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Please find below a special message from Vernon Robinson who is on his way to becoming the first black Republican Congressman from a former Confederate state since Reconstruction.
There were black Republican congressmen from the Confederate states prior to Reconstruction???
Okay, I guess you're referring to the fact that there were black Republican congressmen from former Confederate states DURING Reconstruction. As Encarta tells us, "More than 20 blacks were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate in the South during Reconstruction, the period of rebuilding after the American Civil War (1861-1865).
And here's an interesting bit of history from the transcript of a PBS interview with David Levering Lewis:
When Congressman George White from North Carolina rose to the well of the, the House and bid farewell to his colleagues in 1901, he was the last African American elected voice that Capitol Hill would see for many years, not until the 1920's
[...] By 1900, George White was in Congress alone because all other Southern states had, by ledger domain [I bet he actually said "legerdemain"] and constitutional alterations, made it virtually impossible for African Americans to elect African Americans to represent them. And certainly whites were not disposed to do so.
And continuing that mindset in North Carolina was Jesse Helms:
The animosity between Helms and black leaders goes back to Helms' entrance into politics in 1950, when he helped organize a rally that persuaded Raleigh lawyer Willis Smith to stay in the U.S. Senate race against Frank Porter Graham, a former president of the University of North Carolina.
Smith won after a campaign featuring a newspaper ad that said, "White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races."
Helms went to Washington as an administrative aide to Smith.
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"He took a stance that said blacks are not in the political system," said Earl Black, a leading authority on Southern politics at Rice University in Texas. "Jesse Helms is the most prominent Southern senator that acted as if the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts never passed. He represents the closest thing left to toying with racial issues."
So yes, by all means lets hear from the self-styled "Black Jesse Helms":
Dear Fellow Conservative,
They said we couldn't do it, but we did!
In last Tuesday's Republican Primary (for North Carolina's 5th Congressional District) we finished FIRST in the field of eight!
I guess there's always a market for an anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-"feminist", anti-welfare, anti-"seperation of church and state" message.
I thank all of my supporters for arming my campaign with the financial wherewithal to compete on the radio and television airwaves with our conservative message of limited, MORAL government reflecting Judeo-Christian family values, and a strong national defense -- including the defense of our national borders.
Yes, you spent over a million dollars bashing your opponents and spreading your Christian, MORAL message. And I guess you want more money now, huh?
Since I have another election, I have to ask you to give to the campaign again - and IMMEDIATELY. This second primary is less than a month away, and we can't hold back time.
Virginia Foxx, a millionaire, can simply write another six-figure check to her campaign. I have to raise the money in much smaller checks, one at a time, from good conservatives like you.
Well, you could hold off on all the ads. Nobody's forcing you to run TV spots saying that "homosexuals mocked holy matrimony," and "You can burn the American flag and kill one million babies a year, but you can't post the Ten Commandments or say `God' in public."
The stakes are higher than ever now, because the other candidate who survived the first primary and who will face me in the run-off is easily the most liberal of my opponents.
Or as conservative journalist John Gizzi put it in his Human Events column, she is "by far the least conservative candidate in the field."
Yeah, "most liberal," "least conservative" -- they're the same thing, except that "most liberal" sounds more evil.
I've mentioned her to you before (when I correctly identified her as my most dangerous opponent), but let me give you a little refresher on her frightening record.
Virginia Foxx says she wants to be called a "feminist,"
The bitch!
. . . and got her start in politics as a district coordinator and lobbyist for Teddy Kennedy's Equal Rights Amendment. She once received a 100% approval rating from the ACLU, and said, "The ACLU isn't all bad."
Not all bad??? What kind of a monster is this woman? She probably AGREES in their upholding of the Bill of Rights!
She has raised taxes and fees more than 100 times in the state senate, and voted to give in-state tuition to foreign aliens at North Carolina's community colleges.
"Foreign aliens" is what Vernon calls "legal permanent resident aliens." He's not really talking about illegal aliens, or Martians, or something.
She even voted to fund blacks-only scholarships with tax dollars!
She told the Christian Coalition she supports the adoption of children by homosexuals, then took multiple campaign contributions from the state's most aggressive homosexual PAC (called "NC Pride PAC")
For fun, let's visit Vernon's website and learn a little about this PAC (which is now called "Equality NC PAC" per the website, but I guess Vernon liked the older, uppity-sounding name better) .
Equality NC PAC:
(1) supports putting homosexual scoutmasters in pup tents with young boys;
In fact, they probably INSIST on it. A gay scoutmaster in every Cub Scout pup tent.
(6) supports requiring people of faith to hire and rent property to homosexuals;
And that's just plain wrong, because people of faith should be allowed to discriminate against those who would engage in sodomy in those rented houses, and who would just use the money they earned from those good Christian employers to buy food to sustain them in their ungodly wickedness.
and (8) supports the legalization of homosexual sodomy.
But thank heavens they're not opposing Vernon's plan to make heterosexual sodomy illegal!
But back to Vernon's email about the evil Virginia Foxx:
. . . and even voted for special rights for homosexuals in Durham.
Well, once again we have to visit Vernon's website to find out exactly what evil the liberal Ms. Foxx is up to:
According to the North Carolina Family Policy Council (www.ncfamily.org), Foxx voted to permit Durham to make sexual orientation a protected status for purposes of employment, housing, and public accommodations (www.ncleg.net).
So, Foxx would give homosexuals the specials rights of having the same rights to a job, housing, and hotel rooms as heterosexuals do. She truly is the antichrist.
That's just the tip of the iceberg with this woman. But even if I were a mushy moderate, it would be important to keep Virginia Foxx out of the Congress, especially when it's a safe Republican seat that she could represent for the next thirty years.
But when the choice is between her and an aggressive black conservative willing to go toe-to-toe with Hillary Clinton and Jesse Jackson, the stakes are very high indeed.
But isn't Hillary Clinton a Senator? Does Jesse currently hold elected office? Where is Vernon planning on going "toe-to-toe" with Hillary and Jesse if he's elected to Congress -- maybe a big "toe-out" on the streets of D.C.?
I want to keep making these folks mad. I want to rock the boat until every liberal in Washington is seasick.
While you're doing that, Vernon, who is going to be representing the people of your district?
But I can't continue to do it without your IMMEDIATE help.
And the fact that my liberal millionaire opponent will outspend me is only half the problem. Remember, the liberal media are openly hostile to my conservative message. In fact, they'll be practically moonlighting as my opponent's press secretary!
Hey, I'm only so moonlighting because you keep sending me spam. But since you've brought your wacky ideas ("conservative message") to my attention, I will go against my principles and urge the people of your district to vote for a Republican: your opponent, Ms. Foxx.
Please make your most generous donation today so that our campaign can create new ads and put them on the air.
Yours in Liberty,
Vern (if I may call you that), while I do find your ads amusing, I am definitely not going to give you money to make more of them, no matter how many times you beg (there are eight links to his donation page in just this one email). But hey, give my regards (bad ones) to the white Jesse Helms if you seen him around.
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