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August 20, 2009
"Back on Uncle Sam's Plantation" by Star Parker
Back on Uncle Sam's Plantation
by Star Parker
Six years ago I wrote a book called Uncle Sam's Plantation. I wrote the book to tell my own story of what I saw living inside the welfare state and my own transformation out of it.
I said in that book that indeed there are two Americas -- a poor America on socialism and a wealthy America on capitalism.
I talked about government programs like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS), Emergency Assistance to Needy Families with Children (EANF), Section 8 Housing, and Food Stamps.
A vast sea of perhaps well-intentioned government programs, all initially set into motion in the 1960s, that were going to lift the nation's poor out of poverty.
A benevolent Uncle Sam welcomed mostly poor black Americans onto the government plantation. Those who accepted the invitation switched mindsets from "How do I take care of myself?" to "What do I have to do to stay on the plantation?"
Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems -- the kind of problems that are inevitable when individuals turn responsibility for their lives over to others.
The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city schools, and broken black families.
Through God's grace, I found my way out. It was then that I understood what freedom meant and how great this country is.
I had the privilege of working on welfare reform in 1996, passed by a Republican Congress and signed 50 percent.
I thought we were on the road to moving socialism out of our poor black communities and replacing it with wealth-producing American capitalism.
But, incredibly, we are going in the opposite direction.
Instead of poor America on socialism becoming more like rich American on capitalism, rich America on capitalism is becoming like poor America on socialism.
Uncle Sam has welcomed our banks onto the plantation and they have said, "Thank you, Suh."
Now, instead of thinking about what creative things need to be done to serve customers, they are thinking about what they have to tell Massah in order to get their cash.
There is some kind of irony that this is all happening under our first black president on the 200th anniversary of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln.
Worse, socialism seems to be the element of our new young president. And maybe even more troubling, our corporate executives seem happy to move onto the plantation.
In an op-ed on the opinion page of the Washington Post, Mr. Obama is clear that the goal of his trillion dollar spending plan is much more than short term economic stimulus.
"This plan is more than a prescription for short-term spending -- it's a strategy for America 's long-term growth and opportunity in areas such as renewable energy, healthcare, and education."
Perhaps more incredibly, Obama seems to think that government taking over an economy is a new idea. Or that massive growth in government can take place "with unprecedented transparency and accountability."
Yes, sir, we heard it from Jimmy Carter when he created the Department of Energy, the Synfuels Corporation, and the Department of Education.
Or how about the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 -- The War on Poverty -- which President Johnson said "...does not merely expand old programs or improve what is already being done. It charts a new course. It strikes at the causes, not just the consequences of poverty."
Trillions of dollars later, black poverty is the same. But black families are not, with triple the incidence of single-parent homes and out-of-wedlock births.
It's not complicated.. Americans can accept Barack Obama's invitation to move onto the plantation. Or they can choose personal responsibility and freedom.
Does anyone really need to think about what the choice should be?
Wild Thing's comment.......
Star Parker should get more press she is good.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at August 20, 2009 06:45 AM
Comments
Good article. She mentions how this is happening under a Black president. Something that's not talked about in history books is that many "free" Blacks owned slaves. One of the largest slave owners in New Orleans was a Black woman and he son's. Blacks in Africa were sold to slave traders by their own tribal chiefs and elders. Didn't we read somewhere that Obama's African family and ansestors were tribal leaders?
Posted by: BobF at August 20, 2009 07:30 AM
One of the main rersons she does not get more press, is that she is not a PC black spokesman. The same can be said If Dr. Thomas Sowell.
The media does not want to hear, nor can it handle another point of view.
I was just watching a You Tube of a MSNBC panel discussing the gun toting man at the Phoenix Obama rally. The pictures they used were of the weapon only. The comments were how gun toting Whites were a danger to the society, etc.,etc,. The irony of course is that the man carrying the assault rifle was black. An 'inconvienient black,' like the two previously mentioned.
Posted by: SEAN. at August 20, 2009 11:09 AM
BobF., thanks for the information about
the New Orleans woman.
I am not sure about Obama. You remember
better then I am about that.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 20, 2009 11:16 PM
SEAN, your right, and I really like
Dr. Thomas Sowell he is excellent. Our
paper will have one of his columsn every
so often.
Thanks SEAN for the information about the
mand with the gun at the Phoenix Obama rally.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 20, 2009 11:18 PM
Ms Parker just talks common sense. But when something is offered as "free", many people jump on the bandwagon.
Posted by: TomR at August 21, 2009 01:30 AM
