Michael Reagan: Had enough?

NPR and Fox News commentator Juan Williams is a certified liberal — so liberal some have called him the black Alan Colmes, the liberal half of Fox’s Hannity and Colmes. When he writes a book you’d expect the liberal media to fall all over each other to be the first to review his book and have him as a guest on network radio and TV.

That hasn’t happened, however, because his book “Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America — and What We Can Do About It,” has crossed the boundary of what is — and what is not — permitted by the high priests of liberal orthodoxy.

For this grievous offense he has been cast into the outer darkness reserved for conservatives and other patriotic Americans.

On my radio show the other night Juan told me how he has been silenced by the very liberals who have always clasped him to their bosoms. When I asked him if he’s been put on the "back burner" he said: “It’s not the back burner, but the burner itself that has disappeared. You just don’t get covered when you try to talk about what I consider to be central issues in terms of not just black America but all America. It’s part of American history, it’s part of the reality of the way we live, especially with increasing numbers of minorities in the American population, racial politics, drop-outs in schools, the fact that people talk about what’s going on with jails and all that.

“People just don’t want to talk about why we are in a grievous situation even now in the 21st century with regard to race and the kind of leadership we have on race.”

This is a tragedy. It is important that Juan Williams be heard loud and clear, and that his book should have the largest readership possible. Like Bill Cosby before him, Juan has looked his fellow blacks in the eye and told them the truth – a truth they must face if they are to overcome the obstacles that hold them back.

He deplores the incredible rate of illegitimate births among blacks — a staggering 70 percent of all black children are born out of wedlock. These children are deprived of a normal upbringing, of a family with the father present in the home.

So-called black leaders such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton draw his scorn. Williams notes: “If you attack anybody who is designated by the white media as a black leader you are therefore attacking black America and blaming the victim and you’re not seeing the larger picture while you have real problems afoot in terms of educating black kids, in terms of watching black kids born out of wedlock into poverty in this country, in terms of watching what I consider a culture of failure where people don’t call to account ... violence and sadistic rap music.”

“Nobody says let’s have a march against these drug dealers, let’s have a march against bad schools. You never hear that kind of talk.”

So Juan Williams sets out to tell the truth, writes a book about it, and he can’t get on liberal television, he can’t get on ABC, NBC or CBS because they have sold out to these leaders of the black community picked by guilt-ridden white liberals. White liberals refuse to allow blacks to be individuals. They look at them only as a group. They have put them on their liberal white plantation where their hand-picked black taskmasters such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton rule the roost.

As Juan Williams has learned, anybody who shines the light of truth on this sordid arrangement will be barred from speaking about it. He is learning that you cannot go against the liberal left agenda even if you are a member of the liberal left.

It is said that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. Juan Williams is being mugged. He has important things to say to fellow blacks and to the America he loves. If the left wants to silence him, it’s up to conservatives to give him a platform where he can speak truth to liberal power.

Michael, I love you, but, Juan and now you by supporting him are just continuing racism.

We should not be profiling people so that we find out how many people with one color of skin have so many kids out of wedlock, or their income versus another color of skin, or or or.

Sex outside of marriage is wrong for everybody!

Irresponsible fathers are all wrong! It has NOTHING to do with their race. They need to repent and start paying child support or go back to their families.

Sin is sin, and to make it somehow an issue of the melanin of one's skin, or an issue of from where did your ancestors come, is fallacious and attempt of satan to distract us from Truth.

To the undiscernign eye it SEEMS nice and necessary to have the Bill Cosby's and the Juans to point out the black failures and needs, but 1) it is NOT a color issue, and 2)that conservative message of values, of right and wrong, really should be taught by ALL of us, listening to the voices of our pastors and to the Word of God specifically!

We criticize others by finding anything "different" than ourselves, and we elevate ourselves pridefully by fostering any distinctions, and making it "good" or "bad." Being ANY skin color is not good or bad! But this is exactly what we do everytime we continue to foster conversation such as now Juan's book which says there IS anything different between races!

We all are created in God's image. We all could do good on tests if we are trained and pushed to value education. We all have different gifts. We all can also lead lives of irresponsibility because of our sinful flesh. But NONE of these areas of concern we have when seeing people's problems ARE related to race, but instead character, their values, and their earnestness in trying to seek and follow the Lord.

It is NOT a Christian value to be MAKING a distinction God Himself does not make in Scripture! We are to make judgments based on individual behaviors and actions. We certainly don't want to characterize anyone as falling into any group which is less that how God Himself would describe them.

We are Americans. But we are not all alike. We are Christians. We are from the state of whatever. We are Republicans. We do such and such for work. These can generalize our beliefs and person. But we DON'T make skin color a belief system or philosophy!

Jesus didn't categorize by race, saying "Well I have four light colored people here, and three medium colored people here, and five dark colored people there." He said we are to love one ANOTHER, for love is of God. He said we are to love our enemies, too. God so loved the WORLD that He sent His Son to die for us. Color or ancestry are NOT issues with God! Each individual is to have faith that Jesus Christ's death forgives them and gives them the mercy and grace of God through faith. Race is not AN issue!

It is NOT that "blacks" have 70% fatherless homes, it's that there are PEOPLE who aren't willing to give up their crime and be responsible. Unintentioned profiling acts like the "Law" Scripture speaks of...It merely excites the flesh, "Oh that's how I AM, BECAUSE I am of this COLOR", or heritage.

I'm an American, and so I act a certain way because I BELIEVE in certain rights we have. But that is DIFFERENT than saying "I have a certain skin color, and so I have certain beliefs that go along with that."

As noble as it seems to encourage someone starting to promote conservative values as hopefully Juan is now, the race profiling aspects of his and other books/lectures need to be stopped, because they only encourage people to make divisions where there ARE none. We are humans.

The real divisions and issues are moral and religious: are we willing to repent and allow God to change us and help us become more like Him, or are we going to keep rebelling against Him, our only hope? Refusal to relinquish the issue of color or heritage is a sin, because it is contrary to Scripture which says that "in Christ there is neither male nor female, Greek nor Jew, slave nor free." God does NOT see those categories our sinful flesh wants to make.

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