How The Kennedys Scammed & Played Black America

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How The Kennedys Scammed & Played Black America


By Debbie Schlussel


Yesterday, I told you about Dave Wilson, the White candidate in Texas who turned Black racism on its head by leading Blacks to believe he was a brother, and getting elected. A number of Blacks–and White liberals–were aghast at this hilarious development. But it’s funny that no Blacks ever seem to be upset about how they were scammed by the Kennedys, particularly John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, both of whom the Black community continues to idolize to this day.

It won’t be news to most of you, just as it wasn’t news to me, about how the Kennedy Bros scammed and played American Blacks throughout the ’60s in a way that emulates “Boardwalk Empire’s” Nucky Thompson. We know the Kennedys voted against civil rights in their legislative lives (JFK voted against Republican President Eisenhower’s Civil Rights Act in 1957), and yet they get credit for being champions of civil rights. And so on. But there’s more that’s at least getting a little mainstream media coverage as we near the 50th anniversary of Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination of JFK. Kennedy couldn’t have cared less about Blacks. He only cared about one thing (well, two things, but we’re talking about the one other than sex here): getting elected. He was a phony and a power-seeker and he used and manipulated Blacks like a maestro plays a violin.

As a Democrat, running against Republican Richard Nixon (at the time, many influential blacks, including Jackie Robinson, were Republicans), Kennedy faced some difficult racial calculus. The South, where Jim Crow kept black people in a second-class status, was ruled by Democrats. To win the presidency, Kennedy needed white Southern Democrats, and many of them hated King, whom they saw as a threat to their way of life.


In a speech soon after meeting King, Kennedy spoke of the “moving examples of moral courage” shown by civil rights protesters. Their peaceful demonstrations, he said, were not “to be lamented, but a great sign of responsibility, of good citizenship, of the American spirit.” Referencing the growing “sit-in” movement, in which black customers demanded service at white-only restaurants, Kennedy said: “It is in the American tradition to stand up for one’s rights — even if the new way to stand up for one’s rights is to sit down.”



But there was another side to Kennedy’s stance. Behind the scenes, his aides were urging King to end his nonviolent protests, according to historian Taylor Branch in his authoritative civil rights chronicle “Parting the Waters.” Since the protests were being suppressed by Democrats, they made it harder for Kennedy to get black votes in the North. But if Kennedy criticized the suppression, he would lose white votes in the South.



Declining to heed Kennedy’s men and curtail protests, King was arrested with a group of students at an Atlanta sit-in on Oct. 19, 1960, scant weeks before the excruciatingly close election. King refused to post bail. He remained behind bars as the Ku Klux Klan marched through Atlanta streets and Kennedy and Nixon held their final televised debate. Authorities produced a 5-month-old traffic ticket from a neighboring county, and King was sentenced to four months’ hard labor. By the next morning King was in a maximum-security prison. Many feared he would soon be killed.



Over the objections of Kennedy’s brother and campaign manager, Robert Kennedy, who wanted to steer clear of the matter, an aide managed to convince the candidate to place a sympathetic call to King’s pregnant wife, Coretta. News of Kennedy’s call was leaked to reporters. Yet King was still in jail — until Robert Kennedy called the judge. Suddenly, bail was granted and King was freed.



That’s so typical Kennedy–privately opposing MLK and wanting to stay out of it and publicly calling a judge to get credit with the King family for bail.


The story of the Kennedys’ involvement made headlines in black newspapers nationwide. King issued a statement saying he was “deeply indebted to Senator Kennedy,” although he remained nonpartisan. The Kennedy campaign printed tens of thousands of pamphlets describing the episode, and distributed them in black churches across the country on the Sunday before the election.



Kennedy, who got 78 percent of the black vote, won the election by one of the narrowest margins in U.S. history. “In an election that close,” says Villanova University professor David Barrett, “you could make a case that Kennedy’s call to Coretta mattered enough to win.”



