The Black Republican

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress. - Frederick Douglass

For three days, I have seen the most eloquent defense of a brilliant legal mind I have ever witnessed. And based on the opinion of several United States Senators from both parties, no one alive may have ever witnessed John Roberts' equal inside a hearing room on Capitol Hill. The daunting realization that they have been bested by a genius more capable than themselves appeared to be pacifying the Democrats.

But as soon as the leftist stalwarts from the Senate seemed ready to throw their hands up in defeat, we've seen a troop of their best-trained cavalry make a last, desperate charge against the foe: the race-baiters come riding to the front. What we've seen this afternoon from panels of witnesses - many of whom are teary-eyed black socialists, begging for a perpetuation of their extortion schemes against the rest of America - this has reduced me to flubbering incoherance. I am almost speechless at the vehemance of their hatred for someone clearly innocent of their imaginary crimes.

A brilliant lawyer has dedicated himself to the most exacting standards of even-handedness we have ever seen from a judicial nominee (exactly the qualities we want to see in a judge). But precisely because he has not knelt at the altar of atheistic socialism, this bastardization of classical liberalism, because he has not sold his impartiality to the race hustlers and the poverty pimps, he is blatantly accused of a brand of racism that they say disqualifies him from serving on the federal bench. Their own stunning bigotry in this scheme is either lost in the trap of their ideology, or it is sickeningly supressed by their insatiable lust for power and gold. Either way, they are selling their souls and the fates of their kin just as surely as opposing African warlords did to their ancestors. The chains are still there, in every accusation of non-existant racism, and every invalid charge of prejudice.

Our reflexive incoherance in the face of their brutality, and the fear of retribution similar to what Judge Roberts is enduring, is exactly what these corruptions of humanity are counting on. They tried this several times before - and the last time it was tried on the SCOTUS level, it wasn't just against a conservative, it was against another black man. And that man gave it a name: "a high-tech lynching".

How many times have you been told America was racist because it didn't do enough to stop lynching in the distant past? Just a few months ago, this same United States Senate apologized for the historic votes of its predecessors in opposition to anti-lynching legislation. But today, the party that harbored those lynchers and who stood in defense of their hate is knotting their rope and looking for a sturdy branch. Will you stand with them, or with the men who wrote the words "equal protection of the laws"?

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety. - Frederick Douglass