By DALE

One thing about catching Chris Matthews on TV is that you never know what he’s going to say when that thrill starts a runnin’ up his leg.

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Editor’s Note:  It is heartening to see progress that leaders like Marcus Garvey could not even envision for the future, but a worthwhile exercise is to think about this 1963 address in juxtaposition with modern Affirmative Action policies.   Might we indeed dare to dream that one day all our children be judged not by the color of their skin?

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

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Shades of the Suds Summit Again

By NANCY MORGAN

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been caught in a firestorm that appears likely to undermine his political viability. His sin? He was actually caught telling the truth. Gasp.

Harry’s problem stems from the fact that certain truths are no longer allowed to be uttered in the public square. As former Harvard president Lawrence Summers found out in 2005 when he dared to point out that men and women had differing proclivities for math and science.

That factual comment was enough to get him fired. After being forced to issue multiple public mea culpas for offending the sensitivities of feminist elites by challenging their fallacious dogma of male-female sameness, Summers was forced to fork over a cool $50 million to feminist studies groups as penance. That’ll teach him.

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Like Crispus Attucks Before Them...

From Project 21

On the January 5 edition of his MSNBC program “Hardball,” Chris Matthews claimed that everyone participating in tea party rallies such as the one held in Washington, D.C. on September 12, 2009 were white.

In a discussion with Mark McKinnon of the Daily Beast and Susan Page of USA Today, Matthews said: “And they’re monochromatic, right?…  Meaning they’re all white.  All of them — every single one of them — is white.”

Members of the Project 21 black leadership network disagree.  They were there.

Bob Parks, a Project 21 member from Virginia, said: “Here’s a news flash for Chris Matthews.  I was there.  So was my son.  Last time I checked, both of us are black — and we weren’t the only black people there.  I know other black people who attended the September 12 rally in Washington, including some of the ones who spoke at the podium!  I guess the MSNBC camera people missed them.”

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By ROBERT STARK

The ADL is accusing the New York Times‘ Maureen Dowd of anti-semitism over a recent op-ed titled “Virtuous Bankers? Really!?!”   The article is about corruption on Wall Street specifically involving Goldman Sachs. In a letter to the Editor in the NYT, ADL National Chair Robert G. Sugarman stated, “While one can agree or disagree with Maureen Dowd’s portrayal of Goldman Sachs and other bankers (column, Nov. 11), her statement that “the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple” potentially raises one of the classic themes of anti-Semitism linking Jews and abhorrent money-lending practices. However unintentional, Ms. Dowd’s invoking the New Testament story to illustrate our current financial mess conjures up old prejudices against Jews.”

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By NANCY MORGAN

I’m a proud White-Irish-American and I’d like to celebrate my unique culture and heritage. Though I personally had no part in it, my white European ancestors were the ones who founded the greatest country the world has ever known. For all of you progressives out there, I’m referring to America.

Yup. My white ancestors founded and conquered it. Just like countries, states and tribes have been doing since time immemorial.

My white European ancestors then established a framework (hint: the Constitution) that allowed immigrants from all over the world a place where they could be free of tyrannical dictators and oppressive government. Its called America -and it stands for freedom. My ancestors fought and died for it and then offered it to the world.

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by Rev. Dr. TOMMY DAVIS

Normally, when it comes to government programs that attempt to address ethnic bigotry, I am a total critic.  Policies that include contemporary affirmative action actually turned out to encourage discrimination rather than discourage unfairness when it comes to certain groups of people.   The original affirmative action ruled out race as a factor.  Contemporary affirmative action leads to the underdevelopment of those who did not really obtain success through candid competition; but rather through policies that reward failure and penalize someone else’s achievement.

As a Republican, I understand that laws must be initiated that would prevent citizens from being deprived of their human and citizenship rights by other citizens.  In January of 1865, President Lincoln prompted Congress to enact the Thirteenth Amendment ending slavery.  The Civil War ended that same year when General Lee and Grant surrendered on April 9 with Lincoln being assassinated 6 days later.

When Andrew Johnson, a war Democrat, became president upon Lincoln’s assassination, the Democrats initiated the “Black Codes”.   This was a set of directives that sought to control the freed slaves by enacting and enforcing preventive laws that included restricting blacks from juries, the voting booth, and subjecting blacks to more harsh penalties than their white counterparts.

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By Rev. MICHAEL BRESCIANI

Although America is a fledgling young nation among older countries and civilizations she probably could use the adage “I’ve forgotten more about freedom and opportunity than you will ever know” to the rest of the world without looking the slightest bit pompous.

When we misplace our keys or our glasses the first question we ask is ‘where did I have them last?’ The comedy of such a question is that if we knew where we had them last they wouldn’t be lost.  There is little comedy attached to the misplacement of lost love, lost youth or lost fortunes. Herein is proof that what is forgotten has far more weight than the common proclivity to forget.

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By NANCY MORGAN

Dear Mr. President,

I’m one of those Americans who lives in flyover country. I was treated to your much publicized ‘teaching moment’ recently and felt a response was warranted.

I’d like to say, with all respect, that this American resents the patronizing arrogance you exhibited as you deigned to ‘teach America’ about race. First off, I don’t need lessons on race from you. I take my teachings from the Bible, not a man who sat through 20 years of ‘hate whitey’ sermons. I’d much prefer you bestow your teachable moments on, oh, say terrorists, or enemies of democracy.

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