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Tea Party

 

Yesterday on April 15th 2009, there were tea parties held all across the nation. The tea parties were in protest of the massive spending that President Barrack Obama and his cabinet is doing and wants to continue to do in an attempt to socialize America and her citizens.

If you watched the other news organizations, which held very little coverage on the tea party events, they were saying, “paraphrasing”

" These self styled tea parties were aimed squarely at President Obama and the democratic leaders in congress and aimed at garnering media attention as well."

" Cheered on by Fox News and talk radio up hundreds of tea parties today were designed to protest bailouts and stimulus plan. And president Obama's budget. But from the White House perspective. Not all of it was as homegrown as it may seem. A lot of sentiment is about organizing. Anti Obama rally. Fistful of rightward leaning web sites and commentators everything is big taxes embraced the cause."

" The reports right wingers are going nuts on time."

" Tax day they're holding these tea parties across the country -- and I think general tenor of this. I its anti government anti CNN is -- is. Highly promoted by the right wing concern whenever it's not."

" Also saw. Was this sort of for the fringe group the secessionist it's the militia types this tea parties were filled. And fuel. With one network which -- got a horse stable of talk show hosts -- just throw around the word revolution all the time that 200 hardy souls came out -- there."

" Holding up mildly racist signs."

Surprisingly, it was all liberals and democrats making the above statements. If you watched or participated in any of the tea parties, you would not have heard any right wing statements or racist remarks personally directed towards President Obama. But all you need to do is research the Liberal, Democrat, and Progressive past, and you would learn who the true racists are.

And while the other cable networks are attacking Fox News, this is the Nelson report of the networks on 16th April 2009:

FOXNEWS 3,390,000
MSNBC 1,210,000
CNN 1,070,000
CNN HEADLINE 909,000


FOXNEWS O'REILLY 3,980,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 3,239,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 2,947,000
FOXNEWS BECK 2,740,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,401,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 2,185,000
COMEDY DAILY SHOW 1,777,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,499,000
COMEDY COLBERT 1,446,000
CNNHN GRACE 1,336,000
CNN KING 1,292,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,149,000
CNN COOPER 1,021,000

 

By the way, last place CNN Cooper made this stupid frat boy statement:   "It's hard to talk when you're teabagging."

The left wing media are condemning Americans for exercising their Constitutional right to protest. But I did not hear any of the left wing media condemn any lift wing organization for using their Constitutional to protest the war. Hypocrites!

The money the last administration has spent, and this administration is spending like there is no tomorrow, is not their money to spend the way they feel, for their personnel purpose or personnel reason. That money belongs to the citizens of America, and every American citizen no matter what your political affiliation maybe, should tell them how we want our money spent. Thus, called a Democratic Society!
 
 
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Embarrassing

 

Embarrassing

President Obama and his administration are embarrassing themselves and the American citizens when it comes to greeting dignitaries from another country. If Gordon Brown the Prime Minister of England is the standard, we are not going to have too many close friends around the globe. England has been a close allied to America; it is the only country that has honesty shed blood in the war on terrorism with America regardless were you stand on the war. England has been there with America through thick and thin.            

The Prime Minister of England Gordon Brown comes to America to meet with President Obama, he gets disrespected by the gifts he, his wife, and children are given. I know there is an old saying; it is not the price of the gift, but the thought that counts. Neither President Obama nor his staff put any thought in the gifts that was given to the Prime Minister and his family.
 
You can tell the gift that Gordon Brown gave President Obama was well thought out. Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave President Obama an ornamental pen holder made from the timbers of the Victorian anti-slave ship. HMS Gannet.

It delighted President Obama because oak from the Gannet’s sister ship, HMS Resolute, was carved to make a desk that has sat in the Oval Office in the White House since 1880.

Obviously the gift is a symbol, recognition, and congratulation to President Obama for being the first black American president and how America and England shared in the struggles of slavery, and what England did to help curve it.

PM Brown and his wife presented gifts to the Obama children giving Sasha and Malia an outfit from Topshop (a high end UK female clothing store) and six children’s books by British authors which will be published in America.

