NYC Republicans For Obama?‏

NEW YORK CITY REPUBLICANS FOR OBAMA?

The unanticipated success of Senator Barack Obama’s campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination has positioned the new generation party leader as the presumptive candidate in November. The meteoric rise of the young legislator from Illinois to national prominence and presidential stardom, is generating political pandemonium as new voters engage the elective process and opposing partisans are facilitating a bandwagon effect.

Among the new converts to Obama’s political express is Gary James, a leader of the grassroots activist wing of the Republican Party in New York. James voted for Senator McCain in the presidential primary, and endorsed the Senator in his capacity as national chairman of TheGrandOldParty.org, a website to be formally launched in the fall. James announced that he has reconsidered his presidential endorsement of McCain and is now in support of Obama for president during a directors meeting of the GOP initiative.

James said, “After serious consideration I have decided to work on behalf of Senator Obama’s election to the presidency of the United States. I have discussed my resignation as national chairman with members of the executive committee, and it has been tendered effective immediately. I intend to write on behalf of the candidate on a voluntary basis, speak, organize and work directly with Democrats, independents and like minded Republicans.”

James continued, “I remain an advocate of a 30 / 70 (Republican/Democratic) percent split of the Black vote as a means to establish political leverage power in the community. However, I realize that 30 / 70 is a goal to be achieved in the near future because it is not achievable is presidential election 2008, as a practical political matter. Therefore, I will work for Obama’s election because his candidacy represents a political paradigm shift as well as a fundamental realignment in the Democratic and Republican Parties.”



He concluded, “I still like Senator McCain and continue to believe that he is an exceptional presidential nominee for the Republican Party, such as it is… Unfortunately, the Republican Party district leadership infrastructure in New York City in particular is compromised to the Democrats, and the Republican Party brand is effectively hi-jacked by a sophisticated conservative political splinter group. McCain the political maverick and independent political vote getter has the right stuff, but he is unable to walk on the political water given the current atmospherics.”

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James reiterated his unequivocal support for Keisha Morrisey, a new generation Harlem resident now considering to run as a Republican candidate for the New York State Assembly. Ms. Morrisey is a former GOP candidate for the New York State Assembly and the New York City Council in 2002 and 2003 respectively.

Keisha Morrisey said, “I support Senator McCain and I hope to be able to campaign in Harlem with him, if I am successful in getting the Republican Party nomination.”

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Alton Chase, former Republican Party district leader in the Bronx, and chairman of the New York City Chapter of TGOP said, “Gary was inspired by the Obama tsunami but he was motivated by the fact that the local GOP leadership continuing to ignore the challenge and opportunity for political investment banking in the Black community. The party resists a forward moving political trajectory.”

Chase continued, “Gary raised the fact of Republican Party intransigence at an executive committee meeting and proposed the idea of ‘New York City Republicans for Obama,’ but the vote split. Supporters of Gary’s idea said that they may form an Obama support group called ‘purple people,’ a concept of blending red state and blue state dichotomy as a national election initiative.

“But apart from the internal dynamic relative to the Obama phenomenon,” Chase concluded, “there were existential forces influencing Gary that may have pushed him over the top politically. He was being lobbied consistently by an old and respected friend by the name of Ron Myers. As I understand, Ron is associated with the Obama campaign and is raising money on his behalf. I think that his friend Ron may have closed him. I suspect that others will follow Gary’s lead.

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Has Race Prejudice Become Sophisticated?‏

This presidential election season comes at the closing of the first decade of the twenty-first century and has found American politics and society at an apparent fork in the road. Interestingly enough, American politics and society faced similar challenges moving forward, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The respective role of the Democratic and Republican political parties has reversed between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in the framework of the reality on the ground in both scenarios of the respective Democratic and Republican Parties. At this early stage of the twenty-first century it is difficult to ascertain the trajectory of America’s critical mass at this dubious fork in the road juncture.

A seminal challenge of the nineteenth century which animated both the Black and White “race” in America was the abolition of slavery. The civil war history speaks volumes relative to the political, economic, and social movement of Black and White Americans working together to insure the founding proclamation that all men are created equal with certain inalienable rights is achieved.

Following the end of the civil war, the civil rights of Black Americans could only be guaranteed by the imposition of federal troops in some southern states. This period is popularly known as Reconstruction and lasted for about a decade. During Reconstruction, Black Americans achieved unprecedented advances in business, politics, and the professions that remain unrivaled by the standards of today.

The story of how and why federal troops were withdrawn from protecting the rights of The fortunes of Black American citizens, as part of the great compromise, is perhaps a metaphor for the events that followed and continue. Intimidation, terrorism, violence, murder, lynching, and odious political machinations ruled the subsequent years. The era of racial segregation ensued punctuated by abject poverty and Jim Crow laws.

