The New Republican Party As a young man growing up in NYC, Harlem it wasn't or I didn't pay attention to the two standing political parties of the day. It wasn't until I had reach the age to vote which was at the same time John F Kennedy, was involved in the democratic party primary. Was I somewhat naive of the entire process of who to choose as the next president of the United States, but during those times the indication and awareness that Abe Lincoln, still had not molded my way of thinking as to just what particular party I was rallying for. It took numerous articles to be exposed too as I was still growing and it was only a matter of time before I made that detrimental decision that would follow me for the remainder of my life. So most African Americans assumed I was a Democrat. I wasn't brain washed in to believing that this party was just for me. We the African Americans had to scrutinize what was being said that related to our needs. And in most cases it was a direct opposite of what we felt but unity was the main criteria of most African Americans, as Lincoln was the standing model for most of us to imitate as a true individual with concerns about our race as this was the foundation of most colored folks’ at the time, so the indication of him being a Republican president was far from most African American radar because he stood up against slavery as some of the abolitionist started to come out of the woodworks by detesting slavery head-on. So if anyone wants to know the reason that we are in great numbers for the Democratic Party this I would say is the main reason for our defection from the party of Lincoln. It's a caring for those who are at the bottom of the pile.
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Who has made it a point to understand the problems of (all) the people, not the few who have certain ulterior motives for others and the country? Yes we have those who are so adamant about the size of government that's a reality we all need to study closely especially during this time in history of maintaining our own promise in life. So the 99-percent in the country are the few who are holding the seams of Miss Liberty together. So as we have heard on numerous occasions that the 1percent of citizens isn't living up to their part in the economical structure of the country. To be seeing individuals living so high on the hog, spending money as if it was weeds and we can't kill that process with any manmade pesticide. We have become so involved with the rich and the famous that we forget about those who are framed in that of a downtrodden lifestyle as we see so many staggering about in a world that doesn't care anything about them. So I feel president Abraham Lincoln, republican party has move so far to the right
without thinking about the middle class that makes up a less than majority of the country because of economical disease that has cause the default of so many. So now we will have to endure repeated innuendos from loose lipped politicians who have an embedded quest to be president of the United States, knowing deep in their heart they have no structural plan to attack the problems at hand of the country only that they want to be placed in history and to defeat the incumbent president Barrack Obama. Just imagine yourself as president of the United States and you inherited a country that was left in disarray and you only have 4-years to correct that problem. Many years ago I was requested by a large certified accounting firm NTC, to survey their alphabetical filing system, apparently they couldn't locate numerous files and the bulk of information was eating them up in stored space and on their premises. My job was to convert their filing system from alphabetical to numerical system, which I explained that most filing clerks would make fewer mistakes when using numbers instead of physical names. To make a long story short I did the job and anyone could locate pertinent document as needed. Years later they terminated me everything was running smoothly, so they didn't need me anymore. But the first year was challenge for me and my staff. So after being terminated they went down the line months later and terminated all of the good folks I supervised.
NON-ACTIVATED VERSION www.avs4you.com Today they are out of business apparently the new person who took over destroyed my numerical filing system and return the entire process back to alphabetical filling system. Now this company is out of business with a $35,000,000.00 fine levied on them. Still to this day I believe they had records that they couldn't find because files were filed inappropriately I could be wrong. I'm only saying we need to stand behind an individual's if they are doing the job appropriately following all mandates of laws and we can see a change in our governmental process changing from the disaster it was in at the initial start up. So the Lincoln and Douglas debates were a mirroring of a process that took years to correct that of slavery. But to compare what's being said in today's Republican primaries it appears that the survival of the people isn't in the cards. The republican party has place the American people heads on the chopping block, and it appears there is nothing that can be said to reverse that personal indicator of not caring. And if anyone of the candidate would even reflect a moment of caring for the immigrants, education, the jobless, unions, high cost of credit cards, the
rollercoaster ride of governmental base products, increasing taxes of the rich, privatizing Medicare, and eliminating Medicaid, I could go on and on picking out from the air any topic that has anything to do for middle class or the deprived. It appears as if we the middle class is being organized in such a way as we will one day be in the arena of the inferior class of people. I wonder how these folks will be classified as the middle class will no longer exist as we know it to be. And the example of what's being conveyed by the present primary candidates, I see no hope but complete disaster in the worse way. The ideas aren't constructive in my view and no one appears to be smart enough to even attempt to move the country forward in the set standards we once knew. We are proposing a complete gridlock of any possible indicate of correcting any proposals as if we are headed into a mission impossible scenario. This should be the time for the coming together all parties especially when it's for the country. But fail we must this is the slogan of the republican party and if they would be so lucky to win the white house, will they start to implement their plan of attack because I don't see any ground being gained since the start of the republican primary all we have is lip service. So if I could be present at the Lincoln-Douglas debates that would be a blessing as they held a more constructive and reasonable debate that most could understand and appreciate at the time. But today's debates are unreal, unbelievable, unconcern for people and country. I realize that the country has become more complex in its own right by technological advancements and the expansion of laws, the collaboration of countries, and the increase in human being around the world and within the United States, and the buildup of our military obligations and the increase of our monetary structure, so much has changed since the time of Lincoln but the main fundamental process of human beings, being on the forefront of the social ladder of America.