What did President Obama and his wife give PM Brown, his wife, and children? Two models of the presidential helicopter, Marine one, items that could have been purchased in almost any gift shop in DC.         

What was presented to PM Brown by President Obama? 25 DVDs that cannot be played in England because the UK uses DVDs which are Region 2 and video format PAL. America uses Region 1 NTSC which is obviously not compatible.

It is obvious no one in charge of the gift gathering for the PM thought this through or really didn’t care.

How ever President Obama feels about the PM, he didn’t deserve to be disrespected. This is a big sign of arrogance from Obama.

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Wikipedia

 

Wikipedia, not legitimate

          Most of us heard of Wikipedia. You may have used Wikipedia as a reference for a paper you had to write for a class, or for business reasons. I remember hearing about some schools that is not recognizing Wikipedia as legitimate source of information.

            During Wikipedia early days as an online free encyclopedia anyone who is registered could sign into it and write and edit any subjects without any supporting reference. So during Wikipedia early days it was look upon with contempt, and not a trusted or legitimate source.

            Later Wikipedia tried to gain legitimacy by requiring the writer or editor to back their information up with third-party media articles. But if you write something negative, even with supporting documents about President Obama, it is deleted. For example, Aaron Klein of the WorldNetDaily, had a Wikipedia user “Jerusalem21” add the following to Obama’s page:

“There Have been some doubts about whether Obama was born in the U.S after the politician refused to release to the public a carbon copy of his birth certificate and amid claims from his relatives he may have been born in Kenya. Numerous lawsuits have been filed petitioning Obama to release his birth certificate, but most suits have been thrown out by the courts.”

            Two third-party media articles was used as supporting documents which are the Chicago Tribune and WordNetDaily.com, as required on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

After the entry was posted on Wikipedia on Feb 24, at 6:16 p.m. EST. a Wikipedia administrator removed the entry three minutes later citing the posting violated the websites rules against “fringe” material.

            “Jerusalem21” tried to repost the entry about Obama’s eligibility later for a second time. Another administrator on Wikipedia removed the entry two minutes later, and banned the user from posting anything on the website for three days. 

            For a month the WorldNetDaily has monitored several attempts to add eligibility issues to Obama’s Wikipedia page. The information was deleted within minutes and the user that was posting was barred from the website for three days.

            You will not find any information about Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright in Obama’s bio.

            The paragraph state: “Obama explained how, through working with black churches as a community organizer while in his twenties, he came to understand ‘the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change.’ He was baptized at the Trinity United Church of Christ in 1988 and was as active member there for two decades.”

            Wikipedia description of William Ayers’ of the Weathermen and un-repented terrorist makes him out to be a boy scout.

            But if you read the entry on Wikipedia about President George W. Bush it is highly Criticized .        

            Wikipedia is not legitimate, and is not un-biased. Be seriously careful if use this Wikipedia as a source of references.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

               President elect Obama, is now President Obama, what a wonderful moment. Yesterday was Dr. Martin Luther King’s Jr. day, and today is President Obama’s day. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would be proud of today’s inauguration, the swearing in of America’s first Black president. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would not be proud of how outgoing Ex-President George W Bush was treated.

                All though President Obama’s presidential campaign; he campaigned about setting aside bipartisanship, bringing both parties together and having respect for one another, but his supporters did not listen to his campaign speeches. It’s obvious that President Obama could not control the 2 million people present during his inauguration, but the people there really displayed their ignorance and disrespect. When Ex-President George W Bush walked on stage for President Obama’s inauguration to congratulate him and to wish him good luck, a man representing the party that laid the ground work to make it possible by passing the Emancipation Proclamation freeing 4 million slaves, the crowd started singing the “Na na na na, hey, hey, good bye,” song.

                Later, the Benediction speech by Rev. Joseph Lowery: Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen. Say Amen'...  

