Is the liberal left helping or hurting African-Americans?
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I would have to say that the liberal left is not only hurting African-Americans but in my view disabling them for life. By this I mean the liberal left have manuevered themselves into the position of "enablers" Their first action in this regard was to enact welfare, a program that from it's inception has sent a message to many, to certainly include a very high percentage of the black population that they need not better themselves through education or find employment above the minimum wage. It also encourages single parenting and multiple illegitimate child bearing. I use welfare as an example as to become dependent on it is to become entrapped in a never ending cycle of poverty for generation after generation who have become reliant on the very liberals who have created this trap. Do you see any of these liberal leaders taking steps to reverse this apparently failed program...no they lobby to perpetuate and enlarge it as to do so grows their voter base...who wins(that's easy, it's the liberal leader who maintains his/her office) Who looses(easy again, it's the child born to a single parent trapped in the web of perpetual welfare. The child destined to immulate the same dependancy they witness of their parents, aunts, uncles and older brothers, sisters and friends. Now there have been rather recent changes to the welfare system over the last 10 years or so but if you look closely at who effected those changes you'll find they were the conservatives, most interested in breaking the cycle and elevating the living standards of all individuals, to include African-Americans from the poverty that is the welfare system. If you're honest in your review of these recent changes to welfare you will also see that the liberals (so called heroes of the African_Americans resisted and at every turn tried to block the changes  that even in their heart of hearts they know are good for the future of all Americans...That's right I said "Americans"......welcome home~~
958149
I think it means that Blacks need to stop blaming other people, generally whites, for not doing better. Blacks today have more opportunities than at any other time in history except, perhaps, immediately following the Civil War, yet instead of taking advantage of these opportunities, they insist that they are unable to because "Whitey is still holding them down." That's a victim's outlook, not powerful people who are able to determine the course of their lives. They need to seize that power and run with it and achieve whatever it is they want to achieve.
756971
Liberals are destroying this country\n\nPeace
351974
You make a good , and obvious case for us conservatives, however, you lose ground by specifically pointing to a black kid and then later calling him a loser.  Dangerous territory and destroys your credibility of those minds you are trying to perhaps change.  Unless you were purposely trying to narrow your audience to deep south white folks only.
1041235
Not necessarily FROM Blacks, but from organizations seeking to give black people assistance.  Every third job ad I read is looking for someone who is "ethnically diverse."  And when I was looking for scholorships I hated the fact that if I was black I could get a full scholorship from the NAACP.  Black people used to need more assistance, but now poverty is more equal and the people who need help are the poor people of all races.
1069960
I dunno. I have lived in the south for 38 years, being born and raised in central N.C., in a little town called Faith, N.C.. That little town was/is home to some of the nation's most powerful klansmen, and to this day has never had a single black resident. While it's true, they do have what some would consider conservative values, to call one a republican is a MAJOR insult. They are democrats. And proud of it. Go figure. I personally think it has a lot to do with the fact the Lincoln was a Republican, and they don't want to be associated with his political party. I'm constantly picked on my these old men, because I call them oxymorons. Only I'm smart enough to only do it in jest. I ain't going out of my way to offend anyone who can ghost my ass on a whim. But I remember at the age of 16, I had a broken antennae on my AMX, and one of the old guys told me my "ariel went republican on me". That's their way of thinking. When something is broken, it's gone republican.
