Dean Scream II, or III or IV…
Some people just don't know when to keep their big mouths shut.
Again, for some of you here this is review but in an attempt to tarnish the Republican Party with the traditional racism charge, DNC Chairman Howard Dean has provided yet another public service for those paying attention.
As Democrats prepare to nominate Sen. Barack Obama to be the first black president…
Hold on right there. Can't it that go. Weren't the Democrats in almost total agreement that a deeply-flawed white man (Bill Clinton) was "the first black president"?
… the Democratic National Committee and its chairman, Howard Dean, have whitewashed the party's horrific and lengthy record of racism. The omission is in the section of the DNC Web site that describes the party's history. The missing history raises the obvious question of whether the Democrats, unable or simply unwilling to put their party on record as taking direct responsibility for one of the worst racial crimes of the ages, will be able to run a campaign free of the racial animosities it has regularly brought both to American presidential campaigns and American political and social life in general.
Well, things haven't been running smoothly for race-queasy Democrats thus far.
The sad thing is that most of the publicly-educated in our country know nothing about the history of the Democrat Party, and their present-day attempts to rewrite their past sins while making their in-agreement followers look the fool.
The DNC Web site section labeled "Party History," linked here, is in fact scrubbed clean of the not-so-little dirty secret that fueled Democrats' political successes for over a century and a half and made American life a hell on earth for black Americans. Literally, the DNC official history, which begins with the creation of the party in 1800, gets to the creation of the DNC itself in 1848 and then–poof!–the next sentence says: "As the 19th Century came to a close, the American electorate changed more and more rapidly." It quickly heads into a riff on poor immigrants coming to America.
Poof! is right.
You know, I pointed this out a long time ago. You'd think someone at the DNC would put something there as a counter. Then again, if there is nothing good to say….
Many of us behind-the-scenes players have done what we can to remind the American people (especially Democrats) of their murderous past, and have been blown off for the most part. Now that the Wall Street Journal has taken up the cause, thanks to the ill-prepared words of Howard Dean, maybe he'll think twice before again pointing the finger of racism at the party who suffered deadly attacks not only freeing slaves, but granting civil rights to blacks (which the Democrats later repealed) almost a hundred years before 1964.
I'd say shame on Howard Dean, but as he is without, I'll keep my true feelings to myself… for now.
