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Unfounded Loyalty-Revised Second Edition: An In-Depth Look Into the Love Affair Between Blacks and Democrats

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In his review of this book R. Lau attempts to "prove" that all Republicans are racists by misquoting Barry Goldwater's famous acceptance speech at the 1964 Republican Convention. Lau "quotes" Goldwater as saying that "Extremism in defense of SEGREGATION is no vice." Every sentient American knows tat what Goldwater actually said was this: "Extremism in defense of LIBERTY is no vice." Barry Goldwater was no racist. And neither is the Republican Party

This dishonest attempt to portray Republicans as racists has been perpetrated by the Democratic Party for the past thirty years. Anyone who watched the performance of Democratic Senators like Teddy Kennedy in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Judge Sam Alito appointment to the Supreme Court this week has witnessed the absurd and dishonest lengths to which they are willing to go to perpetuate that myth.

What the Rev. Perryman points out in this book is that for over a hundred years from 1854 to 1964 the Republican Party was the sole champion of emancipation, of equal rights for blacks, of putting an end to racial segregation, and of anti lynching laws; while the Democrats precipitated and fought a civil war to preserve slavery, enacted and enforced the Jim Crow laws that created the segregated South, and invented and repeatedly used the Senate filibuster to block the enactment of anti lynching bills introduced by Republicans.

It is true that by the 1960s the effort to end segregation and discrimination had become a bi-partisan effort. Democratic President Harry Truman took a courageous stand against segregation in 1948, splitting his party; and Lyndon Johnson introduced the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But neither of these laws could have been enacted without Republican support. Republican Senators and Congressmen overwhelmingly voted in favor of these bills, while one third of the Democrats in both houses of Congress voted against them, and mounted a filibuster in the Senate to prevent their enactment -- a filibuster that was broken only with Republican votes.

It is also a fact that the first crack in the wall of legal segregation came in 1954 with the Supreme Court decision in Brown v Board of Education outlawing segregation in the public schools. It was a unanimous decision supported by both the Republican and Democratic Justices; and the opinion of the Court was written by Republican Chief Justice Earl Warren.

It is also a fact that Republican President Dwight Eisenhower was the first President since Republican President U.S. Grant to send federal troops to the South to enforce the rights of African Americans, by upholding court ordered desegregation of the Little Rock public schools.

It was also a Republican, Richard Nixon, who established affirmative action as federal policy by issuing an Executive Order requiring that federal construction jobs be given to minority firms.

And finally, Republican President George W. Bush has appointed more minorities to high ranking administrative and judicial positions than any other President before him, including eight out of fifteen Cabinet posts (three Blacks, two Hispanics, two Asians and one Arab American) -- more than all of his Democratic predecessors combined.

The claim that the Democratic Party has been the only advocate of civil rights for blacks and other minorities is a myth invented and perpetuated by partisan Democrats. It is this myth that the Rev. Perryman seeks to dispel with his book UNFOUNDED LOYALTY.

As I read Rev. Perryman's outstanding work, I was reminded of an old adage which seems most appropriate with Black-Americans, and that is that they are treated like mushrooms, "kept in the dark and fed manure". The sad thing is, as Rev. Perryman points out, they are coached to keep in lockstep with the Democrat Party by so-called black "leaders" who, without exception, promote the Democrat Party for their own gain.

Perryman's work is long overdue, but sadly, will not reach the hands which would most benefit from its' profound conclusions. Perryman has been, and will continue to be, labeled a "sell-out" or an "uncle Tom" just as other prominent blacks who have dared to oppose the Democrat machine such as Clarence Thomas, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, J. C. Watt and Conde Rice.

If you are a Black-American, this could well be the most important book you could ever read. What a shame that this book will never see the list of required reading in predominantly black inner-city schools.

Monty Rainey
www.juntosociety.com

I had some idea about the history of the Democratic Party and black America, but only in pieces. This book is a collection of facts all in one place...VERY WELL WRITTEN, Perryman covers all the bases - good, bad & ugly. I hope the G.O.P. will set aside money to have this guy in speaking forums all over the country. The Democrats can't hide behind smiles and ambiguities; the facts speak for themselves. LOVED THIS!!!

As a Black American male all I can say is AWESOME! Great job Wayne!

Excellent review of on one of histories biggest distortion. The denigration of Republicans and false glorification of Democrats on the issue of African Americans.

Easy to read and it is a good reference for the rest of your life.

Get it, read it, use it as a reference.

Looking back not too many years the Democratic Party was very anti-black. This book spells out all of the facts. How did the Democratic Party garner over 95% of the black vote given its dismal record of serving our black citizens and other citizens as well? Can the Republican Party do better for our underserved citizens? Perhaps both parties are morally corrupt. Do we really need a third political party in America to serve the majority of our citizens who are being ignored by both political parties?

