Posted on 05/06/2015 9:39:35 AM PDT by conservativejoy
As a child growing up in the fifties, I had an inside look at the day to day lives of many Black families in the small rural southern community in which I grew up.
Before I reached my second birthday, my mother passed away. My dad hired a neighbor Black lady, Ms Oates, to look after me. She and her husband owned the farm next to ours and as neighbors did in those days, we worked together each year to plant and harvest our crops.
Until the age of five, my only regular playmates were the Oates children. There were six of them, all older than I, but I tagged along and answered to my nickname, Cotton Top. I called Ms. Oates "Mama" just like they did. I attended their church almost as much as my own.
This dear lady was devoted to her family and instilled in them a love of God, a strong work ethic, and a belief in themselves that made all the difference in their lives.
I'm sure Ms. Oates, or Brownie, as she was known to her friends, imparted to me some of her political views along the way. She referred to JFK as "that fine young man" and said of LBJ, "That man got the devil in him". She proudly voted for Ronald Reagan and loved to hear him speak.
All of Ms. Brownie's children grew up to be successful. One became a doctor, two became teachers, one made a career in the military, and two became business owners.
Most recently I spoke with Ms. Brownie's granddaughter who works for the local GOP and who worked very hard to elect Tom Cotton as the new Senator from Arkansas. She is already working hard in the community on the Presidential election. Although as a Conservative, she is not in line with the majority of Blacks' political views, she says she sees some progress as people slowly wake up to needed changes.
As I see the devastated condition of the Black family in America, my heart yearns for those days when the family provided the refuge and safe environment in which to grow and realize the dream of a successful, productive life. It is not hard to trace the wrong turn that brought us to this place. It escalated with the policies of the Great Society and has been in rapid decline ever since.
How do we restore all that's been lost? Can we as a nation return to those values of God, Family, Country? Will we finally elect leaders who set that example and will lead us in humbleness before God?
I can still hear Ms. Brownie say, "Pray, Children, Pray!"
People shouldn’t be shocked about the outcome of welfare. Look how well the reservation system worked for Native Americans.
“Republicans fault”.
Thank God, I’m an Independent!:)
That's even worse!
Yes, this is worth reading. Thanks.
It’s the leftist soft bigotry of low expectations. Social welfare is killing all Americans.
Bkmk
That could be said of the entire country. I remember when growing up how neighborhoods were that...”neighbors”. All the people on our street knew each other and the kids paid attention to all grownups.
Today you can’t look cross eyed at someones kid without the parent thinking your up to no good with their child, and or need to mind your own business.....
We are a fractured and broken society.....
I’ve been thinking about this recently. The federal government’s war on men/fathers/families has probably hurt black people the most.
People need families and opportunity, not a permanent government sugar daddy.
The dichotomy of the left is on display here in this issue especially.
The evil elite, such as Johnson, knew exactly what they were doing (”we’ll have them n*rs voting democrat for the next 200 years”),
and they get the support of the sheeperal,
whose primary motivation is justifying “I’m a good person because I care”,
by telling them that their motives were good,
and they should be supported in helping the poor,
and that those who support “helping the poor”
are morally superior to those who oppose it (for any reason).
The sheeperal STILL think this way. Those who even point out the failure of these programs are “mean” or “evil”.
“Navin, I’d love you if you were the color of a baboon’s ass.”
Liberal policies are hurting all segments of society, it is just more evident in black families at this time.
Liberals have replaced personal responsibility and achievement with an entitlement mentality that decimates the soul.
The disproportionate impact with the black community is puzzling - but I’d attribute most of it to democrat targeting.
They more easily fell for the entitlement BS because of past grievances, to be sure.
In high school I would walk home thru a large, poor black neighborhood. No one ever bothered me.
Because no one back then had AC and the houses were close to the sidewalk, I could look in to living rooms. Almost everyone had a picture of Jesus and MLK (or James Brown)....HA ...I Feel Good !
I miss those days. Kids used to be able to safely roam their neighborhoods all day. We didn’t lock our doors at night. Now many of the black neighborhoods and some white ones have bars on the windows and triple locks on the doors.
LBJ may be the worst president our country has ever had. Without him, Obama might never have been elected.
Thank you for posting, btw.
I remember my dad always thought LBJ had something to do with the JFK assasination. Ms. Brownie did, too. Turns out, so did Jackie. He was an evil person. I wouldn’t be surprised if he left a slime trail all the way to Obama.
“Cui bono”? LBJ did.
My DH’s side of the family is the same. Many of the grandchildren on his side have children out of wedlock. One is in her early twenties and is living with a guy who is twice her age with teenage/college age kids. He is still married. Together they have one baby and another on the way. Just one example. No shame.
Yes, he did, as he also did from the death of Robert Kennedy.
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