All Black Congress In The 1800’s?

I heard something this last week that sort-of-kind-of left me speechless.  Yes, that does happen at times.  I was talking with a black person that I had never met before and, of course, politics came up.  In the course of our conversation, this person said,

“They don’t teach black history anymore.”  

I responded with, “What do you mean, all of February and March are spent on educating our youth at school on black history.” 

“Oh, no.  That’s not enough time to spend teaching what the black people went through and still go through.  Why they don’t even teach about the ALL BLACK Congress that America had in the mid 1800’s.” she responded back.

Now, this is where I sort-of-kind-of lost the ability to speak.  First, I had to check myself.  I didn’t want to come right out and tell this person that I thought they were delusional.  Secondly, I was 99.9% certain that, during a time when blacks were fighting for their freedom, they weren’t allowed to voted or even allowed to have their names on a ballot.  So, I was left speechless.  I couldn’t respond with anything other than, “I never heard of that.”

“Hmph,” she responded, “See, that’s just my point.”

Now, if any of you out there can give me some real proof that this was the case, I’ll say “wow.”  But for now, I have my voice back, and I think that black people cannot be ignorant  enough to really believe that pile of crap I heard. 

There, I said it.  Here’s a picture of the black Congressmen who served during the Reconstruction AFTER the Civil War.   But this congress was not ALL black.

 

til later,

from the mind of…

FELONS TO BE ALLOWED TO VOTE?

Is it just me or does this seem wrong?  Seems kind of odd that this would be an issue now, with the majority of felons in prison being black.  Wonder who they’ll vote for. 

MARY KATHERINE HAM AND JUAN WILLIAMS ON “THE FACTOR”

Mary Katherine Ham, staff writer for Townhall Magazine, was on Bill O’Reilly’s “The Factor” this evening along with Juan Williams.  Both were in agreement that John MCain has gone far above the call of duty to keep the racial card out of the campaign. 

Both Mary Katherine and Juan stated that Barack Obama has been the one to first bring race into any conversation.  It is amazing that he plants these suggestions of racism within the two parties, yet it is he that actually brings up racism, while accusing the McCain camp of doing it.  Isn’t that racism in itself?

It would be nice if the democratic party would stop trying to make this a racial campaign.  They are setting the progress of white and black America back by at least twenty years by doing this.  For a black/white (whatever he decides to be to the crowd he is speaking to) to keep throwing out racism when McCain has not even gone there, is outrageous, to say the least. 

And while I am on this subject of the black and white embodiment of Barack Obama, why did he choose to be “black” and not white, when he was raised in a white home by a white mother and white grandparents.  Why would he do this?  I would like an explanation.  Why would he say, “Did they tell you I’m black…risky”? 

Are you as interested in that as I am?

HOUSE APOLOGIZES TO BLACK AMERICANS

Today the House of the United States apologized to black Americans for the the hardships that the black people endured over the past 100+ years.  That’s nice.  But was it really necessary?  Expeditious, yes.  But necessary, no. 

I find it interesting that in the article, found at FoxNews.com, quoted the following individuals, democrat Carolyn Cheeks of Michigan, democrat Thomas Cohen of Tennessee (the initiator of the item),  democrat John Conyers of Michigan, and democrat Charles Rangel of New York. 

Funny how they all seem to be of the liberal left, isn’t it?  And very interesting, that Cohen, the founder of this item to apologize to blacks, happens to be the only white lawmaker representing a majority black community…and who is up for re-election this Fall. 

It is almost laughable how when an election year comes around and you have a black presidential candidate running that things lean so far to the left in order to appease the black population.  I am sure that the white students attending the University of Tennessee (a majority rule of black students) are waiting an apology from the black students who made racial slurs directed toward them while attending there.  For example,

“Since the Federal order was issued in 1984, (to make the almost all black college at least 50% white) the percentage of white students at Tennessee State has fluctuated, finally growing to 34.5 percent last fall, from 31.2 percent in 1985. The effort has not always gone smoothly. Dawn Vaden, an 18-year-old nursing major who is white, said repeated slurs by blacks have made her feel unwelcome. Her father gave her a canister of Mace after she decided to attend the university. She lives in an off-campus apartment, and her parents have forbidden her to take evening courses that would cause her to be on campus at night.  “I don’t think it will ever be 50-50,” Miss Vaden said. “This is their school. I don’t think they are going to give it up.’”   http://exemployee.wordpress.com/2008/03/22/barack-obama-political-speech-and-the-black-community/

This was not an act of sorrow over the past, let us not make that error in logic.  This was a calculated act to bring the blacks alongside each member that voted for it.  This was a calculated decision to dangle a carrot out there for the black community to see and feel warm and fuzzy over.  This was a calculated effort to appear as if now was the time for this great and benevolent act of humility.  This was calculated, period.  As is most things done by the democrats.  Barack Obama has learned how to manipulate this system from some of the best manipulators. 

