Posted on 09/01/2012 3:50:20 PM PDT by servo1969
MSNBC's Touré Neblett Reacts to Ryan's Speech: For Women and Minorities, 'Our Rights Do Not Come From God or Nature'
Near the end of his Wednesday night speech at the Republican National Convention, vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan told his audience and the nation that "sometimes, even presidents need reminding, that our rights come from nature and God, not from government."
John Hayward at Human Events noted that MSNBC's Touré Neblett did not handle Ryan's self-evident assertion very well. In fact, Thursday morning, Toure went into a bit of a tirade:
“He loves this line of ‘our rights come from God and nature’, which is so offensive to so much of America,” pontificated the MSNBC personality. “Because for black people, Hispanic people, and women, our rights do not come from God or nature. They were not recognized by the natural order of America. They come from the government and from legislation that happens in relatively recent history in America. So that line just bothers me to my core.”
One cannot prove it, but it actually seems possible that MSNBC is employing a commentator who may not have know that the source of our rights ("endowed by our Creator") was identified by our Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence. At a minimum, Neblett is in essence claiming that the recognition of the source of our rights in the Declaration was an irrelevant piety that did nothing for anyone except I suppose the now-dead white men who wrote them.
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"He loves this line of 'our rights come from God and nature', which is so offensive to so much of America," pontificated the MSNBC personality. "Because for black people, Hispanic people, and women, our rights do not come from God or nature. They were not recognized by the natural order of America. They come from the government and from legislation that happens in relatively recent history in America. So that line just bothers me to my core."He's full of sh*t, but I'm reasonable enough to give him the benefit of the doubt and suggest that, if he can't live with it, he should end it all.
I guess if you include his last name he *does* have a syndrome: Tourette’s.
Toure (Neble)tte’s
Very bad days are on the way. Newt was right when he said: Romney will only “manage the decline”.
What a freaking maroon.
Definitely a product of liberal upbringing.
That’s what I was thinking.
Mr. Toure, our rights DO come from God and nature. That’s basic American philosophy.
The whole idea is, because they come from supernatural sources, they CAN’T be taken away by human ones. If rights came from civil law, then blacks and women WOULD have been without rights until the law was written.
As it stands, they were entitled to those rights but the government deprived them of their natural rights, and needed to be corrected.
So sad logic is a problem for these people.
Mr. Tour' is simply paraphrasing his fellow leftist and mentor, Mao Zedong, who said, "All political power comes from the barrel of a gun."
He started out as a hip-hop music critic.......
So, he is actually stating that blacks, minorities, and women are not created equal? And must rely on the government to make them so???
Wow... maybe he should join the Klan.... seems to me he’d fit right in with that way of thinking!
Or as Hitler put it, “Might Makes Right.”
Contrary to the idea that rights are gifts from a god or permissions from a benevolent government, rights are, as philosopher Ayn Rand put it, "conditions of existence required by man's nature for his proper survival," but more specifically, "a 'right' is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man's freedom of action in a social context." (HT to J.K.Gregg @ American Thinker)
For a minute or two I thought that was Harvey Korman and Madeleine Kahn.
Well, which is it: Nature or Supernature?
Both. I imagine Jefferson mentioned both for a reason.
Don't you see the intractable logical problem there? I suspect Toure claims to be an atheist. Yet, through his belief that rights are granted by other men in lofty political posts he's reverting to the Divine Right of Kings concept.
This proves to me that despite the Emancipation Proclamation Blacks were never freed from the slave mentality. Here we are nearly 150 years after the Civil War and many Black minds are still not free to explore the glorious philosophical concepts embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
It would be impossible for what we Americans now call maltreatment of people of non white races to actually BE maltreatment. It would simply mean that it’s not in favor now. There would have been no antebellum evil in America to have overcome. Nor if the sentiment returned would it be evil.
He wants to ride on an orthodox biblical view of the philosophy expressed in the Declaration of Independence, while at the same time being in a society that denies that philosophy ever had any power. Well he should be leery about ever actually getting that wish.
If there is no source of good there is also no source of evil. If everything is equal there are no rights or wrongs. There is no justice or injustice, only a never ending parade of demands based on the power of the individual or the group. Civil rights are nothing more than political balancing acts. If law and government are their own authority rulers are gods and the rest are their slaves. Eternal anarchy is the only reasonable action in the face of such tyranny. That is precisely the course of our present obamination.
This man has to be an embarrassment to the company that hired him.....oh, nevermind.
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