Conservative Black Chick

Remember when Republican Rep. Peter King, Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, held hearings in 2011 and 2012 on the radicalization of Muslims here at home?

“Today, we must be fully aware that homegrown radicalization is part of Al Qaeda’s strategy to continue attacking the United States,” King said. “Al Qaeda is actively targeting the American Muslim community for recruitment. Today’s hearing will address this dangerous trend.”

Democrats stopped short of calling King a racist publicly but howled, “how dare he stereotype Muslims?” Well, the Boston marathon terrorist attack suggests King was right and Democrats were wrong. The left leaning news media was wrong too. Moments after the attack many in the mainstream media suggested the bombings looked like the work of “right wing radicals,” even though the pressure cooker bombs used in the Boston attack are a trademark of al Qaeda.

Chechen brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who immigrated from Chechnya and were legally living in the US for the past 10 years, set off bombs at the Boston marathon finish line then terrorized the city for nearly a week.  The older brother Tamerlan posted Islamic extremist videos on YouTube, one of which “ extolled an extremist prophecy associated with al Qaeda.”

Chechnya is predominately Muslim country and according to the Wall Street Journal most various most Chechens are Sunni Muslims. The Tsarnaev brothers are Muslim, and early evidence suggests it’s highly possible they became “radicalized Muslims” during the time they lived in America.

Before the two terrorized Boston, Muslims living in America, were committing terrorist attacks on the “homeland.” The 2009 Fort Hood shooting and the 2011 Times Square bomb attempt. If the shoe fits, well then Muslims are wearing it well.

Yet in the changing face of terrorist threats to America, President Barack Obama  and Democrats are loathe to use the word terrorist and Muslims in the same sentence for fear of offending the jihadists.  During King’s first hearing in 2011, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), a practicing Muslim, said, “This committee’s approach to this particular subject is contrary to the best of American values and threatens our security.” Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) chimed in that “This hearing today is playing right now into al-Qaeda, around the world.”

After the Boston attack, perhaps Rep. Ellison can see what’s contrary to American values and threatens our security is Muslim terrorists who injured over 175 people and killed three with their bombs. Perhaps it’s time for Mr. Ellison to get off his political correctness high horse and face the facts, however offensive they may be to him.

Jackson also should take note that it was her comment not the hearing that played right into the hands of al-Qaeda and radical Muslims.  Radicals like the Tsarnaev brothers probably watched King’s hearings and thought Democrats like Jackson’s obsession with political correctness  “played right into their hands,” making it easier for them to wage terrorist attacks on cities like Boston. Democrats and Obama need to worry more about the safety of Americans and less about offending our enemies, which include Muslims at home and abroad.

Now Congress is a bunch of  “shameful” liars, according to President Barack Obama because the Senate didn’t vote for a slew of gun control amendments he demanded.  In his remarks about the Senate gun bill’s demise, Obama took his hypocrisy and insults to new heights, revealing an arrogance of power we haven’t seen since President Richard Nixon’s Watergate.

Never mind that some Democrat Senators voted against the expanded background check proposed by Senators Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Joe Manchin (D-W.VA), Obama lambasted Republicans. “90 percent of Republicans in the Senate just voted against that idea,” said Obama.  He added, “the gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill.”

No the National Rifle Association (NRA), Republicans and Democrats told the American people they didn’t think this sprawling bill with all its amendments would do anything to prevent gun violence.

“Would it have prevented the most recent acts of gun violence? In all likelihood, no,” said Senator John McCain, even though he supported the Manchin-Toomey amendment for expanded background checks at gun shows and other commercial sales.

Who do you think Obama is referring to when he uses the word “ allies” of the gun lobby? Republicans. Throughout his remarks, Obama castigated and insulted both Republicans and Congress, as if he was running an empire and they were his subjects.

“So all in all, this was a pretty shameful day for Washington.”

“But we can do more if Congress gets its act together. “

Seriously? Does Obama think insulting Congress, which makes up a third of government, is the best way to accomplish immigration reform and come to an agreement with Republicans on the government’s budget? In his gun outrage, Obama kissed his second term goodbye.

Obama might have more luck with Congress if he treated them like an equal partner rather than  lecturing members like children how bad they are or  telling them what to do as though they were pupils to his will.

Equally disturbing was the president accusing the gun lobby and its allies of “spreading untruths about this legislation” and being “better financed.” What a crock! When things don’t go Obama’s way, suddenly the definition of the democratic process is changed.

