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The Dishonesty of using the Racist Label

02 Friday Sep 2016

Posted by Mike Sengewalt in Commentary

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Democrat Party, immigration, main stream media, racism

barbara jordnaWe are finally having a badly needed discussion on immigration during this election cycle. Unfortunately the main stream media and the Democrat Party try to shout down discussion with cries of racism against anyone who wants to reform our system. Calling opponents racists is a lazy and dishonest tactic but it has been used by Democrats and media during every election for the last few decades because it works on single media source Americans. Not all that long ago a Democrat politician named Barbara Jordan was leading the charge on immigration reform.

Barbara Jordan was elected to Congress in 1972. She was the first woman to represent Texas in the House. Jordan made history by being the first African American woman to deliver keynote speeches at a Democratic National Convention. She was also a civil rights leader. But today her Party and the media would just call her a racist.

Ms. Jordan was a patriot. She was passionate about immigration and her work on immigration was an impetus behind the founding of NumbersUSA twenty years ago. She was the chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform Her are some of her philosophies and quotes:

  • Jordan loved her country and held her fellow citizens, all of them, in high regard. Accordingly, she was insistent that, while immigration was beneficial to the United States, her primary concern was how it affected the American people.
  • “Immigration is far too important to who we are as a nation to become a wedge issue in Presidential politics. We have seen that kind of thing happen before, and it is not productive. I, for one, wish that we would do away with all the hyphenation and just be Americans, together.”
  • “There are people who argue that some illegal aliens contribute to our community because they may work, pay taxes, send their children to our schools, and in all respects except one, obey the law. Let me be clear: that is not enough.”
  • “Immigrants with relatively low education and skills may compete for jobs and public services with the most vulnerable of Americans, particularly those who are unemployed or underemployed. Jobs generated by immigrant businesses do not always address this problem.”
  • Cultural and religious diversity does not pose a threat to the national interest as long as public policies ensure civic unity. Such policies should help newcomers learn to speak, read, and write English effectively. They should strengthen civic education in the teaching of American history for all Americans.
  • The Jordan Commission’s reports called for tightening enforcement and cutting legal immigration by limiting family chain migration and eliminating the Visa Lottery.
  • “We decry hostility and discrimination towards immigrants as antithetical to the traditions and interests of the country. At the same time, we disagree with those who would label efforts to control immigration as being inherently anti-immigrant. Rather, it is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.”
  • “Deportation is crucial. Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave. The top priorities for detention and removal, of course, are criminal aliens. But for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.”
  • Jordan was one of the few courageous liberals who dared to bring up the relationship between mass immigration and falling wages and the negative economic effects of immigration on the working poor, and black workers in particular. Her commission found no national interest in continuing to import lesser-skilled and unskilled workers to compete in the most vulnerable parts of our labor force.
  • Immigration to the United States should be understood as a privilege, not a right. Immigration carries with it obligations to embrace the common core of the American civic culture, to seek to become able to communicate – to the extent possible – in English with other citizens and residents, and to adapt to fundamental constitutional principles and democratic institutions.

Her philosophy on immigration is a common sense approach that most Americans probably agree with. The Democrat Party and the main stream media however do not. The last item above is perhaps the most important. Immigrants come here because they want to be Americans, so they should embrace our culture. This was once referred to as the melting pot. This has been replaced with multiculturalism which has resulted in great harm to our culture.

Jordan wanted be part of a national effort to manage an urgent national problem. That is why the commission’s first report, which took an unambiguous stand in favor of enforcement of legally established immigration limits, was titled “U.S. Immigration Policy: Restoring Credibility”.

There is nothing racist in wanting to protect our border and manage immigration according to our national interest. But with a dishonest media it is an uphill battle.

