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Yes, Massa Kerry has delivered yet another inspiring “preserve the plantation” speech to his most loyal field hands: The Congressional Black Caucus (this is the same group that declined to meet with their most loyal constituents: Black pastors from all over the US [read my posting on this]. I guess they somehow found the time to meet with one man [Kerry], as opposed to about 160 Black Pastors that flew in from all over the country). Kerry brought a message of determination that he would fight for Black America.

Below is a copy of the New York Times’ account of Kerry’s at the recent CBC conference. I will interject my thoughts in between. To read the full article by itself, click here.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 – Senator John Kerry suggested on Saturday that Republicans might be trying to suppress black votes in key electoral battlegrounds, pledging to an audience of the capital’s black elite to make sure that “every vote is counted and every vote counts.”

[Enter the conspiracy theory here. He gives no proof of any such plot]

“We are not going to stand by and allow another million African-American votes to go uncounted in this election,”

Where is he getting “million“? I thought that the election was closer than that? Besides, any votes that did not get counted would have included other races and age groups–not just Blacks]

Drawing the only standing ovation of his 35-minute speech, he said: “We are hearing those things already. What they did in Florida in 2000, some say they may be planning to do this year in battleground states all across this country.”

[What things are you hearing? Here he uses the same scare tactics that was used on the slave plantations: "Those Yankees are bad people. In fact, I heard that they will kill you on the spot".]

Representative Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland and the chairman of the caucus, noted that President Bush had also been invited to the event but did not attend.

["You know, he speaks the truth. Otherwise, that mean Mr. Bush would have came here to give us some hope." "Dang those yanks and their dirty tricks!"]

Mr. Kerry pointed to an earlier decision of Mr. Bush not to meet with the N.A.A.C.P. and declared, “We’re not going to let them put a ‘do not enter’ sign on the White House of the United States of America.”

[Hum-mm. I wonder if Collin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, or Roderick Paige saw that same sign?]

“They’ve even mocked the very notion that there are two Americas,” Mr. Kerry said of his Republican opponents. “Well, they should spend time with struggling families in the hills of Appalachia, or in public housing in cities across this country, or in the barrios of East L.A. and then tell us our journey to build one America is finished.”

["Even though I own several million-dollar homes located far away from these places, your great white massa knows what it is like to be in the hood. In fact, my motorcade sped though one the other day]

The sad thing about all of this is that the crowd ate it all up.

When you disrespect your own constituents for the sake of politics, you will get no respect from me. I only hope the true leaders in that organization that are trying to do something positive get the courage enough to leave and become the leaders that they are meant to be.