Unfounded Loyalty
An in-depth look into the love affair between blacks and the Democrats.

"Many thanks for your generosity in sending me a copy of your book Unfounded Loyalty. I appreciate the accurate and sympathetic use of my own work. Your book offers an important corrective to the assumption that the Democratic Party has been historically the friend of Civil Rights and the party of black voters.For most of the history of the two parties since the pre-Civil War period, the opposite was true, as your book forcefully makes clear. Congratulations on the publication of this important book".

James McPherson
Professor of American History
Princeton University

"Perryman's book, more than any other, provides a framework and a vehicle for both political parties to rethink their civil rights policies toward African Americans. But more importantly, it is an eye opener to those who have compromised their cultural Christian values for party loyalty."

J. Owen Smith
Political Scientist and Afro-American Studies Professor
Cal State Fullerton

"Your book is evidence of a great deal of labor, time, and scholarshipS It is both timely and balanced in its presentation of historical facts and contemporary concepts."

Dr. James D. Kennedy
Senior Pastor of Coral Ridge Ministries
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Wayne Perryman is pointing out some very important facts that are little known and little talked about by members of the Democratic Party and more importantly he is helping to raise awareness in the black community that we need to analyze issues and intelligently rather than blindly follow what is perceived to be tradition.

Dr. Ben S. Carson Sr., MD,
Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery
Professor of Neurological Surgery, Oncology, Plastic Surgery and Pediatrics
John Hopkins School of Medicine

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Purpose of the Book
The purpose of the this book is to neither condemn or endorse either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party, but rather to reveal the truth about the role that each party played in the making of Black History and to recognize the powerful inspiring influence of the Christian church throughout the process

Expected Response
Democrats should apologize for the things they did to blacks and the writers of school text books should apologize to the Christian Community and the Republican Party for not fully disclosing all the things they done for blacks. In the future, hopefully African Americans will be better informed and will hold accountable any political candidate (or political party) that claims they are working on their behalf. African Americans will no longer expect results - they will demand results.

Truths Ignored But Now Explored

The Democrats

Our nation's top historians reveal that the Democratic Party gave us the Ku Klux Klan, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws and other repressive legislation which resulted in the multitude of murders, lynchings, mutilations, and intimidations (of thousands of black and white Republicans). On the issue of slavery: historians say the Democrats gave their lives to expand it, the Republicans gave their lives to ban it.

The Republicans

Regarding the Republican Party, historians report that while Democrats were busy passing laws to hurt blacks, Republicans devoted their time to passing laws to help blacks. Republicans were primarily responsible for the following Civil Rights legislation:

1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2. The 13th Amendment
3. The 14th Amendment
4. The 15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6. The Civil Rights of 1866
7. The Enforcement Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of 1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
11. The Freeman Bureau
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1957
13. The Civil Rights Act of 1960
14. The United State Civil Rights Commission

And gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following
legislation

15. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
17. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
18. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
19. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
20. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
21. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
22. Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
23. Civil Rights Act of 1983
24. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988

Programs By Republicans & their Supporters include:

a. Many of our key traditional Black Colleges are named after Republicans Colleges
b. The Freedman Bureau
c. Historians say that three whites that opposed the Democrat's racist practices, including the lynching of blacks, founded and funded the NAACP

Author's Accountability Proposal

To assure that the black vote is not ignored. The author proposes that every candidate that receives the black vote, must be required to devote two weeks each year doing (physical) community service in the inner city i.e. painting, landscaping, remodeling etc. He further proposes that each of these candidates must submit on a quarterly basis, a report that specifically states what they have done or attempted to do for African Americans during that period. These reports should be printed in community newspapers. The author believes this is the only way to assure accountability.

The War on Rights Continued

On April 9, 1865, the Civil War ended but not the war between the Democrats and Republicans regarding the rights of African Americans. This war continued up through 1960. Over the years, several thousand Black and White Republicans were beaten, lynched - shot and burned to death by the Democrats and their Klan supporters, in an effort to keep them from voting and educating blacks citizens.

