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3 posted on
03/04/2004 6:08:19 PM PST by
mhking
(Summon the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!)
To: SeenTheLight; mhking; rdb3; mafree
Conservative Blacks Ignored During Black History MonthThat 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)
To: SeenTheLight
STL, thanks for posting this. It's definitely of interest.
E.C.
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
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!)
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.
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 Haitis 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 Robinsons 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 nations economy and its outlook. National journalists arent lining up for quotes.
Californian Ward Connerlys Racial Privacy Initiative fights for racial equality through racial color blindness, the only way possible to achieve it. We dont 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 60s format. The Acton Institutes Anthony B. Bradleys "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 Sams Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves Americas 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 Womens Network.
"And just where is the other conservative mention of black conservatives?" liberals no doubt are moved to ask. Dont really know. Havent looked. Conservatives dont 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 dont exist.
With luck, Black History Month 2005 will reflect the black experience -- all of it.
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Thanks for posting this --- here is the article in full....posted for all posterity....
"Thou Shalt Not Unncessarily Excerpt" -- 11th FReeper Commandment
FReegards,
- ConservativeStLouisGuy
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
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