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Republicans Promote Prosperity - Democrats Promote Dependency  from National Black Republican Association   See new July 30 Posting by NBRA! (Video)

Commentary: A Guest Worker Program for Immigrants is a Slap in the Face to Unemployed Black Citizens  from Black America Web

Republicans and Blacks  By Thomas Sowell    Trying to reach blacks through civil rights organizations that are totally hostile to your message is like a quarterback trying to throw a pass to a receiver surrounded by opposing defenders. That just leads to a lot of interceptions and touchdowns for the other team.

Commentary: Democratic Candidate John Edwards, the Boy Who Would Be King, is Instead a Hypocrite  from Black America Web

Black ministry leader challenges Obama's sex-ed message  Obama looks good, but his views on everything are very very liberal...he is always on the side of the Pro-Abortion crowd ...but his wife is a great lady (though she probably shares his liberal views...)

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Conservatives, Liberals and Blacks  by Walter E. Williams
 

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African-American Pastors Attend Marriage Summit

Rod Paige Blasts the "Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations."  educators must "let go of the myths and perceptions about who can learn and who can't," so that all children can reach high academic standards. .. We hold up our extremely intelligent black conservatives as proof that intelligence is not dependent on race...  

Conservatives, Liberals and Blacks
by Walter E. Williams

During the first Reagan administration, I participated in a number of press conferences on either a book or article that I'd written or as a panelist in discussion of White House public policy. On occasion, when the question and answer session began, I'd tell the press, "You can treat me like a white person. Ask hard, penetrating questions." The remark often brought uncomfortable laughter but I was dead serious. If there is one general characteristic of white liberals, it's their condescending and demeaning attitude toward blacks.

According to a Washington Times story (7/14/04), Democratic hopeful Senator John Kerry, in a speech about education to a predominantly black audience, said that there are more blacks in prison than in college. "That's unacceptable, but it's not their fault" he said. Do you think Kerry would also say that white inmates are also faultless? Aside from Kerry being factually wrong about the black prison versus college population, his vision differs little from one that holds that blacks are a rudderless, victimized people who cannot control their destiny and our best hope depends upon the benevolence of white people.

Have you watched some white politicians talking to black audiences? It's bad enough to watch the Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson do an imitation of Flip Wilson's Reverend Leroy. But to watch Al Gore and Bill Clinton do it is insulting in the least. They don't talk to white audiences that way. As a matter of fact Sharpton and Jackson don't talk to white audiences that way either - talking about going from the outhouse to the White House and from disgrace to amazing grace and other such nonsense. By the way, after addressing the NAACP's 95^th annual convention in Philadelphia, Kerry gave the audience the black power clenched fist salute. I wonder whether his white audiences get the black power salute as well.

On July 23rd, President Bush gave a speech to the National Urban League. Unlike so many other white politicians speaking before predominantly black audiences Bush didn't bother to pander and supplicate. He spoke of educational accountability and school choice and condemned high taxes, increased regulation and predatory lawsuits. He defended the institution of marriage. He didn't see blacks as victims in need of a paternalistic government to come to our rescue. He saw blacks needing what every American needs - an environment where there's rule of law, limited government and equality before the law. The most important question President Bush left with the audience was whether blacks should give the Democratic party a monopoly over their vote and take their votes for granted.

Senator Kerry and others have criticized Bush for snubbing the NAACP convention. Here's my question to you. If you were president would you speak before a group whose president, Kweisi Mfume, said, "We have a president that's prepared to take us back to the days of Jim Crow segregation and dominance." or whose chairman, Julian Bond, who said, "[President Bush] has appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing and has chosen cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection."?

It's always been my contention that the conservative vision shows far greater respect for blacks than the liberal you-can't-make-it-without-us vision. For decades there have been buy-off-the-black-vote presidential appointments like secretaries of labor, health and human services, education, and housing. But it's been conservative presidents who have appointed blacks to top positions of responsibility and authority such as Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Republican presidents didn't make these appointments to buy off the black vote. They chose the best people around who just happened to be black Americans.

Maybe it's guilt that motivates white liberals. That's why I've graciously offered a Certificate of Amnesty and Pardon

Walter E. Williams 

August 3, 2004

Rod Paige Blasts the "Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations."

U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige today blasted what he terms the "soft bigotry of low expectations" and insisted that educators must "let go of the myths and perceptions about who can learn and who can't," so that all children can reach high academic standards.

Paige decried that "some of the biggest skeptics are those whose job it is to believe in children," noting that, "teachers who believe that certain social groups are slower to learn -- and react by lowering the bar for performance -- rob those children of opportunities to grow intellectually and achieve their dreams."

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