The Democratic Plantation
By Tom Barrett (02/01/05)
The Democrat Party touts itself as the party of inclusion. Yet it practices the worst kind of racism. The Democrats believe that minorities are not smart enough to think for themselves. If minorities are not on the plantation - if they dare to express any thoughts that are not straight Democrat party line - they are savagely attacked by the Democrats. Quite simply, the Democrat Party in this country thinks it owns the minorities.
For just one moment, try to think like a slave owner on a plantation a few hundred years ago. One of your slaves stops you in the courtyard and says, "Massah, I don't agree with your politics. You think wrong. You might believe you are helping people, but you are really hurting them." The plantation owner would probably kill the presumptuous slave on the spot. The best such a slave could hope for would be a public whipping
The Democrats in Congress recently administered a public whipping to Dr. Condoleeza Rice for daring to be a non-Democrat black. She was asked more questions than any nominee for Secretary of State in history, and they weren't polite questions. They knew they couldn't block her nomination. Our President had nominated the first black woman in history to such position of power, and it would make the Democrats look bad if they did so. But it was clear that they intended to cause her as much pain as possible.
In doing so, they weakened her stature in the international community. This did not hurt just Dr. Rice and President Bush. It hurt all Americans. Because of the childish, petulant, group temper tantrum the Democrats threw, it will be much harder for the United States to conduct its foreign policy. Other nations will view Dr. Rice as not having the support of her own government.
What mortal sin did Condoleeza Rice commit to deserve such a whipping? She became a Republican. She saw the stupidity of the tax-and-spend socialist policies of the Democrats. She couldn't stomach the liberal philosophy of blaming the United States for everything that goes wrong in the world. She realized that she could not support their goals of keeping minorities dependent on welfare so that the Democrats could be assured they would vote for Democrat candidates. She left the plantation.
Alberto Gonzalez, President Bush's choice for Attorney General, was another sinner in the eyes of the Democrats. They tried to block his nomination, using bogus arguments which I will not dignify by repeating them here. The bottom line is that they can't stand the idea of any black or Hispanic in a position of power unless they put him or her there. They can't allow America to think that minorities could choose to be conservative Republicans, much like it would be bad policy for the slave owners to let slaves escape. It would give the other slaves uppity ideas, like, "Maybe I can be free, too.
Maybe I can think for myself." Dangerous thoughts, indeed.
"But we own the Hispanics. They're supposed to support us because we support illegal immigration." I have some news for Teddy Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, and the other extreme liberals who speak for the Democrat Party. Most Hispanics don't support illegal immigration. First, because it is illegal, and most Spanish-speaking legal immigrants are very law-abiding folks. They also don't believe in it because it is bad for our nation and its economy. But the Democratic leadership continues to naively believe that if they support illegal immigration they will win the hearts of all Hispanics.
Gonzalez thinks for himself. He is a very intelligent, accomplished gentleman who looks at history, current events and the Constitution, and makes up his own mind. The Democrats feel they have somehow earned the right to tell Hispanic people how they think. Their arrogant attitude seems to be, "When I want your opinion, I'll tell you what it is." Gonzalez sinned in the eyes of the Democrat Party when he became a Republican. He left the plantation.
Times are changing. Democrats are losing their power over minorities. It is no longer as effective as it once was for the Democrats to use racism to divide America (although they still keep trying). Because of conservative initiatives that have helped hundreds of thousands escape welfare, the Democrats are fast losing that voting block.
This is healthy for America and for all minorities. The Democrats had created a culture in the black community that mandated that blacks join the Democrat Party or be considered a traitor. This culture allowed them to label such a fine patriot as Colin Powell an "Uncle Tom" and get away with it.
One hundred and forty-two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, I can finally see real freedom on the horizon for minorities. Soon we will see an America in which minorities will be able to freely choose their politics without being persecuted by the likes of Jesse Jackson. Soon minorities will be able to leave the plantation without fear.
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