Which Candidate Is Best For African Americans?

The following information comes directly from a copy NBRA
Newsletter, (National Black Republican Association) sent to me
personally by Frances Rice, Chairman. This is an outstanding
newsletter, one that should be read by everyone.

In his "I Have a Dream" speech, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said:
"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but
by the content of their character."
Character is defined as the essence of a person and determines a
person’s judgment, or what a person will do when no one is
looking. Dr. King’s admonishment is relevant during this 2008
election, and black Americans should evaluate the candidates
based on competence to be our Commander in Chief, not skin color.
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We need the right president, not just a black president.

The Democratic Party Today
● Democrats are liberals who have been running black communities
for the past 40 years with socialist policies that have turned black
communities into economic and social wastelands. Black Democrat
Juan Williams exposed the deplorable conditions in black
communities in his book “Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-end
Movements and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining
Black America.”

● Democrats oppose programs that will help blacks get out of
poverty, such as the Faithbased Initiative that would put
church-based social programs on an equal footing with secular
groups when competing for federal grants. Democrats oppose
school choice scholarships that would help black children get
out of failing schools. Democrats oppose Social Security reform
even though blacks lose $10,000 in the current system
because blacks have a five-year shorter life expectancy.
Democrats favor same-sex marriage and partial-birth abortion.

The Republican Party Today
● Since the War on Poverty of the 1960’s, over $7 trillion has
been spent on poverty programs. Under President George W.
Bush, record money has been spent on education, job training
and health care. Over $1.4 billion has been spent for overall
education - a record 137% increase, and $13.1 billion was spent
for the No Child Left Behind Act. Bush has also spent $18.8
million for Historically Black Colleges, $24 billion for small
business loans and grants, and $10 billion for Medicaid, the
state-federal health insurance for the poor. Since 2001, access
to free community health centers has been extended to 2.2
million poor people. In May 2003, Bush provided $15 billion,
three times more money than President Bill Clinton, to fight
AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean

● All Americans received tax cuts under Bush’s tax cut plan
108 million average families received $2,500. Over 3.8 million
more poor people were freed from the tax rolls entirely, and
poor blacks received an additional gift of $1,000 per child plus
$1,658 per family under the Earned Income Tax Credit
program. “Tax cuts for the rich” is a deceptive Democratic Party
talking point.

● Bush has appointed more blacks to high level positions than
any president in our nation’s history, including: Secretary of
State, National Security Advisor, Director of Personnel
Management, Assistant Attorney General, Chairman of the
FCC, Director of HUD, Secretary of Education, and Assistant
Secretary of Education. Republicans support merit-based
Affirmative Action as was started by President Richard Nixon
in 1969, not the Democrats’ unfair quota system of today.

● During Hurricane Katrina, the Democrats running New
Orleans and Louisiana failed blacks. Red Cross food was refused
by the Mayor, and over 1,000 buses were left in parking lots and
became ruined by the flood. The 1878 Posse Comitatus Act
prevents a president from sending federal troops to a state
without the governor’s consent. The Louisiana Governor denied
Bush consent for days. Democrats blocked Bush’s 2001 energy bill
which had $540 million for levee repairs.

● Republicans support school choice scholarships, protecting the
sanctity of life and preserving marriage as a union between one
man and one woman. Studies show blacks think conservative, but
vote liberal.
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The Myth of Republican Racism

● Author Michael Scheuer revealed that the Democratic Party is
the party of the four S’s: Slavery, Secession, Segregation and now
Socialism. Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan, passed the Jim
Crow laws and fought very piece of civil rights legislation from the
1860’s through the 1960’s. For facts about racist Democrats, read
“A Short History of Reconstruction” by Dr. Eric Foner.

● From the founding of the Republican Party as the anti-slavery
in 1854 until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom
and equality for blacks. Republicans amended the Constitution to
grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote. Republicans
started the NAACP and HBCU’s. Republicans pushed to pass every
piece of civil rights legislation from the 1860's to the 1960's, including
the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 that
were overturned by Democrats with the 1894 Repeal Act after they
took over Congress in 1892.

● Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat
President Lyndon Johnson, pushed through the civil rights laws of
the 1960’s. Dirksen was key to the passage of civil rights laws in 1957,
1960, 1964, 1965 and 1968. The chief opponents of the 1964 Civil
Rights Act were Democrat Senators Sam Arvin, Albert Gore, Sr. and
Robert Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan who is still in
Congress. None of those racist Democrats became Republicans.

● Contrary to claims by Democrats today, the racist Democrats
remained Democrats and declared they would vote for a “yellow
dog” before a Republican because the Republican Party was the
party for blacks.

● Democrat Public Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor in
Birmingham let loose dogs and fire hoses on blacks. South Carolina
Democrat Governor Ernest Hollings hoisted the Confederate Flag
over that state’s capitol. Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox
waved ax handles to stop blacks from patronizing his restaurant. In
1954, Democrat Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus blocked
desegregation of a Little Rock public school. Democrat Alabama
Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse
in 1963 and thundered, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow,
segregation forever." None of these racist Democrats became
Republicans.

● Senator Barry Goldwater was a Libertarian, not a racist. Goldwater
was a member of the Arizona NAACP and helped desegregate the
Arizona National Guard. He supported the Civil Rights Acts of 1957
and 1960. He honestly believed that the more extensive 1964 Civil
Rights Act was an unconstitutionally grant of federal government
power over private citizens.

● President Richard Nixon’s 1970’s “Southern Strategy” began a
30-year odyssey to get fair-minded people in the South to stop
voting for racist Democrats who were discriminating against blacks.
Georgia finally switched in 2004. Louisiana has begun switching by
electing a man of color, Republican Bobby Jindal, as governor in
2007. Democrats were content when the racist South voted solidly
Democrat for 100 years, but now castigate Republicans because
some Southerners have gotten over their racial animosity and joined
Republicans in treating blacks fairly.

● Democrat Senator Christopher Dodd praised former Klansman
Senator Byrd as someone who would have been "a great senator
for any moment," including the Civil War. Yet, Democrats denounced
Senator Trent Lott for his remarks about Senator Strom Thurmond.
However, Senator Thurmond was never in the Ku Klux Klan
and, after he became a Republican, defended blacks against lynching
and iscriminatory poll taxes imposed on blacks by Democrats.

● Democrats do not mention that former Vice President Al Gore first
brought up the issue of Willie Horton against Massachusetts Governor
Michael Dukakis during the 1988 primary election. Notably, former
Republican G.H. W. Bush simply raised the Horton issue against
Dukakis during the general election.