President Obama, Can You Spare A

Proclamation
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OBAMA-CanYouSpareAPROCLAMATION

The National Black Republican Association has issued a petition to Barack

Hussein Obama, the leader of the Democratic Party, requesting that Obama
issue a formal proclamation of apology for the Democratic Party's 150-year
history of racism.

We recognize that this is likely too much to ask of the oh so "racially sensitive"
Democrats who want us to ignore their racist past and failed socialism that
have caused so much harm to black Americans. So we will not hold our
breath waiting for their response.

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Petition to Barack Hussein Obama for a Proclamation of Apology for the

Democratic Party's 150-year History of Racism

We, black American citizens of the United States and the National Black Republican
Association, declare and assert:

WHEREAS, the healing of wounds begins with an apology, and the Democratic Party
has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices against black
Americans during the past 150 years, nor held accountable for the residual impact that
those atrocities and practices are having on us today,

WHEREAS, as a result of the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission Report of May
31, 2006, the North Carolina Democratic Party issued a unanimous apology on January
20, 2007 for the Democratic Party's 1898 murderous rampage against blacks,

WHEREAS, inner-city minister Rev. Wayne Perryman wrote a book, "Unfounded

Loyalty: An In-depth Look Into The Love Affair Between Blacks and Democrats", and
filed a lawsuit against the Democratic Party on December 10, 2004, but, after admitting
their history of racism under oath in court, the Democrats refused to apologize,

WHEREAS, history shows that the Democratic Party through its racist agenda and
"States' Rights" claim to own slaves, sought to protect and preserve the institution of
slavery from 1792 to 1865, thus enslaving millions of African Americans, while the
Republican Party was started in 1854 as the anti-slavery party, fought to free blacks
from slavery and championed civil rights for blacks,

WHEREAS, the Democratic Party enacted fugitive slave laws to keep blacks from
escaping from plantations; instigated the 1856 Dred Scott decision which legally
classified blacks as property; passed the Missouri Compromise to spread slavery into
50% of the new Northern states; and passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act designed to
spread slavery into all of the new states,
WHEREAS, the Democratic Party in the South formed the Confederacy, seceded from
the Union and fought a Civil War (1861 to 1865) to expand slavery where over 600,000
citizens were killed, including many thousand blacks,

WHEREAS, starting in 1861, anti-Civil War Democrats in the North were called
"copperheads" like the poisonous snake because they (a) wanted to appease the South
and accept a negotiated peace that would have resulted in an independent Confederacy
where blacks were kept in slavery, and (b) showed their deep opposition to the Civil
War draft by taking their anger out on blacks, murdering and maiming blacks in virtually
every Northern state,

WHEREAS, anti-Civil War Democrats in New York engaged in "Four Days of Terror"
against the city's black population from July 13-16, 1863, and the anti-Civil War chant of
the Democrats, as reported by one Pennsylvania newspaper, was: "Willing to fight for
Uncle Sam", but not "for Uncle Sambo,"

WHEREAS, the anti-Civil War Democrats verbally attacked Republican President

Abraham Lincoln because he wanted to free the slaves through war and grant blacks
civil rights, and drafted Northern men into the army to fight and die to make his
Emancipation Proclamation a reality - a Proclamation that became the source of the
Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today,

WHEREAS, after the Civil War, the Republican Party (a) pushed to amend the
Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment)
and the right to vote (15th Amendment); (b) passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and
1875; and (c) designed Reconstruction, a ten-year period of unprecedented political
power for African Americans,

WHEREAS, anti-civil rights Democrat Andrew Johnson became president when

Republican President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, and after the Civil War, the
Democratic Party fought to end Reconstruction and deny blacks the promised "40 acres
and a mule;" fought to overturn all civil rights legislation from the 1860's to the 1960's;
and passed repressive legislation including the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws,

WHEREAS, the book "A Short History of Reconstruction" by the renowned historian, Dr.
Eric Foner, revealed that: (a) the Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 by Democrats as a
Tennessee social club; (b) the Ku Klux Klan became a military force serving the
interests of the Democratic Party, the planter class, and all those who desired the
restoration of white supremacy; and (c) the Ku Klux Klan spread into other Southern
states, launching a 'reign of terror' against Republican leaders, black and white,

WHEREAS, the book "A Short History of Reconstruction" by Dr. Eric Foner exposed the
facts that: (a) the Hayes-Tilden Compromise of 1877 was an attempt by Republicans to
get the Democrats to stop lynching Republicans, black and white, and respect the rights
of blacks; and (b) contrary to legend, President Rutherford Hayes did not remove the
last federal troops from the South, but merely ordered federal troops surrounding the
South Carolina and Louisiana statehouses to return to their barracks,

