Friday, February 10, 2006
The Politics on the Clinton Plantation.
On January 16. 2006, during an event to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Sen. Hillary Clinton (D- NY), a likely Democrat Presidential candidate, made the following statement to a mostly Black audience at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem.
"When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about. It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard."
For the benefit of those who are failing to recognize the characteristics of a “plantation” and an organization that is unaccommodating and hostile to those "with a contrary view." I have provided a few examples of an organization with documented "plantation" like behavior.
How do you tell if your political party is being run like a plantation?
1. When those with "contrary views" leave the plantation and they are attacked, severely beaten, and lynched in the public square.
2. When the assistance of “Overseers” is required to insure that order and control is maintained and so that those with "contrary views" aren't able to interfere with the plantations cash crop of voters.
3. When the former residents of the “Chocolate City” plantation find a better life among the free states, and huge numbers of them make no effort to return. Due to the fear of losing his job and position in the "big house", their former "Overseer" is reduced to begging and pleading for them to return.
4. When your political party has contempt for the "contrary view" of supporting those who are willing to die for others, when the religion of the majority of the population is based on “The One" who died for others.
"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." - John 15:13 (NIV)5. When you value human life, the sanctity of marriage, traditional family values, and faith in God, but your "contrary views" and beliefs do not matter because they are in conflict with the "Plantation Master's" agenda.
So now, when posed with the "...and you know what I'm talking about..." statement by Sen. Hillary Clinton (D- NY), you can respond the greatest certainty. "Yes, Sen. Clinton, I know what you are talking about better than you will ever possibly imagine."
# posted by Eric : 11:30 AM