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America’s Most Divisive President

14 Thursday Jul 2016

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Dallas, Ferguson, Obama, post-racial, race baitor, racism

obama & sharptonBarack Obama was hailed as the first post-racial President of the United States when he was first elected. He said that he would bring together all Americans. We were going to have a golden age of positive race relations. Obama’s words, however, were quite different after assuming office. He has a track record of condemning police involved in shootings that involve blacks before the facts of the case are in. This began with the 2009 arrest of Professor Henry Gates when he called the actions of the police as stupid. In 2012 he used the Travon Martin shooting to lecture America about being racist. Things really heated up in 2014 when Michael Brown was killed. This was the event that the protest group BlackLivesMatters (BLM) was born. The President and many race opportunists helped build BLM on the lie that Brown was shot after he put his hands up in the air. Obama condemned all police forces as being racist even though the officer was completely exonerated. He has used other incidents involving the police and blacks to further his divisive agenda. To make matters worse, his Attorney General Eric Holder began witch hunts and take overs of police forces because they he said that they were racist. He accused Americans of being “a nation of cowards” as far as race relations is concerned.

Gallup has conducted a poll to measure race relations each June/July since 2001. The results support the growing belief that public perceptions about race relations in America have taken a devastating hit since the election of Barack Obama. 75 percent of whites and 55 percent of blacks had a positive view of American race relations at the beginning of the president’s first term. In the last July, 2015 survey these numbers plummeted to 37 percent for whites and 31 percent for blacks.

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When the President constantly lectures America that we are racists, and that the police are racists then it makes sense that many Americans believe that to be true. The President’s divisiveness should not be a surprise despite his campaign promises. The Democrat Party must divide Americans to increase demand for their Party. They also do not want to solve problems like racial division because then they would no longer be needed. Ironically it is the blacks who have suffered the most from Democrat policies. They black family unit has been destroyed, most black babies are born out-of-wedlock, unemployment is much higher for blacks and earnings are lower. Abortion is used as a contraceptive by blacks and the Democrats see it as a way to manage entitlement spending. Yet despite all of this blacks overwhelmingly vote Democrat. Hopefully blacks will realize this trap and change their voting patterns.

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Baltimore Riots Highlight the Failed Liberal Policies of the Democrat Party

28 Tuesday Apr 2015

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Baltimore Riots, Democrat Party, entitlements, liberlism, Obama, racism

Barack Obama, our first black President, was elected on a “Hope and Change” campaign. Obama was going to right all wrongs, repair race relations and make all the countries around the world love us. The problem is that he left the failed liberal policies of the last 50 years intact. He even doubled down on them by adding a new entitlement, Obamacare, and adding millions of Americans to the welfare rolls. He has promoted the victimology of blacks and claims that racism is pervasive in our nation’s police forces.

The riots in Baltimore are not about racial injustice. Baltimore is led by a black mayor. The police chief is black. The nation’s President is black. No this is more about opportunity, the opportunity to loot and destroy property. Just as in Ferguson many of the rioters are not from Baltimore. Radical groups like the New Black Panthers are usually the organizing force behind the destruction and rioting. Blacks have voted in lock step for Democrats and have received nothing in return. As a matter of fact they are worse off than ever. Here is why:

Failed Liberal Policies of the Democrat Party
• Encourage and celebrate single parent families, ridicule old fashioned two parent families

• Teaching blacks that they are victims and cannot succeed without government help

• Teaching blacks that they need the help of affirmative action to get in college or get a job creating disincentives for hard work and create a sense of entitlement

• Policies designed to preserve teachers union monopoly on school systems and prevent competition resulting in poor educational results

• Destroy the work ethic by creating generational welfare and constantly extending unemployment benefits

• Encourage blacks to live in big cities to protect their votes

• Encouraging the infanticide of the black race with abortion

• Chip away at the moral fabric of America with a war on religion.

• Pass legislation like minimum wage which disproportionately affects our youth, especially minorities.

• Pass legislation like the earned income tax credit which hurts the poor and dis-incentivizes work.

• Support waves of illegal aliens which takes jobs away from minorities and teaches them that laws have no meaning

• Focusing on helping criminals rather than the victims and demonizing police forces as racists (especially since Obama has taken office)

Maybe it is time for real change.

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Will NBA Tolerate Racism by Players?

