Posted on 02/07/2019 6:18:05 AM PST by grayboots
The political agenda of the left is the problem, not the solution.
My fellow Americans:
Given that the Democratic Party chose to select a recently defeated political candidate to give a response to the president’s State of the Union address because she is black and a woman, I feel I should also step up and give my response. Although I have not recently lost a governor’s contest, I am black and I am a woman.
Democrats want Americans, particularly minority Americans, to believe that a left-wing agenda is what they need and what will define America’s future. I am here to say today that the agenda of the left is the problem, not the solution. For too many years, there are those on the left — and I am talking here about those with a hard-core secular humanist and socialist agenda — who have been dominating discourse in our minority communities.
America’s future is in the values that defined it from the beginning: Christianity, capitalism and the Constitution. When I say Christianity, I do not mean to deny the bedrock of religious freedom. I mean to say that theses values must be predominant and define our nation and our culture.
There is no freedom without family, and there is no family without faith. It’s as simple as that. Should every American be free to choose? Yes. But recognize that in 2018, growth of the American population was the lowest it’s been in 80 years. The Census Bureau projects that in 16 years there will be more Americans over 65 than under 18. Without children, our future is in danger.
Our future is about life, not the 61 million abortions since Roe v. Wade.
The effect of the left’s agenda on our black communities has been devastating. Single-parent homes and out-of-wedlock births have tripled since the 1960s. What kind of future can we expect for our black children when they so often come from low-income, single-parent households?
We must restore the integrity of family in all American communities. This can only happen with a revival of faith. For sure, this will not happen with the sick message from the left of moral relativism and nihilism.
Capitalism is also the bedrock of our future. Freedom is about individuals taking responsibility for their lives. It is about building, creating, working, saving and owning. This is capitalism.
It is not a culture of victimhood, of blaming everyone else for your challenges and your problems. No. We don’t want that. We want freedom. This is where our future is. Personal empowerment comes with personal responsibility.
America is about YOU, not politicians. And the Constitution is the handbook that our Founding Fathers provided us in order to keep government limited and keep politicians out of our lives. Let’s honor it and not try to destroy it like the left wants to do.
America is in a fiscal and moral crisis. We have budget deficits and national debt like this nation has never experienced before. This bankruptcy is the product of a half-century of increasingly adopting welfare state policies. We can turn it around.
This president, who the left is attacking as a racist and a dictator, has gotten America growing faster than it has in years, with black and Latino unemployment rates the lowest they have been in history. He is digging us out of the hole that the left wants to get us back in.
I am one black woman who believes in America and loves this country, and who believes that our future lies in Christianity, capitalism and the Constitution. And I am here to tell you that tens of millions of Americans of all backgrounds are with me — and are with President Donald Trump.
Let’s stand up and fight those who hate our nation and what it stands for. Let’s win back our nation, our freedom and our God for our future, for our children. God Bless America.
Star Parker is the author of four books and also serves as the president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE). Reach her through its website, www.urbancure.org. Her column is distributed by Creators Syndicate.
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Good article, will it get read by the right people though, i.e. will it just get censored more or less.
Thanks for posting this article.
Yep and down here in "Mississippi Burning" country on the MS Gulf Coast, I saw a pickup truck with twp stickers on it
MAGA
God Bless America
Pulled up next to it at a light and it was occupied by a Back man that appeared to be in his '50s....we smiled and nodded to each other.
Great threads this morning....thanks for this one.
Ms Parker, it took the Democrats a little over a century to round up those escaped slaves and get them back onto the new Democrat Socio-Economic Plantation.
Don’t the Blacks of this nation see and understand what has been done to them by the “Great Society” of the Democrat Party???
Excellent, concise column.
Good article. It is too bad that only those who agree with it will read it.
GREAT article by a wonderful woman of faith and courage!
I hope she makes this speech into a video that can go viral. It is brilliant!
Great article.
She is right on.
The “right” people to read it is EVERYONE. Star Parker speaks the truth in love. God bless her.
Well OK, but I think she’s preaching to the choir here, and I’m not persuaded her message will get where it really needs to go. This is the problem.
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