Open Letter: WAKE-UP BLACK AMERICA: YOU HAVE BEEN BETRAYED

Posted on May 21, 2012 by tfdfblog

Immediate Press Release
May 21, 2012
Contact Person: Timothy F. Johnson, Ph.D.
Email Address: info@tfdf.org

An Open Letter From The Frederick Douglass Foundation to the POTUS, NAACP, Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Margaret Sangers Negro Leaders

It is sad that in today’s society, our first black president isn’t willing to answer his critics himself and needs liberal groups to smear any detractors as racist. The NAACP has used this cultural extortion to embarrass the Black community, betray its’ membership and shame the Reverend Franklin Graham into apologizing for not being able to whole-heatedly admit that he believes that President Obama is a true Christian without feeling like he’s lying. By the NAACP’s assumption that this is a racial issue, it seems that they’re claiming that the rules of God for a black man are different than those for a white man.

We, at the Frederick Douglass Foundation, condemn the NAACP’s recent passing of the resolution in support of marriage equality and the attack on Rev. Franklin Graham, because we understand his seeming unwillingness to proclaim and honor President Obama’s Christian devoutness. We all need to look at ourselves in the mirror in the morning. Pretending he believes that President Obama is truly devout in his worship of the Christian God would likely make the Reverend feel like he’s being forced to sacrifice his credibility in order to fulfill some politically correct dictate. It seems that the NAACP thinks that questioning President Obama is the same as hating him for being black. And that’s a shame.

The existence of the black man’s equality rests upon his believing that he must live by the same rules as the white man. Instead, demanding that the white man treat the black man with unquestionable delicacy while at the same time treating the white man as if he were guilty of racial animosity without proof is a sure way to violate the agreement society has come to in regards to equality.

So, in standing with Rev. Franklin Graham, here are some things about President Obama that make us question his Christian sincerity. Please note, we, like Rev. Graham, are not questioning his salvation. Only God can judge that. We are only pointing out that President Obama’s actions do not necessarily match his words.

As a State Senator in Illinois, then Senator Obama voted against the state’s Born Alive Infant Protection Act. This was a law that said that infants who survive abortions should be given medical attention. In the state Senate Debate on April 4, 2002, Senator Obama said:

“As I understand it, this puts the burden on the attending physician who has determined, since they were performing this procedure, that, in fact, this is a nonviable fetus; that if that fetus, or child — however way you want to describe it — is now outside the mother’s womb and the doctor continues to think that it’s nonviable but there’s, let’s say, movement or some indication that, in fact, they’re not just coming out limp and dead, that, in fact, they would then have to call a second physician to monitor and check off and make sure that this is not a live child that could be saved. Is that correct?”http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/225404/why-obama-really-voted-infanticide/andrew-c-mccarthy?pg=2

A similar bill passed the US Senate before President Obama was there by a vote of 98-0. Not even NARAL opposed it.

When a baby decides he or she doesn’t want to go out like this in the abortionist’s office, Senator Obama voted to allow it to die alone in a cold metal cupboard. He was concerned that the mother and abortion “doctor” would be burdened with having to make a life or death decision that might conflict with the mother’s previous decision to kill her unborn baby, or “fetus” as he likes to call it. This is infanticide. The Christian God commands: “Thou Shalt not murder.” Murder by neglect is still murder, and Senator Obama voted for murder by neglect. These are not the sentiments of a devout Christian.

In the NAACP’s open letter to Rev. Graham, you write: “We are appalled then and now by the venomous insinuation that a sitting Democratic President who cares deeply ‘for the least of these’ is Christian in name only.” With his recent statements declaring his personal support for same sex marriage, words and actions in support of the Anti-Life agenda, how in any way does President Obama seem as though he does indeed care at all “for the least of these, i.e. unborn child?”

Regarding his Obamacare mandates that all insurance plans cover birth control, sterility and abortifacient drugs, President Obama again shows his disdain for Christians. This has much more to do with religious freedoms than the media suggests. They seem to focus on the forcing of Catholics to pay for insurance plans that cover birth control, but what about sterility and abortifacient drugs? These two mandates offend Christians of all denominations. God said that we should be fruitful and multiply. He didn’t say get sterile, have no kids and rely on the socialist welfare state as you near death.

