Post Election Issue
Why I’m Hearing The GOP Is Done …
White House Tape 697/29 — Thursday, March 30th, 1972
“A majority of people in Colorado voted for abortion, I think a majority of people in Michigan are for abortion, I think in both cases, well, certainly in Michigan they will vote for it [ abortion ] because they think that what’s going to be aborted generally are the little Black bastards.” — Republican President Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 1
White House Tape 700/10 — Monday, April 3rd, 1972
“…as I told you – we talked about it earlier – that a hell of a lot people want to control the Negro bastards.” — Republican President Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 2
White House Tape 700/10 — Monday, April 3rd, 1972
“…you know what we are talking about – population control.” — Republican President Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 3
White House Tape 700/10 — Monday, April 3rd, 1972
“…we’re talking really – and what John Rockefeller really realizes – look, the people in what we call our class control their populations. Sometimes they’ll have a family of six, or seven, or eight, or nine, but it’s exception.” — Republican President Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 4
White House Tape 700/10 — Monday, April 3rd, 1972
“People who don’t control their families are people in – the people that shouldn’t have kids. Now that’s …” — Republican President Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 5
White House Tape 700/10 — Monday, April 3rd, 1972
“What?“ — Republican President Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 6
The Link Between The GOP and The Family–Planners
“Cecile Richards Of Planned Parenthood: Election Shows GOP Should Embrace Family–Planning Roots” (Huff Post Politics)
“Back in the olden days, the Republican Party was the party that supported people’s individual rights and keeping government out of personal health care decisions, so I think there’s a history they can go back to.” 7 — President Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood
“A lot of Republicans used to support family planning, and Richard Nixon signed that first federal planning program into law. There’s a clear pathway to [ win back women's support ], and it’s to listen to the middle of their party instead of the extreme fringe.” 8 — President Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood
Family–Planning Roots
“Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.” 9 — Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood founder and member in good standing with the racist American Eugenics Society (AES).
“The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.” 10 — Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood founder and member in good standing with the racist American Eugenics Society (AES).
“I consider that the world and almost our civilization for the next twenty-five years, is going to depend upon a simple, cheap, safe contraceptive to be used in poverty stricken slums, jungles, and among the most ignorant people. Even this will not be sufficient, because I believe that now, immediately, there should be national sterilization for certain dysgenic types of our population who are being encouraged to breed and would die out were the government not feeding them.” 11 — Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood founder and member in good standing with the racist American Eugenics Society (AES).
Clearly Republican President Richard Milhous Nixon, racist as the day is long during a summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, was greatly influenced by John D. Rockefeller III as documented in the White House taped conversation above. John D. Rockefeller III was both the founder and major supporter of the Population Council.12 Rooted in the eugenics movement, John D. Rockefeller III appointed Frederick Osborn, a celebrated eugenicist, author of “Preface to Eugenics” (New York, 1940) and one of the founding members of the American Eugenics Society (AES) as the first president of the Population Council.13 Osborn served as President of the Population Council until 1959.14 However, in 1968 Osborn wrote, “Eugenic goals are most likely to be achieved under another name than eugenics.” 15 Moreover in 1972, right after Roe v. Wade was reargued on October 11th, the American Eugenics Society was reorganized and renamed to “The Society for the Study of Social Biology” and now known as “The Society for Biodemography and Social Biology.” 16
According to Osborn …
“The name was changed because it became evident that changes of a eugenic nature would be made for reasons other than eugenics, and that tying a eugenic label on them would more often hinder than help their adoption. Birth control and abortion are turning out to be great eugenic advances of our time.” 17
Republican Party Roots
“I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.” 18 — Frederick Douglass
The “Family–Planning Roots” of the Republican Party, purported by Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood, is a deliberate disconnect and departure from the real and well-documented roots of the Republican Party. In May of 1854 and in response to the Pro-Slavery Democratic Party, Anti-Slavery members of Congress formed the Republican Party.19 The original Republican Party Platform in 1856 had nine (9) planks, six (6) of which were dedicated to Ending Slavery and Securing Equal Rights for Black Americans. The Democratic Party Platform of 1856 supported and defended slavery.20 The 1860 Democratic Party Platform not only endorsed the Fugitive Slave Law but also celebrated and promoted the Dred Scott decision.” 21
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There Is No Way To Escape The Implications!
