In my last article I gave some evidence that the Republican Party was the instrument of black freedom and the Democratic Party was the instrument of black slavery prior to the Civil War. Here are some common objections to my previous questions.
1.    That was the past, now the Republicans are the party of the bigots and the rich.
2.    Republicans are just for corporations and Democrats are for the little guys.
3.    It was a Democratic President who enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
4.    The Civil Rights Leaders are all Democrats.

Now, let me preface these answers with this, you must have a good relationship with the person you are talking to. If you do not have a good close relationship with this person read the arguments below and save up the knowledge and work on the relationship first. Talk about the things you agree on first and then you will earn the right to move on.

Lets answer the first two assertions. These are typical Democratic arguments but the arguments themselves are bigoted and based on class warfare. Is it really us against them? I thought we were all citizens of the same USA. Are we saying that the Republicans are for Oprah Winfrey or Bill Cosby? No, the Republicans have made it clear that they are for personal responsibility and equal rights for all, including Oprah and Bill. Both Oprah and Bill have made millions of dollars from people who belong to both parties. Just because they are rich doesn't make them affiliated with one party or the other, their party choice is a free right they exercise as American's.

You might also ask your friend which “little” guy it is they work for. I hope that they will see that party affiliation has very little to do with economic achievement. If it did then why would Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet, George Soros and Oprah Winfrey some of the richest American's all identify themselves with the Democratic Party? Not to mention over 90% of television and movie personalities say they vote Democratic. It is also true that most reporters of the “objective” news we read and see on television are registered Democrats. Is this what they mean when they say Democrats are for the “little” guys?

Let's examine the last of our common objections. Look closely at the Civil Rights Act and you will see Republican written all over it. It is not the president who enacts legislation but it is the legislative branch of government who does so. President Eisenhower wanted to sign into effect a very similar Civil Rights Act in the 1950's but was blocked repeatedly by a Democratic Congress. When the votes were tallied in 1964 for the adoption of the Civil Rights Bill 80% of the Republicans voted for it and many of those who didn’t did not do so because they thought it did not go far enough! Also, if we look at the make up of the Civil Rights Movement we will see that most of the prominent civil rights activists prior to the 1960’s were Republicans including the grandfather of the movement Frederick Douglass. Others include Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and even Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his father. These people understood that it was important to stand with those who stand with you. Somewhere along the road blacks have forgotten to do this or they have been educated in schools that practice the revisionist history of the left. This is the history that leaves out or changes the truth.

If you look at the track record of today’s black leaders you will see the finest dress people around doing the “heavy” lifting against racism. Funny thing is they only lead in front of a camera or where money to their organization is involved. They are known to shake down the man and pocket the money. With leaders like this who needs to worry about racism?

Okay, ask your black friend to do some research of  “first hand” documents that show which party supported them in the past. If it is the Republican Party then why are they voting for some Johnny come lately when the Republican Party did all the heavy lifting?

Most blacks are uninformed about their conservative heritage. If you are a non-black and wish to convince your black friend that they should give the Republican Party a chance I will be writing this series of articles with historical and philosophical arguments that may help you.

These arguments may or may not help fully because when a black goes into the precinct in their neighborhood and asks for a ballot, if the registration has an “R” after the name they will be looked at as if they were a criminal or suffering from leprosy. Actually a criminal might be looked at with more respect.

Here is the first historical argument. Which party championed slavery and had it in their platform before the Civil War?

Answer: Here is an excerpt from the 1856 Democratic Party Platform:

That Congress has no power under the Constitution, to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several States, and that such States are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the Constitution that all efforts of the abolitionists, or others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences and that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people and endanger the stability and permanency of the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend of our political institutions.

Also, ask if the slaves happiness was diminished by ending slavery?

Finally, ask this question. Which party was formed specifically to end slavery and stated it in its platform from its inception until the emancipation of the slaves?

Answer: Here is an excerpt from the1856 Republican Party Platform:

Resolved: That, with our Republican fathers, we hold it to be a self-evident truth, that all men are endowed with the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that the primary object and ulterior design of our Federal Government were to secure these rights to all persons under its exclusive jurisdiction; that, as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished Slavery in all our National Territory, ordained that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, it becomes our duty to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it for the purpose of establishing Slavery in the Territories of the United States by positive legislation, prohibiting its existence or extension therein. That we deny the authority of Congress, of a Territorial Legislation, of any individual, or association of individuals, to give legal existence to Slavery in any Territory of the United States, while the present Constitution shall be maintained

Reso1ved: That the Resolved: Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign powers over the Territories of the United States for their government; and that in the exercise of this power, it is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism—Polygamy, and Slavery.

This is your first argument, ask your friend, “Why would they vote for a party whose history is built on slavery and not one whose history is built on the abolition of slavery?”

I've been gone for a while. Here's the reason, laptop meets disobedient son, laptops broken, blogging ends and son is punished.

I've decided to do a series on how non-blacks can argue with their black friends to at least consider conservatism.

Look for it here starting tomorrow.

Glad to be back and right black.