Reception honors black conservatives

[Rose Siding]

Conservative commentator Armstrong Williams welcomed friends and family into his Northeast Capitol Hill home yesterday morning to pay homage to pioneers of the black conservative movement.

The breakfast reception was in honor of seven black Republican presidential appointees from President Nixon to President Reagan, and each was presented with a commemorative coin honoring Crispus Attucks, a black man who was the first American casualty of the Revolutionary War.
"There is a lot of history in this room," said David Smith, owner of Sinclair Broadcasting, who attended the affair.
...
"President Bush is on the right track with the ownership society, because that is exactly what we did creating 500,000 new businesses in the 1970s under Nixon," Mr. Cornelius said.

Mr. Wilkes, who Nixon appointed as deputy secretary in the Department of Labor and assigned to create sound regulations for affirmative action, recalled how "nobody wanted to deal with us."
"All of these job opportunities and business opportunities were a result of Nixon's policies, and I am proud to have been a part of that," Mr. Wilkes said.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050120-115317-3770r.htm

[TomClash]

1. The reception . . .

was followed by a reading of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

[lalajohns]

13. damn...that was one funny comment

hee hee

[meegbear]

2. There is a lot of history in this room

all 15 of them.

[noonwitch]

7. There's that many? I thought it would be about 5.

Armstrong Williams, Clarence Thomas, JC Watts, that Rev Jesse guy the freepers like so much and the Rev. Keith Butler, who once served on the Detroit City Council.

[meegbear]

8. Not everybody can get an award ...

assume that there's a couple more anyways.

[TomClash]

3. X

The house Negro was the one who lived in, the master's house, ate the master's food, at the master's table usually - after the master had finished with it. He dressed like the master, which means he wore the same type of clothing that the master did, but usually it was clothing handed down to him by the master. He identified the master's house as his own. If the master said, "We have a fine house here," the house Negro would say, "Yes, our house is a fine house." Whenever the master said, "We," he said, "We." If the master said, "We have good food on our table," the house Negro would chime in and say, "Yes, we have plenty of food, boss, on our table." The house Negro would also identify himself so closely with his master that when the master was sick the house Negro would say, "What's the matter, boss, we's sick?" When the master was sick he was sick. If the master's house caught on fire the house Negro would fight harder to put the flames out or keep the flames from enveloping the master's house than the master would himself.

Philadelphia, 1963.

[Gman]

4. Quite a collection of con men

They got the GOP white men's money and laughed all the way to the bank.

[wolfgirl]

5. Segregation lives

in this White House.


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[UL_Approved]

6. Whoring of America

Its always predictable that people will buck the line in rare instances, namely when some favor is involved. What relationship do the people in History have to the meeting discussed here?

And how does Williams reconcile the fact that Martin Luther King, Jr. was liberal?

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[Guns Aximbo]

11. The really sad part is most of bushes electorate

40 years ago the same people who voted for Bush we're throwing rocks and bricks at MLK and trying to keep blacks from their voting rights.

things really haven't changed that much I guess except the window dressing.

[Voltaire99]

10. Risible

Oh, to have a miniature spy camera hidden behind the immense portrait of Buckwheat. ;-)

[youthere]

12. The breakfast reception was in honor of seven black Republicans

because they couldn't find anymore.