“There is no way to escape the implications. When an organization has a history of racism, when its literature is openly racist, when its goals are self-consciously racial, and when its programs invariably revolve around race, it doesn’t take an expert to realize that the organization is indeed racist.” 22 — William L. Davis, a Black Financial Analyst
While today’s Republican Party has long and incontestably departed from its sonorous and well-documented abolitionist roots, it is equally apparent that the Democratic Party has NOT departed from its wicked and well-documented racist roots. There is no way to escape the implications that President Barack Hussein Obama II and the Democratic Party are co-conspirators in the genocide of Black America. Both wholeheartedly endorse, support and promote an organization whose mission is one of population control.23 An organization that was founded by Margaret Sanger,24 a well-documented proponent of eugenics,25 a celebrated Klu Klux Klan speaker26 and one of the architects of the now infamous 1939 Negro Project,27 whose sole objective was to infiltrate the Black community by hiring Black preachers28 and presenting birth control as a health option for åBlack women.29 An organization, that according to a Life Dynamics report called, “Racial Targeting and Population Control,” which cross-examined zip codes of minority neighborhoods and abortion facilities across America, is the leader in an industry that has installed 83% of their abortion or abortion-referring facilities in minority neighborhoods.30 An organization that according the very latest research released by Protecting Black Life (an outreach of the Life Issues Institute) has 79% of its surgical abortion facilities located within walking distance of Black American and/or Hispanic/Latino communities.31 An organization that today is the largest abortion provider in the United States of America,32 performing about one-third of all abortions in the country,33 performing more than 329,000 abortions a year, 27,416 abortions a month, 6,326 abortions a week and over 900 abortions a day.34 An organization that earned an estimated $154 million dollars from those 329,000 abortions35 where 40% of abortions were performed on minority women.36 An organization that is financially backed by the United States government, receiving 46% of its annual budget37 in the form of more than $487 million taxpayer dollars a year.38 An organization whose President took a break from her “day job” running the organization’s abortion business to campaign full-time to re-elect President Barack Obama39 and gave more than $15 million dollars to the President’s re-election campaign.40 An organization whose criminal negligence and depraved indifference botched Chicago’s Tanya Reaves second trimester abortion and let the sister bleed for over five (5) hours before calling emergency services.41 An organization where there have been fourteen (14) cases of serious medical emergencies documented at their abortion facilities within the last 24 months.42 An organization that when investigators called the same abortion facilities that had recent and documented medical emergencies, denied any incidents occurred at their abortion facilities and lied about the risks of the abortion procedure.43 An organization that’s been caught advising sex-traffickers on how to secure abortions for underage girls with no questions asked.44 An organization where donors can give money specifically for the abortion of a Black baby.45 An organization whose President publicly claimed her organization provides mammograms, the breast cancer screening procedure for women, but whose staff in twenty-seven (27) different states publicly stated: “We don’t provide those services whatsoever.” 46 An organization that is currently embroiled in a lawsuit that alleges its involvement in “repeated false, fraudulent, and ineligible claims for Medicaid reimbursements” through the Texas Women’s Health Program.47 What is the name of this organization that uses almost half a billion taxpayer dollars to target Black neighborhoods, perform and botch late-term abortions, advise sex traffickers and pimps48 on how to secure taxpayer funded abortions for underage girls and falsely claim to provide life saving breast cancer screening? Why, it’s Planned Parenthood and there is no way to escape the implications that Planned Parenthood is racist and that after the 2012 election, the GOP is done.
Brothers, we really need to talk.
