Rev. C. L. Bryant

I have never heard of this guy--until I happened to be thumbing through Townhall magazine, the December 2010 issue and found on Page 66 an article entitled Breaking the Shackles. Bryant evidently was what could be described as an NAACP radical. He is now what is known as a Tea Partier, go figure. He is involved in a documentary entitled "Runaway Slave".

I have often thought that our black community has enslaved themselves because they have become politically attached to and controlled by liberal Democrats, and controlled is the key word. They are on the plantation, controlled by a different sort of master. He says, "Race is a great tool that liberals have used for at least 50 years to keep races divided, to keep them subdued and under their control." Tough words from a black Reverend.

He strongly believes that liberal politicians use the black community for votes to keep power and points out that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have provided over the years a lot of votes, but have never received a cabinet position or ambassadorship.

"On the plantation, the masters who actually owned the land, they would provide the clothes, shelter, food, for those who worked the land, for those who worked the plantation. On the plantation, you were told what job you were to do, and you had overseers making certain you did that job." He says that Sharpton and Jackson are the overseers, the liberal Democrat Party is the master.

His final comment, "The tea party, if it is embraced by people of color, people who are downtrodden or people who claim to be downtrodden, believe me, the movement would be something that would lift them up."

I thought I was the only one who thought this way.