Conservative Black Chick

What is happening to our country?  Gays, who represent less than 3% of our population, are trying to dominate our culture and society. Love whom you want. Love the one you’re with. People don’t really care. This is the message most people want to say but are afraid to because the LBGT (lesbian, bi-sexual, gay and transgender) community will verbally flog anyone who doesn’t agree with them. Between gay marriage, gay adoptions, forcing the Boy Scouts to admit gay scouts and scout masters, and lauding a rich NBA player for announcing he’s gay, the message is clear from gay America to the 97% of the rest of us. You will accept our lifestyle as mainstream. My response: “No I won’t.

Notice when anyone rejects this gay agenda based on religious beliefs or personal views, they are called bigots or mocked.  Appearing on Meet the Press May 5, 2013, Republican Newt Gingrich noted the Catholic Church is prohibited from performing adoption services in states like Massachusetts and the District of Columbia because the Church will only allow a married couple (by definition a man and woman) to adopt a baby. This is a perversion of societal norms all in the name of liberals forcing their political correctness down America’s throat whether her people have an opinion about it or not.

Liberals are eager to help the “gay lobby” with its takeover of America. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced March 29, 2013 plans to consider allowing Medicare to pay for sex change surgeries and invited public comments on the topic.  Later that day, HHS abruptly pulled the proposal. While the agency said it was due to “an administrative challenge” of Medicare’s 1981 decision not to cover such operations, it seems news coverage of HHS’ proposal had something to do with its about face. I doubt Republicans in Congress would think sex change operations were a good use of taxpayer money.

There’s more. The Senate’s “immigration reform bill” includes a gay couples provision. I’m sure Senator Marco Rubio, the mastermind of this amnesty effort, is elated about the development. Bowing to the gay strong-arming, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy will offer up the amendment, Uniting Americans Family Act, when the committee votes on the bill. The amendment  allows “foreign same sex partners” of legal US residents or citizens to come to America and get a green card.  Talk about a target for fraud.  What test will the government use to certify people are gay  and “permanent  partners” and NOT people posing as gay to game the system?

As if the bill didn’t have enough problems with its amnesty push for over 11 million criminals and 301 amendments, Senators thought let’s make it even more outrageous. Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy said he didn’t believe the gay partner provision will kill the bill. No, the immigration bill will die a slow death like the Senate’s gun bill did because it’s mired in mud.

Even though the jobless rate has stayed above 7.5% for the past five years and remains on track to be the longest period of persistent unemployment in 70 years, Democrats want to extend amnesty to as many people possible who aren’t even in the US yet. What’s next? Allowing relatives of foreign gay partners to come here too? The liberal logic is beyond nonsensical it’s downright comical.

No matter how many TV shows are produced about gay couples being married and raising children, or phones calls made by president Obama to gay athletes, homosexuality will never be the majority in our culture. I think it’s high time the 97% of the rest of heterosexual America stand up for the preservation of American society not the distortion of it.

NBA player Jason Collins is gay. Who cares? Why is this news? And more importantly why did President Obama call him to congratulate him? Like other famous gay Americans, Ellen DeGeneres and Anderson Cooper, to name a few, it seems Washington Wizards Jason Collins wanted to put himself in the “spotlight.”

Collins broke the news in a lengthy article published in Sports Illustrated and said:

“I’ve never sought the spotlight. Though I’m coming out to the world, I intend to guard my privacy. I’m making this blanket statement in part to keep rumors and misunderstandings at bay. I hope fans will respect me for raising my hand. And I hope teammates will remember that I’ve never been an in-your-face kind of guy. All you need to know is that I’m single. I see no need to delve into specifics.”

Be gay, but why announce your sexual preference unless you want to attract attention to yourself and “grab the spotlight”? A person’s sexuality shouldn’t be news and it certainly shouldn’t warrant a call from the President of the United States.

