Still Shackled and Bound 

October 18, 2006

Maybe you won’t print this because it is an election year and the anti-Bush fervor is high among many because of dissatisfaction about this thing called The War on Terrorism.  The fight against terrorism is not a war but a daily skirmish.  Wars are usually directed against nations or people in control of them.  These terrorist battles led by Islamic extremist are but the tip of the iceberg against sinister forces we still do not appreciated.

Having lived in Chicago for a while and moved back home in part to diminish the impact of gang wars on the lives of my children, I now watch as gangs flourish in this small town of Salisbury while folks blindly disbelieve it’s not happening in their very own household.  Watching people give this country away by policies granting those illegally here more rights and benefits than we give to our citizens and taxpayers who pay for these services, one can only wonder when will we wake up!?!

Yesterday I dropped in the beauty parlor where for ten years on and off I have occasionally gone to get my hair done, as well as to respond to another request for assistance to a student wanting to go to college.  For over 475 students I have reached down and reached back to help.  On leaving I asked if I could put a campaign sign in the window only to watch the owner (who said she was my friend) hem and pause.  I said don’t worry about it, but please tell me why you have a sign in the window for a white female democrat who has never graced your beauty parlor or gotten her hair done here?  Enough said. 

Last week I was invited to the Charlotte Mecklenburg Black Political Caucus Banquet and Dance, which was to be a non-partisan event.  From the time I entered until the time I was to leave it was a series of insults hurled at my party and me by my own people.  Even from the podium when candidates were announced, the incumbent was greeted with effusive praise.  It was said from the podium, “Will Miss Ada Fisher stand,” forgetting that protocol says my earned medical degree should be acknowledged in my title.  To add insult to injury, then I was told from the podium, “It’s nice of you to run but we already have our candidate,” even though the next morning I was scheduled for an endorsement interview.  I don’t want the endorsement of people who don’t have the backbone to stand up for what is right and Do The Right Thing.

The members of my own party this week asked if I was invited to a candidate’s gathering sponsored by the local NAACP and I had to say no, even though I am one of less than a dozen Life Members of that organization and served at one time as a NAACP Chapter President. 

Black people, make a tremendous mistake in forgetting who brought them to the dance and giving their unquestioning loyalty to the Democratic Party.  The Republican Party started out as the Civil Rights Party and has been at the forefront of Equal Opportunities, Women’s Rights and leaders in the fight against slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, poll taxes, and Jim Crowe laws, which were all part of the democratic party of North Carolina.  The rush to embrace illegal aliens is coming at the expense of African Americans and leaders who fail to speak out on this are fronting for a socialistic agenda, which increase the divide between haves and have nots.  This will not serve us well. 

The Democrats haven’t earned the vote of blacks when they vote against the minimum wage, pension reform or a Megan’s Law and are counting on our undivided loyalty to keep the black vote while behind the scene courting the illegal aliens. 

But the Republicans are equally guilty of benign neglect for we assume we can’t get the black vote and don’t bother to walk our precincts, put ads in black papers or participate in Historically Black College and University events such as Homecoming Parades where thousands stand waiting to see us.