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First off, I will tell you why the liberals are crushing the country into smoldering ashes of corruption.  I will also tell you who else is trying to destroy the country as well.\n\nTo begin with, my good and honorable friends, liberals are NOT good in their own sense.  Liberalism + America = CORRUPTION.  Why do I say that?  Okay, let's talk about the conservatives on the political level.  You say the conservatives are destroying America and the world.  You may think they're extremist religious nuts bent on imposing strict laws that say no to liberalism.  For one, they may be destroyng the country but they are also looking at the widening gap of seperation of nation from God.  For this, men and women, NO NATION can survive without God.  Explain to me why Africa is rife with turmoil and warfare?  Explain to me why the Belkan slave trade is alive and well?  Explain to me why other countries force their politics on citizens and restrict their rights?  Explain to me why the world is SO unstable right now?  Can you really do that?  This would, heck, take years and years of explaining.  Just a fiery speech washed down a filthy drain all because nobody cares to look at the reality.  Conservatives are trying to tell you to be mindful of God but are you?  The majority of Americans are offended by the conservatives more than the liberals.\n\nSecondly, why did I say Liberalism + America = CORRUPTION?  It's an excellent equation to speak of liberalism.  Look up the definition of liberalism.  Then get  back here and read what I will say.  Liberalism is based on the intellectual right to do whatever you want without arbitrary government.  That it is based on the goodness of the individual.  Hmm...  getting immoral every minute.  Why?  Okay, take an example.  Pornography is a problem in this country that chip away at America through sin.  All of the content visited by men, women, or young children are sexually oriented.  Now think of the equation I put here: Liberalism + America = CORRUPTION.  Now, if the conservatives or "religious nuts" as you call it, are bent on banning pornography, premarital sex, and advocating marriage before sex, think of liberalism as the other way around.  No man can be good without God in their lives.  No one can be a good individual, drink away alcohol, have sex with other women or men, or look at porn, and still be a good individual.  Now, with liberalism and pornography a bad equation, if it ever becomes that in reality, child pornography will become available to everyone, and every bad stuff that is banned will be readily available thanks to liberalism.  Think of the religious nuts having an agenda to oppose sensitive matters that relate to sex, crime, hate, homosexuality, etc. and liberalism the other way around.  Yes, liberalism would be BEING DESENSITIZED AND ACCEPTING THE BAD STUFF AS GOOD!\n\nThirdly, having said what would happen if liberalism had its field day, I will tell you who else is destroying this once glorious country FOUNDED under God.  Atheists, liberal activists, homosexual activists, polygamist activists, ecumenism, pornography, alcohol, guns, you name it!  Yes, I am making everyone mad by saying this but this is really true if you open your eyes to it.  Does it really make sense if you had two homosexual fathers, a teacher would explain to you that one of them is your father and the other is your mother?  What a bunch of crock.  They're two sickly men who think they love each other when they actually are blindsided into lust and worse perversion unto their eyes.  Are celebrities in love?  No.  They're in lust, in full red-hot forbidden passion that God abhorred. And after what I said, this is true.\n\nI'm telling you, men and women, LIBERALISM DOES NOT EQUATE GOOD.  LIBERALISM EQUATES GOOD/BAD STUFF ALL MIXED UP IN THE WORLD AND ACCEPTED AT FULL VALUE.  Don't believe me?  Heck, try your hand at politics and tell Bush to pass liberal laws about alcohol,
819010
All that you said is very well and good but they don't hear you they want what they want at the expense of the people and that is the way they are "i never have meet a liberal that had a soul" and probably never will they are mostly Communist or socialist to the cause against freedom and the true American people!\nI have said it before and i will say it again liberals feed on their young and they have no loyalty or morals!
1058470
Liberals identify with Jesus's compassion and the way he was always there to help the poor, the sick, and those without a political voice.  Liberals often claim conservatives don't care about the poor, but in reality conservatives simply believe the poor are better helped through private charities rather than through government programs which are often impersonal and wasteful.
828701
Ugh.No I dont.Im a liberal, but on this thing I really really agree with you. \n Affirmative action only succeeds in further spreading the idea that racism is alive and well in this country by rewarding someone simply because of the color of their skin.
1053408
Probably from the phrase "My heart bleeds for  you."  In other words, "I'm totally sympathetic to your plight."  It was applied to liberals by conservatives who have no sympathy for those less fortunate than themselves.  They firmly believe that a person who was raised by a drug-addicted mother and had to quit school to support himself has exactly the same chance in life as a person raised by a loving upper-class family and therefore deserves no help from government agencies.  Liberals, however, believe that if government assistance can raise a person's chances to make a good life for himself and be a productive member of society, then let's help out.
657152
I know! Watch this !GOOGLE! video to see how liberals are ruining our country.\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848
1052808
Liberalism is a mental disorder
253375
Thank you for making it obvious that liberals are intellectually inferior to conservatives. You've got some serious issues... I suggest years and years of in-depth psychoanalysis and therapy.
653518
Victim mentality.  Liberals have no interest in working hard.  They criticize those who do and expect them to be required to help those who are "less-fortunate".  Fortune comes from hard work, not from sitting on ones lazy a** expecting it from someone who actually DID work for it!
812338
It's not just you...\n\nThey tell themselves it is not about being mean.. they justify it by saying they know best.. that those ppl are just poor white trash or poor welfare blacks that don't work... meaning they blame them, therefore, think they are not worthy of help, etc..\n\nThe reality is that more white republicans are on welfare; although, it is a close tie. The reason is because of the lack of jobs in the vast Midwest states which are prominently white registered Republicans.\n\nThe other reality is that we, the democrats, believe in diplomacy much like when years of diplomacy brought down communism in the Soviet Union. Yet, the Republic party calls us weak just because we believe in saving American lives when at all possible.
27454
Because thats what liberals do.  Play the race card.  Why? because the democrats cant ever win without the black vote.  They have to make republicans seem racist as part of their strategy. Fortunately, a strategy that people are catching on to.