Democrat Governor Opposes School Integration.

Fifty years ago today, Alabama Gov. George Wallace stood at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in a symbolic attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from enrolling at the school. The drama of the nation's division over desegregation came sharply into focus that June day. 

It was the same year that civil rights marchers had been turned back with police dogs and fire hoses in Birmingham, Alabama. 

Yep, on this day in 1963, the same year, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas., "The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" took place at the University of Alabama. 

Two black students, Vivian Malone Jones and James Hood, arrived with a federal court order allowing them to register for classes. In the full view of the news media, Gov. George Wallace (Democrat) and National Guard members stood at the entrance of Foster Auditorium and would not let them enter. 

In his campaign inaugural address six months earlier, Wallace said: “I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." 

When Wallace barred the students, federal marshals arrived with the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, Nicholas Katzenbach. He told Wallace to step aside. But, the Governor refused, and Katzenbach called President John F. Kennedy who federalized the Alabama National Guard. Gen. Henry Graham of the Alabama Guard then commanded Wallace to step aside, saying, "Sir, it is my sad duty to ask you to step aside under the orders of the President of the United States." 

Democrat Governor George Wallace refuses to end segregation Marking the
50th Anniversary of Alabama's Civil Rights Standoff   

Wallace moved and Vivian Malone Jones and James Hood registered as students. 132 years of segregation began its slow decline to its end. 

That same evening President Kennedy addressed the nation, "This afternoon, following a series of threats and defiant statements, the presence of Alabama National Guardsmen was required to carry out the final and unequivocal order of the United States District Court. 

"That order called for the admission of two clearly qualified young Alabama residents who happened to have been born Negro. This Nation was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. Today we are committed to a worldwide struggle to promote and protect the rights of all who wish to be free. And when Americans are sent to Viet-Nam or West Berlin, we do not ask for whites only. It ought to be possible, therefore, for American students of any color to attend any public institution they select without having to be backed up by troops. One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice."

It would take another year and 8 days for the 1964 Civil Rights Act to pass. As a percentage, far more Republicans than Democrats in the U.S. Congress supported civil rights.

And for that, my fellow Black Americans are rewarding Democrats for Slavery, Secession, Segregation and now Socialism under the misguided explanation which defies logic, that every Republican moved over to a Party whose principles and values they did not support.

These are lies...lies and damn lies!

  

Yesterday President Obama signed a law that gutted the reporting requirements originally included in the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act. Before these changes were made the STOCK Act required congressional staffers to disclose their finances to the public to help ensure they were not engaging in corrupt practices.

But on second thought, President Obama and Congress decided that congressional staffers should be able to escape transparency.

President Obama quietly signed legislation Monday that rolled back a provision of the STOCK Act that required high-ranking federal employees to disclose their financial information online. The White House announced Monday that the president had signed S. 716, which repealed a requirement of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act requiring the disclosure, which had previously been delayed several times by Congress.

You never heard of this political project to reinstate corruption incentives? Don’t be surprised.

Both chambers of Congress quickly — and near silently — approved the repeal legislation at the end of last week by unanimous consent, just before heading home to their districts.

That’s right. Unanimous consent, no one wanted to put their name down as openly supporting corruption while supporting corruption. And now President Obama has signed the bill guaranteeing a more corrupt Washington.

ROBERT CHURCH – BLACK MEMPHIS REPUBLICAN

AS ROBERT CHURCH, JR. WOULD SAY, "IT'S TIME FOR REPUBLICANS TO COME BACK HOME TO PRINCIPLED LIVING AND VALUES VOTING!"

Born: 1885 - 1952

Robert R. Church, Jr., a political leader in Memphis and the nation, was born on October 26, 1885, at his family home.  The family lived at 384 South Lauderdale Street, in Memphis. He was one of  two children of Robert R. and Anna (Wright) Church. Education was important to the family. Mr. Church's sister was Annette E. Church. He was educated at Mrs. Julia Hooks’ kindergarten, by private tutors, and at parochial schools in Memphis. Further education was obtained at Morgan Park Military Academy, Morgan Park, Illinois, and Berlin and the Packard School of Business, New York.

