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ATTENTION FREEPERS!!!FREEP FOX NEWS TO HIRE STAR PARKER!!!She knows we can help!
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| 4/28/02
| Sleaveless in Seattle
Posted on 04/28/2002 9:49:00 PM PDT by sleavelessinseattle
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To: sleavelessinseattle
Did I lie?
Check out Star's organization CURE at this link Click HERE!!!
To: sleavelessinseattle
It's always grand to see someone steppen out of Uncle Tom's and Aunt Hilary's plantation. The best to her!
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posted on
04/28/2002 10:11:49 PM PDT
by
lizma
To: sleavelessinseattle
Sounds like a good cause to me! Great idea...
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Get through to Fox News...I taught Star the verb "To Freep" in front of two Seattle PI reporters...Their faces turned white as a sheet!!!Heh Heh...She Loved it!!! This could turn FR into a clearing house for truth on an unimagineable scale...Thanks, SS
To: sleavelessinseattle
More info on her. See Below: Star Parker, a Courageous Black Voice NewsMax.com Wires Thursday, May 10, 2001 WASHINGTON (UPI) - There is a new generation of black leaders coming up through the ranks of inner-city activism. Prominent among them is 44-year-old Star Parker of Los Angeles, who heads the Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education. She dates the emergence of her political conscience to the 1992 riots in south-central Los Angeles that left a lasting impression on the nation's psyche. While some commentators called them a legitimate expression of black rage, an understandable outpouring of anger over the racism still endemic to the national culture, Parker and others in the new generation of black leaders have a different take on the riots and the problems of the inner city. They believe conservative political and economic principles are the key to ending the cycle of poverty in the inner city. Parker will tell you that the riots ruined her small urban Christian magazine - NFTA - because the rioters burned out most of her advertisers. With no one to buy ad space, she was forced to close the small business she had founded. A Wild Youth Born in New Jersey, Parker is a divorced mother of two girls by two different men. She is not proud of her early life. By age 14, she had engaged in crimes including breaking and entering. At 17, a male companion robbed a liquor store, making her an accomplice in an armed robbery. Fearing arrest, she and a friend stole her brother's car, fleeing New Jersey for California because she had aspirations "to dance on 'Soul Train.'" Once in California, she was in and out of the welfare system, seeking odd jobs to "supplement" her income under the table. By the time she was 22, she had undergone four abortions. Also heavily involved in illegal drugs, a habit she started at 17, she says she used "everything I could get my hands on", but her favorite drug was PCP, also called Angel Dust. Religious Revival Parker's life started to turn around when a group of men from an inner-city business pestered her to go to church with them. She met the men, she says, going into their business looking for an off-the-books job to add to her welfare income. The men would not hire her because her way of life was "unacceptable." Through her attendance at church, Parker says she underwent a religious conversion that has made all the difference in her life. Returning to school, Parker received a bachelor's degree in marketing from Woodbury University and used the training to start her magazine. She founded CURE in 1995 and took it on as a full-time project when she was fired from her job as a host on Los Angeles radio station KABC after the Disney media conglomerate bought it. Parker is a stimulating figure. The group of largely white evangelicals and conservatives to whom she is speaking this day is hushed, hanging on her every word as she reminds them that "135 years ago, blacks were slaves; today, we generate $1.5 trillion in economic activity." Marketing the Message The subject of her speech is "Will a conservative message sell in black America?" "It depends," she says, "on the marketing plan and the messenger," telling conservatives they must first decide what part of black America they are trying to reach: the pop culture community, based on sex, violence and the social welfare safety net; the political community, set up to defend the safety net for the pop culture community; or the black evangelical community, which is trying to hold together the family unit and provide essential social services to the poor. Parker rejects a political message because "blacks have been convinced that every problem is political in origin and has a government-oriented solution. A political message to black America must be by nature," she says, "a message of more government" with additional dollars attached, rendering that kind of message antithetical to conservative first principles. "The messengers must be conservatives, speaking from life and faith, not politics," she urges the crowd, calling them to action and generating applause when she tells them: "You cannot win the war on poverty without getting your hands dirty. The grant-and-cash approach make the givers feel good, but keeps their hands clean. "Please do not addict more of black America to government dollars by handing welfare out to the black churches," she says, criticizing the White House initiative to allow religious groups to compete for federal social service grants. Parker sees herself as a modern Harriett Tubman, building an "underground railroad" to help blacks break free of poverty, ignorance and despair in the inner city by removing the barriers, placed mostly by the government, that impede black progress. Steps out of Poverty The message she wants to take to America is that there are five steps out of poverty: self-government, education and training, hard work, saving, and marriage before children. The government, in her view, is an impediment to black America's ability to do these things in a way that will change their lives, instead keeping them enslaved to a welfare state bureaucracy with little more real freedom than on the plantation. Everyone will be better off, according to Parker, when the idea of accountability reclaims its rightful place among human standards for living. "The welfare state allows people to escape the consequences of their actions. Negative behaviors no longer have consequences," she says, "they have safety nets." Until that changes, no one, in her view, should be surprised that not much has been or will be different in inner-city America. Parker is well along the road to becoming what she wants to be - "an alternative voice, a voice of reason, in the black community, serving as a counterweight to the NAACP and other overseers in the black community." And, if the reaction to her speech is any indication, the audience for her message is growing rapidly. Copyright 2001 by United Press International. All rights reserved.
