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NATHANIEL LEE WADE
THE DIXIECRAT GOP By: Bobby E. Mills, PhD
The Grand Ole Party of Abraham Lincoln evolved into the Ole Dixiecrat Party of the Southern Confederacy. The question of questions is what happened? Sadly, Texas has become the strongest GOP state in the nation. Why is the question of questions? For over one hundred years the GOP was not a viable force in Texas politics because Blacks controlled the GOP. In fact, historically Blacks controlled the GOP, and were 90% of the delegates at the first GOP Convention in Houston, on July 4th, 1867. In attendance were (150) Blacks and (20) Whites. The Second State Convention was chaired by Norris Wright Cuney (1883-1887). In fact, Cuney Homes is named in honor of Norris Wright Cuney. In 1978, William P. Clements became the first Republican Governor in over 100 years. In 2023, the GOP control all three branches of state government. In American
politics a political party philosophical ideological switch has occurred. The Republican Party of Lincoln has become the Southern Dixiecrat Party of the Confederate states, and the Democrat Party has become the inclusive multicultural party of Abraham Lincoln, because a nation divided against itself cannot stand. This is only a brief factual synopsis of the history of political partisanship in Texas. The reality behind the synopsis is simply the ugliness of institutional racism. The truth behind the political switch-a-rue (changing of the guard) is simply the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965). When these legislative Acts were passed President Lyndon B. Johnson emphatically declared that: “the Democrat Party has just lost the South”.
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DECEMBER 18, 1958 – OCTOBER 24, 2023
In his early years, Nathaniel grew up in the Acres Homes neighborhood in Houston, Texas, later moving to the Studewood neighborhood in his formative teenage years. He would spend his summers on his grandfather Dee Duncan’s dairy farm in Moscow, Texas where he made many fond memories growing up in the country life alongside his grandfather who he loved dearly. This molded his love for the country life. He attended A.B. Anderson Elementary, Allen Elementary and Frank Black Junior High, graduating in the class of 1978 from Booker T. Washington High School where he played a variety of sports including baseball, basketball and football for Booker T. Washington Golden War Eagles. After graduation he went on to coach little league football for the Clark Park Warriors, as well as T-Ball. He was great with children. He further went on to become director of the Houston Wade on pg. 3
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ARE VOUCHERS ANOTHER EMPTY PROMISE? By: Rachel Thompson
Governor Abbott called the fourth special session, which began at 5pm on November 7, 2023, immediately after the third special session. He opened with “The Texas Legislature made progress over the past month protecting Texans from forced COVID-19 vaccinations and increasing penalties for human smuggling, however, there is more work to be done. I am immediately calling lawmakers back for Special Session number four to complete their critical work to empower Texas parents to choose the best education pathway for their child while providing billions more in funding for Texas public schools and continuing to boost safety measures in schools.” Will vouchers give parents real choice? It all depends on your financial circumstance, as well as services a student may need. According to Private School Review, established in 2003, the elementary school average tuition in Texas is $10,472 per academic year while the private high school average in Texas is $11,949 per year. Senate Bill 1 provides $1,000, if the participating child is a home-schooled student, or $8,000, if the child is attends a private school. One of the co-authors of Senate Bill 1 is Senator Paul Bettencourt who represents the Senate District 7, which encompasses most of West Harris County. If a parent in Bettencourt’s district decides to send their child to the Kinkaid Academy, they will get an $8,000 credit toward tuition which currently
ranges from $27,740 to $33,655 according to their website. So, yes, vouchers provide real choice to parents that can afford to pay at least $19,740. The bill also states that a private school is not subject to federal and state laws regarding the provision of educational services to a child with a disability in the same manner as a public school. Therefore, students that qualify for special education services could be denied acceptance to the private schools, or grossly underserved. Of all students receiving special education services in Texas, 66 percent are identified as male. Males also make up 83 and 71 percent of autism and emotional disturbance classifications, respectively. Black students, who make up 12.6 percent of the Texas public school population, make up 20 percent of the “emotional disturbance” classifications. Will vouchers give parents real choice? It all depends on if the private school will accept our Black male students who qualify for special education and provide the services they need. Parents, special education advocates, pastors, and school
superintendents throughout the state have voiced concerns, penned letters, and testified that vouchers will undermine public education. During an October 29, 2023, interview on Inside Texas Politics with Dallas’ ABC affiliate WFAA, Republican Representative Drew Darby said: “I find it objectionable any talk of taking public dollars out of public schools and supporting private or parochial schools that don’t have the same accountability, don’t have the same test, don’t have the same transparency, and don’t have open enrollment policies.”
