https://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2015/08/18/video-oath-keepers-to-hold-march-through-ferguson-with-50-armed-black-protesters/
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Can you imagine what present day America would be like if slavery never occurred in America, and the slaughter of the Indian notwithstanding? Set aside the fact that much of America would never have been built and many of the wealthy whites in this country would probably be piss poor - and think about the impact of slavery on the mentality of those involved. On the one hand you have those who devised the plan, implemented and carried out the plan and were willing to die - and in many cases did in a vain attempt to maintain a lifestyle of privilege and prosperity. On the other hand you have the victims.

Now before we get too high on the horse and begin to believe that because those folks lost that war they stopped fighting… remember one thing, they never have. Those folks continued to fight and although the strategy changed and the battlefield was expanded, the enemy and the spoils of war remained the same. Who’s the enemy? Anyone not wearing the confederate uniform. Who are the spoils of war? Blacks. White folks went right back to war; and their children, their children’s children and their children’s children, children continue to be loaded for bear because they never accepted defeat and they never got over losing the institution of slavery.  And because white folks haven’t gotten over slavery neither have black folks.

Relatively speaking, with few exceptions, THE BELIEF THAT BLACKS ARE ANGRY ABOUT SLAVERY OF THE PAST IS A COMPLETE AND UTTER MYTH. No folks, blacks are not angry about slavery of the past. Blacks are angry about slavery of the present. As I said earlier, whites are the ones angry about slavery of the past. In spite of all the times you heard some white person say that blacks need to, “forget about slavery,” it’s not us, it’s them. The only reason blacks are angry is because blacks continue to be the targets of the very same practices of slavery past

• Family annihilation
• Voter suppression
• Inferior education
• Incarceration
• Stereotyping
• Profiling
• Job discrimination
• Murder

Whites want blacks to forget so that blacks won’t recognize that it is still going on, you know, “watch the birdie.”
Shall I go on? And surprisingly the anger doesn’t come so much from the fact that blacks continue to be the object of these atrocities. The anger comes from the fact that whites continue to be in denial about their complicity and evil intent. Nothing pisses someone off more than to have someone spit in their eye and then deny that they did. Even worse than spitting is the fact that whites pretend as though blacks can’t get over slavery, when as I said, it’s them.
 
Need more evidence?
Put aside all of what I mentioned earlier and consider the argument from this perspective. What, up until Trump’s “Make America great again” crap, had been the chief desire you heard from white voters each presidential election cycle since President Obama took office? Yup, you guessed it, “Take our country back.” Now, what I wonder is do they believe they lost when Obama became president. Could it be a sense of control? And what better way to reestablish control over what you believe you “OWN” then through the use of violence…reestablish and confirm your dominance as lord and master -read Massa.
 
Convinced yet? Shall I go on?
What is prison except for a modern day plantation? And much like slaves that were emancipated and had nowhere to go and chose to stay, most freed prisoners end up returning to prison simply because they have nowhere to go. Even worse, just like slaves they have no training, cannot get a job, cannot vote, which means they can’t feed themselves or their families so they return to what they know, crime/prison/Massa.
 
And finally folks, let’s talk about “OPEN CARRY.”  Think way back to before Obama came into office. How much talk was there about “OPEN CARRY?” Apart from the fear of losing a country what the election of Obama did to whites in America was threefold, 1) it scared whites into thinking that blacks believed they (blacks) had carte’ blanc to kill whites (never our nature), not for slavery past but that we had finally seen the light about the present 2) reminded whites of their past as if they needed reminding and 3) made whites grab their guns as evidence that the war never ended.
 
Listen up folks, this ain’t “GHOSTBUSTERS,” and while you might be afraid of that ghost, black folks ain’t afraid’ of no ghost. 