Once elected, Kennedy deliberately slowed down the pace of his purported civil rights agenda. Hey, he needed Southern Whites for his foreign policy pursuits and their votes for his re-election.



Kennedy needed some of those segregationists to advance his foreign policy agenda, says Barrett, the Villanova professor. He also had to think about reelection, and not alienating white Southern voters. “Civil rights simply was not a top priority,” says Barrett, who studies the Kennedy administration and teaches a course on the civil rights movement.



The Kennedys were phonies then, and their progeny are phonies now. And so are the many wannabes in the Democrat Party who try so hard–way too hard–to be the new Kennedys. And they continue to manipulate America’s Blacks today as the Kennedys did in yesteryear. Yesterday, the currency of pimping and manipulating American Blacks was civil rights. Today, that currency is ObamaPhones, ObamaCare, and the entitlement state.



And, like the Kennedys did back then, they continue to laugh at the Blacks all the way to the bank . . . and the Senate and the White House.



You know datz right!

The Kennedy Assassination: An American Turning Point

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An interesting article from http://www.ucg.org/ about the anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. This follows this post about ignoring Thanksgiving to get to Christmas. For a free magazine subscription or to get the book shown for free click HERE! or call 1-888-886- 8632.   The Kennedy Assassination: An American Turning Point



article by Darris McNeely





This November marks 50 years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. The news stunned the nation and the world. November 22, 1963, marked a turning point for America. Those who remember the day are still trying to understand what it meant.







Source: WikimediaI remember the moment and where I was when I heard the news. I remember what the weather was like that day. I remember who told me, and I can still hear the shock and anxious tone in her voice: "Did you hear that President Kennedy was killed?"



I was a 12-year-old junior high school student, and it was the last thing I ever expected to hear. Presidential assassinations were something you read about in a history book. Yes, Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated long ago, but surely not someone of our time and place.



What did this mean for our country—and what would it mean for our future?



A long, sad weekend

We began to watch a piece of living history play out that weekend. Gradually details become known. It was the first big news event of the time that caused us to hang on every word of the news commentators. We stared at the fuzzy black-and-white images of first Dallas, and then the arrival in Washington that night of Air Force One, which carried the body of the slain president as well as his successor, now President Lyndon Johnson. The coffin, the widow, the grieving family—all were confirmations the grisly event had indeed occurred.



A horse-drawn caisson bearing the flag-draped coffin made its way from the White House to the Capitol to Arlington Cemetery over the next three days. The steady muffled drum beat moved the world's dignitaries through the streets of the capital. We were stunned when we heard on that Sunday that accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was shot and killed in Dallas while being transferred between jails—another seemingly senseless act that was not fully understood.



Finally, on the sunny Monday afternoon, the body was laid to rest, and Jacqueline Kennedy lit the eternal flame that still burns today at the grave site. Those four days were a blur as I look back from a perspective of 50 years. As the dust settled and we learned more, we sometimes discovered we understood even less.



A special government commission concluded Kennedy's death was the act of one man acting alone. Ideas that there was a larger tangled web of conspiracy behind the assassination quickly sprang to life. The suspicion that others, even other gunmen, were involved has never been fully resolved for some. Perhaps it matters little now. Most of the main characters in that drama are dead. So much has happened since that day. So much has changed.



A 50-year assessment

But, again, what did this mean for America? Why is it important to remember and learn? A 50-year span in the Bible would mark a time of the year of Jubilee, a year of complete release of debts and a resetting of the economics of the nation. Fifty years is a good place to take an assessment and mark some key generational lessons from one time to another.



For the baby boomer generation, the killing of John Kennedy seems to mark a period of social change that defines our life. There was the America before November 22 and the America after November 22. This singular event marks a moment when comfortable assumptions about the world and life were altered just enough to allow the changes hanging around the fringes of society to come full center, ushering in the sweeping social changes of the 1960s.



