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The Democratic party: Modern day slave master
J. Matt Barber,

November 19, 2004

As a little girl in segregated Birmingham Alabama, Condoleezza Rice, like so
many other black Americans, often experienced systematic racism rooted in
old-fashioned hatred. On a balmy September morning in 1963 that hatred manifest
to sight, the vile portrait of pure evil. A group of radical white supremacists
bombed a Birmingham church in a black neighborhood killing four little girls.
One of those little girls, Denise McNair, was a friend to Condoleezza Rice.


From her humble beginnings in the Deep South, to one of the President’s most
trusted confidants, Dr. Rice has overwhelmingly surpassed external expectations
and diligently achieved internal aspirations to become the most powerful black
woman in United States history. If her nomination survives Senate confirmation,
which is fully expected, she will hold our Nation’s highest Cabinet level
position: Secretary of State.

In light of her countless laudable achievements and historical milestones,
surely Dr. Rice is a beacon of pride for all who purport to support the black
race — she is undoubtedly respected and revered by those who delight in the
American dream fulfilled and on display — such a story will certainly be the
fabric of hope and inspiration, woven throughout the hearts and minds of
America’s black youth for decades to come… No… so very regrettably and
predictably, such is not the case…not as long as Democrats have anything to
say about it.

You see, the Democratic Party, the liberal "mainstream" media and the rest of
the cultural elites are having a very hard time handling Dr. Rice’s rise to
power. They’ve waged a disgraceful, racist and cowardly back-door assault
against her. Why? Little Ms. Condoleezza has wandered away from the plantation.
She refuses to slave in the cotton fields of "progressive" ideology. If she is
allowed credibility and is perceived as an acceptable role model, then perhaps
black Democrats, heretofore taken for granted, will begin to recognize her
achievements as legitimate and honorable, and worse…begin to share her
socially and fiscally conservative, Republican values. If this happens…all is
lost.

In a manner that is objectively and demonstrably racist, liberal Democrats and
the media have collectively assumed the persona of David Duke. Here’s but a
snippet: In his recent comic strip, Doonesbury creator and liberal Democrat
Garry Trudeau depicts Dr. Rice as an un-educated idiot, and refers to her as
"Brown Sugar." In his recent cartoon, liberal Democrat and Boston Globe
syndicated cartoonist Pat Oliphant characterizes Dr. Rice as a squawking parrot
perched upon President Bush’s finger, blindly, mindlessly and dutifully
observing his every whim. Her lips are exaggerated in a grossly bulbous and
ethnically stereotypical fashion. And, with his recent masterpiece, liberal
Democrat and LA Times editorial cartoonist Jeff Danziger reminds us all of the
days when the KKK actually had some pull. His cartoon portrays Dr. Rice as,
what can only be described as a tattered barefoot slave "mammy" (probably
Prissy from Gone with the Wind). She sits in a rocking chair with her legs
spread. On her lap she holds an aluminum tube like an infant (ostensibly a tube
of the uranium enrichment variety). She attempts to feed the tube with a bottle
and then, in the stereotypical vernacular of a "colored," says, "I knows all
about aluminum tubes. Correction. I don't know nuthin' about aluminum tubes."

Yet, we wait. We wait for Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to explode on the scene
demanding that Trudeau, Oliphant and Danziger be skewered alive and pealed. We
wait for the NAACP, and the droves of other liberal Democrats who fancy
themselves as America’s (self appointed) "black leadership" to demand that
all three be fired and banished to Nebraska, Oklahoma or some other Red-State.
But, we wait in vain. Instead, we hear the deafening and ever so telling clamor
of indifferent silence. They’re cut from the same cloth you see — they play
for the same team — the same rules don’t apply — integrity be damned! One
need only imagine the utter pandemonium had a conservative Republican
conceptualized and produced the same racist refuse.

Still, on the larger front in the battle between Republicans and Democrats for
the hearts, minds, souls and votes of black Americans, it’s quite simple. The
Democratic Party’s survival is dependent upon blacks being dependent upon the
Democratic Party. Confusing? Not really. One of the Party’s chief tenets, and
that which is most central to its survival, is the perpetual maintenance of
Black America’s dependence on Big (Democrat controlled) Government — it’s
the Party’s notion that another promised entitlement yields another black
vote. For the Democratic Party to live another day, save another tree, kill
another baby…the backward fiction that a successful black-man is not really a
black-man at all, must live on. Once that is gone and the secret gets out —
Checkmate! — Game-over.

Perhaps the marked hypocrisy revealed in the Democratic Party’s recent
deplorable and racist treatment of Condoleezza Rice has done enough to reveal
the man behind the curtain — to expose black America to the reality that they
have been, for far too long, taken for granted — used — exploited by the
Democratic Party. And as more and more black Americans begin to embrace the
success oriented, values driven, economically sound principles held by the
Republican party and shared by such great Americans as Condoleezza Rice,
Clarance Thomas and Colin Powell, then perhaps more and more black Americans
will resolve to break free and walk away from the Democratic Party’s
beguiling chains of bondage.