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A Weekly Column By Walter B. Hoye II

Conflict Of

Interest

In the abortion debate, is there a "Conflict of Interest"within the Black community and among her leaders?

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"What remains certain is that Reconstruction failed, and thatfor Blacks its failure was a disaster whose magnitude cannot

be obscured by the genuine accomplishments that didendure." Eric Foner, American Historian 1

Why I Will Not Vote The Democratic Ticket (1880)"The existing [Republican] administration is the representative of conspiracy only, and its claim of right to surround the ballot-

boxes with troops and deputy marshals, to intimidate and obstruct the election, and the unprecedented use of the veto to

maintain its corrupt and despotic powers, insult the people and imperil their institutions." Democratic Party Platform of 1880,

Plank No. 6. 2

The United States Presidential Election of 1880

marked the end of the Reconstruction Era (1865-
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1877). 3,4 James A. Garfield from Ohio was the

Republican Party's candidate and UnionGeneral

Winfield Scott Hancock, a decorated Civil War

hero, was the Democratic Party's candidate.

While the 1880 election provided little to no

fireworks in terms of pressing issues of its day, the

Democratic Party's strategy of using a Civil War

hero at the battle of Gettysburg to further their

disenfranchisement designs to keep Black

Americans from voting in the "Solid Democratic

South" clearly stands out. 5 Designs such as

"violence," "fraud," "literacy test", "poll taxes,"

"White only primaries," "gerrymandering,"

"ballot box stuffing," "restrictive registration

practices," and "strippingdulyelected officials

oftheirpowers" were effectively employed by the

"Solid Democratic South" when the last of the

20,000 United States federal troops needed to

enforce the Reconstruction Acts were withdrawn

from the "SolidDemocraticSouth." 6,7,8 Because

Hancock was a Democrat who fought to preserve

the Union but not to end slavery or see Black

Americans protected by the United States Constitution, 9 a handbill that emphasized

the differences between the Republicans and the Democrats entitled: "WhyI Will

NotVoteTheDemocraticTicket" was issued to remind voters why they should not

vote Democratic in the 1880 election. 10Today such language would be considered

"politically incorrect," however, in 1880 these facts were widely known and fresh in

everyones memory. Nevertheless, the strategy was brilliant, using a candidate that

"appeared" to represent the victorious North and the interests of the

disenfranchised slaves in the South, dramatically diluted the Republican Party's

voter base. Even though Hancock lost the election, he lost by less than 2,000

popular votes in what is to date the smallest popular vote victory for a United States

President in American history. 11

Click here to read the Chicago Times' Sunday, November 7th reviewof the 1880 Presidential election entitled: "The Democratic Party'sDownfall: The Curse of Slavery and of the Session RebellionPursuing it to its Grave."

Oh, how far have the mighty fallen!
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Why I Will Not Vote The Democratic Ticket (2012)"The Negro cannot win if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety." Dr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. ("The Living King", Ebony, Vol. 41, No. 3, January 1986, Page 63.)

Just as the Democratic Party platforms of 1856,

1860 and 1868 defended chattel slavery,

supported the Fugitive Slave Law, the Dred Scott

decision and the Homer Plessy decision, declared

that the Civil Rights laws of the Congress were

"unconstitutional, revolutionary, and void" and

charged that "instead of restoring the Union, it

[the Republican Party] has, so far as in its power,

dissolved it, and subjected ten States, in time of

profound peace, to military despotism and Negro

supremacy," the Democratic Party platform today

continues to corrupt the clear conscience of

biblical constructs. 12 The 2008 Democratic

National Platform ("Renewing America's

Promise"), strongly and unequivocally supports abortion on demand (with taxpayer

dollars) and same-sex marriage. 13Today, abortion has terminated the lives of over

fifty (50) million children in the womb of their own mothers. According to Dennis M.

Howard, the total number of abortions in the United States between 1967 and 2011

is 54,900,000 or more than the population of the seventy-two (72) largest cities in

the United States (54,899,885). 14 In Black

America, abortion is the number one (1) cause of

death and its impact is genocidal. According to La

Verne Tolbert, Ph.D., of the over fifty (50) million

lives lost to abortion on demand, over twenty (20)

million have been Black American babies. 15

According to the latest report from the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC) and keeping in mind that the CDC's report legally excludes the

numbers from California (the state that performs the largest number of abortions in

the country), Maryland, and New Hampshire, Black Women accounted for 40.2% of

all abortions in the United States of America. 16 The fertility rate of 2.110 represents

"replacement level" fertility for a population under

current mortality conditions (assuming no net

immigration). Fertility rates below two children

define a population decreasing in size and


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growing older. Some demographers have even

expressed concern that due to demographic

inertia, a very low fertility rate could become

irreversible. According to the United States Census Bureau's Statistical Abstract

of the United States (a report given to the United States Senate and Congress), in2003 Black America dropped below the replacement level of 2.110 (again). 17 At the

very least, this is a "wake up" call for a population whose fertility rate was 124.7 in

1966. 18

No, I Will Not Vote The Democratic Ticket!