After 1877, when Abolitionist activities decreased, Republicans became more concerned with staying alive and staying in office than staying true to their commitment to defend the rights of African Americans. Their previous work on behalf of African Americans was significant and impressive.

It wasn't until 1960 under President Eisenhower did Republicans as a party, realized that their work was incomplete and felt a need to resume their efforts on behalf of African Americans. There was Republican support for every major Civil Rights Bill introduced from from 1960 to 1988. There was not only support, many of the bills were introduced and sponsored by Republicans. Most noteworthy was Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois.

Key Themes of The Book

Highlighting the Democrats' Racist past and the Republicans' quest for equality on behalf of African Americans. On the issue of slavery, the Democrats gave their lives to expand it, the Republicans gave their lives to ban it.

The Abolitionist and Radical Republicans were the true friends of African Americans. They literally laid down their lives to establish and preserve the rights of African Americans.

Blacks need to be more loyal to their God, rather than to their government and or their political party. Blacks need to be more involved in the churches in their communities and the churches need to be more involved with the people in their community. Blacks from all walks of life must support each other not solely in the form of giving finances, but by giving their physical selves to improve the community.

Every leader or organization which claims they are working on our (Blacks) behalf, should be held accountable regardless of their political or racial affiliation.

Blacks must maintain their historical cultural identity, which is tied to Christianity. There is not a black pastor in America that does not feel that far more blacks should be attending church on a regular basis.

Faith-based programs are more effective than government sponsored programs.

Political HIGHLIGHTS OF
Unfounded Loyalty
Findings Regarding Republicans & Democrats

From the Civil War To 1964

1. Both parties were inspired, by the Bible: one party believed the Bible supported their position that blacks should be free, the other believed the Bible said that blacks should be slaves (Based on the curse of Ham in Genesis 9:25-27. Note: The Muslims were the first religious group to enslave and trade Africans as slaves - 800 years before Columbus allegedly discovered America.

2. One party and their abolitionist supporters believed the Bible instructed them to lay down their lives for the slaves, the other party and their supporters believed the Bible gave them the right to take the lives of blacks if they rebelled against being slaves.

3. On the issue of slavery, one party and its supporters gave their lives to expand it (to Northern states) and the other party and their supporters gave their lives to ban it.

4. One party was heavily influenced by the Abolitionists and the radical wing of their party (Radical Republicans) and the other party was influenced by the Ku Klux Klan and other terrorist groups.

5. One party and its supporters started the Freedman's Bureau and other programs to help build communities for blacks, the other party and their supporters engaged in practices to hinder those efforts and to destroy those communities (Wilmington, North Carolina).
6. One party and its supporters established quality schools and colleges for blacks, the other party and their supporters engaged in practices that attempted to close some of those schools or diminish their quality.

7. One party passed laws and Constitutional Amendments (13th , 14th , 15th) to include blacks as part of mainstream society, the other party passed laws to exclude them from the mainstream (Jim Crow Laws and Black Codes). One set of laws that were designed to help blacks, the other set of laws designed to
hurt or hinder blacks.

8. The members of one party gave black voters protection, members of the other party murdered, tortured and intimidated black voters.
9. By 1900, as the lynchings of blacks increased (by the members of Democratic Party and their Klan supporters) the number of black politicians decreased. Up to this time (1900) all of the black elected officials in Congress were Republicans.

10. By 1933, black leaders believed Republicans took their vote for granted and elected Franklin D. Roosevelt. Not long after Roosevelt took office, he banned black newspapers from the military and refused to pass key legislation to help blacks (Civil Rights Commission and Anti-Klan laws).

11. By 1945 (under President Truman), the military was in the process of being integrated, the integration process was completed under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Republican President.

12. During the Eisenhower Administration other Civil Rights Laws were passed and school desegregation began (as a result of pressure from the African American community).

