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Sidebar: This plan by Prof. Ogletree is part of an effort by some black leaders to align themselves with white political operatives in order to keep other black people so poor that the leaders can profit politically. They want the masses of the blacks to believe they do not need to work because some politician is going to give them money in some form. Prof. Ogletree may not realize that this is the effect of what he is doing. This effort has been more apparent in the 1990s when Bill Clinton raised controversies every four years at election time to divide the country along the issue of race. In 1996 it was “the burning of black churches.” This was used successfully by Clinton and his black cohorts to make blacks believe that there was a campaign by white racists to destroy their churches. But, after he was elected, Clinton’s own “National Church Arson Task Force” reported in 1998 that of the 670 fires, only about one-third (225) involved black churches and less than 25% were in the targeted area of the South. Some of those who burned the churches were also black. The Wall Street Journal wrote, “This supposed ‘epidemic of hatred’ is a myth….There is compelling evidence that a single activist group has taken the media and the nation on a wild ride." That activist group was the National Council of Churches, a liberal, political friend of Clinton and his black accomplices. It raised $9.1 million from people who wished to help rebuild the churches but it was unable to account for $2.5 million of that money. In 2000, it was two black, Democratic political operatives who lied to the American people. They had taken over the defunct NAACP a couple of years before. Did they do so with this in mind? They were James Bond, a former Democratic state rep in Georgia, and Kweisi Mfume, a former Democratic Congressman and head of the Black Congressional Caucus. Who gave them the $9 million they spent to run the vicious television ads on black stations across the country in the venerable name of the NAACP? Those ads blamed George Bush for the psychopaths who dragged a black man to his death in Texas a year ago. The NAACP didn’t raise that money from black people because it has always obtained its money from liberal, white people. Only about 2% of blacks have ever been members. The money this time apparently came from white unions which are highly political. The dramatic television ads said that the death of this poor man was Bush’s fault as though he had encouraged such behavior. What a terribly irresponsible thing to say. What a terribly divisive thing to do to our country. Is winning an election really this important? Are they really so desperate? Even if we did have a hate crime law, it would not have helped in this case. Two of these men have been sentenced to death and the other to life in prison. What more could a hate crime law have accomplished? None of these men could have been sentenced to death as was done in Texas under the “old-fashioned” crime of murder. The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964 because the vast majority of the American people, black and white, wanted everyone to be treated equally. The trouble started when the Democrats decided they could make a big issue out of race. And Clinton/Gore went after the issue big-time, successfully making it an important factor in every election in which they were involved. When 95% of any group votes for the same party, it is obvious that there is something wrong somewhere. Main
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