Mrs. Obama, what about our boys?
Posted in Liberated Musings by R Lee Wrights on November 30th, 2009 by Jessica Peck Corry
As Michelle Obama touched down in Denver today to promote her efforts to connect America’s public school students with professional mentors, she declined to send an invitation to one population who could most benefit: our city’s neglected boys.
The First Lady’s packed schedule started with a closed “girls mentoring luncheon” at the Governor’s Mansion on Logan Street. Next, she’ll gather with other state and national figures in meeting with female students from area schools. The high profile list of mentors included actresses Susan Sarandon and Fran Drescher. Also taking part are beltway heavy hitters, including Labor secretary Hilda Solis, Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson.
The visit comes just days after Obama hosted a “Women of Excellence” outreach event at the White House, where 20 girls were paired with 20 mentors, and participants were treated to appearances by singers Sheryl Crow and Alicia Keys. Obama says she hopes to provide successful female role models to a greater number of students. As the Denver Post reported Friday, “During the launch of the program at the White House 10 days ago, Michelle Obama told the students she felt it important they have mentors who could help them and listen to their concerns.”
To take as fact opinions uttered by those feathering their own nests and/or the nests of their fellow comrades against the people is a grave error. Avoiding such errors requires vigilance and knowledge, neither one of which one is likely to acquire from mainstream media, public “education”, and officials dedicated to masters determined to take the people’s property, all the while treating our people as less than human.
When I was 20 years old and preparing to vote in my first Presidential election, a man came to speak on the campus of Texas A&M University about his new party and his campaign for the Presidency. That man was Ed Clark, the first Libertarian candidate on the ballots of all 50 states. He spoke of a vision of government which combined fiscal responsibility with social humanism.
“If a person is decent and a pro-government American patriot, he or she is not intelligent. If a person is intelligent and a pro-government American patriot, he or she is not decent. And if a person is decent and intelligent, he or she is not a pro-government American patriot.”
By now, you have probably heard the bad news regarding Saturday night’s vote on the anti-gun ObamaCare bill.
There is some really good news out there politically. America has a two-party electoral system, meaning that third parties such as ours have problems with winning elections. Fortunately, the national Republican Party is preparing to get out of our way by committing political suicide and transforming itself into a regional party of eccentrics, namely the Party of Southern Sectarian Christian White Male Conservatives. Liberal Democrats have proposed for them a new political mascot: GOPY the Gopasaurus, a red-white-and-blue dinosaur speeding to extinction.
This post is in response to a Facebook conversation resulting from the question: Should we put God back in Schools?
