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Empowered Greetings.
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Donald Trump And The Ghost Of Ronald Reagan
ately, I’ve begun to won-
der if the Black men and women who fought and died during all of the American wars and conflicts would have laid down their lives if they had known that America would still be treating Black people as second class citizens 151 years after their emancipation.
Harriett Tubman, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Sojourner Truth, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, and all Back men and women who died in the South for voting rights and equal rights of Blacks must be turning over in their graves to know that almost two million Black voters who voted for President Barack Obama in 2012 didn’t bother to vote in the recent 2016 elections.
Moreover, they are proba- bly scratching their heads over the seven percent of Black vot- ers who voted for President- elect Donald Trump in spite of his racist, narcissistic, sexist, misogynistic and religious in- tolerance rants.
Yes, Americans have the right not to vote just as every- one has the right to vote for whomever he/she chooses. However, those survivors and voters of the aftermath both become victims of and casual- ties of such behaviors and our failure to remember our his- tory.
Certainly, we pray neither group will ever have reasons to
regret how they voted or their failure to vote anytime in the future. Thus, let’s reflect on some parallels between the Trump and Reagan elections wherein Blacks may very well have been the catalyst for a historical reversal of Civil Rights for Blacks and other mi- norities. Remember, the Re- publican Party has never supported Affirmative Action and opposed the Fair Housing Act of 1968, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act.
Obviously, many of us for- got that Ronald Reagan chose to kick off his presiden- tial campaign in Neshoba County, Mississippi, where James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were murdered during the height of the strug- gle for voting rights in Missis- sippi.
Moreover, do you remem- ber that Ronald Reagan used race baiting terms and racist words such as “states’ rights,” “law and order,” and “forced busing?”
If you remember, Rea- gan’s racial politics (similar to those used by Donald Trump) included “false facts” about “food stamp chiselers” and “welfare-Cadillac-driving queens” that employed racist reference and imagery and at- tracted anti-civil rights whites in the South.
Some historians view Rea- gan’s speech given at the
Neshoba County Fair as a “coded message” to Southern racists when he promised if elected that he would restore states and local governments the power that belongs to them. (Sound familiar?)
Reagan attracted friend- ships and allies such as “noto- rious” segregationist John Bell Williams, U. S. Repre- sentative Trent Lott (sup- porter of racist Strom Thurmond’s 1948 racist presidential campaign), Roger Ailes (racist media ad- visor), Pat Buchanan (com- munications director with a history of racism and anti- Semitism), Senator Jesse Helms, a North Carolina seg- regationist, and the Rev. Jerry Falwell, a religious/political activist who stated that Jim Crow policies were God-ordained because Blacks were “stricken with the Biblical curse of Ham,” all comparable to the “Alt-Right” characters Trump is appoint- ing to his cabinet. We certainly hope Blacks will be vigilant and wary of other Trump ap- pointees and Supreme Court nominees.
Reagan appointed anti- school desegregationist Ed Meese and William Brad- ford Reynolds as Attorney General and Associate Attor- ney General and nominated anti-civil rights judges to U. S. District Courts (Jeff Ses- sions) and the Supreme Court (Robert Bork).
There are so many parallels between Trump and Reagan until one would think that Ronald Reagan’s ghost is whispering his playbook into Trump’s ear.
By the way, Reagan re- ceived 10 percent of the non- white vote in 1980. Here’s hoping true facts will save his- tory and reinstate common sense. Harrambee.
Tampa Gun Thefts Pose A Real Warning!
he plan roughly, is this: Unit 8 will secure a large quan-
tity of explosives – between five and ten tons. Our unit will hijack a truck making a legitimate delivery to the FBI headquarters, rendezvous at a location where Unit 8 will be waiting with the explosives, and switch loads. We will then drive into the FBI building’s freight-receiving area, set the fuse, and leave the truck . . .”
Thus begins a paragraph from one of the most horrific books ever printed since Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Andrew MacDonald’s The Turner Diaries, first published in 1978 then republished and rediscovered in 1996 became contro- versial when a pimple-faced white supremacist named Tim- othy McVeigh used it as a blueprint to blow up an FBI building in Oklahoma City.
McVeigh intended to start a race war, but the fact he did- n’t succeed took nothing away from Andrew Macdonald’s book, which to this day remains a bible for Ku Klux Klans- men, neo-Nazis, and other racist malcontents intent on the disruption of America.
Therefore, you can understand our suspicion when in a local paper we read, “The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the National Shooting Sports Foundation are offering a combined reward of $10,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction (of a small army of hooded thieves who’ve hit four gun shops in the past 13 months and made off with hundreds of weapons from handguns to AR-15’s).
Thus far, police officials suspect possible gang complic- ity. But we smell the stench of neo-Nazi anarchism, such as described in The Turner Diaries. (In truth, you need to read the book).
No, we do not advocate violence. But, we do advocate vig- ilance as well as the use of the 2nd Amendment in the name of self and family defense. Get a license; purchase then learn how to use your own firearm. It’s better to have and not need than to need and not have.
New Rules
Bill Maher talk-show fans should love this editorial. Congressional Democrats must learn how to fight “down and dirty” if they want to be seen as “The Party of the
People.”
Indeed, our recent presidential election has shown that
“bad boys rule;” that bully-politicians can get away with say- ing anything because people don’t read and will believe any- thing you say especially if it’s loud and mean; they should appeal to humanity’s baser nature (money, hate, fear, anger)in order to get votes”; and that calling people names such as “crooked,” “nasty,” “liar,” etc., is sure to hit your op- ponents squarely in the solar plexus.
What we don’t understand is why Congressional Democ- rats didn’t “dime loudly” on the GOP when it voted against President Obama’s Jobs For Americans Act, which con- tained language that would have ended tax subsidies for moving jobs overseas.
Certainly, they missed a golden opportunity to clobber the GOP when they blocked President Obama’s Stimulus Package that ended up saving America from the brink of a depression, and that the GOP voted to weaken the Dodd-
Frank Act designed to prevent banks and finance companies from engineering another eco- nomic collapse such as the “housing market bust.”
Ww’re also miffed that Congressional Democrats failed to shine media attention on the fact that President Obama issued 250 (less than Bush and Clinton) executive orders because the GOP carried out its threat to block every piece of legislation he presented.
Consider how Floridians voted for GOP candidates even after GOPers held up funding to fight the Zika virus. These are just a few ‘down and dirty” actions the Democrats in Congress must learn to use in the interest of the American people.
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