If anyone spread untruths about a piece of legislation, it was Obama, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid about Obamacare. They lied how much it would cost. And the American people had no idea what was in the over 2,000 pages of the bill because as then Speaker Pelosi said in 2010, “we have to pass the bill to see what’s in it.”

As for Obama accusing the NRA of being better financed then Democrats that’s disingenuous also. Obama founded Organizing for Action, which he claims is a non-profit but looks and smells just like a SuperPAC replete with a donate button. Perhaps it’s time for Obama to do some truth telling and stop thinking Americans are stupid.

But the biggest slap in the face Obama gave to anyone in his White House gun rant was to black America. Everyone recalls the tragic story of Hadiya Pendleton being gunned down in Chicago January 29^th, days after performing at Obama’s 2013 inaugural. The city of Chicago, from which Obama hails and represented as a US Senator, is plagued by gun violence, specifically black on black gun violence.

Yet, Obama never mentioned Hadiya in his remarks or the grim statistics of blacks killing and being killed by guns at a higher rate than whites. He uttered the word Chicago once. But Obama referred to the tragedy at Newtown and Gabby Giffords. Obama invited parents of the 20 slain kids Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut to fly on Air Force One but never offered Hadiya’s parents a flight.

The fact is the Senate bill never had a chance. It was so larded down with amendments and emotions intended to grab headlines that it fell under it’s own weight. This president truly thinks he’s special because he’s the first black president (and may be our last) and Congress must bow to his will. He’s got a lot of learning to do.

Every time I think the Republican National Committee is going to give me a break and not do something insulting, they give me another reason why neither I nor any other conservative should have any confidence in the RNC. While RNC Chairman Reince Priebus has done nothing, I repeat nothing, but talk for six months about how he’s going to attract more minority voters to the party, he thought he would keep up the charade at the RNC’s spring meeting in Los Angeles.

In a move meant to pander to blacks, the RNC invited black actress Stacey Dash to its meeting, to pose for pictures with Priebus. I guess Priebus wanted to prove he’s down with brown people. As a reminder, Dash supported Mitt Romney for president in 2012 and was attacked by black liberals for endorsing him.

Dash tweeted:

“@REALStaceyDashExcited to meet @reince tonight with my partners @patrickmillsaps & @ashleybellr at @GOP #RNC #GOP pic.twitter.com/t02KSuFBbV”

Dash calls Patrick Millsaps, former Newt Gingrich 2012 chief of staff and Ashley Bell, 2012 former Romney aide her “partners” so she knows them. But it’s unclear why Dash was meeting with Priebus because the RNC is doing ZERO to take the conservative message to black voters. There’s no evidence of any grassroots outreach effort to urban cities where large populations of minorities live or incorporating minorities into the RNC’s media surrogates’ program. Dash is stunning and was celebrity eye candy for conservative men to drool over at the RNC’s Reagan Library dinner Friday night, April 12, 2013. Consultants were downright gleeful to meet Dash.

Patrick Millsaps tweeted:

“Patrick Millsaps ‏Looking forward to meeting with @Reince with friends @REALStaceyDash & @AshleyBellR tonight at #ReaganLibrary. @GOP pic.twitter.com/1OW2a6bjF3”

Ashley Bell, who also attended the RNC spring meeting in LA along with Millsaps because the RNC can’t get enough of Romney consultants, tweeted his enthusiasm in meeting Dash with a photo:

“@Ashley D. Bell @SharonDay great seeing you today at the Reagan Library! @REALStaceyDash @PatrickMillsaps #rnc #tcot #bcot pic.twitter.com/jitIOgNpSp”

What were all these consultants doing at the RNC’s spring meeting? Getting paid by the RNC to run their same game plans for losing candidates as they did in 2012?

RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer, who unapologetically told me during a meeting in 2012 he had no blacks working in the RNC communications or political departments, tweeted this about meeting Dash:

“Sean Spicer ‏@seanspicer 12 Apr Very cool to have Stacy Dash at @GOP dinner at Reagan Library – @jameshohmann is clueless pic.twitter.com/FwnO9ARx45”

Gee Whiz! Spicer thinks it’s cool to snap photos with a black actress but apparently very “uncool” to hire any blacks to work in his department at the RNC or use blacks in its surrogate program. Until now.

I recently lunched with newly hired RNC Deputy Press Secretary Raffi Williams, son of Juan Williams, tasked with “coordinating” the RNC’s new outreach plan to minorities. I’m guessing Spicer finally checked the black box, now counting Raffi as the lone black hire in his department I asked Williams how the $10 million budget Reince announced to support the outreach plan would be allocated. Williams told me he didn’t know because they wouldn’t let him see the budget. I also asked him “What’s the plan for black outreach?” He explained he was in the process of writing it.

