The Conservative Brotherhood

The story below caught my eye this morning on the news. It's another example of the senselessness in the black community.......

(AP -- 12/27/05 -- DURHAM) - Durham police looked Tuesday for a 17-year-old in a shooting that left one teenager dead and another wounded outside a busy shopping mall.

Lamar Bass has been charged in warrants with murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and going armed to the terror of the public, police said.
Lazarren Tyqwan McLean, 16, known as Qwan, was pronounced dead at Northgate Mall after a fight that began on a bus escalated in the mall parking lot about 6 p.m., authorities said. Quinzell Nahdee Williamson, 19, was in serious condition Tuesday at Duke University Hospital, police said.

I PROPOSE that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, rather than unequivocally deciding to save Stanley Tookie Williams or send the convicted murderer to his death next week, instead conditionally postpone his execution.

The governor should then immediately convene a summit, including not only clergy, grass-roots leaders and elected representatives such as Maxine Waters and Diane Watson, but also current and former Bloods and Crips. The deal: He will spare Williams' life, but only as long as these leaders can keep young black men from killing each other.

In other words, for every 30 days of peace, Tookie receives a stay of execution. Should there be any gang-related killings in L.A., Tookie's fate will be sealed — not by the governor but by the young men who have been clamoring that Williams be spared and the leaders who say they are determined to save black lives. (And those leaders should be the ones to set the murder-acceptability level — at zero tolerance or massacre levels; let it be up to them.)

South African Bishop Opposes Vatican's Ban on Condoms
A Catholic bishop in South Africa has become a leading opponent of the church's ban on the use of condoms.

Bishop Kevin Dowling presides over Rustenburg, an impoverished mining town that has been ravaged by HIV/ AIDS. With so much suffering caused by the virus, Dowling considers the Vatican's ban morally unacceptable.

The Bishop works with young single mothers and their children who have HIV/AIDS. They live around the mine to sell themselves to the men who work in the mines. Presumably when these men go home to their wives they infect them as well. No mention was made of teaching these women some life skills so that they don't have to make a living by selling their bodies. Nope, let's just push condoms at them (getting made at those who challenge the world's dependence on condoms) and let them continue in a lifestyle that devalues them and will lead to their deaths.

The piece below is written by Dr. Lawrence Reed, President, Mackinac Center for Public Policy (www.mackinac.org),a research and educational institute headquartered in Midland, Michigan.

Africans Whom Westerners Should Heed

http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=7447

(Editor’s Note: A slightly revised version of this essay by Mackinac Center President Lawrence W. Reed appears in the December 2005 issue of "The Freeman," the journal of the Foundation for Economic Education — www.fee.org.)

At the G-8 Summit in Scotland this past July, European and North American politicians (all of them white) cried crocodile tears for the plight of black Africans. Echoing a gaggle of actors, rock stars, socialist ideologues, Third World dictators and other learned economic development experts, they called for another transfer of wealth from developed nations to the undeveloped ones of Africa — which, by most measures, would seem to exclude no country on the continent.

This is the real reason why Black people in Detroit cannot compete politically:

1. Blacks here support a governor because she is a Democrat.

Ask yourself what has Governor Jennifer Granholm done to help the needs of Detroiters? This is the same white woman that paraded herself around prominient African-American ministers and even gave off a vibe that she was even African-American herself. However, she has blocked educational options in Detroit, reduced revenue sharing from Detroit, promotes raising taxes and has done very little to help reduce insurance rates in Detroit. How many times has she sold Black people up the river?

Recently, I ran across a website entitled "Democrats For Values" and to me it look like a cross between the socialist party and the unions. I am going to conentrate on two items they have under "issues."

(1)Education

"We believe all children deserve a quality education that should not be determined by what area of the community you live. We also believe value based education should be promoted in a safe learning environment. We believe that schools should be more accountable for the standard of education they provide."

I would believe this if the unions did not coach them what to say. Anyone that knows me know I am huge on educational options and I would not have it any other way. It kills me how these teacher unions in this country claims if the "government" pours in more money into the school system it schools will get better. This is no more than an 20th century, archaic and chaotic way of thinking.

When you hear the words South LA what comes to mind? Do you think of great times with family and friends, shopping and listening to music in Leimert Park, attending church and going to the local spot for breakfast or driving through neighborhoods of historic single family homes? Or do you think of gangs, Boys N the Hood, gangsta rap, or riots?

Join us again as we discuss the past, present and future of South Los Angeles on Wednesday, November 16th from 6-9 pm at "Rebuilding South LA: Images, Perceptions, Reality and its Impact on Development in South LA." Moderated by Councilman Bernard C. Parks, come hear a panel of industry experts address the impact of South LA's public perception on both housing and commercial development opportunities.

FYI: The NBRA.

Our vision is that black Americans will become power players in the political arena so that they can seize control over their own destiny and move into our ownership society through small business and home ownership.

MISSION: The mission of the National Black Republican Association (NBRA) is to be a resource for the black community on Republican ideals and promote the traditional values of the black community which are the core values of the Republican Party: strong familes, faith in God, personal responsibility, quality education, and equal opportunities for all.

For Release: November 3, 2005
Contact: David Almasi at (202) 543-4110 x11 or project21@nationalcenter.org

Black Activists Denounce Racialist Milwaukee Newspaper Editorial

Journal Sentinel Accuses Clarence Thomas of Not Representing Black America

Members of the black leadership network Project 21 are condemning a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial in which United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas is said to need as "asterisk" next to his name with regard to his race because he "does not represent the views of mainstream black America."

In an editorial written by Greg Stanford that appeared in the October 31 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that was largely critical of the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, Stanford also chose to take issue with Justice Thomas's racial allegiance. The editorial stated: "In losing a woman, the court with Alito would feature seven white men, one white woman and a black man, who deserves an asterisk because he arguably does not represent the views of mainstream black America."

I just had a brainstorm. I think the first thing we ought to do is start finding out who we ought to use as a gallery of folks to replace the two or three that get mentioned gratuitously in strawman arguments against the whole of black conservatism. So as I'm putting together the blogroll and generally adding to the site, we can start contributing here. Just put them in the comments. Living or dead, the goal is 100 black conservatives Americans should know.