As well, abortifacient drugs are just another method of abortion. Incidentally, if you watch Maafa 21, you’ll learn that the company that makes the RU-486 morning-after pill also made the Zyklon-B gas that the Nazi’s used in the gas chambers during the genocide of World War II. That company is Hoechst AG. President Obama assures us this is for the health of women. A devout Christian knows that killing babies within the first 63 days of conception has nothing to do with the health of women.

Furthermore, if one doesn’t want to pay for an insurance plan that covers the abortion pill, one will have to go without insurance. And if one goes without insurance, one will be fined by the government- the same government that mandates that we pay for insurance policies that cover the abortion pill. These fines will then be used to fund the insurance of poor folks who can’t afford a policy, including the coverage of the abortion pills for these folks. Knowing this, if one decides that his conscience will not allow him to pay this fine, this individual can be put in jail. President Obama is essentially making us all pay for abortion- even it violates our conscience- or go to jail. This is dictatorial and demonic. It is not something a devout Christian would do. It also isn’t something that one, who respects the Constitution enough to have read the First Amendment, would do either.

So if the Rev. Franklin Graham said that he believed that President Obama was a devout Christian, it would be just as much a lie as when President Obama says that he’s against gay marriage. He says one thing, but does another. He has instructed his Justice Department not to defend the President Clinton-signed Defense of Marriage Act in Court because he contends it’s unconstitutional.

If defending marriage, an institution created by God in Genesis, is unconstitutional, then President Obama should just declare himself god. Marriage existed with a God-given meaning before our Constitution was written and before the United States even existed. When a man of government takes it upon himself to wink-wink his way through the nation-wide redefinition of marriage, he is a man who spits in the general direction of God. If marriage has a meaning that can be redefined by the whims of man, then marriage has no meaning at all. A devout Christian would understand that.

It is not necessarily racist to be hesitant to proclaim that a black man is a devout Christian when that man’s actions suggest a severe disdain for those who are devout. The NAACP should be better than this. They refused to speak up for President Bush when liberals were doing plays about his assassination. They refused to stick up for him when the daughter of James Byrd said: “So when Governor George W. Bush refused to support hate-crime legislation, it was like my father was killed all over again.” The NAACP actually ran that ad with her voice. Nonetheless, hate-crimes legislation wasn’t needed to get James Byrd the ultimate penalty. On September 21, 2011, white supremacist Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed by the state of Texas.

Did the NAACP apologize to President Bush for accusing him of racist motives and of dropping the ball? The only reason the execution took so long was that there were a bunch of liberal lawyers out there trying to keep him alive. Additional hate-crimes legislation would have done nothing to speed up his execution. The legislation would instead simply perpetuate the premise that the black man isn’t equal by writing the inequalities into law.

Since President Obama refuses to answer to his critics personally and since his teleprompter doesn’t seem to care what we think, we, at the Frederick Douglass Foundation, invite the NAACP to answer our concerns on his behalf. The members of the NAACP seem adept at wielding the Living Word of God in defense of the first black president. Please feel free to try and justify your position or the President’s positions above. Forcing the Rev. Graham to lie by vouching for the supposed devoutness of a man with an apparent demonic coldness towards all that is Christian, simply because it is a white man and a black man, is not the way to achieve racial equality in society. Until a white man can judge a black man by “the content of his character” without it automatically being a racial issue, there is no equality.
Signed,

Timothy F. Johnson, Ph.D.
Founder and President of the Frederick Douglass Foundation
Former Vice Chairman of the North Carolina Party (2009-2011)

Reference Material:

NC Passes Resolution in Support of Marriage Equality http://www.naacp.org/press/entry/naacp-passes-resolution-in-support-of-marriage-equalit

NC NAACP: Religious Leaders Forum
From One Born Again Evangelical to Another: An Open Letter to Rev. Franklin Graham and the Evangelical Christian Community
http://bit.ly/GLTYYs

NAACP faith leads speak out on Franklin Graham
http://bit.ly/whh9Qf

Link to Roland Martins Washington Watch website. There are several links to the African American Pastors meeting with Franklin Graham
http://bit.ly/GJSuOB

FDFNY and “Black Genocide”

