The new Overseers

I may be beating a dead horse.....but...... During a debate, the comment came up that empowering of the black people is not something any government program can do, it is something that blacks need to do for themselves; but that every time someone rises up to defend and empower blacks they end up dead. If it is true that every time a black leader rises up to empower the black population that person ends up dead......then what can be said about the Reverands Al and Jesse? These two are very much alive, they have become wealthy influential men in the black community, trusted by most blacks, but are they empowering the black community? Here is what I think of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson:

History, during the time of negro enslavement, leads to the conclusion that some of the worse treatment to black slaves was from black overseers. The white family couldn't be in the fields all the time, so they hired "trusted" blacks to see to it that the work got done, by whatever means necessary, including violent punitive action. The overseers were meant to keep the slaves under the thumb of the plantation owner, to keep them under control; he was meant to keep the slaves busy, never giving them time to foment a rebellion, to realize that they outnumbered the owners, and that the slaves had the power to control their own destiny; which they could have realized through education. In fact when some of the white abolitionists tried to educate blacks, by teaching them to read and/or write, they were turned in by black overseers.

The overseers were not above using whips and starvation to keep the slaves in line, placid, and uneducated. Basically the black overseers were meant to KEEP the slaves enslaved. Al and Jesse are the "trusted" blacks, nothing more than overseers, meant to continue the enslavement of the black community. And any black who doesn't toe the line will be, by force if necessary, brought back into line. This is the reason Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain, Mia Love, Tim Scott, Alan West, Thomas Sowell, and many other conservative blacks have taken such a beating; the overseers are not doing their job and are letting some blacks become too "uppity" as LBJ said.

Are Republicans or Democrats more racist?

"Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation to ban welfare card use from liquor stores and strip clubs. This has democrats fighting mad. Elizabeth Lower-Basch, a senior analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy, a progressive D.C. think tank says, 'There’s no evidence that this is a widespread problem. And even when funds are withdrawn in those locations, it doesn’t mean that people are gambling away their benefits.' Democratic Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-MI) says cracking down on food stamp fraud is racist, or something." http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/02/dem-rep-gwen-moore-cracking-down-of-food-stamp-fraud-is-racist-or-something-video/

We have seen the same thing coming from the national stage as well:

"At issue was a statement Gingrich made weeks earlier, that if invited to speak at the NAACP he would urge the African-American community to 'demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.' Mr. Williams—who works for Fox News—asked Mr. Gingrich if his use of such language wasn't 'intended to belittle the poor and racial minorities.' The modern day southern crackers, in the audience, roundly and rudely booed Williams. And none of the Republican candidates said anything against Gingrich’s racist characterization of the welfare issue, or, with the treatment of Mr. Williams by those in their base. Their silence—to that shameful, hateful display— tells us that Republicans will appeal to, and, appease racists for political expedience." http://blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/7910/2012-01-20.html

Okay so what can be derived from these two articles, a couple of things. First that the race card is being used to undermine the conservative shift in this country. As much as the Democrats are loathe to admit it, that is exactly what is happening:

" Thus far in 2009, 40% of Americans interviewed in national Gallup Poll surveys describe their political views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal. This represents a slight increase for conservatism in the U.S. since 2008, returning it to a level last seen in 2004." http://www.gallup.com/poll/120857/Conservatives-Single-Largest-Ideological-Group.aspx

This poll was done in 2009, and the shift is continuing:

"The growth in the percentage of independents who lean Republican has been accompanied by an uptick in the proportion who describe their views as conservative. Currently, 36% of independents say they are conservative, up from 29% in 2006. Over the same period, the proportion of independent who are moderates declined from 46% to 43%, while the number describing themselves as liberal edged downward two points (from 18% to 16%)" http://www.people-press.org/2010/09/23/section-3-trends-in-party-affiliation/ from 2010.

My second hypothesis is much more sinister and telling. Race-bating is a Democratic tool. When a "hard-work" ethic is said to be racist than there is a racial undertone that the racial minorities are against hard work. Remember this is coming from the Democrats who have historically had "compassion" for the racial minorities.

Let me dig into this deeper. Juan Williams and Gwen Moore are both actually undermining the black population and showing their in-born racism through their question. What is happening here is the idea that all blacks are on food stamps. The only way Obama being called the "Food Stamp President" is a racist statement would be if the black population were the only recipients of food stamps. The fact is that blacks may make up a large percentage, but there is a sizable percentage of white poor also on food stamps.

"Now nearly 12 percent of Americans receive aid — 28 percent of blacks, 15 percent of Latinos and 8 percent of whites." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/us/29foodstamps.html?pagewanted=2

What I am getting to here is to say the jump from the simple number to using the race card is the step at which the actual racism is happening. When Juan Williams and Gwen Moore call the Republicans out for being racist, the actual racism has taken place by themselves. Think about it. If I were to say that having a loud stereo is a characteristic of the black population, I have taken the racist step right there. For me to characterize noise ordinances as racist would mean that I have taken the racist step, not those who have voted for noise ordinances.

This video says it so succinctly.

So to wrap this up, whenever you hear someone using the race card, ask yourself who is the actual racist...the defendant or the plaintiff?