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The Media: From Horace Greeley to Helen Thomas

By Nathan Raab, Contributor

Last weekend, journalist Helen Thomas passed away, ending a remarkably long and historic career in journalism.   When she began working at United Press International (UPI), Edward R. Murrow was reporting for CBS, Walter Cronkite had yet to start his career at the same network, and William Randolph Hearst, founder of the great newspaper empire where Mrs. Thomas would eventually work, was still alive.  When Hearst was born, in 1863, Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune ruled the world of newspapers from New York.  He battled it out for readership and influence with James Gordon Bennett of the Herald, among others.  William Lloyd Garrison was still writing The Liberator, an anti-slavery publication he founded in the 1830s.  Frederick Douglass had ceased publishing his paper, The North Star, only a decade earlier. …read more

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White Male Disenfranchisement Debated At CPAC 2013

By capblack

Presenter K Carl Smith’s “Trump The Race Card” session at CPAC Friday had an audience member who posed the following question:

“Why can’t we be more like Booker T. Washington Republicans, and his famous statement: Let’s be unified like the hand but separate like the fingers?”

Mr. Smith responded by citing Frederick Douglass’ letter to his former slave-master, where he forgave him.

Undeterred, the questioner replied: “For giving him food and shelter all those years?”

I chuckle at this statement while recalling how Douglass fought his slave-master for two hours to win his freedom.

Later identified as Scott Terry of North Carolina, the 30 year old unveiled the elephant in the room at such conservative inclusion functions: White male disenfranchisement.

He’s also a member of the White Student Union at Towson University- not a big deal to me since I’m not an “Integration mad Negro” to quote Malcolm X.

White folks choosing to promote themselves the way American Blacks have (“Black Student Unions”, etc.) don’t disturb me in the least.

People are free to associate as broadly or narrowly as they choose.

Here’s the video of this historic CPAC discussion:

The issue is whether adding more American Blacks to the GOP is, in effect, discriminatory.

At first glance, it’s ironic “given Frederick Douglas Republicans’” stated purpose of disarming liberal racism cries.

K. Carl Smith’s work is as much about arming American Whites against progressive bigotry claims as it is bringing more Blacks into the GOP.

Very ironic such a question would arise.

I’m a Frederick Douglas Republican because it allows Americans who champion traditional values to do so free from the encumbrances of outdated racial roles.

Its impetus isn’t White guilt nor Black rage- it’s a colorblind consensus using one man’s story that speaks to all Americans.

This young man should note the solid backbone of the GOP in the former Dixie is White Southerners like himself.

He should further note the same holds true for Tea parties in this region.

White male disenfranchisement is a real concern, but hardly within the ranks of the Republican Party and Tea Party movements.

I do concede that desperate grabs for Latino and gay voters make a lot of folks wonder whether conservative White males will be replaced should such efforts succeed.

Casting his gaze toward the White House should have resulted in seeing where real disenfranchisers of white conservative males gather.

Progressives of all colors in this administration seem hellbent on dismantling the very heritage this young man holds dear.

His choice is clear: unite with Americans who may not resemble him to save a religious ethic, constitutional framework, and market that benefits all; or lose everything against a Left that is unified and unyielding!

Presenter K. Carl Smith and questioner Scott Terry privately spoke after the proverbial smoke cleared.

Terry even bought a copy of Smith’s seminal book “Frederick Douglas Republicans.”
From such bumpy starts are coalitions built.

I close with the words of Mrs. Lynne Roberts, Frederick Douglass Republicans’ director of educational outreach:

The Frederick Douglass Republican message of Americans voting our common values, not a party, is SO powerful that it it strikes fear into …read more
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CPAC attendee: "Why can’t we just have segregation?"

By hnn

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — A panel at the Conservative Political Action Committee on Republican minority outreach exploded into controversy on Friday afternoon, after an audience member defended slavery as good for African-Americans.

The exchange occurred after an audience member from North Carolina, 30-year-old Scott Terry, asked whether Republicans could endorse races remaining separate but equal. After the presenter, K. Carl Smith of Frederick Douglass Republicans, answered by referencing a letter by Frederick Douglass forgiving his former master, the audience member said “For what? For feeding him and housing him?” Several people in the audience cheered and applauded Terry’s outburst.

After the exchange, Terry muttered under his breath, “why can’t we just have segregation?” noting the Constitution’s protections for freedom of association. …

Source:
ThinkProgress

Source URL:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/03/15/1729331/cpac-slavery-minority-outreach/

Date:
3-15-13

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Black History Month: 9 Museums That Will Ship You a Piece of Our Past

By Bruce Watson

US President Barack Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.  (Photo by Pete Souza/White House Photo via Getty Images)

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US President Barack Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. (White House /Getty Images)

It’s February, and America is celebrating its 37th federally-recognized Black History Month.