                Finally a Black American is president of the United States, but according to Rev. Joseph Lowery, that isn’t enough. I will not be surprise, that Rev Joseph Lowery church sermons are not far from Rev Wright’s (Both are racist. Rev Joseph Lowery is forgetting that it was the white votes that won President Obama the Presidential election). Rev. Lowery is not a man who wants to work towards unity.

                It is also obvious that Rev. Joseph Lowery, and many of President Obama’s supporters, voted for him because of the color of his skin and not the content of his character (Against the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.).

                President Obama and his supporters need to be careful. President Obama’s speech, which was to be the speeches of all speeches, was weak, and it will not be edged in granite as many of his followers from the Obama cable news networks suggested.

(I hope Senator Byrd and Senator Kennedy recover)

                President Obama supporters did not sing the “Na na na na, hey, hey, good bye,” song to Senator Byrd, who was head of the KKK. Nor, did Obama supporters sing the song to Senator Kennedy, who’s brother the Ex-President John F Kennedy tried to stop Dr. Martin Luther King from giving his “I had a dream speech.” Nor for John F Kennedy giving his brother Robert Kennedy permission to wire-tap Dr Martin Luther King Jr. telephones, house, and recorded his conversation.

 President Barrack Hussein Obama is using Ex-President Lincoln a Republican as his base, his building block, and his moral compass. But Ex-President Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

From the beginning of President Obama’s inauguration speech, the way his supporters treated Ex-President George W. Bush, the benediction recited by Rev. Joseph Lowery, and Senators like, Senator Byrd and Senator Kennedy of his Democrat Party he is not serious about reaching out to the Republican party. President Obama should have picked Ex-President Andrew Jackson as the president to mimic. (If you want to know what happen to the 40 acres and a mule the freed slaves were promised, research Ex-President Andrew Jackson-D)  

                The following is not going to happen while President Obama is in office, “when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

                Nationalism and socialism are code words for slavery, instead of one race of people; it will be all American citizens and our 40 acres and mule is going to be taking away in the form of freedom and a capitalist sociaty.

                If you really believe that the last moments of Ex-President Bush presidency is the worst economic down turn since the Great Depression, research Ex-President Carter presidency and his economic disaster.

                To all Black Americans there is a saying, “If you want to hide something from a Black person, put it in a book.” This saying is working very well.

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Was it a shallow vote

 

After the Presidential race, I am still having conversations about the President Candidates, not of my choice. People just love to rub it in my face that President-Elect Barack Obama (the brother) won the Presidency.   I try to avoid the conversations by saying very little.

            It is nice that Barack Obama won the election, but how many Americans who voted for him, really know anything about him or his policies, other then he is black. Just because a person skin color is black, doesn’t mean that person is black according to America’s definition of a black person. Every American “I” talk too, doesn’t know anything about Barack Obama character or his policies, their answers are, “A brother won.”  Or, “We got a black man in the White House.” Of course I get the other answer, “As long as we don’t have another George Bush.”

            Most of their answers are abstract and doesn’t make sense. I listened to Martin Luther King Jr. famous speech in 1963, “I have a dream.” I listened to I have a dream so many times in the past, I almost have it memorized, but when I ask the Americans “I” talk to about the part of the speech, when Martin Luther King Jr. said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” The reply is, “I don’t care” or I get shoulder shrugs follow with the remark, “The brother won.”

            Too many Americans do not know anything about President-Elect Obama character, or care to know, nor do they know anything about his policies. It would be sad and shallow, if the majority of Americans who voted for President-Elect Obama, only voted for him because his skin color is black, or they wanted to have a black person in the White house. What were the marching, beatings, Americans being killed, demonstrations, sit-ins, protesting, and the speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for, if it was just for a shallow reason of a skin color?

             

I Have a Dream.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk

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Congratulations

 

Congratulations, Barack Obama won, becoming the first black President of the United States. This is an excellent moment in history. Everyone who is an American citizen can now say, “One day I can be president of the United States.” President-Elect Barack Obama has seriously water down, the notion, of the system holding down the brother, sister, or minority. Barack seriously proved, if you work hard enough for something, you can accomplish it. You got to admit, it is not easy becoming the CEO of the most powerful, richest, prosperous, and most sought after country in the world; you got to take some bumps and bruises.

