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It was only a matter of time before Ben Carson became target number one in the media destruction campaign. There are two things the destroyers of liberty and virtue just can’t tolerate—black conservatives and conservatives with money.
A lot of people are claiming the attacks on Ben Carson are racially driven. So does the fact that the media are targeting Ben Carson make them racist? In a sense, yes, but not in the way you may think—as evident in the things they’re dragging up against him.

Let’s consider this “vetting” process as they call it for a moment. Barak Obama grew up under strong communist, anti-American influences. He spoke throughout his 2008 campaign about transforming America. But the media ignored it, embraced him, and accused anyone who questioned or disagreed with him as racist.
By contrast, Ben Carson was raised in the Detroit ghetto by a single mother, pulled himself up, worked hard and—with the strong influence and encouragement of his mother—went on to become a world-renowned doctor who helped thousands of people. Ben Carson is the American Dream. So why aren’t the media head over heels, embracing him?
We were told repeatedly in the 2008 election that voting for Barak Obama would prove that America wasn’t racist, but I knew the “race” issue would never go away. It is too powerful a tool for silencing any opposition and the media knows it. Their whole thumping speech before and after Obama was elected was “you just don’t like him because he’s black.” So how exactly does it play into their race-baiting scenario when a black man running for president is leading in the polls with American voters of all races and colors? What does it say about the media when they have launched a full-on campaign to dig up anything they can to destroy this black man’s reputation?

The answer is actually quite simple. It is clear evidence that the American media are not racists—they are agendists. Yes, it’s a new word—add it to your dictionary.
The bottom line is, the destroyers of liberty and their media counterparts could care less what color you are, your gender equality, or your citizenship status. All they care about is their agenda and whether or not you subscribe to it; their goal—the complete destruction of liberty and freedom.
While the Republican Party is certainly not innocent of assaults on liberty, it has become very apparent that the Democrat Party is the major vehicle of choice orchestrating the mass destruction of freedom, family and everything we hold dear in America. They have been the driving force of big government for decades and some brilliant mastermind somewhere along the way realized how to use it to gain and sustain their power.
My friend Apostle Claver Kamau-Imani, a black pastor and radio host in Houston Texas, calls it Plantation Politics and the Democrat Party has capitalized on it. They’ve convinced an entire populous that the government is their friend, every white person (unless they’re Democrat) is a racist, every black conservative is an Uncle Tom, and that Bill Clinton is more black than Clarence Thomas.
“In order for Democrats to win elections,” says Claver, “they have to keep the Black Community on the plantation. They will do whatever they can to keep truth from the community, to keep the black populous on the plantation. It’s the new sadistic twist on the old system of segregation.”
I witnessed the powerful influence of the Democrat propaganda machine in Ohio in 2006 when Ken Blackwell ran for governor against Ted Strickland. The Democrat Party circulated flyers throughout the black community that had a picture of Clarence Thomas, George W. Bush and Ken Blackwell side by side, with the tag line “black or white a snake’s a snake.” Ted Strickland won the election and Ohio missed out on a really great man as governor. Interestingly, the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus who is supposedly for supporting black candidates, endorsed Ted Strickland not Ken Blackwell who, if elected, would have been the first black governor of Ohio.
The Democrat Party’s propaganda campaign has been so successful that almost the entire black population votes Democrat. This is a great frustration for black leaders like Apostle Claver who says the black community is largely unaware of what the Democrat Party actually stands for and that they vote against their own values every time they vote Democrat.
“I don’t think this has ever been seen in human civilization,” says Claver. “Nobody votes in a block monolithically like blacks do.”
So what does it say when a black man runs as a Republican and the black community likes him? Can you imagine the shock and awe it would cause the Democratic Party’s stronghold on the black vote if the black community embraced Ben Carson?
The party of destruction has the same fear of Ted Cruz with the Hispanic community and you can bet if numbers start to soar he will definitely find himself on the Democrat media’s chopping block. The Democrat Party claims to be the party of minorities but it is clear they pick and choose their minorities based on their vote. If that weren’t the case then why aren’t the Democrat Party and their media cohorts jumping on the Asian bandwagon. Why aren’t they complaining that there aren’t enough Asian teachers, actors and doctors? Why aren’t they raising an army of advocates for “Asian Lives Matter?”
There is no doubt that this isn’t about race. It is about agenda and Ben Carson’s faith, values, and convictions just don’t align with that agenda. I’ve seen it before. The media went after Herman Cain with a vengeance in the last presidential election. How can you have two black men running against each other and claim the country is racist for choosing one over the other.
As long as Ben Carson doesn’t subscribe to the agenda, he will continue to be ruthlessly attacked by the agendist media. The more time the media spends trying to destroy Ben Carson the more appealing he becomes. The agendist media only attack what they fear and it is clear they fear Ben Carson.