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And those who are in the form of society can see the frustration being expressed around the world for change in all avenues of life. And still we have those with mental blocks unable to foresee the possibility of protesters as they are spreading across this country that can and will someday evolve into a total disaster from those who are mandating restrictions, suppressing, controlling, and just taking away freedom piece by piece until they have all us all in their grip, this is a reflection of personal inner greed of the right.
So the crossing of the isles with hand and hand from the left to the right is a fading
concept as each think in an almost paraphrase of past understanding when we were in agreement during the time of President Johnson, it was a time of impediment dismantling and all forces came together as a united for the cause of the nation. So we can look at the past and now the future of the relationship of African Americans Race. While historically the party had been supporters of rights for blacks since the 1860s, it lost its leadership position; the GOP has been winning under 15% of the black vote in recent national elections (1980 to 2008). The party has recently nominated African American candidates for senator or governor in Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland, though none were successful. In the 2010 elections, two African American Republicans were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. The Republican Party abolished slavery under Abraham Lincoln, and defeated the Slave Power, and gave blacks the right to vote during Reconstruction in the late 1860s. Until the New Deal of the 1930s, blacks supported the GOP by large margins. Most black voters switched to the Democratic Party in the 1930s when the New Deal offered them employment opportunities, and major figures, such as Eleanor Roosevelt, began to support civil rights. They became one of the core components of the New Deal Coalition. In the South, blacks were able to vote in large numbers after 1965, when a bipartisan coalition passed the Voting Rights Act, and ever since have formed a significant portion (20-50%) of the Democratic vote in that region.
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So as I spin around in my leisure chair facing the right any opponent who feels of opposite of the way I maybe thing at that particular because of what I may have construed from some of the republican primary candidates who hare conveying rhetoric of all avenues of discussion. So the historically ancestors of slavery the African American can attest that within deepest portion of the republican party there is some interwoven dishonesty that we the African American con see peeking through conversations at some of the debates.
I will not reiterate exactly who may have made innuendos that maybe misleading to some who may have the ability to decipher rhetoric deception one person comes
to mind Newt Gingrich who has spoken various views that appears to be a paraphrase of uncommon thoughts. Especially as he has spoken about the poor, as wanting to be poor because of the lack of community involvement coming from those who are lazy and shiftless which he was a former description of African American and which was stigma that some mirrored as our past life style. And not to let any remarks that may have come from even candidate Herman Cain who said that most African Americans were brainwashed to be a democrat. So it is an undercover tactics that being used as a coded pretense of just who African Americans are. So the dishonesty that being perpetrated from the right over the past three years which immediately emerged from start of the Presidency of barrack Obama inception into the white house at that moment hate was on the agenda. So the term that’s being spread around the country that of “getting back our country” what does it really mean to Americans. So if an African American is assessing the comment it would mean that as years ago we were held to a certain level of society from slavery to modern day desegregation. So the term getting back our country is a direct slap in the faces of all African Americans as if we have gotten control of a country long held by those of the Caucasian race, and now they no longer have that control and any advancement we have accomplished since then is a major drawback for the Caucasian race and has blotted the image in history of an impurity of the governmental system of complete control of every aspect of Americans legislative composition. And now the Republican Party wants all of the power restored to them completing a monumental process of superiority of the country as a whole. It was alright to have an African American in irregular positions here and there as that of mayor, governor, congressional seats, senatorial seat where we don’t a major control of the highest position as each is a group consorted effort and not that of contrivable entity. Which so may feel he has even if he has to collaborate with his cabinet but is seen as a one person mandate most of the time?
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Col. Lawrence Wilkerson