The truth is that conservative values and goals have been deeply embedded in African-American life for generations. The problem that most white Americans never recognized this. Instead they created a myth of black liberalism. That myth largely grew out of the New Deal years when blacks abandoned their traditional Republican loyalties and became a key cog in the liberal-labor-ethnic coalition built by FDR and the Democrats.
For the next century blacks were staunch Democratic devotees. Soon the public became accustomed to regarding blacks as the biggest advocates of federal spending on welfare, education, jobs and social programs. During the late 1960s, mass civil-rights demonstrations, protests, black-power takeovers and the urban uprisings turned the myth of black liberalism into the myth of black radicalism. Many Americans now firmly believe that blacks were permanent rebels out to subvert the nation's values.
But these myths do not square with the fact that African-Americans are among America's oldest native sons and daughters. They have been totally shaped by American ideals. Going back to the 19th century, black leaders like Booker T. Washington talked as much about self-help, family values, crime and patriotism as they did about segregation and poverty.
In this century, black churches, social organizations, political and economic associations have generally advocated conservative programs of self-help and legal protest. If not for the great stumbling blocks of racism and economic exclusion, blacks would have gladly trodden the same path to assimilation as non-black groups.
Critics miss the mark when they assume that the likes of Judge Clarence Thomas and other latter-day black conservatives owe their political existence to Republican Party patronage.
While the Republicans certainly are happy to cultivate and promote them, they did not create them. More accurately, they reflect the prospering of the black middle class during the past three decades
Organizations like the Urban League understand this and have shifted with the changing economic and political winds. They have hit hard on the themes of self-help, economic independence and family values. Look the bottom line is that black America must do much of the work itself, for it is our future we must save.''
Here are The 10 basic Conservative Principles:
-Government money' does not belong to government. It belongs to the taxpayers who worked hard for it, and who had funds deleted from their paychecks even before they got to see them.
-The government that governs best governs LEAST.
-Government normally does not solve problems. People do. Big government usually IS the problem.
-Oppressive large governments are responsible for more murders of citizens than all of the wars in history.
-The private sector is where the juice of society lies. There you will find ingenuity, creativity, and the creation of wealth--provided government gets out of the way.
-Government social programs reward pathological dependency. True adults, unless hindered by debilitating physical impairment, seek independent living as free persons who are not stuck in an infantile dependency on the government nanny.
-The one role of government mandated by the U.S. Constitution is to provide for the national defense.
-Human rights are not granted by government. They are inherent and automatic. We are 'endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.' Government can only choose to recognize and protect those inherent rights.
-The right to self-defense, as encapsulated in the 2nd Amendment, is the key to all of the other rights described in the Bill of Rights. Free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, and a free press are secured and kept secure by an armed citizenry.
-Our form of government is NOT a 'pure democracy' or 'majority rule.' In a Constitutional Republic such as ours, the will of the majority is tempered and limited by the rights of the minority, which are always intact and unalienable regardless of the 'will of the majority.'
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Just as free market theory served as an ideological weapon of class war against urban workers of the 18th and 19th centuries, it is used today against semi-skilled and unskilled workers (90 percent of population) in context of what is called “globalization” — basically, production looking for the cheapest labor possible. Free market theory also serves as an argument against spending on crucial programs such as a national health-care system, public education, old age pension systems and increased environmental protections.
Far from being anything close to a free-market economy, the U.S. is a publicly subsidized, private profit economy. The common phrase “privatize profits and socialize costs” means the public pays the costs of economic development with the associated risks and bails out private enterprise when it gets in trouble. Business likes big government because it provides a safety net, in taxpayer bailouts, when bad investment decisions result in financial insolvency. Additionally, government acts in distributing wealth upward through tax schemes, protectionist measures and subsidies. The idea that conservatives want less government is a joke; they want a robust government to support them.
Free market theory is nothing other than a fraud to shield the public from the economic realities in an effort to present “markets” as neutral, detached from the political, and to disempower people from involvement in investment and production decisions that affect their lives and communities.
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