Frances Rice
Black Republican leader Frances Rice runs against the grain of most Democrats when she calls them racist. She doesn’t care. That is her belief and she isn’t backing down. Her “Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican” (Rice article on why MLK was a Republican) billboards angered many on both sides of the aisle. She is still waiting for the Democrats to prove her wrong on the MLK billboards without any challenge to the contrary yet.
She is one woman I respect because she admits the truth about her race’s racist history and it’s connection to the Democrat Party without regret.
The leader of the Sarasota-based National Black Republican Association is a minority within a minority. Not only is she black, she is also a Republican, a member of a party to which fewer than 10 percent of black voters in Florida belong. Her campaigns — including one meant to foil the nomination of the first black presidential candidate, Barack Obama — are best known for their shock value.
Her messages have brought condemnation from Democrats. But they have also sparked a backlash among many Republicans.
When she was criticized for raising billboards in Southwest Florida saying “Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican,” she challenged anyone to sue her if they thought she was wrong. “Let them come into court with their evidence,” Rice said.
When hearing that the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, Jim Greer, had expressed disappointment in her magazine, The Black Republican, which Greer had secured party money to publish, Rice dismissed it with a wave of her hand.
The magazine featured a picture of Ku Klux Klan members burning a cross, with the caption “Every person in this photograph was a Democrat.”
Article titles included “Democrats
embrace their child molesters,” and “Top 10 Democratic sex scandals in Congress,” and “Democrats wage war on God.”
Rice shows no intention of backing down. Her personal history of growing up in poverty under segregation is her fuel.
“This is the first time in my life that I have felt I am actually doing something about what the Democrats have done in the past and are doing now to black people,” Rice said. “If the Democrats had left us alone after the Republicans freed us from slavery we wouldn’t be having this discussion today. They are keeping blacks in virtual slavery.”
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I did a great interview with Frances Rice for my BlogTalkRadio podcast. If you want to hear more from this great woman, click here.
May there be millions more Francis Rices who rise soon.
One thing: She’s on target re: Democrats virtually enslaving blacks.
You wonder, though: Why have so few other blacks ever seen this or acknowledged this?
Is that because of victimhood-meisters Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and their ilk, inlcuding those departed who were of their ilk?
Just curious.
Sure – before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the racist south was primarily “Democratic”, but since that Act, the Republicans found they were able to exploit white fear of the black vote in order to achieve their partisan goals as the party of “Greed Over Principle”, and they co-opted the racist vote. This is old news – time to get on with facing the present.
Mark, that’s simply untrue. You’re parroting an article of faith of the left, which, incidentally has no basis in truth. Take a look at the more recent surveys of voting patterns (based on race) in studies done by the New York Times.
Frances Rice is my hero.
Whether or not you agree with Frances Rice, she marches to her own drummer and lives by her convictions, both of which are admirable traits.
Rock on, Frances Rice!!