Has the system that has been blamed for so many minorities, falling in life (keeping them down) with its invisible hand starting to let up, is this the beginning of no more excuses?   I am sure there will be isolated situations, but no matter what you do, there will be someone trying to hold you down, even if we were all blue. But, let’s ask ourselves; is this the beginning of the end of the race hustlers? I don’t think at this exact moment, but just like we have our first black President-Elect, there can be an end to the race hustlers.

Barack Obama seriously watered down the excuse of minorities, saying “America is a white mans’ country.” What are Reverend Wright and Louis Farrakhan saying now? Reverend Wright and Louis Farrakhan now have to change their pulpit rhetoric up now. What will they preach about now? I never understood, the same system that Reverend Wright and Louis Farrakhan preach that is supposes to keep the black man down, made them rich. There are so many people that are out there really believed Reverend Wright and Louis Farrakhan. Why doesn’t someone in their pulpit ask one of them, “If the system is really keeping the black man down, how did you get rich? If you hate white people so much, why are you having your homes build in their neighborhoods?  

Is this the beginning to the end for people like, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and the Black Congressional Caucus? Like I sad before, there will be isolated situations, but will we need another boycott of a cooperation or advertiser?

Congratulations Barack Obama for becoming the first Black President of the United States. There was a lot of Americans of different race, creed, color, and beliefs who voted for you. Now, is this the beginning to the end to Affirmative Action, American Minority Programs, race hustlers, or any other, what is suppose to be hand up programs for American minorities? Keep an eye out.

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Effigy

 

Seeing the effigy of Sarah Palin being hanged in California and in Kentucky remind me of a famous song that was sung by a famous singer name Billie Holiday, the name of the song is “Strange Fruit.”

            We all know of the history when blacks were hung in the Democrat South for no reason, fighting the injustice of the south for equal rights, and at times for fun. When I saw the effigy of Sarah Palin hanging from the house of the two liberals in California, and the house in Kentucky it made me MAD!

            There are those who got a delight of seeing it, thought it was funning, and maybe said that it is what she deserves because they don’t agree with her politics. The next time you hear someone agreeing to the effigy of Sara Palin being hanged, laughing at the effigy, or saying to the effect, “that all of the Republican Party needs to be hanged.” Remember, or I suggest that you educate yourself of the name of the political party supporters that was conducting the hanging as their right!  Because that political party felt threaten that the ex-slaves, share croppers, black ex-World War I veterans, and black ex-War World II veterans were going to change their way of life.

            Remember the next time you hear or read about the racial attacks, the racial finger pointing, and the next time members and supporters of that political party calls someone prejudice from the Republican party that they were the party who supported it and enforced it.

Watch the below youtube video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

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Everyday Citizen

 

An everyday citizen had his life’s door kicked in by a team lawyers liken third world socialist police, just for asking someone who wants to be a leader of United States of America a question. An everyday citizen, who name is Joe Wurzelbacher was playing catch with his son in his front yard one day. Barack Obama decided to choose Joe neighbor in Toledo Ohio to knock on everyday citizens doors to ask for their vote. Joe saw Barack and decided to ask him a question about raising his taxes, and how Barack tax plan would make it harder for him to start his business.

Barack answered Joe, paraphrasing. That he did not want to punish Joe if he made a quarter-million-dollars a year, but you need to spread some the wealth around, so that others can have the same chance you had. What?

Barack wants to tell you how much money you can make, and take the rest of the money you made and give it to others you did not work as hard as you did. Barack wants to take Joe hard earned money he created with his business, working 10-12 hours a day, 6 or 7 days a week. (Those of you who own a business or ever owned a business understand what I am saying) Barack wants to tell you, if you made too much busting your butt, on a daily bases, and take the rest of your hard earn money, and give it to others you does not desire or want work as hard as you did. Ask anyone who lived in Russia, they will tell you what Barack is doing, it is called Socialism!

