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| JACKSON: Blacks are abandoning the Democratic Party |
| 2012-10-03 |
| Won't trade Christian principles for politics For more than 50 years, the black community has been the wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party. That may be changing. In spite of the overwhelmingly liberal voting patterns of black voters, they are an essentially conservative community. Americans of African descent are more pro-life and pro-family than the average white voter and as conservative on social issues as any white evangelical. Democrats have managed to monopolize the black vote in spite of the vast chasm between the two on social issues. This philosophical difference has become more pronounced in the past 20 years, as liberals have embraced far-left progressivism. Their view of "social justice" embraces the killing of an unborn child right up to the moment before birth. Indeed, President Obama, the iconic representative of the far left, believes that even a child born alive should be left to die without medical treatment if the mother intended an abortion. He championed this Mengelean position as a state senator in Illinois. I was raised to be an FDR Democrat because my father was a young man during the Depression and credited President Roosevelt with saving him from starvation. "The Republicans only care about rich people," I was told. This was more than 40 years ago. In spite of my childhood indoctrination, as a young man newly committed to my Christian faith, I had a crisis of conscience in the late 1970s. Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank was pushing the homosexual agenda. How could I, as a Christian, be committed to a party led by Mr. Frank? In the end, I could not. My desire to be in a right relationship with God and my faith was greater than my desire to be approved by my father, my family or the black community. My wife and I, then Massachusetts residents, left the Democratic Party in 1980 and never looked back. Democrats now have fully embraced an abortion policy that amounts to infanticide. They have also made the lesbian-homosexual-bisexual-transgender agenda their vision for America. How have they managed to hold on to black Christians in spite of an agenda worthy of the Antichrist? They have shown a ruthless willingness to frighten black voters with outright lies about the plans of conservatives and Republicans. Vice President Joseph R. Biden's "they gonna put y'all back in chains" was not a gaffe. It is part of the Democrats' strategy of using fear to keep blacks as a captive audience. I always have believed that such lies could not distract black voters forever or keep them from noticing the increasingly anti-Christian radicalism of the Democratic Party. All over the country, black churchgoers are now expressing disenchantment with the Democrats making "same-sex marriage" an official part of their platform. This may be the straw that breaks the camel's back. There are older black Christians who will vote Democratic no matter what, driven by emotional memory rather than spiritual commitment. Younger, committed Christians more readily see the contradiction and the irony. They are being asked to put aside their biblical and moral vision of the world and submit to the leadership of the Democratic Party because that leadership promises to do something for them. The Democrats' policies since the 1960s have decimated the black family, perpetuated poverty and created failing schools that operate to benefit unions rather than children. In league with the National Education Association, they oppose every effort to give choice to parents to allow their children to escape failing schools. Now black churchgoers are being told to suppress Christian conscience and remain beholden to a party that demands their loyalty while insulting their faith and blaspheming their God. For the first time in 50 years, there is a discussion going on in the black community as to whether their loyalty to the Democratic Party is deserved. Many black pastors are telling their members to stay home, rather than vote for a black president who has done more to advance the cause of homosexuality and abortion than that of black Americans. We are hearing the rumblings of a fissure between black Christians and the Democratic Party. My organization, Staying True to America's National Destiny (Stand), is calling for a mass exodus of Christians from the Democratic Party. We held a news conference at the National Press Club on Sept. 10 and produced several videos. This not only has prompted discussion, but perhaps has launched a movement. Mr. Obama's commitment to the radical left's anti-Christian, anti-God politics may cost him the election, because a constituency he has taken for granted has awakened to the truth that being the first black president is not enough. E.W. Jackson is founder and bishop of Exodus Faith Ministries, founder and president of Staying True to America's National Destiny (standamerica.us), a Marine Corps veteran, Harvard Law School graduate and former practicing lawyer and adjunct law professor. |
| Posted by:Uninenter Speatch8932 |
