” law

October 19, 1956
On campaign trail, Vice President Richard Nixon vows: “American boys and girls shall sit, side by side, at any school – public or private – with no regard paid to the color of their skin. Segregation, discrimination, and prejudice have no place in America”

November 6, 1956
African-American civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy vote for Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President

September 9, 1957
President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republican Party’s 1957 Civil Rights Act

September 24, 1957
Sparking criticism from Democrats such as Senators John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, President Dwight Eisenhower deploys the 82nd Airborne Division to Little Rock, AR to force Democrat Governor Orval Faubus to integrate public schools

June 23, 1958
President Dwight Eisenhower meets with Martin Luther King and other African-American leaders to discuss plans to advance civil rights

February 4, 1959
President Eisenhower informs Republican leaders of his plan to introduce 1960 Civil Rights Act, despite staunch opposition from many Democrats

May 6, 1960
President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republicans’ Civil Rights Act of 1960, overcoming 125-hour, around-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats

July 27, 1960
At Republican National Convention, Vice President and eventual presidential nominee Richard Nixon insists on strong civil rights plank in platform

May 2, 1963
Republicans condemn Democrat sheriff of Birmingham, AL for arresting over 2,000 African-American schoolchildren marching for their civil rights

June 1, 1963
Democrat Governor George Wallace announces defiance of court order issued by Republican federal judge Frank Johnson to integrate University of Alabama

September 29, 1963
Gov. George Wallace (D-AL) defies order by U.S. District Judge Frank Johnson, appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, to integrate Tuskegee High School

June 9, 1964
Republicans condemn 14-hour filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act by U.S. Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-WV), who still serves in the Senate

June 10, 1964
Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) criticizes Democrat filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act, calls on Democrats to stop opposing racial equality

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced and approved by a staggering majority of Republicans in the Senate. The Act was opposed by most southern Democrat senators, several of whom were proud segregationists—one of them being Al Gore Sr. Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson relied on Illinois Senator Everett Dirkson, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.

June 20, 1964
The Chicago Defender, renowned African-American newspaper, praises Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) for leading passage of 1964 Civil Rights Act

March 7, 1965
Police under the command of Democrat Governor George Wallace attack African-Americans demonstrating for voting rights in Selma, AL

March 21, 1965
Republican federal judge Frank Johnson authorizes Martin Luther King’s protest march from Selma to Montgomery, overruling Democrat Governor George Wallace

August 4, 1965
Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) overcomes Democrat attempts to block 1965 Voting Rights Act; 94% of Senate Republicans vote for landmark civil right legislation, while 27% of Democrats oppose

August 6, 1965
Voting Rights Act of 1965, abolishing literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to prevent African-Americans from voting, signed into law; higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats vote in favor

July 8, 1970
In special message to Congress, President Richard Nixon calls for reversal of policy of forced termination of Native American rights and benefits

September 17, 1971
Former Ku Klux Klan member and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black (D-AL) retires from U.S. Supreme Court; appointed by FDR in 1937, he had defended Klansmen for racial murders

February 19, 1976
President Gerald Ford formally rescinds President Franklin Roosevelt’s notorious Executive Order authorizing internment of over 120,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII

September 15, 1981
President Ronald Reagan establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to increase African-American participation in federal education programs

June 29, 1982
President Ronald Reagan signs 25-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act

August 10, 1988
President Ronald Reagan signs Civil Liberties Act of 1988, compensating Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property during World War II internment ordered by FDR

November 21, 1991
President George H. W. Bush signs Civil Rights Act of 1991 to strengthen federal civil rights legislation

August 20, 1996
Bill authored by U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari (R-NY) to prohibit racial discrimination in adoptions, part of Republicans’ Contract With America, becomes law

April 26, 1999
Legislation authored by U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI) awarding Congressional Gold Medal to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks is transmitted to President

January 25, 2001
U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee declares school choice to be “Educational Emancipation”

March 19, 2003
Republican U.S. Representatives of Hispanic and Portuguese descent form Congressional Hispanic Conference

May 23, 2003
U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) introduces bill to establish National Museum of African American History and Culture

February 26, 2004
Hispanic Republican U.S. Rep. Henry Bonilla (R-TX) condemns racist comments by U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL); she had called Asst. Secretary of State Roger Noriega and several Hispanic Congressmen “a bunch of white men…you all look alike to me”

National Voting Rights Act of 1965 signed for a 25 year extension by President George W. Bush on July 27, 2006.

I believe Wayne Perryman has a new book out (”Unfounded Loyalty” is out of print).

