The Black Republican

As a blog dedicated to the founder of our Grand Old Party, the original Black Republican, and the Great Emancipator, I could not let an article titled Emancipation Proclamation On Slavery Today to go by without comment.

My comment: Bravo! Mr. Rummel, and anyone else reading this, please send a copy of this Proclamation immediately to The President, Tony Snow, whoever the new presidential speech writer is, Senate and House Republicans - hell, send it to Senate and House Democrats as well! Send this to anyone who can read, and if there is someone you know who cannot read - read it to them.

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no Slave, must consent to enslave no one. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under in [a] Just God, could not long rule a State. All honor to Jefferson-to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of Tyranny, Oppression, and Slavery

Therefore, in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence, and the reality of The Declaration of Freedom of Humanity, I issue this Emancipation Declaration.

All persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, whereof their absolute Dictators are then in open Rebellion against a People's God given Rights, thenceforward, and forever shall be considered free; and the executive governments of all the democracies, including as necessary their military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and promote in actuality the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their Freedom from Slavery.

While the President has come very close to saying some things like this in the past (the Bush Doctrine), in this case close cannot compare to hitting the mark - as this Emancipation Proclamation On Slavery Today does. This would place the intangible and ethereal ideas the President has previously advanced into the realm of the tangible, the concrete, the actual. Just as Abraham Lincoln talked about the injustice and evils of slavery in his day, his talk was just so much air until January 1, 1863, the day those words became action and fact.

That day, that action, that fact of emancipation led many great people to perform great acts of courage, discovery and intellect, and allowed them to dream of better days not just for themselves, but for everyone. Relegating the slavery of monarchism, fascism, communism, and Islamofascism to the dustbin of history might be a dream, maybe even a pipedream to some, but I for one believe it is a dream whose time has come.

Dean