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RUSH: To Chicago and Verlin, thank you for waiting, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush. You have a great show. Okay, now, I don\u2019t want you to take me the wrong way because I am a conservative and I mean that from the bottom of my heart.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But the reason why I never voted Democrat is because I\u2019m aware of my history, and I know what the Democrat Party is about since it was founded. Now, I\u2019ve been voting conservative up until now. Republican up until now. Now, I haven\u2019t voted Democrat yet but the way the Conservative Party, the stands that it\u2019s taking, it\u2019s talking about, ‘Let\u2019s reach back to our forefathers and things of that nature,\u2019 and when I look back at the forefathers, I see the way the Constitution says it, I wasn\u2019t even a man. So how can I relate to what the party is talking about now when it doesn\u2019t relate to me? Now, normally you all say, ‘Let\u2019s just move forward from right here.\u2019 I\u2019m with you on that. But when you start talking about George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and all that type of stuff, I just can\u2019t relate to that — and when I try to debate that with my black friends or whoever I talk to, I lose the argument, because they always throw that in my face. ‘Well, they talking about the Constitution. You weren\u2019t even three-fifths of a man in the Constitution,\u2019 and I lose the argument.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me —<\/p>\n

CALLER: They were slave owners.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Verlin.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I lose the argument.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me jump in here because over the years a bunch of journalists interviewing me have asked me, ‘Do you think you are being a little shallow in not really understanding what the founding of this country means to black people?\u2019 And I said, ‘Well, no, I understand fully what it means, but I don\u2019t know that they know the full history of what happened of the founding. But I also know that now is not the founding and I also know that when we talk about ‘returning to founding principles,\u2019 we\u2019re not talking about returning to slavery. We\u2019re talking about returning to individual liberty.\u2019 Now, let me tell you, Verlin, that at the constitutional convention the whole subject of the Southern states owning slaves was a huge problem. John Adams, no less recognized, it as such, and they almost were unable to put the coalition of the 13 colonies together because of it. The only reason that they acquiesced to it was they had to form a union in order to rebel against the king. When they wrote the Constitution, they provided the mechanism for all of these things that were wrong at the founding to be fixed. This was the first country, the Brits were close behind, to actually get rid of slavery, and we went to war with ourselves over it and 600,000 of our citizens died in the process. So the aspect of slavery in the founding days is our original sin, there\u2019s no question about it, but nobody wants to return to that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. But the whole thing is, is black people — I\u2019m just talking from the perspective of what I hear. Black people want to feel like you care, like America cares, period. Because right now they feel like America doesn\u2019t care and the Democratic Party is the party that always acts like they have the extended helping hand.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. You need to ask these people: What has the Democratic Party done for them in the last 50 years? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, sure thing!<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re still complaining about the same old things, Verlin. The Democrat Party is what\u2019s keeping them down. The Democrat Party is what\u2019s busted up their families.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I understand that. I totally understand all of the points as far as how they used to give the women housing but the man couldn\u2019t be there, so like the government is taking care of the family. I understand that. The Democratic Party were the one that was behind all that. But get me right, now: Public housing and public aid system is for everyone, it\u2019s not just for blacks. But black people started taking advantage of it in like the late sixties and early seventies.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but I\u2019m going to tell you something. My whole view of that is that while the intentions might have been all that wonderful, the results were disastrous. Frankly, I question the intentions. I think the effort of the Democrat Party from the get-go has been to create as many dependent people as possible starting with minorities and continuing now with as many people — I don\u2019t care what race — as possible. That\u2019s what the Democrat Party is all about. And it\u2019s a shame. I mean, it dehumanizes so many people. The Democrat Party and leftism in this country has robbed black people, Hispanics, minorities, all kinds of people of a genuine prosperous future by telling them they live in a horrible country that gives them no chance when all the evidence is to the opposite. I would tell your friends to grow up. It\u2019s not the 1700s. It\u2019s not even 1963 with Bull Connor, who was a Democrat. It\u2019s 2010. We all gotta work together to save the country so that we all don\u2019t end up like everybody else living in a housing project.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Not many people know this. The states outlawed slavery long before the federal government did. In 1804, every northern state had outlawed slavery. But if blacks can\u2019t relate to the Founders, how can they relate to the Democrat Party? It\u2019s the party of slavery, the KKK, secession, segregation. My God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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