He completed his education by spending two years learning banking on Wall Street.

Robert Church, Jr., returned to Memphis, where he became the manager of Church's Park and Auditorium. He later became cashier of the Solvent Savings Bank and Trust Company, founded by his father. Mr. Church succeeded him as president after his father's death. Within a few years, he resigned this position to manage the family's extensive real estate holdings. On July 26, 1911, Robert Church, Jr., married Sara P. Johnson of Washington, D. C.. They became the parents of one child, Sara Roberta.

Robert Church, Jr., was a delegate from Memphis to eight successive Republican National Conventions from 1912-1940.  He was requested frequently to recommend individuals for federal jobs in other southern states. He was consulted about political strategy by Republican Presidents and other high party officials so often that Time magazine referred to Church as the "roving dictator of the Lincoln Belt." 

In 1899, the city of Memphis did not provide recreational facilities such as parks and playgrounds for its black citizens, nor were there any suitable places where black theatrical troupes could perform. It was to meet these needs that Robert R. Church bought a tract of land and built on it an auditorium with funds he had accumulated since the Civil War. The park was called "Church's Park and Auditorium" and was located on a site of over six acres on Beale Street near Fourth and Turley. The grounds were handsomely and generously landscaped, and the auditorium, equipped with the best and most modern accommodations of the time, could seat 2,200 people. 

Church's Park and Auditorium was built by Mr. Church, owned  and managed by him. It was heralded as the only business venture of its kind in America and represented an unusual business feat for anyone at any time in history. An article in the September 15, 1906 Planter Journal noted that the auditorium cost $50,000 and that it was well equipped and had one of the largest stages in the South, completely furnished with all modern equipment, including a fire-proof curtain.

The Planter's Journal, established as a Cotton planter's journal in Memphis, Tennessee, also pointed out that the park and auditorium were without a doubt the most beautiful of its kind in the entire country. 

President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, was a guest at a reception given by the black citizens of Memphis and addressed an estimated audience of over 10,000 citizens there on November 19, 1902. Booker T. Washington and party, who were touring Tennessee, also were guests there for breakfast in the banquet hall of the auditorium on November 24, 1909. James Shilliday, Herbert J. Seligmann, James Weldon Johnson, and Walter White, all officials of the national office of the NAACP, visited the location. 

The Lincoln Republican League, founded and organized by Robert R. Church, Jr., held its meetings in the auditorium, as did the first Memphis Branch of the NAACP. The Church of God In Christ, founded by Bishop C. H. Mason, held its convocations in the Church Park Auditorium before Mason Temple was built. William C. Handy, the world famous "blues" composer and musician, was employed to play for dances in Church's Park and Auditorium. The Cotton Makers' Jubilee, the black arm of the spring Cotton Carnival festival, was held on the site. World-acclaimed musicians Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Cab Calloway all played jazz there. Numerous school activities, including Lemoyne Owen College athletic games, dances, and other events were held there. 

Much of Memphis' early black history took place on Beale Street in Church's Park and Auditorium.

In 1993, the Church Park was listed in the National Register of Historic Places and was made a part of the Beale Street Historic District.

2013! It’s time we came back to our roots!  Republican policies have consistently supported  conditions enabling people to create jobs, enabling people to have higher wages. More importantly, those same policies support a stronger middle class.  Look around you! If you don’t believe me, how’s this economy working out for you? 

Ask yourself, “When was the last time you took the time to do the research and voted for the best person, even if they are Republican?”

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BUSTED: An Abuse of Power: President Obama's "Recess" Appointments

Is this a sign that sanity is beginning to be restored to Washington D.C.?

By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, January 25, 10:12 AM

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate to fill vacancies on a labor relations panel, a federal appeals court panel ruled Friday.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said that Obama did not have the power to make three recess appointments last year to the National Labor Relations Board.