Not waiting a day or better yet opting not to contact Collins, Obama phoned the NBA player within hours of the article being posted online to congratulate Collins for his “courage.” Perplexing on many levels that Obama thought contacting Collins rose to the level of such national urgency.

Obama wasn’t so quick to call and console the families of Americans slaughtered in Benghazi by terrorists. It took his administration weeks to even call the attack on our consulate in Benghazi a terrorist attack. But Obama has time to call an NBA player to congratulate him on being gay.

How many of the Boston bombing survivors or families of those killed did Obama call immediately after the terrorist attack? Days after performing at Obama’s second inaugural, 15 year old Haydia Pendleton was gunned down by two thugs in Chicago two miles from Obama’s Chicago home.  Did Obama call her parents within hours to console them? But he had time to call an NBA player to congratulate him on being gay.

Syrian President Bashar al Assad has waged a civil war on his people for nearly two years, killing 80,000 Syrians and according from Israel, Britain and France, Assad also used chemical weapons on citizens. During his White House press conference April 30th, Obama said he needs more proof Assad used chemical weapons on his people. “Obviously, there are options that are available to me that are on the shelf right now that we have not deployed,” added Obama.

Obama doesn’t have time to deal seriously with Syria but he has time to make a frivolous phone call to NBA player Jason Collins to congratulate him on being gay.

First Lady Michelle Obama also thought it was important to congratulate Collins.

“@FLOTUS So proud of you, Jason Collins! This is a huge step forward for our country. We’ve got your back! –mo”

For all her talk about wanting kids to eat healthy, be the best they can, the First Lady should be praising kids who are escaping poverty and failing schools to make something of their lives. That takes courage. A rich NBA player announcing his sexuality doesn’t take courage or warrant the First Lady’s praise.

Talk about misplaced priorities. By phoning Jason Collins, Obama promotes NBA players as role models for kids, especially blacks, when he should be promoting men like Dr. Ben Carson. Jason Collins is not a role model! Carson is a role model. Through education, Carson rose from abject poverty to become one of the world’s best pediatric neurosurgeons.

The real disgrace is instead of focusing on the country’s serious problems of chronic unemployment, which has remained above 7.5% for the past 5 years, the worst economic recovery in 80 years, America’s unsustainable $17 trillion debt and national security threats at home and abroad, Obama makes it a priority to congratulate a pro-athlete for “coming out of the closet.” America has more important things to worry about Mr. President. Maybe you should too.

Why doesn’t the mainstream media ever report Democrats calling blacks “niggers”?  Oh, I forgot, because it doesn’t fit liberals’ false narrative that only Republicans are racist.

Buena Vista, Michigan Township Clerk Gloria Platko had enough of the Township Supervisor Dwayne Parker and thought the appropriate word for expressing her frustration was to call Parker a nigger. In a phone call with Interim Township Manager Dexter Mitchell, who is black, Platko said:

“You know what I think of Mr. Parker right now and you know, you’re not even going to like this. He’s just an arrogant nigger, and I’m sorry to say it that way but that’s the way I see Dwayne Parker right now.”

Why did you say that, asked Mitchell. “That’s offensive.” Platko just started complaining about something else without apology for her racial slur.

In subsequent media interviews she said every race uses the n-word and there is nothing wrong with it. In fact Platko added adults taught her the word as a kid,  “Look up the definition. I learned that way back in grade school. I learned that at St. Joe’s and Holy Rosary.”

Platko is no longer a “child” and as a 69-year-old elected official of a town with over 50% minorities living in it, she may want to look up the definition of the word nigger and stop using it. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, 1976 edition, “nigger is Offensive Slang. A black or member of any dark-skinned people.”

But Platko continued to defend her use of the word in a local TV interview, pulling out the “some of my best friends are black” card. “I’ve eaten Thanksgiving dinner with black friends at THEIR house. So, no I am far from being prejudice. You need to go down and interview some of the black people that have supported me for the last five to six years,” declared Platko.

