Saturday, March 28, 2009

Black leaders' gospel of dependence

"Please, hold the hate mail telling me that I only want to show the ugly side of black America. No, I want to show the side of black America for which we ourselves are responsible and which really point to where our problems lie.

"The National Urban League report talks about black poverty, but it does not bother to point out that hand in hand with poverty are single-parent homes. That black households with two married parents are not living in poverty, and their household incomes are on par with those of white households.

"Breakdown in family and values is at the root of poor education, unemployment and crime as well.

"Blacks have the highest church attendance in the country. If we paid attention to the Gospel heard on Sunday, we wouldn't think that extorting welfare from taxpayers was the answer to our problems the other six days of the week.

"Regarding discrimination, you have to wonder what it will take to get off this convenient excuse. "Forty million white Americans voted for Barack Obama for president. That is 2 million more white Americans than voted for John Kerry in 2004.

"As the civil rights movement transformed into a government dependency movement, the original focus on law and the U.S. Constitution as the vehicles to protect all citizens has been lost.

"My friend Pastor Walter Hoye sits in jail in Oakland, Calif., for violating a clearly unconstitutional city ordinance prohibiting him from peacefully standing in front of an abortion clinic offering life literature to the mostly black clientele.

"A black pastor's civil rights have been violated as he tried to save black babies. It happened in the district of Rep. Barbara Lee, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Yet, she could care less and has done nothing. The National Urban League could care less. The NAACP could care less.

(Those who celebrate Lovelle Mixon who killed those four policemen in Oakland could care less too -- Robert)

"What's wrong in black America? You won't find the answer in the National Urban League's report."