Bamboozled!

[PegLeg45]

Via Sheriff Jim Wilson on FB:

Bamboozled! The Making of a Black Conservative

by  Takia Hollowell

Politics? I knew everything I needed to know upon casting my very first vote for Bill Clinton in 1996. I didn’t know much about economics but I knew Democrats cared for the poor. I didn’t know much about history but I knew Democrats looked out for us black folks. From a young child, I was conditioned to believe that Republicans were mostly racist white men that only cared for the rich. My conventional wisdom was derived from many sources (television, Hollywood movies, the public school system, my family, etc.). For example, people such as Clarence Thomas were often ridiculed and referred to as an Uncle Tom or a sell-out on television. So quite naturally, I identified as a Democrat and conformed to my environment. There were no black Republicans in my home town of Gary, Indiana (at least none that I knew of). Local politicians overwhelmingly ran on the Democratic ticket for city, municipal and county offices. Being that my city is nestled in Northwest Indiana, it falls within the greater Chicago-land region. It is just 20+ miles away from the city of Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson, Oprah Winfrey, Louis Farrakhan, Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers. Needless to say, my worldview was heavily influenced by liberals from my youth.
In 1998, my worldview began to change as my appetite for reading my King James Bible increased. I noticed that liberals introduced legislation for churches to lose their tax exempt status and felt that this was an attack on the founding principle derived from Ezra 7:24. I also noticed that the Democrats stood for abortion, which Scripture is emphatically against. It was also quite disturbing to find out that liberals historically fought against voluntary prayer in schools. These new-found facts bothered me but I dared not tell anyone so I kept my criticism to myself. I began to have problems being able to reconcile my faith to my political association. For the first time in my life, I took a look at both political platforms and studied them. Once again, I was disturbed to see that the Republican platform fought for traditional marriage, to maintain a tax exempt status for the Church, was against abortion, for voluntary school prayer and against the legalization of drugs. Learning this opened my eyes to the fact that I had been bamboozled. Based on these principles alone, I made a secret conversion from a liberal Democrat to a conservative Republican. My conversion was so private that I dared not tell even my mother or anyone close to me. There was no way I was going to allow myself to be ridiculed with the likes of Clarence Thomas and others.
Over time my sense of faith and political awareness increased. Economically, I noticed that although our communities were riddled with government programs, they seemed to have an adverse affects on us. More and more I saw the government replacing the father in the household. The nucleus of the black family was broken. The family is the foundation of the community and as the psalmist writes in Psalms 11:3, “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” Being raised by a single mother myself, I saw how welfare gave my father and “easy out”. By no means would I ever advocate that Republicans are perfect but they were not the ones pushing for these big-government welfare programs. In fact, Conservatives don’t run any urban areas but I noticed that Liberals do. Year after year Black leaders would come to our communities around voting time and blame the conditions of our city on so-called rich white Republicans. My eyes were opened to two powerful tactics that Democrats use to keep my people in blindness: race baiting and class warfare. Their elections thrived on agitating race relations and stirring up “rich vs. poor” wars. Shortly thereafter, I could no longer remain silent as I began to open up to my family and close friends. To my surprise, some also made a political conversion, but many did not.
Looking back, I have no regrets and I thank God for His Word shaping my worldview. I am no longer ashamed to tell the world that I am an advocate of ‘conserving’ God’s principles. Any critic reading this testimony would ask, “Why in the world would you put your faith in Republicans?” I would have to respond by saying that my faith rests in God and His principles alone.

http://www.fdfny.org/blog/2011/07/15/bamboozled-the-making-of-a-black-conservative/

[Ichiban]

Their elections thrived on agitating race relations and stirring up “rich vs. poor” wars.

Exhibit A:
Jackson Lee: Congress complicating debt ceiling because Obama is black
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/171807-sheila-jackson-lee-suggests-congress-complicating-debt-ceiling-because-obama-is-black


I know, I know, it's like shooting fish in a barrel.

