Black Conservatives on C-Span

[msgadget]

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?

[candy331]

1. I saw about as much of it as I could stomach in a setting. How does

anyone think that by changing political sides is what will answer all problems is a hoot. I see these people as lacking in reason, why don't they find some middle ground and do the work of helping and not be tied to any political party.

[msgadget]

3. Not only that,

they have a veritable hit list of blacks they evidently love to hate with Jesse Jackson and Maxine Waters heading that list. And, if I'd heard one more time that we don't need a leader because, '...we have a leader and his name is **" I'd have done damage to the tv.

I'm not a victim and I don't expect to get anything because I'm a black woman and there's sure as hell nothing unique about me. To hear them talk though, one would think my being a liberal makes me an anarchist with a persecution complex who hates the government, disrespects the police and lives for entitlements. They revel in advancing dangerous stereotypes based solely on whether blacks are liberal or conservative...and did that in a white institution!

[mandyky]

2. I didn't watch, but Peterson is on now

Sat Feb 26 745AM