Confessions of a Black Conservative »
Posted By btatman22 3 months, 1 week ago in Political OpinionA urine smell permeated the stairwell. In the darkness, due to smashed light bulbs, the sound of broken wine bottles underfoot echoed off the concrete walls. I was nine years old. With the elevators out of service half of the time due to vandalism, many times I was forced to take the scary trek into the shadow of death up the stairwell to our sixth floor apartment in the projects of East Baltimore.
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Editor of Fresh Conservative which highlights conservative movements and exposes liberal shenanigans. I am Lutheran, yet not fanatical in my religion. I'll worship my ...
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hyperbola3 months, 1 week ago
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Doesn't he have anything better than old stereotypes to offer? If someone wrote such a weak article about a white drunk, would you publish it and rail about "government"? Your zionist racism is showing through again.
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Tell us btatman, as a supposedly "educated" American, couldn't you find a more productive job than "editing" such a propaganda rag as "freshconservative"?
Frankly, "publications" like "freshconservative" are mere tools of the oligarchs to keep Americans dumb, docile and under control. To see how far "conservatism" has degenerated in America, one need only read what members of the Reagan administration say about the present state.
Americans: Serfs Ruled by Oligarchs
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/08/22/american...
Americans think that they have “freedom and democracy” and that politicians are held accountable by elections. The fact of the matter is that the US is ruled by powerful interest groups who control politicians with campaign contributions. Our real rulers are an oligarchy of financial and military/security interests and AIPAC, which influences US foreign policy for the benefit of Israel.
Have a look at economic policy. It is being run for the benefit of large financial concerns, such as Goldman Sachs.
It was the banks, not the millions of Americans who have lost homes, jobs, health insurance, and pensions, that received $700 billion in TARP funds. The banks used this gift of capital to make more profits. In the middle of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, Goldman Sachs announced record second quarter profits and large six-figure bonuses for every employee.....
.... Is there a government anywhere that less represents its citizens than the US government?
Consider America’s wars. As of the moment of writing, the out-of-pocket cost of America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is $900,000,000,000. When you add in the already incurred future costs of veterans benefits, interest on the debt, the forgone use of the resources for productive purposes, and such other costs as computed by Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard University budget expert Linda Bilmes, “our” government has wasted $3,000,000,000,000--three thousand billion dollars--on two wars that have no benefit whatsoever for any American whose income does not derive from the military/security complex, about which five-star general President Eisenhower warned us. -
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Striker1013 months, 1 week ago
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"All I kept hearing was that everything was the 'white man's fault'."
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It would be interesting to know the year(s) of that. Yes, it was in a way the white man's fault, for allowing himself to be taxed to build a new ghetto which took but two years to decimate, and for perpetuating a welfare rut into which so many fell and so few rejected.
That boy was so proud that his family rejoined the real world. -
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Mutainia3 months, 1 week ago
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This writer is proof to the notion that racists are wrong about blacks being all of one mind and can't think for themselves. I'm meeting and hearing more and more blacks who think like this author...PROOF that the racists are dead wrong and prejudiced. I mean, Bill Cosby isn't alone in his opinions, folks.
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hyperbola3 months, 1 week ago
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Sonehow I doubt that you know many blacks mut. Be that as it may, why don't you tell us what you think of the elements of the GOP that are pushing the race card. Do you agree wiht them and think they would make a good leadership for America?
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Sick Heil! The Hilterizing of Obama
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/08/14/sick-hei...
So why then, do they keep saying it? It is this question that I've been pondering for the past few days. What could possibly be the purpose of making an argument that has so little intellectual validity; so little indeed that it can be easily shot down by the average 12th grade European history student (who, it should be noted, would have as much education as either Limbaugh or Hannity)? What would be the value, symbolically speaking, of putting forth on protest signs this Obama=Hitler meme, and visually representing that meme, straight down to the little mustache, side-swept hairdo and swastika adornment?
And then it struck me. This analogy, as absurd as it is factually, and as offensive as it is historically, makes almost perfect sense politically, to a movement that is trying desperately to create a groundswell of support behind the notion that white people are the new victims of massive discrimination, the new victims of the Obama era: the ones who don't get picked first for the Supreme Court, and who can no longer take for granted their hegemonic power. And that is precisely the kind of movement they are trying to build, what with their equally facile rantings that white men, according to Limbaugh, are being sent to the "back of the bus" under Obama, because he literally hates white people, and that white men are now experiencing, to hear Pat Buchanan tell it, "exactly what black folks" experienced during the days of Jim Crow. Within a politics of white resentment and white victimology, the Hitler meme works. After all, Hitler was not just a fascist, but is understood to have been a racial fascist: one whose dictatorial and murderous schemes were directed at a distinctly racialized "other." So to make the black man atop the U.S. political system into Hitler, is to plant the idea in white minds that he too will be a racial fascist. And if that is the case, the question is quite obviously begged, which race will he be coming for? Ah yes, white man, see? Now are you scared?
By playing upon white fears--fears of a black President with a funny name, fears of a country that within about 30 years will no longer be majority white, fears of the inability to take for granted that our Leave-it-to-Beaver, Norman Rockwell, Boy Scout-approved national narrative will continue to predominate--the right hopes to prove resurgent, and the GOP hopes to remain a living entity.
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DenCuddy3 months, 1 week ago
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Mr President!
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Your stimulus is sure to bust
Its just a socialistic scheme
The only thing it will do
Is kill the American Dream
You wanna take from achievers
Somehow you think that’s fair.
And redistribute to those folks
Who won’t get out of their easy chair
We’re havin’ a tea party across this land
If you love this country
Come on and join our band
We’re standin’ up for freedom and liberty
Cause patriots have shown us freedom ain’t free
So when they call you a racist cause you disagree
It just another of their dirty tricks to silence you and me.
I believe in the Constitution and all it stands for.
Anyone who tramples it should be booted out the door.
We’re havin’ a tea party across this land
If you love this country
Come on and join our band
We’re standin’ up for freedom and liberty
Cause patriots have shown us freedom ain’t free
Now we’re not advocating violence
That’s what the so-called peace crowd do
We’re talkin’ peaceful protest to defend the red, white and blue
We gotta vote out these clowns who don’t love the USA
Who stay up late losing sleep fearing what the French might say
The writer sure assumes alot of wrong stereotypes. Seems to me the republicans are the ones that get offended by the french, stupid azzed freedom fries anyone? -
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DenCuddy3 months, 1 week ago
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Could it be:
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Dr. Charles E. Farmer, Professor
Doctor of Urban Ministry (Counseling), Logos Graduate School, Jacksonville, Florida; Doctor of Divinity, American Evangelistic Association, Melbourne, Florida; Master of Arts in Counseling, Howard University, Washington, D.C.; Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio. Advisor to the Washington, D.C. School Counselor Association; National Certified Counselor, National Board of Certified Counselors; Director and Professor, School of Ministry, Harvest Christian Bible College; Missions in Togo, Tenin, West Africa, Guyana and South America. Author of "The Praying Church Effects the Church Body;" "The History of Elementary School Counseling in Washington D.C. 1961-1971;" and "Practical Tips for Pastors." Pastor and Co-Founder of the Refuge of Hope Disciple Center. Licensed/Ordained minister, consecrated Bishop, member of the Administrative Board of Elders of the American Evangelistic Association.
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alanocu3 months, 1 week ago
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Libs have always played the blame game. The blame America, Fox News....they blame Bush for everything from gas prices to not being able to get a date on eHarmony.com. They blame corporations, they guilt trip their opponents, the call Republicans "Nazis....," they call people racists....blah blah blah.....rinse and repeat.....
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