Alan Keyes

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Alan Keyes (2008)

Alan Lee Keyes (born August 7, 1950 in Long Island , New York ) is an American politician , political talk show host and former diplomat . The extremely conservative African American is a member of the Republican Party and an activist on various conservative issues. He tried several times to gain electoral office, but failed in the 1996, 2000 and 2008 presidential elections and the 1988, 1992 and 2004 US Senate elections.

Childhood and studies

Keyes was born to the schoolteacher Garthina Keyes and US Army sergeant Allison Keyes. Due to his father's occupation, the family often moved; he lived temporarily in Georgia , Maryland , New Jersey , New York, Texas , Virginia and Italy.

He studied at Cornell University and Harvard University , where he received his doctorate in political science in 1979. Due to his studies and a high ticket number, he did not take part in the Vietnam War. He met his wife Jocelyn Marcel Keyes in Bombay , the wedding took place in 1981. The professing Roman Catholic couple has three children.

diplomat

Alan Keyes as a United Nations diplomat

Keyes entered the service of the State Department and in 1979 came to the US Consulate in Bombay. In 1980 he moved to the embassy in Zimbabwe and finally back to Washington in 1981, where he ended up on the strategic staff of the State Department. In 1983 Ronald Reagan appointed him ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council . In November 1985, he was Secretary of State for International Organizations ( Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs ) at the US State Department ; he remained so until November 1987. He was a strong critic of the UN and defended, among other things, Reagan's appearance against the sanctions against South Africa's apartheid policy . To this day, Keyes advocates a US withdrawal from the UN.

Maryland elections and running for president

Keyes ran twice in the Maryland Senate elections . In 1988 he lost to the Democrat Paul Sarbanes with only 38% of the vote, in 1992 to the Democrat Barbara Mikulski with only 29%. The second candidacy created a minor scandal when it became public that he was paying himself a monthly salary of $ 8,500 from campaign funds, which totaled about $ 100,000.

In the 1996 presidential primaries Keyes had no chance against Republican challenger Bob Dole . In the Republican Primarys 2000 he was one of three candidates to assert himself as one of the promising candidates into the final phase. Together with George W. Bush and John McCain , he appeared in several US-wide television debates, but ultimately had no chance in the final nomination of the Republicans. After the election campaigns, Keyes owed $ 524,169. After he failed to become a Republican presidential candidate in 2008, he resigned from the Republican Party and ran for the Constitution Party nomination . There he was defeated by Chuck Baldwin . Keyes then ran under the newly formed Independent Party as a presidential candidate, but played no role in the election results.

Media and political activist

Keyes had his own radio show and, at short notice, his own television show. On his radio show "The Alan Keyes Show: America's Wake-Up Call" ( Radio America ), as well as on his websites Renew America and Declaration Foundation , he is vehemently advocating the death penalty , free gun ownership and free school choice with government-sponsored private schools. He rejects abortion, affirmative action , a higher minimum wage and more extensive rights for homosexuals just as emphatically. Keyes (like Mike Huckabee ) is in favor of replacing income tax with value added tax of 20 to 23% (so-called FairTax ). Unlike most Republicans, he is in favor of leaving NAFTA and GATT .

In his TV show Alan Keyes is Making Sense on MSNBC , he was heavily focused on the Middle East conflict. He supported the course of the Israeli government and received an Integrity-in-Reporting Award from it during this time .

Dealing with race

Keyes' special trademark is his very aggressive approach to the fact that he is black. In the 2000 presidential election he referred to George W. Bush as "Massa Bush" because his tax plans boiled down to "how well or badly the masters treat their slaves".

In 1987 he left the foreign ministry post amid public complaints that he had been racially ill-treated. In 1992, he accused his party of racism when his speech at the pre-presidential election congress was only given a brief subordinate place on the agenda. He made similar allegations when the party no longer supported his hopeless campaign for a Senate post in Maryland.