The Frederick Douglass Foundation, like Frederick Douglass sought while he was alive, seeks to address the “Black Genocide” that has ravaged the black population of our country. While many want to focus on isolated racially motivated incidents, we believe the issue is much bigger. That black mothers are aborting as many babies as are actually being born is only one of the most obvious problems. There are issues that have not gotten much attention, and we would like to address them. These are some of the most pressing issues facing our communities. For example, there is a huge percentage of black men who have been incarcerated, institutionalized or who are in jail at present. What makes this worse, according to a study at the sociology department at Vanderbilt University, the life expectancy of a black man in prison is higher than that of a black man not in prison http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20879679. The number of blacks that drop out of school is astronomical, and that only serves to perpetuate a life of crime and the high unemployment rate of blacks vs. whites. Of course drug additions, children being born out of wedlock, homosexuality, fatherlessness, single-parent homes and other factors continue to plague black Americans as well. Each one of these crises in the black community has a devastating effect, and collectively they are leading toward the eradication of blacks in this country entirely. The black population is actually in depopulation in this country at present.
~ Timothy F. Johnson, Ph.D
President/CEO
The Frederick Douglass Foundation

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Open Letter to the Congressional Black Caucus-Judiciary

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe” Frederick Douglass

February 15, 2012

Open Letter to the Congressional Black Caucus-Judiciary Committee Members

Dear Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC):

It has come to my attention that several members of the CBC who serve on the Judiciary Committee attempted to invalidate the Frederick Douglass Foundation and went on to attack me personally last week during the markup of the Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA). These inaccurate and inappropriate statements were made in direct response to Rep. Franks reading into the records my letter supporting the original title. If it weren’t for the fact that I have became immune to attacks during my tenure as the Vice Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party (the first Black vice Chairman and highest party official since its inception, March 27, 1867), I might have been offended. However, I am honored to know Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA), in particular, took so much time in his attempt to smear me. (Page 47, Lines #1090-1106-Transcripts from the Feb 8, 2012 Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2011 markup)

(Pictured from left to right: Rev. Dean Nelson, FDF Chairman & Founder, Kenneth Morris, Great-Great-Great Grandson of Frederick Douglass, Dr. Timothy Johnson Founder & President and Troy Rolling, FDF Founder)

Perhaps you haven’t notice, but a number of things have changed since the CBC was founded in 1969. Yet there are those of you who believe there are certain rules by which all Blacks should follow! Well, this is your official notification that the rules have changed and organizations, like the Frederick Douglass Foundation, will not sit silent while you go about the business of profiting off the hardship of those you supposedly represent.

Frederick Douglass said during his address on West India Emancipation (08-04-1857):

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must pay for all they get. If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others”.

On December 6, 2011, Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) made the following comment while introducing PRENDA:

“In 1847, Frederick Douglass said, ‘Right is of no sex, truth is of no color, God is the father of us all and all are brethren,’” Franks proclaimed as he announced what he calls the “Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2011.”

House GOP Memo: “Abortion Is the Leading Cause of Death in the Black Community”

In response, to Representative Franks, Representative John Conyers (D-MI) said:

“I’ve studied Frederick Douglass more than you,” said Conyers. “I’ve never heard or read about him saying anything about prenatal nondiscrimination.”

Maybe Rep. John Conyers has read more about Frederick Douglass but it appears he failed to read about Susan B. Anthony. If you had read about her, then you would know that Susan B. Anthony and A.M.E. lay preacher Frederick Douglass were the best of friends. Furthermore, you would definitely know she made the following statement in the 1869 publication, The Revolution, 4(1):4 July 8, 1869:

“Guilty? Yes. No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; But oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime!”

“Abortion was referred to as “child murder.”

Rep. John Conyers said the following on February 8, 2012:

“It is offensive that the sponsors of this bill would invoke the names of two of our Nation’s historic civil rights pioneers…”

Rep. Conyers, I know you have been in Congress since 1965. And while I respect your tenure, by no means does this mean you get to coop the Civil Rights movement as your own prize possession! Furthermore, it was extremely inappropriate for the Democratic members serving on the House of Representative Judiciary committee to attack the Frederick Douglass Foundation.

Therefore, on behalf of the members, friends and supports of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, I am cordially inviting you and the Democratic members of the CBC to join us to discuss this and a number of other issues in a public forum which we believe are directly assisting in the genocide of the Black community during the 4^th Frederick Douglass Foundation. This should be especially enticing since Representatives Hank Johnson and Maxine Waters have accused this organization to be run by one person, whose PhD is in question and a front organization for some mysterious body. We will be meeting at the Washington Marriott Hotel March 15-17, Washington, DC while Congress is still in session. You can confirm your attendance by emailing info@tfdf.org

Sincerely,

Timothy F. Johnson, Ph.D. Founder and President

Rev. Dean Nelson Founder and Chairman

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Frederick Douglass Foundation Chairman Calls for Abolishing the Congressional Black Caucus

