Thursday, July 8, 2004 |
16:35 - So Kerry's running on the Bush Stole The Election ticket
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2004_0706a.html
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Via Will Collier at VodkaPundit, John Kerry:
"Don’t tell us disenfranchising a million African Americans and stealing their votes is the best we can do."
Um, what?
Let me rephrase that: WHAT?!?
Exactly why hasn't this little tidbit been noted by the national press? With a banner headline? That's not just rhetoric, it's the electoral equivalent of a blood-libel. For one thing, it's a flat-out lie, as reluctantly found by the partisan Democrat-dominated US Civil Rights Commission, which despite months of investigation, noted only 26 people with "disenfranchisement" complaints, most of which were found to be specious (link is to a .pdf file of the minority dissent, see page 32).
Not "a million disenfranchised," but 26 people with complaints, not all of which were valid.
Kerry isn't just lying, he's indulging in blatant, ugly race-baiting (it's noteworty he says nothing about the military personnel whose 2000 absentee ballots were voided at the demands of Gore lawyers--now they were disenfranchised, but since they didn't vote correctly, it's below French John's notice). Why isn't he being called on it by the press?
Scratch that--you already know the answer. The press is on his side.
Seriously, what is up with all the casual racism on the Left these days? Like Ted Rall implicitly calling Condi Rice a "house nigga" (his words)? Do these guys just get away with it because everybody assumes that you can't be racist if you're on the Left, no matter how ugly your language or your deeds or your policies—and you can't not be racist if you're on the Right, no matter how hard you have to scrape and dig to unearth even the slightest hint of racism?
Where did this "racist Republicans" rap come from, anyway? I grew up assuming it as an article of faith. But check out the "Hate Mail" page of Silent No More, a conservative-youth site, where one of the webmasters responds to some brain-donor misusing his copy of Outlook Express:
My name is Gerard, a proud member of the "Right-wing attack machine" and yes, I'm Black. So, I have a unique perspective of the charges you raise in your e-mail.
Founded by abolitionists, the Republican Party has had a 150 year history of fighting for Civil Rights. In contrast, the Democratic Party's active opposition to Civil Rights gave rise to the Ku Klux Klan, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws and other repressive legislation which resulted in the multitude of murders, lynchings, mutilations, and intimidations (of thousands of black and white Republicans). On the issue of slavery, Democrats gave their lives to expand it while the Republicans gave their lives to ban it.
While Democrats were busy passing laws to hurt blacks, Republicans devoted their time to passing laws to help blacks. Republicans were primarily responsible for the following Civil Rights legislation:
1. The Emancipation Proclamation 2. The 13th Amendment 3. The 14th Amendment 4. The 15th Amendment 5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867 6. The Civil Rights of 1866 7. The Enforcement Act of 1870 8. The Forced Act of 1871 9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875 11. The Freeman Bureau 12. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 13. The Civil Rights Act of 1960 14. The United States Civil Rights Commission
They also gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following legislation
15. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 17. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 18. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts 19. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972 20. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs 21. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973 22. Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982 23. Civil Rights Act of 1983 24. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988
The Democrats opposed all of the above and to this day refuse to acknowledge their shameful past. Your charges of racism against [our Editor] are unwarranted, unsupported, and downright foolish. History speaks for itself. Labels have changed, but Republican Party ideals have not. As noted writer Thomas Sowell once said, "If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today."
The party of Lincoln, remember? And despite what Michael Moore might say, the NRA is not a front group for the KKK. It was founded by Union officers. The KKK's mortal enemies.
Dean says that the big divide in American politics today is between "People who understand pragmatism and the lack of instant change, and those who don't."
I think, from the perspective of race, the divide is between "people who believe that the various races are so different that they can't be reconciled without external force imposing handicaps and promotions to try to 'even things out', and those who think there are no differences that are so great that they won't simply disappear if everybody is treated with true equality".
But equality is racist these days. I get it.
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