The war-hero Florida congressional candidate speaks out:
The revelation of Senator Harry Reid’s comments referencing “negro talk” is just indicative of the true sentiment elitist liberals, and indeed the Democratic party, have toward black Americans. . . .
One can only imagine the insanity and media outrage if Reid’s quote had come from a member of the Republican party. . . . Actually, if President Obama had any courage he would demand Reid step down as Senate Majority Leader, and discontinue any support for his Senate reelection… notice I said “if.” I am quite sure the Soros money which elevated Obama to the position of President has bought his servitude.
Why am I running for US Congress as a Republican? Simple. I would rather stand proudly and be called “an Uncle Tom and a sellout” than lose my self-esteem and be considered an inferior by liberals. . . .
Read the whole thing. I’m very grateful for Lt. Col. West’s expression of a basic truth: Liberalism’s stance toward blacks — as toward women, Hispanics, gays, “workers” and other token victim-group members of the Democratic coalition — is one of patronizing condescension, telling these people that they are incapable of pursuing success as individuals, but are in permanent need of government assistance as groups.
Necessary to that worldview is the belief that there is a conspiratorial oppressor (e.g., “Corporate America,” the Religious Right, the patriarchy, etc.) against whom liberals will lead the crusade to secure the natural condition of equality that the oppressors allegedly prevent.
It simply isn’t so. This perverse Us-Against-Them attitude, based on a false mythology of perpetual victimhood and oppression, is a fiction that falls to pieces the minute you begin to examine it in any critical fact-based manner. Are the problems of black Americans (or gays, or women, etc.) in the 21st century really all the fault of demonized oppressors? Or is the liberal victimhood ideology just a sort of conspiracy theory, akin to the blame-the-Jews propaganda of anti-Semites?
A revolution in worldview is possible — to anyone, of any race, sex or condition — merely by pursuing opportunity and finding occasions for gratitude, rather than negatively seeking out causes for grievance and grumbling. You may never become rich or powerful, but your life will be more positive, pleasant and productive once you realize that there’s no point blaming someone else for your problems. Everybody has problems, and most of our problems are ultimately self-inflicted.
As a society, once we accept the fallen nature and imperfectibility of mankind, we realize that there is neither any Golden Age in the past toward which we may return, nor is it possible to legislate our way to a future Utopia of perfect equality.
Allen West is clearly a man who has contemplated these truths, who asks of life no more than he can rightly obtain by his own effort, and who urges others to pursue the same path of honor and wisdom.
UPDATE: Just announced via Twitter, Allen West will appear Tuesday on Neil Cavuto’s Fox Business program at 6 p.m. ET.
