What is prompting my latest rant is last week, we hosted a friend and he returned to liberal New York State boasting about his visit. Unfortunately, as in the game telephone, things can gain a new life and this prompted an email from one of my guest's listening audience and my response.
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Subject: Couldn't help but notice ...
Hi, Ann ...
Going through the gallery of members' photos, I couldn't help but notice ... There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of black members. Now, I've been to South Caroilina ... three times. And there are in fact black people living there. No, really! I've seen them! Yet your gatherings ... your web site ... heck, your whole wing-nut gun-toting crowd ... seem to be exclusively white. Is there a reason for that? Just curious...
PS - J tells me that you "can't wait to kick my ass." Oh, really? Because I would love a chance to openly debate you. But as far as "kicking my ass"? ... You may be waiting a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time, dear.
PPS - Calling my shot now ... Let's count how many days (minutes, seconds?) it takes you to ban me from your site for expressing an opposing viewpoint. Ever go to an Angry White Man Expr... oh, sorry, a "Tea Party Express" and try to express an opposing viewpoint? Try it some time as an experiment. It'll open your eyes. Bonus points if you disguise yourself as a black person and do it.
John
John,
I am in receipt of your email and quite honestly I find no humor in it. I found it highly offensive. If you wish to have a policy debate, I require one simple rule, which is total civility. As for other items you wrote in your missive, I will answer each as follows:
On behalf of the citizens of South Carolina, we welcome visitors of all persuasions, whether we agree with their politics, especially when they freely spend their dollars on our goods and services. Thank you.
As for the photo gallery, you will note that the last picture posted was more than 2 years ago. Updating the photo gallery is time consuming and labor intensive, of which I have let slide. However, I do not choose pictures based upon a person's sex or ethnic background. What was sent to me is what was posted. Additionally, since the website is limited on space, I have chosen to allow the gallery to lapse and in time will remove it, since members found other areas of the site more important than that page.
Your 3 vacation visits to our Palmetto State does not equal my 11 years of living here. There are a large number of Conservatives residing here of all ethnic backgrounds, of which the black population is a growing member. Perfect example, Representative Tim Scott. Until recently, Democrats have controlled politics in SC and Georgia and mandated that in order for anything to happened it would have to go through the Democratic cronies in power. Voter intimidation was rampant and local councils cowed local black churches into convincing their congregation to vote Democratic. This has slowly changed over the past 20 years, which is why recently that Black Conservatives have had the courage to come forward. I refer you to:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/SOUTH-CAROLINA-BLACK-CONSERVATIVE-MOVEMENT/108301815867761
http://www.southcarolinaradionetwork.com/2010/08/09/sc-black-conservatives-tea-parties-rally-on-immigration-audio/
http://frederickdouglassfoundation.com/about_us.html
Rowena Booker of SCBCM and Andrew Walker of the SC Frederick Douglass Foundation are good friends of mine.
If you visit my radio show page you will find numerous shows wherein various Black Conservatives were special guests or had called in as listeners. Feel free to peruse the show archives available at http://www.BlogTalkRadio.com/Southern-Sense
Next, I will address your "gun-toting" remark. It is obvious you do not believe the 2nd Amendment is a valid right under the Constitution. It has been upheld as lately as 2 years ago in District of Columbia Vs. Heller and McDonald Vs. City of Chicago in the Supreme Court. In fact the defendant in the Chicago case was black, who exercised his 2nd Amendment right in defending his home from a criminal invasion. If we were to repeal the 2nd Amendment then the only people with guns would be the criminals and the police state. That would work well when you find your home invaded by an armed person against whom you have no defense. Try dialing 911 and using that to stop the path of a bullet. By the way, every household in Switzerland has a firearm and this year they overwhelmingly voted to keep them over the threat of the upcoming UN Small Arms Treaty. Remember, if there was a licensed gun owner on the LIRR train on December 7, 1993 when Colin Fergueson walked down the aisle executing 6 innocent passengers and injuring 19 others, a lot fewer people would have died or been injured. By the way, the last time I went to the firing range, the range officer was black and several of the customers were also minorities.