WHEREAS, after taking control of Congress in the late 1800's, the Democratic Party
passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil rights legislation passed by the
Republicans, including the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875,
WHEREAS, the Democratic Party supported the "Plessy v. Ferguson" decision in 1896
that established the "separate but equal" segregation doctrine,

WHEREAS, historical documents show that: (a) in an effort to stop the Democrats from
lynching and denying civil rights to blacks, the NAACP was founded on Republican
President Abraham Lincoln's 100th birthday, February 12, 1909, by white Republicans
Oswald Garrison Villard, Mary White Ovington and William English Walling; and (b) the
first black general secretary of the NAACP was black Republican James Weldon
Johnson who became the general secretary of the NAACP in 1920 and, in 1900, wrote
the song, "Lift Every Voice," known as the "Black National Anthem" in collaboration with
his brother, John Rosamond Johnson,

WHEREAS, after Democrat President Woodrow was elected in 1912 and while
Congress was controlled by the Democrats, black American civil employees where
pushed out of federal government jobs, and the greatest number of bills proposing racial
segregation and discrimination were introduced than had ever been proposed in our
nation's history,

WHEREAS, even though Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the vote
of many black Americans due to his "New Deal," he banned black American
newspapers from the military because he was convinced the newspapers were
communists and rejected anti-lynching laws pushed by Republicans, as well as efforts
by Republicans to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission that did not get
established until 1958 under Republican President Dwight Eisenhower,

WHEREAS, Democrat President Harry Truman not only rejected Republican efforts to
enact anti-lynching laws and establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission, but also
failed to enforce his 1948 Executive Order designed to desegregate the military, an
order that was not effectively enforced until Republican President Dwight Eisenhower
was elected,

WHEREAS, with the party slogan: "Segregation Forever!," the Dixiecrats, who were
Democrats, (a) formed the States' Rights Democratic Party for the presidential election
of 1948; (b) remained Democrats for all local elections and all subsequent national
elections; and (c) did not all migrate to the Republican Party as Democrats today falsely
claim, but instead those racist Democrats died Democrats and had declared that they
would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than a Republican because the Republican Party
was known as the party for blacks,

WHEREAS, during the civil rights era of the 1960's, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
who was a Republican, was fighting the Democrats including: (a) Democrat Georgia
Governor Lester Maddox who famously brandished ax handles to prevent blacks from
patronizing his restaurant; (b) Democrat Public Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull"
Connor in Birmingham who let loose vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil
rights demonstrators; and (c) Democrat Alabama Governor George Wallace who stood
in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963 and thundered: "Segregation now,
segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,"

WHEREAS, the Democratic Party supported the Topeka, Kansas school board in the
"Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka", Kansas (a 1954 Supreme Court decision
by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was appointed by Republican President Dwight
Eisenhower) which declared that the "separate but equal" doctrine violated the 14th
Amendment and ended school segregation,
WHEREAS, in 1954, Democrat Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus tried to prevent the
desegregation of a Little Rock public school, resulting in Republican President Dwight
Eisenhower sending federal troops to prevent violence and enforce a court order
desegregating the Little Rock school,

WHEREAS, Democratic President John F. Kennedy was not a civil rights advocate
because he: (a) voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law (that was pushed by
Republican President Dwight Eisenhower); (b) opposed the 1963 March on Washington
by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (that was organized by black Republican A. Phillip
Randolph); (c) authorized the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert
Kennedy) to wiretap and investigate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on suspicion of being a
communist in order to undermine that Civil Rights leader; (d) was later criticized by Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. for ignoring civil rights issues; and (e) only grudgingly agreed to
make a telephone call to get Dr. King, Jr. out of the Birmingham jail after members of
the King family requested Kennedy's help,

WHEREAS, after the nearly 100 years of opposition to civil rights laws by Democrats,
Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, who voted for the 1957 Civil Rights Act and ran
for president against Lyndon Johnson in 1964, was unfairly criticized by hypocritical
Democrats because Goldwater was opposed to only portions of the 1964 Civil Rights
Act that he believed was an unconstitutional expansion of federal powers,

WHEREAS, Democrat President Lyndon Johnson could not have achieved passage of
civil rights legislation without the support of Republicans due to the strong opposition of
Democrats, and in his 4,500-word State of the Union Address delivered on January 4,
1965, Johnson mentioned scores of topics for federal action, but only thirty five words
were devoted to civil rights and not one word about voting rights,

WHEREAS, it was Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat
President Lyndon Johnson, who was key to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,
and Dirksen was also instrumental to the enactment of civil rights legislation in 1957 and
1960, as well as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which
prohibited discrimination in housing,

WHEREAS, the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act were Democrat Senators
Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a former "Keagle" in the
Ku Klux Klan, who made a 14-hour filibuster speech in the Senate in June 1964 in an
unsuccessful effort to block passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,