My only question is this.  So, now what are we suppose to do…reparation?

A THOUGHT FOR LAMAR

Lamar,  (In response to: Barack Obama Please “Shut-up…Rewind and Freeze”)
I think in the very corner of your mind, far from where you even realize it is there, you are a racist.  To answer you questions, Yes, I believe that slavery existed, but there wasn’t just black slaves, there were also white slaves.  Yes, I understand the phrase, “we built this country”, (but not all by yourselves).  And yes, I do understand what segregation means.  Who wouldn’t?  It was taught to every United States middle school child from the sixty’s to this present time that we live in.  Blacks do not have a corner on knowing about segregation.  Now here are some questions for you:

Do you understand that you are living in the past? 

Do you understand that 95% of the black population voted for a black man? (what if that had been 95% of the white population voting for a white man?  We would be called racists, that’s what.

Do you understand that a call for “change” according to Obama means socialism? Giving up more of my hard earned money so that we can all be “equal” in how we live.  Sorry, get a job and make money, I had to.

Do you understand that a black man in the United States is just a black man, you don’t need to differentiate between African American when you are born here?  You are just an American.  I don’t go around introducing myself as a Syrian-American.  I guess I could but why…I was born here, in AMERICA… even if I am standing next to a woman born in Syria.  Who really freaking cares? 

Get past the “you did this to us” phobia.  Most blacks are where they are because they cannot stand to come into the era where we are today, a country that is a melting pot for all people, from all countries, with all skin colors.  You are not special just because you are black.  You are not special just because you are white.  You are special because you live in a country that does, for the most part, try to do good for the people who live here. 

Blacks tend to keep blacks down; just look at the churches out there like the one Barack Obama goes/went to (who really knows if he really cut his ties).  I go to church; there are white and black sitting together, but my pastor preaches about the love of Jesus Christ from his pulpit, not how the white people are the scourge of the earth, especially to blacks.  Look at the majority of murders in America, blacks killing blacks.  Blacks killing whites.  There are more blacks in our prisons than any other ethnic group, and it is not because we “white” people made them behave so poorly.  At some point, a person has to take responsibility for their own actions, grow up and become a worthwhile citizen. 

I am not saying that all blacks are as I protray them in the above paragraph, however, there are a frightening many like that roaming our streets, living in our prisons, and collecting welfare.  I believe America has been pretty darn good to blacks since the seventies, at least.  Just look at ESPN and tell me there aren’t some very wealthy black individuals out there that white men and women hoot and holler for every Sunday, Monday, Thursday and Saturday. 

Like I have said before, get over yourselves, decide to join the populous of America instead of segregating yourselves, and get along with everyone.  Geesh, we teach our children to behave better.

 

I Am Tired Of The “Whites Did This To Us Blacks” Mentality

                                            

I have always prided myself on not being racist….however, this whole race campaign is sadly turning me into one……

Here is history:  Blacks Sold Themselves Into Slavery…So Take Some Of The Blame

Fact:

“The Efik people (photo above) are a branch of the Ibibio, who in the early 1600s migrated down the Cross River and founded numerous settlements in the Creek Town-Duke Town area (now in Cross River State, Nigeria), and across the river in Cameroon. This area of Nigeria is now known as Calabar and is not to be confused with Kalabari (sometimes ‘New Calabar’) in the Rivers State, 160 kilometres to the west.

Although their economy was originally based on fishing, the area quickly developed into a major trading centre and remained so well into the early 1900s. Incoming European goods were traded for slaves, palm oil and other palm products. The Efik kings collected a trading tax called comey from docking ships until the British replaced it with ‘comey subsidies’.[1]

The Efik were the middle men between the white traders on the coast and the inland tribes of the Cross river and Calabar district. Christian missions were at work among the Efiks beginning in the middle of the 19th century. Even by 1900, many of the natives were well educated, professed Christianity and dressed in European fashion.

A powerful bond of union among the Efik, and one that gives them considerable influence over other tribes, is the secret society known as the Egbo.

In 1884 the Efik kings and the chiefs of the Efik placed themselves under British protection. These treaties and attendant territorial economic rights, are documented in CAP 23 of Laws of Eastern Nigeria, captioned ‘Comey subsidies law’.[1] The Efik king known as Efik Monarch and Obong of Calabar still (2006) is a political power among the Efik.[2]

[edit] References
Waddell (1846) Efik or Old Calabar Waddell, Old Calabar;
This article incorporates text from the Calabar article in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.”

