Commentary on the News:
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY:
MODERN DAY SLAVE MASTER
By J. Matt Barber
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 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 peeled. 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, Clarence 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.
Copyright © 2005 by J. Matt Barber
J. Matt Barber is a non-practicing attorney, an undefeated heavyweight professional boxer
(Matt "Bam Bam" Barber), and a jazz drummer in Chicago, IL. In addition to
his Law Degree, Barber holds a Master of Arts in Public Policy from Regent University.
Matt is a Contributing Editor for TheConservativeVoice.com, and a contributor to a
number of other top conservative publications.
