Posted on 11/08/2014 4:19:07 AM PST by Kaslin
I am a conservative. I believe in the truth of traditional values, of limited government, and free markets.
And I believe in personal freedom and that it is not possible without all the above.
Our country has been going in the opposite direction and things, predictably, have not been going well.
The American people spoke last Tuesday, and I am happy with what they had to say.
But I am also happy that we have, once again, proof that America is still a free country. That when the American people are not happy, they can vote for change.
This is a great thing.
But best is when we use this precious gift of freedom to learn and to grow.
Freedom means making inevitable mistakes, learning from them, changing and improving.
This points to two watershed events of this election. Election of the first black Republican woman to the US House of Representatives, Mia Love of Utah, and the first black Senator from the South elected since reconstruction, Tim Scott of South Carolina.
Why should I raise the issue of race when both these newly elected members of congress have made it a point to reject race as an issue in their campaigns?
In a post-election interview on CNN, when the issue of race was raised, Congresswoman-elect Love said, “This has nothing to do with race…I wasn’t elected because of the color of my skin, I wasn’t elected because of my gender. I was elected because of the solutions that I put on the table….”
In a post-election interview with Glenn Beck, Senator Scott deplored the “race-baiting” of the Democratic Party during the election and said he is proud that “people in South Carolina vote their issues, vote their values, and not their complexion.”
So why do I even bother to bring up the news about two new black Republican members of congress?
I do in hope that black Americans across our nation will look at these two individuals, listen to what they have to say, and more will choose to embrace their message about the importance and beauty of freedom.
As noted above, freedom is about learning from mistakes and growing.
Black Americans have suffered greatly living under the thumb of government and believing it is a good thing. But if it truly is a good thing then, today, a half-century after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, huge differences would not persist in average income, wealth, employment, and education between black Americans and the rest of the nation.
Black Americans, like all Americans, are free. But blacks must step up and use this freedom to learn. It is time to take a different path. Embrace the freedom, and the personal responsibility that goes with it, that was achieved 50 years ago.
Again in the words of Senator Scott, in response to being told that he was graded “F” by the NAACP. “….I believe progress has to be made and the government is not the answer for progress. I was a kid growing up in poverty. I had a mentor who was a Chick-fil-A operator named John Moniz who taught me that the brilliance of the American economy happens through business ownership and entrepreneurial spirit…success is possible if you, a/have a good education and b/ have a strong work ethic.”
Or Mia Love at the 2012 Republican convention: “My parents immigrated to the U.S. with ten dollars in their pocket, believing that the America they heard about really did exist….When the going got tough, they didn’t look to Washington, they looked within.”
This is not a time for pointing fingers, for blame.
This is a time to rejoice in the blessings of freedom that Americans have and to pray that more Americans, and particularly black Americans, embrace it
They need to STOP having “Leaders” .....white people don’t have “leaders”.
When you give away responsibility you give away your power. Blaming other people for your circumstances deprives you of the power over your own life. The vast majority of black Americans have given away power over their own lives. They blame everybody: whites, Republicans, corporations, long-dead slave owners, everybody. Take responsibility and take back your power.
“What are we doing to our kids when we tell them that their ethnic identity has to make them unsuccessful? That to me is a really racist thing to say.” -Condoleezza Rice
Leaders = Groupthink mind guards
When the dividers of the Left accuse Whites of succeeding because of “White privilege,” Whites ought to refute it with the never-mentioned term, “White competence.” Look at cities and states around the U.S. as proof. Had past civil rights “leaders” concentrated more on Black competence and less on Black pride, Blacks and the nation would be would be better off. Exhibit A: Barack Obama.
I disagree. I think black conservatives, especially those who can communicate well like Parker, Tim Scott, Mia Love, and many others need to form some kind of group with the special mission of getting the TRUTH to the black community simply because the voices of the black race-baiting “leaders” are so strong when they are not really leaders at all.
Let the real conservative “leaders” in the develop a platform for reaching their own people (Eric Holder’s words).
Will many hear? Of course not.
BUT, the number who will hear will make the effort well worth it.
AND, like Fox News (sometimes), they can offer an alternative message that just might end up being heard by some - and like Fox, the number might grow..........
Just my opinion.......
The ghost of Abe Lincoln, a Republican, smiled Tuesday.
Star Parker is another outstanding woman who ought to be persuaded to speak more in the GOP.
She is great, has walked the walk, got off of welfare, and is a lady who knows the value of life, hard work, and values.
When you sit on your fat yes, yes, yes; scream and moan ‘woe is me’; make calls to people that you elected over you ‘tah do sumpin’’ that you are clearly able to do yourself; wait for your elected somebody to come and git ya, to ride the bus to the election box and get help reading the election ballot and then get the buis home; WHAT MAKES SOMEBODY THINK THAT THESE FOLKS ARE GOING TO DO FOR THEMSELVES?????
Stand in the middle of some street in Ferguson and yell this messgae at the top of your lungs. See what happens.
Very bad headline. I makes the reader think that "learn" is supposed to be a noun, another object of "embrace." And that "progress" is a noun, not a verb.
This is a very common blunder. When only one verb in a series has an object, it is best to place it last.
Blacks Must Learn, Progress, and Embrace Freedom.
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