Lastly, as to your comment on the Angry White Man Express in reference to the Tea Party Express, I don't think you can place that label on the following individuals:
Llyod Marcus - Tea Party Express
Andrea Shea King - Tea Party Express & Blog Talk Radio
Lenny McAllister - Hip Hop Republican & Author of Diary of a Mad Black PYC, Proud Young Conservative
Wayne Bradley - Conservative Is Cool & Blog Talk Radio
Emery McClellon - founder, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Tea Party & Veteran
James Tapscott - founder, Riamona, Calif Tea Party & Veteran
Thomas Smith - The Invisible Conservative on Blog Talk Radio & founder of CAFE Media (Conservative American Freedom Entertainment MEDIA)
Wesley Swimp - Project 21
and I can go on...
If you continue attacks on opposing viewpoints using vitriolic rhetoric, then I can understand why you get banned from websites. Once again, I urge civil and logical debate. Only with this type of debate can our nation move forward and out of the morass that BOTH parties have placed us and regain our exceptional standing in the world as the greatest nation ever created.
Respectfully,
Ann Ubelis
PS - I thought you might find this site interesting: http://www.wayneperryman.com/Blog/tabid/63/EntryID/15/Default.aspx
Reverend Perryman and the Black Republican Party are suing the DNC and President Obama for racism. Remember, despite the twisted way schools are currently teaching history, it cannot change the facts of which are:
In 1957 the Republicans presented Civil Rights legislation that, then Senator Lyndon Johnson consistently blocked. Later, President Lyndon Johnson at first opposed the legislation, until he realized the powerful voting block that the Democrats could exploit if he passed the bill, thus usurp the claim that the Democrats are the party of Civil Rights. In his book "Daddy King and Me", Judge Murray Silver, stated the Martin Luther King Sr and Jr were both Republicans among other assertions that the majority of Northerners going to the South to fight for Civil Rights were Republicans. In fact, the civil rights leaders could not name one liberal Northerner in the fight. (Judge Silver is a personal friend. He served under Governor Jimmy Carter as a Democrat and was appointed to the Federal Bench under President Jimmy Carter)
Democratic claims of being the party of Civil Rights fly falsely in the face of the fact that the Republican Party was formed originally on the Abolitionist base and was the primary movement for the Civil War and freedom of the slaves. Up until the end of the Civil War the Cherokee Nation continued to hold slaves of both black and white races. To date, no one has demanded reparations, much less an apology. Additionally, many descendents of those slave have the right to declare Cherokee heritage and privileges, of which the Cherokee Nation is still fighting to deny.
PPS - I appreciate you divulging your full name.
I am in receipt of your email and quite honestly I find no humor in it. I found it highly offensive. If you wish to have a policy debate, I require one simple rule, which is total civility. As for other items you wrote in your missive, I will answer each as follows:
On behalf of the citizens of South Carolina, we welcome visitors of all persuasions, whether we agree with their politics, especially when they freely spend their dollars on our goods and services. Thank you.
As for the photo gallery, you will note that the last picture posted was more than 2 years ago. Updating the photo gallery is time consuming and labor intensive, of which I have let slide. However, I do not choose pictures based upon a person's sex or ethnic background. What was sent to me is what was posted. Additionally, since the website is limited on space, I have chosen to allow the gallery to lapse and in time will remove it, since members found other areas of the site more important than that page.
Your 3 vacation visits to our Palmetto State does not equal my 11 years of living here. There are a large number of Conservatives residing here of all ethnic backgrounds, of which the black population is a growing member. Perfect example, Representative Tim Scott. Until recently, Democrats have controlled politics in SC and Georgia and mandated that in order for anything to happened it would have to go through the Democratic cronies in power. Voter intimidation was rampant and local councils cowed local black churches into convincing their congregation to vote Democratic. This has slowly changed over the past 20 years, which is why recently that Black Conservatives have had the courage to come forward. I refer you to:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/SOUTH-CAROLINA-BLACK-CONSERVATIVE-MOVEMENT/108301815867761
http://www.southcarolinaradionetwork.com/2010/08/09/sc-black-conservatives-tea-parties-rally-on-immigration-audio/
http://frederickdouglassfoundation.com/about_us.html
Rowena Booker of SCBCM and Andrew Walker of the SC Frederick Douglass Foundation are good friends of mine.