Note(s):
· Reconstruction was ended by the Compromise of 1877, a morally flawed but historically consequential arrangement that put Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House and removed federal troops from the South. [Click Here] This compromise consisted of an agreement to drop the Negro problem from the agenda of national policy questions. Hayes called it the ‘let alone‘ policy. It was similar to what others before him had called ‘popular sovereignty‘ and to what others after him have called ‘benign neglect.’ In each case it meant the same thing: no issue of justice was at stake and, therefore, national policy was not required to address the issue. Whatever the Negro problem was, it was not a public problem.” ↩
· King was in the Georgia State Prison, Reidsville, Georgia because a group of students representing “The Committee on Appeal for Human Rights,” led by Mr. Lonnie C. King, a student at Morehouse College, had called for his help. Dr. King delayed his trip to Nigeria and joined the student sit-in movement of Atlanta, Georgia. [Click Here] What happened to Dr. King that did not happen to the students that were arrested in the same demonstration? Dr. King was transferred to the “Dekalb County Jail” and charged with parole violation. On Wednesday, May 4th, 1960 King was arrested and issued a citation for driving without a license. He paid the fine and went on with his life. Judge J. Oscar Mitchell claimed Dr. King was also given twelve months probation. This was not known to Dr. King or his representative who paid the fine for the minor traffic violation. Judge Oscar Mitchell of Dekalb County proceeded to sentence Dr. King to four month’s hard labor in the Georgia State Prison for a minor traffic violation. This was the first time such a sentence had been imposed in the history of the state of Georgia! Around four o’clock a.m. the next morning, officers of the law put chains (shackles) on Dr. King, threw him in the prison vehicle, drove 230 miles across the state and incarcerated him in Reidsville State Prison. This was brutality, injustice and evil in high places. However, within less than twenty-four hours the nation and the world responded. Because a young senator from Massachusetts intervened on the side of justice. Senator John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy took a risk for righteousness in support of Dr. King. Judge Mitchell reversed his ruling. This single act of moral and political courage tipped the scales in the presidential election of 1960. ↩
Reference(s): 01. Maafa21 — Black Genocide in the 21st Century America, Life Dynamics, Inc. (http://bit.ly/1ak4q1).
02. Ibid.
03. Ibid.
04. Ibid.
05. Ibid.
06. Ibid.
07. Huff Post Politics, “Cecile Richards Of Planned Parenthood: Election Shows GOP Should Embrace Family-Planning Roots”, (http://bit.ly/U1iKL2).
08. Ibid., President Nixon convened the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, chaired by John Rockefeller. This is the Commission that institutionalized abortion by subcontracting Planned Parenthood in the (then) DHEW (now DHHS). And after 8 years of a Republican presidency under Bush, abortion is still legal. See Dr. Tolbert’s excellent work here: http://bit.ly/pqOqbB.
09. Margaret Sanger, “The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda”, Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5. (http://bit.ly/KR67B8).
10. Margaret Sanger, Ibid.
11. Correspondence between Sanger and McCormick, Friday, October 27th, 1950 (http://to.pbs.org/cbCcF7).
12. John Davison Rockefeller III, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/d3Cm47).
13. Population Council, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/XrCWU).
14. Ibid.
15. Population Council, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/XrCWU).
16. American Eugenics Society, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/hkJYVL).
17. Ibid.
18. Frederick Douglass, “Frederick Douglass: A Model For The Ages” (http://bit.ly/WEGPMq).
19. David Barton, WallBuilders – Newsletters Black History Issue 2003 (http://bit.ly/3XdRfY).
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. George Grant, “Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood”, p. 119. (http://bit.ly/R4iQEL)
23. Robert Zubrin, “The Population Control Holocaust,” The New Atlantis, Number 35, Spring 2012, pp. 33-54. (http://bit.ly/IlMQr5).
24. Planned Parenthood, “History & Successes”, (http://bit.ly/Qb19lE).
25. Margaret Sanger, “Birth Control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical in ideal, with the final aims of Eugenics.” (http://bit.ly/KR67B8l) and “She [Margaret Sanger] read everything she could find on birth control and sexuality and immersed herself in the writings of Thomas Malthus [Eugenist], John Stuart [Eugenist] and Robert Owens [Eugenist] (Sanger, 1938, pp. 124-125). And she met Havelock Ellis [Eugenist], who became her mentor and her lover (Chesler, 1992, p. 120).” (http://bit.ly/KEnGkB) by Jon Knowles with special thanks to Ellen Chesler, Planned Parenthood.
26. Margaret Sanger (1938), “Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography,” New York: W. W. Norton. pp. 361, 366-7. (http://bit.ly/10eyb77).
27. Tanya L. Green, “The Negro Project: Margaret Sanger’s Eugenic Plan for Black Americans” (http://bit.ly/x9c2aV).
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Mark Crutcher, “Racial Targeting and Population Control”, Life Dynamics (http://bit.ly/nzULjk).
31. Susan W. Enouen, P.E., “New Research shows Planned Parenthood Targets Minority Neighborhoods,” Life Issues Connector, October 2012 (http://bit.ly/QXPgwf).
32. Planned Parenthood, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/4AgtGW) and Loxafamosity Ministries (LMI) “U.S. Abortion Statistics” (http://bit.ly/YicLF).
33. Joan Frawley Desmond, “As Gender Gap Narrows in Election, Planned Parenthood to the Rescue?”, (http://bit.ly/SeOwGd).
