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!"
Ping
Navin?
She referred to JFK as “that fine young man” and said of LBJ, “That man got the devil in him”.
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Ms. Oates was very wise. And very fortunate that the devil-inspired LBJ did not get to influence her family as he did for millions of other black American families.
Obama is rapidly overtaking Johnson as our worst president ever. But for now LBJ and his planned genocide on millions of black Americans still ranks as our worst.
I think that not only have the progressive/liberals robbed the black race of family, jobs, personal responsibility and a sense of self worth, they have ultimately robbed them of a country to call home.
More and more of them disrespect our flag, our national holidays and our history. But they have no other.
Less and less people know what used to be
More and more are forgetting, or have forgotten.
There must be pride in being responsible for oneself. This must be taught in the “family”, and in the schools. There must be shame in NOT being responsible for oneself.
The current climate of entitlement mentality and catering to all of those who are not paying their own way, just perpetuates the concept of successive generations believing that the government provides for everything.
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Your comments are so very true.
We have to take back our schools and rid them of the liberal lies, the revisionist history, and help our young people to learn their place in our nation, how to vest themselves in it’s future, to understand and respect the sacrifices that have been made for their right to freedom and diginity.
Values matter. Thanks for the post.
Less and less water.
Less and less grammar.
It’s not just the black family — look at many of our white families that have been devastated by out of wedlock chilcbirth and serial divorce. Now, there are those in the government that want to expunge the meaning of “marriage” altogether. And the elites want to forbid religion in the public square and the military.
We are all at risk. The black families just got hit first.
Great personal story. Thanks for posting.
We cannot take back the schools short of a breakup of the country. We must get our kids the hell out of the government schools. “But my school is a good school...” No. It’s not. Lots of things happen there that never impinge on your consciousness. You think it is good academically because you are young enough that the schools that you remember were already corrupted.
You are right that the toll is also being taken on white families. I have relatives, much to my dismay, that don’t work, have children out of wedlock, are into to drugs and vote Democrat every election. It’s enough to make a buzzard on a gut wagon puke.
In every instance, I believe that people have turned their backs on God. We cannot allow that to happen to us collectively as a nation or we are finished. That is why I like Cruz so much. He Gets It!!
More and more are forgetting, or have forgotten.”
Or are gone, their contributions seen as simply too old fashioned for today’s world and are not passed on.
Oh no you di-int.
Then we fulfilled Margaret Sanger's dream of murdering black babies with abortion. I honestly think that b****h was a fan of Josef Mengele.
If we had just left them alone it would be a much different story.
Now they want to abolish loving, nurturing families entirely, because they give children an unfair advantage over others.
-PJ
Republicans fault.
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