If the young charismatic president could be killed in the streets of a major American city, what did that mean for our lives? If life could be ended so tragically, so suddenly—the leader of the free world gunned down—then anything could happen to anyone. All things could change randomly without purpose. Life, many came to conclude, should be lived for the moment without thought for tomorrow.



Looking back, we can mark a number of features that changed the social landscape. One was the sexual revolution of the 1960s. The birth control pill had been around for a few years. This easy-to-use and reliable contraceptive pretty well prevented pregnancy. Its availability underlay the new sexual revolution, the period of "free love" that spawned a whole subculture of promiscuity.



Barriers went down. Behavior that was at least tempered by a moral code became open, accepted and a part of the fabric of life. And the problem was exacerbated by two landmark Supreme Court decisions in 1962 and 1963 to ban prayer and Bible reading in public schools.



Following the expulsion of God from American classrooms, the push for sexual freedom eventually led to abortion rights and then on to the politicizing of sexual orientation with the gay rights agendas of today. Where was the tipping point? It's hard to say. But looking back at a 50-year period, one can trace the thread of change and see its faint origins. The state of morality in America today was not always what we see. Many of us have lived long enough to see the change.



My comment to today's young generation that does not have the perspective of the past 50 years is this:



Look at why past generations tried to lift society to high levels by teaching and publicly endorsing a standard of behavior based on a Christian biblical code. It was to protect families and individuals from the effects of destructive personal behavior.



Society is better when families are intact. Families are better when the father is in the home supporting and honoring the mother. This makes the children secure and gives them better chances for success in life.



Every family study of the past 50 years shows the detrimental impact of divorce, one-parent families and children born out of wedlock. Every perspective of the family the past 50 years has seen a decline from the model God set in place in Scripture to guide the family in creating a strong, stable society.



Decline in government

I have lived long enough to see another major shift. It is the plummeting respect for governing institutions, laws and people who serve in high office.



The youthful and charismatic John Kennedy, despite his failings, was viewed as a bold, inspiring and visionary leader. His successor upon his death, Lyndon Johnson, lacked the same persona and air about him. Johnson embroiled America in the Vietnam War, and public backlash kept him from seeking a second term in office. The next president, Richard Nixon, had to resign in disgrace after lying to cover up his knowledge of the tawdry affair called Watergate.



Government in America today has reached a level of mediocrity that imperils its standing as the leading nation in the world. Massive government debt accumulated over 50 years threatens not only the nation's role as the preeminent economic power but its role as the leading military power in the world.



Politicians are unable or unwilling to effectively deal with the economic troubles that impact health care, retirement and economic stability. Confidence in leadership in 2013 seems at such a low point that it would take many years and a new level of competence to erase the effect of recent decades.



Fifty years later the leadership of this great nation is in a sad condition. Problems of debt, immigration, gender politics and social breakdown stare us in the face, and no one in leadership can sound a clear call to action that would lead us from the brink of collapse back to a position of stability with positive hope for the future.



All this did not begin on or because of November 22, 1963. No single event can always tag the problem or the solution. What arises is a zeitgeist or spirit of an age, defining how people are and think during a period. If it's ultimately self-destructive, this can, if not reversed, eventually kill a people.



Just as population levels can reach such a low point that it becomes impossible to recover and decline is inevitable, so a spiritual condition can arise and become so deeply ingrained that a collapse will occur unless deep change—on the order of national repentance as called for in the Bible—takes place. Fifty years on from the assassination of John F. Kennedy, we are at that place.



Why pick this event?

Choosing President Kennedy's assassination as marking a turning point in time is not done at random. This event defines a period in American history that will be studied by future generations as the time when seeds of a bitter harvest were sown. It will be seen as the time when the singular great nation of history, the United States of America, began to falter and fail under a growing burden of sin.



Like the ancient nation of Israel, which broke covenant with God and rejected what was good, we have sown the seeds of our destruction. We have erected idols of status, celebrity, fame and self in place of the laws and teachings of God the Creator. On that day in Dallas we lost our innocence and embarked on our own paths of destruction. It has taken us five decades of further stumbling to get to this point.