The unanimous decision is an embarrassing setback for the president, who made the appointments after Senate Republicans spent months blocking his choices for an agency they contended was biased in favor of unions.

The ruling also throws into question Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Cordray’s appointment, also made under the recess circumstance, has been challenged in a separate case.

Obama claims he acted properly in the case of the NLRB appointments because the Senate was away for the holidays on a 20-day recess. But the three-judge panel ruled that the Senate technically stayed in session when it was gaveled in and out every few days for so-called “pro forma” sessions.

GOP lawmakers used the tactic — as Democrats have in the past as well — to specifically to prevent the president from using his recess power. GOP lawmakers contend the labor board has been too pro-union in its decisions. They had also vigorously opposed the nomination of Cordray.

The Obama administration is expected to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, but if it stands, it means hundreds of decisions issued by the board over more than a year are invalid. It also would leave the five-member labor board with just one validly appointed member, effectively shutting it down. The board is allowed to issue decisions only when it has at least three sitting members.

On Jan. 4, 2012, Obama appointed Deputy Labor Secretary Sharon Block, union lawyer Richard Griffin and NLRB counsel Terence Flynn to fill vacancies on the NLRB, giving it a full contingent for the first time in more than a year. Block and Griffin are Democrats, while Flynn is a Republican. Flynn stepped down from the board last year.

Obama also appointed Cordray on the same day.

The court’s decision is a victory for Republicans and business groups that have been attacking the labor board for issuing a series of decisions and rules that make it easier for the nation’s labor unions to organize new members.

‘No Budget No Pay’: House Votes To Hold Its Own Salaries If Budget Isn’t Passed

Well, this one should have been a 'no-brainer' and should have happened sooner.

The House of Representatives voted today to approve a three-month extension of the debt limit in a bill that concurrently pressures lawmakers to adopt a budget or have their pay withheld. 

The bill, known as the No Budget No Pay Act of 2013, directs both chambers of Congress to adopt a budget resolution for fiscal year 2014 by April 15, 2013. If either body fails to pass a budget, members of that body would have their paychecks put into an escrow account starting on April 16 until that body adopts a budget. Any pay that is withheld would eventually be released at the end of the current Congress even if a budget doesn’t ever pass.

The bill will require the House and Senate each to pass a budget, and Member pay will be withheld if they fail.  

Okay…it's now time for the Senate to act. It has been almost four years since the Senate has passed a budget, while our national debt has skyrocketed by over $5 trillion.  This is basic to their jobs -- and required by law. Yet, Congress seems to think it's bigger than the law.

The fact of the matter is, if Members of Congress can't pass a budget on time, they wouldn't get paid until they did.  

Will this measure force our government to finally start working for the people?

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Democrats Have No Right to Claim Lincoln's Legacy

by Pajamasmedia

Published on Jan 16, 2013

The Democratic Party opposed President Lincoln and just about every other civil rights advance in the United States. They started the KKK.  So what gives the Democrats and Hollywood liberals the right to claim Abraham Lincoln as their president?

Is Hollywood stealing Lincoln's Republican legacy like they did with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's relationship with Republicans?  In 1854, Republicans were not afraid to speak up!

Hear what AlfonZo Rachel thinks.




What do you think?  Is it time Republicans boldly reclaim their legacy?  Is it time for the original Republicans to come back home?

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IN REMEMBERANCE: WHY MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR WAS A GREAT LEADER

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was no Pseudo Leader. 

When Dr. King devised a plan…he avoided putting a Band-Aid on the problem in order to make it appear that the problem was solved.  Instead, he crafted steps to bring about solutions and he appealed to willing Republican Congressional leaders for legislation to broaden existing laws to protect African-Americans.  They did not let him down. Dr. King’s plan, more than any event during that time, forced Americans to sit up and take notice and to get involved to bring about a change in our nation.

