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Has anyone caught the Conservative African-Americans and Leadership sponsored by the Heritage Foundation? It played yesterday, in the wee hours of this morning and is on AGAIN. The speakers are Jesse Lee Peterson, Roy Innes, Niger Innes, Mychal Massie and the great-granddaughter of Booker T. Washington.
Peterson, the founder of BOND, works with inner-city kids and I applaud him for that. He is right when he says kids need parenting, to accept responsibility and to stop blaming the white man for everything. Most admirable is that he accomplishes his good works with no government funds. What I found outrageous was the way he put down 'black folk' in a setting like this. He said, for instance, "...black folks don't respect each other..." and he bragged about protesting outside Jesse Jackson's PUSH location yearly. Okay, I GET the whole do it for yourself thing but could he, by leading by example, operate WITHOUT putting down those with a different idealogy? How does it help him to put down the Congressional Black Caucus and black liberals? There's more than one path to the same place and there's no need for us to turn on each other as we strive to get to that place.
Roy and Niger Innes of CORE...well, what can I say?
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