And I agree there is a diffefence in Barak and Hillary. At least Hllary has some kind of sense in what is going on in the world. Barak has lived too isolated of a life to comprehend what he says. 57 States, he said he would talk to the Mullahs in Iran, Bomb Pakistan. These are all much more than just gaffes, well all but the 57 states thingie. Do you actually think that talking to the Mullahs in Iraq will get them to stop making Nuclear Bombs. Bomb Pakistan without teling the Govenment of Pakistan is a big no-no, you know they already have Nukes and most of their country hates us to death.

Barak is a scary candidate because he is so naive and will get us into trouble faster than any of the other candidates will. He went to Rev Wright’s hate Whitey and America Church and that does not scareyou??? you think he is just a little left. Is he really a candidate that will bring people together??? Hell, he can not even bring the Democats together, much less the country. He should have wrapped thisup by nowfhe is the candidate that mostDemocratswant. HE has never crossed the aisle to help any Republican in any bill. At least Hillary is pragmatic enough not to go along with every single idea that comes from the DNC headquarters, Barak does. Every vote he has ever made is to the far Left, even farther left than the Socialist in the Senate, and much farther to the Left of Hillary. That is is he even votes for a bill. Mostly he says “present” which is a cop out.

Yes we will have to agree to disagree. There is no way that you can ever tell me that Obama is an ideal candidate. he is so flawed, but the MSM holds the water for him. I just wonder how the Super Duper Delgates will react when his Church gets indicted for illegal contributions, when they find out about what shananigans he has done in Chicago with the other crooks that run the Socialist Republic of Illinois, I should know I live there. Our whole government is run by crooks in both parties from Chicago. There is no way I would ever vote for any politician that comes out of the Chcago Machine. Rezko is nothing compared to what goes on in Chicago.That is just a little teaser, just look at all of our great govenors that are in jail. This is where Obama has come from, and I would never want the rest of the country to recieve that kind of corrupt govenment. You have to know that if he gets elected,he will have to pay off all of his handlers in Chicago off with positions, and pork. That is how Chicago works. Andhe associates himselfwith know terroiststhatblewup bombs on US soil, and Ayers in not at all repentant about it.

Enough of this we are never going to change eachothers minds. And forne thing, I do not believe thatall AA areracist,andI never said such a thing. But to get 92% ofthe AA for an AA candidateisa little much. I knw that in the General Elections they usually go for the Dem about the same percentage,but to say that all AA believe that Obama is the best qualified to be President is ludicrous.

I am just goingto sit back andwatch the Democrat Party destroyi tself because of Identity Politics. you got to hand it to Alanski, he did teach Hillary well,and Obama learned a lot from him also. And it is ironic that they are going after eachothers throats with the same tactics.

In the case of election 1984, Jesse received the AA vote because he was a viable candidate (like Obama) and not because he was simply black.

That seems to be offset by comments made like this:

”There is a Jesse Jackson groundswell, and it is becoming everyone’s black, patriotic duty to support him,” said Lawrence Briskar, dean of students at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland.

If the AA’s that supported Jesse were racist, then Mondale would not have received 90% of the AA vote; nor would any other white candidate prior to and after Mondale.

Again, you are comparing a Democratic primary (Jackson’s numbers) to a general election (Mondale’s numbers as the Democratic candidate), where AA overwhelmingly vote Democratic.

Heru Ammen #23:

The vast majority of the 92% of African Americans that support Obama perceive him to be the better candidate. There are probably no more African Americans voting for Obama because he is black, than it is whites voting for Hillary, Paul, and McCain because they are white/female. To suggest otherwise is ludicrous and plays into the ignorant, boot licking and uninformed negro stereotype and I could not let that absurdity go unchallenged.

It’s not to imply anything of the sort! But to think that race identity hasn’t played a factor is to require a willing suspension of belief.

I believe there are even white voters, suffering from white guilt, who are also being influenced by race. And it’s not to say that race is the trumping factor; it’s not. But it is playing a factor amongst some people. There’s a certain excitement factor in seeing yet another “glass ceiling broken”, as if one were needed as proof-positive that America has moved beyond race. We will never move beyond race, so long as there are men like Reverend Wright who fixate on it, obsess over it, and keep reminding us of our divisions rather than what unites us as one people.

Even celebrating “the first Asian astronaut” or celebrating Tiger Woods not because he is a great golfer, but because he is a great “African(Asian)-American golfer” is to focus on the superficial- skin color. If Asian children need someone who “looks like them” to be “breaking glass ceilings” in the film industry, in sports, in politics, etc, then we are still stuck on race.

Heru Ammen wrote in #45:

What f’ed up Hillary was when Bill called Obama’s candidacy a “fairy tale.” Hillary is losing the AA vote to bad politics. What Bill did would have the same effect as someone calling a Jewish candidacy for mayor of NY a fairy tale, or a Asian candidate for mayor of San Francisco a fairy tale.

Are you sure you’re remembering this correctly?

How did Bill Clinton’s fairy tale comment imply race?