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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (127472)	2/16/2001 12:22:14 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Could you provide a link on that? It seems the substance of what you are posting, that republicans were the party who tried to block the Civil Rights Act, is at odds with documented historical fact.

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (127472)	2/17/2001 8:17:27 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 769667

>>Johnson advocated civil rights even though he knew it would cost the Democratic Party the South in the next presidential election Wrong. That's a total fiction. The Dem party has always used race to divide the electorate to gain power. Decade after decade they were racist against blacks but starting in 1948 the Dem party lost the white vote and have lost it in every election - excepting the anomaly of 1964 - since, for economic reasons. Johnson knew the white vote was gone. That's why he made the cynical ploy to use racism in favor of the blacks to cement them to the Dem party. The so-called Great Society achieved that one goal and it also destroyed the black family, enslaving them to the Liberal Plantation?racial spoils system. And Clinton raised the racist ante. No Prez in modern times has been as racially divisive as Clinton. Every election year the Dems schemed to divide the electorate. 1996 it was the fictional stories of black church burnings, to which Clinton made up stories from youth. They never happen, we later learned. USAToday reported on the Dem scam the year after it worked. This past year it was blaming Bush for the murder of a black man and Reverend Al took his torch to church claiming the GOP did not want to count minorities in the Census. And then there was all that Dem vote fraud.

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (127472)	2/17/2001 10:46:08 AM
From: Tunica Albuginea	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Being Loyal to Clinton a Bad Habit for Blacks sunspot.net Being Loyal to Clinton a Bad Habit for Blacks Source: Baltimore Sun Published: 2/17/2001 Author: Gregory Kane CAN BLACK Americans find no fault with the now mercifully departed President Bill Clinton? Clinton spent his last days in office determined to see how much he could purloin (the ex-president would, as the saying goes, steal the eyes out of your head and then tell you you could see better without them) and how much damage he could do. After making off with White House furniture and pardoning accused tax evader and fugitive Marc Rich, Clinton tried to get taxpayers to foot the bill for an $850,000-a-year office in Manhattan. When the stench of his corruption started to rise around him and with the press and politicians screaming foul, Clinton thought of a ploy: I'll seek refuge among my Negro friends. Harlem, here I come! It worked - at least among blacks. Within days, newspaper readers across the country could see Clinton in Harlem, surrounded by a bunch of cheesing colored guys. It smacked of a scene straight out of those Hollywood movies of the 1930s and 1940s, in which grinning, obsequious Negroes play comic relief to whites. With such devotion from African-Americans, you'd think Clinton had actually done something for us. But one African-American fellow mentioned to me the other day that more blacks went to prison under Clinton's administration than under any other president. Black leaders - the Jesse Jacksons, the Al Sharptons and the others who always urge African-Americans to vote Democratic - know this. Yet they cynically lamented the number of blacks in prison as they urged us to vote for Clinton in '92 and '96 and for Gore in 2000. Then these mis-leaders went back to moaning about the number of blacks in prison. Jackson and Sharpton haven't weighed in yet on Clinton's latest troubles. Jackson has his own problems to deal with. Sharpton, ever ready to howl about this injustice to blacks or that one, has kept mum on why Clinton pardoned a rich white guy who had fled the country rather than face prosecution. But at least one liberal black Democrat has found his backbone on this issue. He lives right here in Baltimore. Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland's 7th District was one of Clinton's strongest supporters in Congress. He wanted to make it clear that he is not a Clinton-basher. But his criticism of Clinton for the Rich pardon has been loud and strong. "I was critical of him, no doubt about it," said Cummings. "I think it was a poor decision and one that was inappropriate. I think most Americans believe in the pardon process. This, at best, is a tremendously premature case for a pardon." It's premature because Rich has never been found guilty of anything to be pardoned for. "I was a lawyer from 1976 to 1996," Cummings said. "I would see people who did things they should be punished for. They showed up for trial, were found guilty, sentenced and paid their debt to society." Let's compare those folks to Rich. He's a billionaire who was charged with evading $48 million in taxes. Rather than face trial, he bolted from the country and headed for Switzerland. His ex-wife made several large donations to the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's victorious carpetbag campaign for a New York Senate seat. With a swoop of the presidential pen, Clinton pardoned a man who not only had never been sentenced but had never even been to trial. One of Cummings' clients was charged with tax evasion that amounted to $2,000 to $3,000. No pardon for him. He was found guilty and given probation. He had to pay court costs. "I've seen many people who spent their life savings going through the system," Cummings said. Rich, probably the most appropriately named American outside the country, had no such worries. He never went through the system. "He claims he had a good defense," Cummings said of Rich, "then we see him on the mountains in Switzerland skiing. I still live in the city, on Madison Avenue near North Avenue. There were a group of guys standing on the corner the other day. These guys watch the news. They came up to me and said, 'Mr. Cummings, what's up with that?' They can't understand how they can be standing on the corner and get arrested in a second, and this rich guy gets a pardon." Cummings fears the men he spoke to may lose faith in the system. The congressman finds it a troubling trend, what with all the talk going on in Baltimore these past few weeks about jury nullification and a lack of faith in the criminal justice system. "When you have an erosion of people's confidence in a system," Cummings said, "you're going down a path of law and order falling apart. It leads to jury nullification and people not cooperating with police." But nothing, it seems, is capable of eroding the faith of gullible African-Americans in their continued idolization of Clinton. Going to Harlem in the midst of his troubles is not a compliment to blacks but an insult. "Look," Clinton's saying: "Here are folks who have no moral standards, no good judgment, who will accept me no matter how slimy I am." It behooves the people of Harlem to prove him wrong and boot this moral pariah back to Arkansas, where he belongs. TA

