I like to say that for the black community, nothing will change until we learn to love our children more than we love the Democratic Party.
~ Tea Party activist Sonnie Johnson as quoted by CBS News, June 28
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That could not have been said any better.
Jill you misquoted her in your headline.
She said that people should love their children more than they love the democratic party.
Your headline rephrased it to say that people should love their children more than the democratic party, which is misleading.
Jane, that does make a difference. I’ll go in and change that. Thanks!
You might like the quote both ways, but when you’re quoting someone it does make a difference if you get the words wrong.
The tea party would take millions away from WIC and welfare and schools and all sorts of programs that born children rely on. It can’t always be about abortion.
In this, Johnson echos Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir who said that peace will come to the Middle East when Palestinian mothers love their babies more than they hate Jews.
JaneJ,
It isn’t the social net that is the problem. When Republicans and Tea Party members mention creating a reduced need for these programs, they are reflexively labeled as racists.
The same holds true for any proposed social reform that would lift African-Americans up and hold them to the same educational and social standards as the rest of society. Look at the forces on the left that screamed about a billboard depicting a black baby with the simple header: “Black and Beautiful”. That too was labeled racist.
In truth, it was the Democrat Party in the South that protected and promoted slavery.
It was the Democrat Party in the South that seceded from the Union.
It was the Democrat Party in the North that ran against Lincoln in his reelection on a platform of letting the South go their own way and keep their slaves.
It was the Democrat Party in the South that instituted segregation after the war and viciously prosecuted that policy until my lifetime.
It was the Southern Democrats who refused to sign on with the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
It is the Democrat Party that promotes abortion and funds Planned Parenthood with a third of a billion dollars annually so that they may run 78% of their abortuaries in inner-city neighborhoods.
It is Democrat politicians who block every initiative to end the cycle of generational poverty begun under their Great Society programs, screaming “racism” at every turn.
By contrast, it was Republicans who ended slavery, pushed through the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments which, respectively, abolished slavery, naturalized the former slaves, and gave the former slaves the right to vote.
It was Republicans who fought against segregation, and it was Pres. Eisenhower who sent in the 101st Airborne to Little Rock.
It was Republicans who came alongside Pres. Johnson to give him the majorities he needed to pass the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, even though they were the minority party in both the House and Senate; this because so many Democrats were racist to the core.
Nothing’s changed.
“It was Republicans who came alongside Pres. Johnson to give him the majorities he needed to pass the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, even though they were the minority party in both the House and Senate; this because so many Democrats were racist to the core.”
“Nothing’s changed.”
Gerard, by and large, I agree with your recitation, but it ends in 1964 with passage of the Civil Rights Act.
You may or may not be aware that Richard Nixon exploited southern racism–in a most calculating manner–to win the 1968 presidential election. It was called “The Southern Strategy” and many of those racist Democrats to which you refer became card-carrying members of the Republican Party.
The Republican Party continued to exploit southern racism throughout the Reagan and Bush I years.
Also, as a side note, and as you may or may not be aware, the Southern Strategy is the reason why I, a Goldwater Republican, left the party.
Now, you can deny all of this, but you can’t deny Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman’s formal apology to the black community for what they did.
The Southern Strategy drove the Republican Party hard to the right, where it remains today. In fact, it was political operators like Karl Rove who took the strategy to an entirely new level, but that’s a story which, I’m sure, no one here is interested in hearing.
You can find a thumbnail history of the Southern Strategy here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
The Democratic Party has used and abused A-A folk forever, and it is more blatant now than it ever has been. How insulting is it to say to a whole race of people: We’ll take care of you, no worries, because you obviously can’t do it yourselves. The rules are different for you.
Black people, wake the hell up. You’ve been hoodwinked, and it’s your own (Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters, Al Sharpton, the pres) who are doing it!
…and yet here we are: despite it all, the greatest nation on the face of the earth. With all our flaws and foibles, we moved forward – until 2008, when the operating platform changed. 235 years. We exceeded expectations.
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The rich hate the poor.
And here we see the heart of the Democrat (or liberal, now. C’mon, let’s be honest.) party. Class warfare to bring about “change” in the form of communist revolution. Unfortunately for you, uj, this Hispanic woman knows a little history and a thing or two about current events. How did “change” work out for the good ‘ol U.S.S.R.?
BREAD LINES ARE FUN, AMIRITE?!
How about our buddies in China? Forced one-child policy, that looks like a hoot, huh?
Corporations are not my enemy. They employ me and millions like me. They give us the American dream to work towards, and if you’d been paying attention, a TON of people who had never dreamed of being “the rich” now are thanks to the internet and other inventions. They employ US. And every one of US has the same exact chance to become one of those evil boogeymen you’ve bought into hating. I guess you’re just hopeless. Sorry your messiah didn’t give you the hope he promised.
The left is hopeless. They abandon all hope once pregnant and kill their children. They loose hope of ever making a good life for themselves so they demand government take from those who have it and give it to them.
I’m never going to lose mine. Thank God.
mp,
I forgot to mention Woodrow Wilson’s purging the federal government of black employees.
I wouldn’t say that it ended in 1964. The Republicans have been steadily building their numbers of women and minority delegates to their conventions, and have run a tremendous number of black candidates in elections at every level.
