Posted on 04/25/2002 12:50:43 PM PDT by Dead Dog
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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