By Greg Fuller
A BrownWatch Contributor
So Ms Parker [
HERE]
now recommends personal responsibility, ownership and faith as the
mission for the NAACP and suggest they have not embraced such tenets
all along . She is not only arrogantly wrong about the
NAACP but a purposely and insidiously disingenuous
messenger. Ms Parker is of a dubious background to be
an heralded expert on social and fiscal policy , being a former
welfare cheat , gang member and now person of faith
qualifies one quite narrowly, I think . Further,she has had
even more dubious proponents, in her brief period of
righteous acclaim ; Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity hardly qualify as
considered thinkers or policy experts .
Sadly , our nation's plutocrats use their Star
Parker's primarily to help create a veneer of legitimacy and acceptance
for their anti-civil rights, anti-just society agenda. If
she were just misguided , a big alarm clock
and some expresso might help her. But as we know this
is not a case of simply being misguided , so I suggest she
undertake a more complete review of the teachings of Christ ,
especially the passages about helping our
fellow man .
Her adopted plutocrat infused brand of personal
responsibility, ownership and faith bidding is the same " don't
fight for your rights , just bend over and take it" ,
message conservatives have been spewing since the
days of Ronald Reagan's sermonizing to the bootless
to " pull yourself up by your own bootstraps " . At the
same time they proselytize a "society don't owe you nothing "
message to the middle class and the poor , they cut
taxes for the richest among us and shift the tax burden to pay
for programs favored by the rich to the middle class and the poor ,
David Cay Johnston lays out this little slight of hand in
his book " Perfectly Legal. "
Further,
while preaching their disingenuous self-serving "help thy self"crap to
those least able to do so , these plutocrats gut labor and civil rights
laws , eliminate funding for legal aid to the poor , cut funding for
food , shelter and healthcare to the disadvantaged, pretend to increase
funding for education and flood the country with illegal quasi slave
labor .
Star Parker's patrons think nothing of funding Star Wars
like defense programs , corporate agriculture subsidies and trade
programs and policies which primarily benefit the top
managers of corporations and the wealthy. They have created an
America in which Wal-Mart is now our nations largest employer
and are to selfish to recognize that this kind of economic
reality threatens even themselves along with everyone else ; 66%
of our economy
depends on consumer spending , now ! just what are we gonna buy on a Wal-Mart incomes.
Finally , the NAACP hardly benefits from or needs consultation
from a wiling or unwitting serpent in the garden.