34. Ibid.
35. Protest Planned Parenthood, “The Facts Don’t Lie” Source: Planned Parenthood Annual Reports. (http://bit.ly/STwO7E).
36. Dave Bohon, “After 96 Years, Abortion Giant Planned Parenthood Still Targeting Minorities,” New American (http://bit.ly/R4PMbN) and Susan W. Enouen, P.E., “Why Are Black Women Three Times More Likely to Have an Abortion?”, (http://bit.ly/VrRGcJ).
37. Steven Ertelt, “Planned Parenthood Report: $1B Group Gets 46% From Tax Money”, (http://bit.ly/syznxN).
38. Penny Starr, “Planned Parenthood’s Annual Report: Got $487.4M in Tax Money, Did 329,445 Abortions” (http://bit.ly/x5adxC).
39. FOX News, “Planned Parenthood President: ‘I’ve Taken A Break From My Day Job’ To Volunteer Full Time For Obama” (http://bit.ly/RLR6zZ).
40. Steven Ertelt, “Planned Parenthood Spent $15 Million to Re-Elect Obama”, (http://bit.ly/T3b1vK).
41. Chicago CBS News, “Documents Shed Light On Woman’s Death After Abortion,” (http://cbsloc.al/NTi9HG).
42. “Investigation reveals Planned Parenthood lying about abortion injuries“, Live Action Advocate, Published Wednesday, October 24th, 2012 (http://bit.ly/TASZFa).
43. Ibid.
44. Live Action, “Exposing Planned parenthood’s Cover-up of Child Sex Trafficking” (http://bit.ly/QHIFbR).
45. Live Action, “The Planned Parenthood Racism Project” (http://bit.ly/QpfkVv).
46. The Suzy B Blog, “Planned Parenthood & Mammograms: “We don’t provide those services whatsoever” (http://bit.ly/SbcaD8).
47. Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), “False Claims and Fraud: Lawsuit Exposes Planned Parenthood Deception” (http://bit.ly/OXlbte).
48. Josh Brown, “‘Pimp’ video stings Planned Parenthood,” The Washington Times (http://bit.ly/Y3MqvY).
How we as Christians vote tomorrow will either signal a renewal of our hearts and minds toward Christ or reflect the depth of the depravity in our souls. Voting is a blood bought and thereby precious privilege we inherited from those who died for our freedom before us. John Jay, a leading opponent of slavery, was an American Statesman, Patriot, Diplomat, a Founding Father of our country, and when nominated by George Washington became the first (1st) Chief Justice of the United States of America. 30 Chief Justice Jay believed that the most effective way of ensuring world peace was through propagation of the Christian gospel. Perhaps Jay, in a letter addressed to Pennsylvania House of Representatives member John Murray, dated Saturday, October 12th, 1816, said it best:
In 1973, just sixty-seven (67) days after Merlin K. DuVal, Assistant Secretary to the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), wrote to Dorothy P. Rice, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), to terminate the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment in 1972, the United States Supreme Court decided both Roe and Doe, establishing a constitutional right to abortion on demand. 42
I am often asked to explain “how can” and “why do” Black American’s embrace Obamacare. Frankly … While Black Americans have already experienced the manifold blessings of “free health care” under both White Democratic and White Republican administrations, the Democratic Party has publicly acknowledged America’s racist tendencies and boldly invested in Black America by way of Black Americans. This is not to say that the Democratic Party’s investments in my community have been “sincere,” “sound” or even “good-faith” investments. Not at all. However, this is to deliberately say, that “sincere,” “sound” and “good-faith” investments are exactly how New Order Investments by the Republican Party can and will effectively reach voters in communities of color. So what does this look like? “Sincere,” “sound” and “good-faith” investments have always had the power to make amends. “Sincere” investments will acknowledge and accept responsibility for the harm caused by past failures to love communities of color and model genuinely new behavior by spending the time, talent and treasure required to renew and reconcile the relationship. “Sound” investments will overcome the damage to communities of color caused by “politically expedient” spending on entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid by getting resources out of Washington, D.C. and back into the private sector where they can be used productively to create businesses and jobs. “Good-faith” investments will make room at the decision table for members from communities of color and meet the physical needs of women, children and broken families without violating their religious convictions.