Uhm, I’m sure those “blacks” who have supported  Platko for all those years are rethinking that one.  “I probably should have used the word like ignoramus but I didn’t and I’m sorry for the word I used,” added Platko. Ignoramus is the word that best describes Platko, who should resign.  More importantly, Platko’s heinous remark is a good reminder the Democrat party has a deep history of racism against blacks in America.

The Democrat party founded in 1792 by Thomas Jefferson was the pro-slavery party and fought the Civil War against Republicans to preserve slavery. In 1854, the Republican Party was formed to end slavery and advocate for equal rights of blacks.

It was the Democrat controlled Supreme Court in 1854 that ruled in the Dred Scott case blacks weren’t citizens but mere property with no rights.

In 1866 Democrats formed the Ku Klux Klan whose sole purpose was to destroy Republican dominated state legislatures in the south after the Civil War. The KKK and Democrats originated voter intimidation by threatening to murder blacks if they voted Republican, following through on threats, forcing blacks to take literacy test to vote and instituting poll taxes. In 1875, Republicans voted to pass the civil rights bill ending segregation and discrimination.  Congress wouldn’t pass another civil rights bill until 89 years later because Democrats gained control of the House and blocked or rolled back equality laws.

After the Supreme Court 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education ended segregation in schools, southern Democrat governors refused to desegregate schools, some even closing them to avoid following the law. Democrats trapped blacks in failing schools then and still do so today. More blacks attend our nation’s subpar public schools than whites. While Republicans support school choice policies, which promote vouchers and charter schools, enabling kids to escape education prisons, Democrats oppose these policies and support teachers unions instead.

Racists like Platko come in all political stripes. No party owns racism.  But her comments serve as a reminder for Americans to revisit the history of  the Democrat party of which Platko is a member. Then it’s easier to understand where the roots of her rage come from.

I can’t decide if the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) minority outreach effort is more like watching a sitcom or a soap opera dubbed “The Young and the Foolish.” In another twist to the organization’s Growth & Opportunity Project, to attract more voters of color to the GOP, the RNC hired former realtor Amani L. Council to the newly appointed position of Director of African American Communications.

No, you didn’t misread anything. I wrote realtor. (I won’t get started on why Republicans have followed Democrats into the hyphen world of calling blacks AAs. Blacks are no more African than whites are Caucasian, German or French Americans.)

As an RNC staffer remarked:  “Makes perfect sense. If she can sell real estate in the DC she should be able to sell the GOP to the black media or sell you a house.”

An Internet search revealed Council is an agent working for RE/MAX Specialists in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. You just can’t make this stuff up. According to the Branch Avenue in Bloom March/April 2012 newsletter, sponsored by the Maryland Small Business Development Center, Council is described as a “successful realtor for the past six years,” working for RE/MAX Specialists.

Council said: “I haven’t done real marketing since I’ve been in the business. My clients are my billboards. I truly do believe customer service is my best tool and I make it a point to treat each client with the same level of attention and care I would expect in any business deal I encounter. Anyone can sell HOMES but not everyone delivers great service!”

It looks like the RNC and its conservative message may be the biggest billboard Amani Council has ever had to “sell” to one of the most dubious group of buyers ever, blacks.  In the RNC press release touting this dynamic new hire, the RNC notes Council will be working with Deputy Press Secretary Raffi Williams, son of political commentator Juan Williams, to “build relationships with African American media as we work to earn the trust of more African American voters.”

The RNC praised Council’s “wealth of experience on the Hill and in public relations” but makes no mention of the six years she worked in real estate. Why?

Council’s resume indicates since 2008 she has worked at Bass Public Affairs, as Director of New Media and Business Development. Council’s Hill experience includes working as a Legislative Assistant for Rep. J. Randy Forbes (R-VA) from 2001-2002 and as a Legislative Correspondent/Systems Administrator for Rep. Clay Shaw (R-FL) 1998-2001. From 2006-2007, her resume states she was Director of Government Affairs for the Family Research Council.