If you visit my radio show page you will find numerous shows wherein various Black Conservatives were special guests or had called in as listeners. Feel free to peruse the show archives available at http://www.BlogTalkRadio.com/Southern-Sense
Next, I will address your "gun-toting" remark. It is obvious you do not believe the 2nd Amendment is a valid right under the Constitution. It has been upheld as lately as 2 years ago in District of Columbia Vs. Heller and McDonald Vs. City of Chicago in the Supreme Court. In fact the defendant in the Chicago case was black, who exercised his 2nd Amendment right in defending his home from a criminal invasion. If we were to repeal the 2nd Amendment then the only people with guns would be the criminals and the police state. That would work well when you find your home invaded by an armed person against whom you have no defense. Try dialing 911 and using that to stop the path of a bullet. By the way, every household in Switzerland has a firearm and this year they overwhelmingly voted to keep them over the threat of the upcoming UN Small Arms Treaty. Remember, if there was a licensed gun owner on the LIRR train on December 7, 1993 when Colin Fergueson walked down the aisle executing 6 innocent passengers and injuring 19 others, a lot fewer people would have died or been injured. By the way, the last time I went to the firing range, the range officer was black and several of the customers were also minorities.
Lastly, as to your comment on the Angry White Man Express in reference to the Tea Party Express, I don't think you can place that label on the following individuals:
Llyod Marcus - Tea Party Express
Andrea Shea King - Tea Party Express & Blog Talk Radio
Lenny McAllister - Hip Hop Republican & Author of Diary of a Mad Black PYC, Proud Young Conservative
Wayne Bradley - Conservative Is Cool & Blog Talk Radio
Emery McClellon - founder, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Tea Party & Veteran
James Tapscott - founder, Riamona, Calif Tea Party & Veteran
Thomas Smith - The Invisible Conservative on Blog Talk Radio & founder of CAFE Media (Conservative American Freedom Entertainment MEDIA)
Wesley Swimp - Project 21
and I can go on...
If you continue attacks on opposing viewpoints using vitriolic rhetoric, then I can understand why you get banned from websites. Once again, I urge civil and logical debate. Only with this type of debate can our nation move forward and out of the morass that BOTH parties have placed us and regain our exceptional standing in the world as the greatest nation ever created.
Respectfully,
Ann Ubelis
PS - I thought you might find this site interesting: http://www.wayneperryman.com/Blog/tabid/63/EntryID/15/Default.aspx
Reverend Perryman and the Black Republican Party are suing the DNC and President Obama for racism. Remember, despite the twisted way schools are currently teaching history, it cannot change the facts of which are:
In 1957 the Republicans presented Civil Rights legislation that, then Senator Lyndon Johnson consistently blocked. Later, President Lyndon Johnson at first opposed the legislation, until he realized the powerful voting block that the Democrats could exploit if he passed the bill, thus usurp the claim that the Democrats are the party of Civil Rights. In his book "Daddy King and Me", Judge Murray Silver, stated the Martin Luther King Sr and Jr were both Republicans among other assertions that the majority of Northerners going to the South to fight for Civil Rights were Republicans. In fact, the civil rights leaders could not name one liberal Northerner in the fight. (Judge Silver is a personal friend. He served under Governor Jimmy Carter as a Democrat and was appointed to the Federal Bench under President Jimmy Carter)
Democratic claims of being the party of Civil Rights fly falsely in the face of the fact that the Republican Party was formed originally on the Abolitionist base and was the primary movement for the Civil War and freedom of the slaves. Up until the end of the Civil War the Cherokee Nation continued to hold slaves of both black and white races. To date, no one has demanded reparations, much less an apology. Additionally, many descendents of those slave have the right to declare Cherokee heritage and privileges, of which the Cherokee Nation is still fighting to deny.
PPS - I appreciate you divulging your full name.
Ken wakes in a free Republic to enjoy food provided by Capitalist Farmers and Big Business Corporations which is made more expensive by over taxation and regulation. Food could still be made safe and cheaper of the Liberal Congress gets out of business's way, thus saving Ken thousands of dollars a year
His medications are safe because the pharma companies reinvest their profits and shareholder investments into research and development made affordable through tax credits made by Republicans.
Ken enjoys clean air despite attempts by progressive lobbyists seeking loop holes for their clients. These lobbyists were blocked by Fiscal Conservatives who also relaxed regulations. The regulations being relaxed allowed Ken's employers to increase wages and benefits and lower the cost of their product, thus increasing production and creating new jobs.