The prophet Hosea spoke God's words to the people of Israel at a similar moment in their story:



"Sound the alarm! The enemy descends like an eagle on the people of the Lord, for they have broken my covenant and revolted against my law. Now Israel pleads with me, 'Help us, for you are our God!' But it is too late. The people of Israel have rejected what is good, and now their enemies will chase after them" (Hosea 8:1-3 [1] Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

[2] Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

[3] Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.





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Today, America's enemies hover around our fortified walls and call for our downfall. That is what the war on terror is all about. Terrorists plot to kill our citizens, whether on our soil or in our foreign embassies. They wish us ill. Whether out of envy, fear or ignorance of who we are and what we stand for, they plot our demise. Like a predator from the sky, they swoop down and inflict another wound. And God says it's because we have revolted against His law.



These are strong words to consider. These words define the core of our problem—we have broken and defied the law of God. So we call out for help, but the answers don't come.



Hosea continues: "They have planted the wind and will harvest the whirlwind. The stalks of grain wither and produce nothing to eat. And even if there is any grain, foreigners will eat it. The people of Israel have been swallowed up; they lie among the nations like an old discarded pot. Like a wild donkey looking for a mate, they have gone up to Assyria.



"The people of Israel have sold themselves —sold themselves to many lovers. But though they have sold themselves to many allies, I will now gather them together for judgment. Then they will writhe under the burden of the great king" (verses 7-10, NLT).



Most people in America today would scoff at the idea of this generation being called to account in a judgment from God. Yet could it be possible that this generation has "planted the wind" and will "harvest the whirlwind," eating the bitter stalks of withered grain?



What does it mean?

Fifty years on from the killing of President Kennedy, what can we learn? Here is what you should consider. America, and for that matter the English-speaking nations of Great Britain, Australia and Canada, face a defining moment with their place in the world. Their time in history is changing. They "lie among the nations" discarded and discounted by the measurements that matter—godly righteousness and obedience to the Ten Commandments.



While our affluent lifestyle continues—and only God knows how long that will continue—there is still time for you to consider your life before Him and turn to Him in heartfelt change, what the Bible calls repentance.



Use this time yet before you to consider what you read here in The Good News. Prove what we teach and say. Compare it with the Bible. Take this message personally and ask what God is saying to you as you read this article in this magazine at this point in your life.



And to see the fact of societal decline even more clearly, take an honest look at the quality and condition of your community and your world. Things are getting worse, and the worst is yet to come.



But you can improve your life. You can learn the lessons of recent history and make decisions in your life that will reverse the decline you may be experiencing. You are responsible for your life, and you alone can change!

50th anniversary of the death of Jackie Kennedy OR NYT: "Dallas’s Role in Kennedy’s Murder"

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A pair of timely posts from http://isteve.blogspot.com about the anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. This follows this post about what diversity groups are doing to ruin the U.S. Navy. In the meantime, you can get more involved if you like here and read an interesting book HERE.  

50th anniversary of the death of Jackie Kennedy


http://isteve.blogspot.com/2013/11/50th-anniversary-of-death-of-jackie.html
Who can forget this tragic frame from Abraham Zapruder's home movie shot in Dallas on 11/22/63, moments before the First Lady was run over by the press bus?

And who can forget the highlights of Jack Kennedy's five terms in the White House?