Several Republicans emailed me, asking if I knew Council because they “never heard of her.” Neither have I. But as a conservative recently said of me I’m “just a black blogger anyway.”

When you do an Internet search of Amani Council’s name, lots of information pops up about her real estate career but little else. The article on Council published in the Branch Avenue in Bloom newsletter mentioned Council became a realtor “as a result of wanting a career change.” Is Council now working at the RNC to dabble in minority outreach? The better question is whether the RNC is serious about building a meaningful relationship with blacks or just marketing a billboard of tomfoolery to black voters?

Enough with Republicans invoking analogies to slavery and plantations to make their case for conservative policies or attract minority voters. News flash: it doesn’t work! Not only is it offensive and distasteful but also shows a complete disregard for an AWFUL, painful part of our US history.

Alex Conant, spokesperson for Senator Marco Rubio, has stooped to the new low of comparing illegal aliens living and working in this country to the institution of slavery.

“@Alexconant @conncarroll We haven’t had a cohort of people living permanently in US without full rights of citizenship since slavery.”

Conant apologized after he was exposed on Twitter. But his remark begs the question are Republicans so desperate to grant amnesty to an estimated 11-20 million illegal immigrants in this country that they will abuse the history of slavery?  And in doing so ensure 100% of blacks eventually vote for Democrats?

Conant’s remarks are the height of insult to black Americans whose ancestors endured decades of slavery. Also, if immigration “reform” happens, it’s very doubtful Hispanics and Latinos, who make up a large number of America’s illegal immigrant population, would become Republican voters. Why? Because Republicans have forgotten how to build meaningful relationships with minorities.

Back to this slavery comment. When was the last time you saw a slave ship full of illegal immigrants shackled to each other, arrive to the United States and then have slave traders auction them off to the highest white bidders to work for them for free? Show me illegal immigrants whose modern day “slave masters” don’t pay them, rape them, tar and feather them, whip them or cut off their body parts for trying to run away from their plantation or America.

None of the above has ever happened to illegal immigrants in America because illegal immigrants are NOT slaves but criminals who broke laws to be here. Washington Times senior editorial writer Conn Carroll noted in his twitter exchange with Alex Conant, “slavery wasn’t a choice.”

“@ConnCarroll @AlexConant my policy would give those here illegally a choice. Brush up on your history. Slavery wasn’t a choice.”

“African-Americans originally came to America unwillingly, having been stolen and sold by Muslim slave-catchers in Africa to Dutch traders journeying to America in 1619,” (Forward, American History in Black and White). Once in America, black slaves were forced to work without pay to build plantations owned by great men like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, build national buildings such as the US Capitol and universities and colleges such as William and Mary, University of Virginia, William and Mary, Harvard and Brown University. Yes, indeed we blacks built it! For free!

Last time I looked, I didn’t see illegal workers in the US doing construction work for free. They are performing work for depressed wages and illegally but they aren’t doing it for free like slaves did in America.

As any person with common sense well knows, slaves couldn’t return to Africa anytime the mood hit them. Illegal immigrants on the other hand willfully and knowingly break laws to enter our country, live and work here and they can choose to go home anytime. But the problem is illegal immigrants aren’t choosing to go home. Instead Hispanics and Latinos, who represent the majority of the estimated 20 million illegal immigrants in America, are defiantly refusing to leave and demanding America give them amnesty for their shear numbers and the fact they’ve been here for so long.

In his twitter exchange with Carroll, Conant asked:

“@AlexConnant @conncarroll What is your suggestion for improving our proposal? Just curious. You seem to be defending broken status quo.”

Senator Rubio can improve his immigration plan by enforcing current laws, including deportation; then mandate all businesses use E-verify to determine a person’s legal status and fine businesses heavily for hiring illegal workers. But most importantly, Rubio should advise his staff and other Republicans to stop comparing illegal immigration to slavery. Republicans can continue to ignore the black vote but they will not be allowed to misrepresent the history of slavery all in the name of pandering to Hispanics with the promise of amnesty.