It’s interesting to note that January 2004 marked the death of Ernest Hendon, the last survivor of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Hendon was in the control group that did not have syphilis. He was 96 years old. It’s also interesting to note that January 2012 marked the 40th year since the termination of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Furthermore, it’s very interesting to note that January 2013 will mark the beginning of the 40th year of legalized abortion on demand that deliberately targets communities of color. As I earnestly reflect on these dates, I can’t help but wonder … Could all this just be interesting? Or am I seeing a pattern? To be more specific and more to the point … Could all this just be coincidence? Or am I actually seeing the reality of an old, evil and eugenic effort to eliminate communities of color still at work in America? In the privacy of my heart, I know the answer. Don’t you? In the privacy of our hearts, don’t we all know the answer?
Homer Adolph Plessy was born on St. Patrick’s Day in 1862, when Union troops under General Benjamin Franklin Butler had freed Black Americans in New Orleans. At that time Black Americans could then marry whomever they chose, sit in any streetcar seat, and even attend integrated schools. However, as a thirty (30) year–old adult, Plessy found that those gains from the American Civil War (1862–1865) and the Radical Reconstruction of the South (1863–1877) were abolished after Union troops were withdrawn in the Republican Compromise of 1877. 2
“That [the Separate Car Act] does not conflict with the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery … is too clear for argument … A statute which implies merely a legal distinction between the white and colored races — a distinction which is founded in the color of the two races, and which must always exist so long as white men are distinguished from the other race by color — has no tendency to destroy the legal equality of the two races … The object of the [Fourteenth A]mendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either.” — Henry Billings Brown, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court 9
“Our Constitution is color–blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law … In my opinion, the judgment this day rendered will, in time, prove to be quite as pernicious as the decision made by this tribunal in the Dred Scott case … The present decision, it may well be apprehended, will not only stimulate aggressions, more or less brutal and irritating, upon the admitted rights of colored citizens, but will encourage the belief that it is possible, by means of state enactments, to defeat the beneficient purposes which the people of the United States had in view when they adopted the recent amendments of the Constitution.” — John Marshall Harlan, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court 10
For years political analysts have pointed out that the prevailing power of the presidency lies in the office holder’s United States Supreme Court appointments. The Supreme Court is the highest court in the land, interpreting the “Supreme Law” of the land. As the Judicial Branch of our government, 16 the Supreme Court stands as the final word on matters of law and balances the powers of both the Legislative and Executive branches. Once the Supreme Court has made a decision, no other court can overturn or even review that decision. The average justice serves for fourteen (14) years and retires at age seventy-one (71). 17 Supreme Court justices are appointed for life so they never have to face re–election or make sure that their decisions please the president who appointed them. 18
In 1876 the Republican Party had been hurt by financial corruption charges during the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant and thus needed a new candidate for the Presidency. 3 The safe liberal politics, party loyalty, and solid war record of the Governor of Ohio, made Rutherford Birchard Hayes the best hope for the Republican Party in the 1876 presidential election. 4 In the end Hayes lost the popular vote to Democrat Samuel J. Tilden. The count was 4,284,757 or 51% of the vote for Tilden against 4,033,950 or 48% for Hayes. 5 However, in order to win a candidate needed 185 electoral votes. 6 With 51% of the popular vote Tilden controlled 184 electoral votes and with 48% of the popular vote Hayes controlled 165. 7 Nevertheless, Hayes became the 19th President of the United States (1877-1881) in one of the most contentious, controversial, and morally bankrupt elections in American history. 8 When the dust was settled, and the now infamous Compromise of 1877 in the bag, Hayes had won the presidency by a single electoral vote (185-184). 9 
During the American Civil War, the national debt had increased by a staggering 4,000 percent (4000%). 25 After the war most White Northerners, preoccupied with the economic problems of unemployment and falling farm prices, were less concerned about violent acts of White Southerners against Black Americans in the South. So by 1870, “Waving The Bloody Shirt“ 26 with the blood stains of carpetbaggers (i.e., Northerners who moved to the South) whipped by the Ku Klux Klan had lost its appeal. Furthermore, by 1876 it was clear that the North was satisfied that legislation such as the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments had solved the “race problem” in the South and wanted the Republican Party to move on from social issues to economic issues. 27 This sounds so very familiar to me.
Today, the Republican Party, wanting to move on from social issues to economic issues, 28 is facing the same temptation to satisfy the conscience of her socially conservative constituents with a Pro-Life presidential candidate that has pledged to limit abortion to only instances of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother. 29 This is the Republican Compromise of 2012. Limiting abortion with an executive order that reinstates the Mexico City Policy, with legislation that repeals, restricts, regulates, reduces and defunds abortion and with the appointment of Supreme Court justices who support reversing Roe v. Wade will not end abortion.
