Frances Rice, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.), has published a demand for an apology from the Democratic Party at the Lincoln Heritage Institute website where she is a contributor. There is nothing more for me to add so I offer the full text for your enjoyment:
“We, African American citizens of the United States, declare and assert:
Whereas in the early 1600’s 20 African men and women were landed in Virginia from a Dutch ship as slaves and from that tiny seed grew the poisoned fruit of plantation slavery which shaped the course of American development,
Whereas reconciliation and healing always begin with an apology and an effort to repay those who have been wronged,
Whereas the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices committed against African Americans during the past two hundred years, nor for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices and current soft bigotry of low expectations are having on us today,
Whereas the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery and, after the Civil War, established Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes and other repressive legislation that were designed to disenfranchise African Americans,
Whereas the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, and their primary goal was to intimidate and terrorize African American voters, Republicans who moved South to protect African Americans and any other whites who supported them,
Whereas, according to leading historians (both black and white), the horrific atrocities committed against African Americans during slavery and Reconstruction were financed, sponsored, and promoted by the Democratic Party and their Ku Klux Klan supporters,
Whereas from 1870 to 1930, in an effort to deny African Americans their civil rights and to keep African Americans from voting Republican, thousands of African Americans were shot, beaten, lynched, mutilated, and burned to death by Ku Klux Klan terrorists from the Democratic Party,
Whereas Democratic Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission,
Whereas the Democratic party has used racist demagoguery to deceive African Americans about the history of the Republican Party that: (a) started as the anti-slavery party in 1854, (b) fought to free African Americans from slavery, (c) designed Reconstruction, a ten-year period of unprecedented political power for African Americans, (d) passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting African Americans freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote, (e) passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting African Americans protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, (f) passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 granting African Americans protection from the Jim Crow laws, (g) established Affirmative Action programs to help African Americans proper with Republican President Richard Nixon’s 1969 Philadelphia Plan that set the first goals and timetables and his 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act that made Affirmative Action Programs the law of our nation, and (h) never sponsored or launched a program, passed laws, or engaged in practices that resulted in the death of millions of African Americans,
Whereas Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka (a 1954 decision by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was appointed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower) was a landmark civil rights case that was designed to overturn the racist practices that were established by the Democratic Party,
Whereas after Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the vote of African Americans, he banned African American newspapers from the military shortly after taking office because he was convinced the newspapers were communists,
Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law, opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was later criticized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for ignoring civil rights issues.
Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy authorized the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) to investigate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on suspicion of being a communist,
Whereas Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, made a 14-hour filibuster speech in the Senate in June 1964 in an unsuccessful effort to block passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and was heralded in April 2004 by Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd as a senator who would have been a great leader during the Civil War,
Whereas when the 1964 Civil Rights Act came up for vote, Senator Al Gore, Sr. and the rest of the Southern Democrats voted against the bill,
Whereas in the House of Representatives only 61 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act as compared to 80 percent of Republicans, and in the Senate only 69 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, compared to 82 percent of the Republicans,
Whereas Democratic President Bill Clinton sent troops to Europe to protect the citizens of Bosnia and Kosovo while allowing an estimated 800,000 black Rwandans to be massacred in Africa, vetoed the welfare reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan,
Whereas Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore created harmful racial division when he falsely claimed that the 2000 presidential election was “stolen” from him and that African Americans in Florida were disenfranchised, even though a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations confirmed that he lost the election, and a ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission declared that African Americans were not denied the right to vote,
Whereas the Democratic Party’s soft bigotry of low expectations and social promotions have consigned African Americans to economic bondage and created a culture of dependency on government social programs,
Whereas the Democratic Party’s use of deception and fear to block welfare reform, the faith-based initiative and school choice that would help African Americans prosper is consistent with the Democratic Party’s heritage of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and kukluxery, a perversion of moral sentiment among leaders of the Democratic Party whose racist legacy bode ill until this generation of African Americans,
Now, therefore, for the above and other documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs inflicted upon African Americans, we demand a formal written apology and other appropriate remuneration from the leadership of the Democratic party.
Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit
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I vote for her.
How long til she gets denigrated as an Aunt Jamima? The people that already get it, understand what she says. The ones that don’t will just ridicule her. Who are the real black leaders? Sharpton, Jackson, Quanell, or is it Condie Rice, Powell, Cosby, and now Frances Rice?
Now why don’t more people realize that? Dems don’t want to empower anybody, they want to create dependence!
She definitely has no love for the Democratic Party
Nice to see someone who can read history beyond the last week and reads something other than the usual glib headlines.
The likes of Bill Cosby and Larry Elder have been speaking of these things for sometime.
#5 Thomas Sowell comes to mind too.
Lt Col. Rice we send a hearty SaaaaaaaaaaaaaLUTE!
Tell it like it is Sistar!
A hearty amen to all the above. Finally a breath of sanity in this insane world. Finally someone who is not afraid to so eloquently outline the actual history of the racist Democrat Party and how they have done their best to keep the blacks in America on the plantation. I for one gladly welcome those who “get it” into the conservative ranks (note I did not say Republican - they are not the same).
