Conservative Black Woman: Black Political History: The Untold Story

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Black Political History: The Untold Story

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Black Political History: The Untold Story

NOTE: All answers are “b”

1. What Party was founded as the anti-slavery Party and fought to free blacks from slavery?
a. Democratic Party
b. Republican Party

2. What was the Party of Abraham Lincoln, who signed the emancipation proclamation that resulted in the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today?
a. Democratic Party
b. Republican Party

3. What Party passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting blacks freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote?
a. Democratic Party
b. Republican Party

4. What Party passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting blacks protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, and was the Party of most blacks prior to the 1960s, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
a. Democratic Party
b. Republican Party

5. What was the Party of the founders of the NAACP?
a. Democratic Party
b. Republican Party

6. What was the Party of President Dwight Eisenhower, who sent U.S. troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools, established the Civil Rights Commission in 1958, and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation?
a. Democratic Party
b. Republican Party

7. What Party, by the greatest percentage, passed the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s?
a. Democratic Party
b. Republican Party

8. What was the Party of President Richard Nixon, who instituted the first Affirmative Action program in 1969 with the Philadelphia Plan that established goals and timetables?
a. Democratic Party
b. Republican Party

9. What is the Party of President George W. Bush, who supports the U.S. Supreme Court’s University of Michigan Affirmative Action decision, and is spending over $200 billion to fight AIDS in Africa and on programs to help black Americans prosper, including school vouchers, the faith-based initiative, home ownership,and small business ownership?
a. Democratic Party
b. Republican Party

10. What Party fought to keep blacks in slavery and was the Party of the Ku Klux Klan?
a. Republican Party
b. Democratic Party

11. What Party from 1870 to 1930 used fraud, whippings, lynching, murder, intimidation, and mutilation to get the black vote, and passed the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws which legalized racial discrimination and denied blacks their rights as citizens?
a. Republican Party
b. Democratic Party

12. What was the Party of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry Truman, who rejected antilynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission?
a. Republican Party
b. Democratic Party

13. What was the Party of President Lyndon Johnson, who called Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “that [N-word]
preacher” because he opposed the Viet Nam War; and President John F. Kennedy who voted against the 1957 Civil Rights law as a Senator, then as president opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King, and had the FBI investigate Dr. King on suspicion of being a communist?
a. Republican Party
b. Democratic Party

14. What is the Party of current Senator Robert Byrd, who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Senator Fritz Hollings who hoisted the Confederate flag over the state capitol in South Carolina when he was the governor, and Senator Ted Kennedy who recently insulted black judicial nominees by calling them“Neanderthals” while blocking their appointments?
a. Republican Party
b. Democratic Party

15. What was the Party of President Bill Clinton, who failed to fight the terrorists after the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, sent troops to war in Bosnia and Kosovo without Congressional approval, vetoed the Welfare Reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan?
a. Republican Party
b. Democratic Party

16. What is the Party of Vice President Al Gore, whose father voted against the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s, and who lost the 2000 election, as confirmed by a second recount of Florida votes by the Miami Herald and a consortium of major news organization, and the ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission that blacks werenot denied the right to vote?
a. Republican Party
b. Democratic Party

17. What Party is against the faith-based initiative, against school vouchers, against school prayers, and takes the black vote for granted without ever acknowledging their racist past or apologizing for trying to expand slavery, lynching blacks, and passing the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that caused great harm to blacks?
a. Republican Party
b. Democratic Party

Wake up my bretheren and stop letting the Democratic Party take your vote for granted!!!!!!!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Luckily this is year 2008. We are in the 21st century now. The Republican Party obviously did GREAT things for African-Americans in the past, but the past is the past. And if we keep living in the past we will never progress. Instead of blogging about what the
Republican Party did years and years ago, how about we focus on the current issues. Besides being black, we are also American citizen and there are issues that are quite relevant to us now (i.e. the economy, health care, education, foreign policy, etc.) that we should be focusing on.

Oh, and I love your blogs, girl. Keep up the good work!; September 10, 2008 at 5:06 PM
taipan55 said...: Most black people I speak to don't realize that black people were Republicans faithfully until FDR and the implementation of systems that traded empowerment for a handout. I concur that it's important to look at what's happening today. In the process, we as black people need to ask ourselves if we want more handouts or do we want our empowerment back. Getting and taking back our ability to "make it" no matter who may be in office should be our concern.

Thanks for the history lesson and reminder!; September 24, 2008 at 12:54 AM

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Don't let the title of this blog deceive you. Yes, I'm a Conservative Black Woman -- Not to be confused with Republican Black Woman. At this point I am in fact a Political Atheist. I believe with every fiber of my being that America is no longer a Constitutional Republic but rather a Corporate Fascist Oligarchy. Our Presidents are just the puppets, tools, spokespersons for the Powers that Be...Council of Foreign Relations and various other NGO's who are beholden to the International Banking Cabal. No, I'm not a Conspiracy Theorist -- I am a Conspiracy Researcher and I'd advise you to do the same. Who said "I would not have you ignorant?" Yes, that's my "handler" for all of those who think I have one. Over the course of writing this blog. My paradigm has shifted ENTIRELY. Yes, the paragraph below still applies but the Left\Right, Democrat\Republican head fake no longer applies to me. I WOKE UP!!!!

"I am fed up with what has happening within the black community. Too many of our families are broken, too many of us are morally degenerate and too many of us are willing to blame all of our pathology on slavery, George Bush, the Republican party or anything but our failures as Parents, Husbands, Wives and Christians."

My Favorite Quotations.....

Truth is scarcely found. But integrity and truth are hardly found within the Black population as a whole at least not where it involves black people. Most blacks have pledged allegiance to their blackness, not truth, not to America, not even to God as many profess. Integrity and truth has to go out the window if it somehow poses a threat to the "positive" image of blackness. ~Anonymous

Regarding Obama's hit on Gadhafi's family: "He's spineless and shameless, except when his masters unleash him on people of color. Then he becomes a pit bull--a real life Sambo/Quimbo doing the dirty work of Simon Legree. TPTB knew exactly what they were doing when they "selected" Obama to manage their psychopathocracy." ~ Makheru Bradley

"Whenever I hear cats start talking that "community" shit I know they are not serious. No one is accountable in conversations about "da community". That "we as a people"... Plantation Negro segmentation nonsense is Kool-Aid left over from the 70's. It perpetuates the illusion that there is even such a thing as a "black community". There aint no "community" and hasn't been in 40 years. Most Negros don't even know their neighbors."The only effective group is FAMILY. Families are the cells of a society. Destruction of the cell is cancer. An effective institution, expectation and habit of marriage is the antidote." ~Denmark Vesey(A Bloggin' Beast!!!!)

The irony of having an economic system that you hate be the source of your entitlement that is in excess of your productive capacity. -- Constructive Feedback (Blogger Extraordinaire)

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion – in the long run, these are the only people who count. -Robert A. Heinlein

Illumination of the above Frederick Douglass quote by blogger extraordinaire Constructive Feedback

With all due respect to this great I am not sure that he could have imagined the day where:

"Non-justice" is delivered by the hands of favorable officials with racial diversity that realize "Black on Black violence" is not seen as "violent" as other modalities
Where allowing "ignorance to prevail" is a favorable strategy for the retention of power by those who position themselves as saviors
Where "conspiracy theories" are effective tools to allow people to remain unified against an external threat - even when it has moved away and they are all by themselves - otherwise having to manage the human resources before them toward a more conscious end.

In this environment - Robbery, the oppression of intimidation, and degradation put in the form of a music genre lead to an inevitable condition of insecurity for persons and property.