[tombogan03884]

One thing she got wrong, welfare does not necessarily give a Father "an easy out".
I personally know of cases where Mother and Father both got laid off so the Mother went down to apply for help, ( 3 kids )
The case worker told her she could get X, but if she threw him out she could get X+, and Y and Z and so on.
Basically the systems buys the break up of the family.

[fightingquaker13]

Sorry Peg, but that's the kind of Republican I'm against. A big government theocrat who wants the state to enforce their moral agenda. Herman Cain, I like. This woman? She wants to find a political wing for her church. That's not what small government conservatism is about.
FQ13

[PegLeg45]

Sorry Peg, but that's the kind of Republican I'm against. A big government theocrat who wants the state to enforce their moral agenda. Herman Cain, I like. This woman? She wants to find a political wing for her church. That's not what small government conservatism is about.
FQ13

Don't shoot at the messenger (or apologize to him), I don't necessarily agree or disagree....just thought it was an interesting flip-flop in perspective from a particular voting demographic.

[Sponsor]

[crusader rabbit]

Absolutely right, Tom.  The Demoncraps have managed to promote the Plantation System since the War of Northern Agression.  They are still doing it to an exceptional degree. 

But, as this enlightened young woman has testified, more intelligent Black Americans are seeing the light. 

There's a large African American chap who works out with me at a local gym.  He recently had to go to an aunt's funeral in northern Florida. He said that for the first time in his life, he felt like a minority.  "My stupid cousins don't understand that Democrats promoted Jim Crow and Republcans fought for equal rights,"  he said.

He also said that by the time the whole thing was over, he'd made a few converts.

There is still hope.

Offered by a "still hopin'" Crusader

[tombogan03884]

FQ, There were other things I saw to pick apart, but my conclusion was that while she may have followed the wrong path, she still came to the proper destination.
The sad fact is that most people don't understand how they are being conned about "the war on drugs".
Many of the same people who tell you "it's none of your business how many guns I own" will be among the first to put down their beer and rat some one out for smoking a joint after work.
There are also a large number of people who as some as they "get religion" think it's a God given duty to "fix" every one else who doesn't belong to their particular church.

[fightingquaker13]

FQ, There were other things I saw to pick apart, but my conclusion was that while she may have followed the wrong path, she still came to the proper destination.
The sad fact is that most people don't understand how they are being conned about "the war on drugs".
Many of the same people who tell you "it's none of your business how many guns I own" will be among the first to put down their beer and rat some one out for smoking a joint after work.
There are also a large number of people who as some as they "get religion" think it's a God given duty to "fix" every one else who doesn't belong to their particular church.

That's my point Tom. 
Religion is good, but not if its enforced at bayonet point. And when the oppressed Christian conservatives finally get power we find they don't hate PC oppression because oppression is wrong, but because they didn't set the agenda  (and the reverse is also true). Small government means small government regardless of who is in charge. If you just want to seize power to impose your moral viewpoint join the freaking Taliban and be honest about it. You are not a patriot, you are a theocratic statist, sorry to disappoint you. Left, right or otherwise, the debate is between statists and individualists. The rest of it is a load of crap.Rant over.
FQ13

[tombogan03884]

Most people are to stupid to vote properly based on common sense or by looking at the experiments of the past and going by the result, the scientific method I use is to much work for most people.
As long as it puts their vote in our column we have to accept it, just try to keep them out of office.
The sad fact is that most Americans today only object to the Taliban because they are Muslims. If the Taliban were preaching their particular brand of Christianity they would have no objection at all, they would be right out there stoning rape victims.
The truth is that most modern Americans, had they been in 1930 Germany would have been perfect little Nazi's.

[Solus]

I'll take the safe course and agree with both FQ and Tom.

It's better she is voting Republican for the wrong reasons than voting Democrat for the wrong reasons like she used to do.