VOLUME XIII, ISSUE 3 We are “Growing Candidates” throughout this Spring and Summer with a final touch this October! J u n e 2 0 1 0 G RO W I N G C A N D I D A T E S r . W ayne Perryman, aformer newspaper publisher and radio talk show host, will be our speaker at our Auction/F undraiser this October. Currently, as a fact - finding investigator in discrim- ination cases for the plaintiff , Rev. Perryman devotes much ofhis time serving his church and the inner -city community. For his ongoing work as acommunity activist, Rev. Perryman has received commendations from members of the United States Congress, former Washington State governor Boo th Gardner , and former Seattle mayor Charles Royer. In addition to this recognition, Perryman’ s work with children, professional athletes, gangmembers, and major corporations has resulted in local, national and international media coverage. Dr . Perryman has a new book out called“Whites Blacks & Racist Democrats” The Untold History of Race & Politics W ithin the Democratic Party From 1792-2009 June 5th Join the Gig Harbor Republican Women as we participate in the 2010 Maritime Gig Festival Parade. June 10th-June 12th Washington State Republican Party Convention in Vancouver, WA. June 16th GHRW Monthly Meeting 11:30am-1pm at the Inn at Gig Harbor. Guest speaker: Jan Angel, House Representative Pos 1. Other candidates will be given recognize d: Congressional candidates Doug Cloud and Jesse L. Y oung; Doug Richards for House Representative, Marty McClendon for State Senate, Claire Sussman for P Dist. Ct. Pos 2, Frank Dacca for P Dist. Ct. Pos 3, Stan Flemming. Larry Wingard, and Bill Sehmel for P Council Dist. 7. RSVP before June 9 to the GHRW 1st VP, Beckie Krantz,by email at [email protected]or call her at 253-226-6283. Please state whether you are ordering the optional $11.50 buffet lunch. Auction/Fundraiser This October D H e l p i n g u r C a n d i d a t e G o w
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r. Wayne Perryman, a former newspaperpublisher and radio talk
show host, will be our speaker atour Auction/Fundraiser thisOctober. Currently, as a fact-finding investigator in discrim-
ination cases for the plaintiff ,Rev. Perryman devotes much of his time serving his church andthe inner-city community.
For his ongoing work as a community activist, Rev.Perryman has receivedcommendations from membersof the United States Congress,former Washington State
governor Booth Gardner, andformer Seattle mayor CharlesRoyer.
In addition to this recognition,Perryman’s work with children,professional athletes, gang members, and majorcorporations has resulted inlocal, national and internationalmedia coverage.
Dr. Perryman has a new bookout called“Whites Blacks &Racist Democrats” The Untold History of Race &Politics Within the DemocraticParty From 1792-2009
June 5th
Join the Gig Harbor Republican Women
as we participate in the 2010 Maritime
Gig Festival Parade.
June 10th-June 12th
Washington State Republican Party
Convention in Vancouver, WA.
June 16th
GHRW Monthly Meeting11:30am-1pm at the Inn at Gig Harbor.
Guest speaker: Jan Angel, House
Representative Pos 1. Other candidates
will be given recognized: Congressional
candidates Doug Cloud and Jesse L.
Young; Doug Richards for House
Representative, Marty McClendon for
State Senate, Claire Sussman for P Dist.
Ct. Pos 2, Frank Dacca for P Dist. Ct.Pos 3, Stan Flemming. Larry Wingard,
was asked to review andanalyze Obama’s inspirational and
fascinating speech on race. Many
believe it is one of the best speeches
since Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream”
speech, and I agree. But I have one
problem. He missed the opportunity
to set the record straight on two
issues that he brought up during his
speech.
“His first missed opportunity
came one minute and thirtyfour
seconds into his speech, when he
referred to the Declaration of
Independence and how it was
‘stained by this nation’s original sin
of slavery…’
“Although he follows up and
talks about how slavery “divided
the Colonies and brought theconvention to a stalemate,” he
failed to point out that as a nation
we were always divided over the
issue of slavery from the time the
first slave ship arrived in
Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to the
end of the Civil War 246 years later.
“He should have told the
audience, that there has never been auniversal endorsement of slavery by
the white citizens of this country and
that white America has always been
split over the issue of slavery. He
could have mentioned that 175 years
before the Emancipation
Proclamation was signed, the
Mennonite Quakers (white folks) of
Germantown, Pennsylvania passed
an anti-slavery resolution in 1688. It
was the first formal protest against
slavery in the Western Hemisphere.
Under this resolution, Quakers who participated in the slave trade were
threatened with expulsion.
“He should have mentioned
that in 1711, sixty -five years before
the Declaration of Independence
was signed, colonies passed various
pieces of legislation to outlaw
slavery, but their laws were
overturned by the British Crown.He should have said, long before
the Civil War, the issue of slavery
was so divisive that whites fought
and killed one another in
opposition to and in support of
slavery. Such was the case in
Congress and Kansas. In 1856,
while white citizens fought on the
streets of Lawrence, Kansas, white
Congressmen literally had fist
fights on the floor of the Senate.
Whites tried to include anti-slavery
language in the Declaration of
Independence, they debated the
issue during the Constitutional
Convention, and when both sides
refused to give in, white churches
split, white denominations split,
white families split ( some
supporting the Union and others
the Confederacy ), political partiessplit and eventually our nation
split, which resulted in the Civil
War - and as Lincoln stated in his
June 16, 1858 speech, America
remained: ‘A House Divided.’
“Since the facts clearly show that we were a “divided nation”
rather than a “racist nation,”Senator Obama should have toldhis listening audience that by 1835the anti-slavery movement hadover 435,000 members and these white abolitionists not only foughtand gave their lives to end slavery,they continued their fight after theCivil War and: ( a ) They passed threeConstitutional Amendments to endslavery, give blacks citizenship andthe right to vote;
( b ) They ratified these Amendments with the approval of the white citizens in three-fourthsof the states;
( c ) They successfully financed andstarted many or our historically Black Colleges which bare their
names.
“And in 1909, they started the
NAACP.
“Long before Lincoln took office
in 1861, whites had outlawed
slavery in Rhode Island, Vermont,
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Maine, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Kansas,Oregon, California and Illinois.