“The Kerry-Edwards ticket is perhaps the wealthiest team to ever run for the White House. Do blacks really need these guys, with their $2,000 suits and $300 haircuts, telling them that they need government to solve all their problems, decide where and how to educate their kids and provide for their health care,” writes Star Parker.
Oh, to be nationally syndicated! I love writing, any sort of writing: blog, columns, journal. But it would be nice to have a national audience. Star’s column was recently syndicated, and in her latest she comments on Al Sharpton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention. In “Sharpton A Good Fit For Democrats”:
My particular concern is the destructive and wrong message that Sharpton delivered to all African-Americans in inner cities around our country who listened to his address. What did he tell them? That government doesn’t care about your personal life, your moral life or how you conduct yourselves as citizens and as people. But it is the government’s job to “guarantee” that food is in your refrigerator.
This is exactly what a community that is being torn apart by AIDS, illegitimacy, abortion, crime and 50 percent school dropouts needed to hear. Particularly from someone who calls himself a minister.
Sharpton then went on to infer that without political intervention, Clarence Thomas would never have gotten through law school. Another beautiful message to black children. You’ll never make it on your own. You’re a basket case without government. Don’t even believe that that black man who is a justice on the United States Supreme Court is there because of his brains and talent.
Is it any wonder that we have problems in the black community? In the Al Sharpton view of the world, blacks who are making it in our country today fall into two categories: those who are making it because government makes it possible for them to make it, and those who are making it because they have sold out and have been bought off by the white establishment.
The idea that a black man or woman has innate ability and can make it under any circumstances with faith, values and hard work is either incomprehensible to Al Sharpton or an idea that he perceives too incompatible with his career path to be given any credence.
I find Sharpton’s rise to the national stage embarrassing. That’s all I have to say for now. If you feel compelled to read his speech, here it is .
See also:
“Massacre at Freddy’s in Harlem”
