By Mark R. Levin
What goes around comes around, as they say. And we can thank the left-wing website Salon.com, AP, the Washington Post, and some TV reporter for a local Washington station for the high level of debate in the Virginia Senate race. And while the Post has run front page stories about Allen throughout the summer on such critical issues as “macaca†and his grandfather’s religion, an allegation about Jim Webb’s – how shall I say – “racial insensitivity†winds up on Page B-1. Here’s an excerpt from today’s Post:
… [Dan] Cragg, 67, who lives in Fairfax County, said on Wednesday that Webb described taking drives through the black neighborhood of Watts, where he and members of his ROTC unit used racial epithets and pointed fake guns at blacks to scare them.
“They would hop into their cars, and would go down to Watts with these buddies of his,” Cragg said Webb told him. “They would take the rifles down there. They would call then [epithets], point the rifles at them, pull the triggers and then drive off laughing. One night, some guys caught them and beat . . . them. And that was the end of that.”
Cragg said Webb told him the Watts story during a 1983 interview for a Vietnam veterans magazine. Cragg, who described himself as a Republican who would vote for Allen, did not include the story in his article. He provided a transcript of the interview, but the transcript does not contain the ROTC story. He said he still remembers the exchange vividly more than 20 years later.
Full story here.
I wonder if this will find its way into the New York Times, which yesterday found a “rural housewife†(and Democrat) who accused Allen of using racial slurs. Now, that was news worthy.
Hannity looks nicer in person
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“O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!” – No wonder he isn’t directly answering questions.
Webb; a racist’s racist..
This guy seems to be cut from the same mold as Robert “KKK” Byrd. Of course, the lib media and left-wing will excuse this…
This was an interesting article.
Sadly, Democrats have managed to trick a lot of black Americans into believing that the GOP is a racist party. But, in truth, the Democratic Party was, is, and will likely continue to be the home of far more racists than the GOP. Let me explain why I say that.
To begin with, the Republican Party was founded by anti-slavery activists, in contrast to the pro-slavery Democratic Party. It was Abe Lincoln, a Republican President, who led the North to victory in the Civil War and freed the slaves while the Democrats did everything in their power to keep black Americans down.
Fast forward to 1898 in Wilmington, N.C., where Democrats murdered black Republicans so they could stage, “the nation’s only recorded coup d’etat.” Then, in 1922, Democrats in the Senate filibustered a Republican attempt to make lynching a federal crime. A little later on, FDR nominated former Klansman Hugo Black to the Supreme Court. Contrast that to Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, who actually “sent troops” to ensure that schools in Little Rock, Ark., were desegregated and ordered the “complete desegregation of the Armed Forces.” Noticing any trends?
But, that was such a long time ago, right? Things really changed in the ’60s, didn’t they? Yes, Americans — particularly black Americans — really owe Democratic President Lyndon Johnson a debt of gratitude for destroying American families and causing the number of illegitimate births to skyrocket — by pushing entitlement programs that made it much easier to have children out of wedlock.
Remember George “segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever” Wallace standing in the door of an Alabama schoolhouse to keep black children from being able to go to school with whites? George Wallace was a Democrat. Remember Bull Connor turning water hoses and dogs on civil rights protestors? Bull Connor was a Democrat.
But, what about the revolutionary Civil Rights Act of 1964? That’s where the Democrats showed their mettle and Republicans were proven to be racists. Right? Wrong. 82% of Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 versus only 64% of Democrats. Furthermore, a few years later, it was Republican Richard Nixon who first put teeth behind affirmative action.
But, what about today? You’d think that with Democrats receiving upwards of 90% of the black vote in some cases, that there would be few, if any, prominent black Republicans while black Americans would be amongst the biggest power players in the Democratic Party. However, the opposite has often turned out to be true. Once you look past the gerrymandered districts that have to remain in place because so many liberal whites simply won’t vote for black candidates (There are only five black Democrats in the House representing majority white districts), you’ll see that the Republican Party has surpassed the Democrats in many areas.
Who’s the only black American currently on the Supreme Court? Clarence Thomas. The first black Secretary of State? Colin Powell. The first black woman ever to be a Secretary of State? Condi Rice.
Who’s one of the fill-ins for the most popular conservative radio host on earth, Rush Limbaugh? Walter Williams. The most desired 2008 nominee as selected by the right side of the blogosphere in 2006? Condi Rice. Who did those same bloggers select as the most desired nominee to replace Sandra Day O’Connor when she retired? Janice Rogers Brown tied for first place.
Meanwhile, what do we see from Democrats? We see Oreo cookies being thrown at Maryland’s black U.S. Senate candidate Michael Steele and black Republicans being called “Uncle Toms” and compared to “Aunt Jemima.”