Group-think and the pseudo leaders of today are destroying communities by spending too much of their time cleaving to century-old crimes and stirring racial tensions. 

In his 1950 essay An Autobiography of Religious Development, Dr. King Jr. wrote that his father was a major influence on his life choices.  He stated that his admiration for his father was a great moving factor in his life; He set forth a noble example that he didn't mind following.

King Jr. often recounted that his father frequently sent him to work in the fields. He said that in this way he would gain a healthier respect for his forefathers. This was a driving factor in his civil rights movements across the United States.

In a 2008 Associated Press story, King’s son and namesake Martin Luther King III said: "It is disingenuous to imply that my father was a Republican. He never endorsed any presidential candidate, and there is certainly no evidence that he ever even voted for a Republican." 

As I will show below, his statement is not true and not supported by historical facts.

In 1956, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy voted for the Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower.  He later told Nixon of his vote during a public meeting in Ghana, where they were attending a presidential inauguration.  

Also, Daddy King (father of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) and nearly all of the most powerful preachers of the National Baptist Convention were life-long Republicans.

On June 23, 1958, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower invited Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to the White House to discuss the progress he was making on Civil Rights. Other African American leaders in the meeting included Roy Wilkins, Lester Granger and A. Philip Randolph.

Dr. King’s niece, Alveda C. King, a founder of the group King for America, also verified, "My uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., during his lifetime, was a Republican." It is easily verifiable that MLK subscribed to Republican values, such as freedom, self-reliance and liberty, and that most black voters before 1960 associated themselves with the Grand Old Party -- the Party of Lincoln -- that passed the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution ending slavery and guaranteeing equal rights in the 19th century.   

 Dr. Kenneth W. Goings, professor and past chairman of the Department of African American and African Studies at Ohio State University, said in an email message that King may have had to register as a Republican to vote in Alabama in the 1950s. Goings said: "Daddy King was a Republican as were most African Americans in the South until the early 1940s. But the combination of Dem. Party outreach and Republican Southern strategy meant that by the 1950s the South was well on the way to the split that is evident now. I’ve not seen any written evidence that MLK Jr. was a Republican, but if he registered to vote it would have been as a Republican in Alabama simply because the Dems. would not allow black voters." My Lord, Black Americans, wake up! "Dems would not allow black voters"?!

To show his appreciation to President Kennedy for releasing him from jail, Dr. King was strongly advised by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, that he should not align himself with the Republican Party.  Yet, he refused to align himself with the Democratic Party.  The fact of the matter is this, he had "very positive feelings" about Republican Richard Nixon in the late 1950s and "extremely positive feelings" about Republican Nelson Rockefeller, the New York governor who later served as vice president. Dr. King became "a very harsh critic" of Democratic President Lyndon Johnson over his escalation of the Vietnam War and "wouldn't necessarily have backed (Democratic presidential nominee) Hubert Humphrey in '68 had he (King) lived."

During my congressional campaign, I was pleased to see the responses from citizen voters in Memphis when asked if Dr. Martin Luther King was a Republican.  Very few black Americans showed surprise. I spoke to quite a number of people who understood history and knew the truth in their hearts concerning Dr. Martin Luther King’s convictions, for others, it was an education.

I believe in my heart that we can bring about liberty and prosperity, starting in Memphis and spreading throughout the nation, as we get back to the true message of Dr. King, which is that of freedom, liberty, and self-respect; and judging a person by their character, not by the color of their skin.  Dr. Martin Luther King fought, not just for civil rights for African Americans, but for social justice for all.  That's what keeps his mission compellingly alive. He understood that the Republican Party of Lincoln was the party of freedom, self-reliance and liberty. He did not come to Memphis to fight for the sanitation workers so that they could receive government handouts. He fought for their right to equal pay and dignity, which included fair treatment on their jobs.