Immediate Press Release

September 6, 2011

Contact Person: Timothy F. Johnson

W: (888) 698-9571 ext. 101

Frederick Douglass Foundation Chairman Calls for

Abolishing the Congressional Black Caucus

WASHINGTON, DC. Frederick Douglass Foundation Founder and National Chairman, Timothy F. Johnson, calls for “Abolishing the Congressional Black Caucus” after the 2012 general election. Of course the best way to make this a reality is by voting 42 of the 43 members out of office in 2012

What purpose does the CBC serve today? By all appearances, their actions and recent statements, they are just a collection of Black legislatures doing the public bidding for their handlers in the Democratic party. And while I am very supportive of Florida’s Rep. Allen West, I am equally supportive and proud of South Carolina’s Rep. Tim Scott who did not feel compelled to join the CBC.

In Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1963 March on Washington speech, he said “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Well, I think it is about time everyone, black, white, brown and red, starts working towards this goal! As a matter of fact, many said this portion of his speech had been achieved with the election of President Obama in 2008. I guess the members of the CBC don’t see it that way today, uh?

For far too long, blacks have acted as if whites were the only group of people who discriminated against another ethnic group based solely on skin color. Well, this just isn’t true and you don’t have to look far to get proof of this!

The recent comments made by Representatives Maxine Water and Andre Carson, characterize the intent of the Democratic party through the use of the CBC to incite increase racial tension leading up to the 2012 general elections. By singling out Tea Party activists, CBC members called non-liberal thinking “white people” racist. This further illustrates the point that the CBC’s time has come and gone.

Perhaps what is even more striking is the fact that members of the CBC are quick to defend the legacy of former KKK Exalted Cyclops and West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd or the racially insensitive comments about then Senator Obama penned in Senator Harry Reid’s book Game Change released in 2010.

Like so many other organizations started forty years ago, the CBC is part of our past not future. Every Member of Congress regardless of race, gender, religious preference or the district they serve, receives the same pay, same benefits and same powers. If CBC members are ineffective in serving their constituents, it’s not because of the color of their skin, it’s because of the content of their character!

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The Frederick Douglass Foundation Founder and National Chairman, Timothy Johnson, Ph.D. made history on June 13, 2009, when he was elected Vice Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party, becoming the first Black American to hold the position since the party’s inception March 27, 1867. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Timothy earned the Boy Scouts of America’s highest rank, the Eagle Scout Award at the age of 14, played on two state championship football teams and graduated from Cleveland Benedictine High School.

Dr. Johnson completed 21 years of military service and received numerous military honors on Active, Reserve and National Guard duties with the United States Army, serving as an enlisted soldier and commissioned officer (attaining the rank of Major). Twice elected Chairman of the Buncombe County, NC Republican Party, Dr. Johnson was a delegate to the 2008 Republican National Convention, and a panelist at the 2008 Black Republican Forum here in New York.

Timothy has appeared on a number of television interviews, radio talk shows, and quoted in numerous news outlets to include: WVON ‘Talk of Chicago’ with Charles Butler, and ‘Launching Chicago’ with Lenny McAllister, Lou Dobbs Radio Show, Joy Behar TV Show, Wall Street Journal Radio Network with Matthew Passy, NewsMax with Kathleen Walker, Dr. Michael Dyson Show, Westwood One Radio Network John Bohannon Show, The Wilkow Majority With Andrew Wilkow, Sirius Radio ‘New School’ with Charles Ellison, CBS News, Daily Caller, Politico, Drudge Report, Washington Informers and Fox and Friends News.

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The Frederick Douglass Foundation (www.TFDF.org) is a public policy and educational organization which brings the sanctity of free market and limited government ideas to bear on the hardest problems facing our nation. We are a collection of pro-active individuals committed to developing innovative and new approaches to today’s problems with the assistance of elected officials, scholars from universities and colleges and community activist.

Frederick Douglass Foundation’s goals are to Educate, Enhance, and Empower.

• By being liaisons to Black, Faith Based organizations, Conservative candidates, party and elected officials. We will reach out to educate the social, cultural, spiritual, and civic rights needs of our nation.

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• Develop community outreach projects that educate the community on housing, medical information, job training projects, and literacy development.

