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WHO CAN SAVE BLACK AMERICA? (Lonsberry)
boblonsberry.com ^ | 10/10/07 | Bob Lonsberry

Posted on 10/10/2007 5:51:06 AM PDT by shortstop

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I hope Lonsberry has better success with his message than Bill Cosby did.
1 posted on 10/10/2007 5:51:13 AM PDT by shortstop
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To: shortstop

One thing that would help greatly is not getting pregnant until the mother is ready to support herself and a child.


2 posted on 10/10/2007 5:58:24 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Get Reid. Salazar, and Harkin out of the Senate.)
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To: shortstop
And if things are ever going to get better, African-American leaders are going to have to switch their emphasis from defending black America to changing black America.

Blacks don't vote for Republicans terribly often, which is a shame. But it's also an opportunity, because we really have nothing to lose: The GOP should come out and state the truth and make proposals to help black America change its culture.

I don't support affirmative action. I don't want to see more handouts. I don't want pandering. People may think we'll get more votes if we do those things, but I don't think so -- the Dems will always beat us at that game.

We need to emphasize families and faith. Oppose illegal immigration, oppose abortion, oppose discrimination. Say it clearly and bluntly. It's simply the truth, and eventually the truth will be recognized. I don't care how long it takes, it's the only way to help black America, and it's the only way to get blacks to vote Republican.

4 posted on 10/10/2007 5:59:35 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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To: shortstop

“The black family is in tatters, the black economy is badly wounded, the black future is dim.”

And they continue to cut their own throats by voting Democrat! Grrrrr!


5 posted on 10/10/2007 6:01:06 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Democrats have always judged people by the color of their skin and not the content of their character.

It is just that prior to 1960’s they favored whites and since the 1960’s they favor blacks (so long as it doesn’t cost them any power).


6 posted on 10/10/2007 6:03:02 AM PDT by NeilGus
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
African-Americans are 60 percent of the foster children

And, something like 76% are born out of wedlock. THAT, is the first thing that needs to be addressed. Everything begins there, IMHO.

7 posted on 10/10/2007 6:03:35 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: shortstop
That’s a 500-percent over representation.

Minor math error. 60% vs 12% represents a 400% over representation.

8 posted on 10/10/2007 6:07:17 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: shortstop
The Colin Powells and the Condaleeza Rices of the world
are mocked and torn down, not emulated and honored.

I never had a problem. /s

9 posted on 10/10/2007 6:08:11 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: shortstop
This guy's message has as much a chance of success as....

(fill in the blank)

10 posted on 10/10/2007 6:11:18 AM PDT by LouAvul
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To: shortstop

Democrats don’t care about blacks, they care about black votes. They need a large underclass dependent on entitlement programs to stay in power. It’s a shame.


11 posted on 10/10/2007 6:12:32 AM PDT by New Girl
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To: popdonnelly
how about "mother and father", hmmm ? It takes 2, ya know.
12 posted on 10/10/2007 6:12:35 AM PDT by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: shortstop
"Let me repeat that."

It's obviously whitey's fault somehow.
let me repeat that.
It's obviously whitey's fault somehow.

And i know just who to blame. white Democrats who pedal the perpetual welfare cycle of life blacks (and whites) get trapped into. As soon as a young girl is able, all she needs to do is get pregnant. That's her way out from under her mothers' thumb, who she blames for her poverty, but what she doesn't understand is she just started that cycle over again because without school, which she'll drop out of as soon as she gets pregnant, she'll never be able to escape the welfare trap.

She may end up having more kids, get addicted to crack, loose them to social services, but she'll just have more so she can at least have a subsidized roof over her head and a monthly check which she'll subsidize by hooking and dealing drugs.

This is the life democrats promote, the endless welfare trap. This is why people in New Orleans sat and waited for the government to do something for them, because they don't know how to do anything for themselves. They CAN'T do anything for themselves. In a very real sense, they are victims of socialism.

13 posted on 10/10/2007 6:12:40 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: shortstop

Political correctness will prevent the troubles facing blacks from being properly addressed or solved. It is the liberal way. If this article (or one similar) ran on the front page of every paper in America, we could start the process.


14 posted on 10/10/2007 6:13:13 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde
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To: shortstop

Save black America? Doubt anyone can. Sorry. The young black women abort too many of their babies, and the young black men shoot too many of each other. You could look up the exact figures on either, but the numbers would only depress you. How’d Lawyer John Edwards put it?

“We cannot build enough prisons to solve this problem. And the idea that we can keep incarcerating and keep incarcerating — pretty soon we’re not going to have a young African-American male population in America. They’re all going to be in prison or dead. One of the two.”


15 posted on 10/10/2007 6:14:00 AM PDT by flowerplough (San Francisco -- penises in male rectums, and little else. Folsom Street Fair.)
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To: shortstop

It is a group effort. Not one man on earth is without sin unless Jesus is back.


16 posted on 10/10/2007 6:14:44 AM PDT by bmwcyle (BOMB, BOMB, BOMB,.......BOMB, BOMB IRAN)
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To: Baynative

Yep.
Just like that “driver” San something game. Steal cars get into trouble, gang shootings, hide from the law, and power up on fried chicken. Oh, and learn the secret making out code so you can watch an animated making out scene.

And we wonder why they grow up and do just that in real life.


17 posted on 10/10/2007 6:18:16 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: ClearCase_guy
“...the only way to help black America, and it’s the only way to get blacks to vote Republican.”

I have believed that for decades. There is NO internal debate in the DNC, so losers are ALWAYS losers and underdogs are always underdogs.... At some point after, how many years now???, you’d think American black voters would say....’hmmm... these guys keep promising and promising and nothing changes for me. Either they are exploiting me or they are not good at doing what they say they can do. TIME TO CHECK OUT THE ALTERNATIVES!!!’ The DNC is forever telling black Americans how really BAD they have it here and that they have it so really bad because Republicans have seen to it the black Americans cannot and DO NOT succeed. Really????? Endless priorities in lending, education, employment.... and you still CANNOT succeed???? HMMMM .... Time to take your head out of your a*& and rethink It may not make you into a Republican, but it will make you a better and smarter Liberal voter. That's the way the two party system is supposed to work. Unfortunately, the RNC never has had a class to exploit... we only have people who genuinely believe in Conservatism because we know that America CANNOT succeed if individuals DO NOT SUCCEED!!!!

18 posted on 10/10/2007 6:20:45 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: ClearCase_guy
"I don't care how long it takes, it's the only way to help black America, and it's the only way to get blacks to vote Republican"

I agree, faith, family, and education is the way out. Unfortunately, when you have Satan's "reverends", race baiters Sharpton and Jackson representing the "faith" aspect of the equation, and the entire Democrat party, the black community's worst enemy backing them up, the battle is lost before it even can begin.

19 posted on 10/10/2007 6:23:19 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: shortstop
The sorry part is that their two leaders and representatives go and show up at political stunts, highlighted by the media.
No black leadership addressing ongoing decay of black families, which is at the core of everything from drug dealing, graduating, incarceration, unemployment, never ending poverty regardless of monies pumped into this society.
The very latest tops all of it:
Black leaders in New York calling for help to stem HIV infections, which for black men are eight times those of white men and for black women twenty three times those of white woman. Jackson, Sharpton, Rangel, take actions of the grass roots type.
20 posted on 10/10/2007 6:26:08 AM PDT by hermgem (Will Olmr)
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