To whom did Dr. King make his appeals for freedom? He wrote a letter of thanks to  President Dwight Eisenhower for providing escorts and protection for the nine black students' entering Little Rock Central High School, an all-white public school, for the first time since the Reconstruction era, against the directives of Arkansas governor, Orval Faubus (D).  Numerous times, he contacted Senator Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.), who was a civil rights hero.  During his sixteen years in the House of Representatives, Dirksen voted for anti-poll-tax and anti-lynching measures, and ended a record-breaking Democrat- led filibuster, that had consumed fifty-seven working days, against the passage of the Civil Rights Bill. Dirksen stood for civil rights, in spite of receiving little support among Chicago’s black voters and he was picketed at his home by rights activists.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (left), Senator Everett Dirksen, R-Ill. (right), and John Lewis (far right) meet shortly before King's "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington in August 1963.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Senator Everett Dirksen and freedom fighters from all over (which included blacks and whites), fought for liberty during the Civil Rights movement. Without their sacrifice, I feel as though it would have been difficult to obtain the type of life, or educational and employment opportunities that I have had. I'm not even sure if I'd be alive today, if it had not been for those heroic freedom fighters.

What Dr. King did not know was that history would be rewritten through slander, fear and flat out lies about what the Republican Party represents. In order to keep the lie alive, it became necessary to keep tension and separation going between the political parties. Therefore, just before every election, mind-control accusations of racism would start, which invoked an unnecessary fear of a return to slavery. 

For example, VP Joe Biden, recently quoted, “‘gonna to put y’all back in chains.’ Quotes like that have worked for over 60 years in our Black American communities. What have we gotten for our loyalty? 

I grew up in a family which hung two pictures on the wall. The first was of Jesus breaking bread with his twelve disciples at the ‘Last Supper.’ The other was that of Dr. Martin Luther King, flanked on both sides by our slain 37th President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his brother, Senator Robert Kennedy.  While in school, we were taught to say the president's full name, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, which demonstrated the respect our teachers gave to our 37th president. We would also start each morning by reading a scripture and afterwards, pledging allegiance to the flag, which reinforced what we learned at home concerning respect for religion and our country.  Those two pictures molded many young lives, mine included.

The implied message was that Jesus, Dr. King, President Kennedy and Senator Robert Kennedy were to be our life models.  The Kennedys represented the Democratic Party. At that time, the party was viewed differently. 

Dr. Martin Luther King spoke loud and often, in the final days of his life, about economic injustice, about poverty and freedom. But, he would be appalled at how his sacrifice has been twisted to shatter lives and destroy the incentive to reach one's full potential, since the government has come in, like a cancer, killing the cells of drive and self-determination, and replacing them with a life-long dependency on what is falsely seen as the "cure":  the government drugs of welfare, free phones, free healthcare and yes, food stamps.  

Dr.  King very wisely labeled the last act of his epic, but short life, the "Poor People's Campaign", because he understood that while racism was (and is) a great oppressive force in our land, freedom can be had as a result of a good education and hard work. Millions upon millions of Americans are habitually looking for employment only to experience more discouragement and desperation. Sadly, today, many people have not been taught how jobs are created and the fundamentals of economics. The current administration does not understand how powerful an unshackled free market is for job creation.

I have been called a sell-out.  After facing the loss of every material thing I thought was important to me and to still be able to land on my feet, a better person than I was before, name calling has no effect on me.

Sellout is just a term that people use to enslave us and keep us distracted from real problems. We need leaders who will support choice and market-based reforms that will prepare us to achieve the American dream.

I am in the poverty-class for now, by choice, yet I have come from generations of poverty, dating back to American slavery in the 1800s. What I have, which they did not have, is an education, a chance to live in a country, which under normal circumstances would allow me to achieve riches, through hard work and integrity. 

And I, like  Dr. King, I have a dream. That dream is that Memphis, Tennessee, the place where Dr. King,. Jr. lost his life, in a horrific assassination, where the seed of the 20th century slavery began, will be the place where, though we have taken a 50 year detour, we will finally get to the ‘Promise Land.’

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