GREAT THOUGHTS FROM GREAT MINDS

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles,

Wisdom comes not from the journey, but from the experiences along the way. Success is a verb, not a noun. It is based upon what you are doing not what you are thinking.

It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That’s ridiculous. It’s fascinating that people, there’s so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I’m black. So I’m supposed to think a certain way. I’m supposed to have certain opinions. I don’t do that. You don’t create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them.

The fact is, race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident, real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counter productive. I grew up in a family that believed that you might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your reaction to them. There was no room for being a victim or depending on the white man to take care of you.

The past 60 years have seen the guilt of white liberals transform both public policy and American cultural norms. One by-product of these changes is the symbiotic relationship that has developed between white liberals seeking forgiveness and absolution for offenses they didn’t personally commit and black liberals seeking empathy and affirmation for injustices they didn’t personally suffer.

It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools…indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don’t have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

Racism exists. But the idea that because racist people exist, we all must cling to racial identity as something important and meaningful is asinine. While there are certainly people who choose to live their lives in such miserable fashion, I refuse to participate in their misery.

Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.

Those on the left who scream about income gaps choose to focus on the success of those at the top rather than the failures of those at the bottom. They conveniently ignore that liberals are the ones who have pushed the moral relativisim and welfare-state dependence that has destroyed black families over the last 60 years. And it is these same liberals who fight to keep low-income kids in failing public schools and fight efforts to get school choice.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

It is both ironic and sad that CSJ’s attack on the Gospel is so clear that an atheist can see it, yet many churches, denominations, seminaries, leading ministries, and ministers have fallen prey to this movement.

No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.

Many people see themselves as the victim in their life story. Others see themselves as the hero. Nobody sees themself as the villain.