[no_problema]

perkins is always a good read.

i doubt that this article will find much favor among dems.

the dems like to keep blacks down on the democrat plantation. they promise them a few things every 4 years and leave them to their hate.

[jocon307]

Excellent post, a very interesting article.

Now, I wonder how this compares and contrasts with how blacks fared under the first "black" president, Willie Jeff Clinton?

[LibKill]

A rising tide lifts all boats, regardless of color.

[luvbach1]

A lot of it is about President Reagan's reference(s)to "welfare queens" ripping off the system. Somehow blacks thought he was talking about them. Of course the Gipper never referred to race.

[Missouri]

I hate to say it, the majority of people who were bashing President Reagan this week on the local talk radio were black.

IMHO Reagan was good for all America, everybody. Problem is he didn't kiss anybodies ass including blacks so I guess thats what ticks them off as a whole.

Its good to see conservative black writers like this one write such a fine article at the time of President Reagan's death.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

To hear the Dems tell it, there was a daily cross burning on the South Lawn. Yet another story that puts the lie to another Dem myth about the 80's. As such, it's another thing that's going up on my links page.

[Straight Vermonter]

Come now. Let's not speak of facts. The liberal media have told us that black and poor is one in the same thing. To speak of black entrepeneurs and black executives is utter nonsense.

Blacks only collect welfare. They live off the scraps from the big house. Just ask any media person they'll tell you.

< /sarcasm>

It's nice that the truth leaks out sometimes.

[Agnes Heep]

The simple fact that under Reagan their income was no longer losing ten to 14 percent of its value every year should have been enough to satisfy them.

[supercat]

There are two paths a person can take:

• Work for success, probably achieving it in at least some measure, but possibly failing, and having to work hard in any case; or
• Declare the system unfair, make no effort to succeed, blame one's failures on someone else, and shake down "the rich" for money.

The Democrats try to convince people to take path #2; they succeed particularly well among Blacks. When people can have a guaranteed living--albeit a meager one--without having to lift a finger, why should they expend a lot of work for a try at success that may leave them no better off than before?

[John Lenin]

Ronald Reagan Quotes

The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work.
---Ronald Reagan

[mrustow]

How much of that middle-class, upper mobility was due to unqualified people getting admitted to elite universities and grad schools and/or getting prime jobs based solely on the color of their skin?

Note that in Thomas Sowell's autobiography, Sowell said he thought that Reagan had much to offer black Americans, but regretted that the man was wholly unable to reach them. And Sowell wasn't just saying that blacks wouldn't listen to Reagan. He found Reagan lost, when it came to connecting with blacks.

[Old Professer]

Big article in today's Tennessean about Reagan forgiving a $20+M debt for Meharry College of Medicine in Nashville because he saw the good that could come from it; Reagan was much farther from the edge of division than Clinton, Carter or Gore will ever be for he owed them nothing and feared them not.