Shameful Black Republican "Leaders"

On the September 12, 2005 edition of CNN's Paula Zahn Now  show, CNN contributor, talk radio host, and Bush-Cheney '04 campaign adviser, Rev. Joe Watkins, falsely claimed that the United States has experienced a "reduction" in poverty under President Bush. Watkins stated that "under Bill Clinton, 15.1 percent of the population was poor; under President Bush, 12.7 percent of the population is poor. That's a reduction, that's a good thing."         The truth is that the 15.1 percent poverty rate is what Democratic President Bill Clinton inherited from his predecessor, Republican President George W.H. Bush. What any honest reporter would credit him with is what he did with that figure. And since President Clinton reduced the 15.1% poverty when he took office in 1993 to a low of 11.3 percent in 2000; what he should be credited with is the 11.3 figure.  By the same token, what Republican President George W. Bush deserves credit for is not the 11.7% which he inherited from President Clinton, but what he himself did with that figure.  And since the poverty rate has risen every year that Bush has been in office, from 11.7 percent in 2001 to 12.7 percent in 2004, his record is the very opposite of what this shameful Black Republican "man of God" claims.  What "god" does Rev. Joe Watkins represent, anyway? Source http://mediamatters.org/items/200509130002         The black man who sang the national anthem at the Republican conventions of 1980 & 1984 wasn't tapped for that prestigious opportunity simply because of his good looks and magnificent voice.  Lawrence E. King, Jr. was also a bank chairman who was chosen to lead the Grand Old Party's nationwide attempt to lure African American voters back to "the party of Lincoln".  King, however, lost his own ability to vote for his Republican friends when he was sent to prison for 15 years after getting caught stealing 40 or so million dollars from his depositors.         According to propagandamatrix.com/141003conspiracyofsilence.html, however, he and a several of other people in very high places have yet to be prosecuted for much worse crimes, namely for procuring young boys and girls for sexual abuse by high class child-molesters. People connected with this case who have died under suspicious circumstances : Gary Caradori, hired by the Nebraska Senate to investigate the case. The brother of one of the two most important witnesses, Alicia Owens. The brother of the other most important witness, Paul Bonacci. Shawn Boner, the brother of another witness. (After these untimely deaths, 76 young witnesses decided to recant their testimonies of being victims of child prostitution).         In early 2005, it was learned that Armstrong Williams had been paid a quarter of a million dollars by the Bush administration to promote its so-called "No child left behind" education policy.  Don't you wonder how much the administration has paid the other black Conservatives?         Some African Americans aren't impressed by Bush's use of black faces in his administration.  They know that no matter how much lipstick you put on a pig, it's still a pig.  Here's what the Black Commentator thought of the possibility that the Bush administration might choose the ultra-Conservative Judge Janice Rogers Brown because of the color of her skin:  at www.blackcommentator.com/157/157_cartoon_female_clarence_pf.html

The table below is from a Right Wing site that attacks the leaders which the black community have chosen for itself, and strives to replace those rather Liberal leaders with black "leaders" that the Conservative white leadership has chosen and does all it can to promote. { www.conservativebeacon.com/essays/Conservatism/black_conservatives.html }
Dr. Walter Williams	Dr. Thomas Sowell	Ward Connerly
Justice Clarence Thomas	Ken Hamblin	Rev. Jesse Peterson
Star Parker	Ambassador Alan Keyes	Armstrong Williams
"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well." - Booker T. Washington, 1911
See Professor Cornel West's response: Unmasking the Black Conservatives, at religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1046