^ a b Fubara, Dagogo M.J. (5 March 2006) “Legendary legacies of Dappa-Biriye” The Tide Rivers State Newspaper Corp., Port Harcourt, Nigeria;
^ >Nwagbara, Friday (2 June 2006) “Efik monarch withholds blessing for South-South” The Tide Rivers State Newspaper Corp., Port Harcourt, Nigeria;

BARACK OBAMA Political Speech and the Black Community

I found your speech on March 18, 2008 insulting to my intelligence, and personally insulting to me as a white American.  I have never done anything wrong to the black community.  I am proud that we have come to the point where a black man, or woman, can do what only white men could have done less than fifty years ago.  I don’t owe the black community an apology for anything.  In fact, the black community owes my family, and a great many other families, a great debt, not the other way around.  My great, great, great uncle died in the Civil War so the black population could be free.  Think about that one.  It’s not all about you. 

For instance, how would the black community feel if there was an all White Entertainment Television?  They would scream we were being racist and segregating the white and black population.  NEWSFLASH:  What is BET?  Oh, yes, Black Entertainment Television.  Yes, they have that.  But whites aren’t allowed to scream racism over that, are we?  And another example: http://www.nabse.org/about.htm   This organization’s primary purpose is to educate “black children”  and promote “black educators”, etc.  Notice a pattern there?  I wonder how they would feel if we had an organization primarily established for the education of white children and the purpose of promoting white educators. 

And in a rather interesting article found at:  

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7DE1531F93AA15756C0A967958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

I found this interesting little piece.

“Since the Federal order was issued in 1984, (to make the almost all black college at least 50% white) the percentage of white students at Tennessee State has fluctuated, finally growing to 34.5 percent last fall, from 31.2 percent in 1985. The effort has not always gone smoothly. Dawn Vaden, an 18-year-old nursing major who is white, said repeated slurs by blacks have made her feel unwelcome. Her father gave her a canister of Mace after she decided to attend the university. She lives in an off-campus apartment, and her parents have forbidden her to take evening courses that would cause her to be on campus at night.  “I don’t think it will ever be 50-50,” Miss Vaden said. “This is their school. I don’t think they are going to give it up.’ “

WHAT IS THAT ALL ABOUT?  Black racism against whites?  MR.OBAMA, PLEASE EXPLAIN TO YOUR BLACK POPULATION THAT THEY CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS!

There that’s off my chest.

Barack Obama Please “Shut-up…Rewind and Freeze”

So, Obama is insisting that Geraldine Ferraro no longer be associated with the Hillary Clinton campaign for this remark: 

“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,” Ferraro said during an assessment of Obama’s treatment by the press that she attributes to an infatuation with the racial implications of his candidacy.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/11/obama-camp-calls-on-clinton-to-oust-backer-who-said-media-coverage-is-race-based/

Obama’s comment back to Hillary Clinton about this remark was:

“Obama labeled the comments as “patently absurd” after his campaign demanded Ferraro leave her post on Clinton’s finance committee. The Democratic presidential candidate told the Allentown Morning Call Tuesday: ‘“I don’t think that Geraldine Ferraro’s comments have any place in our politics or the Democratic Party … I think they were divisive.’”

To quote The Princess Diaries  (one of my favorite movies, sorry I have been known to have the Princess Syndrome),  “Shut up….Rewind and Freeze”.   Where does he or his campaign come off trying to halt freedom of speech.  Isnt’ that a First Amendment Right?  Do I like everything that comes out of his wife’s mouth?  Now she has said some “patently absurd” things.  But I would never tell her to stop her right to freedom of speech.  In fact, I wholeheartedly agree with Ferraro on this one.  She should stay right where she is with Clinton’s campaign.

Since when does telling the ironic truth become divisive?  Is he trying to tell me that just because he is black nobody can say anything bad about him?  If an orange is orange I can say it is still orange, right?  To use his standards, (and it seems to be only if you are saying something derogative about a black person, right Jeremiah Wright?  “Poor little white girl giving it up” ring a bell, Obama?)  Get real.  If we were to use Obama’s same divisive categorizing of this situation, then I would have to insist that his pastor (or retired pastor)  not be allowed to open his mouth again until his campaign is over, because he has truly uttered some “patently absurd” comments on the white race.  Let’s call an orange and orange.  He is racist, and if Obama respects his judgment enough to quote him in “The Audacity of Hope” then Obama is a racist also.  Or maybe Louis Farrakhan and endorse that Obama is not a racist.  Hmmm. 

Obama says that he wants to bring the parties together, however, he and his campaign have done nothing except increase the moat between the party lines.  The democrates have proven that they fight even amongst themselves. Obama states he wants change.  I, as a white American, would like to know what kind of change is that to me?  Are the blacks going to receive all the “change” toward them to the hinderance of the white population.  I would just like to end with this question:

“Mr. Obama, so the change we will see is that the black population will no longer have highest number of prisoners in our federal prisons, not recieve the majority of our tax dollar free government housing, food stamps, and healthcare?  What’s in your “change policy” for me, the poor white American?  Is it that I won’t have to have my tax dollars pay for all that free funding?” 

Answer that one…in a non-racist way please.