“…And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone…your interference is doing him positive injury. … I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.” — Frederick Douglass

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Frederick Douglass Foundation Chairman Calls U.S. Congressman Andre Carson Recent Comment About The Tea Party Reckless and Irresponsible

Andre Carson Recent Comment about the tea party reckless and Irresponsible

Posted on August 31, 2011 by tfdfblog

Immediate Press Release

August 31, 2011
Contact Person: Timothy F. Johnson
W: (888) 698-9571 ext. 101WASHINGTON, DC.

Frederick Douglass Foundation Founder and National Chairman Timothy F. Johnson, stated on Wednesday, “it should come as no surprise to anyone that members of the Congressional Black Caucus are once again doing the bidding for the Democratic party by making absurd statements such as that made by Rep. Carson that the Tea party wants Blacks hanging on a tree.”

Perhaps the problem for Rep. Carson begins with his poor public education in the Indiana school system. Like so many previous statements and comparisons to our nations segregated past made by members of the CBC, the accused do not fit the profile portrayed. You see, like the Jim Crow laws and Black Codes, lynchings were legalized and performed by members of the Democratic party. Tea party activists have not committed any crimes against a black person, stopped anyone from entering any polling facilitates, or demanded they receive special privileges.

Furthermore, Rep. Carson’s desire to generally criticize a large grassroots group as racist, while comparing their actions to lynching, is outrageous, hateful, and desperate. When some Democrats can’t win a political disagreement, they normally resort to race-baiting, which is in itself racist. Our nation and the Black community are facing many problems… rhetoric like this does not’t help the nation or our community. It was only eight months ago, that Democrats were speaking out against vitriolic rhetoric like this after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Thusly, Rep. Carson and CBC Chairmen Emmanuel Cleaver should swiftly denounce these hateful statements and follow through on what they advocated for back in January.

Personally, I am finding it increasingly difficult to respect these so-called intelligent leaders from the black community who continue to misrepresent the historical facts about slavery and segregation by making reckless statements. We don’t always agree with what is said, but we respect their boldness and willingness to engage in the political process that seems to traditionally limit itself to the special interest groups, such as the homosexual agenda and pro-abortion groups. The fact that Tea party members of Congress, to include Florida Rep. Allen West, have taken positions that don’t necessarily support CBC’s race baiting agenda, does not mean they are anti-black, Johnson said.

During the 2012 election cycle, we must address this lack of responsible leadership by replacing these individuals with officials who respect the US Constitution and serve all Americans, equally.
If this was a Republican who made a similar remark, we know what the media response would have been, don’t we?

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FEAR OF A BLACK REPUBLICAN “WORLD PREMIERE” IN ATLANTA ON JUNE 23RD

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Timothy F. Johnson www.tfdf.org

Trenton, NJ –Shamrock Stine Productions, LLC has announced that its first documentary feature film,
FEAR OF A BLACK REPUBLICAN will have its “World Premiere” on Thursday, June 23rd at 7 PM at the Landmark Theater, Midtown Art Cinema, 931 Monroe Drive in Atlanta, GA and have its “North Carolina Premiere” on Sunday, June 26th at 10 AM at the Carousel Cinemas at 1305 Battleground Avenue in Greensboro, NC.

Tickets can be bought in advance at www.fearofablackrepublican.com/screenings or at the door. A Q&A with the filmmakers and some of the film’s subjects will follow the film.

Filmed and edited over a six year period, FEAR OF A BLACK REPUBLICAN examines why there are so few Black Republicans and how this affects the U.S. political system. From the Civil War to FDR, the GOP was the party for African-Americans. Today, barely 10% of African Americans consider themselves to be Republican and Urban areas are no longer considered competitive parts of America’s electoral map.

Beginning in his hometown of Trenton, NJ, filmmaker Kevin Williams speaks with BOTH Democrats and Republicans while journeying over four years and two Presidential Elections to find out if the Two-Party Political System is failing his city and the country. In taking a self-critical look at his own Republican Party and speaking with BOTH Democrats and Republicans, Williams explores the GOP’s efforts in urban areas versus the suburbs, the Democratic Party’s success in retaining the African-American vote and the experiences of Black Republicans with Democrats and their own Party. The result is a moving film which reveals a world that audiences won’t likely forget.