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Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump, second from left, gestures as Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich watch him a Republican presidential primary debate at Fox Theatre, Thursday, March 3, 2016, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

​By Jay Arrington March 9, 2016

“Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.” Psalm 69:22

A few years ago I wrote about how people who allegedly vote against their own interest actually vote their interest- their interest being hating folks not like them. Trouble with that philosophy is that by the time those voters realize the self-inflicted damage caused by their hate and false sense of entitlement, the only solution (in their minds) for remedy manifested in the past in the form of folks like David Duke and now in the form of Donald J. Trump. Don’t get me wrong, many members of the [Republican Party] and their other presidential candidates share theirs (angry voters) and Trump’s views. The difference is that unlike Trump the other party members won’t say (publicly) what Trump says, they just whistle, as in doggy. 

Exit polls in Michigan showed that four in ten of GOP voters support Trump’s deportation of Muslims while Mississippi exit polls showed that fifty percent of voters support deportation of Muslims. What might surprise some but not others- and certainly not me- is that in Mississippi many of those supporting a ban on Muslims identify as Evangelical Christians. Shame on you. You do know that God is not mocked? You can’t love the Lord whom you don’t see and hate your brother that you do see. But I digress- just thought I’d remind you. 
Immigration and hate for their fellowman notwithstanding, anger over the economy placed a strong second in both states on the list of “any excuse to vote for Trump.” A majority of those polled expressed dissatisfaction over the direction of the economy. Apparently $1:50 per gallon average for gasoline, 4.8% unemployment and record stock market gains are viewed as “going in the wrong direction.”  However, to be fair, I understand that for those without jobs unemployment in their respective households registers 100%.

Anger and discontent aside, the media attention Trump and to some extent Senator Cruz of Texas command leaves Governor John Kasich R-Ohio looking, well, reasonable. Truth is however, that while [Kasich] comes across as this folksy Andy Griffith type with the calm and seemingly reasonable debate demeanor, his record as governor shows that as a matter of policy he is more extreme than Trump and just as extreme as Cruz. His expansion of Medicaid notwithstanding, Kasich recently signed legislation to stop state funding of Planned Parenthood. Trump by the way supports Planned Parenthood. 

In addition to the Planned Parenthood bill, Kasich signed some of the country’s most aggressive and restrictive Voter ID laws. According to the Cleveland Plain-Dealer Editorial Board: John Kasich’s voting legislation was “a breathtaking bid to suppress voting despite constitutional guarantees of voting rights.” “Ohio’s Republican-run General Assembly has now passed three bills aimed at holding down voting by black or low-income Ohioans, a breathtaking bid to suppress voting despite constitutional guarantees of voting rights. Unwisely, Republican Gov. John Kasich has signed all of them into law. Substitute Senate Bill 205 forbids anyone but the secretary of state’s office from sending out unsolicited absentee ballot applications.” [Cleveland Plain-Dealer, 3/1/14; SB 205, 10/10/13; SB 216, 10/29/13; SB 238, 11/13/13]  correctrecord.org/the-2016-gop-record-on-voting-rights/

So you see folks (angry republicans), no matter which devil you choose he will still have horns and a pitch fork and he’ll be seated at the head of the “others” table…you know the one you prepared for your enemy. Not to worry though. There are plenty of seats.


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When David Duke the former Grand Wizard of the KKK encouraged his radio audience to vote for Donald Trump this past Wednesday, he (Duke) opened a proverbial can of self-righteous indignation out of which poured hypocrites from both sides of the aisle. The comments first reported by BuzzFeed News quote Duke saying, “Voting for these people, voting against Donald Trump at this point, is really treason to your heritage.” Heritage he says. Well since you brought that up let’s talk about the recent heritage of the Republican Party.

But first a little background. Immediately following  Duke’s statement republican presidential candidates Senators Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas called on Trump to condemn Duke along with Duke’s past association with the KKK. Apparently Cruz and Rubio, hoping to capitalize on the better angels of their respective supporters nature as well as Trump’s supporters, are suffering from an acute case of selective amnesia.

If memory serves me, I seem to recall that the so-called evangelical conservatives that Cruz believes he represents support (as history shows) much of what David Duke represents. Ask yourselves who carried out the lynchings in the south for so many years…only then they referred to themselves as “God-Fearing Christians.” You know it’s true. I mean we are talking about heritage right? And as for Rubio, he and his supporters are hell bent on repealing Obamacare. So much for love for your fellowman that you would prefer seeing them die rather than provide them access to affordable healthcare. May as well hand out infected blankets. Heritage right?

