Posted on 08/25/2004 6:52:06 AM PDT by mhking
In two weeks, Republicans from around the country will convene in New York to rally in support of President George W. Bush, and to listen to an exuberant 20-year-old named Princella Smith.
Smith earned her plane ticket to the Big Apple by authoring the winning entry in MTV's Choose or Lose Stand Up and Holla! essay contest, and she'll deliver her words to the 2004 Republican National Convention next Tuesday. The rural Arkansas native's essay, selected by her peers on ChooseorLose.com from more than 1,000 entries, discusses her support of Bush and his call for young people "to do nothing less than change the world."
Smith, who got her royal first name from a compromise between her mother (who said she was a "gift from the prince of heaven") and her grandmother, Maggie-Ella (who was insulted that none of her offspring had named a child after her), is actively engaged in changing the world. Working through her church and her university, Smith has donated her time to initiatives that aid the needy and assist the home-bound, and she's worked extensively with her peers by tutoring students and volunteering with after-school programs.
She credits growing up in rural Arkansas with giving her a "great sense of community and a sense [that] community service is a way of life," and Smith said she feels that activism on behalf of young people is important because "with society changing, there is more for kids to get into, such as violence and drugs."
In her speech, Smith will urge her peers not to let their generation be compared to Generation X, which many characterized as slackers. Instead, the youth of today must be "Generation X-ample."
Naturally, she also encourages them not to slack on voting day. "With the margin of error being so small [this year]," she said, "our vote will carry much weight."
To read Smith's winning essay, as well as the essays of the other finalists, click here.
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We have the privlige of uniting under a leader, President George W. Bush, who calls us to a higher purpose. Instead of Generation X, he inspires us to be what I call Generation X-ample ... our generation of 18-year-old soldiers can take a stand against the horrors of terrorism in order to bring peace and democracy to those who have no hope ... The President has called on our generation to move out into the world and adhere to the chare of service: to volunteer in school tutoring programs through the No Child Left Behind Act; to get involved with after-school programs; to volunteer with church-sponsored events that aid the shut in and assist the need; and to engage in charity ...
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God Bless her. She is an inspiration.
What a refreshing article. This young lady has a wonderful outlook on life and a beautiful smile.I'm looking forward to hear her at the convention.
She is black female....how can this be??!?!! Democrats lose yet another slave off the liberal plantation.
Go Pricilla!
Do you know when she will be speaking? WOUld love to listen in.
Agreed, I will be listening.........
God Bless her! She is a great American. I hope she gets some tv time.
bttt
Give her the speaking slot that Alan Keyes believes he's entitled to.
How did a conservative win an MTV essay contest? I'm surprised they didn't round-file it the second they saw that she was a Bush supporter.
She's a keeper, though. With that attitude, she'll go as far as she wants in life!
}:-)4
"Generation X-ample." You Go Girl!
Beautiful on the inside and outside. What a smile.
So where's her essay, I couldn't get there from here.
The paragraph below the link is the essay - MTV's site is so convoluted with Flash links and other crap that I just posted it here rather than link to it.
From the RNC press release on her essay:
NEW YORK - The 2004 Republican National Convention and MTV's "Choose or Lose: 20 Million Loud" campaign today announced Princella Smith of Wynne, AR, as the winner of the "Stand Up and Holla!" essay contest. Princella was announced as the winner on MTV's Total Request Live (TRL) this evening and will join Republicans from across the nation as they convene at Madison Square Garden this month to re-nominate President George W. Bush. Princella will take the stage as an official program participant and ad dress the nation on Tuesday, August 31. Convention officials also announced that each of the top ten finalists for the contest have been invited to attend the convention. MTV's "Choose or Lose: 20 Million LOUD" aims to get 20 million young voters, aged 18-30, to the polls in November.
So let me get this straight: MTV has a contest in which essays are submitted about political issues. Voting for the best essay is conducted on the MTV website Chooseorlose.com. A conservative, Bush supporting, young black woman wins via the votes by her peers.
That must be driving the people at MTV bonkers. Absolutely bonkers.
Haha! Good for her.
How long do you think it'll take the media to talk her down, though. Any Black-American is being very brave to publicly admit they are conservatives...how sick is that!
Wow! Congratulations Princella Smith! I'll be tuning in to listen to her speech!
She does have a beautiful smile.....beauty and brains is a nice mixture!
Did you hear that the networks aren't going to cover Giuliani at the convention, supposedly Arnold has more "star" power, so they'll cover him, but not Rudy...
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