During this journey, Williams speaks with scholars such as Professor Cornel West, Professor Howard Taylor; political leaders like former Maryland Lieutenant Governor and Republican Party Chairman, Michael Steele and previous RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman; former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman; Presidential candidates Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Jim Gilmore and John McCain; Conservative thinkers such as Newt Gingrich, Grover Norquist and Ann Coulter; and Commentators Tavis Smiley and Michelle Malkin, amongst others. Also interviewed is the first and last Black Republican Senator popularly elected since Reconstruction, former Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts.

Williams states, “Before I started shooting, I was just a voter wondering why things weren’t getting better after each election. Picking up my camera changed everything for me. My intention with this film is to find out if our political system supports the decaying of Urban America, what that means and what if anything can be done about it. Journeying across the country and spending time with an important, but misunderstood segment of our society – Black Republicans, revealed a reality and an experience few will ever see. As race, politics, human nature and history all clash in this film, I know that as the Director, I am only opening the book on this subject matter and its implications for America.”

To learn more about the film or view the films trailer, please go to www.fearofablackrepublican.com

Production Dates & Details: October, 2004 -February, 2008: Principal Photography.
Shooting locations include: Atlanta, GA; Baltimore, MD; De Kalb County, GA; Gwinnett County, GA; Hamilton Township, NJ; Morrisville, PA; New Orleans, LA; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Princeton, NJ; Trenton, NJ; Washington, DC; and points in between.
Post-Production completed: February, 2011.
Main Credits: Written, Directed and Edited by Kevin J. Williams
Produced by Tamara E. Williams and Kevin J. Williams
Cinematography by Jeffrey Metzner and Kevin J. Williams
Camera by Jamaal Green and Tamara E. Williams
Gaffers: Sam Wells and Jamaal Green
Additional Camera: Phil McCauliffe and Marc Skinner
APPROX. 111 MINS
Printed in U.S.A. 4:3 aspect ratio
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The Democratic Party’s Agenda Will Destroy America – Just As It’s Destroyed Black Communities

It has always amazed me how, when Democrats engage in bad behavior, some people find a way to point a finger of blame at Republicans. As Rev. Wayne Perryman wrote, Democrats are “promoting the immoral agenda of gay marriage, gay rights, abortions, and the destruction of the Defense of Marriage Act along with other church related issues under the banner of the Separation of Church and State”.

To me, it is the American people who need to fight back and stop voting to elect morally bankrupt Democrats to head our government, such as President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress. Most Americans dislike Gov. Sarah Palin who has been speaking out on moral issues, with most Americans saying they would not vote for her to be president. So, what good does it do for a Republican to stand up for what is right on moral issues?

I’m also amazed that some people wrongly demonize Republicans for racist policies and laws when it’s Democrats who are to blame. The roots of modern-day racism rests squarely in the Democratic Party.

From its inception in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has always championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. Notably, Republican Senator Everett Dirksen was the champion of the civil rights laws of 1957, 1960, 1964, 1965 and 1968, over the objection of the Democrats who had been fighting to deny civil rights to blacks since after the Civil War. Based on information in Rev. Perryman’s book: “Whites, Blacks and Racist Democrats”, Republicans never abandoned blacks and never became like the Democratic Party. As author Michael Scheuer wrote, the Democratic Party is the party of the four S’s: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism. Democrats first used brutality and discriminatory laws to stop blacks from voting for Republicans. Now Democrats use deception and government handouts to keep blacks from voting for Republicans.

Democrats have been running black communities for the past 40+ years, and the socialist policies of the Democrats have turned those communities into economic and social wastelands. In his book “Dreams From My Father, Obama described what he and other Democrats do to poor blacks as “plantation politics”. And today, the socialist policies of the Democrats being pushed on America by Obama will turn our country into a failed socialist nation.

The majority of blacks abandoned the Republican Party during the Kennedy era after Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. threw his support behind then Senator John F. Kennedy when he wrongly believed that Kennedy had gotten his son, Martin Luther King, Jr., out of the Reidsville jail. In fact it was the King family friend, Harris Wolford, who was also the civil rights advisor for Kennedy, who made the call that got Dr. King, Jr. out of jail. For details, please see the NBRA Civil Rights Newsletter that is based on Rev. Perryman’s book and is posted on the website of the National Black Republican Association at: www.NBRA.info .

Most blacks today refuse to vote for any Republican, black or white. Democrats have hijacked the civil rights record of the Republican Party and wrongly convinced most blacks that the Republican Party is a racist party. All efforts of the Republican Party to appeal to black voters over the past few years have failed, in large part because Democrats continuously demagogue the efforts of Republicans to connect with black voters, while offering government handouts as an incentive for blacks to continue voting for Democrats.

