It’s a political truism that the most reliable voting bloc for the Democratic Party is the blacks. I cannot understand why. The Democratic Party is the party of more government power, the single entity that has been at the very heart of harassment of blacks throughout our history.

It started with slavery, the single greatest institutional abomination this country ever perpetrated. Oh certainly, we did some horrible things to the Indians but it was through violations of treaties and other treacheries but it wasn’t anything recognized by our Constitution as a way of life, as was slavery.

When you think about it, how could slavery ever have existed without government? If a man held another person in slavery, all the slave would have to do is get beyond the limits of the owner’s property, and he’d be free if there were no government. Since there would be no government and even roads would be privately owned and operated, government would have little ability to enforce laws like the wretched Fugitive Slave Act.

Just picture this. Abolitionists, and there were many in the South, by some counts more than in the North, gather at a property’s edge, standing at the ready to assist an escaping slave. There would be no government to stop them. Under the Second Amendment, they’d be legally within their rights to arm themselves to the teeth to fend off any pursuing slave owner. So again, how could slavery ever have existed without the heavy hand of government?

Ok, so what’s the next step in considering government as the enemy of blacks? Well, after the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, many freed blacks went right back to work on the very same farms, only this time as sharecroppers. Share cropping was far from perfect but it worked fairly well for about 60 years for otherwise poor, uneducated and otherwise unskilled workers.

But, like all industrial systems, progress began chipping away at it.Mechanization began to render the system obsolete. Suddenly, those share croppers, the vast majority of whom were black, found themselves out of work. This was about the 1920s and 1930s.

The South was overwhelmingly agrarian. There was little heavy industry, so these unemployed blacks began the mass migration to the North where job opportunities were better. Other than for agriculture, they were unskilled and often barely literate or even illiterate.

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So they arrived on the scene in cities like Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia and New York with just their bodies, their minds and a willingness to work. But something got in the way.

Economically, the unskilled compensate for their lack by offering their labor at wages below that of the skilled. But just as the North was far more industrialized than the South, it was far more unionized.

Labor unions that were almost completely lily white, had also infiltrated the power scene. Seeing the competition from these unskilled workers, they demanded that government enact minimum wage laws. Especially during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, the government complied and the minimum wage laws were passed in 1938, when the Democrats also held huge majorities in both houses. This helped keep these willing workers out of work at a time when the Great Depression, the worst economic situation in world history, was turning worse, the Depression within the Depression. Of course, most of the workers hurt were black.

Labor unions were notorious for blocking blacks and minorities from membership. This became a huge bone of contention for black leaders during the 1960s and it took a lot of effort to wear down those barriers.

I worked every summer from 1962 through 1968, as a union electrician in New York City. In that time, I worked with a total of three blacks. The Democrats have always been in the hip pockets of the labor unions.

So ingrained was this that Robert Redford explored it in his movie ‘The Candidate’, where he played the idealistic Bob McKay who decides to run for the Senate. His father, John, played by Melvyn Douglas, a retired politician, curried support from a labor union leader Floyd J. Starkey, played by Kenneth Tobey. At their meeting, Redford was hostile to Tobey’s character because his union had blocked some minority workers, I think they were Hispanic migrants, he was trying to help, from working.

So, now we have minimum wage laws, espoused by Democrats keeping blacks from competing with whites, and we have labor unions, blocking them from working and labor unions have the Democratic Party in their hip pockets. The black male head of household is out of work due to the Democratic Party. What’s next?

Why you give them welfare that requires the male head of household to be gone! The results were inevitable. Black illegitimacy soared to the point that today 70% of black children are born out of wedlock. Who promotes welfare? Why the Democratic Party!

All of Jim Crow was entirely due to misappropriated government power. It hid under the guise of states’ rights, government power. Of that, there can be no doubt. I once posed that as a rhetorical question to a black female attorney. She shrugged in agreement.

Then we have the civil rights bills, many of them to fight Jim Crow. Most of the civil rights bills were opposed by southern Democrats with their chairmanships of powerful committees. The landmark 1964 bill was only passed with the cooperation of congressional Republicans led by Sen. Everett Dirksen, a fact that was acknowledged by Pres. Lyndon Johnson when he signed it.

As a side note, Sen. Barry Goldwater, the 1964 Republican Presidential nominee, voted against the bill on constitutional grounds saying that it would lead to hiring quotas. For myself, I agree with him but, nevertheless, the bill would never have passed without Republican support.

So entrenched was the hostility to blacks within the Democratic Party that there had to be special seating arrangements for Sammy Davis, Jr. at the 1960 Democratic National Convention, that nominated John Kennedy, to not offend some southern delegations. Sammy had followed Rat Pack leader Frank Sinatra in his campaigning for Kennedy that year.

Today, blacks vote Democratic at least 90% of the time and the candidacy of Barack Obama cemented that. But what does the Democratic Party represent for them? An article in National Review, at least two decades ago, showed that attitudinally, blacks were far and away, the most conservative group in the country.

The author cited several factors in this. First, that blacks are far more likely to attend church and be involved in church activities than whites. They are far more committed to belief in God than whites. Yet the Democratic Party is the party of secular humanism that is committed to the replacement of God in our lives with government, just as their philosophical brethren, the socialists and communists, are.

The final issue is the biggie, abortion. Blacks are the overwhelmingly right-to-life. They regard abortion and even birth control as the white man’s genocide and there is ample evidence, from the origins of Planned Parenthood that they are correct. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood was a rabid racist. Planned Parenthood is the single largest abortion mill in the country. In addition, it receives a huge amount of government largesse.

Yet here again, blacks vote with the Democrats, the party of abortion. In fact, Barack Obama opposed the bill requiring attempts to save abortuses that are alive. The wording of the bill was approved by John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi and Ted Kennedy, yet Obama voted it down.

So we have that historically, slavery and Jim Crow were impossible without government power. Government power kept them down economically and the Democratic Party has been the prime agent for it. The Democrats are against everything black culture stands for, yet they trot off to the voting booths every year to vote for the party that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton say they should.

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Source: Originally published at Etherzone.com, and submitted to the Federal OBserver for publication.

~ About the Author ~
Dr. Roderick T. Beaman is a board certified family osteopathic physician who practices in Jacksonville, Florida. He is a published poet, has composed a blues song and is trying to have his first novel published. It deals with the dangers of big government. He offers anyone who wishes to dignify the trash he writes with a comment, to do so.