The issue has remained stalled throughout previous sessions largely due to the opposition of Republicans in rural parts of the state, where schools are the largest employers and the pride of their communities. Of more than 1,200 Texas school districts, 658 are classified as some version of rural. Most Democrats have vowed to oppose the legislation. Special sessions can last up to 30 days, and there is no limit to the number of special sessions that can be called.
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America, President Lyndon Johnson did not lie! The Republican Party of Lincoln believed in freeing the slaves. However, the true reasons for the Civil War were not slavery, but economic advantages and state rights. The Emancipation Proclamation Act of (1863) tragically became the basis for the political assassination of President Lincoln by a Southerner, John Wilkes Booth, in cooperation with Northern Sympathizers. The political assassination of Lincoln was initiated and precipitated because the Vice President, Andrew Johnson, a southerner, but Johnson believed in the Lincoln doctrine of preserving the Union, because a nation divided against itself cannot stand. President Johnson did desire to
reconstruct the south and he removed the Union soldiers from the South and did not have the South pay reparations to Blacks (forty acres and a mule). Now we know why the voting stronghold of the GOP is Southern states. The 21st century GOP because of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act is far more politically asinine and destructive to multicultural democracy. The Democratic Party in conjunction with the Dixiecrats in the Democratic Party, such as the KKK and other White Nationalists groups brought their racist talents to the GOP, and that alliance has brought absolute madness and chaos to Grand Ole Party (GOP). Presently, we are witnessing political leadership madness in the House of Representatives,
November 19, 2023 because the GOP has no real multicultural democracy-oriented policies, only theocraticals and hypotheticals based upon alternative facts and White Privilege Autocracy. The Golden Escalator experience of Donald J. Trump in 2016, only aerobated the existing socio-economic racial confusion in the GOP. The Trump experience took the GOP to the depths of midnight, and now the GOP is grouping in spiritual and political darkness. What a hellish predicament America is in simply because of the inability of the GOP controlled House to govern effectively and democratically. What a Shame! Even more sadly is the spiritual fact that Christian Right Evangelicals are trafficking in alternative spiritual truths (lying on God). The Grand Ole Party
(GOP) has become a political personality cult, without a moral conscience. White Nationalists Militaristic Organizations believe whole heartedly that all things can be settled by guns, guns, and more guns (militaristic actions). Pathetically, the chairman of the Texas GOP associates with a known high profile White Nationalist. Fox “FAKE” News has boldly proven that they traffic in lies, lies, and more lies, not factual news reporting (The Dominion Lawsuit). Spiritually Confused Blacks and other minorities say it all, confused. Vivek Ramaswamy obtained an IVY LEAGUE education to become a political fool. America, “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8: 31). Amen!
AFRAMNEWS.COM 3 Wade Cont. Community College Intramural League where he also coached and played. Nathaniel loved professional baseball, football, and basketball. After many jobs including working at Sears Roebuck as an assistant manager and cashier, and Exxon as security, he went on to make a career with the Texas Department of Corrections where he retired as a Sergeant of Corrections after 20 years at the Ramsey I unit in Rosharon, Texas. He moved on to obtain his CDL and started a new career with Houston METRO as a professional bus driver where he was until his passing. He also enjoyed old western movies & western TV shows, as well as old Hollywood musicals. He acquired his love for old Hollywood musicals from sitting and watching alongside his late father, Daniel Wade. He had a vast, indepth knowledge of all the old Hollywood actors and their careers. He also loved US and world history and knew something about anything in US or world history, as well as enjoyed current politics. Nathaniel also enjoyed dancing and was known to be a very good Zydeco and country western dancer, spending hours on the dance floor showing off his unique style and amazing talent.