Additionally, Bill Clinton (our first black president , according to Maya Angelou) only managed to field one black cabinet member, Ron Brown, in the position of Commerce Secretary; his over two terms in office. Under Bush Sr. Colin Powell became the first black head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and HBush Jr. gave us the first black Secretary of State (Powell), NSA Chief, first black woman Secretary of State, and two cabinets noted for their incredible diversity at the highest levels.
Nixon might have been an SOB, but he was one man. The Great Society Programs and abortion have resulted in the decimation of the inner city, and that has been sponsored almost exclusively by the Democrats, all since 1964. That’s an entire party on a government-sponsored campaign of what is tantamount to genocide. All efforts by Republicans to point out the obvious flaws and to seek remedy and redress have been painted as “racist” by the Dems, who then double down on welfare and Planned Parenthood.
Nixon is a convenient target, but again he was only one man. What the Democrats have done as a party, from the antebellum south to today has been nothing short of pure malevolence.
The tea party wants to cut all kinds of great social programs?
I thought that was the procrastinating Left — by kicking the can of insolvency down the road for some future generation to solve.
At any rate, the problems should be returned to the states. The politicians with the most power that affects our lives should be within walking distance of a torch and pitchfork mob. Always.
“I thought that was the procrastinating Left — by kicking the can of insolvency down the road for some future generation to solve.”
Trillion dollar deficits didn’t seem to matter when Bush II was chasing non-existent weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, or Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. In fact, VP Cheney said it to Paul O’Neill, then the Treasury Secretary: “Deficits don’t matter.”
Now, and all of a sudden, deficits matter.
Why is that?
“The Great Society Programs and abortion have resulted in the decimation of the inner city, and that has been sponsored almost exclusively by the Democrats, all since 1964.”
The Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 failed? Medicare failed? Head Start failed? Job Corps failed? Volunteers in Service to America failed? Assistance to women, infants and children failed? The Higher Education Act failed? The Voter Rights Act failed?
You’re saying that all of these programs I mentioned–just a small part of “The Great Society” program, “decimated” the inner cities?
Gerard, that is preposterous.
Sure, there are programs that failed, but I categorically reject your statement that “The Great Society” was an abysmal failure. That kind of statement is what I’d expect to hear from an ideologue, not a scientist, not a thinking human being.
mp,
“Has Headstart failed?” You tell me. The literacy rates in the inner city are frightfully low, and the graduation rates from high school, even lower. I AM speaking as a scientist and as a professor who has taught for an entire generation.
Consider:
“The national graduation rate for the public school class of 2000 was 69%. The rate for white students was 76%; for Asian students it was 79%; for African-American students it was 55%; for Hispanic students it was 53%; and for Native Americans it was 57%.” The rest here:
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_31.htm
Perhaps all is not loss. Black men have raised their graduation rates from college from a dismal 28% in 1990 to a mere 35% in 2006.
Take all of the programs you cite and then visit Detroit, or Harlem, or Watts. Where are their promised fruits? One would expect these inner cities to resemble, at the least, working class neighborhoods. It is the cost of good intentions. The very infantilizing programs that created the mess are cited as the need to clean it up. So the Dems double down on more welfare. etc.
It all looks good on paper, mp. But then we look at Detroit and Harlem.
Add Planned Parenthood encouraging the promiscuity that has torn this community apart with STD rates that are more than triple those of anyone else, the abortions that are decimating the community…
The problem for me is that I AM a thinking scientist, professor, and human who sees the interrelatedness of the programs that whites would feel beneath them, were they targeted in such an aggressive manner, and I cringe at the thought that thinking human beings could actually think that more of the same will somehow magically fix what it destroyed in the first place.
Head Start, The Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts avail blacks little when they are undercut by all the rest of The Great Society programming that serve as the poison pill.
mp: What are you TALKING about? Geez, why is Bush the reflexive scapegoat? I’m talking about our current crisis — which is a consequence of a heckuva lot more than Bush (bank crisis, among other things).
It’s insane. It’s insane. Bush drives us in the car at 95 miles an hour and some people holler “slow down!” Obama hurtles along at 192 MPH and the left thinks we’re not entitled to holler even louder.
So, SO ridiculous.
MP,
As a black woman who utilized these public assistance programs at one point, I can tell you that they are a very big reason that the black community is where it is now. I am fortunate enough to have woken up, and saw the detriment those programs were doing to me and those around me, and worked my behind off to not be reliant on the government again. As a single mother, I wanted better for my daughter, not just the bare minimum. Those programs do nothing to further women or their children. It’s another form of slavery in as far as once most of these women (and men) get on these programs, it’s almost impossible to convince them that they can do better for themselves and their children. I have been called a racist when I suggested on the radio that these programs needed to end, just because other people had no idea I am black. Blacks are not the only ones on these programs, but they do make up the majority. We need to stop looking into the past at every wrongdoing that was done in this country, and move forward, to better our society. Starting with ending a lot of these programs that keep people stagnant and content sucking the rest of society dry. I spoke alongside Rep. Michele Bachmann last summer at the Tea Party Presser, and I had my baby with me. He and his older siblings will not grow up blaming any failings in their lives on some so called oppression. I tell them to work hard for what they want, not expect it to be handed to them. I was called a sellout, and more for the simple fact that I don’t fit into the box that the Democratic Party thinks I belong in. I’m raising my children to be self reliant and dependent on themselves, not the government.
Danielle, what an awesome story. Your children must be proud to have you as a mom!