There will be no change in the deplorable conditions in black communities until blacks seize control over their own destiny, hold politicians accountable for the content of their policies, and not vote based merely on the label of their party.

Frances Rice is a lawyer, a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and chairman of the National Black Republican Association. She may be contacted at www.NBRA.info .

About Timothy F. Johnson is Founder and National
Chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation and Vice Chairman of the North
Carolina Republican Party. He can be reached at (888) 698-9571 ext. 101 or
tfjohnson@tfdf.org

NAACP School Daze

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By Crystal Wright

The National Association for the ADVANCEMENT of Colored People, emphasis on the word “advancement,”claims “for 102 years, the NAACP has fought to ensure that all our children have access to high-quality public education.” If this is indeed true, then why would the NAACP, which used to be the most revered civil rights organization for black Americans, throw New York City black kids under the bus to save unionized teachers’ jobs and keep failing schools open?

In May to the shock and awe of thousands of New York City parents, the NAACP locked arms with the United Federation of Teachers (emphasis on union) and filed a lawsuit in the State Supreme Court to stop the city from closing 22 poor performing schools and giving 20 charter schools space inside public schools.

After 2,500 charter school parents and students protested in Harlem last week, blasting the NAACP, it wrote an op-ed arguing that allowing charter school students to use available space in NYC schools “impedes learning” or “tears at the fabric of communities.” Tell me how giving parents’ access to 20 charter schools impedes learning. What the NAACP failed to mention in weak defense of its actions was that by filing the lawsuit with the teachers’ union, the NAACP prevented 4,100 teachers from losing their jobs and denied 7,000 children access to a better education. That is called hypocrisy!

If the NAACP really espoused Shirley Chisholm’s maxim as it wrote in its op-ed “there are no permanent friends, no permanent enemies, just permanent interests,” particularly when it comes to education of black kids, then the NAACP should be praising Republicans. GOP policies support charter schools, vouchers and programs like the DC Scholarship Program, which House Speaker John Boehner brought back to life after Obama killed the program which helped 1,700 black kids escape failing DC schools. NAACP does have permanent enemies, they include Republicans and those enlightened people against teachers unions and possibly the very black people it claims to protect! The one honest thing NAACP wrote in that flimsy op-ed was “we are independent actors.” Yes, you are but not for the good of the constituents you claim to serve.

This NYC school madness is another reason the NAACP has become an irrelevant organization, a distant shadow of the Civil Rights group which worked so assiduously during the 1950s and 1960s to combat racial discrimination. Sadly, it seems the NAACP can be bought by anyone at the expense of black people, who it is supposed to serve and in this case NAACP was bought by the teachers union. As former DC Councilmember Kevin Chavous noted Supreme Court Justice and former NAACP Chief Counsel Thurgood Marshall, who won the infamous 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education case, “must be shaking his head.”

News flash, school choice, vouchers, and charter schools, all are Republican policies, help BLACKS escape education ghettos and succeed in life. As my good friend Michelle Bernard says often “education is the great equalizer.” Stop being stupid my Black people and throwing your vote blindly to Democrats, get educated on who and what you vote for!

About Crystal Wright

Wright is a black conservative woman living in Washington, D.C. Some would say she is a triple minority: woman, black and a Republican living in a Democrat dominated city. She’s contemplating moving back to her home state of Virginia, where her vote would count for something. By day, Crystal is a communications consultant and editor and publisher of the new website, conservativeblackchick.com. Crystal earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Georgetown University and holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Theatre from Virginia Commonwealth University.

For 15 years, Crystal has defined herself as a communications strategist, who successfully helps clients navigate policy and consumer issues across a broad range of industries: healthcare, financial services, real estate and education, among others. Having worked for ABC News, Fox News Channel and CNN, a major public relations agency, a corporation and a large trade association, she possesses the unique ability to craft strategies that exceed communications objectives.

Wright is the principal owner of the Baker Wright Group, LLC , a full service public relations firm, specializing in communications counseling, media relations, message development, media training and crisis communications. The firm’s approach is straight forward counseling: an unvarnished approach to public relations.

For more information about Crystal, go to http://conservativeblackchick.com/blog/about/

About Timothy F. Johnson

Timothy F. Johnson is Founder and National Chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation and Vice Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party. He can be reached at (888) 698-9571 ext. 101 or tfjohnson@tfdf.org

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