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Barack Obama vs. Herman Cain

Posted on: Thursday, October 13th, 2011 by Nina May

The most historic presidential match up for the 2012 elections wouldbe Barack Obama and Herman Cain. There is an amazing similarity to twomen, one hundred years ago, who became leaders in the civil rightsbattle. Barack Obama and Herman Cain epitomize the distinctions betweenW.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington on so many levels that it begsa closer examination.

Booker T. Washington was born into slavery, lived through and survivedthe civil war and went on to found Tuskegee Institute realizing thateducation and a marketable skill would be the keys to lifting the newlyfreed slaves from their position of servitude to one of equality withthe white man. He was keenly aware, that in the south, the Democratshad fought not only a war to prevent abolition, but fought to preventthe passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. They instituted JimCrow laws at the turn of the century to keep southern blacks fromvoting because they all, unanimously, supported the party of Lincoln,their liberator.

W.E.B. Du Bois, on the other hand was born a free black, was educatedat Harvard and grew to hate...

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Juneteenth Celebrates Freedom for Slaves

Posted on: Thursday, June 18th, 2009 by Frances Rice

As we celebrate Juneteenth, also know as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, it is fitting that we pause to recognize the origin of this important part of our African American heritage.

June 19th marks the day in 1865 when word reached blacks in Texas that slavery in the United States had been abolished. More than two years earlier, on January 1, 1863, Republican President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

Delivered during the American Civil War, this proclamation ordered the freeing of all slaves in states that were rebelling against Union forces. The proclamation had little effect in Texas, where there were few Union troops to enforce the order.

News of the proclamation officially reached Texas on June 19, 1865, when Union General Gordon Granger, backed by nearly 2,000 troops, arrived in the city of Galveston and publicly announced that slavery in the United States had ended. Republicans had passed the Thirteenth Amendment on January 31, 1865 that was ratified on December 6, 1865 to abolish slavery in the United States.

Reactions among newly freed slaves ranged from shock and disbelief to jubilant celebration. That...

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Democrats and Racial Politics: From Jim Crow to Barack Obama

Posted on: Saturday, January 19th, 2008 by Frances Rice

Democrats have a 150-year history of using race as a political weapon to keep blacks in virtual slavery and Republicans out of power.The recent firestorm ignited by Senator Hillary Clinton’s racially-tinged attempt to derail Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign shows the perils of Democrats using their race-based weapon against a black Democrat. In the black community, people are outraged about how Democrat demagogues, including Billionaire Bob Johnson of BET, are treating Obama as an “uppity Negro” who dares to defy their white Democratic Party masters.Prior to the Clinton-Obama hullabaloo over Senator Clinton’s disparaging remark about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Clinton campaign was being given a pass for using racial slurs against Senator Obama. When Democrats called Senator Obama a “Magic Negro,” there was hardly a ripple of protest. Just as little concern is expressed when Democrats slander black Republicans, such as former Lt. Governor Michael Steele who Democrats depicted as a “Simple Sambo” and Dr. Condoleezza Rice who was portrayed as an ignorant “Mammy”, reminiscent...

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Judicial Considerations

Posted on: Saturday, May 3rd, 2003 by Kay Daly

In 1789, President George Washington nominated one of his first federal judicial nominees, Gunning Bedford, to the First Federal District Court of Delaware. Gunning Bedford, one of the signers of the Constitution, was a graduate of Princeton University, where he and James Madison had shared a room. While at Princeton, Bedford studied law under John Witherspoon, then the nation's preeminent legal scholar and theologian. Bedford was a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1783 to 1785 and served as Delaware's attorney general from 1784 to 1789. In 1787, Bedford was a known champion of the rights of small states, even suggesting at one point that small states might seek foreign alliances if they did not receive adequate protection in the new Constitution. The state of Delaware at the time required that all state officials "make and subscribe the following declaration, to wit: 'I, , do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the holy scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.'" As attorney general and state delegate, Bedford would have complied...

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