A black, up-and-coming Democratic politician with an admitted history of snorting cocaine — no I’m not talking about Barry Obama.
This time it’s new New York Governor David Paterson, who seems to be doing a lot of fessing up in his first few weeks in office…
Apparently in Democratic circles you enhance your street-cred by admitting to being a previous drug user, so don’t look for this to get any more traction.
This comment pretty much nails it:
Clearly 2 completely unqualified, reprehensible, irresponsible individuals were voted into office in NY State. Illegal narcotic use, illicit affairs with subordinates resulting in promotion for those subordinates? What else can we expect from the Hier to the NY Throne? What hypocrisy awaits us tomorrow? How embarrassing – NY should request good old Marion Berry to come on up with a score and share the white pipe with this clown and his predecessor.
If this guy came out next week and admitted to engaging in child sex trafficking in Thailand back when he was younger, I wouldn’t bat an eye.
Related Posts
Email This Post
⋅
Print This Post
Why is Patterson admitting to all this? Better to admit it up front than get caught later? Following the Obama playbook?
Two words: Marion. Barry.
Black democrats get an eternal free pass.
An Open Letter to Senator John McCain and the Republican National Committee:
September 2, 2008
Dear Senator McCain and Mike Duncan, Chairman, Republican National Committee:
“Dear” is all you will get from me. By now you all should be in Minneapolis for your shindig that you call a “convention.”
I am an African-American, and I cannot hold back my anger any longer. It is a documented fact that the Republican Party before and during the Civil War supported and benefited from slavery. As a matter of fact, the Republican Party was started for the express purpose of defending slavery and holding down black people.
It is also a matter of record that the Ku Klux Klan was started by Republicans after the Civil War to terrorize and murder black and white Democrats in the South. Republicans hated the fact that many ex-slaves were serving in state and federal government. They also hated the fact that everyone of the ex-slaves were all members of the Democratic Party. All the white Democrats, before and after the Civil War, were sympathetic to the cause of abolition of slavery and of civil rights for blacks, therefore racist Republicans had no use for them.
The Republicans historically have been bitter opponents of the following Democratic initiatives:
• The 13th Amendment that abolished slavery in 1865
• The 1866 Civil Rights Act
• The First Reconstruction Act of 1867
• The 14th Amendment in 1868 that made all persons born in the U.S., including former slaves, U.S. citizens.
• The 15th Amendment in 1870 that give every citizen the right to vote
• The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 which was to stop Republican Klansmen to terrorized white and black Democrats
• The 1875 Civil Rights Act
• The 1957 Civil Rights Act
• The 1964 Civil Rights Act
• The 1965 Voters Rights Act
In every case, the white Republicans in the Senate, especially Senator Everett Dirksen, and in the House of Representatives fought passage of these laws in every turn as well as being compelled to give up their slaves after the Civil War. The Democratic leadership, especially Senator Robert Byrd who has always despised the Ku Klux Klan and who discouraged white Americans from joining that gang, fought very hard to have those laws passed. Democratic Senator Al Gore Sr., not only voted for the Civil Rights Act in 1964, but he, along side of Senator Byrd, fought a 74-day filibuster by Republicans to defeat the legislation. The Congressional Quarterly of June 26, 1964 recorded that, in the Senate, only 69% of Republicans (46 for, 21 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act as compared to 82% of Democrats (27 for, 6 against) the Civil Rights Act. In the House of Representatives, 61% of Republicans (152 for, 96 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act and. 80% of Democrats, (138 for, 34 against) voted for it.
The Republicans have also opposed every Democratic anti-lynching bill to their shame. The Democrats have always been opposed to lynchings for decades.
For these reason, we black people deserve an apology from the Republican Party for the following:
• support of slavery, on record in their platforms
• support of the Dred Scott decision
• support of segregation and Jim Crow prejudice
• opposition to anti-lynching laws
• attempts to destroy black schools and colleges, and the burning of black churches
• efforts to defeat the Reparation Bill of 1866
• efforts to defeat every piece of Civil Rights legislation from 1863 to 1964
• efforts to have the 1875 Civil Rights Act declared unconstitutional
• support of the Ku Klux Klan, composed of entirely Republicans, and its vile and violent racist agenda:
• Republican participation in the lynchings of thousands of blacks.
History will also show the following:
• Eugene “Bull” Conner (the poster boy of American racism) was a Republican.
