DeForest Soaries Quotes
Debt is more of a problem for Blacks than racism. Being in debt is being in slavery.
DeForest Blake ‘Buster’ Soaries Jr, Secretary of State of New Jersey (Republican), Baptist Minister, CNN, Almighty Debt, Black in America, October 23, 2010
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The president was commenting on a Donald Trump campaign statement that African American were in the worst shape in history when the reality was just the opposite
One reason that this is such a noteworthy quote is that Rubio was in the midst of his campaign for the Republican Presidential Nomination where only the most dedicated and generally conservative members of the party turn out to vote in the primaries. And a very large part of them were Southern racists who switched parties in response to the Civil Rights Act passage in 1964. Since then the very conservative wing of the party has had a de facto veto on Republican presidential candidates. Rubio's statement was the view of the majority of Americans and a significant number of Republicans, but this courageous statement of his true belief's risked his chances in the primary.
For many years after the Civil War, in an effort to dignify the Southern rebellion, it was fashionable to ignore or skim over the institution of slavery in American history. Government, in particular regarded the issue as divisive even a century after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Like so many of his other predictions about America, he saw that the evil of racism and slavery was bound to cause the nation to implode. And this was decades before the Civil War, but the problem was inescapable to a critical observer like de Tocqueville.
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Although most American slaves were used in agriculture, the myth that Blacks were only fit for manual labor was debunked very early in American history. Despite that , it persisted to some racists to this day. The key then, as today, was education and training.
Incredibly enough, after the Civil War and emancipation, most Virginia leaders opposed any form of rights for Blacks with one of the major reasons being that they were ignorant and uneducated. It was actually a crime to teach even a free Black to read.
The vast majority of the million Blacks in prison have been sentenced for using or selling drugs.
The letter was written in the supposed style of a Black after Emancipation and includes most of the ugly false stereotypes of the worst of the racists of the present and the slaveowners of past times. Williams stated that he was not a racist and was trying to make a point about freedom required risk and responsibility. However, the effort was interpreted by many people, Black and white, to be insulting and a put down of African Americans. At the same time, although most of the Tea Party members were not racists, most of the racists in America were supporters of the Tea Party. Those people interpreted the quotation as "telling it like it is" about Blacks who do not want the responsiblities and risks of freedom and are not yet developed sufficiently to be equal citizens in a democracy.
Stamp was a banker and the 2nd richest man in England at the time. Yet he warned about aspects of banking that needed reform and regulation.
Johnson was then Vice President.
Note that Nixon attributed Rogers views on Blacks to the fact that Roers was from New York City which Nixon viewed as a hotbed of liberals and minorities. This quotation was uncovered in 2010 when more of the Nixon White House tapes were released. Nixon tended to have the worst stereotyped view of all minority groups. The implication of the inbreeding is a high percentage of mental retardation. It was never been established that the Black slaves in America were inbred as they came from many different tribes and slave owners did not attempt to have slaves of a single or even two tribes. There was a great deal of diversity. If anything Southern Whites were in danger of inbreeding as it was the custom for many first cousins to marry. This was just another of Nixon’s hateful, racial remarks based on no foundation of fact.
Reverend DeForest Blake "Buster" Soaries, Jr. is an African-American Baptist minister, author and public advocate, from Montclair, New Jersey. He is the former Secretary of State of New Jersey and former chairman of the federal Election Assistance Commission. Additionally, he is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, New Jersey, a position he has held since November 1990.
