[Slehn]

The libs aren't going to like this!

[sodpoodle]

http://townhall.com/Columnists/StarParker

Palin/Parker!!!! or Sarah/Star!!!!

That’s the ticket!!

[Daisyjane69]

I’ve followed Star Parker for years. She is a heroine of mine.

I’m with the previous poster...Palin/Parker!

[livius]

One of the things that probably helped his IQ in the Christian school (aside from an improved environment!) was that they made him learn and speak standard English. This was a feature of Catholic schools, too, and probably accounts for the fact that black graduates of Catholic schools have a much higher average income than their peers from public schools.

Speaking standard English doesn’t change the native capacity, obviously, but it certainly changes the ability to understand and express things. A child brought up in the woods by wild animals could be as intelligent as Einstein and would still be considered retarded because he wouldn’t have the language either to understand or express human concepts. Ghetto black English is a very limited patois that is only a functional language (for ordering fast food or cursing out your girlfriend, for example) and cannot be extended to concepts. For one thing, it has a very incomplete system of tenses and even of number.

I’ve never understood why blacks defend it, because it was simply the result of having “learned” English from slave owners who probably rarely spoke to their slaves in complete sentences and permitted them no formal education. This was followed by years of linguistic isolation, particularly for rural blacks, as a result of segregation and the fact that these same rural people moved to the cities in the 50s and 60s and continued to remain isolated. “Black English” is a tremendous handicap that probably results in the misdiagnosis of retardation in many cases and has significantly impeded the integration of poorer blacks into the mainstream economic system.

[SueRae]

This is the one movie I will go to the theater to see. A Star Parker fan here. And I love Sandra Bullock. Good on all of them.

[Tribune7]

school choice ping

[bray]

The Black hustlers can’t afford for Blacks to be educated or they would be out of work. During Slavery the slave states outlawed education for fear they would be able to read maps and escape, same today.

Pray for America’s Freedom

[kalee]

bump

[redpoll]

I want a picture of Star! I’ve seen her on O’Reilly and, frankly, she could melt butter if she walked through the room. Pictures now!!!!

[Finny]

Star Parker -- yet another example of the Babe Conservative Female. Why is it that conservative women tend to be so attractive? I used to think it was luck-of-the-draw. Now I understand that it has to do with something deeper. It's no coincidence.

I always enjoy Star's columns when I see them.