• The poll tax was a Republican institution.
• Black codes and Jim Crow laws were instituted by Republicans.
Africans Americans are even due reparations from the Republican Party since it supported and benefited from slavery as well as supporting KKK terror, racism, etc. The Civil Rights movement started because of the majority white racist Republican power structure in the South.
My conclusion is that if this nation was left to the devices of the Republican Party, African Americans would not be anywhere near where we are today. As a matter of fact I would argue that we African Americans would not have any constitutional rights, be U.S. citizens or otherwise because we would still be slaves!
The Democratic Party, of course, has had its problems racially here and there, unfortunately, but it does not have the consistent racist legacy for decades and decades, stretching back to the early 1800’s as the Republican Party has had. The Democratic Party, in general, has always been supportive of and open and honest with African Americans throughout its history.
It is time for the Republican Party to come clean, tell the truth, and settle the debt.
Sincerely,
Brother X
BLACK REPUBLICANS KEEP IT REAL ENOUGH TO AT LEAST REEEEEAD HISTORY. ANOTHER X’S RANT ON HOW THE ESTABLISHMENT, THAT TRULY FREED OUR PEOPLE, HAS BEEN DISTORTED UNTIL THIS DAY BY THE CONFEDERATE KKK DEMOCRATS! PEOPLE LIKE YOU WILL REMAIN UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE INFLUENCES OF PROMISES AND WAIT PATIENTLY IN SHAME, AS YOU MORE THAN LIKELY HAVE BEEN, FOR YOUR EX-MASTERS DEMOCRAT PETTY HANDOUTS AND ANTI-SOLUTION SUPPRESSION OF NOT ONLY THE AFRICAN AMERICAN, BUT THEIR ENTIRE POVERTY STRICKEN VOTER BLOCK!
WHEN SOMEONE OFFERS YOU “FREE MONEY” THERE ARE USUALLY SOME STRINGS ATTACHED.
1.THE EX CONFEDERATE MOVEMENT, OR, THE KU KLUX KLAN, STARTED THE DEMOCRATS TO SUPPRESS THE SOUTHERN BLACK VOTE IN TENNESSEE AFTER LOSING THE CIVIL WAR.
2.THEY HAVE BEEN TAKING CARE OF THERE SO CALLED “NIGGERS” EVER SINCE.
3.THERE WERE CIVIL RIGHTS OPPOSER’S ON BOTH POLITICAL SIDES IN THE 60′S AND A REPUBLICAN MAJORITY VOTED FOR IT AS ALWAYS.
4.THE ONLY FAIRLY DECENT THING DEMOCRATS HAVE DONE IN THERE EXISTENCE WAS TO HIRE OBAMA BUT HE TOOK THEIR MONEY AND GAVE IT TO BANKS AND COMPANIES! I GOT MY STIMULUS CASH FROM BUSH!
THE LEFT IS FULL OF PEOPLE LIKE X WHO CAN ONLY WAKE UP EVERY DAY TO FIGURE OUT WHO IS HOLDING THEM BACK, WHEN ALL ALONG IT IS THEMSELVES WHO ARE THEIR BIGGEST BARIER TO A TRULY FREE EXISTENCE!
WHO’S UNITED ON YOUR SIDE FOR REAL? NOBODY! YOU HAVE BEEN DIVIDED AND CONQUERED. YOU MAY SUCCEED IN SELLING YOUR CRAP TO YOUR OWN PEOPLE FOR PROFIT CON-MAN, BUT YOU MUST KNOW THE TRUTH AND BE INTENTIONALLY TRYING TO MISGUIDE THE BLINDED.
REMEMBER: REPUBLICANS ARE ONE. MEN, WOMAN, CHILDREN AND OPPORTUNITY IS ALL WE NEED TO PROVE THAT WE ARE A SELF SUFFICIENT PEOPLE BY HONOR AND HAVE NO NEED TO STRIVE TO CHEAT THE GOVERNMENT, BUT INSTEAD TO LIMMIT IT’S INVOLVEMENT IN MY FINANCIAL LIFE.
Brother X, you are quite the ignorant lamebrain! People who think like you are suckers for illusions.
Do some research on history.
By the way, your website at http://republicansmustapologize.weebly.com got hacked.
So solly.
