Posted on 09/05/2004 6:32:25 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Your stereotypes aside, the vast majority of successful American blacks do not have "government jobs." Besides, having a government job is by no means a definition of being successful. It just means that those who have them are employed.
Oh, one more thing. How many unsuccessful whites depend on government largesse?
Regarding the problems that the African-American community has, that is, 75% out-of-wedlock children, high incarceration rate, drug use, etc.
He said that the African-American community ought to have a six month dialogue WITH ITSELF, WITHOUT ever once mention white people.
My opinion: excellent idea. Looking in the mirror and examining the source of problems is always a healthy exercise.
Several times, when the camera focused on a black at the convention, I remember wondering if they were going to catch hell from their friends back home for being there. It must be a pain in the ass to be expected to vote a certain way because of your race.
Welcome to Flying Pig Airlines--------Flt delayed, permanently.
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The Democrats used to have a solid hold in the South. What do they have left, the unions?
The Dems love to pigeon-hole people into victims groups.
About the third "true confession" from a reporter this week that they are really impressed by the W. And at the "secret" ballot booth, wouldn't surprise me in the least if they voted for Bush.
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A lot of those voices are LINKED in Post #43.
He said that times have changed, and African-Americans no longer need the government to constantly intervene on their behalf.
"The majority of African-Americans believe in economic opportunity and not handouts ... It's a new world, and with that comes new political affiliations," Kellman said. ***
Blacks are slowly breaking the grip of the Democratic Party. Soon they will not own the black vote.
Over the past two decades or so, anyone who has read the brilliant writings of Dr. Thomas Sowell and Dr. Walter Williams, to say nothing of Dr. Alan Keyes, as well as those of other intellectuals representing conservative thought in the Black community, knows that it was just a matter of time before the Democrats would begin to lose their grip as "masters" of the minority vote.
When individuals, of whatever race or creed, begin to understand the ideas of liberty, they will migrate AWAY FROM a group whose idea of "helping" relies on the dishonesty of elected and unelected imperfect people in positions of government power TAKING the hard-earned dollars of some, and REDISTRIBUTING THOSE DOLLARS to others.
There's nothing very noble about the kind of "benevolence" that relies on taking from someone other than yourself what they have earned and giving it someone else.
In this election, for instance, John Kerry and John Edwards are not giving up any of their own wealth (and neither are any of the other wealthy redistributionists) to help the poor. No, they want to buy votes with promises to use the power of government to steal from some in order to give to others, while at the same time acquiring power, prestige, and future wealth for themselves.
All citizens lose when this kind of counterfeit idea prevails.
Could it be, that one more crack in the dam is the Senate race in Illinois, between Barack Obama and Alan Keyes. Race is not a factor here, hate and fear and loathing are. The elitist, privately-educated, and very pampered upbringing of one of the rivals is unquestioned, as he NEVER had any connection with the common thread of most Americans of African descent, the ancestors that were first slaves, then humble sharecroppers, then scut labor in big cities.
Alan Keyes, on the other hand, came up the hard way, with little help from even affirmative action, achieving what he has on merit alone. It was merit recognized and to some measure rewarded, and this may be painful for Illinois voters to accept.
It took that, and also a good daddy! ;-)
Seriously, and I can only speak for myself, having a man to raise a boy without an option for using excuses of any kind makes that boy a real man in short order. Therefore, the victimized mindset cannot exist in the head of a true man.
Our problem is the lack of manhood in our communities. This seriously has an affect on not only young black men, but also young black women who can't really relate to a loving, instructing, protecting, providing, and serious man because nine times out of ten, she's never met one!
Born an Irish Catholic into the most densely populated city in the nation where Republicans didn't even exist shortly after JFK was killed, my union member parents voted Democrat in both national and local elections through to Jimmy Carter. In our mock elections in grade school, the Democratic candidates always won due in part to my vote.
However, I was a freshman in high school when Ronal Reagan was elected. I remember my uncle being so upset and that the end of the world was near. Reagan was going to push the button the day after his inauguration!
His reaction actually got me interested to see what was going to happen!
So even though I wasn't old enough to vote I saw the hostages returned from Iran the day of Reagan's inauguration. I watched as the price of a slice of pizza (my economic barometer at the time) stopped going up.
I went to a Jesuit high school and on the classroom wall of one of the most beloved priests (a fabulous man and missionary for Christ) had a poster equating one fighter jet with X amount of food and one nuclear sub with X number of homes etc. Again, this had the reaction of forcing me to listen to Ronald Reagan as to why it was important to build up our armaments and why the Soviet Union was an "Evil Empire".
By the time I graduated from high school in 1983, I was impressed with President Reagan's accomplishments and though I valued the opinions of my relatives and teachers, I understood that when Ronald Reagan addressed the public on his televised speeches from the Oval office, that he was talking to me. Yes, me!
In November of 1983 I had just turned 18 three months before. I was fortunate enough to be going to college in Wisconsin where you could register and vote on the same day and all you needed was an ID and a utility bill.
It was my first time I could vote in a real election. I, like my parents, became a Reagan Democrat that day.
Thank you Ronald Reagan!
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