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posted on
04/28/2002 10:28:41 PM PDT
by
Draakan
To: sleavelessinseattle
Sounds great, but try inserting a few paragraphs. LOL
To: sleavelessinseattle
Woops! I screwed up! Hope ya'll can read it OK.
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posted on
04/28/2002 10:31:04 PM PDT
by
Draakan
To: sleavelessinseattle
This is great! Star has been plugging along for years without getting much attention. She is every liberal's nightmare. A former welfare mom who had several abortions and is mad as hell for being conned into that kind of life.
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posted on
04/28/2002 10:33:30 PM PDT
by
LarryLied
To: antidisestablishment
I should change my handle to Breathless in Seattle! LOL
To: sleavelessinseattle
I always liked Star when she was on KSFO a few years ago. She would be great on Fox, with Sean or on her own. Maybe they'll get rid of Greta, whose Fox program I have yet to watch.
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posted on
04/28/2002 10:35:51 PM PDT
by
giotto
To: sleavelessinseattle
Saw her on C-Span relating how her welfare case worker told her that she would do fine as long as she never did two things: get a job or get married. Her apartment in the LA area even had a fireplace. She said the checks came in like clockwork and they left her pretty much alone. Then when she opened a business, she was stunned by the interest the government took in her. This form, that form, this tax, that tax. More power to her that she resisted giving up.
To: sleavelessinseattle, CincinnatiKid ,jd792 ,dixie sass,chesty puller,antivenom,muggs ,Grendelgrey
This could turn FR into a clearing house for truth on an unimagineable scale...Thanks, SS
IM confused I thought it already was!
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To: sleavelessinseattle
Okay, here is some highly unsafe HTML...(meaning I typed it)
foxnewsonline@foxnews.com
Well that went over like a led zeppelin...How do I insert a live html tag for an email target??? I thought it was just maito:comments@foxnews.com but it didn't come to life...oh well, the two addresses are for Fox...I'll snoop around and see if I can get phone numbers and fax numbers...No stone unturned and all that rot!
To: ATOMIC_PUNK
A point Sir, a veritable Touche!
To: sleavelessinseattle
Here are the direct email addresses, you have to cut and paste yourself as I information Superhighway Roadkill! Mea Culpa, I'ma so stupida! Recommended address is: comments@foxnews.com Secondary Foxnewsonline@foxnews.com
To: sleavelessinseattle
Sleaveless,
This should help:
Fox News
You use the same format as shown for a URL under "HTML Help" when you preview the post. Just substitute the "mailto" stuff for the URL.
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posted on
04/28/2002 11:26:39 PM PDT
by
DennisR
To: DennisR
You are the Technical Powerhouse du Jour...Domo Arigato! HAI DOZO!!!
To: sleavelessinseattle
Fox Broadcastings Mailing Address is:
FOX Broadcasting Co.
P.O. Box 900
Beverly Hills, CA 90213
To: sleavelessinseattle
Well, thanks! I live in Redmond. Those of us who live in the USSRW need to stick together! Anything we can do for the conservative cause will hopefully drive the droves of liberals in this area crazy.
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posted on
04/28/2002 11:43:46 PM PDT
by
DennisR
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