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THE POLITICS OF BLACKNESS: "Unsung Heroes-Frances Rice and the National Black Republican Association |
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Written by BARBARA HOWARD
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 How do you climb a mountain and dream of reaching new heights? Only with God’s graces flowing like a fountain and His precious love covering you all your days and all your nights.
It takes stepping out on faith to walk on “the road less traveled.” To stand out from the crowd.
And that’s what Frances Rice does every day. Rice is the chairman of the National Black Republican Association, nationalblackrepublicans.com, which she founded in 2005.
“The National Black Republican Association (NBRA) is dedicated to promoting the traditional values of the black community which are in concert with the core Republican Party philosophy of strong families, personal responsibility, quality education and equal opportunities for all,” according to the chairman’s message on the website.
Rice further writes, “Our vision is to help black Americans become power players in the political arena and move into our ownership society, emphasizing small business and home ownership.”
Lofty goals for any politically astute person. Yet being the chairman of the National Black Republican Association has its challenges.
She has been assailed in the media, even receiving death threats – all for telling the truth.
For example, when the NBRA made a public service announcement (PSA) that said, “Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican,” Mrs. Rice was blasted in the black and liberal white media.
She wrote other articles, such as Democrats Dupe Blacks About Minimum Wage, Democrats Hijacked GOP’s Civil Rights Record, A Black Republican Wrote The NAACP’s National Anthem and Simple Sambo and Ignorant Mammy: That’s how Democrats view Blacks (how “Democrats, who claim that they care about diversity, use despicable racial stereotypes …to slur black professionals, such as Dr. Condoleezza Rice and Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele.’’
But all hell broke loose after Rice wrote another article that drew historical connections between the Ku Klux Klan and the Democratic Party.
She wrote that this ugly fact about the Democrat Party is detailed in the book, A Short History of Reconstruction, (Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1990) by Dr. Eric Foner, the renowned liberal historian who is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University.
“Democrats … did not hide their connections to the Ku Klux Klan. Georgia-born Democrat Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan wrote on page 21 of the September 1928 edition of the Klan’s The Kourier Magazine, “I have never voted for any man who was not a regular Democrat. My father … never voted for any man who was not a Democrat. My grandfather was …the head of the Ku Klux Klan in reconstruction days…. My great-grandfather was a life-long Democrat…. My great-great-grandfather was…one of the founders of the Democratic Party.”
Frances Rice is a hero whose courage lets her tell the truth in the face of lies masquerading under the perception of truth.
Barbara Howard is president of Barbara Howard & Associates, a public relations, media and governmental relations firm in North Miami Beach. She can be reached at 305-940-6674 or
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