Moreover, let’s take a look at a couple of studies that actually set out to compare how racist Republicans and Democrats actually are. First off, a professor from Yale looked at voting patterns and she found that:
“…(W)hite Republicans nationally are 25 percentage points more likely on average to vote for the Democratic senatorial candidate when the GOP hopeful is black. …In House races, white Democrats are 38 percentage points less likely to vote Democratic if their candidate is black.”
It would have been interesting for them to poll black Republicans and Democrats as well, for comparison’s sake, but however you slice it, there are a lot more white Democrats than white Republicans willing to defect to the other side rather than vote for a black candidate.
Then there is another study, this time from a professor at Stanford — of how much government largesse Democrats and Republicans believe people deserved to be given after Katrina — and, surprise, surprise: Democrats behaved in a racist fashion while Republicans didn’t:
“But for Democrats, race mattered — and in a disturbing way. Overall, Democrats were willing to give whites about $1,500 more than they chose to give to a black or other minority….” Republicans are likely to be more stringent, both in terms of money and time, Iyengar said. “However, their position is ‘principled’ in the sense that it stems from a strong belief in individualism (as opposed to handouts). Thus their responses to the assistance questions are relatively invariant across the different media conditions. Independents and Democrats, on the other hand, are more likely to be affected by racial cues.”
Here’s the reality: there are racists in both parties. But, there are a lot more of them in the Democratic Party and there always have been. But ironically, Democrats have managed to use the GOP’s belief in a colorblind America against us. Because so many Democrats have no problem with using racial discrimination for political purposes, they’ll support policies like reparations, Affirmative Action, and racial quotas that Republicans simply won’t. Then they deftly distort and exploit incidents like the Katrina rescue efforts and Bill Bennett’s condemnation of the idea that black babies could be aborted to reduce the crime rate to convince black Americans that the GOP hates black Americans.
This is all despite the fact that for a large number of black Americans, the GOP is a much better fit than the Democratic Party. The GOP is the party that’s friendly to religion, anti-abortion, against gay marriage, tough on crime, and for low taxes and school vouchers. Yet, so many black Americans have been deceived into sticking with the Democrats even though the Dems do so many things that are harmful to our country as a whole and to black Americans in particular.
That’s why if you’re a black American who thinks the GOP better represents your views than the Democratic Party, then it’s time to join the Republican Party. Don’t let the Democrats lie to you and tell you that the GOP is full of racists, especially when there are so many distinguished black Americans out there who can tell you otherwise. Look to Condi Rice, Colin Powell, Rod Paige, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Larry Elder, J.C. Watts, Michael Steele, Ken Blackwell, Lynn Swann — and you’ll see that the GOP judges people not “by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Long Island Pete- that last post was the best summary and analysis of this issue that I have ever read. I am going to print it out and give it to anyone who ever broaches this topic with me. Good work!
Long Island Pete- you should call Rush Limbaugh and read that last post to him. I bet that he would give you a complimentary year of his website and magazine.
Long Island Pete: Superb essay! In the interest of accuracy, however, I must point out that it was actually Truman who ordered the desegregation of the armed forces.
Yes, LIP, that is a great piece of writing. Dub, unfortunately, I doubt if Rush would allow Pete to read that entire piece on the air. Wish he would, but I don’t think that’s happening. Perhaps if LIP is an insider, he could send it to Rush and he could read it himself?
Either way- LIP could at least call in to Mark Levin (as he does frequently) and read it there. My great-great grandfather was one of the abolitionist Republicans (helped to establish the Republican Party in the Midwest, and once even had Lincoln to his house for dinner). My great-great grandfather was attacked by a knife-wielding pro-slavery maniac, and died the next year from complications from his wounds. His first name was Isaac , and he left behind a wife, daughters and a ten-year-old boy named Will.
Will had to support the family, and got a job with a cartage firm called Russell Waddell and Majors. This firm then branched off into an enterprise called the Pony Express, and Will became one of the Pony Express riders. One time when he was making his run, Indians had burned relay station after relay station. Will kept going, though, and when he finally arrived at a relay station that had not been burned down, he had traveled 328 miles in 22 hours. This news hit the telegraph wires and was a sensational human interest story in newspapers around the world. And that was the first taste of fame that Will received in a life that in time would become even more colossally famous. In my family, we refer to him as “the Colonel”-but I am reasonably sure that you have heard of him too: Buffalo Bill Cody. And now you know the rest of the story…
Thanks for all the kind words but I cannot take credit for the essay. It was an article I came across on townhall.com or human events, but it pretty much sums it up.
I appreciate the effort that you went to to transcribe it for us. Thanks!