Nathaniel met Delia Q. Sanchez in July 2000 and later married. They had no children except for their beloved horses, Hondo, Sunshine, Velvet, Dante, Stormy and the baby of the herd and greatest joy, Reina. Nathaniel enjoyed participating in trail rides, beach rides, parades and showing family and friends how to ride. Nathaniel departed this life at home surrounded by the love of his wife, family and friends on October 24, 2023. He leaves to cherish precious memories his wife, Delia Q. Sanchez, brothers Daniel E. Wade (Tina), Barry E. Wade (Renita), Ricky D. Wade, Anthony E. Wade (Cynthia), and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and many close friends who were all very near and dear to his heart. A visitation for Nathaniel will be held Sunday, November 5, 2023 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM at Calvary Hill Funeral Home, 21723 Aldine-Westfield Road, Humble, TX 77338. A celebration of life will occur Sunday, November 5, 2023 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, 21723 Aldine-Westfield Road, Humble, TX 77338. A repass will occur Sunday, November 5, 2023 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM, 21723 Aldine Westfield Rd, TX 77338-. Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.CalvaryHillFuneralHome.com for the Wade family.
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DOES THE GOVERNMENT ENFORCE THE INSURRECTION ACT AGAINST BLACK ORGANIZATIONS BUT NOT WHITES? By: Jazz Pazz The Insurrection Act of 1807, signed by Thomas Jefferson in 1807, is a federal law that authorizes the President of the United States to send the nation’s military and federalized National Guard troops within the United States to defeat civil disorder, insurgence, or rebellion. It enables the president to quell riots across the nation. It has a mixeduse history. The Insurrection Act was famously invoked by President Eisenhower in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 to quash white resistance to the desegregation of the high school by the Little Rock Nine and was used again by President Kennedy in 1962-63 in Mississippi and Alabama to conquer the enraged white populace’s opposition to desegregation of educational institutions there. A separate but associated law, the Posse Comitatus Act,
was used in the years before the Civil War relative to the Fugitive Slave Act. Insurgency fears have historically focused on the rising up of enslaved Black people in America. Since the concept of slavery inevitably inspires an impulse for freedom, all African-descended individuals were (and in some cases continue to be) feared as potential insurrectionists. When Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1871 it was referred to as the “Ku Klux Klan Act” because it contained a new “insurrection provision.” Bestowed with this new power, the president instantly ordered federal military troops to enforce civil rights in the South. When this led to the arrest of hundreds of Klansmen, white southerners were outraged and insisted that this interfered
with state’s rights; the former slaves and their supporters disputed this and maintained that the federal government was deliberately failing to protect them. Six years later the federal government was forced to admit that the governments of several southern states were being aided rather than impeded in their political abuses by the presence of the military, so the units were withdrawn without any helpful replacement strategy. Once again the southern Black people were abandoned by their central government to face inflamed white hatred. Even when the Insurrection Act was implemented to enforce the desegregation of southern public schools, segregationists like Alabama governor George Wallace declared the courageous Black students to be “insurrectionists.”
Nevertheless, when his actions defied the law, no one dared to refer to him as such. President Lyndon B. Johnson imposed the Insurrection Act during the “Long Hot Summer” riots against racial injustice of 1967, and in 1968, to neutralize what he referred to as “race riots” around the country. When in 1992 a jury acquitted all the officers who had beaten Rodney King, the Los Angeles Black community exploded in frustration and agony, and the act was employed against them. The Act has often been utilized as a cudgel, as well as to suppress legitimate dissent against systemic racism. After Hurricane Katrina President George W. Bush eagerly offered to use it in New Orleans, but the officials there declined. As a result, the urgently needed relief funds they did seek
were slow to arrive and fewer were granted than needed. It is worth noting President Trump’s bullying exhortations to take advantage of the Insurrection Act to quell the nationwide Black Lives Matter demonstrations over George Floyd’s murder. After the lynching of Mr. Floyd, thenPresident Trump directed the furious suppression of the peaceful protest in Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C. During these weeks of grief Trump repeatedly urged the military and law enforcement officials to combat protesters physically. However, on January 6, 2021, when white radical right-wing extremists rioted in an attempt to overturn Congress and a legitimately victorious election, Trump defiantly refused to intervene,
despite the pleadings of advisors to deploy the Insurrection Act against the white rioters even though a reasonable interpretation of the Act’s authors intention would indicate that a crisis of such consequence would be an example of what they feared when they wrote and passed the Act. The totality of these laws was allegedly used is alleged to protect Black lives, but they have become a symbol of oppression and control, a legal weapon used to suppress Black peoples’ freedom of speech and calls for fairness, justice, and full rights of citizenship for Black people in this country. After generations of slavery, Black Americans have now suffered another 150 years of brutality, economic injustice, and a disgusting system of criminal detention. For more visit aframnews.com
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