more double standards

29 Sep
2004

Description of radio ad:


One ad says Democrats support “abortion laws that are decimating our people.” Another argues that Democrats “preach tolerance but practice discrimination.” (full article)

Fearing that African-Americans will realize that they have choices in this presidential election, Congressman John Lewis makes the following statement:


Congressman John Lewis, a black Democrat from Georgia, condemns the ads as repugnant and vicious, filled with “outright lies that distort the facts.” Lewis says they’re clearly meant to discourage African-American voters from going to the polls. Nadler calls that a bum rap, and says he’s just trying to get blacks to vote Republican.

It’s funny that Lewis was apparently mum when the following radio ad was played on Black radio stations:


“Republicans want you to sit out this election and simply stay home,†one radio ad tells listeners. It continues, “Bush is a rich man in the White House who is sending black men and women to be slaughtered in Iraq while Cheney and Halliburton boys get rich on oil. Don’t keep getting played.†(full article)

I guess Blacks only speak Democrat.

My anger towards this big game that these self-appointed leaders are playing telling us as African-Americans that we are too stupid to know the difference between a political ad and klan activity is rising to new levels. John Lewis and Julian Bond were both founding members of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). This was one of the groups that paved the way for civil rights. Although their contributions to the movement are much appreciated, anyone that treats African-Americans as though we are brainless, scared, and lack the ability of reason is nothing more than a continuation of jim crow. What they fought against they have now become.

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