March 29, 2013

Senator Harry Reid
600 E. William Street #304
Carson City, NV 89701

Senator Reid,

Now we know that the post-racial society promised to us by then candidate Obama in 2008 will take a bit more than a bit more than a few White House executive orders or some gentle out-reach reach out words from Reverend Wright.

The lasting joy of Lent is that it always offers the promise of redemption and salvation. What better way to spend Good Friday than be manning up to past sins and begging forgiveness?

Even a cursory reading of History of the politics of racism ion the 20th century screams that the Democratic party was the vilest, most bigoted national institution in the country.

I would run out of ink before I ran out of names. You may have known some of them. Senator Sam Ervin, Senator Robert Byrd, Senator James Eastland, Senator William Fullbright, Senator Herman Talmadge, Senator Strom Thurmond, Senator Albert Gore, Sr., Senator John Sparkman, Senator Alben Barkley,…a regular Murderers’ Row, no?

There are 2 common denominators that bind them.

#! – With one exception they spent their entire public lives dedicated to the proposition that little White girls would not have to go to grammar school with little Black boys.
#2 – They were Democrats, every one, every last one of them.

They are also all dead. Short of disinterring them and flogging them to the tune of Dixie before lynching them there is precious little that can be done to them. There are 3 I haven’t mentioned who are also dead.

One of them, President Woodrow Wilson, was, if we are to believe the personal testimony of Justice Thurgood Marshall, the most bigoted, the vilest elected Federal official in the 20th century. On top of his reputation as being the numero uno in the “meaner than cat shit” sweepstakes, he began the Democratic mantra of “I won’t send American boys to fight in foreign wars” that was used successfully by 2 of his successors. What worked for Wilson in 1916 worked for Roosevelt in 1940 and Johnson in 1964. The statute has run on holding him accountable for his crimes.

The other 2, Senator Richard Russell and Senator John Stennis, are people that you can do something about.

The Senate named its office building after Senator Russell. As the majority leader it would take you about an hour and half to unname it.

The United States Navy named a nuclear aircraft carrier after Senator John Stennis. The USS Stennis [CVN 74] is named after the last public figure to use the word “nigrah” with impunity. Of course, that was nothing compared to former Klan Deputy Kleagle, Senator Robert Byrd who twice used the dreaded “N” word, the word that White people dare no use, on national TV, remember?

I suggest that after you get the name Stennis sandblasted off the ship you rename it after Teddy Kennedy. His devotion to all things nautical [swimming, diving, drowning, murder] is the stuff of legend.

You and the country will feel much better after you do these healing things.





Kevin Smith