[MaryFromMichigan]

Welcome to Free Republic.
Heck of good first post!
(Hope the dems don't follow the advice!)

[steplock]

reads great! Are you releasing this first one for general distribution to get your name out?

[gorush]

Very nice...and watch your back. :{)

[Larry Lucido]

Welcome to FR!

[MaryFromMichigan]

Ping to my birthday buddies.
Great post!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Excellent first post, and welcome to FR.

Michael, there's a young fellow here you might like to meet.

[backhoe]

Welcome, and you said that well.

[finallyatexan]

Keep up the good work Curt -

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

ping

[Fiddlstix]

Welcome to FR

(Ping)

[socialismisinsidious]

excellent piece!

[Michigan Patriot]

Nice work. The young black community could use more free thinkers such as yourself, as opposed to the "Vote (for Kerry) or Die" P. Diddy hip-hop crowd

[rudyudy]

I don't want to hear Zell Miller sing country and at the same time I don't want to hear the Dixie Chicks talking politics. Maybe the people in charge of the democrats should sit back and listen to Zell when he speaks about their party.. with the chicks singing in the backround.

[AndyPH]

Like your style - "hypersexualism" and "pseudotolerance" are valuable additions to my vocab.

Please do the electronic version of ripping your article into little strips and swallowing it - Hillary must not be allowed to see it!

[proudmilitarymrs]

Welcome to FR! Very eleoquent. Much luck in your future endeavors.

[Chieftain]

Welcome to FReerepublic! Beautiful essay, but you gave them too much good advice. If they follow it, we may have to compete with them again in 10 or 20 years!

[EricT.]

Overall, a very good editorial. It had some punctuation and grammatical errors, but the heart of it sings with truth. Maybe use Gunga Dan's hated Microsoft Word to help you out, next time. I find myself needing spellcheck whenever I get passionate, too.

[El Gran Salseron]

"and a young African American male"

OK, so by what you have told us then your nickname seems to say pretty much the same thing then can we assume that the "Con" in your nickname means conman or ex-Con? Which is it? :-)

Sorry, couldn't resist being a wiseass early on a Saturday morning.

Now I'll go read the rest of your article and try to give a critique without humor. :-)

[mhking]

Curt, welcome! I'm always glad to see more young black conservative minds out there, and especially those who choose to join the other mavericks like myself here.

I'd like your permission to republish your piece in my blog, Ramblings' Journal.

I'm sure you'd enjoy other things I have written there as well.

Thanks and welcome!

[Dolphy]

Good work. If it's true that to the victors go the spoils, it's imperative that some of that be the rise of new voices and the addition of new supporters. (Are you okay on length for the KC Star?)