Senate election in Illinois

Keyes was a surprising candidate for the US Senate in Illinois against Democrat Barack Obama in the 2004 elections. The actual Republican candidate Jack Ryan withdrew his candidacy after scandalous details of his divorce proceedings with actress Jeri Ryan became public. In the hectic subsequent nomination, Keyes prevailed against Andrea Barthwell . She was considered a candidate for the party leadership and the liberal wing of the party, and Keyes was a candidate for the conservatives.

The choice was not without controversy. Keyes lived in Maryland until then, had no ties to Illinois, and in 2000 even criticized Hillary Clinton for running for election in New York despite having no personal ties with the area. He said that it "destroyed federalism" by "pretending to represent" people with whom it had nothing to do with. On the other hand, he justified his candidacy in Illinois as an "emergency". His nomination was the first Senate election in which both candidates were African American. Less unusual was that they were both Harvard University graduates.

Keyes was seen as a clear outsider from the start. Illinois is a democratic stronghold; Obama had already had several months to campaign. Keyes led a very aggressive and provocative election campaign. He claimed that there was no structural difference between a terrorist attack and an abortion, implying that its proponents were taking the "position of the slave owners."

He accused gays and lesbians of "selfish hedonism ". At that time he already knew that his own daughter Maya Jeane Marcel-Keyes was also a lesbian. He described his competitor as a "dogmatic academic Marxist-socialist" who advocated infanticide . According to Keyes, Jesus Christ would not vote for Obama. On the occasion of Obama's speech in a Catholic Church, he described Obama's positions as “evil” and “mortal sin”. Catholics who voted for him would be just as complicit in this evil as voters of the NSDAP in Germany in 1933.

Obama won the election with 70% versus 30% for Keyes. After the election, Keyes refused to congratulate Obama because his positions far exceeded the limit of what is morally justifiable. On November 14, 2008, Keyes filed a lawsuit against Barack Obama that cast doubt on his citizenship. He also claimed that his birth certificate was a fake. For this reason, his election as president is illegal. After Obama's inauguration, Keyes refused to recognize Obama as President, calling him "usurper" and a radical communist.

additional

Keyes presented in 2013 a link between same-sex marriage and sodomy , incest , mass murder and the destruction of America ago.

Works

  • Masters of the Dream: The Strength and Betrayal of Black America William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1994. ISBN 0-688-09599-2
  • Our Character, Our Future Zondervan, 1996. ISBN 0-310-20816-5

Web links

Wikiquote: Alan Keyes  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Third Party Watch: Chuck Baldwin becomes the Constitution Party Presidential Nominee ( April 27, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive ); accessed February 25, 2015.
  2. ↑ http://www.mesora.org/keyes/29.html
  3. ↑ CBS: "Alan Keyes daughter coming out"
  4. ^ Alan Keyes email Claiming Forgery | .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / mail.conservativecontacts.com
  5. ↑ "Alan Keyes Doubts Obama's Citizenship" , Courthouse News Service (November 17, 2008).
  6. ↑ Rogers, Rich. “Former Obama opponent now suing to prove President-Elect's citizenship” ( Memento June 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), NBC Augusta (WAGT) (November 17, 2008)
  7. ^ "Petition for Writ of Mandate" ( Memento from November 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (from November 12, 2008)
  8. ^ “Alan Keyes, AIP leaders sue in CA court to obtain Obama citizenship proof” ( January 16, 2009 memento in the Internet Archive ), The Sacramento Union (November 15, 2008).
  9. ↑ Wayne Brown: Trinidad News, Trinidad Newspaper, Trinidad Sports, Trinidad politics, Trinidad and Tobago, Tobago News, Trinidad classifieds, Trinidad TV, Sports, Business . Trinidadexpress.com. March 1, 2009. Archived from the original on June 8, 2009. Retrieved on August 8, 2009.
  10. ↑ Alan Keyes stokes Obama birth certificate controversy | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times , Latimesblogs.latimes.com. February 21, 2009. Retrieved August 8, 2009. 
  11. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/alan-keyes-gay-rights-_n_3956969.html
personal data
SURNAME Keyes, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keyes, Alan Lee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician, political talk show host, and former diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Island , New York