By
Frances Rice
Identify
politics fuels the Democratic Party. True to form, Hillary Clinton engages in
heated, hateful rhetoric designed to divide Americans along gender, class and racial
lines, while claiming she wants to unite our country. The below article
by Jeffrey Lord exposes Mrs. Clinton’s key divisive tactic--race-baiting. Further below is an article by Ian Schwartz about how Republicans are now fighting back.
Particularly
disgusting is how Democrats have played the race card every election cycle,
since the days of slavery. Democrats first used brutality and discriminatory
laws to stop black Americans from voting for Republicans. Now Democrats use
deception and government handouts to keep blacks from voting for
Republicans.
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Political
Hay
Hillary
Plays the Race Card
Will the GOP
finally challenge liberals on identity politics?
By Jeffrey Lord – 6.9.15
Photo: Democrat former Alabama Governor George Wallace who fought against civil rights for blacks
Well, that
didn’t take long.
Here we are
barely at the half-way mark of the year before the presidential election — and
right on cue Hillary Clinton is out there playing the race card, this time
using the vehicle of voter ID cards. Ah yes. Nothing like using racism to stir
the liberal base.
In last
year’s election cycle Americans had to wait until the closing days of the
campaign before Democrats running for office in states like Georgia, Kentucky,
Maryland, and North Carolina began the usual left-wing race baiting. The Wall
Street Journal noted this
here-we-go-again tactic in an October 26, 2014 editorial titled: “The 2014 Race
Card: Democratic appeals to racial division are worse than ever.”
True. And
that’s saying something. Also, noted the WSJ: “Black voter turnout
exceeded white turnout in states like Georgia and Indiana after voter ID laws
passed.”
Right. But
pay no attention to the reality that African-American voters, like every other
American, already possess ID cards or they could never navigate a society that
requires a picture ID for everything from getting a book out of the local
library to driving a car, cashing a check or buying a plane ticket and oh so
much more.
Yet here we
are again, this time with Hillary Clinton making
the racial pitch at Texas South University. In an irony of ironies, she was
accepting an award named for former Texas Rep. Barbara Jordan, an
African-American who made her mark impeaching a president who lied to the
American people back there in 1974. As one recalls, Mrs. Clinton has a
distinctively selective approach to presidents who look the American people in
the eye and don’t tell the truth. Mrs. Clinton, it must also be noted, is only
the latest in a very, very long line of prominent Democrats stretching back
centuries to employ the formula of stirring racial animosity to win votes for
the progressive agenda. How does this disreputable game work? Here’s three
quotes stretched over merely the last 113 years that can give a flavor of the
game over the years.
"Discrimination!
Why that is exactly what we propose. To remove every negro voter who can be
gotten rid of, legally, without materially impairing the numerical strength of
the white electorate.” —Carter Glass, 1902
"Let us
rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us, and send our answer to
the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South. In the name of the greatest
people that have ever trod this earth, I draw a line in the dust and toss the
gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say, segregation now, segregation
tomorrow and segregation forever.” — George C. Wallace, 1963
“And we have
a responsibility to say clearly and directly what’s really going on in our
country—because what is happening is a sweeping effort to disempower and
disenfranchise people of color…. Now some of you may have heard me or my husband
say one of our favorite sayings from Arkansas, of course I learned it from him.
“You find a turtle on a fence post, it did not get there on its own.” Well, all
of these problems with voting did not just happen by accident…. So today,
Republicans are systematically and deliberately trying to stop millions of
American citizens from voting. What part of democracy are they afraid of? — Hillary
Clinton, 2015
For those
who came in late, Carter Glass was a progressive champion and a delegate to the
Virginia Constitutional Convention charged with writing a new governing
document for the state. Glass was pitching for the votes of poor, white
Virginians by writing in literacy tests and poll taxes to the new constitution.
Glass would go on to be the influential Virginia congressman who supported
Woodrow Wilson for president, created the Federal Reserve, served as Wilson’s
Secretary of the Treasury and later the Democratic Senator from Virginia who
co-authored the much liberal-championed Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 that
regulated banks and security firms.
George
Wallace, of course, was the longtime Democratic governor of Alabama who was
crippled in an assassination attempt when he was running for the Democrats’
presidential nomination in 1972. He made another try in 1976 before yielding to
Jimmy Carter. That would be the same Jimmy Carter who won his election as
governor of Georgia in 1970 by playing the race card, specifically allying
himself with a leading Georgia racist name Roy Harris, as detailed
here back in 2009. It is no accident that only the other day Carter was at
it again, telling
the AARP that “many Americans still have racist tendencies or feelings of
superiority to people of color.” Based on his record running for governor, one
can only assume Carter is speaking for himself.
In other
words, whether its 1902 or 1963 or 1970 or 2015 — the race huckstering game of
liberalism never changes. Mrs. Clinton is only the latest to deal herself into
the game.