- August 1964: the Kennedy-Connally ticket elected by acclamation as Goldwater-Miller withdraw in sympathy.
- The withdrawal of all American soldiers from Vietnam in 1964? (Too bad about the last American troop killed in action, Pfc. Cassius Clay.)
- The Cultural Revolution of 1965 when Chairman Jack mobilized the energies of America's youth with his Spare Change zero interest loans and Head West federal gas stamps for anyone under 25 wanting to check out the scene in San Francisco?
- The successful nationalization and federal coordination of the music industry?
- JFK's galvanizing speech at the Woodstock festival declaring war on Great Britain to liberate the Catholics of Northern Ireland and give America's young people a war of their own?
- The failed protest movement by elderly WASPs?
- The fourth Kennedy-Nixon presidential debate in 1976?
You can relive all these fond memories, and many more, in the
Grand Fifth Term Inaugural Issue
JFK's First 6,000 Days
of the February, 1977 edition of National Lampoon
And from the Letters-from-the-Editor column:
By Steve Sailer      

NYT: "Dallas’s Role in Kennedy’s Murder"

From the New York Times, leapfrogging loyalties at their most lunatic:

The City With a Death Wish in Its Eye

Dallas’s Role in Kennedy’s Murder

By JAMES McAULEY



FOR 50 years, Dallas has done its best to avoid coming to terms with the one event that made it famous: the assassination of John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.

That’s because, for the self-styled “Big D,” grappling with the assassination means reckoning with its own legacy as the “city of hate,” the city that willed the death of the president.



It will miss yet another opportunity this year. ...

But once again, spectacle is likely to trump substance: not one word will be said at this event about what exactly the city was in 1963, when the president arrived in what he called, just moments before his death, “nut country.” ...

Those “men of Dallas” — men like my grandfather, oil men and corporate executives, self-made but self-segregated in a white-collar enclave in a decidedly blue-collar state — often loathed the federal government at least as much as, if not more than, they did the Soviet Union or Communist China. ...

For those men, Kennedy was a veritable enemy of the state, which is why a group of them would commission and circulate “Wanted for Treason” pamphlets before the president’s arrival and fund the presciently black-rimmed “Welcome Mr. Kennedy” advertisement that ran in The Dallas Morning News on the morning of Nov. 22. It’s no surprise that four separate confidants warned the president not to come to Dallas: an incident was well within the realm of imagination.

The wives of these men — socialites and homemakers, Junior Leaguers and ex-debutantes — were no different; in fact, they were possibly even more extreme.

(After all, there’s a reason Carol Burnett pulls a gun on Julie Andrews at the end of the famous “Big D” routine the two performed before the assassination in the early 1960s. “What are ya,” she screams, pulling the trigger, “some kinda nut?!”)

In the years before the second wave of the women’s movement, many of these women, affluent but frustrated in their exclusive neighborhoods like Preston Hollow and Highland Park, turned to politics as a means of garnering the validation they were otherwise denied. With time and money at their disposal, they would outdo their husbands, one another and even themselves. ...

And in the annals of my own family history, it was my charming grandmother, not some distant relation without a Neiman Marcus charge card, who nevertheless saw fit to found the “National Congress for Educational Excellence,” an organization that crusaded against such things as depictions of working women in Texas textbooks and the distribution of literature on homosexuality in Dallas public schools.

In a photograph taken not long after the assassination, my grandmother smiles a porcelain smile, poised and lovely in psychedelic purple Pucci, coiffure stacked high in what can only be described as a hairway to heaven. Her eyes, however, are intent, fixed on a target — liberalism, gender equality, gays.

Dallas is not, of course, “the city that killed Kennedy.” Nor does the city in which the president arrived 50 years ago bear much resemblance to Dallas today, the heart of a vibrant metroplex of 6.7 million people, most of whom have moved from elsewhere and have little or no connection to 1963.

But without question, these memories — and the remnants of the environment of extreme hatred the city’s elite actively cultivated before the president’s visit — have left an indelible mark on Dallas, the kind of mark that would never be left on Memphis or Los Angeles, which were stages rather than actors in the 1968 assassinations of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.

For the last 50 years, a collective culpability has quietly propelled the city to outshine its troubled past without ever actually engaging with it. ...

But those are transient triumphs in the face of what has always been left unsaid, what the now-defunct Dallas Times Herald once called the “dark night of the soul,” on which the bright Texas sun has yet to rise. The far right of 1963 and the radicalism of my grandparents’ generation may have faded in recent years, they remain very much alive in Dallas. ...

