In the final weeks of the 1998 congressional campaign, Bill Clinton used several political addresses before predominantly black congregations to insinuate that the Republican congressional majority was motivated by hatred of black Americans. At the same time, the Democratic National Committee ran radio advertisements that said, in so many words, that every time a vote was cast for a Republican candidate, a black church would go up in flames. This campaign of misrepresentation became an exercise in self-parody during the impeachment struggle, with Bill Clinton's partisans insisting that his critics were acting from disguised racist motives. As a black conservative American, I can attest from personal experience that the Left excels at the politics of race hatred. I spent 17 years as an activist in the Democrat Party before I came to the conclusion that the left wing that controls the Party is motivated not by a love of the oppressed, but rather by hatred for the values I cherish and those who defend them.
Hatred is the essence of communism.
Those billboards were placed in support of Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign. The Jackson campaign was using exactly the same rhetoric, and the same race-based politics that had been used so successfully by Lenin's German disciple, Adolf Hitler. Not since slavery have blacks had to endure such strong masters. It is a painful irony that descendants of the very people who were brought to America as slaves centuries ago are now being exploited in an effort to enslave Americans of all races, colors, and creeds under the yoke of socialism. Socialism is based upon the redistribution of wealth from the productive to the parasitical.