Posted on 09/16/2008 3:50:52 PM PDT by jazusamo
When the Democrats discovered the could buy votes with taxpayer dollars by promising to end poverty, they needed either a constant source of new victims or they needed to keep the victims (voters) down on the farm.
They’ve continued to play this card again and again.
I wonder if Bill Cosby reads Thomas?
Though I have no idea I would bet money he does.
Amen Dr. Sowell, amen. I find it sad that these self-destructive behaviors are tolerated and accepted by civil rights “leaders” as a way to keep it real.
“Romantic self-indulgence and self-deception are things that some people can afford when they reach the point where they can afford identity angst. But millions of other people will remain mired in poverty if they believe such notions.”
I love you, Dr. Sowell! Marry me! :)
Man, that is SO true. My garden center is on the edge of ‘the hood’ and once in a great while we get a kid from that area that wants to apply for a job. We take his application, then never hear from him again because, well, we expect him to WORK.
I had a black lady in the store a few weeks back complaining that we have no ‘people of color’ working in our garden center. She was being very obnoxious about it, complaining loudly and bothering other customers.
I took her aside and asked for the names and numbers of youth in her neighborhood who would like an entry-level job (because that’s all we offer to ANYONE) as a cashier or a stock person, and I would personally contact them to come in to fill out an application...just like all of the people who currently work there did to GET the job in the first place.
She left without giving me any names, but of course made a racket all the way out the door.
Sometimes it’s the way your MAMA raises you that screws your chances for success in this world, too.
I love you, Dr. Sowell! Marry me! :)
I see you're in a great mood after making some bucks today. :)
I pray for health and long life for this man every day.
It’s the ‘entitlement attitude’ that’s prevalent where I work in ‘The People’s Republik of Madistan.’ What? Take the proper STEPS to GET a job? Why aren’t employers knocking down MY door and BEGGING me to work for them?
And this isn’t necessarily a color thing. I remember my own pasty-faced son when he got his first job. They worked his @ss off, and he came home after that first day and said, “They don’t pay me NEARLY what I’m worth.” I totally fell out. What a doofus. You’re sixteen! You have no skills aside from manual albor. Get used to it or change your life!
Now, he’s working his way through college toward an electronics/ computer degree just like his Dear Old Dad. His attitude at 21 is much better than it was at 16. ;)
And, yes. I AM in a good mood after earning some cash today! :)
(Guess I’d better go see to that other article I bumped earlier this morning...)
Bootstraps BUMP
As a white male I was able to break into the work force with outstanding jobs like raking leaves, mowing lawns, washing dishes, pumping gas, and pushing loafs of bread through an unguarded bread slicer for two years during and after High School before I joined the Air Force...
Puts me in mind of a guy, I think a politician, who once said of his own early identity struggles, "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it."
Am I the only one who thinks one of the candidate’s wives has an attitude similar to that woman’s? I suspect not.
The village created by liberalism bleeds its young of an individual identity in order to posit itself as an authority.
In the real world, we'd call these leaders extremely insecure and of having too much self-esteem.
How many people read "Clan of the Cave Bear" and despised that young, nasty, insecure eventual leader of the Clan - but seemed totally unable to see the leadership of the Tribal "Black" Clan in the same light.
"We'll shun you if you get good grades - that would be acting "white"
"We'll shun you and punish you if you vote any other way but the way we tell you to vote".
Ad nauseum.
For young white kids, I call it the James Bond syndrome. Everything comes easy to the guy or gal who was born with a pretty face...
I will have to ask the question. I’m not sure if Obama actually understands Thomas Sowell’s philosophy. Clarence Thomas did. Condi Rice and Powell and Bill Cosby and many others do. But what can Sarah Palin and John McCAin when asked, bring to the table to solve this problem?
I really think the first black president will be a conservative. If Obama truly had the knowledge...the simple secret that Sowell talks about in this article, he would have had people of all backgrounds flocking to him.
Fact is, that he suffers from the same laziness that the rap society espounds. Let’s not kid ourselves. The real achiever in his family is Michelle.
I bought the bio of Clarence Thomas. The section with regard to him discovering the writings and thinking of Thomas Sowell was one of the best parts, (the section on
Biden was good too.) Before then he was preoccupied with navel watching...and trying to find his identity.
The black “leaders” in this country are NOT the Cosbys, Condi Rices, J. C. Watts, Thomas Sowell etc. They’re self proclaimed preachers and rappers...and very little distinction between the two.
Don’t forget the 20 million black abortions. The liberals of this country are killing this race, and the sad thing is, people like Oprah should know this.
I think the biggest loser in this election is going to be Oprah. I can’t stand to watch or listen to her. In one giaNT swoop, America now knows what a utter phony she is.
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