Why I Will Not Vote Party Above Principle"We made up our minds that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution were themselves null and void; that the

acts of Congress *** were null and void; that oaths required by such laws were null and void." Benjamin Ryan Tillman,

(Democrat from South Carolina) from Senator Tillman's speech in the United States Senate, March 23, 1900, A Republican Text-

Book For Colored Voters (Cover Page) 19

"Hon. W. Bourke Cochran, of New York, a leading Northern Democrat, has emphasized the above expression of Senator Tillman

by advocating a repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Thus the Democratic Party North and South is joining

hands to disfranchise the Negro." A Republican Text-Book For Colored Voters (Cover Page) 20

David Barton, Founder and President of

WallBuilders once said: " no one from any

background whether political, religious, or racial

should ever love any political party aboveprinciple. Although history is clear that there have

been major differences in how political parties

treated Black Americans, neither party is

completely blameless in all of its actions nor

have all the leaders in a party always been good,

or always been bad." 21I wholeheartedly agree.

Today, neither the Democratic nor Republican

Party is worthy of my vote. Today we vote for the

"lesser of two evils" believing one isn't as bad asthe other and therefore should be chosen over the

one that is the greater threat. Gone are the days

where our "two-party system" represented the

clear line between good and evil. Today both

parties have embraced the practice of "Party

above Principle." Today both parties participate


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in "Partisan Politics" that only serve their

personal proclivities. Today both parities have broken their "Contract with

America" (CWA) 22 and we the people have sacrificed our vote to the God of

"PoliticalExpediency."

This all ends here. Join me in saying

I Will Not Vote Party Above Principle!

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), a Black Republican, advisor to Abraham Lincoln,

abolitionist and a minister of the Gospel speaks for me when he says:

"I have one great political idea That idea is an old one. It iswidely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is very generallytrampled upon and disregarded. The best expression of it, I havefound in the Bible. It is in substance, "Righteousness exalteth anation; [but] sin is a reproach to any people" (Proverbs 14:34).This constitutes my politics the negative and positive of mypolitics, and the whole of my politics I feel it my duty to do all in mypower to infuse this idea into the public mind, that it may speedily berecognized and practiced upon by our people." 23

Congressional Representative, Robert Brown Elliott (1871-1874), a Black

Republican from South Carolina speaks for me when he says:

"I am the slave of principles; I call no [political] party master Ihave ever most sincerely embraced the democratic [orrepresentative] ideal not, indeed, as represented or professed byany party, but according to its real significance as transfigured in theDeclaration of Independence and in the injunctions of Christianity."24

As a people, we seem to have forgotten where we've come from. It's time for us to

remember our past, so we can clearly see our present and by the "injunctions of

Christianity" chart our future.


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If you believe "righteousness exalteth a nation" then come this November, take

your Bible to the ballot andVote God!

Brothers, we really need to talk.

Reference(s):

01. Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877 (1988) p. 604 (http://bit.ly/HjiAwp).

02. Democratic Party Platform of 1880, Gerhard Peters The American Presidency Project (http://bit.ly/H1IchV).

03. United States Presidential Election Of 1880, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/H157Gt).

04. Reconstruction Era of the United States, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/qc491K).

05. Joseph G. Dawson III, "Hancock, Winfield Scott," Handbook of Texas Online, published by the Texas State Historical

Association (http://bit.ly/HmcLd7).

06. Race, Voting Rights, and Segregation Direct Disenfranchisement, Techniques of Direct Disenfranchisement, 1880-1965

(http://bit.ly/fjAW9X).

07. Solid South, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/hGstG9).

08. Reconstruction Era of the United States, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/qc491K).

09. David Barton, "Setting the Record Straight, American History in Black and White", pp. 96-97 (http://bit.ly/GQFbQt).

10. Ibid., p. 98 (http://bit.ly/GQFbQt).

11. United States Presidential Election Of 1880, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/H157Gt).

12. David Barton, "Setting the Record Straight, American History in Black and White", pp. 23,56 (http://bit.ly/GQFbQt).

13. Democratic Party Platform, "Renewing America's Promise" (http://bit.ly/ayADXJ).

14. Dennis M. Howard, The Movement for a Better America, Inc. (http://bit.ly/9FPAN1).

15. La Verne Tolbert, Ph.D.,"The National Center for Family Planning Services in the HSMHA established "a meaningful federal

and private partnership" by officially incorporating Planned Parenthood into the federal government under the umbrella of

DHEW.", Article: "Over 20 Million Aborted: Why Planned Parenthood Targets the Inner-City" (http://bit.ly/pqOqbB).

16. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), Abortion Surveillance

United States, 2008 (http://1.usa.gov/zXJv0q).

17. U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, Vital Statistics of the United States, Table 77. (http://bit.ly/edHVu8).

18. "Table 1-1. Live Births, Birth Rates, and Fertility Rates, by Race: United States, 1909-2000." National Center for Health

Statistics (http://bit.ly/GZ5N1p).

19. A Republican Text-Book For Colored Voters, editors, T.H.R. Clarke and B. McKay (http://1.usa.gov/GZ7Mmk).

20. Ibid.

21. David Barton, "Setting the Record Straight, American History in Black and White", p. 133 (http://bit.ly/GQFbQt).

22. The "Contract with America" was a document released by the United States Republican Party during the 1994 Congressional

election campaign, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/TuImt).

23. Scott C. Williamson, "The narrative life: the moral and religious thought of Frederick Douglass" (http://bit.ly/HtIFpO).24. Carter Godwin Woodson, "Negro Orators and Their Orations," p. 505, Robert B. Elliott, Eulogy of Charles sumner, 1874.

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