13. During the 1960's, the Black Church, which was the foundation of the black community, ultimately became the salvation of the Democratic Party (their only hope for the White House).
14. Under President Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat, the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed. Johnson commended Senator Everett Dirksen a Republican senator from Illinois for pushing the law through. More Republicans voted for this law than Democrats. Southern Democrats voted against the law.

15. Under Republican President, Richard Nixon the 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act was passed and Affirmative Action was established with quotas, goals and timetables.

16. By the time Ronald Reagan took office in 1981 both parties were being influenced by individuals who claimed they were former racist and/or Klansmen (Senator Robert Byrd, Strom Thurmond, George Wallace, and Trent Lott to name a few).

17. By 2003, the Democratic Party had elected white women and white men
as U.S. Senators (for their party), but never a black man. The Republican had elected three.

18. By 2003, the Democratic Party had never offered an apology for the
horrific atrocities that they had committed against blacks over the past 150
plus years.

Summary: The past activities of both parties has a residual resounding affect on blacks today. From one group and their supporters, millions of blacks are still raduating from the schools and colleges that they established; they are still getting the benefits from the constitutional amendments and laws that they legislated; and they are still getting protection from the organizations that they founded and financed (theNAACP). From the racist efforts and practices of the other group and their supporters, blacks are still trying to heal from the wounds inflicted on them (during the past 150 years) and they are still trying to overcome the racist practices and laws that excluded them from the mainstream. Since 1863, the Republicans have sponsored, supported and passed more Civil Rights legislation favoring African Americans than the Democratic Party.

Conclusions: Today both the Republicans and the Democrats are overlooking their past. One party is overlooking the terrible acts they have committed against blacks. The other party is overlooking the terrific things they done for blacks. One party literally gave their lives to hurt blacks, the other party gave their lives to help blacks. One needs to remember its past to correct their errors, and the other needs to remember their past to continue the things they did for us.

Religious Highlights
Unfounded Loyalty
The Power of the Black Church

1. The black church was the backbone of the African American community. Most powerful leaders have come from the church.
2. Most of its historical figures were both Christians and Republicans.
3. The black church, according to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has lost its "sacrificial spirit" and the government is now sponsoring many programs that the black church once sponsored for its people.
4. In order to support the Democratic agenda, some African Americans religious leaders compromised some of their basic Christian values to become loyal members of the Democratic Party.
5. Through the black church, African Americans fought and died for freedom, the right to vote and the opportunity for a quality education. Freedom provided African Americans with the opportunity to release their creativity. The right to vote gave them a voice in the Houses of Legislation and quality education was the process to produce preachers, teachers and skilled craftsmen (maybe business men instead).
6. Booker T. Washington believed that older blacks valued education. Their primary goal was to be able to read the Bible before they died.
7. Integration affected the African American's values, principles and faith.
8. Poet James Weldon Johnson and Professor Nancy Boyd-Franklin document that it was God, not the government that brought African Americans through difficult times. The black church was the spiritual and social institution of the black community.
9. Far too many Black churches are more concerned about their Sunday Morning Service, than their services to the community on (during the week) Monday morning.
10. From Africa to America, religion was and is the foundation of the African American culture. African Americans were a faith-based race of people with strong family values.

FAITH-BASED HIGHLIGHTS
Unfounded Loyalty
Blacks The Benefactor of Faith Based Programs

1. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Jesse Jackson and millions of other blacks are and were the benefactors of faith-based schools and colleges.
2. The Abolitionist Movement was a faith-based program.
3. Most of the traditional black schools and colleges were founded, sponsored and run by Christian missionary organizations that supported the Republican's efforts to assist blacks.
4. Rev. Jesse Jackson received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation. W.E.B. Dubois received his first scholarship to go to school from a church and Booker T. Washington's first job was as principal of church school.
5. The NAACP was founded and funded by three white individuals who were descendants of the Abolitionist movement. These individuals were opposed to the Democrats' racist practices and lynching of blacks.