I finish reading Unfounded Loyalty, in the Fall of 2003, after receiving it from your cpmpany.
I found the book to be both mind provkeing and a revelation.
It's historical mentions of how Black-Americans, real history
was effected- along with our Educational,Economic and Educational empowerment.Brought about by the Republicans, not the Demorcrats--has the liberal media, likes to proclaim!
I've recommended this book to the five School Districts in our
County, for required reading. And have personnely, use passages
on the Civil Rights Acts, that the Republicans pass--in my letters to Editor of our local paper. Two of them were published.Also,l send e-mails to hundreds of my e-mail friends--in 12 states.
Additionly, I given presentations, on all the contents of Rev. Perryman historical book--and received rousing postive responses.
Rev. Perry has venture where no other historians, both Black and White, has dare to go.
I can educationaly say:Unfounded Loyalty, will trully emancipate
Black-Americans--and some well intended White-Americans!!

Willis Papillion, A retire Educator, in search of our true history!
1578 Reo PL.,NW
Silverdale, WA98383
360-697-5378
willis35@earthlink.net

I read this book after reading David Barton's American history in Black and White. I've always been fascinated by the majority of African Americans who overwhelmingly support Democrats in general, and wanted to get a a little bit more information on how this happened and how so. This book by Mr Perryman greatly depicts the reason why and I'm really surprised on how it all happened. A must not just for african americans but for everyone.

This book is one of the most ahistorical reads around. Full of 'facts', but extremely ideologically biased when it comes to analysis. Democrats, Republicans, Whigs - even most abolitionists - were ALL racists. And yes, this extended into the 20th century.

But the Republican and Democratic parties that exist today are not the same as those of the 19th or even middle 20th century. The racist white segregationist Southern Democrats and Dixiecrats abandoned the Democrats in the 1950s and 1960s and ended up in the Republican Party.

If you want to reinforce your infantile right-wing views on race and politics in this country, this book is for you.

However, if you're interested in an objective discussion of the issue, there are plenty of other REAL historians to read. Check out Eric Foner's "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1866-1877" and Manning Marable's "Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006".

On July 15, 1964, the Republican National Convention finally nominated their candidate for the Presidential Election in San Francisco. There were 8 primary candidates, of which all supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964:

Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona
Governor William W. Scranton of Pennsylvania
Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York
Gov. George Romney of Michigan
Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine
Senator Hiram Fong of Hawaii
former Representative Walter H. Judd of Minnesota, and
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts

Except the most conservative candidate, Barry Goldwater, who spoke of extremism in the defense of segregation is no vice addressing a lily white audience in the RNC. Most of the primary candidates later would harshly censure the conservative stance of Senator Goldwater, who was a disgrace of the Party of Lincoln.

The ideological shift of the Republican Party has finally surfaced on the national stage. The outcome of the general election was that the only states that Goldwater won besides Arizona, were five Deep Southern states, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina.


"The Southern Strategy was deployed even more effectively by Richard Nixon in the election of 1968. Nixon, with the aid of now-Senator Thurmond, who had switched to the Republican party in 1964, ran on a campaign of states' rights and 'law and order.' As a result every state that had been in the Confederacy, except Texas, voted for either Nixon or Southern Democrat George Wallace, despite a strong tradition of supporting Democrats. Meanwhile, Nixon parlayed a wide perception as a moderate into wins in other states, taking a solid majority in the electoral college. That is why the election of 1968 is sometimes cited as a realigning election."


Rev. Perryman,

I read your book during the memorial weekend. I also watched your speech on CSPAN's Book TV in March. I appreciate that you are bringing up the history of the country. But it seems you have biasedly ignored the Civil Rights development since FDR and the modern Democratic Party transformed the party. You should have studied the lives of Hubert Humphrey and William Douglas and other Northern liberals before you wrote the book.

Did you know it was Harry Truman who desegregated the military? Did you know it was Senator Lyndon Johnson and later President Johnson who took the role to push for the passage of all the Civil Rights laws of his time? Did you know it was Jimmy Carter who appointed more Blacks officials in the executive branch than any other US Presidents? The Northern progressives who used to be the radical Republicans when James Garfield and Teddy Roosevelt were in power have all become the nowadays Democrats after FDR and JFK! If you see the electoral map of 1904 and the map of 2004, it will look very obvious to you.

And above all, do you see that all elected African American Congressmen, Congresswomen, and Senators (including ex-Senator Carol Moseley-Braun) happen to be Democrats? I hope you will read the book "The Walls of Jericho: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell, and the Struggle for Civil Rights" written by Robert Mann and get a more balanced view of the recent history of both Parties. Things have changed since the Civil Rights movement, Reverend. It would also be nice if you can get an audio archieve of the 1948 Democratic National Convention from the LOC or the Democratic Party. You will find out more about the progressive shift of the Democrats on social issues and Civil Rights since that year. The South has turned increasingly Republican since Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy in 1968. Wake up.

Is it worth selling your soul to make a quick buck to be a Black conservative?

Sincerely,
R. Lau
P.S. I definitely expect all these conservatives rejecting the facts in this review. But speaking of moral values, I hope you understand that your book will only be used to hurt the black communities that you might care.