Star Parker: The credibility of black conservatism

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STAR PARKER SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE
The credibility of black conservatism

January 15, 2005

Armstrong Williams' poor judgment in not revealing being compensated by the Department of Education to promote No Child Left Behind is unfortunate. With his stepping into the line of fire and acknowledging his errors, we'll be able to get this behind us and move on.

What impact, if any, will this incident have on the ongoing credibility of black conservatism?

Liberals, particularly black liberals, will claim this incident simply confirms what they have known all along. For them, black conservatives by definition are individuals on the make and on the take.

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An increasing number of blacks understand that their future lies in mending their communities, restoring traditional values, rebuilding the black family and helping inner-city black men get control of their lives and aspire to become husbands, fathers and breadwinners, rather than players.

The support for school choice is as strong in the black community as in the white community. As the national dialogue on Social Security reform proceeds, I am confident that increasing numbers of blacks will get the simple message that personal ownership rather than taxes and government will build black wealth and autonomy. I am far more concerned with the ongoing destruction that occurs every day in the black community that directly reflects the politicization of African-American life that has been going on for the last 50 years.

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This week we remember and commemorate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. We must remember that King's message was that eternal truths and values transcend race. Love, family, responsibility and education are values toward which every human being must aspire. Armstrong Williams made a mistake. But the message that he received funds to promote – fixing our schools and system of education – was right.

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Find this article at:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050115/news_lz1e15parker.html

Parker, a nationally syndicated columnist, is president of CURE, Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education (www.urbancure. org) and author of "Uncle Sam's Plantation."

[chomskysright]

1. thanks: I sent the coalition a message re: stupidity of Bush's SS plan

[Zenlitened]

2. Answer: Zero

[msgadget]

3. Why don't conservatives see the irony of supporting those

who want to expand cheap labor at the expense of everyone's standard of living?

The uplifiting of the poor and minorities can only be accomplished on a local level - block by block, road by road, citizen by citizen. It's neither a conservative nor liberal issue, but a community issue. Local politicians can help or harm those efforts depending on who's in office and that's the only thing that makes the effort political.

Edit for spelling.

[bobbieinok]

4. further quote

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Last week, Jesse Jackson led of band of several hundred protesters in Washington to make claims about supposed vote-counting irregularities in Ohio. George W. Bush won Ohio by over 100,000 votes. He got 16 percent of the black vote in Ohio, 4 percent more than his take of the black vote nationwide. John Kerry knows he legitimately was defeated in 2004, which is why he conceded the election in a timely fashion.

Yet, Jackson hangs on. The politics of blame takes the heat off solving real problems. He'd rather politicize the profound social problems in the black community by claiming that Republicans steal elections rather than doing the real work of fixing black families and black schools.

The politics of deflection and blame, for which Jackson can claim significant responsibility, has rooted itself deep in black consciousness and has made our problems many times worse. John McWhorter discussed in his book "Losing the Race" the cultural resistance in black kids to education because learning and studying is "white" behavior.


more....

[bobbieinok]

5. Star Parker is the rep poster child for the black who becomes rep

she was on welfare, 'accepted Christ' and became a major propagandist to convert blacks to republicans....

some years ago, Young Republicans at an OK conservative christian college featured her as a major speaker pointing out the evils of welfare.....a social work professor and his students prepared to ask her some questions about their experiences in social work and her statements....none of the questions were permitted by the moderator (a high-level school administrator) screening the questions before the talk....the students were really shocked

[displacedtexan]

6. and then there's the black homeless woman (repuke)...

who shows up at my UU church during coffee hour for free food and other handouts.

She used to be a big deal in the National Repuke Party... really bad things must've happened because she's homeless now, refuses to seek help from shelters, and still spouts repuke talking points.

I just don't get her.

But, I guess, that's my problem.

[struggle4progress]

7. The Ownership Society uses people up and then throws them away.

[Demeter]

8. Why Stop There? ALL Conservatives on Make and Take

if you don't count the dyed in the wool fascists. They are doing it for love (or hate) alone.