That Hillary
Clinton would play the race card was inevitable. This is what Democrats do and have
always done from the days of using slavery as a political organizing pole right
on down to today’s “hands up don’t shoot’” monstrosity that plays to race. The
only surprise is just how early in the 2016 campaign this latest race card
playing has arrived.
The question
then becomes: when will Republicans start hitting back instead of letting
themselves become a racial punching bag — again?
It is time —
way, way past time — for Republicans to start taking their campaigns in an
aggressive way to African-Americans. Baltimore, but of course, would be Exhibit
A. After decade after decade after decade of being run 100% by liberals —
whether whites like ex-Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley or African-Americans
like the last several mayors and the current political elite of the city — the
riots in Baltimore provided the GOP with a considerable opening.
Even as the
fires burned there were Baltimore city officials — liberals one and all —
complaining that their residents had no opportunity, no jobs and a lousy educational
system to boot. Or in other words, well aside from admitting to their own
personal failures of leadership, they were admitting that the
liberal/progressive philosophy — aka “social justice” — that depends on using
race card-playing to win the electoral day for progressive policies s not only
racist but an utter failure.
Will the GOP
take this issue head on? It’s fine to be upbeat and positive — that’s not only
good leadership its a moral necessity — but to be silent on just how liberals
play the race card game is not only political idiocy it is now, at long last,
no longer acceptable. The left-wing formula — exactly as Hillary Clinton used
it the other day in her Texas speech — of scaring people about race to enact
the latest progressive utopia must be challenged. The results of the left-wing
race/progressive policy link speak for themselves — and they should be pointed
out relentlessly.
Called out.
Spotlighted. History provided. In long form on candidate websites and in a
punchy speech version. Not to mention accompanied by policy papers. Otherwise?
Otherwise
this game will go on. And on and on and on. As it has for some two centuries.
Providing, in the end, nothing but poverty, misery and inequality for yet
another generation of African Americans. Setting them up to be merely the
latest pawns in a disgraceful progressive game that in fact, as was evidenced
recently in Baltimore, winds up at bottom killing more black kids.
So confident
is Hillary Clinton in the traditional ways of liberal race card playing that
she has no expectation of any Republican finally confronting her with this
latest salvo of identity politics. She clearly feels quite comfortable making
her race pitch — even calling out specific Republican candidates by name as if
they or the GOP were the problem here. As if, indeed.
It’s time —
past time — for GOP presidential candidates to begin this challenge by asking
Mrs. Clinton and her fellow liberal elites two short questions.
Do black
lives matter? Or not?
And oh yes,
there’s one more question. To rephrase Mrs. Clinton’s question, “What part of
democracy are they afraid of?” the response question here really should be:
“What part of racial equality are liberals really afraid of?” If Mrs. Clinton
and her fellow liberals really believe African Americans are too stupid to be
able to get a voter ID card, then that already says everything one needs to
know about liberals and race.
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Trump Supporter Jeffrey Lord vs. Van Jones on Trump, KKK: "You Are Dividing People By Race"
By
Ian Schwartz
Van Jones and Trump
supporter Jeffrey Lord have a heated debate on the race factor in the Trump
electorate as well as everything from civil rights, the Central Park jogger
case, the Klan and Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
Lord argued the Ku Klux Klan was a "military, terrorist arm of the Democratic party"
"For God's sake, read your history," Lord said to Jones.
Jones linked Trump to the Central Park jogger case where 4 black men and 1 Hispanic man were wrongfully convicted of raping a woman. Eventually a Hispanic man admitted to committing the crime.
"The whole thing with the Central Park jogger kids, he got the entire city of New York whipped up that these kids had done something wrong. And then when he was wrong, he never apologized to them," Jones protested.
"Van, what you're doing right here, what you're doing here is dividing people," Lord said. "We're all Americans here, Van. This is what liberals do. You are dividing people by race."
This is what liberalism is all about," Lord added.
"The Klan divides by race, the Klan killed people by race," Jones said.
"They did it to support the progressive agenda," Lord argued.
Lord argued the Ku Klux Klan was a "military, terrorist arm of the Democratic party"
"For God's sake, read your history," Lord said to Jones.
Jones linked Trump to the Central Park jogger case where 4 black men and 1 Hispanic man were wrongfully convicted of raping a woman. Eventually a Hispanic man admitted to committing the crime.
"The whole thing with the Central Park jogger kids, he got the entire city of New York whipped up that these kids had done something wrong. And then when he was wrong, he never apologized to them," Jones protested.
"Van, what you're doing right here, what you're doing here is dividing people," Lord said. "We're all Americans here, Van. This is what liberals do. You are dividing people by race."
This is what liberalism is all about," Lord added.
"The Klan divides by race, the Klan killed people by race," Jones said.
"They did it to support the progressive agenda," Lord argued.