WHEREAS, because Republican Senator Everett successfully fought to pass civil rights
laws in the face of strong opposition to civil rights laws by the Democrats, Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. hailed Senator Dirksen's "able and courageous leadership;" and "The
Chicago Defender," the largest black-owned daily at that time, praised Senator Dirksen
"for the grand manner of his generalship behind the passage of the best civil rights
measures that have ever been enacted into law since Reconstruction,"

WHEREAS, the statement by Democrat President Lyndon Johnson about losing the
South after passage of the 1964 civil rights law was not made out of a concern that
racist Democrats would suddenly join the Republican Party that was fighting for the civil
rights of blacks, but instead, was an expression of fear that the racist Democrats would
again form a third party, such as the short-lived States' Rights Democratic Party,
WHEREAS, after Democrat President Lyndon Johnson expressed his concern that the
racist Democrats in the South would be lost after the passage of the 1964 civil rights
laws, Johnson's concern came true when Alabama's Democrat Governor George C.
Wallace in 1968 started the American Independent Party that attracted other racist
candidates, including Democrat Atlanta Mayor Lester Maddox,

WHEREAS, in March of 1968, while referring to the fact that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
left Memphis, Tennessee after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, Democrat
Senator Robert Byrd called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a
coward after trouble is ignited, which motivated Dr. King to return to Memphis a few
weeks later where he was assassinated on April 4, 1968,

WHEREAS, Democrats expressed little, if any, concern when the racially segregated
South voted solidly for Democrats; yet unfairly deride Republicans because of the thirty-
year odyssey of the South switching to the Republican Party that began in the 1970's
with President Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy," which was an effort on the part of
Nixon to get fair-minded people in the South to stop voting for Democrats who did not
share their values, and who were discriminating against blacks,

WHEREAS, Republican President Richard Nixon began enforcement of Affirmative

Action as a merit-based system to help African Americans prosper with his 1969
Philadelphia Plan (crafted by black Republican Art Fletcher) that set the nation's first
goals and timetables, as well as his 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act that made
merit-based Affirmative Action programs the law of our nation, but Democrats turned
Affirmative Action into an unfair quota system;

WHEREAS, Democrat Senator Robert Byrd who was a fierce opponent of

desegregating the military complained in one letter: "I would rather die a thousand times
and see old glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than see this beloved land of
ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen of the
wilds,"

WHEREAS, in the early 1970's, Democrat Senator Robert Byrd pushed to have the
Senate's main office building named after a former "Dixiecrat," Democrat Senator
Richard Russell who was Senator Byrd's mentor and leading opponent of ant-lynching
legislation, and in 2001 Senator Byrd was forced to apologize for using the "N-word" on
television,

WHEREAS, Democrats did not denounce Democrat Senator Christopher Dodd who
praised Senator Robert Byrd as someone who would have been "a great senator for
any moment," including the Civil War; yet Democrats denounced Senator Trent Lott for
his remarks about Senator Strom Thurmond who was never in the Ku Klux Klan and,
after he became a Republican, defended blacks against lynching and the discriminatory
poll taxes imposed on blacks by Democrats,

WHEREAS, Democrats today demean and discriminate against blacks including (a)
Democrat Senator Ted Kennedy who called black judicial nominees "Neanderthals;" (b)
Democrat Senator Harry Reid who slurred Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as
someone who could not write good English; (c) Joe Biden while he was a Senator who
boasted that his home state of Delaware was a slave state; (d) Democratic Party
operatives who depicted Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele on the Internet
as a "Simple Sambo;" (e) cartoonist Jeff Danziger and Pat Oliphant who portrayed
Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice as a "stooge" and a bare foot, "Ignorant
Mammy;" (f) Democratic Senator John F. Kerry who denounced affirmative action on
the floor of the Senate in the 1990's; (g) President Bill Clinton who - following in the
footsteps of his mentor J. William Fulbright, a staunch segregationist - refused to
enforce a court-ordered affirmative action plan while president and was himself sued for
discriminating against his black employees while he was the Governor of Arkansas; and
(h) Barack Hussein Obama while he was an Illinois State senator who provided funding
for slum projects in Chicago that kept blacks trapped in rat and roach infested housing,
as well as while he was a US senator voted against the minimum wage bill and wrote a
letter of support for former Klansman Robert Byrd that helped that racist win re-election,

WHEREAS, the Democratic Party's use of deception and fear to intimidate black
Americans into voting for Democrats is consistent with the Democratic Party's heritage
of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and kukluxery - a perversion of moral
sentiment among leaders of the Democratic Party; and the Democratic Party's racist
legacy bode ill until this generation of black Americans,

NOW, THEREFORE, for the documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs

inflicted upon black Americans, we submit this petition to the head of the
Democratic Party, Barack Hussein Obama, for a formal proclamation of apology
for the Democratic Party's 150-year history of racism.