Posted on 04/25/2002 12:50:43 PM PDT by Dead Dog
It seems to me that impact of Black's in American history and present has been completely downplayed by our media. And in fact, their legacy has been shanghied by such Race Baiting Poverty Pimps as Jesse Jackson his ilk.
So, I'm composing a list of influential Blacks who have made very significant contributions to the greatness of this country, or are now having a very positive impact. All of these people I feel should be studied in our classrooms and held out as examples for all races. Dead Dogs Black History:
Condi Rice (Ann Coulter with pigment). Thomas Sowell
Clarence Thomas
J.C. Watts
Alan Keyes
Michael Jordan (amazing skill, and hard work ethic to capitilize on it beyond imagination)
Booker Taliaferro Washington
Ken Hamblin (The Black Avenger)
James Golden (Bo Snerdly from Rush Limbaugh...I think he's better than Rush)
So many so-called "enlightened" black people jump up and down about black history month. But when they have an opportunity to talk about blacks who people are not familiar names who made contributions to American society, they look at you with a deer-in-headlights sort of stare.
You could fill volumes with the names and stories of people, real people - black people - whose contributions to many fields of endeavor, medicine, science, mechanical invention, business, farming, education and politics for starters. But to hear it from the so-called "black leadership," we didn't have anything to do with those things.
We are Americans. We helped shape this country. We continue to help shape this land, in spite of the Jesse Jackson's, Al Sharpton's and Cynthia McKinney's who are constantly trying to divide and conquer the spoils for their own aggrandizement and plunder.
Her father, Francis Stradford, was a high-profile,Repblican lawyer, in Chicago, during the 1930's-'40's.
One told me he had lived in New York for a while. Said he watched the Jews. "A Jew will walk down the street and see a piece of paper, pick it up, do something with it, sell it and make some money." He said, "I watched them Jews for a long time."
He had a true entreprenurial spirit and I think about what he said quite often. A Dutch kid learning from a Black who learned from a Jew........that is what race relations should be about.
I guess that everyone has heard about Madam C.J. Walker; however, they know nothing about such people as Alonzo Herndon ( Atlanta's first black millionaire ... fron the very eraly 1900's ) Earl B. Dickerson, Harry Pace, A.P. Bentley, Dr. Midian Bousfield, W.Ellis Stewart, and Truman Gibson ( all of Chicago ) , Ersa Poston , a Republican , who worked in Nelson Rockefeller's administrations as Governor of N.Y., and in Washington, for him, when he became V.P., her husband, Ted Poston, was the first black journalist, to work for a mainstream newspaper , Reginald Lewis the late CEO of Beatrice Foods , and Harold Doley, founder of the Wall Street firm: Doley Securities.
The above, is just a tiny list of people who SHOULD be used as role models, but are not. Instead, the crazy Afrocentrists push such spurious and easily disproved claims, such as " CLEOPATRA WAS BLACK " .
Million of small-time heros make for a strong and viable society.
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