To: jim-thompson who wrote (392503 ) 4/15/2003 10:37:35 AM From: CYBERKEN Respond to of 769670 The contrast is not lost on blacks in general. Republican administrations see the rise, in and out of government, of legitimate black role models. There are far too many to name, but start with Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Vince Brooks, Clarence Thomas, and-outside of government-the brilliant Thomas Sowell. Go on from there, and there are many, many more. Contrast them with the bovine-eyed Cynthia McKinneys, Maxine Waters, and fanatical left wing and racist Sheila Jackson Lees of the CBC. And these RESPECTABLE blacks who prosper under Republican administrations all share something in common: They are vilified by the Democrat's wholly-owned segment of the black community, the illiterate low-income black Dems. The net result of the overt racism of the anti-American left is not to keep blacks from metriculating into the middle (and upper) income classes, but to slow it down as much as they can, to increase their base of manipulated voters. In the long run, black America gets where it's going anyway. But the contemporary Democratic white left will-in the long run-be accorded the same esteem by a future black middle class as Stalin was by those who survived his reign of terror. This is not an area of our cultural development where one can expect the infamous "instant gratification". It is a gradual, yet unstoppable, evolutionary process. It is ONE of the reasons that I predict that the Marxist/Leninist anti-American left will be swept away in an American cultural renaissance over the next two decades, as well as that the first black president (Clinton's PR stunt aside) is likely to be both a conservative and female. This evolution, furthermore, is the furthest thing from the minds of a Democratic left that has convinced itself that its recent electoral failures are due to "not getting our message out". The phenomenon has been, at least, slightly accelerated under Bush, as well as by 91101 and the Iraq war. Thus a part of Bush's massive legacy, which will only grow even MORE awesome after his second term has ended, will be that he brought most of the black community back to into America...