Shocked and amazed I told him I thought that’s what the 100 pages of Growth and Opportunity Project report was. “No,” Williams said and told me the RNC wants him to write a plan for every activity he proposes. I looked at him dumbfounded and said, “So, it will be June before you guys do anything?” No response.

Instead of inviting Stacey Dash to cocktails at the Regan Library, Reince and his band of consultants should have asked Dash and some other prominent black Republicans like Allen West, Senator Tim Scott, Mia Love and Dr. Ben Carson to take the conservative message to the predominately black neighborhood of Compton in LA. The RNC could have hosted an open house with lunch at a church, community center or library inviting blacks to learn more about conservatism. But that would actually mean doing something.

In a recent Daily Caller article on the Romney campaign paying digital advertising firm Targeted Victory $94.5 million to produce ads which helped Romney lose, the writer sums up the problem facing the GOP. “There’s a new culture war brewing in the GOP: Claims vs. results.”

In another tweet about his “friends,” Bell tweeted:

“Ashley D. Bell ‏@AshleyBellR 12 Apr

@REALStaceyDash @Reince @PatrickMillsaps together the future is bright for our Party & Nation. Stay tuned everyone! pic.twitter.com/d2MQ3fJM9h”

I have a feeling we’ll have to “stay tuned” until 2016 to see any future changes from the RNC. Priebus and others seem to be happy recycling consultants, who have a track record of working with losing candidates. Pictures say a thousand words and so does a 100-page report called the Growth & Opportunity Project. No conservative should hold his or her breath the RNC is going to do anything different than it did in 2012. Time to do things ourselves.

This article was first published in the The Guardian April 10, 2013.

I bet every liberal in America knows who Dr. Ben Carson is. But has no clue who Dr. Hermit Gosnell is. Why? Because ever since Carson spoke out against liberal policies at White House National Prayer Breakfast hosted by President Obama, the liberal media has mocked Carson incessantly for daring to be black and a conservative.

Both men are black. Both men are doctors. Dr. Carson is a renowned pediatric neurosurgeon and conservative. Dr. Gosnell is an abortionist and accused murdering live babies. That is performing ILLEGAL late term abortions after 24.5 weeks of pregnancy when babies can live outside the womb. Marinate on that a minute.

Since March 17, 2013, Gosnell has been on trail for murder in Philadelphia for aborting babies who were alive. I’m not talking just plain murder. I’m talking the gruesome killing of babies. A worker, who was 15 years old when she started working for Gosnell testified she witnessed Gosnell abort babies “screeching” and one with its “chests moving.” Still another testified “it would rain fetuses.”

Babies, who were alive, had their necks stabbed with scissors and heads severed off. Unimaginable horror fills any human soul. As a woman who has always wanted children, I ache for these babies and the pain they must have felt.

The New York Times in its lone story about the case described Gosnell storing baby parts like feet in jars, reminders of his murders. “Disturbing: that’s an understatement,” said Joanne Pescatore one of the prosecutors. “Was he keeping trophies for what he had done?”

“He lost all humanity and enjoyed killing babies,” remarked my mother. This is true, which is why it is astonishing the public has heard virtually  nothing from mainstream media outlets like NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, etc. Until this week, I admit I wasn’t aware of Gosnell’s trial. I only found out about it through twitter, as other conservatives and  liberals also admitted to me they too were ignorant of the story. The power of the American people exercising their first amendment right is a wonderful thing, something the mainstream media appears to want to suppress.

What’s curious to me is the liberal media can rant about “Mitt Romney’s binders full of women,” Romney’s tax returns and work at Bain Capital, stay at home Mom Ann Romney, Sandra Fluke’s demand government pay for her birth control pills, Todd Akin and Richard Murdoch’s rape remarks, relentless mocking of Dr. Ben Carson (see MSNBC Toure Neblett calling Carson the Republican party’s “new black friend “), Senator Marco Rubio’s water sipping episode during his State of the Union rebuttal, and more. Yet, the media can’t find the time to write about a man who has performed over 16,000 abortions in 31 years, who is on trial for first degree murder of seven babies?

Gosnell’s clinic served low-income women and  many of his patients were black. According to the grand jury report:

“But we think this was something more. We think the reason no one acted is because the women in question were poor and of color, because the victims were infants without identities, and because the subject was the political football of abortion.”

While questions abound, one stands out in my mind. As the Congressional Black Caucus whines incessantly that asking blacks for a photo ID to vote is voter suppression I find it odd they have said nothing about Gosnell suppressing lives of black babies.