A few weeks later in a place called Londonderry New Hampshire, Barack decided to make fun of Joe the plumber, an everyday citizen; Barack tried to embarrass Joe the plumber, an everyday citizen; Barack asked a question belittling Joe the plumber, an everyday citizen. Barack asked the crowd, “How many plumbers you know making a quarter-million dollars a year?” The crowd erupted with laughter at Joe the plumber, an everyday citizen. Because Joe is not on same financial level as Barack Obama and his elitist friends that he socialize with.

If any of you laughed at Barack’s mocking of Joe the plumber, then consider this question. How many everyday citizens make a quarter-million dollars a year? How many of these everyday citizens make a quarter-million dollars a year?

Teachers

Health

Cab Drivers

 Military Personnel

Bartenders

Government Employees

Average Corporate Workers

Law Enforcement Personnel

Barack’s Secret Service Detail

Personnel working on Barack’s staff

Bus Drivers

Store Workers

Farm Workers

Etc

This list can go on forever-and-a-day.

            If you laughed at Joe the plumber, the everyday citizen, after Barack’s mocking question, and you consider yourself an everyday citizen, you also laughed at yourself. You unconsciously condone Barack’s team of lawyers kicking in your life door liken third world socialist police, and trying to discredit you and ruin your life.

            If you laughed at Joe the plumber and you are not making over a quarter-million dollars a year, I suggest you put the glass of kool-ade down!

            If Barack's party is able to do this to an everyday citizen like Joe, what do you think he would do to someone like you and I if one of us question him?

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American Terrorist of the Past

 

America had terrorist attacks and even a holocaust in the past. With the murder of thousand of African slaves and Black American slaves during the slavery period, this was performed by American terrorist. America had it share of hangings, beatings, dismembering, disfiguring, and separations of  American Black slave families during the slavery period that was performed by American terrorist. Black leaders were murdered by American terrorist; Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Nat Turner and others that was not so famous, but the nature of their murder became famous, Emmett Till.

There was a town in Florida where hundreds of blacks were slaughtered, Rosewood Florida in 1923 performed by American terrorist.

A church in Birmingham Alabama was bombed by American terrorist, the Birmingham Sixteenth Street Church where four innocent black girls were murdered on September 15th 1963; Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins lost their lives resulting from a terrorist act that day. Birmingham Alabama was bombed over fifty times, between 1947 and 1965 by American terrorist, earning the name of “Bombingham”.

American terrorist murdered three civil rights activist; James Chany, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Shwerner on June 21st 1964, for registering black voters in Mississippi.

American terrorist attacks were responsible for many freedom riders to brutally beaten during the 1960s. The incident at Pettues Bridge was performed by American terrorist, when American blacks went on a silent march on March 7rh, 1965, they were meet by an army of Alabama police officers, who beat them with police batons, turned high pressure waterholes on them, and attacked them with their police dogs.

When an American terrorist(s) like William Charles “Bill” Ayers, who is responsible, along with his terrorist group, The Weather Underground, who is responsible for dozen of bombings between 1970 and 1974, including the US Capital, The Pentagon, and NYC Police Station. Bill Ayers, who is not forgiving of his acts, wish he could had done more, and is also overlooked by the far-left media. You need to know, that it was the Democratic Party ancestors, aka “Ku Klas Klan” and confidants, that was responsible for the Black Americans past atrocities.  The Democratic South has migrated through the rest of America. There were black slave owners also!

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EN-SLAVE: Republicans as racists

 

Democratic Paul Begala slimed Sarah Palin as a racist, citing the Associated Press and how “they said her attack on this whole Bill Ayers thing was 'racially-tinged.'

Racism Is Alive, Well’ Says Democrat Ed Towns; Greg Meeks

As the McCain campaign ratchets up the intensity of its attacks on Barack Obama, some black elected officials are calling the tactics desperate, unseemly and racist.

“They are trying to throw out these codes,” said Representative Gregory Meeks, a Democrat from New York.

“He’s ‘not one of us?’” Mr. Meeks said, referring to a comment Sarah Palin made at a campaign rally on Oct. 6 in Florida. “That’s racial. That’s fear. They know they can’t win on the issues, so the last resort they have is race and fear.”