Abortion is a business, businesses are born with a product and customers are the lifeblood of businesses. Reducing abortion will not end abortion. Removing government subsidies from abortion providers will not end abortion. Reversing the current direction in Washington D.C. will not end abortion. Until the Republican Party embraces the biblical truth that only human life is sacred from the beginning of our biological development until death. Until the Republican Party understands that the only stronghold, strategy and sadistic sanctuary the abortion industrial complex can retreat to, in order to maintain their illegitimate air of credibility, is to portray itself as the only option caring enough to help poor women in communities of color. Until the Republican Party moves the hearts and minds of people in a way that meets the physical, spiritual and emotional needs of women and children helpless, homeless, hungry or without healthcare. Until the Republican Party learns to communicate compassion in a way that helps the poor realize that the golden promises of socialized healthcare only serve to hide the huge economic loss those social programs will cost their children and grandchildren in the future for putting these programs on the government’s credit card. Until the Republican Party fiscal conservatives unite with her social conservatives on the common ground of abortion’s $45 trillion dollar cost to our country 32 (please note, that’s roughly three times our national debt) and build a strong solidified party presence in America … 
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th President of the United States from 1869–1877. 3 As President he led the Radical Republicans in their effort to eliminate all remaining vestiges of Confederate nationalism, slavery and effectively destroyed the first incarnation of Ku Klux Klan in 1871. 4 The First Klan founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by six veterans of the Confederate Army flourished in the South following the American Civil War and has been called America’s first true terrorist group. 5 Members utilized white costumes: robes, masks, and conical hats, designed to mystify, terrify and hide their true identities. 6 Today the Ku Klux Klan is splintered into several independent chapters with no apparent connections between them and is rightly classified as a hate group with an estimated membership between 3,000 and 5,000 as of 2012. 7
After the North’s victory and during Reconstruction, The State of Tennessee ratified the Fourteenth (14th) Amendment and gave Black American’s the right to vote. 9 As a result, Tennessee’s August gubernatorial election of 1867 was the first time in the Tennessee’s history that Black Americans would be allowed to vote. Actually and more significantly, this was the first time since President Abraham Lincoln’s Friday, January 1st, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation that Black American’s in the South would vote at all. Nevertheless, in the 
dark background of election politics, former Confederate Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest who was serving as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, was keeping his Klansmen in line in an effort to deflect the attention of the United States Military (i.e., Union soldiers) away from the Klan’s terrorist program that sought to restore White Supremacy by threats and violence, including murder, against freed Black Slaves and White Republicans. 10 Working with “Conservatives” (a coalition of Democrats and old-line Whigs) Lieutenant General Nathan Forrest tried to convince former Black Slaves that their 
former Slave Masters were their best friends and that they held their best interest at heart. 11 To the Klans surprise, the former Black Slaves in Tennessee did not believe them and overwhelmingly voted for the Radical Republicans. Knee deep in denial, the Ku Klux Klan believed that freed Black Slaves voted Republican because “carpetbaggers” (a derogatory term Southerners gave to Northerners who moved to the South) and “scalawags” (a derogatory term for Southern Whites who supported the Radical Republican Party) told them to and once freed from such, former Black Slaves would gladly return to being the “good niggers” they were before the American Civil War. 12 However, nothing was ever farther from the truth. Below is an explanation for why freed Black Slaves endorsed the Radical Republicans by a delegation of freed South Carolina Black Slaves.
[You] derided the idea of granting us the right to vote; when your legislature met in 1865-66, you passed that infamous Black Code … Your laws provided for taking and binding-out our children and subjecting us to all manner of disabilities. We could not pursue any trade or calling in this State without written permission from some White man; we could not sell any article of barter without the consent first obtained from some magistrate. With all these facts before us, and your Negro Code before us … do you not see why we have been constrained to trust in strangers rather than to those who claim that they are our natural friends? Can you have the heart to ask colored men to vote for men who deny that they are capable of voting intelligently? 
After the 1867 Radical Republican victory in Tennessee the former Confederate Lieutenant General and then present Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest released his army of Klansmen and by October 1867 twenty-five (25) murders, thirty-five (35) assaults with intent to kill, eighty-three (83) assaults and batteries, four (4) rapes and four (4) arsons were reported to Major General Oliver Otis Howard of the United States Army (formerly the Union Army) in Tennessee. 14 Thank God for the former Commanding General of the Union Army and then present Radical Republican President Ulysses S. Grant.
