Posted on 09/01/2012 3:50:20 PM PDT by servo1969
MSNBC's Touré Neblett Reacts to Ryan's Speech: For Women and Minorities, 'Our Rights Do Not Come From God or Nature'
Near the end of his Wednesday night speech at the Republican National Convention, vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan told his audience and the nation that "sometimes, even presidents need reminding, that our rights come from nature and God, not from government."
John Hayward at Human Events noted that MSNBC's Touré Neblett did not handle Ryan's self-evident assertion very well. In fact, Thursday morning, Toure went into a bit of a tirade:
“He loves this line of ‘our rights come from God and nature’, which is so offensive to so much of America,” pontificated the MSNBC personality. “Because for black people, Hispanic people, and women, our rights do not come from God or nature. They were not recognized by the natural order of America. They come from the government and from legislation that happens in relatively recent history in America. So that line just bothers me to my core.”
One cannot prove it, but it actually seems possible that MSNBC is employing a commentator who may not have know that the source of our rights ("endowed by our Creator") was identified by our Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence. At a minimum, Neblett is in essence claiming that the recognition of the source of our rights in the Declaration was an irrelevant piety that did nothing for anyone except I suppose the now-dead white men who wrote them.
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It’s also an American thing. He wouldn’t understand that either.
Interesting that the ole boy will One Day stand before God and account for his statement.
For those who believe in God, our rights come from God. For those who don’t believe, our rights come from guns.
For Toure it is a perpetual battle of the egos. That’s really sad.
This “Toure” idiot is a latecomer to the racist poverty-pimp parade. He’s a Jesse-Al wanna-be playing the same old tired race act many years after it was all used up. Only MSNBC would hire such a racist hack (although I’ve also seen him on CNN). He needs to be told he’s an uneducated race-pimp who should STFU.
I think this needs to be clarified for people who may be Atheists. Even if you don’t believe in God at all, your freedom depends upon this idea that your rights come with your being. Otherwise, you are dependent upon some other fallible human being to tell you what you may or may not do and this means that YOU really have no rights at all. Any right that is not part of your very existence, that may be given or taken away is not a real right, rather it is just the opinion and force of some other human being. Seems simple enough.
So where does Mr. Toure’ Syndrome think rights come from?
he’d probably say something like “society.”
It's a miracle Leftists don't rupture themselves they try so hard to be stupid.
Ah, so they are really ‘privileges’ not ‘rights’ and they can be revoked at will by a ruler, bureaucracy or rule of the majority. What could possibly go wrong? /s
I think that Mr. Touré has a syndrome.
When the foundational principles of a nation are not shared by by its citizens, you got problems that an election isn’t going to fix.
So I’m guessing that if the government passed a new law saying women and minorities have no rights, he’d have no cause for complaint. Because if government can grant rights it can also take them away.
After all, doesn’t any legislature have the right to repeal its own laws? Of course it does.
What this idiot doesn’t seem to realize is that if rights originate from men, they can be taken away by men.
I thought a Toure was the latest 2-door from Kia.
MSNBC: the platform for assholes.
Poor Soul, Toure. Must be very sad to go thru life not thinking about God.
OK.
HEY TOURE! Your'e an uneducated race-pimp, so STFU!!!
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