Republican strategists filled the airwaves over the weekend shaking their respective “we are the world” fists while spewing disingenuous platitudes about the ruination of the party of Lincoln and Reagan courtesy of the hate speak of Trump and now Duke. Really? Let’s take a walk further down heritage lane shall we? Remember this 2013 gem posited by Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King referencing Mexican immigrants, “they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’ve been hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.” Last time I checked King is still a Congressman. In fact, King won re-election in 2014 with nearly 62% of the vote. So much for the better angels of conservative voters nature.

Last but not least, let’s go back even further and talk about the crown prince of courting racist votes, the late Lee Atwater. Atwater served as adviser to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and chairman of the Republican National Committee and is remembered for among many things his (Atwater) Southern Strategy in which he explained how republicans could win the southern racist vote without sounding racist themselves. The following represents a small portion of Atwater’s strategy.

You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more  abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

So much for republican cries that the KKK and Trump are ruining the party of Lincoln and Reagan. Heritage would suggest the party was ruined a long time ago. Time to fold that hand guys. No one’s calling your bluff.

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“But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.”      Romans 13:14

On Tuesday Sept 8, 2015, Kim Davis, Rowan County Clerk in the city of Grayson, Kentucky was released from jail. A judge ordered Davis jailed for contempt following Davis’ refusal to issue marriage licenses. Davis stated that her refusal to issue marriage licenses stemmed from long held religious beliefs that marriage was between a man and a woman. As a result, Davis refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. 

The dust up over this issue follows this summer’s U.S. Supreme Court decision granting same-sex couples the right to marry. In so doing, the court declared the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional. However, as a country supposedly founded on religious freedoms, the jailing of Davis raises the uneasy specter that America is willing to sacrifice the rights of one for the rights of another. Whatever happened to that hallowed word Americans love to invoke in defense of a particular cause, “principle?” How is it that suddenly that word no longer applies to religions, or has it ever? 

Flashback April 29, 1967, a New York Times headline reads, “Clay Refuses Army Oath; Stripped of Boxing Crown.” A young Mohammed Ali suffered the wrath of those who refused to accept his refusal to serve based on religious beliefs. It would appear that principle applies only when that principle serves personal agenda. In this battle, there is plenty of principled personal agenda. 

For instance, does anyone believe that current Republican Presidential hopefuls Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and former Governor Mike Huckabee, R-Ark. would have joined Ali at one of his (Ali) rallies? And what about those principles abandoned by the conservatives justices on the Supreme Court or better still, President Obama. It was not until his last campaign that Obama revealed that his thoughts on the issue of same-sex marriage were evolving- how convenient. 

The justices and the president are not alone. A study by the Pew Research Center revealed a dramatic shift in attitudes about same-sex marriage. “In 2001 57 percent of Americans opposed same-sex marriage, while 35 percent of Americans supported it. The same poll shows that today opinions have greatly shifted to reflect slightly more support for same-sex marriage than opposition -- with 48 percent of Americans in favor and 43 percent opposed.”

Christian doctrine teaches that we should love everyone. As a Christian, I do my best to apply that “principle” to my life. However, loving someone is not an excuse to enable. Especially what a person believes is immoral behavior. Does not the law in order to recognize the principled wishes of one segment of society by punishing Kim Davis for standing on personal principle render moot the rationale for doing either? I was always of the impression that the purpose of laws is to point out and punish bad behaviors not to encourage them.  


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The 21st century's version of Joe McCarthy, Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas announced this past Monday that he (Cruz) is running for the 2016 republican nomination for President of the United States - talk about exalting oneself above measure. Cruz's well -scripted and well-funded affair at Liberty University had all the markings of an elaborately advertised off-Broadway play that is canceled after only five nights. Apart from the idyllic scene of his lovely family, I could not help but think that had it been the 1960s, they would all have been at a different gathering. After all, they were in Lynchburg, Virginia, how ironic, ‘Lynchburg'. 