Kevin Parker, a New York state senator from Brooklyn, said, “If you have to remind people that Barack Obama is African-American, you have reached the bottom.”

 

Excerpts from THE NEW YORK OBSERVER OCTOBER 7 2008

Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings on Wednesday warned two minority groups to beware of Sarah Palin because "anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks."

            Racism Is Alive, from the Democrat party. The Kings and Queens of racism are trying to cover up there past hideous history by calling the Republicans racist. How can anyone believe, that the Democrat party is on the side of the minority’s living in America when the Civil Rights era was about fighting for equal rights against the Democrats?

How can the Democrat Party call anyone prejudice or racists, when their beginnings started out as the Native Americans and Black Americans slave owners? The Democrat party had a one-time KKK member, Sen. Robert Byrd in the Senate.

Black slaves were escaping to the northern states and crossing into Canada from the slave owning Democratic, living in the south and east. 

            In 200 the NAACP broadcasted an grainy black and white commercial, it shows a pickup truck with a chain dragging across a dirt road. A black man (James Byrd) dragged to his death, chained to a pickup in Jasper, Tex. The NAAP was trying to cast a racist shadow over the Republican Party; this murder was done by White Supremacist, who considers themselves Democrat.

Black Democrat Politicians are saying that Sarah Palin is using codes words and rhetoric. Let me remind you of the out right words the Democratic people used in the past:

Antique Farm Equipment

Aunt Jamima

Blackie

Blue-Gummer

Boogie Boot Lip

Buck/Buck Ni**er

Buck Wheat

Cargo

Colored

Coon

Cotton-Picker

Darkie

House Ni**er

Jungle Bunny

Ni**er

Ni**erette

Ni**eroid

Oreo

Pickaninny

Black Sambo

Tar Baby

Uncle Tom

Yard Ape

Water Mellon smile

            How did Bill Clinton get to be labeled as Americas’ first black president with a nickname BUBBA?

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EN-SLAVED WOMEN RIGHTS

    

When I read and hear of the vicious attacks against Sara Palin, Condoleezza Rice, and other women selected or running for high level positions that does not flow with the far left view or agenda, I become confuse. The question I ask myself is, “What was the point behind the woman’s rights issue?” If a woman doesn’t agree with another woman’s issue, does that make her less of a woman then the women that is lashing out at her with disrespectful rhetoric?   I remember reading a speech from a famous ex-slave, abolitionist, minister, and woman’s right activist, her name was Sojourner Truth. When she was fighting for equal rights for women, it wasn’t about issues another woman believes in, the issues another woman objects to, nor the woman’s’ faith.  

This is Frances Gage's account of a speech given by Sojourner Truth at the Women's Rights Convention, 1851, in Akron, Ohio. She published the account in The History of Woman Suffrage, volume 1, co-authored with Susan B. Anthony, published in 1881.

Sojourner Truth: Abolitionist, Minister, Ex-Slave, Woman's Rights Activist

1881 Account by Frances Gage:

"Wall, chilern, whar dar is so much racket dar must be somethin' out o' kilter. I tink dat 'twixt de niggers of de Souf and de womin at de Nork, all talkin' 'bout rights, de white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all dis here talkin''bout?

"Dat man ober dar say dat womin needs to be helped into carriages, and lifted ober ditches, and to hab de best place everywhar. Nobody eber helps me into carriages, or ober mud-puddles, or gibs me any best place!" And raising herself to her full height, and her voice to a pitch like rolling thunders, she asked "And a'n't I a woman? Look at me! Look at me! Look at my arm! (and she bared her right arm to the shoulder, showing her tremendous muscular power). I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And a'n't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear de lash a well! And a'n't I a woman? I have borne thirteen chilern, and seen 'em mos' all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And a'n't I a woman?

"Den dey talks 'bout dis ting in de head; what dis dey call it?" ("Intellect," whispered some one near.) "Dat's it, honey. What's dat got to do wid womin's rights or nig***'s rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?" And she pointed her significant finger, and sent a keen glance at the minister who had made the argument. The cheering was long and loud.

