Blacks File Racial Discrimination Suit Against Democrats

From: baja Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 Subject: Blacks File Racial Discrimination Suit Against Democrats

Blacks File Racial Discrimination Suit Against Democrats

     A class action lawsuit has been filed against the Democratic Party on behalf of "the African-American Citizens of the United States" demanding a formal public apology for its treatment of blacks in America.

     The plaintiffs, who refer to the defendants as "Father of Racism," claim that as an organization the Democratic Party has "consistently refused to apologize for the role it played in slavery and Jim Crow laws and for other subsequent racist practices from 1792 to 2011," according to a press release from the Frederick Douglass Foundation.

     The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, Wash., last Monday. It lists as lead plaintiff Wayne Perryman, an African-American minister, author and community activist from Mercer, Wash.

     "The case cites the collective work of over 350 legal scholars and includes Congressional records, case law, research from our nation's top history professors, racist statements from Democratic elected officials, citations from the Democrats' National Platforms regarding their support of slavery, excerpts of speeches from Senator Obama, individual testimonies from blacks who lived in the Jim Crow South and opinions from the NAACP," the press release states.

     Perryman said President Obama was also named as a defendant because of his position as the official leader of the Democratic Party, and also due to certain statements he made about his party in his book "Dreams from My Father."

     In 2009, the president was asked to issue an apology to blacks on behalf of his party, but refused, according to the Frederick Douglass Foundation.

     The suit seeks a public apology, but no monetary damages.

     Perryman stated: "Any organization that has such a racist history and received 97 percent of the African-American vote (after doing all they could do to deny blacks the right to vote) should willingly apologize without being forced to do so through a lawsuit."

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