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And a bigot to boot...apparently...but I am against Barack Obama for President (and Hillary Clinton too), and it's not because of their "Black-ness" or "Female-ness"...it's because they are WRONG - wrong for America, and wrong for the people they claim to fight for.

In my intentionally inflammatory rant about Frank Rich, I decided to throw a few race cards on parallel with those of Mr. Rich's level of ridiculousness when he suggested that the GOP had been reduced to nothing more than the "Grand Old White Party." I had a problem with the idea that a white man who came of age in Washington DC BEFORE desegregation and busing, and had moved to Harvard right BEFORE the MLK assassination and the ensuing riots and carnage wrought by ALL colors on our fair Nation's Capitol back in April 1968, would presume to suggest that being a Republican was somehow (by nuance, implication, and innuendo) the same as being a white supremacist male or some such nonsense. Worse, he presumes some expertise in the area of Black-White relations from the vantage point of a political party instead of one who lived with or grew up with black people (or any OTHER minority for that matter). Yeah, I ticked quite a few people off when I spoke even a little bit about any "positives" that might be gleaned from the pre-Civil war South...and whoo-boy did I fire up some folks.

GOOD.

Let's consider the Democrats regarding several pertinent areas of their elitist supremacy and minority exploitation, m'kay? I'm feeling the need for a little more hate to be thrown my way.

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First, can someone help me understand how the Democrats have behaved with regard to American Blacks since the Civil Rights Act became law? All they seem interested in doing is laying out giveaways and entitlements and freebies (funded by wealth redistribution from other American constituencies [which in and of itself breeds resentment and further draws lines of distinction amongst the populous]), expecting a vote to put/keep them in power in exchange, while paying no attention to the longer-term implications of such routinely failed policies.

The Democrats want us to believe we have, in the GOP, taken something AWAY from Black America...or that we have something we want to keep them from having. What is it that the Democrats have done to help Blacks and other minorities? Affirmative Action? Quotas? Welfare? Food Stamps? Head Start? Earned income credits? The United Negro College Fund? Black Pride Days? A Federal holiday to commemorate MLK's Birthday? Coining the PC buzzword "African-American?" THESE are the things that have brought Black America up from the days of Jim Crow to a color-blind and an equal and rich and diverse society where everyone hugs each other on the streets in some kind of Cultural Utopia? Or have these things actually made it HARDER for everyone (white, green, yellow or purple) to come together as a people and a Nation?

How have the Democrats strengthened the American family (more specifically the minority American family)? Abortion on demand? Fighting to keep religion out of public purview? Standing back or doing nothing to slow or reverse the growth in the numbers of unmarried births? Of fatherless children? Of Teen pregnancy?

NONE of these things have resolved the problems America's minorities face and struggle with every day, yet an Obama OR Clinton Presidency promises to give you more OF them. What's that old saying about the definition of insanity?

There's just something perverse about how the Democrats claim to help Black America - treating a race of proud and righteous people as if they were children on an allowance that need more OF it in order to do less WITH it - while watching statistic after statistic prove in many cases that the plight of Blacks in this country is as bad now (or worse in certain regions of the country...most specifically the inner city) than it ever was. Given how much pleasure the Democrats take in claiming to BE the party of America's Minorities, isn't it only fair then to assign THEM the blame for the status of Blacks today, and Hispanics, and others? Yet they continue to get elected on empty promises of more giveaways and more "tilting of the scales of balance" favorably toward minorities...only to abandon them the day after the election(s). Talk about a bill of goods...

In a country that has moved beyond slavery where we are diligently trying to raise our children to be color blind...where we really DO try to teach them to look at those who "appear" different and judge them (as MLK himself once said), "not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character..." are the Democrats living up to King's vision for the Black community by continuing to hold them out as some "thing" they all fight over? Doesn't this actually KEEP them separate from the REST of America? Or at least considered somehow "different" from the rest of it? Is marginalizing a constituency REALLY the best way to help them truly become "equal?"

It is far more frequently that I hear Democrats talking about Blacks...what they need, how they're suffering, how much they feel their pain, what unique problems their race allegedly brings to their ability to "just be Americans"...and I can't help but wonder who REALLY has the problems with diversity here.

Republicans (and "theoretically" Conservatives) believe in personal responsibility and accountability. We believe in doing for ourselves, helping our friends and loving, nurturing, protecting, and providing FOR our families, supporting (and being actively engaged in) our community, and living as if there was something greater than ourselves at play in the grand scheme of this thing called life. We believe in hard work, in reaping the benefits of our efforts, in KEEPING what is ours to do with as we deem appropriate...and we don't WANT Government any more involved in our daily lives than is absolutely necessary for the good of "the Republic" (as we once proudly called it). Of the many Black, Hispanic, Asian, Indian, Pakistani, Iraqi, Iranian, and other "fill-in-the-blank" Americans I have grown up with, lived near, or worked for (or had work FOR me in business life) I can't remember ANY who didn't share these ideals and attitudes about what it means to be an American.

Are ANY of these principles being preached by the Democrats who would be President?

NO.

To Obama's credit, he is not running for "first Black President" (perhaps because Hillary's husband already claims that title), but make no mistake-the DNC operatives ARE running him that way...and they mean to use Obama's race everywhere and anywhere they can if it will muster a few more votes to put him over the top. Inside that little playbook are orders to destroy any who might disagree with Obama. They will pile drive anyone that might dare challenge this "Obasm" with the "you hate Blacks" meme...and it will work. It has thus far at least, and will become the standard fare when (if) he clears to the general. But what if we disagree because he's flat out wrong on the issues? Won't matter-we'll be accused of being racists...of trying to prevent "destiny" and an America long-overdue for a Black man in the White House. But what if he's WRONG? Won't matter, and you won't be allowed to say as much.

Well, I'm going to-the rest of you are on your own.

Barack Obama's policy proposals are not only bad for America...they're bad for Black America, and Hispanic America, and every other corner of America. We need all Americans to wean themselves from the Government teat long enough to see how much more they can accomplish for themselves if only Government would get the hell out of the way. We need all Americans to listen to BOTH of Obama's sentences...not just the first one that says Government is broken and "we need change"...but the second one which is "I'm going to make Government fix, itself, what it has already broken," and we need to remind folks of this every day, every hour, every minute. A Government that he has been a part of is broken yet he wants everyone to believe only he and his cronies can fix it. They are NOT capable of fixing it themselves because they have completely lost any sense of what the heck they were supposed to be doing with it in the first place.

But, as I said...these ideas appear to define me as a knuckle dragging Neo-Confederate racist pig...so what do I know?