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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

ConservaDems - Some of you will pay

Here's how.

I live in Georgia, one of the reddest of the red states. Although we give it the best of the old college tries, for the foreseeable future, we can't get a Democrat elected to the Senate. So, while I volunteer here in Georgia, my money goes where it can make a difference. In 2006, that was Connecticut, where Progressives were able to bounce Traitor Joe Lieberman out of the Democratic nomination for the Senate. Unfortunately, CT has no "sore loser" rule, and Bad Penny Joe was able to pull enough of a Count Dracula meets Xaviera Hollander act to get back into office. I write this to let our intransigent ConservaDems know that such things do happen, and I'm not alone.

It looks quite likely that this year my money will be going to Arkansas, and against Blanche Lincoln. Since we do not have a leadership that seems capable of punishing wayward Democrats, I believe it's up to us as voters and contributors to take on the task, and kicking Blanche to the curb is lining up to be job one.

I know Fire Dog Lake is committed to this, and I will be following their lead. We have to make sure ConservaDems understand that votes have consequences. Traitor Joe wound up on my hit list for his cloture vote on the 2005 Bankruptcy Bill; Blanche, and probably others, are going on for their stance on the Health Care Bill which has become the Massive Windfall to the Insurance Cartel Bill.

I look forward top FDL and other informed progressives' advice on how to spend my limited resources wisely. I just hope Arkansas doesn't have a "sore loser" law.

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Crispus Attucks?

According to PBS.org:

"In 1770, Crispus Attucks, a black man, became the first casualty of the American Revolution when he was shot and killed in what became known as the Boston Massacre. Although Attucks was credited as the leader and instigator of the event, debate raged for over as century as to whether he was a hero and a patriot, or a rabble-rousing villain".

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p24.html

From its earliest days black people have fought and died for this country, in every war we've fought, as soldiers and patriots. The average person, if they were to judge from the media and their lifetime of misteaching, would believe all we've ever been were slaves, civil rights workers, athletes, entertainers, welfare recipients and criminals.

In the minds of many people, Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, or both, are the leaders of Black America. The utter ridiculousness of such thinking is apparent if its applied it in the inverse, say by considering Newt Ginrich or Sarah Palin to be the leaders of White America.

Black Americans are a complex mosiac within the expansive tapestry of this country and its history. Our sweat, blood, and toil helped create and maintain America, and we've paid a price higher than those paid by many others. This blog is a reflection of that point of view.

Why are you talking anyway?

Although we've seen many changes in our society, for me, there's still a lot of misunderstanding about Black Americans and our role in shaping this society...and not just by people who are not black.

Al Sharpton is not Black America. Jesse Jackson is not Black America. Neither was Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglas, or Cripus Attucks, but they all were Black Americans. And despite the rhetoric used against them during their lives and times, they all have proved their love for their country by challenging it to be true to its promise of justice and equality.

I feel the same way as they did. They used their voices. I want to use mine.

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