4 Responses to “Black History Month 2010”

1. fboiteau Says:
   February 1st, 2010 at 9:22 am

   Hmm, this would be paired well with your “setting the record straight” videos.

   Black History month…

   another February of hearing liberal blacks bitch about how they’re being kept down…

   Great…

2. Nicolas Says:
   February 1st, 2010 at 11:31 am

   I just now made this video the top video on my channel and I’m going to keep it that way all month long, as I’d planned.

   Also, Bob, I can’t thank you enough for MAKING this video. during the campaign in 2008, it reaffirmed why, in MY mind, why most of my family is Republican and helped me come into my own AS a Republican

   People talk about their influences, as in “I’m a so-and-so Republican” and all that. Think I might say “I’m a Bob Parks-Ronald Reagan Republican” as you are one of my main influences.

3. Ilion Says:
   February 1st, 2010 at 7:49 pm

   A Bob-Parks-Republican … that’s cool!

4. therrendunham Says:
   February 2nd, 2010 at 4:50 pm

   Here’s some novel issues you might wish to consider:

   1. Stop exalting the GOP as if they’ve always had black folks’ interests at heart. THEY DIDN’T, and they still don’t. Better yet, how about a little CONTEXT when you bring up the laws they passed and the Dems didn’t? Most reasonable person knows that the modern GOP is not the same party of Lincoln that you stubbornly hold on to. In fact, one can argue that the democrats and Republican effectively switched platforms at various times in history. Thus, NEITHER party has the monopoly on civil rights, and neither party has the collective interests of black Americans in mind. Get over the ideology.

   2. How do you chide black folds as perpetuating victimhood, yet you, in essence, whine about being called epithets? When was the last time any of YOU promoted a grass-roots, nationwide effort to go door to door, house to house, neighborhood to neighborhood, and tell us how your party ideology is a better plan? Ever cross your mind that people are creatures of habit, and that they often stay with something because that’s all they know? Because that’s all they see? Because that’s the only thing that makes even a token effort for their support? You can’t write us off from the beginning and then cry about not getting our support in the end. It’s a two-way street, and nobody will accept that you have the better message if you’re unwilling to engage them with that message first. It’s not that hard.

   3. News flash: the Emancipation Proclimation did not free a single slave. It only “freed” slaves in those areas the government had no control in (i.e. the CONFEDERATE states). It was as ineffective as it was verbose. And going back to context, the GOP was the WEAKER and SMALLER party in those days, and needed all the support it could get.

   4. You really gotta stop with the tired haf-truths and cliches about black people not caring about education. When there’s an Asian Invasion at Spellman or Voorhies Colleges, THEN gripe. There’s no shame in being a conservative, but there has to be something to account for lying to people.

   5. If conservatives are so up in arms about Affirmative Action (which was brought into law by none other than RICHARD M. NIXON himself, mind you), then why is Michael Steele running the GOP? Are you really telling me that HE is the best qualified? Really?!!! But I digress; here’s my thing: When I see that statistically the vast majority of AA beneficiaries are WHITE women (who overwhelminingly marry WHITE men, and thus overwhelmingly have WHITE children, roughly haf of which are males), and the baseball and golf teams of Bethune-Cookman and Florida A&M are predominately WHITE, when my home state’s previous governor is an alum of NC Central’s law school, when many southern colleges and universities have financial aid and scholarship programs explicitly geared toward rural white children and white kids get minority presence grants to attend Fayetteville State and NC A&T, it seems quite obvious to me that white people have received as much from Affirmative action as they feel they’ve had taken from them. Now dispute THAT.

   Further, I’m all for ending AA IF that means you effectively eliminate EVERY preference and handout to all demographics: no more GI Bills, VA loans or veterans’ preferences in employment for military personnel; no more subsidies and grants so teachers and policemen can afford to live in the areas they teach; no more legacy admissions or scholarships for athletes in big-revenue sports who otherwise wouldn’t meet the standard requirements or because some kid plays the cello; No more protectionist tarriffs and subsidies for farmers so that they can afford to compete with foreign produce, or tax breaks to companies who want to manufacture products here in the US. Don’t just stop at racial and gender preferences, END THEM ALL. Let’s all eat what we kill.

   But you and I both know that will never happen, right? And we both know that’s because to do so would cause a greater transfer of wealth than anything conservative fearmongering could stem in its best day. Which makes the debate one of the best shams out there, because the unintelligent amongst us will always reach for the things they don’t really want and could never be prepared to have.

   6. Last point: what if this month, we don’t talk about our struggles (as if we do this time of year), but of our advances? What if, instead of defining us by our failures, we exalt our successes, regardless of political ideology? What if this month we give MLK and Rosa Parks a rest, and go in-depth on the real foot soldiers like Claudette Colvin (she was FIRST!) and Fannie Lou Hamer, of Charles Chestnutt and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters? How about that? What if we talked–I mean, REALLY talked–about our history before the Mayflower, and how we had a hand in American history from the beginning; that as slaves we were still leading and building, and in poverty and discrimination we were still producing? What if we build each other up instead of tearing each other down, and used the best of all perspectives to create a consensus platform that served the better interests of all black Americans? What if you and I worked on something like that? Really.