Alexander Stephens, an American politician from Georgia who was vice president of the Confederacy, is not someone that society today might be inclined to quote – but truth is truth wherever you find it. Stephens said: "Depend on it, there is no difference between consolidation and empire, no difference between centralism and imperialism. The consummation of either must necessarily end in the overthrow of liberty and the establishment of despotism."
Beyond the truth of his statement, the context of same notwithstanding, it is the "establishment of despotism" by the "overthrow of liberty" that, for the purposes of this opinion, are most thought-provoking. Despotism is a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power; it is absolutism – and nowhere else is there a better example of people under a despotic rule than those who are beholden and dependent on government and the Democratic Party – specifically those who are black.
The damage done to blacks by the "Great Society Initiatives" has resulted in the murder of over 25 percent of blacks, the decimation of the black two-parent families and a pernicious mental imprisonment on a virtual plantation 10 times worse than any slave plantation in antebellum history.
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It was also Alexander Stephens who said, "Mens' convictions as to truth, or what they perceive as the truth, depend entirely upon their understanding of facts." It is the lack of knowledge and understanding of factual history that is used as the "key" to the lock of the plantation door – the one that imprisons them – that so many refuse to use to obtain their freedom.
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The truthful presentation of history is not injurious to a people – rather, it is liberating. It is that very liberation, in fact, that a despotic government and the Democratic leadership want to prevent – and they are willing to do whatever it takes to ensure that doesn't happen, including and especially through the willful misleading of blacks by so-called black leaders.
Booker T. Washington said, "There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."
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Today, the truth of his words is presented on steroids vis-à-vis various alphabet black groups, a government that promotes race-based, non-meritorious advancement, and the so-called leaders who are more interested in style points than they are substance and character.
They deceive those who embrace them by presenting the illusion of their being necessary. But Washington also spoke to this, saying: "Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people." Because the truth is, as Washington also said, "You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."
And therein lies the rub, so to speak. The Al Sharptons, Marc Morials, Walter Fauntroys, and even Obama himself have stooped to depths of commonality heretofore unimagined to strengthen their positions and maintain their control of a people.
Constructionist conservatives and the tea party are not the enemies of blacks – they are defenders of America. It is the unbridled ignorance of factual history that allows blacks to be misled by the easily disproved lies of those such as the NAACP, who call tea partiers racist.
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It is the Democratic Party's ownership of Sharpton, the NAACP, et al. that forces these individuals to do the bidding of said party, which allows them to escape prosecution for violating their tax-exempt status and continue too enjoy their extravagant lifestyles.
Those who, as Shelby Steele has oft said, "are truly free," are not subject to race-based assignations designed to hold people down and cause division. We know true history and have made our decisions based on same.
Condemning us and calling us names doesn't change the truth of our message. We are poised to help all, but we will not stoop to distort factual history for personal gain as has become the custom of so many.
