Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Conservative Blacks Ignored During Black History Month
ChronWatch.com ^ | 3/4/04 | Jan Ireland

Posted on 03/04/2004 5:23:11 PM PST by SeenTheLight

Black History Month 2004 has just passed. I looked all month for national recognition of conservative blacks. I found very little.

Secretary of State Colin Powell, the first black to head the Department of State. and Condoleezza Rice, the first black--and first woman--to be national security advisor, were covered mainly in relation to the Iraq war. Powell was hinted to be at odds with President Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. Rice was asked if intelligence was hyped. Both were called racist names by West Indies singer Harry Belafonte, who escaped all consequences for doing so.

Corinne Brown, a Democratic congresswoman from Florida, told Bush official Roger Noriega that Haiti’s current problems were ''because of all you white men.'' She replied that ''You guys all look the same'' when Noriega pointed out that he was Mexican-American. Rep. Brown likely will suffer no consequences for her words. Senator Trent Lott, a white conservative, got in lots of trouble for his words.

In North Carolina, Vernon Robinson could very well be elected the first black Republican congressman since J. C. Watts, by the same voters who once elected Senator Jesse Helms. That's certainly newsworthy. But Robinson’s positions on strong national defense, enforced immigration laws, and the abolition of racial quotas apparently remove him from national media attention.

Conservative black economists Walter Williams, professor of economics at George Washington University, and Thomas Sowell, a fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, write cogently about the nation’s economy and its outlook. National journalists aren’t lining up for quotes.

Californian Ward Connerly’s Racial Privacy Initiative fights for racial equality through racial color blindness, the only way possible to achieve it. We don’t want separate but equal colors of skin, though our segregated dormitories and graduation proms today apparently do. Connerly has been vilified for his positions.

(Excerpt) Read more at chronwatch.com ...


TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: blackhistorymonth

1 posted on 03/04/2004 5:23:12 PM PST by SeenTheLight
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: mhking
ping
2 posted on 03/04/2004 5:25:49 PM PST by SeenTheLight
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rdb3; Khepera; elwoodp; MAKnight; condolinda; mafree; Trueblackman; FRlurker; Teacher317; ...
Black conservative ping

If you want on (or off) of my black conservative ping list, please let me know via FREEPmail. (And no, you don't have to be black to be on the list!)

Extra warning: this is a high-volume ping list.

3 posted on 03/04/2004 6:08:19 PM PST by mhking (Summon the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeenTheLight; mhking; rdb3; mafree
Conservative Blacks Ignored During Black History Month

That is because they don't exist! Or their just oddities. Right?

4 posted on 03/04/2004 6:14:55 PM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeenTheLight
STL, thanks for posting this. It's definitely of interest.


E.C.
5 posted on 03/04/2004 6:16:53 PM PST by EvaClement
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: farmfriend
Me? Odd?

Hold tight. Let me ask my wife first...

She said I am.


6 posted on 03/04/2004 6:20:49 PM PST by rdb3 (The Servant of Jehovah is the Christ of Calvary and of the empty tomb.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: farmfriend
[Conservative Blacks Ignored During Black History Month]

That is because they don't exist! Or their just oddities. Right?

Close. It's because black conservatives aren't really black.

At least, that's what the Black Caucus, DemoRats, Jesse's Rainbow Extortion Push, etc. all say. Remember Thomas' confirmation fight? He wasn't really black - he was an "Uncle Tom" and Sharpton or one of his bozo's from the caucus even called him a "house n----r."

Just like a hispanic becomes a "neanderthal" if he's conservative.

It's pathetic, disgusting, and completely in keeping with being a liberal.

7 posted on 03/04/2004 6:32:57 PM PST by Ophiucus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: EvaClement; farmfriend
They not only exist, but are at the forefront of black intellectual/political output, in my opinion. Not that you'd know that from picking up a newspaper...
8 posted on 03/04/2004 6:43:20 PM PST by SeenTheLight
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: SeenTheLight
Sad, but not even slightly surprising.

It does surprise me, though, to find this in Chat....

9 posted on 03/04/2004 7:51:57 PM PST by FourPeas
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: FourPeas
It's been a while since I've posted anything and I wasn't sure where this should go?
10 posted on 03/04/2004 8:24:55 PM PST by SeenTheLight
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: rdb3
She said I am.

It must be catching! My wife says I'm odd, too!

11 posted on 03/04/2004 8:39:20 PM PST by mhking (Summon the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: SeenTheLight; rdb3; mhking; mafree
but are at the forefront of black intellectual/political output, in my opinion

I must whole heartedly agree with that assessment.