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (127472)	2/17/2001 10:56:41 AM
From: Tunica Albuginea	Respond to of 769667

DNC delegate Holmes objects to McAuliffe's 'colored people' remark cnn.com Maynard Jackson drops out of DNC race February 3, 2001 Web posted at: 10:57 a.m. EST (1557 GMT) From CNN Correspondent Bob Franken WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson on Saturday dropped out of the race to become chairman of the Democratic National Committee, leaving Democratic fund-raiser and Clinton friend Terry McAuliffe the only candidate for the post. McAuliffe had been the front-runner, having locked up the majority of the party's voting members. After a series of meetings, Jackson agreed to a deal whereby he would withdraw from the race and accept instead the chairmanship of the Voters Rights Institute, an organization within the DNC. The position is considered to be an important one because the DNC plans to spend time addressing the recent problems with the presidential election in Florida. The secondary post also will provide Jackson a platform to pursue his talent for organizing the party's grass-roots efforts. Delegate objects to McAuliffe's 'colored people' remark On Friday, a DNC delegate called on McAuliffe to withdraw his candidacy for the top job after he referred to African-Americans as "colored people" in remarks at a meeting. Alvin Holmes, a representative to Alabama's state house, said McAuliffe answered a question about the practice of racial profiling by saying that he didn't believe "colored people" should be arbitrarily stopped by law enforcement. The incident occurred Friday as McAuliffe addressed a meeting of the Association of State Democratic Chairs during the 2001 DNC meeting. When asked later what phrase he used to characterize African-Americans, McAuliffe said "The phrase is people of color." Holmes told CNN that when McAuliffe addressed the Congressional Black Caucus on Friday afternoon, he told members that if he said colored people before, he apologizes, and explained that he meant to say people of color. Holmes said some members of the caucus shouted "No you didn't!" at the Democratic fund-raiser. The Alabama representative said he is asking McAuliffe to step aside unless he apologizes to all the delegates of the committee in Washington. cnn.com Maynard Jackson, left, and Terry McAuliffe on Saturday TA

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (127472)	2/17/2001 11:05:47 AM
From: Tunica Albuginea	Respond to of 769667

Jackson denies report of another affair Friday, 16 February 2001 19:05 (ET) vny.com Jackson denies report of another affair CHICAGO, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- The National Enquirer reported Friday the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who already has admitted fathering a child out of wedlock with a Rainbow/PUSH Coalition aide, had an affair with another staffer, but Jackson and the woman named both denied the report. The civil rights activist has come in for sharp criticism since admitting he has a 2-year-old daughter with former aide Karin Stanford, 39. The Enquirer, in its Feb. 27 edition, said Jackson, 59, was "intimately involved" with Sherva Jenkins-Smith, 31, "and regularly slipped her secret cash gifts." The Enquirer, quoting Jennifer Williams, described as a friend of Jenkins-Smith, said the relationship began when Jackson groped Jenkins-Smith, a fund development officer, in his office. "As Sherva began spending more and more time with Jesse, her marriage started crumbling," the Enquirer said. "Finally, Sherva's husband filed for divorce citing 'extreme and repeated mental cruelty.' And Reverend Jackson's heartsick wife stormed into his headquarters and angrily confronted Sherva, according to a former staff member." The Enquirer said Jackson's wife, Jackie, cursed Jenkins-Smith, accusing her of having sex with Jackson. The story said while PUSH had imposed a wage freeze on staffers, Jackson awarded Jenkins-Smith a $12,000 raise, boosting her salary to $48,000, in addition to giving her cash. Williams told the Enquirer that after Jenkins-Smith's first encounter with Jackson, he gave her $500. Williams said Jenkins-Smith kept the money and continued accepting Jackson's advances, although she cried about it frequently, saying, "I can't take this anymore," the Enquirer said. A Jackson spokeswoman was unavailable for comment. "They seem to have a bounty on my head," Jackson told Friday's Chicago Sun-Times, adding that he is a victim of a conservative conspiracy to destroy him. Jenkins-Smith issued a statement to the Chicago Defender, the nation's leading black daily newspaper, saying: "I categorically deny the scurrilous and frivolous allegations made in the National Enquirer. "I am offended and will address the violations of my privacy in a different forum with my lawyers." Jenkins-Smith said the Enquirer offered her ex-husband $25,000, "which, thank God, he refused." The Defender quoted Billy Owens, chief financial officer for Rainbow/PUSH, as saying it was his decision to give Jenkins-Smith a raise and he based it on the quality of her work and her responsibilities. Earlier this week, the Defender reported the Enquirer offered former and current Jackson aides "blood money to get the dirt" on Jackson. "We think (these offers of money) is extortion," Jackson attorney Willie Gary told the Defender. "We think it's about persecution rather than prosecution, about injustice rather than justice. For anybody to seek information, to seek dirt so bad that they would offer blood money or extortionary money, it's a sad day in America." Rainbow/PUSH general counsel Janice Mathis said the Enquirer is distorting the situation. "The truth has not been told," she said. Jackson aides said they were offered as much as $10,000 by the Enquirer. "They turned up at my house for the next three days and left two letters, with one including a contract offering me $10,000 and saying how much I could contribute to the story," said Dina Anderson, who contacted Jackson's representatives as soon as she was approached. =========================================== rushlimbaugh.com stream1.iims.intelonline.com The New Jesse Hotline, stream1.iims.intelonline.com rushlimbaugh.com =================================== TA