Angela McGlowan - Bamboozled: How Americans are being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda

Words of praise for Bamboozled

Angela McGlowan is definitely a forceful voice in communities of color. Bamboozled is exhaustively researched, deftly-written, and chock-full of personal interviews with political leaders from both sides of the isle. A must read to get the other sides point of view.

The Afro-American

Some may not agree with Angela McGlowans political perspective; but theres no denying shes a rising star in the conservative movement. Bamboozled is a hard hitting and sobering look into uncharted territory. She is someone that well be keeping our eye on.

Judge Joe Brown

Read this book and see in living color that one can be black and Republican and still be an informed and dedicated member of our race, committed to building instead of acting out.

John McWhorter, author,Winning the Race

BAMBOOZLED

Copyright 2007 by Angela McGlowan

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ISBN 10: 1-59555-090-9
ISBN 13: 978-1-59555-090-3

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In loving memory of my father, Reverend James Thomas
McGlowan, an educator, a builder, a man who inspired all who
knew him: a man who refused to be bamboozled.

Dont be afraid to see what you see.

Ronald Reagan

Oh, I say and I say it again, ya been had!
Ya been took!
Ya been hoodwinked!
Bamboozled!
Malcolm X

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
The Liberal Dilemma: Bamboozle or Bust?

PART 1
LIBERAL SCHEMES ALREADY IN PROGRESS

Chapter 1
Accountability: Uncle Sam Isnt Your Baby Daddy
Why Whats Good for Families Is Bad for Liberals

Chapter 2
Robbing Prosperity
How Liberals Crush Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

Chapter 3
An Education Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
The Achievement Gap, Denying School Choice, Union
Bullies, and the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations

Chapter 4
Racist Cops... Um... Yeah, Thats It!
The Liberal Love Affair with Criminal Leniency

Chapter 5
Unholy Alliance
Liberal Faithlessness vs. Belief and Conviction

PART 2
THE HIDDEN HISTORY: KKK DEMOCRATS, CIVIL
RIGHTS ZEROES, & THE VICTIMHOOD VENDORS

Chapter 6
The GOP vs. the KKK Democrats
The Anti-Slavery Party Takes on the Democrats Iron Triangle

Chapter 7
The Civil Rights Shell Game
How the Democratic Party Erased Its History and Duped a Nation

Chapter 8
The Rise of the Victimhood Vendors
Teddy, Jesse, Julian

PART 3
BUILDING A BAMBOOZLE-FREE FUTURE

Chapter 9
Latinos in Limbo
The Fate of Conservatism

Chapter 10
Beyond Soccer and Security Moms
What Women Really Want

THE LIBERAL DILEMMA:
BAMBOOZLE OR BUST?

You think the Republican National Committee
could get this many people of color in a single room?
Only if they had the hotel staff in here.

Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean
speaking words of white liberal condescension

Forget about red states versus blue states. Forget about all the other cleverly tagged groups bandied about on the Sunday talk shows: the Blue Dog Democrats versus the progressives, the value voting Republicans versus the fiscal conservatives. Forget about the free traders, the isolationists, the independents, the newly popular populists. Forget about all of them and focus on this: three constituencies alone hold the power to control the political playing field in the 2008 presidential campaignand the political future of this country for decades to come.

These critical groups are women, Latinos, and blacks. For years, liberals thought they had a lock on the votes of all three. Through a combination of spin, scare tactics, and deception, liberals have manipulated millions of these Americans controlling their minds and taking their votes for granted.

But the liberal grip is finally loosening. New technologies and greater access to information have begun exposing a half-centurys worth of liberal fallacies. Women, Latinos, and blacks are beginning to find the facts and see the lightand liberals, Democrats, and the American political landscape are about to undergo a major sea change.

If liberals know anything, if there is anything of which they are certain, surely it is this: when Americans arent completely bamboozled, liberals losebig time. Consider, for example, the 2004 presidential election and the pivotal battleground state of Ohio. In 2000, 9 percent of black voters cast ballots for then governor George W. Bush. In 2004, that number grew to 16 percent, a modest increase of just seven percentage points. This slight improvement hardly represented a major shift of black public opinion, and yet it all but cinched the state of Ohio for President Bush and gave him another four years in the White House.

So what changed? Why did this band of black Ohioans break with past voting behavior? Answer: these voters woke up and realized that they had been conned into supporting a political party whose liberal agenda stood in direct conflict with many of their most deeply held core values. This group of courageous black voters rejected liberals time-worn smear and fear tactics. Put another way, these blacks realized theyd been bamboozled.

Weve been bamboozled and we didnt even know it. These brave Ohioans left the plantation protesting with their votes. They refused to stand by and let the liberal neoslavemaster have his way as he did for centuries during a time when our race was raped, lynched, and pillaged. Oh a change is gonna come! A change is coming!

One man who knows a lot about Ohio is Ken Blackwell, 2006 Republican gubernatorial candidate and the first black elected to a statewide executive office as state treasurer in 1994 and later secretary of state in 1998. I asked Secretary Blackwell how President Bush had increased his support among black Ohioans:

There was a real responsiveness by a growing set of the black community in Ohio to many of the elements in the presidents agenda. His initiative to expand home ownership, his initiative to expand community-based health clinics, his initiative and defense of traditional marriage as a union between one man and a one woman, all of a sudden he was speaking to those folks who had shared his agenda, shared his interests, and, I think, shared his basket of values across economic, social, and cultural lines. There is a tendency by political operatives to think of blacks in monolithic terms. They think that we are not capable of individual thought, but that we are all saddled to groupthink. So they miss the point that there are many blacks that believe that government must protect innocent life, that government and public policy must defend and protect the institution of marriage.

The Ohio experience demonstrates what liberals have long knownthat even tiny flashes of ideological emancipation can grind the liberal locomotive to a haltor cause a train wreck. Liberals must either bamboozle blacks or go bust. A former elected Democrat and United States senator, Zell Miller, explains, The magic formula for the Democratic nominee to win against a Republican has been to get 40 percent of the white vote and 90 percent of the black vote. Increasingly, it has been easier to get the latter. But the margin of black votes for liberal policies is likely to change soon. And it has to change only a fraction to make a huge difference.