Last evening (June 2nd) I had the pleasure of listening to Ward Connerly speak to a group of republicans concerned with the welfare of their country, in general, and California, in particular. Ward Connerly has had, what I consider, to be an illustrious career on the front lines, battling progressive bigotry, policy and stupidity. All to often, Connerly was left hanging by gutless republican politicians and damp diaper democrats, who couldn't muster the courage to stand up to the nonsense that CA public unions, bureaucrats and Latino racists forced on California's education system.
Mr Connerly started by speaking of his formative years, his grandmother and Uncle and Aunt who raised him. (his mother died when he was 4 and father left when he was 2). His Uncle, while only educated through the 3rd grade, was gifted. He had the ability to befriend people, put them at ease, make them feel welcome and important, with little effort, he was a natural. Ward, to this day, is impressed with his uncles talent, a talent that he himself never acquired. Equally as compelling, was how his uncle handled the racial environment of the early 50's, principally in around Bremerton, WA, where he worked in a shipyard. Ward, who was born in Louisiana in 1939, was unaware of the bigotry associated in the south at that time, having moved to Washington at such a young age and, more importantly, growing up in a household more concerned with putting food on the table than blaming bigotry for every ill. Ward wouldn't see the hideous side of bigotry until a trip to the south for a funeral, then saw first hand, the animus and stupidity of far too many Caucasian knuckle-draggers. What impressed him, however, was how his aunt persuaded her husband to bite his tongue and how his uncle obeyed, reluctantly, though angry.
Ward related how his uncle loved his country. How he understood that, even though there were far too many small minded bigots, there were far more decent people, people his uncle had no problem befriending, black and white.
Ward Connerly is a man who understands the nature of bigotry, that people aren't born bigots, they are taught to be bigots. Ward Connerly is convinced, as am I, that you can't abate bigotry by institutionalizing bigotry in the name of affirmative action. He used the example of Rand Paul and how the media and academia attacked him for his regrettable defense of his criticism of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, where he openly suggested that the Federal Govt overstepped it's boundary by forcing private businesses to abandon any discrimination based on race. Ward Connerly has felt the sting of that kind of hysterical hyperbole, mostly from people of his own race.
Connerly gave some advice to the assembled republicans: Fight like hell. He said "Republicans are too polite. Look at the tea party movement." He related how much energy the left was expending to make the tea partiers look like violent, home-grown terrorists, how, among the swing voters, the independents, the truth was obvious. It's Connerly's opinion that retaking the governors mansion in California (yes, like the rest of us, he see's Schwarzenegger a disaster) is not enough, if we are ever going to stop the fiscal annihilation facing the state of California, republicans will need to take the state house and completely destroy the Latino mafia and their goons in public unions.
Ward Connerly, like Sarah Palin, is despised by the left. I am 99% in agreement with Connerly, both in policy and tenor. The only thing I disagreed with Connerly on, was his statement that Meg Whitman was forced to take a stand on the immigration issue, that he saw that as a bad thing. I don't, I'm of the opinion that we need to take these issues straight on. By Whitman coming out and saying she was against amnesty and for removing illegal immigrants from the state, I proudly will cast my vote for her over Poizner.
Ward Connerly was everything I suspected him of being. Honest, courageous, humble, well spoken, educated, proud, respectful and patriot. He punctuated my disdain for progressives.
Mr Connerly started by speaking of his formative years, his grandmother and Uncle and Aunt who raised him. (his mother died when he was 4 and father left when he was 2). His Uncle, while only educated through the 3rd grade, was gifted. He had the ability to befriend people, put them at ease, make them feel welcome and important, with little effort, he was a natural. Ward, to this day, is impressed with his uncles talent, a talent that he himself never acquired. Equally as compelling, was how his uncle handled the racial environment of the early 50's, principally in around Bremerton, WA, where he worked in a shipyard. Ward, who was born in Louisiana in 1939, was unaware of the bigotry associated in the south at that time, having moved to Washington at such a young age and, more importantly, growing up in a household more concerned with putting food on the table than blaming bigotry for every ill. Ward wouldn't see the hideous side of bigotry until a trip to the south for a funeral, then saw first hand, the animus and stupidity of far too many Caucasian knuckle-draggers. What impressed him, however, was how his aunt persuaded her husband to bite his tongue and how his uncle obeyed, reluctantly, though angry.
Ward related how his uncle loved his country. How he understood that, even though there were far too many small minded bigots, there were far more decent people, people his uncle had no problem befriending, black and white.
Ward Connerly is a man who understands the nature of bigotry, that people aren't born bigots, they are taught to be bigots. Ward Connerly is convinced, as am I, that you can't abate bigotry by institutionalizing bigotry in the name of affirmative action. He used the example of Rand Paul and how the media and academia attacked him for his regrettable defense of his criticism of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, where he openly suggested that the Federal Govt overstepped it's boundary by forcing private businesses to abandon any discrimination based on race. Ward Connerly has felt the sting of that kind of hysterical hyperbole, mostly from people of his own race.
Connerly gave some advice to the assembled republicans: Fight like hell. He said "Republicans are too polite. Look at the tea party movement." He related how much energy the left was expending to make the tea partiers look like violent, home-grown terrorists, how, among the swing voters, the independents, the truth was obvious. It's Connerly's opinion that retaking the governors mansion in California (yes, like the rest of us, he see's Schwarzenegger a disaster) is not enough, if we are ever going to stop the fiscal annihilation facing the state of California, republicans will need to take the state house and completely destroy the Latino mafia and their goons in public unions.
Ward Connerly, like Sarah Palin, is despised by the left. I am 99% in agreement with Connerly, both in policy and tenor. The only thing I disagreed with Connerly on, was his statement that Meg Whitman was forced to take a stand on the immigration issue, that he saw that as a bad thing. I don't, I'm of the opinion that we need to take these issues straight on. By Whitman coming out and saying she was against amnesty and for removing illegal immigrants from the state, I proudly will cast my vote for her over Poizner.
Ward Connerly was everything I suspected him of being. Honest, courageous, humble, well spoken, educated, proud, respectful and patriot. He punctuated my disdain for progressives.
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