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Ted Nugent: Black pride can turn this tide
Waco Tribune Herald ^ | 2/24/08 | Ted Nugent

Posted on 02/24/2008 6:32:09 AM PST by McLynnan

Ted Nugent: Black pride can turn this tide Solemn challenge amid celebration

By Ted Nugent, Texas Wildman

Sunday, February 24, 2008

This month black Americans have much reason for pride and celebration.

Black History Month showcases an American historical portrait that is fascinating and rich — a canvas graced with revered scholars, inventors, civic leaders, athletes, statesmen, entertainers and soldiers.

Rosa Parks has always been my hero. I dedicated one of my platinum albums to her. Her brave, intelligent defiance embodies the American spirit that fuels my life. Her simple act of refusing to sit at the back of a bus blazed a new trail that changed America for the better.

As a musician, all of my musical influences are black, from Chuck Berry and James Brown to numerous Motown legends. My rhythm-and-blues guitar howls in the night thanks to these musical pioneers who blazed musical trails for others to follow. Trailblazers rock.

That being said, my pragmatic modus operandi has always been to focus on a flat tire rather than to admire three tires full of air. After all, the vehicle will not meet its mobile potential with one tire flat.

So while February is designated as a month to celebrate, we should also identify things bad and the ugly in order to continue to upgrade.

Though institutional racism is largely a dead and rotting carcass, race hucksters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton continue to pour gas on fading embers. These irresponsible race baiters should be scorned and ignored. They serve no good but to themselves.

Though the condition is hardly exclusive to them, statistically way too many black men are shirking their duty to be fathers, causing their children to be raised by mothers or grandmothers alone. This is a recipe for cultural genocide. Children of single parents have a much higher likelihood of getting involved in crime and drugs, and of dropping out of school.

When attending my son's basketball games, I am appalled at the sight of teenage girls toting babies in their arms. An inordinate number of these teen moms are black. These young women are obviously not emotionally or financially equipped to provide for their young children. The problem is so significant that some high schools provide day care at taxpayers' expense. When babies are having babies, something has gone terribly wrong.

Horror stories

Black-on-black crime is an epidemic in cities such as my former hometown of Detroit, though the brutal horror stories of black-on-black crime do not vary much from city to city. Much of the crime is fueled by drugs and gang bangers. Though blacks are just 12 percent of the population, black men fill roughly half of the cells of our prisons and jails.

It did not used to be this way. Just 50 years ago the black family was strong. The runaway crime wave that has swallowed our inner cities was absent. Teenage pregnancy was the exception. Drug abuse was minimal.

So what happened? One explanation is black America's surrender to the white liberal political establishment and its grand, wasteful social welfare programs.

Those initiatives have not helped black Americans. Instead, they have destroyed so many of all colors with the curse of dependency.

Instead of continuing to embrace liberal politicians and out-of-control government programs, black America should rise up in political revolt.

Recognize who the real enemies have been. A quick study of the two political parties will identify which one has worked to destroy families and communities with covert lies and wasteful government programs. Those programs have achieved nothing but despair and destruction.

My advice: Quit supporting the party that is symbolized by an ass.

It is often said that those who forget history are bound to repeat it.

Black America can and must do better. History will judge accordingly. May God be with us.

Ted Nugent is a Waco-based musician and television show host. Contact Ted directly at tednugent.com.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackhistorymonth; nugent; texaswildman
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To: McLynnan

Yea, I hear you talking Ted but the only ones that are going to listen are few and far between. Blacks in general are only going to listen to the ones that are dragging a dollar bill behind them.


21 posted on 02/24/2008 7:42:16 AM PST by vetvetdoug (Just when one thinks life is strange, it gets stranger.)
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To: McLynnan
If you want the story of a true hero, an absolutely amazing man, who happened to be an African American, google Mr. Vivien Theodore Thomas, a Memphis (later Baltimore) janitor with no more than a high school education who invented open heart surgery.

I met him once. The technique he developed and taught to Dr. Alfred Blalock (and countless others) saved my brother's life back in 1945.

22 posted on 02/24/2008 7:47:08 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: McLynnan

Good read. Thanks for posting it. It is a shame that both white and black America has chosen liberalism to be their new master with its parade of self-serving “leaders” who know what’s best for them and will take care of them while they, in turn, surrender bit by bit their liberty, freedom, quality of life and their responsibility. It sometimes amazes me that we have survived and prospered as a nation and as a society with this cancer continuing to grow and spread these last few decades.


23 posted on 02/24/2008 7:48:15 AM PST by GBA ( God Bless America!)
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To: McLynnan
My advice: Quit supporting the party that is symbolized by an ass.

Way to go, Nuge!

24 posted on 02/24/2008 7:53:59 AM PST by beckysueb (Pray for our troops , America, and President Bush)
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To: GBA

Great post. That says it all.


25 posted on 02/24/2008 7:58:50 AM PST by beckysueb (Pray for our troops , America, and President Bush)
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To: McLynnan

I do love this man..he says what needs to be said..BTW he does not live in WACO..He lives on a Ranch near Crawford Texas..


26 posted on 02/24/2008 8:00:12 AM PST by PLD
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To: PLD
He lives on a Ranch near Crawford Texas..

True, he has a ranch in China Spring across the highway from Crawford. They also bought property in Waco supposedly to take advantage of school athletic programs for their son. Shemane also writes a column for the Waco Tribune Herald on fitness for their monthly magazine.

27 posted on 02/24/2008 8:16:02 AM PST by McLynnan
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To: Gator113
....wish that guy was my neighbor,

wish that guy was my P R E S I D E N T !

28 posted on 02/24/2008 8:16:20 AM PST by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: McLynnan

Great message. Jesse and Al on scene to call him a racist in 3...2...1...


29 posted on 02/24/2008 8:22:56 AM PST by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: RepublitarianRoger2

I like it too. My new tagline tribute to Ted.


30 posted on 02/24/2008 8:54:47 AM PST by Mygirlsmom ("My advice: Quit supporting the party that is symbolized by an ass." Ted Nugent)
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To: norraad

“wish that guy was my P R E S I D E N T !”

Start a “DRAFT NUGE” movement for 2012?


31 posted on 02/24/2008 8:59:03 AM PST by Old Student (We have a name for the people who think indiscriminate killing is fine. They're called "The Bad Guys)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
The KKK’s roots have always been within the Jim crow party.
32 posted on 02/24/2008 9:26:02 AM PST by W. W. SMITH
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To: McLynnan
statistically way too many black men are shirking their duty to be fathers, causing their children to be raised by mothers or grandmothers alone.

Bill Cosby said the same thing and look what happened to him...

33 posted on 02/24/2008 9:27:58 AM PST by John123 (Socialism is the best choice for those too stupid to be liberals...)
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To: McLynnan
My advice: Quit supporting the party that is symbolized by an ass.

And WHY is this man not our candidate for 08?

34 posted on 02/24/2008 9:31:58 AM PST by John123 (Socialism is the best choice for those too stupid to be liberals...)
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To: McLynnan

Great post - Ted Nugent truly has Soul. Black America cannot hear this message often enough: stop following those who are destroying your families and your futures, because you have very little time left before it’s too late.


35 posted on 02/24/2008 9:37:29 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (Kill the terrorists, secure the borders, and give me back my freedom.)
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