The Great War and World War II provided an opportunity for Black Americans to transcend their practical circumstance and serve in the armed forces with valor and distinction. The loyalty of Black Americans was tested and confirmed during World Wars I and II, as well as in the Korean conflict, despite the practical scenario on the ground of their respective neighborhoods. However, because of pervasive poverty and oppression, there was a growing sensibility that enough is enough, which correlated with the murder of young Emit Till, Brown verses the Board of Education, and other developments of the time.

The modern civil rights movement was inspired by a historic pattern of blatant economic, political, and social deprivation as well as violence against Black Americans that reached the boiling point. Ultimately, white Americans engaged the struggle to help Blacks achieve their legitimate aspirations as citizens, and ensure that their civil rights were enforced. This was the second great Black and White political coalition mimicking the first civil rights movement. Desegregation of schools, integration of public accommodations, voting rights legislation, and affirmative action statute are examples of advances and victories of the acclaimed modern civil rights movement.

The assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, the titular leader of the civil rights movement, coupled with the apparent social and political success, marked an unceremonious end to the popular political movement. Nevertheless, the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that we should be judged by the quality of our character not the color of our skin has endured.

Regrettably, the apparent social and political success of the twentieth century’s modern civil rights movement seems to be a metaphor of the auspicious nineteenth century civil rights movement. Its’ promise has eluded the community at large. Hence, the butterfly that emerged from the modern civil rights movement has lost its’ wings and is a caterpillar once again seeking a venue for the hope of political maturation.

Accordingly, the verisimilitude associated with the advent of Senator Barack Obama as a credible and viable candidate for President of the United States, may have unwrapped the American racial pathology. Anecdotal evidence suggests that after Senator Obama demonstrated his capacity to raise millions in campaign funds, in addition to his political rhetorical skills, some among the White American demographic have become malignantly fearful. In this context, the specter of an Obama presidency is a worse-case-scenario political nightmare that must be avoided by any means necessary.

Initially, the Senator very skillfully managed to navigate his campaign beyond the racial divide, despite the assault of negative rumors and innuendoes leveled by his political opponents. Also, the insertion of controversial and incendiary sound-bites associated with his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, coupled with political questions posed by the “forth estate,” required a direct answer from the candidate. Senator Obama responded with a national televised presentation on race that was assessed by many as nothing short of a brilliant, effective way of putting the question to the American people.

As the campaign for the Democratic nomination enters the final stretch, Obama has been able to maintain his lead in the delegate count and the legitimate popular vote. However, the fear-mongering and race-based attacks against Senator Obama and his wife are on a virulent crescendo. Obviously, it remains to be seen who will be the party nominee at the end of the day. Concomitantly, the protracted and racially divisive tactics and subtext of the nomination process is likely to ensure a pyrrhic climax for Democrats moving forward to the November general election.

The Democratic Party is the oldest political party in America and is arguably the most colorful, in the context of its’ transitional political odyssey. In the nineteenth century, the Democratic Party was pro-slavery and facilitated the establishment of the infamous KKK, who terrorized and lynched Black folk as a function of their normal operation. In the twentieth century, the political paradigm changed from conservative Democrat to liberal, and the party merged with the unfolding civil rights movement. As a practical political matter, the Democratic Party is currently positioned as the party of modern civil rights.

In deed there is substantial political irony relative to the evolution of the Democratic Party politics, vis-à-vis, Black Americans. While the jury has not yet returned with a definitive answer to the race issue, we are ever mindful of the current, as well as previous, legacy. On the other hand, the Grand Old Party of President Abraham Lincoln is equally challenged to move beyond its’ propensity toward race-based politics and embrace the rich legacy of its history and bygone age.

There is a groundswell in all quarters regarding this election because of the war, foreign policy, as well as the subliminal racial dimension in the fabric of America’s domestic policy. Many in the Black community suspect that aspects of White America may not be ready for a Black man to be the commander and chief of this great country. Accordingly, the tactics of Senator Obama’s opponents have injected and sustained as race-based political juggernaut, as a last ditch kitchen sink strategy, to awaken the emotions associated with America’s unspoken historical nature.

Both White and Black Americans say that racial prejudice is dormant, strong, and sophisticated in the current domestic and global political vernacular. The political speculation and prognostication about the race dimension has become a feature in the international press. The Times of London published an article on April 24, 2008 under the by line of Anatole Kaletsky, which speaks volumes in itself. The piece was entitled: “Yes it’s politically incorrect but race matters”. Subtitled, “The Democrats must admit it: Obama would lose to McCain.

An interesting quote in the body of the two page single space article reads that: “Mrs. Clinton will now carry on with her campaign is not probable but essential. The voting in Pennsylvania confirms that she has a much better chance than Obama of winning the White House for the Democrats. According to the Associated Press exit polls published yesterday, 16 percent of White Democratic voters considered race an important factor in the Presidential election and 43 percent of these said they would either vote Republican or not at all, if Mr. Obama were the Democratic nominee.”

On the other hand, Obama enjoys overwhelming support from Canadians in his quest to win the White House and believe that he will win the nomination and the Presidency.


Gary James is a freelance writer and political analyst. His second book will be released this summer and his third book will be released in the spring of 2009. For more information contact visit;

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