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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Mr Toure, YES they do.
But since you will not acknowledge that you will always be on your knees beggng for your “rights” from others and are entirely dependent on their benevolence.
You CHOOSE to subjugate yourself to bureaucrats and the mob. Some people are just more comfortable in the supplicant position.
Mr. Toure,
Martin Luther King would disagree with you.
It was southern slaveholders, the originators of the Democrat party that would disagree with you.
It was Democrats with the Dred Scott decision, that disagreed with you.
It was Woodrow Wilson and his segregation and his beloved “Birth of a Nation” that disagrees with you.
You are delusional. And your novels suck.
The government is their God.
Were both people who actually watch MSNBC offended?
Kind of hard to persuade atheists that there is an order that transcends the authority of the state. But of course, they all accept the premise because otherwise democracy makes no sense at all.
Yup.....the government is their God. And as the demographics keep changing in the USA he & his ilk will be ruling the rest of us with an iron fist ! Bet on it.
He thinks their "rights" come from a jar of KY Jelly and midnight trips across the Rio Grande.
Two different questions, Ryan is talking about WHY we have rights, you are talking about HOW these rights are enforced. Yes, God and nature do not enforce rights, it is up to the individual (2nd Amend) and the collective (Bill of Rights, military, local cop)to guard these rights. But the mechanism for protecting your rights is not the source of your rights, otherwise it can simply be turned against you. When people say rights come from God, what they mean is that they come from a higher source than government and cannot be expunged. Even if you are an atheist, you should be in favor of this line.
Constitution 101, geez.
This guy is a raving loon.
If rights did not come from God, Mr. Toure would not be offended. His testimony manifests the reaction of somebody who denies God to the existence of something greater than himself, which greatly offends the ignorant mind of the arrogant.
They don’t think like the rest of us.
Just because they may not be recognized by a government does not mean they're not natural, God-given rights.
That's totally lost on, Mr. Touré. He declares himself, and all the rest of us, to be subjects.
and if you don’t believe in God, it certainly helps not to believe that our rights are God given, rather than government permitted.
Then you are subject to the will of tyrants, you great @ssclown.
It’s too bad this guy wasn’t born a century ago in Russia. He could have witnessed the Bolshevik revolution and experienced all the joys of life under a government that was the source of all the rights of the people.
What a complete illiterate when it comes to history and government.
Its obvious which way the country is headed. God help my kids.
“Toure” (and this is the FIRST time I’ve seen his last name given, and I can see why) is the latest in a long line of
go-to pseudo-intellectuals whose “opinions”, in an undying fit of affirmative action, are always solicited by multiple media outlets. I guess it’s because he’s so darn smart! For one thing, he’s dead wrong when he pretends to speak for “black people” and Hispanics especially in his
untested conviction that neither of these groups believe their rights are “God-given”-—has he talked to any lately?
Does he not know about their churches, worship habits, or any of that? And it’s even funnier, and more pathetic when he compartmentalizes those three groups along with women, as though Blacks and Hispanics don’t have any women in their ranks. A total posturing moron.
There is ONE image of Toure Neblett that you always see when
they include it: a glowering menacing pissed-off looking studly type which is meant to convey fear, as if to suggest
“You better listen to me!I could mess you up, honky!”
He’s the tail side of the coin occupied by Cornel West, who of course, is “heads”.
Mr. “Niggerization” steps in it again. If you added up the IQ’s of all of the ass clowns that work at MSNBC, you would still come short of a three-digit number.
I’d like this asshat to define what his or the general population’s rights are.
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