I’d like to tell you about a little experience my wife and I had with Bank of America recently. We have two accounts one we use to pay our bills and one we use to give me some spending money. We do this so we don’t spend the same money at the same time, this allows us the freedom to make choices without always calling and saying, “Did you write a check or are you in the store right now.”

During this recession many things have occurred. Our business is down, we have had to lay off our employees and go back to running it alone. Profits, what profits? We had to let our medical insurance lapse that we paid over $100,000 into over the last 10 years. Of course, as soon as this happened our daughter got sick and had to go to the emergency room. We’ve been handling all of this but the next thing I will tell you about is down right theft.

My wife has had to take care of our ailing twelve year old and can’t leave her for long periods of time. We have started using the transfer feature of our accounts which allows my wife to transfer money into my account for immediate use. Well, wait just a minute. Bank of America changed the policy. No longer is it for immediate use. She transferred money into my account I went to the store to pick up my daughters prescription and Bank of America charge us $35 for insufficient funds. Once this occurred we didn’t have enough in the account to pay the insufficient fund fee so they charged us again for insufficient funds because there was not enough to pay the previous fee. This happened three times before we noticed what they were doing. We called and they basically told us that this was their new policy and nothing could be done about it and “no” we could not speak with a supervisor because this “new” policy was not open to review.

I now understand that Bank of America didn’t fare to well when the recent stress tests were run on the banks. I guess they will make the money they need one over draught fee at a time.

The new Bank of America Policy amounts to, when you need money steal.

A few days later my wife went to the bank itself and asked the manager to reverse the charges, she was told, "no." The new policy has no exceptions. Needless to say we are changing banks. This may not prove anything since B of A is to big to fail but it will at least give me peace of mind.

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.

So we have an African-American that will soon live in the White House. What makes one African-American? There is an old saying in the black community that if a person has one drop of black blood then they’re black. This is what is known as “the one drop rule.” If you haven’t noticed, the reverse doesn’t work. One drop of Caucasian blood and you are still African-American. Is this racism? Of course, it is. So has racism ended because of the election of Barack Obama? Certainly not.

Barack Obama was raised for the most part in a Caucasian household. If anything he married outside of his race. This doesn’t bother me but we should be honest. His father was not a noteworthy figure in his life. When he wasn’t with his Caucasian mother he lived with his Caucasian grand parents. But he’s an African-American, right? Maybe we should just call him an American but this is not the way of the Democratic Party.

Racism and division is the Democratic way. Just look at their history. Democratic Party platforms supported slavery from 1840 through 1860. Seven Democratic Presidents owned slaves from 1800 to 1861. This is the party that supported segregation 20 times in their platform until 1948. They are also the party that opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution.

If you look closely at what has occurred you’ll notice the same old Democratic faces behind the black mask. These are the same old racist, practicing the same old racism. They just come together and use racism for their unique proposes. The white racists have their agenda and the black racists have theirs. They willingly segregate themselves. Yes, it’s true, there are black racists and they don’t all belong to the Nation of Islam and the New Black Panther Party. The first class ones belong to the Democratic Party.

These racist factions simply use each other to get the power and money each wants. This election has done one thing; it has solidified the black vote for the Democrats for the next hundred years (unless a truly unifying African-American leader comes along and is able to move a significant portion of the black electorate to the right where they truly belong). Any Democrat who runs in a predominately black area will win because they are in the party of Obama and he’s black. Is that racist? Assuredly so. But this is how and why he was elected. He’s black; give the black guy a chance. Right.

If you think I’m wrong about these alliances watch the first one hundred days of the Obama presidency and see if you can’t recognize the special treatment of each of the appeased racial groups. Has Obama unified the Democratic Party? In some ways he has and in others he has just patched a gaping whole in the wall with tissue paper. Will we see fighting among the Democrats during this administrations tenure? You bet. The good old boys are still running things on the Democratic plantation and they will make sure Obama knows it.

The Black Democrats loved calling Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice “house negroes,” what are they going to say about Obama when he’s put in check. Ah, the Democrats, so much hypocrisy and deception.

Over the past year there has been new in fighting among pro-lifers. Upstart American Right to Life has accused the stalwart National Right to Life of being part of the problem and not part of the solution.

As Ronald Reagan use to say, “There you go again.” Why can’t we fight the true enemy, the unrepentant, fully knowledgeable pro-death advocate? These are the ones who are pro-choice, pro-euthanasia and pro-federal government funding for such procedures, the death activists. No, we choose to fight each other. This is a method that doesn’t work very well. Does ARTL believe we should fight the war on terror by placing our soldiers on the battlefield to fight against each other? No, of course not, this would be absurd.

Why is it that the new ARTL thinks it will work best to make enemies of those who agree with them on 99 % of the issue? The real issue is how do we go about ridding our land of these vile procedures. NRTL advocates passing laws that will save some babies until we can either pass a law, have judges overturn Roe v. Wade or pass an amendment that will end all abortions. ARTL advances a plan that will change the constitution with a personhood amendment. ARTL says that any law that goes on the books that doesn’t end all the abortions is part of the problem. These laws, they claim, are not an “enforcement of God's enduring command, Do not murder (Luke 18:20).”  They assert, “For a quarter century, National RTL and others have dictated a strategy of child-killing regulations (wait, consent, notify, PBA to the navel, "and then you can kill the baby").”

This outlook is somewhat myopic; no one involved with NRTL is murdering or advocating murder. I agree that there are diffences in the two groups but both have value. I may agree more with the mandates in the ARTL strategy but I must admit there are merits in saving as many babies as possible until we can achieve the ultimate goal. ARTL is in effect saying we should save none until we can save all.

We need to find the middle ground. There is room for both groups without one calling the other immoral. There methods are different but their goal is the same. End abortion.

All we hear about today is how President Elect Obama is channeling Lincoln. Picking Senator Clinton to his “team of rivals,” taking the train into Washington for the inauguration, even using Lincoln’s Inaugural Bible from the Smithsonian. What does this tell us? Nothing that at least 47% of Americans already knew. Obama is a blank slate, an emperor with no clothes, an empty shirt. Therefore, he has no original ideals, there is no greatness so he is shrouding himself in the greatness of others.

His economic plan is more of the Roosevelt New Deal. His War Plan is the “failed” Surge that President Bush applied so well. Any policy he has, has already been implemented by others and all Obama is telling us he is going to do is adopt it and accept the credit. The problem with this type of presidency is, what happens when an original problem arises? Do we have someone who can rise to the challenge or someone who will do research and find an answer from whomever?

I do believe that those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it but learning from history and simply channeling great leaders is not the same thing. We are still left with the same question, Who is Barack Obama? On January 20, 2009 we will begin to find out who is in the shirt. I hope for the United States that we indeed do have the Democratic Parties Lincoln. My speculations are we have only a mediocre president.

Being black I am one of the few who voted on the “wrong” side of history. I did this because I know who is inside my shirt. I stand for true freedom and morality. I don’t believe that anyone could ever be “punished with a baby.” This country is worth fighting for and the best government is the one that governs least not the one that governs everything. Hold on my fellow Americans, grab your wallets, open your eyes and watch what we have done. The good thing is that in four years we have the opportunity to right the ship. As my political grandfather Frederick Douglas once said, "The Republican Party is the ship and all else is the sea."

As we find out who President Barack Obama is, he may be the help we need to right our ship.