| #16 Never realized until now the major roles fear and child-like hysteria play in paranoid schizophrenia. I'd recommend that you seek help, AS, but we both know you prefer the world you have created between your ears. |
| Posted by: Shinter Javirong9154 2012-10-03 15:55 |
| #15 I have no idea how many of you people were around for Carter and the start of the fake war with finger dude from Afghanistan and the group that has been destroying our country from within for better part of 50 years give or take but my hats off to all of you! What better than to USE a black man in the White House to get the blacks all stirred up and minority against majority through using class warfare and race, itÂ’s been done everywhere BUTT nobody has ever used a black man and so many stupid ass white people before in all of history! The United States has no borders at all and who is killing agents minorities and illegals! These people donÂ’t care about money they donÂ’t even know how to make it, it is about control and power! All those stupid ass artists and the like only a matter of time, gays only a matter of time disabled only a matter of time! Food supply has been turned into a bio weapon why else do all of the countries troops need POWER drinks they never did before! It is the protein that is being compromised from plant to animal to human in the food chain taste difference was noticeable over 10 years ago in beef and meats rotting in less than a week in some cases! What better than to groom a black man who is half white country club black man to undo the country and turn it upside down for a group of inbred white crackers with no souls and believe they have no souls watch them move and talk they canÂ’t even respond correctly in conversation in any job title! They always try to project and talk down and dissuade from the truth and obfuscate all facts and bend it to their sick end! The fact that so many people can be fooled by so few is pathetic at best remember give the people what they DESIRE and leading them all around by the nose takes no effort at all! The kindness and political correctness is nothing more than an artificial mask they create to meet their goals and end game they have no souls what so ever! Serbia the only currency was quote HARD CURRENCY and they all demanded German currency for pay offs and trade from the beginning the bank money was not from guns and oil what country in Europe now has all the money? Some of the very people who fought in World War 2 back up the theory of what these people really are and how they have all been duped and fooled like birth defected children born 3 cans short of a six pack! Anyways kids remember MONEY TALKS AND TALK IS CHEAP take it for what it is but remember life is priceless you have ALL BEEN FUCKED FUCKED FUCKED AND RE-FUCKED LIKE A BUNCH OF IDIOTS! May you all find what it is you seek in your Alice In Wonder Land Fucked Up World and remember when it does hit the fan remember what you are fighting for the real War is In Country that would be The United States of America! DonÂ’t believe the LIE! PEACE! |
| Posted by: Angiting Snore1647 2012-10-03 13:20 |
| #14 I'll comment after the election. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-10-03 12:49 |
| #13 There were black Virginia Troopers in Grumble Jones' command. They were freedmen and were paid the same as white soldiers. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2012-10-03 12:08 |
| #12 Well then, most respectfully, you'd be incorrect. Civil War history has indeed identified blacks who championed the cause in uniform and in mufti, as paid engineers, teamsters, observers, and yes informers. Lee's enthusiasm and desire to arm the black man was not borne out of sheer concept. Lastely, terms such as none, zero, and never are fairly exclusive. Deviations and exceptions oftentimes prove quite revealing. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-10-03 11:11 |
| #11 It's estimated that approx. 50,000 blacks served in the Confederate Army. Alabama authorized a "colored militia" in 1862.It's quite possible that some were at Gettysburg. Other states such as Texas and Louisana also had such units. |
| Posted by: OCCD 2012-10-03 10:57 |
| #10 Besoeker I would tend to think you Gettysburg story is BS: it is true that Lee advocated for reruiting Blacks in the Confederate Army but he met stauch resistance and the few recruited were still in traing by the end of war. Anyway at the time of Gettysburg no Confederte, not even Lee advocated for recruiting Blacks. |
| Posted by: JFM 2012-10-03 10:34 |
| #9 The question is not who they vote for but if they turnout. Blacks turned out in record numbers in 2008 and Obama could really use those numbers now. |
| Posted by: Rjschwarz 2012-10-03 10:18 |
