September 21, 2014
Joy-Ann Reid
The Miami Herald

RE: a touchy subject

Ms. Reid,
“Crist needs to fire up black voters”
The Miami Herald
9/18/14
You

I am a proud, self-proclaimed descendant of DWEMs. Ergo, I am at high risk of being branded with the dreaded scarlet “R” and then being consigned to the netherworld of bigoted White guys, an “undiscovered country from which no traveler ever returns”.

“Ferguson has made it crystal clear to the African-American
community that we’ve got to go to the polls,” Rep. John Lewis,
D-Ga, told the New York Times.
The Sun Sentinel
Today

Pray tell, why do African-Americans and other people of color need to be goaded and/or cajoled to vote? Los Angeles, and when was the last time anyone but a card carrying modern American Liberal was elected to anything there, is considering paying people to vote.

You mention “longer wait times” as if the ghosts of Senator Bilbo or Senator Sparkman ran the polls. Google them.

I am a disabled senior citizen. It took me 1 hour and 47 minutes to vote in 2012. It was hot and sticky, plus my various ailments did not react well to standing in the sun.

Exactly what is that proof of?

Didn’t Jess Jackson have a great election scam that he ran on a quadrennial basis?

The Democratic Party figured it was better to have him “inside the tent pissing out rather than outside the tent pissing in”.

Every Labor Day he got a corporate credit card, an inside 800 travel agency phone number, and a sack filled with cash. His job was to register Black voters.

Why did he have to do it every 4 years? Did he have to re-register them every 4 years? If so, why didn’t they stay registered?

If, things are as bad for African-Americans as Congressman Lewis says, why do they have to be cattle prodded to register? It’s not as if a proctologic exam is required to get a voter ID card.

It is an inconvenient truth that if every black man in America had voted twice for Obama he would not have been elected without White support.

If waiting in line is proof of racism what are the elections of 2008 and 2012 proof of?

One more thing.

You criticize Governor Scott for wearing boots showing a Confederate flag as one of 5 flags that flew over Florida.

If the flag is removed will that mean – think Orwell – it never flew here?

If we burn all copies of “Birth of a Nation” will that mean that Democratic President Woodrow Wilson never showed it in the White House”

If we don’t mention the Davis-Bacon Act, the most anti-Black Federal law passed in the 20th century, will that mean it never happened?

If we take the name Russell off the Senate Office Building, if we take the names Stennis and Vinson off the bows of 2 nuclear powered aircraft carriers will that make the History of the Democratic Party read that it wasn’t the most racist political party in American History?

Is it racism per se to mention that, so far, all the lady beaters and child abusers in the NFL are African-American or am I confusing correlation with causation?

Of the 60,000,000 abortions in this country since 1973, about 3/8ths have been performed on Black women. The facts would support the use of the word “genocide”, no? Why is there no outrage at that? 23,000,000 African-Americans have gone, absolutely and literally, down the drain. Why are there no choruses of “No justice, no peace” over that?

Alas, we are told that “permutations and emanations” now decide Constitutional issues. Perhaps the right to vote implies an equally vital right not to vote.

Either way, as long as Blacks vote blindly for Democrats they’ll be tossing a two-headed coin that will never come up tails.

Kevin Smith
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET