Posted on 01/17/2017 11:30:49 AM PST by TBP
During his Senate confirmation hearing, Dr. Ben Carson, secretary of housing and urban development-designate, told a story. He said his mother was a domestic who cleaned beautiful homes. One day she asked him if he would rather live in those nice houses or the house in which he and his brother lived in Detroit. She told him that only he could decide the type of home he would eventually live in by how much he studied in school and the choices he made for his life.
Thus motivated, Dr. Carson said he went from last in his class to first, and people who used to call him “dummy” started asking him for help with their schoolwork.
He also said people used to tell his mother she could receive welfare payments, but she refused them, believing she could make it on her own without the government.
Dr. Carson said people on welfare are not “bad people,” they just don’t know any other life. He said he wants to take a “listening tour” of America to find out from people how best government can serve them and by implication how much more they can do to help themselves.
Stories about overcoming adversity, discrimination and poverty should be at the heart of the incoming Trump administration. It isn’t that government is all bad, as Dr. Carson stated, but that government is doing things it should not be doing. That is why it has become bloated, dysfunctional and detached from everyday Americans.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Ben aced his hearing. No way they could not approve him.
“Actions have consequences”, pretty subversive thought... to some.
The liberal racists will find a way.
and people like mccain/grahm are there to help
And this points up a key internal contradiction within liberalism. Liberals accept as a matter of faith that members of minority groups suffer from discrimination. And that minority group members can’t achieve without liberal help. Yet Dr. Carson is a neurosurgeon who achieved high positions in his field of endeavor without liberal “help”. So his very existence contradicts their entire world view.
Don’t forget their new little nut monkey Marco!
That’s also why they hate Justice Thomas (who is just days away from once again being the most powerful black person in America.)
Read the following explanation of the meaning of the "Oath of office" required by the United States Constitution.
As you read, keep in mind that the words you are reading were declared by a Black Ohio State Legislator who was a Bishop in the A.M.E. Church invited to give the Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon in Norwalk, Ohio, celebrating the Centennial of the Declaration of Independence (delivered within 10 years of the Civil War).
Although this outstanding historical document is readily available for reading at the Library of Congress, how many times have we heard Dr. Arnett's name cited by "progressives" of today?
In the understanding of the generations who prescribed the oath of office required for representatives of "the People" that "oath" was intended to be sacred and binding, because such an oath was understood to be a vow before the "Sovereign" of the Universe, and its violation carries penalities both human and Divine. President George Washington described it in this manner:
"Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths?"
For an amazing history lesson and sermon by the Rev. Benjamin W. Arnett, a Black Ohio State Legislator and A.M.E. Bishop, readers might want to visit the Library of Congress web site, and read the entire text of his Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, paying special note of the excerpts below which discuss and describe the nature of the oath:
From the Library of Congress: African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P.Murray Collection, 1818-1907
Centennial Thanksgiving sermon,: delivered by Rev. B.W. Arnett, B.D., at St. Paul A.M.E. Church, Urbana, Ohio
Excerpt from P. 31, in which he is discussing the Declaration of Independence:
"We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America in General Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare: That these United Colonies are and of right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that, as Free and Independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, and in a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor." - JOHN HANCOCK.
Arnett continues:
"And the names of the whole Congress followed. You see that there is Divinity in this immortal document. Can we find in the "Articles of Confederation" anything to support the position that the founders of this government intended that it should be a nation for God, and that his religion should have a place in this land. It says: "Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in Congress, to approve of and to authorize us to ratify the said Articles of Confederation and perpetual union." Thus we find this assembly thanking the Governor of the world for inclining the hearts of men. Who can move the hearts of men but God? But we find them in reverence bowing to the Governor of men.
"We now call your attention to the Constitution of the Nation and let us examine that instrument in the light of the men who formed it, and we will see that this was intended to be a Nation founded in Righteousness and Justice. What does the instrument say on this subject:
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
"Article VI says: "The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall be required as a Qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
On Page 37, Rev. Arnett described the nature of "oaths and affirmations" as follows:
"Oaths and affirmations are appeals to God, by him who makes them, that what he has said, or what he shall say, is the truth. It is the most solemn form under which one can assert or pronounce anything, and its violation is a crime of the darkest hue; one which God has declared he will punish; one that is made infamous and punishable by fine and imprisonment, by the laws of the land. Thus Christian obligation is required of every officer of the general Government, who fills any position of trust, honor or emolument. Many reports are required in the form and shape of affidavits."
The media HATES black conservatives.
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