The Atlantic Monthly reported: “Another provocative detail: A former employee testified “that white patients often did not have to wait in the same dirty rooms as black and Asian clients.”

All we heard during the 2012 presidential campaign was about how Republicans and Mitt Romney were waging “a war on women,” which was anything but the truth. With their collective silence on Gosnell, the media, Democrats and President Obama  are proof positive liberals are waging a war on babies, women and life itself. As Charles Krauthammer said, the media won’t report on the case because it doesn’t put abortion in a positive light and what Gosnell did was “infanticide.”

President Obama was quick to condemn the killings of grade school kids at Sandy Hook Elementary School by a mad gun man  in Newtown. When Trayvon Martin was killed by an Hispanic man, he weighed in on that case before it went to trial and said if he had a son, “he would look like Trayvon.” But Dr. Gosnell has committed crimes of humanity, murdering defenseless babies who looked like Obama’s daughters when they were born.  Where’s Obama’s voice on Gosnell? Evidently, in this case truth is a casualty of  politics.

How ironic. Our first black President, Barack Obama, gets over 90% of the black vote in both elections but seems to run from black issues like he’s running from the plague. When was the last time he gave a policy speech on the breakdown of the black family? 73% of blacks are born to unwed mothers. When was the last time he spoke about blacks’ declining wealth compared to whites? Poverty, crime and a lack of education are intertwined and a product of out of wedlock births.

And when was the last time, Obama asked why “are so many young black people using guns to kill neighbors?” as Juan Williams wrote. Instead our first black president, emphasis on BLACK, sent First Lady Michelle Obama to Chicago, a wasteland of black genocide, Obama’s hometown, to give a speech about gun violence.

“Since 2008, more than 530 youth have been killed in Chicago with nearly 80 percent of the homicides occurring in 22 African-American or Latino community areas on the city’s South, Southwest and West sides,” reported The Chicago Reporter.

If I was a black liberal who voted for Obama, not only would I be mad but mad as hell. President Obama needs to speak to the people of Chicago and blacks nationwide not about gun control but about the utter collapse of the black family which is causing this violence not gun control laws. Both Chicago and Illinois have some of the strictest gun laws in the nation.

Blacks represent 13% of the population yet according to Justice Department data from 1990-2008, “blacks were six times more likely than whites to be killed and seven times more likely to kill.” According to the Centers for Disease Control 2009 data, blacks committed 54% of gun murders.

Instead of speaking on the need for more gun laws, Michelle Obama should have spoken about the real reason blacks are being slaughtered in Chicago and across the nation. Michelle Obama became emotional when she spoke how teen gang bangers gunned down 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton after “days” performing for Obama’s inaugural.

The First Lady spoke about how Haydia like herself   “came from a good family -– two devoted parents” and that is the key to Michelle and Haydia’s success and the reason why Hadiya was killed.

“What if, instead of roaming around with guns, boys like them had access to a computer lab or a community center or some decent basketball courts? Maybe everything would have turned out differently, said Mrs. Obama. But what she should have said is “What if they had two parents” because I guarantee you the two black boys who killed Haydia didn’t come from “a devoted two parent home.”

In 1965, Democrat Patrick Moynihan wrote in The Negro Family: the Case for National Action: “the family structure of lower class Negroes I highly unstable, and in many urban centers is approaching complete breakdown” because 23.6% of blacks were being born to single mothers.  At the same time Moynihan noted blacks were becoming more dependent on welfare.

“The steady expansion of this welfare program . . . can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States,” wrote Moynihan

Today, 73% of black babies are born out of wedlock compared to 29% of white babies. Who takes care of these fatherless babies? The federal government. What is the likely future of black kids born to single parents? A future of poverty and crime.

Instead of tweeting:

“FLOTUS: First Lady Michelle Obama challenges Chicago leaders to create opportunity for all children: http://wh.gov/M6tn  pic.twitter.com/Q57FTwAtIj”

Michelle Obama should challenge “black America” to do more marriage and parenting. At a minimum, she should challenge blacks as a race to a standard that mirrors whites’ out of wedlock birth rate. The lack of parents is literally killing the black race not guns. The First Lady and President Obama should get real and promote policies that promote marriage among blacks not perpetuate a false narrative on guns.

After all, that old-fashioned two-parent household was good enough for Michelle Obama and poor slain Hadiya. Shouldn’t it be good enough for all black Americans? Shouldn’t black America be challenged to a bright future? The time has come for black Americans to take responsibility for their actions and Democrats to stop nurturing policies of low expectations that feed their pathology.