It is not difficult for me to imagine what life would be like for Black America today without the righteous and right-minded efforts of the Radical Republicans of the past. Still, the question before us is: are there any Radical Republicans today? Today our country is split over the incontestable evil of abortion on demand and same-sex marriage. The answer will not be found in compromise legislation that restricts, regulates or reduces abortion or the promotion of homosexuality. The answer will be found in the hearts of men and women who are steadfastly committed to an uncompromised biblical worldview that can not only see the end of abortion on demand and same-sex marriage but also see a day where the needs of women, children and communities of color are met. The Radical Republicans of the past picked a platform to stand on and refused to settle for anything less than “equality of man before his Creator,” 23 even at the expense of their public office.
Nevertheless, I have long wondered what happened to the Radical Republicans of the past? It seems to me history suggests that after 1868 the “Radicals” lost interest in the fate of the Freedmen, became more concerned about fiscal policies, began to view Black Americans as “potentially dangerous to the economy because they might prove to be labor radicals” and jumped the Radical Republican ship to become members of the Liberal Republican camp. Furthermore, I cannot help but wonder if conservative fiscal policies that lead to the preservation of personal profit is where the heart and soul of the Republican Party is today? With the moral compass of our country broken and November quickly coming into view, I’ve been asked on more than one occasion: Are there any Radical Republicans today?
“Black Codes” were rooted in the “Slave Codes” that were in effect before the defeat of the South. The justification for chattel slavery in America was that Black Americans were property, not persons, and as such, they had few, if any, legal rights. The “Slave Codes” were necessary and effective tools of the South against slave unrest and uprisings. Under the enforcement of “Slave Codes” corporal punishment was widely and harshly employed. 9
On Sunday, March 3rd, 1867, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act which stripped President Johnson of the power to remove federal officials without approval from the Senate. 14 On Saturday, March 23rd, 1867 Congress passed the Second Reconstruction Act and in response to the first edition of the Ku Klux Klan established a military Reconstruction program to enforce political and civil rights of Black Americans and white Republicans in the South. 15 On Monday, April 9th, 1866 Congress overrode President Johnson’s veto and the Civil Rights Act which defined all persons born in the U.S. as citizens. 16 On Thursday, July 9th, 1868 Congress enacted the Fourteenth (14th) Amendment to the United States Constitution which authorized the federal government to protect the rights of all citizens. 17 With the exception of the Fourteenth (14th) Amendment each of the above pieces of “landmark legislation” was passed over President Johnson’s opposition and veto. 18 On Monday, February 24th, 1868 the United States House of Representatives impeached President Johnson in accordance with Article Two of the United States Constitution. 19 On Tuesday, May 26th, 1868, after an intense trial, President Johnson was acquitted by the United States Senate by a single vote. Johnson served the remainder of Lincoln’s term. 20 After the Tuesday, November 3rd, 1868 presidential election of Ulysses S. Grant, President Johnson, in one of his last official acts, granted unconditional amnesty to all Confederates on Christmas Day (Friday, December 25th, 1868). 21
Willard Mitt Romney is the only 2012 Republican Party presidential candidate that did not sign the Personhood Pledge (
chaired by both Mary Ann Glendon and Robert Bork. 33 Mary Ann Glendon was selected by Pope John Paul II to head the Vatican delegation to the Beijing women’s convention and teaches Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School. 34 Robert Heron Bork is a former Yale Law School professor, Solicitor General, Acting Attorney General, and Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Both Glendon and Bork are publicly critical of Roe. 35 This too is good news. On Monday night, May 7th, 2012, Rick Santorum endorsed Willard Mitt Romney via email saying: “The task will not be easy. It will require all hands on deck if our nominee is to be victorious. Governor Romney will be that nominee and he has my endorsement and support to win this the most critical election of our lifetime.” 36 This is more good news. However, it’s still better news to know that the Pro-Life movement has committed herself to unequivocally supporting Willard Mitt Romney and holding him accountable for fulfilling his Pro-Life Pledge. 37
“Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.” — C.S. Lewis 38