He enjoys the fail-safe of workers comp and unemployment insurance because Fiscal Conservatives cut unfunded entitlements as well as pork projects, to ensure funding is secured and the budget is balanced.
Ken enjoys a good return on his bank deposits because Capitalist Bankers seek a good interest rate for their clients and investors, supported by the Republicans who advocate a pro-business environment with less regulations.
However, Ken is burdened with an expensive student loan and stuck in an inferior job which does not match his education level. Unemployment is listed at 9.4%, but in reality is closer to 16% overall and job growth is stagnant. He cannot find a job to match his education level in this economy stifled by a devalued dollar caused by Quantitative Easing and a high deficit.
He visits his father's farm on a road full of pot holes and ruts because the FHA forced a road on a community that could not afford the maintenance on their meager budget.
The utilities his father's farm enjoys is brought to him by a corporation seeking to expand their customer base. They would have arrived sooner had the Democrats & Progressives in Congress not imposed so many road blocks and regulations.
Ken's father enjoys his Social Security benefits because he paid fully into it all of his life. He just wishes Medicare was not mandatory, he can get a better plan from a private insurer. But, if he were to do that, he would lose the Social Security he has paid a lifetime for. Now, he is dependent upon Medicare, that most of his current doctors are dropping after the passage of Obamacare. Worse, his father has not seen a Social Security Cost of Living increase in over 2 years, while Congress and their staff got pay raises and Stimulis Funds paid for bonuses to GE & GM, courtesy of a Democratic Congress and politicians who raided the Social Security "Lock Box".
Ken enjoys his Conservative radio show and knows the host is right, because:
1 - Food would be cheaper and just as safe if government stopped over-regulation and lower taxes on business.
2 - Medication would be available sooner and cheaper if the FDA streamlined approval and allowed generics into the system sooner.
3 - The air is clean because technology has advanced and utility standards have self-policed in advance of and in spite of government over-regulation.
4 - Job benefits and wages are at a record high at Ken's job, because employees have voted to keep unions out.. This allowed the employer to place more wages into the employee programs and lower productions costs. Lower production costs led to increased sales & production, resulting in the creation of new jobs and plant expansion.
5 - If Ken becomes unemployed, he faces the real threat of losing his home, because Obama's HEMP Program does not work. Only 12% of the people who applied have been approved. Conventional mortgage refinance programs are scarce due to the current financial situation and not likely to improve soon.
6 - His bank notified him that the Democratically controlled Congress has decreased the amount insured by the FDIC. His savings are at risk. In addition, the same Congress has enacted Financial Reform which will allow the banks to increase account fees. Free checking will be a thing of the past. Worse, the same Democrats have proposed and are trying to enact a Financial Transaction Legislation that will impose a 1% transaction fee on ANY monetary transaction. This will include deposits, withdrawals, interest earned and ANY purchases, including groceries and gas.
7 - Because the government is desperately seeking revenues, they are agressively seeking repayment of student loans and addressing unpaid taxes. Now Ken finds his wages garnished to satisfy the loans outstanding.
8 - The garnishment of Ken's wages means he can't pay his mortgage and his home is in foreclosure.
9 - The FHA forced a un-needed road on a rural community that is now in disrepair, the local government must float a bond of $5 Million. This will increase the property millage rate by 1%. Ken's father is not too please to learn his farm tax bill will increase by $5,000 per year.
10 - New EPA regulations on utilities, that far exceed industry standards have increased cost productions, forcing the utility to increase rates. Ken's father sees costs of energy to his farm increase by at least $1,000 a month.
11 - Due to overall increase of cost production, supplies and new taxes Ken's father decided to sell the farm at a loss. With the economy's dramatic drop in property value, the sale enables him only to repay the mortgage, with very little profit. He is solely dependent upon his Social Security for his daily living.
12 - Obamacare being enacted, Ken's father sees his monthly Medicare payments almost double, which takes a substantial chunk of his meager Social Security check. Private insurance would be cheaper, but if he purchases the insurance, Social Security will cease all payments. Congress married the two programs and they are mandatory.
13 - Unable to make ends meet anymore, Ken's father moves in with him. Meanwhile, Ken is laid off because the Obama Administration and the NLRB won their case against Boeing, causing the plant to close.
So much for Liberal do-gooding!
Ann Ubelis
Lady's Island