"Den dat little man in black dar, he say women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wan't a woman! Whar did your Christ come from?" Rolling thunder couldn't have stilled that crowd, as did those deep, wonderful tones, as she stood there with outstretched arms and eyes of fire. Raising her voice still louder, she repeated, "Whar did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothin' to do wid Him." Oh, what a rebuke that was to that little man.

Turning again to another objector, she took up the defense of Mother Eve. I can not follow her through it all. It was pointed, and witty, and solemn; eliciting at almost every sentence deafening applause; and she ended by asserting: "If de fust woman God ever made was strong enough to turn de world upside down all alone, dese women togedder (and she glanced her eye over the platform) ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now dey is asking to do it, de men better let 'em." Long-continued cheering greeted this. "Bleeged to ye for hearin' on me, and now old Sojourner han't got nothin' more to say."

Amid roars of applause, she returned to her corner, leaving more than one of us with streaming eyes, and hearts beating with gratitude. She had taken us up in her strong arms and carried us safely over the slough of difficulty turning the whole tide in our favor. I have never in my life seen anything like the magical influence that subdued the mobbish spirit of the day, and turned the sneers and jeers of an excited crowd into notes of respect and admiration. Hundreds rushed up to shake hands with her, and congratulate the glorious old mother, and bid her God-speed on her mission of "testifyin' agin concerning the wickedness of this 'ere people."

There isn’t a woman today that went through the trials and tribulations that Sojourner Truth experienced; I don’t need to repeat them. Even as a slave/ex-slave Sojourner Truth stood for women rights.

On August 26, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution became law, and women could vote in the fall elections, including in the Presidential election. Were personnel issues a factor during this struggle? Women supported each other, regardless of political party support and personnel issues, they all cheered with one voice.

In 1872, in an attempt to claim that the constitution already permitted women to vote, Susan B. Anthony cast a test vote in Rochester, New York, in the presidential election. She was found guilty, though she refused to pay the resulting fine. When Susan B. Anthony casted the vote, do you think she cared about abortion rights, or religious beliefs. Susan B. Anthony did what she knew was right for all women of her time.

During World War I, when women took up jobs in factories to support the war, as well as taking more active roles in the war than in previous wars. After the war, even the more restrained National American Woman Suffrage Association, headed by Carrie Chapman Catt, took many opportunities to remind the President, and the Congress, that women's war work should be rewarded with recognition of their political equality. Wilson responded by beginning to support woman suffrage. In a speech on September 18, 1918, he said,

“We have made partners of the women in this war. Shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of right?”  (http://womenshistory.about.com/od/sojournertruth/a/sojourner_truth.htm)

 Party differences and belief difference was set a side to keep the United States strong, so, that we were able to defeat the enemy and maintain American pride and spirit.

History is full of examples of women coming together to prove that they deserve an equal playing field in life. Regardless of personnel issues, personnel beliefs, or personnel objectives, when a women is selected to a position of high authority that is equal to men and above men, you all should be cheering for that woman, and be happy that another woman made it.  

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EN-SLAVED, VOTING

 
They suffered with poll tax, reading test, writing text, and being asked silly questions by the Democratic slave owners and Liberals (Copperheads), to prove that they, as ex-slaves were qualified to vote. 1870 the Fifteen Amendment was added to the Constitution giving American ex-slaves the protection and the right to vote. Now, an organization comes along and discredits the very same system that gave American ex-slaves a voice in the Democratic system. Acorn, saying that their organization does not support or condone the illegal activites of its’ individual members, yea, right! Acorns’ individual members are laughing and spitting in face of all the American ex-slaves that fought to have the right and liberty to vote. People died and were beaten to obtain the right to vote. Acorns’ individual members, who are representing the Democratic/Liberal Party, who have the same mentality of the Democratic slave owners and the Liberals (Copperheads) who wanted to keep American blacks as slaves, wants to control votes once again.
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