12 posted on 03/04/2004 10:59:49 PM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Ophiucus
Sort of puts the lie to their whole "diversity" thing doesn't it. Diversity of opinion doesn't count.
13 posted on 03/04/2004 11:01:13 PM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: SeenTheLight
I think my tagline says it all.
14 posted on 03/05/2004 3:26:00 AM PST by Warrior Nurse (Black liberals practice intellectual apartheid when in comes to black conservatives!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeenTheLight
Yes, it's such a shame that they didn't call it LIBERAL BLACK HISTORY MONTH, which would have been more accurate. To me, it just shows the insincerity of it all.
15 posted on 03/05/2004 6:14:55 AM PST by JustPlainJoe
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: farmfriend
but are at the forefront of black intellectual/political output, in my opinion I must whole heartedly agree with that assessment So do I! I love Sowell and Williams and can't wait to read their columns. Larry Elder is pretty good too. They're no-holds-barred, which I think is the best thing about them. Too many whites are afraid to say what they do. Even about non-race issues!
16 posted on 03/05/2004 7:29:14 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common Sense is an Uncommon Virtue)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: JustPlainJoe
Yes, cuz it's promulgated by the National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People. W/moral support provided by the National Organization of Liberal Women (to which I do not belong).
17 posted on 03/05/2004 7:31:31 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common Sense is an Uncommon Virtue)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: SeenTheLight
Conservative Blacks Ignored During Black History Month - Jan Ireland

Black History Month 2004 has just passed. I looked all month for national recognition of conservative blacks. I found very little.

Secretary of State Colin Powell, the first black to head the Department of State. and Condoleezza Rice, the first black -- and first woman -- to be national security advisor, were covered mainly in relation to the Iraq war. Powell was hinted to be at odds with President Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. Rice was asked if intelligence was hyped. Both were called racist names by West Indies singer Harry Belafonte, who escaped all consequences for doing so.

Corinne Brown, a Democratic congresswoman from Florida, told Bush official Roger Noriega that Haiti’s current problems were "because of all you white men." She replied that "You guys all look the same" when Noriega pointed out that he was Mexican-American. Rep. Brown likely will suffer no consequences for her words. Senator Trent Lott, a white conservative, got in lots of trouble for his words.

In North Carolina, Vernon Robinson could very well be elected the first black Republican congressman since J. C. Watts, by the same voters who once elected Senator Jesse Helms. That's certainly newsworthy. But Robinson’s positions on strong national defense, enforced immigration laws, and the abolition of racial quotas apparently remove him from national media attention.

Conservative black economists Walter Williams, professor of economics at George Washington University, and Thomas Sowell, a fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, write cogently about the nation’s economy and its outlook. National journalists aren’t lining up for quotes.

Californian Ward Connerly’s Racial Privacy Initiative fights for racial equality through racial color blindness, the only way possible to achieve it. We don’t want separate but equal colors of skin, though our segregated dormitories and graduation proms today apparently do. Connerly has been vilified for his positions.

Oberlin High School in Ohio, replaced an experienced and qualified white teacher who was slated to teach black history. The public outcry called for a black who could "understand" the black experience. Would those same people refuse treatment for cancer, from a doctor who had never experienced cancer himself? Could that doctor "understand" their pain and suffering? Could an adoptive mother "understand" mothering, without having experienced pregnancy and labor herself?

The Reverend Al Sharpton, running for the Democrat nomination for president, has a bully pulpit from which he could highlight conservative black achievement. He uses it instead to finagle racial points with the Democrat Party, and to bash the white conservative who occupies the White House now.

Democratic presidential candidates spent a lot of time in black churches recently, reliving the 60’s format. The Acton Institute’s Anthony B. Bradley’s "Beyond Black History" takes issue with this one-size-fits-all way of looking at blacks in America. As he says, there is no "black" vote. Even if they once did, black church congregations today do not expect a single pastor to tell them how to vote. Nor do they wait for information to come to them in the form of Democrat politicians "preaching" from their pulpits. And there is no single black "leader," as much as Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would like the world to think there is.

"D.C. Parents for School Choice" aired a television ad comparing Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass) to segregationist Bull Connor, asking "Senator Kennedy, your brothers fought for us. Why do you fight against us? Are the unions really more important than these children?" They were vilified for the ad.

Star Parker, author of "Uncle Sam’s Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America’s Poor and What We Can Do About It," spoke recently at a C-SPAN2 (Book TV) televised luncheon. Parker is black, and a frequent campus speaker. Oh, but that was through the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, for Conservative Women’s Network.

"And just where is the other conservative mention of black conservatives?" liberals no doubt are moved to ask. Don’t really know. Haven’t looked. Conservatives don’t think it is necessary to color code.

We like to celebrate the content of the character. Something a black conservative once recommended. The values of the Democrat Party that Martin Luther King, Jr., supported, would be Republican today. Black history suffers immensely by pretending conservative blacks don’t exist.

With luck, Black History Month 2005 will reflect the black experience -- all of it.

_________________________________

Thanks for posting this --- here is the article in full....posted for all posterity....

"Thou Shalt Not Unncessarily Excerpt" -- 11th FReeper Commandment

FReegards,

- ConservativeStLouisGuy
18 posted on 03/05/2004 10:53:12 AM PST by ConservativeStLouisGuy (transplanted St Louisan living in Canada, eh!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeenTheLight
I actually think that it is harder for black republicans than it is for white republicans in these times. So many lies from liberal black leaders makes some people not trust the hard working, true conservative blacks.
19 posted on 03/06/2004 7:05:11 AM PST by TBRK
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson