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Robert of St Louis wrote:
> And white kids have never ever attacked and beaten blacks?  It's just
> not in their genes huh?  Ignore our 200 years of slavery, beatings,
> hangins and knockn' up black women....with dozens of kids running
> around the plantation, who look like the owner of the BIG HOUSE.
> 

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Reparations - What the Democrats Owe
A Letter from Wayne Perryman

from the office

of

Rev. Wayne Perryman

January 9, 2006

Congressional Black Caucus National Bar Association

NAACP National Urban League

Dr. Cornell West Professor Charles Ogletree

Senator Hillary Clinton Senator Joseph Biden

Senator Barack Obama Senator Edward Kennedy

Senator Joseph Lieberman Senator Barbara Boxer

Senator Pat Roberts Senator Carl Levin

Senator Diane Feinstein Cong. John Conyers

Cong. Jesse Jackson Jr. Cong. Harold Ford

Senator Mary Landrieu Senator Sam Brownback

Senator Bill Frist Cong. Elijah Cummings

Attention Congressional & Community Leaders:

I thought it would only be fitting and proper to provide an explanation 
as to what brought about the Reparations lawsuit against the Democratic 
Party. Before I share with you the chain of events that led to the 
lawsuit, I thought that perhaps I should give you a brief background on 
myself and my past political affiliation.

I am the author of several books, a former radio talk show host, a 
former newspaper publisher, a corporate consultant, a community activist 
and an inner-city minister located in Seattle Washington. In addition to 
working with gang members and professional athletes, I spend my leisure 
time doing research. In 1993, based on personal research, I challenged 
major Christian Publishers and scholars that continued to produce 
publications promoting the Curse of Ham theory (a theory that justified 
slavery from a Christian perspective). My efforts resulted in a public 
apology and the removal of the 400 year old curse theory from all of 
their publications including removing it from the Encyclopedia 
Britannica. My book: The 1993 Trial On The Curse of Ham was based on 
that research.

Most of my adult life I have voted for, and worked with a number of 
Democratic candidates at the local level. In 1996, I served as a member 
of the Washington State Black Clergy to Re-elect President Bill Clinton 
and worked closely with the co-chair. After President Clinton was 
re-elected, I was challenged by a group of young people from our church 
regarding the history of the Democratic Party and their relationship 
with blacks. Their challenge prompted me to devote a considerable amount 
of time researching the subject.

My research included reviewing Congressional Records from 1860 to 
present, reading the works of several renowned history professors (both 
black and white) and looking at the Democratic Platform from the early 
1800�s to 1954. In addition to these documents I reviewed the research 
of those who produced the books: Without Sanctuary, 100 Years of 
Lynchings and added to my library PBS and the History Channel�s series 
on The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow and Reconstruction: The Second Civil 
War. Excerpts from those books and film documentaries were included as 
exhibits in my Reparations lawsuit against the Democratic Party.

The graphic depictions of whites fighting over the private parts of 
black men (penises, fingers, ears) after hanging them and igniting them 
with kerosene, is forever embedded in my mind. I can still hear the 
cries of the victims� wives and children pleading and begging for the 
lives of their loved ones while Democratic national and local elected 
officials joined the crowd and cheered. The lynching of Mary Turner, the 
nine-month pregnant mother was even more horrific and graphic. All of 
these events took place under the banner of �States Rights� in regions 
controlled by Democratic governors, mayors, judges, sheriffs, 
Congressmen and U.S. Senators. Like Dr King, my parents lived through 
those times in Atlanta and I never fully appreciated what they and other 
blacks went through until I had completed my research.

In addition to lynchings and terrorist attacks by the Democrat�s 
terrorist organizations (as revealed in the 1871 Senate hearings), 
Democrats legislated Black Codes, Jim Crow laws and a multitude of other 
repressive legislation at the federal and state levels (and repealed 
other key pieces of Civil Rights legislation) all in an effort to deny 
blacks their rights as citizens. The entire system of racism in America 
was meticulously thought-out and carried-out by a powerful political 
machine. And that political machine according to historians, was the 
Democratic Party - the party of �White Supremacy.�

Based on these findings, I wrote my latest book: Unfounded Loyalty, and 
sent a letter to the DNC requesting that they issue an apology to 
African Americans. In 2005, I sent a second letter to the DNC, again 
requesting an apology (see attached). When the DNC ignored the first 
request, I filed my first lawsuit on December 10, 2004. Prior to my 
letters, members of the Congressional Black Caucus sent former 
Congressman JC Watts the letter below (on January 28, 1999). In that 
letter the Caucus told Mr. Watts and his Republican counterparts 
to:�Clearly and publicly distance themselves from the CCC and any other 
white supremacist, anti-semitic or hate groups�.� In my letter to the 
DNC, I expressed similar sentiments. I told the DNC �An apology is one 
of the only ways modern-day Democrats can distance themselves from the 
party�s racist past while bringing some closure to the African American 
Community.� Instead of apologizing, Howard Dean hired one of the most 
powerful law-firms in the country, to defend the party�s racist past.

Without an apology and repentance there is no way the Democratic Party 
can ever sincerely honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ms Rosa Parks; 
two individuals who literally gave their lives to destroy the racist 
programs, policies and practices that were established by the Democratic 
Party. And without an apology and repentance there is no way the 
Democratic Party can ever respect African Americans. Their past programs 
and practices from slavery through Jim Crow which literally destroyed 
the lives of millions of blacks, was an act of mass murder. And to hire 
an attorney to defend that racist past is not only an official 
endorsement of murder - it is an insult to the entire black race and to 
those whites who gave their lives to eliminate racial injustice. .

I look forward to your response.

Sincerely

Rev. Wayne Perryman