Really folks, can any of you name anything Cruz has accomplished by way of legislation either positive or negative? I most certainly cannot. The few things that come to mind are not in the least bit flattering. Unless you are of the extreme right wing conservative ilk, Cruz impresses you most as a loudmouthed blowhard. One look at the man and you immediately get chills and not the nice ones either. Personally, I never had to hear the man speak to gauge what type of person he is; a know-it-all who thinks the rest of the world should feel privileged to breathe the same air as does he. Moreover, Cruz somehow has confused book sense with common sense thinking that a Harvard degree trumps rationale, dismisses fairness, and holds that the only self-evident truth is that he is unequalled. 

Narcissism notwithstanding, Cruz's apparent amnesia concerning his role in the government shutdown of 2013 that caused and costs the American taxpayer jobs and money -read the same thing- has slid so far down the rabbit hole that even Alice cannot find it. Furthermore, who can forget Cruz's seemingly never-ending remarks regarding President Obama's origin of birth? Although born in Canada, Cruz seems to think that doesn't count because White is not considered foreign, I guess. In some respects, it would appear that is the correct attitude. After all, republicans once considered drafting legislation that would allow former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (Austrian) to run for president. Moreover, Cruz possesses a knack for injecting dog whistle messages into his speeches. 

For example, among the many things Cruz said Monday, here are a few that in my opinion, really stood out, and give a real sense of his (Cruz) ideology: 

"God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation and I believe God isn't done with America yet." "I believe in you. I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ignite the promise of America."

"Today, I am announcing that I am running for president of the United States." "It is a time for truth. It is a time for liberty. It is a time to reclaim the Constitution of the United States. 

First, where do Americans and especially white Americans get this absurd idea that America is the only country on earth that God has blessed or loves? Secondly, what exactly is this ‘promise of America’ of which Cruz spoke? What does reclaiming the Constitution mean and from whom would it be reclaimed? Help me out here folks because the only answers that do it for me involves racist sentiment and that old air of entitlement that appears to have never been claimed by anyone other than America. 

Enough of the rant then and back to politics, or presidential politics anyway. Cruz has an uphill battle to say the least. Not only must Cruz overcome the disdain those in his (Cruz) own party feel for him, Cruz must also overcome the self-inflicted wrath of the ever- increasing immigrant population in the United States. It is no secret that Cruz is unpopular among the majority of his republican colleagues. Speaking about Cruz, Republican pollster Frank Luntz said, “His colleagues really don’t like him, and it’s very difficult when your own colleagues won’t stand up for you.” “There’s a subtle message that there is something wrong.”In addition, Democratic strategist and Washington lobbyist Steve Elmendorf said, “The question for Republicans is: Can an unlikable candidate who holds positions unappealing for the general election be viable?” 

General election viability is the least of Cruz’s present worries because he first must find a way to move beyond the republican primaries. Although his message targets disenchanted, cantankerous extreme right wing conservatives, party insiders understand that presenting a more moderate conservative approach enhances the appeal of candidates like Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul. However, were Cruz to somehow claim the nomination, general election viability would ruin any chance he would prevail considering his propensity to alienate voters. 

For instance, a 2012 Pew Research Poll showed although a shift in party identification occurred almost entirely among white voters, the Democratic Party’s advantage among blacks and Hispanics, by comparison, has remained largely unchanged. Not surprisingly however, since the election of President Obama the Republican Party increased its advantage over Democrats among non-Hispanic white voters by twelve points. In 2012, four years after Obama’s first election 52% identified with or leaned toward the Republican Party while 40% identified with the Democratic Party or leaned Democratic. However, in 2008, the balance of party identification among whites was almost evenly divided (46% Republican vs. 44% Democrat). 

Unfortunately, for Senator Cruz, the real tale of tape lies in poll numbers tracking his chances against the de facto democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton. The average poll numbers show the former Secretary of State and former First Lady defeating Cruz in a landslide by a fourteen-point margin. Not to worry Senator, should that happen you’ll have plenty of time to stage another 21hour filibuster and read ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ even if it is in your own living room. Cruz in for a bruzin my man. Cruz in for a bruzin. Cruz in for a Bruzin in 2016

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