Racist Democratic Party Poster from 1850s
Louisiana State Senator Elbert Guillory has released a video
message to his constituents about why he switched parties from Democrat
to Republican. Now, the fact that there have been Democrats switch
parties is not new. The fact there have been black Democrats switch
parties is not new. But State Senator Elbert Guillory does it in an
historical way and says things that you don't hear ever, from anyone
from the civil rights coalition. We have three sound bites from this.
The whole thing, if you look at this in the right frame of mind, could
be a tear-jerker.
Hello, my name is Elbert Lee Guillory, and I’m the senator for the
twenty-fourth district right here in beautiful Louisiana. Recently I
made what many are referring to as a ‘bold decision’ to switch my party
affiliation to the Republican Party. I wanted to take a moment to
explain why I became a Republican, and also to explain why I don’t think
it was a bold decision at all. It is the right decision — not only for
me — but for all my brothers and sisters in the black community.
You see, in recent history the Democrat Party has created the
illusion that their agenda and their policies are what’s best for black
people. Somehow it’s been forgotten that the Republican Party was
founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement with one simple creed: that
slavery is a violation of the rights of man.
Frederick Douglass called Republicans the ‘Party of freedom and
progress,’ and the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, the
author of the Emancipation Proclamation. It was the Republicans in
Congress who authored the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth
amendments giving former slaves citizenship, voting rights, and due
process of law.
The Democrats on the other hand were the Party of Jim Crow. It was
Democrats who defended the rights of slave owners. It was the Republican
President Dwight Eisenhower who championed the Civil Rights Act of
1957, but it was Democrats in the Senate who filibustered the bill.
You see, at the heart of liberalism is the idea that only a great and
powerful big government can be the benefactor of social justice for all
Americans. But the left is only concerned with one thing — control. And
they disguise this control as charity. Programs such as welfare, food
stamps, these programs aren’t designed to lift black Americans out of
poverty, they were always intended as a mechanism for politicians to
control black the black community.
The idea that blacks, or anyone for that matter, need the the
government to get ahead in life is despicable. And even more important,
this idea is a failure. Our communities are just as poor as they’ve
always been. Our schools continue to fail children. Our prisons are
filled with young black men who should be at home being fathers. Our
self-initiative and our self-reliance have been sacrificed in exchange
for allegiance to our overseers who control us by making us dependent on
them.
Sometimes I wonder if the word freedom is tossed around so frequently in our society that it has become a cliché.
The idea of freedom is complex and it is all-encompassing. It’s the
idea that the economy must remain free of government persuasion. It’s
the idea that the press must operate without government intrusion. And
it’s the idea that the emails and phone records of Americans should
remain free from government search and seizure. It’s the idea that
parents must be the decision makers in regards to their children’s
education — not some government bureaucrat.
But most importantly, it is the idea that the individual must be free
to pursue his or her own happiness free from government dependence and
free from government control. Because to be truly free is to be reliant
on no one other than the author of our destiny. These are the ideas at
the core of the Republican Party, and it is why I am a Republican.
So my brothers and sisters of the American community, please join
with me today in abandoning the government plantation and the Party of
disappointment. So that we may all echo the words of one Republican
leader who famously said, ‘free at last, free at last, thank God
Almighty, we are free at last.’
SoRo:
Congratulations on leaving the Disappointment Party, which I know could not have been a easy decision. I know that you've been called Uncle Tom on several occasions already, but you are man and you have a mission. Don't let their ignorance break your stride. I hope you find what you are looking for in what I call The Stupid Party, but please try to talk some sense into the leaders who have Gone
Let us know how we can help you.
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