The observance originated back in the the 1920s as Negro History Week, set for the period that included the birthdays of both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. It expanded into a month-long observance in 1970, and was nationally recognized by the government in…

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Today in History for 14th February 2013

Historical Events

1803 – Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Penn
1942 – Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
1956 – Verhoeven/Nauta/De King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
1987 – 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit
1988 – Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1991 – “Mule Bone” opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 67 performances

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Famous Birthdays

1818 – Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist/lecturer/editor (exact year unknown)
1856 – Frank Harris, England, journalist/writer (My Life and Loves)
1860 – Eugen Schiffer, German politician (d. 1954)
1914 – Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (d. 2007)
1949 – Richard E Neal, (Rep-D-Massachusetts)
1962 – Kevyn Aucoin, American cosmetologist (d. 2002)

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Famous Deaths

1714 – Maria Luisa of Savoy, Queen Consort of Spain (b. 1688)
1972 – Lambertus “Bertus” van Lyre, composer/conductor (Dike), dies at 65
1983 – Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)
1994 – Gary “BB” Coleman, blues vocal/guitarist/producer, dies at 47
1996 – Ivan William Hannaford, sociologist, dies at 64
2005 – Rafik Hariri, Lebanese politician and billionaire businessman (b. 1944)

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Relocation of Frederick Douglass statue to Capitol

By hnn

WASHINGTON — A statue of Frederick Douglass will soon be moved to the United States Capitol alongside statues of luminaries from the 50 states, and District of Columbia leaders are planning to celebrate the move.

Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, who represents the district in Congress, will host an event Monday evening to call attention to the statue’s upcoming relocation….

Source:
AP

Source URL:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/norton-dc-leaders-to-celebrate-relocation-of-frederick-douglass-statue-to-capitol/2013/02/04/b4c9d904-6e92-11e2-b35a-0ee56f0518d2_story.html

Date:
2-4-13

Source: FULL ARTICLE at History News Network – George Mason University

Gate Keeper: Not A Barbarian

By capblack

heimdall Idris Elba thumb Gate Keeper: Not A Barbarian

American Black men are seduced into being shock troops for a very anti-social philosophy. For decades, this anti-social philosophy used Black criminals, until recently, to force concessions from a majority White society.

We were cast as modern barbarians at America’s gates, but America is no longer a majority White nation.

Her president is a visibly Black, bi-racial man.

His political party is mostly non-White and has attracted the largest minority, Latinos, as its new inclusion battle axe to swing at the pillars of the Republic.

If I follow the anti-social narrative, I’m supposed to be a ticking, 400-year-old human munition aimed by my task masters.

Targets include the Constitution, the Judeo-Christian ethic, and anything else loved by the status quo.

At 46, I’m supposed to be an “OG” (Original Gangster), initiating and supervising younger men into barbarian mode so we may avenge ourselves upon America.

We’re supposed to hate Western civilization, of which America is a part. Our prime directive is to pay back the status quo for every slight, real and imagined, we’ve experienced.

But, what happens if a Black man doesn’t buy the barbarian narrative?

What if his read on America and the West reveals a strategic role in preserving a social order whose promise far outweighs its prejudices?

What’s his duty, in a nation whose White former majority has been financially beaten to their knees, while a raucous rainbow coalition is managed by Whites long opposed to the Constitution and the Judeo-Christian ethic?

I choose to side with Crispus Attucks and an unbroken line including Booker T Washington, Frederick Douglass, World War One’s Harlem Hell fighters, the Tuskegee Airmen, the Freedom Riders, US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, former Congressman Allen West, and others who found something in our sojourn worth defending.

Most brothers in my community don’t hate their American brothers from the shrinking majority population. But they have imbibed a hateful narrative that makes them an Amen corner for genuine haters in our midst.

We act as a “Black Citizens Council” like the White ones of the Jim Crow past, who won’t get their hands dirty but will rationalize and even jury nullify on behalf of thugs who do.

The long-rumored collision of Black and White haters promises to be a real life “Twilight of The Gods” worthy of Norse mythology.

Like the Heimdall character portrayed by actor Idris Elba in the recent “Thor” movie, patriotic American Black men must be gatekeepers against barbarians at America’s gates.

When gatekeepers break the stranglehold of this barbarian narrative downloaded into young minds and show them their citizenship instead is when America’s internal opposition loses a weapon they frankly take for granted.

What good is our epic story of loss and advancement if we don’t join other groups who’ve climbed uphill to ultimately help save America from destructive dissidents?

That’s why Idris Elba’s Heimdall is this article’s symbol: his character chose to preserve a mythic land that, appearances aside, was his to protect too.

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