29 Tuesday Apr 2014

Posted by Mike Sengewalt in Commentary

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NBA, racism, Sterling

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced Today, April 29, 2014, that Clippers owner Donald Sterling will be suspended for life and fined $2.5 million in response to the racist remarks he made in a recorded audio clip. Silver said that he will “do everything in my power” to force the sale of the Clippers. He referred to the remarks as “hateful opinions” and “deeply offensive and harmful”. Sterling is banned for life from any association with the Clippers association or the NBA. He may not attend any NBA games or practices, he may not be present at any Clippers facility, and he may not participate in any business or decisions involving the team.

This is a clear and definitive statement from the NBA that it will not tolerate racism. Let’s ignore the fact that the NBA knew that Sterling was a racist for some time but did nothing about it. And let’s ignore the racist comments made by players in the past. This is a new day. I call on Mr. Silver to state emphatically that racist remarks, including racial epithets will not be tolerated. He should open up the bargaining agreement and add a clause that racism will result in a lifetime ban from the NBA  and the Hall of Fame, and any contractual obligations by the team will be forfeited.

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It’s Time for an Honest Conversation about Education and Racism

21 Friday Jun 2013

Posted by Mike Sengewalt in Commentary

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Al Sharpton, jesse jackson, racism, Rahm Emanuel, schools, teachers union, unioins

Recently Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis spoke about education reform at a City Club of Chicago luncheon.

clip_image002 This speech was given a day before the first set of school closings, twenty-eight, was set to begin. Her comments are representative of the problems in the black community.

She asked: “When will there be an honest conversation about poverty and racism and inequality that hinders the delivery of an education product in our school system? When will we address the fact that rich white people think they know what’s in the best interest of children of African-Americans and Latinos, no matter what the parents’ income or education level?” She went on to say that Chicago is the most segregated city in America.

She did not stop there. Lewis said that there are more foreclosures and school closures in minority neighborhoods. She also blamed banks for driving people out of their homes through illegal foreclosures, resulting in underutilized schools and a smaller tax base. “If the banks had not crashed our economy, the district would now have nearly $180 million more to invest in our classrooms,” she said. She forgot that banks were coerced to give loans to people who could not afford them which inevitability and predictably resulting in foreclosures and massive losses in the banking industry.

She said inequality has prevented people from embracing more revenue for schools through higher property taxes. “If you look at the majority of the tax base for property taxes in Chicago, they’re mostly white, who don’t have a real interest in paying for the education of poor black and brown children,” she said.

Of course her solution called for more school funding rather than more cuts and layoffs – pointing instead to TIF funds, taxes on commuters and financial trades, and what she called a more equitable tax system to bring in billions of dollars for schools. For the left there is never enough funding for any program.

Let’s dissect this. First, schools were closed because they were failing. Also there was an oversupply of schools and lastly a need to cut costs. The reality is that until true reform is implemented including free choice, schools will continue to fail but that is a discussion for another day. Lewis of course blames racism for the cuts despite the fact that the mayor is black and Chicago has been owned by the Democrats for decades. It is because “rich white folks” don’t understand or care about the needs of black children. I ask, when it comes to education shouldn’t the needs of black children be the same as white children, Asian children and Latino children? Should not we concern ourselves with really educating our youths rather than filling them with propaganda? Well the teacher’s unions do not care about that at all. And the Democrat politicians see the educational system as a training camp for indoctrinating future voters and rewarding their allies in the unions.

She asks when will there be an honest conversation about poverty and racism. Well her idea of an honest conversation is quite different from a truly honest discussion. Her discussion would be about blacks as victims and whites as haters. Fairness would be discussed as a need for the rich (white) folks to pay more in taxes to help out the minorities. She would not want to discuss decay of the black family unit, proliferation of single mother households, lack of responsibility of black fathers, abortion rates of young black women, unemployment rate of black youths and generational welfare in the black community, all by design and made possible by the black leaders like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and Democrat Party policy. These so called leaders thrive on the misery of blacks. Their livelihood depends on it. Democrats also have a vested interest in perpetuating victimhood and dependency in the minority communities.

Yes Ms. Lewis we do need a really honest discussion about this.

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