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| Republicans, you have nothing to be ashamed of |
| 09.01.04 (1:11 pm) [edit] |
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Definately worth a read no matter what your party affiliation. Stop Ducking for Cover ALICIA COLON acolon@nysun.com It’s a good thing that the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ed Gillespie, had to leave the Congress of Racial Equality reception early. If he had stayed a while longer, he might have heard the chairman of CORE, Roy Innis, upbraid the GOP leadership in a powerful speech that was wildly applauded by the audience. Mr. Innis had started his speech by noting that George W. Bush four years ago only got 7% of the black vote. “I asked myself what did this young man do, from a fine family, a family that ran the United Negro College Fund for decades, what did he do to make black folks so angry at him?” Mr. Innis said. He then asked, “Is it because he’s a Republican? But then it was the Republicans that freed us from slavery. It was the Republican Party who passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. In modern times, in the 20th century, it was the Republican Party that was behind the civil rights bill of the late ’50s. The people who opposed it were the Democrats. “That is the profound, dismal ignorance that exists in our country and among our people.They do not realize what the Bush family has done, not just this decade but for many decades,” he said. I must admit that I, too, had no idea of the connection between the Bush family and the United Negro College Fund. Jonathan Bush, George H.W. Bush’s brother, was chairman until 1994, and the Bush family has always been a major donor. “What is really sad is that the Democrats get no penalty for filibustering the civil rights bill of the ’50s and the ’60s,” Mr. Innis said. He drew laughs when he asked if Jack Kennedy was the first or the second black president. “What many people here may not remember is that Jack Kennedy voted against the civil rights bill in the late ’50s while the Republicans were voting for it,” he said. “Why,” he asked, “are the Republicans so ashamed of their great deeds, the great things they have done? Why are they so shy? Why do they duck for cover? ” How, Mr. Innis wondered, did George W. Bush go from getting 27% of the black vote in Texas to getting only 5% there when he ran for president? “George Soros, in a pre-527 mode, financed a multimillion-dollar ad campaign to distort reality,” Mr. Innis said. He was referring to the NAACP ad that suggested that George Bush, who was then governor of Texas, was part of the lynch mob that dragged James Byrd in chains behind a pickup truck. Mr. Innis called the ad perverse, and a complete distortion of the facts. “All the Democrats have to do is raise allegations of racism and the Republicans duck and run for cover. You have nothing to be ashamed of,” he said. At this, the crowd of Republican delegates, black and white, were stomping their feet and clapping loudly in agreement. He then asked the delegates present to go back to the convention and raise their voices, saying, “We need your help. Use your votes as delegates to tell the leadership to stop ducking for cover.We need your help.We need to break free from the one-party plantation. It’s not good for minorities and it’s not good for the country.We will not go anyplace in this country with this one-party madness.” Just about every ethnic group was represented in that SRO museum auditorium. Yarmulkes and African headdresses were also visible in the crowd. Skin tones, which ranged from ebony to ivory, blended into a harmonious community bent on spreading Mr. Innis’s message “Republicans, you have nothing to be ashamed of.” |
posted by: gesn (reply)
post date: 09.02.04 (10:30 am)
Prior to Johnson's Great Society, the Republicans were the party that supported minorities - that much is correct. But, what about the party's tactics over the past 30 years?
Individuals in the party have been supportive of minority causes, but the party as a whole hasn't done anything to help racial, religious or sexual minorities.