This year Dallas has a chance to grapple with the painful legacy of 1963 in public and out loud. Unfortunately, that’s unlikely to happen, although the city did quietly host a symposium on whether it really deserved to be labeled “the city of hate” earlier this month.

But when the national cameras start rolling on Nov. 22, Dealey Plaza, the abandoned, almost spectral site of the assassination and now of the commemoration, will have been retouched in a fresh coat of literal and figurative white paint. Cosmetics seem to be all we can expect.



I was under the impression that President Kennedy was assassinated by a Communist named Lee Harvey Oswald; evidently, I was misinformed. Instead, it must have been a giant right-wing conspiracy.


In the January 14, 2008 issue of The American Conservative, John O'Sullivan, who wrote about the failed 1981-1984 assassinations attempts on Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, and Margaret Thatcher in his 2006 book The President, The Pope, and the Prime Minister, reviewed James Pierseon's new book Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism:

"Piereson's first original (and brilliant) insight is his recognition that what transformed American politics was not the assassination itself but how it was interpreted.


"Kennedy was slain by a devout communist, one-time defector to the Soviet Union, and admirer or Fidel Castro who had kept in touch with Soviet diplomats after returning home from the USSR and was trying to re-defect to Cuba. A common-sense interpretation of the crime would have portrayed Kennedy as an anti-communist martyr of the conservative cause in the Cold War. Such a view would have made the Cold War -- rather than civil rights -- the central issue in U.S. politics... But such an account would have also been contrary to the emerging "spirit of the age," which dictated to commentators a very different analysis.

"Before anyone knew the identity of Kennedy's assassin, his death was at once and widely attributed in media speculations to 'extremists' and 'bigots' on the Right. ... But that conviction hardly changed once it became known that the assassin was a communist. To be sure, the newspapers dug into Oswald's career as a defector very thoroughly. But the editorials and opinion columns, their television equivalents, and the comments of the liberal and cultural leaders repeatedly and passionately blamed the assassination on something called 'extremism,' which was disconnected from America in general and to the radical Right in particular. ... It soon became conventional wisdom that all Americans bore a share of the blame for the bigotry, intolerance, and hate that had struck down the president. John F. Kennedy in death became a martyr for the cause of civil rights -- a cause to which in life he had shown a prudent political coolness. ...

"Piereson's second great contribution is to establish that Mrs. Kennedy herself, in the very depths of her grief, was signally responsible for inventing and spreading this misinterpretation and lifting it to the level of myth.

... These questions were answered when Mrs. Kennedy learned that the lone Oswald had killed her husband. She then complained, "He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. It had to be some silly little communist. It even robs his death of any meaning."

"Even before the misinterpretation had become current, she had intuitively grasped both its main features and the unfortunate fact that reality did not quite measure up to them. In her arrangements for the funeral and her selection of those speaking at the various memorial services, she ensured that the misinterpretation would be the dominant theme. Finally, by dictating to Theodore White the story that Kennedy had often ended his day listening to songs from his favorite musical, "Camelot," and by insisting that it must remain in White's article over the skepticism of his editors at Life magazine, she lifted the misinterpretation to the level of myth...

... "Observers attentive to purely political signs -- votes, laws, opinion polls -- were inevitably late to notice this cultural shift. But a woman of fashion, who was also politically knowledgeable, was able to sense it from the surrounding atmosphere. ...

"To their surprise, however, as the radicals [in the late 1960s] rushed forward with their battering rams, the liberals opened the gates and surrendered. How could they resist? If America had killed Kennedy, the liberalism was merely a smiley face painted on a System of racist and sexist oppression. ... For a decade or so after November 1963, liberalism and its institutions were convulsed by disputes, entering the maelstrom as pragmatic, patriotic, and problem-solving bodies, and emerging from it as perfectionist, utopian, anti-American ones, secretly anxious to punish the American majority for its sins rather than solve its problems."
By Steve Sailer