| #8 Jackson is definitely someone walking in the narrow way, and Jesus made no bones about the fact that there wouldn't be many people walking beside him. The fact of the matter is that there are many Christians in the democratic party who have said "YES! YES! YES!" when The devil offered them the world in exchange that they worship him, believing that they can renege on their side of the bargain, but (like everything else in real life) have no clue as to the many ways that the world and the devil have to extract compliance. Many have no problem looking at welfare as "charity", and have no moral compunctions about forcing other people to "contribute". One of the core metaphors for describing the Christian life is that it is a building the believer builds on the foundation of belief in Jesus Christ as the Son of God. While many know of the passages that tell them to build on Jesus Christ, in one passage Paul warns Christians to be careful of the materials they use when they build on that foundation: the quality of the materials is what is tested in The Last Day, and our rewards are based on what survives 'the fire'. My personal belief is that the quality of the materials INCLUDES their origin, so I expect a lot of weeping and wailing among liberal Christians when God rips out of "their" building all the materials they STOLE from someone else: that is, if they are taking credit for the "good laws" they passed and the "good legislators" who passed those laws that effectively did the "good works" on someone else's dime. In fact, I believe they will receive a double condemnation: one for taking someone else's resources as their own to do their own "good works", and the second for the good works that those who originally owned those resources would have done with them, but could not because those were taken away from the original owners. Think of a burglar who is not only sentenced based on how much he stole, but also on the cost of the lost benefits that were deprived from the original owner and any other potential beneficiaries. I talk to liberal christians about this, and the blink rate goes way up: they simply cannot process the concept that maybe God gave ME the money and not to THEM because God had told ME what to do with it, and THEY were opposing God's will by taking it away from me to spend it on what THEY, not God, wanted. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2012-10-03 09:48 |
| #7 The black middle class was not built on affirmative action so much as on expanded government employment. As such, shrinking government will hit that group harder than most. A lot of blacks I know are not pleased with Obama but can't make themselves vote against him - I would not be surprised though if many decided not to vote at all. Romney's bigger problem is people (independent, libertarian and Republican) who won't vote because they no longer believe it matters - I am not very sure they are wrong, but I won't give up until the fat lady sings. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-10-03 08:24 |
| #6 If you look around, you can see on a daily basis that the liberal agenda is a jealous god. Note the (D)'s approach to heretics (anyone who they think should belong but disagrees with them). |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2012-10-03 07:31 |
| #5 Sorry, Crosspatch, ain't going to happen in any of our lifetimes. Jackson is a statistical outlier. 95%+ of blacks will vote for Obama even if they were to see him on live TV set fire to 100 third graders and promise to do the same every week for the rest of his life. Their voting is (sadly, and with notable exceptions) driven by tribalism and intergenerational grudges based upon conditions which no longer exist. The Boston Irish invented this and still act that way, and in many ways are the model. Add to this the fact that nearly 80% of the blacks who have joined the middle class have done so through public sector employment, much of it affirmative action hires, and that both in terms of percentages and actual numbers (at least since Clinton's second term) they are the largest group on various forms of public assistance, and you have an additional generic loyalty to the Dems, the party of expanding government. Pursuing this "blacks are wavering in their support for Obama" mem is a fool's errand. The center/right needs to make its gains elsewhere. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2012-10-03 05:44 |
| #4 Depending on whose polling you are looking at, Obama has lost considerable support among black Americans. I saw some Gallup polling that showed his support down 88% which is the lowest for any Democrat since Dukakis. Some polling I saw in North Carolina showed Obama's support among black voters there down to 76%. It will be interesting to see how the exit polling looks. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2012-10-03 02:55 |
| #3 Please file under stories seldom told. "...And after the battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, ...reported among the rebel prisoners were seven blacks in Confederate uniforms fully armed as soldiers..." - New York Herald, July 11, 1863 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-10-03 01:35 |
| #2 Well g(r)omgoru atleast there is one person, E.W. Jackson who has turned his back on the Democrat Party, maybe there will be more who "see the light". |
| Posted by: Whavish Jeamp2873 2012-10-03 01:13 |
| #1 Wishful thinking---what would happen to the black middle class be without "reverse discrimination"? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-10-03 01:06 |