#9 yes, we know the difference between conservative and Republican. Unfortunately, a lot of America doesn’t nor does the MSM want them to.
Now she is someone with courage and brains, unlike that Idiotarian coward over at that I Am A Bad American blog.
It seems to me that America would benefit greatly by recognizing a lot more black women like Lt. Col. Rice and a lot fewer like Oprah Winfrey.
Now, here’s one person who won’t be asked to speak at the Dimwit Convention. I wonder why???
I hope that gets wide distribution.
It’ll get NO play from the MSM. There is no rug big enough or near enough for them to shove this underneath.
But, DAYUMM, was this good!
Just for the record, Condi Rice is my hero. She has had to endure some of the most demeaning and hateful comments/actions from her own people while serving this Country. She stands tall for what she believes in.
Mr. texpat, you really made my day!
Would she be willing to donate her spine to some needy Republican?
Condi Rice, now that would have been a great choice for a Republican nominee for President.
#16 blackgirl
You are welcome. I am glad you enjoyed it. I have a Condi Rice front page piece I’ll put up next week. You will like it.
Who wants to bet this gets ZERO coverage in the main stream media???
I vote we have her address the RNC convention!
Would she be willing to be a write-in candidate? Run for governor of Texas? I don’t care if she lives here or not - let ‘er run!
Amen! She needs to go preach a sermon at the Trinity Church of Christ in Chicago. We need more great Americans like her.
I sure hope Ms. Rice had this thing vetted by Thin Gravy, first.
What an outstanding piece, and an outstanding American. I hope, like many of you, this gets a lot of coverage. Let’s share it with our internet friends all over the globe. Maybe we can help.
excellent…although I could have done without the hyphenated-american thing…
#12…fantastic observation…
#’s 5 & 6
You forgot
Walter Williams and Herman Kane.
Mr. texpat.
May i post this all over the web?
I read numerous Blogs where I hear nast Repub comments on a daily basis.
I would like to take out my spoon and “Stir That Pot”…….
Edav38
Post away
Thanks for reading LST BTW
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I have to read occasionally, even if I am from Indiana, as there SEEMS to be More intelligence in One Texan Community than the rest of the country combined.
I posted it in the Houston and Austin usenet newsgroups. This should be interesting.
#31 Mike Smith, Good for you. I hope this gets more attention.
MS. Rice should take Obama’s place….. She forgot a few things: Whereas the poverty pimping Jesse, Al and J Wright have enabled, lied and been ’stooges’ for the Democrats; shame on them. Dr rev Wright should give the equivalent of 90% of his 10,000 square ft. house to the slush fund for reparations. 2. whereas the Dem Party coughs up these reparations ( and pay for private schools for all black children) The Feds will no longer need to need to give out the economic stimulous package, since the spending spree will be enough to quell the talking down of the economy. 3. Whereas many in the black community are in danger of losing their homes. Some because of ARM mortgages and others because of State legislators raising their property taxes by 9% per annum. Therefore The legislature of Texas should forgo their indulgent State retirement Cheques and send it to those in fear of losing their Home….. It seems to me that we could reach out to our ‘Neighbours of Colour’ and share our CLOUT info with them.
I have to stick my oar in the water here, just for clarity’s sake…this Lt. Col. Rice is not Condi Rice.
By the way…does she really think black folk are held back by the fact they used to be slaves?
There is no need to research this. First of all if you read between the lines you will see that this woman has an axe to grind. I as an individual or as a member of any group would never apologize for something which I was not a part of. When slavery and the Klan were dominant I was not there nor was I a supporter of either. To apologize for something for which I am not a part of is an admission of guilt. What I would do is condemn the past actions, but would not apologize for them. Secondly there is no real evidence that the Klan was an arm of the democratic party, at least I have never been aware of any such evidence. All we have here is the Lt. Col.’s opinion which is not reinforced by any fact(s). As far as slavery and reconstruction of the South after the civil war it is really a disservice and a misrepresentation to put out the idea that the situation was as basic as Democrat & Republican, more specifically that Democrats tried to block integration and civil rights and Republicans were on the opposite side. To believe this is childish and insane. Actually the make up of the friction was more along the lines of the good ole boys from the South and the abolitionists from the North. Of course there were people from the South against slavery and the intimidation to suppress civil rights as there were people from the North who supported slavery and intimidation to suppress civil rights.
In closing I have to say that the blinders need to come off. Nothing comes down to Republican or Democrat in the final analysis. This country and the world are way more complex than that..
African-Americans are so quick to denounce the “white men” who brought slaves to America, but you know what I find quite disturbing? It is the lack of that same mentality to denounce the African brothers who sold them to the white men in the first place. White America was absolutely a disgrace for having slaves but so were the African brothers who sold their own to the white men. Why don’t we hear any of this uproar over this? I find this lack of the same enthusiasm for action and apologies from the African slave sellers very hypocritical in my opinion.