BROTHER X .. WHY ARE YOU PLAGERIZING SOMEONE ELSES LETTER AND REVERSING THE FACTS ? .. ONLY YOU ARE SO STUPID AS TO POST THAT AND THINK ANYONE IS IGNORANT ENOUGH TO BELIEVE YOU .. TRY BEING HONEST .. APOLOGIZE
An Open Letter to the Democratic Party
Lincoln Heritage Institute ^ | 03/13/2008 | Lt. Colonel Frances Rice
An Open Letter to the Democratic Party
By Lt. Colonel Frances Rice,U.S. Army Retired: Contributor to the LHI
“We, African American citizens of the United States, declare and assert:
Whereas in the early 1600′s 20 African men and women were landed in Virginia from a Dutch ship as slaves and from that tiny seed grew the poisoned fruit of plantation slavery which shaped the course of American development,
Whereas reconciliation and healing always begin with an apology and an effort to repay those who have been wronged,
Whereas the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices committed against African Americans during the past two hundred years, nor for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices and current soft bigotry of low expectations are having on us today,
Whereas the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery and, after the Civil War, established Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes and other repressive legislation that were designed to disenfranchise African Americans,
Whereas the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, and their primary goal was to intimidate and terrorize African American voters, Republicans who moved South to protect African Americans and any other whites who supported them,
Whereas, according to leading historians (both black and white), the horrific atrocities committed against African Americans during slavery and Reconstruction were financed, sponsored, and promoted by the Democratic Party and their Ku Klux Klan supporters,
Whereas from 1870 to 1930, in an effort to deny African Americans their civil rights and to keep African Americans from voting Republican, thousands of African Americans were shot, beaten, lynched, mutilated, and burned to death by Ku Klux Klan terrorists from the Democratic Party,
Whereas Democratic Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission,
Whereas the Democratic party has used racist demagoguery to deceive African Americans about the history of the Republican Party that: (a) started as the anti-slavery party in 1854, (b) fought to free African Americans from slavery, (c) designed Reconstruction, a ten-year period of unprecedented political power for African Americans, (d) passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting African Americans freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote, (e) passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting African Americans protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, (f) passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 granting African Americans protection from the Jim Crow laws, (g) established Affirmative Action programs to help African Americans proper with Republican President Richard Nixon’s 1969 Philadelphia Plan that set the first goals and timetables and his 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act that made Affirmative Action Programs the law of our nation, and (h) never sponsored or launched a program, passed laws, or engaged in practices that resulted in the death of millions of African Americans,
Whereas Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka (a 1954 decision by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was appointed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower) was a landmark civil rights case that was designed to overturn the racist practices that were established by the Democratic Party,
Whereas after Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the vote of African Americans, he banned African American newspapers from the military shortly after taking office because he was convinced the newspapers were communists,
Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law, opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was later criticized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for ignoring civil rights issues.
Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy authorized the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) to investigate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on suspicion of being a communist,
Whereas Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, made a 14-hour filibuster speech in the Senate in June 1964 in an unsuccessful effort to block passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and was heralded in April 2004 by Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd as a senator who would have been a great leader during the Civil War,
Whereas when the 1964 Civil Rights Act came up for vote, Senator Al Gore, Sr. and the rest of the Southern Democrats voted against the bill,
Whereas in the House of Representatives only 61 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act as compared to 80 percent of Republicans, and in the Senate only 69 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, compared to 82 percent of the Republicans,
Whereas Democratic President Bill Clinton sent troops to Europe to protect the citizens of Bosnia and Kosovo while allowing an estimated 800,000 black Rwandans to be massacred in Africa, 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,
Whereas Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore created harmful racial division when he falsely claimed that the 2000 presidential election was “stolen” from him and that African Americans in Florida were disenfranchised, even though a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations confirmed that he lost the election, and a ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission declared that African Americans were not denied the right to vote,
Whereas the Democratic Party’s soft bigotry of low expectations and social promotions have consigned African Americans to economic bondage and created a culture of dependency on government social programs,
Whereas the Democratic Party’s use of deception and fear to block welfare reform, the faith-based initiative and school choice that would help African Americans prosper is consistent with the Democratic Party’s heritage of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and kukluxery, a perversion of moral sentiment among leaders of the Democratic Party whose racist legacy bode ill until this generation of African Americans,
Now, therefore, for the above and other documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs inflicted upon African Americans, we demand a formal written apology and other appropriate remuneration from the leadership of the Democratic party.