“You’ve probably never heard of it. Most people haven’t.”

That’s how Dorothy Scheele, curator of the Friendship Train website, introduces one of the most amazing yet mostly forgotten stories from American history. It was Dorothy and another American, Earl Bennet Sr. (now passed on) who dedicated their lives to preserving this beautiful story.

I found out about it when Turner Classic Movies replayed old newsreels. I was so moved by the story I immediately went to my computer and began googling everything I could find on the Friendship Train. What I found were the websites of two incredible Americans who spent years collecting stories, photos, and news footage so the Friendship Train would not be forgotten.

The year was 1947. The people of the world were still recovering from the ravages of World War II. Europe was hit especially hard. Drew Pearson, a popular American journalist, while touring post-war Europe, noticed the Communists were being lauded for delivering a few carloads of grain and it deeply troubled him. He knew America could do better.
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On Oct. 11, 1947, Drew Pearson opened his famous radio show with his vision of the “Friendship Train” a cross-country collection of food from the people of America to the people of Europe. This project would be much different than the proposed Marshall Plan which was government imposed and government regulated. The Marshall Plan was government-to-government. The Friendship Train would be people-to-people.

Pearson sent out the call asking Americans to donate food from their homes, kitchens, gardens, and fields. And the American people delivered. Immediately communities formed plans to collect food and send it to the Friendship Train. On Nov. 7, 1947, five weeks after Pearson’s announcement, the Friendship Train began its incredible journey across America, beginning in Los Angeles with a spectacular Hollywood send-off. All along the route ordinary Americans brought bags of flour from their homes, vegetables from their gardens and canned goods from their storehouses. It was amazing site.

Eleven days after leaving Los Angeles the Friendship Train arrived in New York City to great fanfare. Drew Pearson, who was there to greet the train, never could have imagined what he saw. The goodwill and compassion of ordinary American citizens far exceeded his expectations. The 80 boxcars he had hoped to fill grew to 270 boxcars filled with merchandise worth $40 million.
Every package on the train was labeled with the same message:

“All races and creeds make up the vast melting pot of America, and in a democratic and Christian spirit of good will toward men, we, the American people, have worked together to bring this food to your doorsteps, hoping that it will tide you over until your own fields are again rich and abundant with crops.”

No money was ever spent for the project: the food, trains, ships—everything was donated for the cause, even the unions participated. When this demonstration of brotherly kindness arrived in Europe on December 18, the people were overcome with gratitude.

The French people were so moved they organized a gratitude project—the “Merci’ Train.” Forty-nine boxcars were filled—one for each of the 48 states, the 49th shared between Washington, D.C. and the territory of Hawaii. The people of France had very little after the war, so they gave what they had—precious pieces of their lives. Despite their dire circumstances, over 6 million families contributed some 52,000 gifts which included things like children’s drawings, hand crocheted doilies, and 50 rare paintings. Also included were a jeweled Legion d’Honneur once presented to Napoleon, a Louis XV carriage and the bugle which signaled the Armistice signing.

By 1948 the boxcars were filled to capacity and loaded onto the ship Magellan. When the ship sailed from France, 9,000 gifts had to be left on the docks because there wasn’t enough room for them. When the ship arrived in New York, it was greeted by waves of Air Force planes, and a parade of boats, with the Magellan boldly displaying the message, “Merci, America!”

In the next several weeks, each state held parades and ceremonies as they welcomed their designated boxcar. Many of the states who received these beautiful gifts of gratitude still have their box car, and the items it carried, lovingly preserved and on display. North Dakota has an impressive interactive display of the 500 gifts they received. I wanted to drive to North Dakota to see their train, when I remembered that every state received one. I looked up the Nebraska Train, where I live, to find out where I could see it. What I found, however, was not at all what I expected.

According to the Merci’ Train website, Nebraska’s boxcar was “shunted from place to place…first to the state historical society, then to the Nebraska Forty and Eight Society, and finally to a playground in Lincoln. In 1951, an attempt was made to return it to the historical society, which did not want it. So it was sold to an Omaha junkyard for $45. [There] its wheels and metal parts were pounded into scrap and its body converted into a storage shed. Its humiliation finally ended in 1961 when the junkyard was relocated and the box car was demolished.”

My heart sank as I read the story of the fate of this priceless gift given to the people of Nebraska. I thought of all those families who showed up by the thousands at train stops across our state to give what little they could to their brothers and sisters across the sea. What would they think of how we treated this precious gift?

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