Slavery was legal in all thirteen (13) of the American Colonies before the American Revolutionary War. 7 Slaves were considered valuable property and as a large plantation owner Washington had large sums of money invested slave labor. 8 However, by 1780 and largely by the efforts of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS), 9 Pennsylvania became the first former colony to abolish slavery. While the law did not free slaves immediately, it did offer gradual emancipation. By law slaves were registered as property, so the children born of a registered Pennsylvania slave mother after the law was in force had the legal status of indentured servants when they reached the age of twenty-eight (28). 10 So legal slavery continued in Pennsylvania until 1847. 11 As the first President of the United States of America, George Washington lived in Philadelphia in the President’s House from 1790 to 1797. 12 To avoid having Pennsylvania laws apply to his slaves, Washington maintained his residency in Virginia by making sure that neither he nor his slaves spent the six (6) continuous months necessary to establish legal residency in Philadelphia. 13
After the American Revolutionary War George Washington personally rejected the institution of slavery, yet while serving as the President of the United States he supported the 1790 Naturalization Act approved by the First Congress 15 that incorporated foreigners as United States citizens, but provided for naturalization only of whites 16 and authorized emergency financial and military relief to French slave owners in Haiti to suppress the slave rebellion of 1791. 17 Washington also signed the compromise Northwest Territory Act that banned slavery in that territory, but did not free those that were already slaves. Further still, in 1793 Washington signed the Fugitive Slave Law that gave slaveholders the right to recapture runway slaves even in free states that had abolished slavery. 18
George Washington was born into a wealthy family that profited from the slave labor on their tobacco plantations. By 1732, the provincial gentry of Colonial Virginia was little more than a slave society, a world where the right to own slaves was protected and the right to emancipate slaves was prohibited by law. 24 ≡ Yes, George Washington was a product of his environment, however, while Washington was a slave-owner, he was also a devoted husband to Martha, a decorated general who fought for freedom in the service of Virginia’s provincial militia, a commander-in-chief who “wrenched the rights of all Americans from the tyrannical grasp of the British“ 25 in the service of the Continental Army, a skilled facilitator who presided over the writing of the our Constitution and a widely respected leader who became our first President. 26 Above all George Washington was a praying man, wholly committed to his Christian faith, however, therein lies the crux of the matter. 
With the blessings that come from having a wife, family and friends, Washington chose to work within a government whose majority embraced or at the very least, tacitly consented to, the incontestable evil of slavery. With a career that can only come from the blessings of a divine appointment, Washington retired from serving a system entirely based on the “art of compromise” where in the “final solution“ 27 participants are expected to resign their conscience in the interest of practicality, profit and peace. ≡ Yes, George Washington was indeed a product of his environment, but frankly, so are we. So long as profits trump purpose, power trumps peace, politics trumps people, victory trumps values, race trumps religion and preservation trumps principle we are all the products of our environment.
Like it or not, there is such a thing as evil. Lurking in the depths of our souls is an evil that pushes us beyond the white sandy shores of safety into the dark, deep and dangerously cold and open waters of uncertainty, vagueness and soul searching questions. Questions such as … Will God save us, if we nonviolently resist a law that is immoral, as in the case of the abolitionist resisting the 1793 Fugitive Slave Law 29 by refusing to turn over escaped slaves to authorities? Will God take care of us, if we nonviolently resist laws in order to physically lay claim to God-given rights, such as freedom, equality and life itself, as in the case of Black Americans illegally protesting during the Civil Rights movement? 30 Will God protect us, if we nonviolently resist laws in order to change immoral policies endorsed by our government such as slavery, segregation, euthanasia and abortion on demand? These are the kind of questions that flood our minds and invade our very soul as we choose to live out our faith in Christ on earth.
Today, we’re at a point where our babies are dismembered in their own mother’s womb on demand, our elderly are gravely threatened with euthanasia and our religious freedom is at stake. What is it going to take for us to realize that the “art of compromise” is not the means to a righteous end? The Bible says Peter walked on water, but when the waters got high and the lightning started to flash and the winds began to blow Peter feared for his life and cried out “Lord save me!” The Bible also says “and immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him.” In my opinion, even though the troubled waters of our world are deep and dark, like Peter, Christ is bidding us to walk on water with Him. I believe it’s time for us to stop being afraid of the deep and the dark, so the Holy Spirit can move us far beyond the “art of compromise” as an expression of our holy and righteous indignation. I believe God is calling us to join Him walking on the water. If we resist civil government: Will God save us? Will God take care of us? Will God protect us? Well, He’s already caught Peter and saved him, so that answers my question. What answer are you waiting for?
