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Can the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Reelect Obama?

Byron A. Ellis – March 05, 2009

During the 2008 presidential election candidate Obama received 95% of Black votes, 67% of Hispanics, and 43% of whites. The amount of Jewish votes was insignificant. Obama, however, has decided to ignore the voting statistics and boycott the next session of the United Nations’ World Conference on Racism because Jews lobbied against it.

Hispanics and Blacks have first hand knowledge of racism. However, their support, which was essential in delivering the presidency to Obama, has been expeditiously discounted and traded for a voting block that was reluctant to vote for Obama, and even if they did, they could not impact the outcome of the election.

Blacks and Hispanics want the United States to attend the United Nations’ World Conference on Racism. Not attending is an affront to black and brown people that makes up the Democratic Party base.

The argument is that the draft document singles out Israel for condemnation as a racist nation. And, African countries want nations that participated in the inhumanity of slavery to issue individual apologies and pay reparations.

Israel limits freedom and opportunities to Arabs; under any reasonable scenario such limitation is racism. Moreover, Jewish holocaust survivors rightly sued several of Germany’s largest companies alleging that the firms profited from Nazi-era slave labor. Jews also received Holocaust settlement totaling $1.25 billion dollars from Swiss banks and the Italian firm Asscurazi Generali compensated Holocaust victims for unpaid insurance. So, why would Jews and the Obama administration oppose compensation Black slavery?

Spain, Portugal, England, France, the Colonies, and unscrupulous Arabs profited from the African slave trade. The African holocaust began in 1592 when Spain licensed Gomes Reynal to transport African slave laborers to the Americas; where the Colonies recognized slave labor as a legal institution. Thus, Africans in America were reduced from human status to mere property. For instance, 1669 Virginia’s legislature decreed that they would not punish any slave owner for maltreating or killing a slave.

Thus, history documents the complicity of Western governments in legitimizing African slave labor. Slavery (free labor) was so profitable that during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, the slave trade was extended for an additional twenty years under Article 10, Section 9, of the new constitution of the United States. Clearly, the United States government and other Western nations, established laws to exclude Africans from labor compensation.

And, now the Obama administration is saying to the 79% of Blacks and Hispanics that made his presidency possible that their interest is less important than that of apartheid Israel, whose voting is insignificant. That is a change that ought to be unacceptable to Blacks and Hispanics and an opportunity for the creation of a third viable political party.

Let’s see if in the next election Mr. Obama and the Democratic Party can get elected with votes from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

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