Thursday, July 14, 2005

COME ON, MORAL BLACKS. BACK A MORAL BUSH

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

I am white. My white wife and I adopted a black child when he was 2 l/2 months old. I have pastored in an all-black North Carolina church. My wife and I were active in the civil rights movement of the l960s.

So it’s with no bias that I state what I state: It’s time for the moral blacks to back a moral US President George W. Bush.

This business of Bush being not in favor of blacks is a myth as large as the one endorsing slavery in early America. It just isn’t so, that is, that Mr. Bush is anti-black. Yet many American blacks of all social classes still see Bush as the enemy. Why? It’s not true.

Now whether black or white, if a person is against killing womb babies, that individual would back Mr. Bush. If a person is for keeping America from turning into a totally secularized state — with religion put on the back burner ready to fall off the stove — then that citizen is pro-Mr. Bush.

If a black enjoys supporting abortion then one can understand why that individual would support the baby killing Dems. And if a black delights in immoral nations growing in their anti-God apostasies, then I can understand how that individual would vote Dem.

So it comes down to morality versus immorality — black or white skin shouldn’t count. Yet a number of blacks keep trumpeting praises for the immoral party — the Dem conclave. And yet many of those same blacks attend churches that still sing heartily "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."

Black friends: that gospel hymn does not link up with the Dem party line. That hymn only equates with the Bush administration — plain and simple.

Therefore, when Mr. Bush speaks this week at the Black Expo, he is among black and white friends in attendance. He’s with friends!

So there is not a total sell-out of blacks to the Dem crazed evil exercise. There are those who have seen the moral light and so align themselves with Mr. Bush. Thank God.

Consequently, when the media gave coverage to the President addressing the Black Expo I wondered why even the secular press did not realize that the moral issues bring people to Mr. Bush or against Mr. Bush.

Instead, there was some blather given to past this and that gripe from blacks, particularly those holding up in the totally inefficient National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

I have thought for many years that if anyone courted the NAACP he was not all quite clear in the head. There is much to be desired regarding moral integrity in that particular organization. Therefore, it’s no wonder that they don’t come around to an ethical Mr. Bush.

However, I also thought that moral blacks who believe in Jesus as personal Savior, attending worship regularly, read and study their Bibles, should not buck Mr. Bush. I presume that they don’t, by and large.

Therefore, it just might be that it is they who are in league with the Black Expo. I have not made a study of it; but I would presume it to be so.

Now all we have to do is get the other blacks to turn in their blind eyes for coming into the political and spiritual dawn, thus realizing that the nation is as strong as the moral fiber of the likes of Mr. Bush.