Posted on 09/19/2009 5:53:24 PM PDT by Wife of D28Man
Freepers, I write to ask your help on behalf of a good man, a courageous man, who is torn by a community that may finally be awakening to Democrat perfidy. He - and I suspect there are many like him - needs to know that he is not alone; that others walk the same road; that there is a wealth of information and support to guide him through the challenges he faces.
Harold is a black man who has risen from the depths of poverty and drug addiction and its associated pathologies. Today he is happily married with a couple of healthy, happy children; he and his wife enjoy all the benefits of the successful middle class. For several years he has been a powerful force in the drug program of our church, leading numerous addicts out of a life of despair into recovery.
Harold is a conservative. He did not vote for Obama, and he is strongly opposed to the President's policies. But his roots are deeply Democrat. He says that it is axiomatic: If you are black and poor, you are a Democrat. His head and his faith are in terrible confict with the political DNA of his birth and primary community.
There is no doubt in my mind that Harold will emerge victorious from this struggle. But I am asking for your help in strengthening him for the turmoil he is facing. Please weigh in with resources (e.g. Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, Shelby Steele) and/or personal experiences in dealing with a black community that still does not fully realize the it is bound by Democrat shackles and that holds conservatives in contempt.
God bless you for reaching out to this good man.
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If party affiliation is that important to him, remind him MLK was a republican.
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...Nothing could be further from the hard, ugly truth.
The system it seems has ruined a lot of minorities. I remember the 1st time going to Hawaii, and coming to a ‘ghetto’ like compound, where all of the Islanders got free health care and learned the gub’mint would take care of them, like the gub’mint did on the Indian Reservations. So it isn’t ETHNIC genes, but the systems we put them under that caused them to be co dependent. I have had several friends who grew up in Western Africa, Senegal, Nigeria..there was a deep pride about their etnic roots, not so much insecurity... they sometimes had more in common with the uppity people and not much with the welfare crowd. I worked in social services and spent many days filing claims for the poor at food stamp offices, and believe me, there comes a time you have to just accept the words of Jesus. THE POOR THERE WILL ALWAYS BE AMONG YOU. Sometimes people just don’t make an effort when things become painful.
He needs to watch the two videos below. It will not only make him proud of his heritage it will SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT. He’s been lied to for too long.
http://server.depardeux.com/~nmatvco/view_video.php?viewkey=6fb0a03bb19f2d8d9524
http://server.depardeux.com/~nmatvco/view_video.php?viewkey=9336a670e36d0ed79bc4
You may want to add Alan Keyes, Walter Williams and Starr Parker for recommended reading. Some emerging names include Ercille Christmas and Bob Parks.
I’m sorry; my bad. Harold is not a Democrat. He is free. But just as he is a recovered drug addict ministering to drug addicts, so too is he a conservative surrounded by brothers still in the throes of Democrat addictions. He needs the same kind of support the rest of us needed before 9/12 showed us that we were not alone.
Tell him to rent Cadillac Records and pay close attention to what Howlin’ Wolf says to Muddy Waters when they first meet...
Please get some of the information available on this website
http://joshuastrail.org/home.htm
Elder Dr. Levon R. Yuille is an amazing speaker and has tons of information about how the Democrat party is bad for the Black community.
Look in the editorials.
Thank you. Your prayers will mean a lot to him. He himself is about to become a pastor.
I was a resistered Democrat until Clinton did that “don’t ask, don’t tell” thing. Sometimes it take something like that to open a person’s eyes.
To thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Wm Shakespeare
Many Democrats and Republicans have gone and are going nonpolitical. See Vaclav Havel (Czechoslovakian revolution against Russia) and “nonpolitical politics.” It can be done without violence or illegal actions.
The Democrats have been part of the same establishment for elites for at least nearly two decades.
Send him here:
www.ragingelephants.org/mission
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