Just found out another one just became friends with me yesterday.
And she is hardcore Palin and the tea party.
Go figure??
From my friend on another board. She just posted this:
"It's probably a good idea for me to let everyone know that I am very passionate about my political views, and for those who have visited my ________ via my husbands ______, there is no doubt a level of surprise that they experience when they discover that I promote my conservative views and ideology, unashamedly and boldly, here on FaceBook, on Twitter, on Team Sarah, on AACONS (African American Conservatives), Twitter, and on my Blogspot page.
While many of the folks who ask me to __________, no doubt expect me to discuss topics relating to music, my exciting life as the wife of a Living Legendary vocalist, or my own 40 year professional career in the business, those things will NOT be my focus in 2010.
Yes, its true that I was discovered by Donny Hathaway, while I was a freshman in college. Yes, it's true that I did background vocals with him on his early recordings, including 'Take A Love Song', and 'The Ghetto', and yes its true that I sang jingles and commercials with him, (Afro Sheen and Ultra Sheen) and even sang the duet 'The Closer I Get To You' with him in his last public concert, a week before he committed suicide, and yes, all of that is significant.
But for me, at this juncture in history, I find that promoting Conservatives and conservative values takes priority over my extensive music history. Why this year? Because this is an Election year, that's why.
At some point in the near future, I will write a couple of books. One will be a biography on Phil Perry, who I consider to be THE greatest singer on the planet, and the other will be about my own career in the music business. In many respects, my career began simply to lead me to ______, as I did not go to college with the intent to become a professional vocalist. It was GODS Providence that led me to this Destiny. But there is so much more to my own life that has nothing to do with music or performance. It's a life full of contrasts and variety, and history that is uncommon for most Americans, let alone for a little colored girl born in the mountains of Virginia. It's an American story...one that could have ONLY taken place in America, the country I love.
So for those of you who are liberals, statists, marxists, socialists, facists, anti-semites, Democrats, or any other category of Haters towards those , like myself, who are Conservative, Believers in the One True and Living God, Capitalists, Constitutionalists, Free Market Entrepenuers, Republicans, Bible/Torah Believers, Creationists, Young Earth theorists...you just might want to disconnect from my ______ today.
This year, besides managing my husbands career and seeing to the ways of the remaining three college offspring who still llive with us, teaching English to Spanish speakers in a low performing public school, tweeting, traveling, working out, keeping up with the news, and holding the present Obama Administrations feet to the fire... I'll be rolling my sleeves up and doing what I love to do - political activism through blogging, and social networking.
Last year, I sat at booths to help win a victory for traditional marriage in California. For three years, I served the people of California as a State Commissioner appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenneger after a rigorous vetting process, and I sat on the panel of union fueled elitist Commissioners who know nothing about the authentic classroom environment, but yet make policy for credentilaing teachers which has made no difference in scores or the quallity of public education in California.
Before that, I stood with this same Governor during his 2005 Special Election as a Teacher Surrogate, appearing throughout the State to advance Props 74-75-76-77, and receiving hate mail and death threats from the union I unknowingly defied as a result of standing for what I felt were excellent measures to improve our State (which has since fallen into bankruptcy and corruption).
Since that time, I have become an Fee Payer, who continues to pay dues to the union, but who opts out of the political portion of the dues year to year, because I don't want my money to pay for things I don't believe in, i.e., abortions, the gay marriage agenda, or fighting the Three Strikes Law, which all have nothing to do with education, but as a teacher is forced on me as a prerequisite for employment.
When I was 16 years old, I marched with my illustrious father, a Civil Rights activist, with Dr. King in Chicago, and later in college I protested the Kent State murders in 1970 by marching in protest in front of Ft. Sheridan in Illinois. At the age of 14, I endured hatred and racial slurs from local white residents who did not want to see a Chicago high school integrated, traveling by bus an hour both ways to and from the school and my home on the other side of town.
During the Clinton years, I took the hate from people of color who called me names for not voting Democrat, and later in 2000 and 2004 enduring the insults and condescension for campaigning for G.W. Bush in both elections. Long before that, I experienced the disingenuous shock from those consdescending whites and enlightened non-voting black haters who could NOT believe that I was a Reagan Conservative.
As I reflect, I believe that I have received more Hate from black folks, than I ever could have received from any other ethnic group. There is no KKK klansman to compare with the Voter Discrimination I have been the target of from people of color. I'm surethat they would never believe that in spite of growing up on the SouthSide of Chicago, on the same block as the First Lady's father, I have never voted Democrat, in my entire life. It would probably surprise them that my father was a speech writer for the old Mayor Daley and Jane Byrne...and yet I voted as an Independent until I fell in love with the conservative ideas of Ronald Reagan.
I could go on and on...but in a nutshell, I have always been an independent thinker, voting character not color, voting conscience and values rather than voting as a slave/victim on Uncle Sams Plantation.
For most of my early life, living in Chicago under the Daley Machine politics, I spent a lot of my time trying to convince my Chicago friends, to vote AT ALL, having never missed an election since I was legally of age. The attitude of most was 'why bother? My vote doesn't count.' Yet, these same people were authorities on all things political, boldly displaying a lack of critical thinking skills, unable to explain why they held the views they held. Everything for them was black and white, while my views were multi-colored, shaped by a Biblical world view with GOD'S Word as my plumbline.
I watched in horror as liberal policies decimated communities of color across the country. I watched able bodied men and women languish on front steps of their public housing, waiting on welfare checks, while producing babies out of wedlock at warp speed, in order to qualify for government assistance. I watched gangs take over, while corrupt police turned their faces away, and opened up their palms for pay offs. I watched families dissolve, and single motherhood explode. I watched as drugs took the minds and spirits of a people once fired up with self-determination and entrepenurial creativity. Today I see the ruins of major urban communities, cities and states whose leadership is under several layers of liberalism.
I grew up under Jim Crow, both in Virginia and Chicago, but I have lived long enough to see things change. I am proud of America, for she is a self-correcting country. However, there are the Race Peddlers, both black and white men (primarily Democrats) who are the Dinosaurs of the once vital Civil Rights Movement, who are slowly making their way towards the burial grounds of extinction, but not without first making the final efforts at devouring those around them with a Victim Mentality which is all but obsolete, and so totally Sixties.
So this is where I am, and this is where I'll be. Not having previously filtered the Friends I have so far on FB, I am now in the process of becoming more discriminating. I don't debate or argue. I did my best to warn friends during the 2007 and 2008 election cycle, and now we find ourselves in a national crisis of over spending and government expansion. We have a White House full of inexperienced and inept idealogues who are intent on turning our country away from the ideals which made this Republic great. We find ourselves under the leadership of a narcissitic POTUS who is destroying his own party because of his inability to relate to the majority of Americans. Unlike President Clinton, he is unable to pivot back to the center, in order to save his own Presidency, let alone the upcoming elections of Democrats across the country. It is what it is...
So this is an invitation to those of you who may want to tangle with me because of my stance, to excuse yourselves away from my ______. If I only have _______ left, it will not bother me in the least bit, as I would rather have a few good friends, than hundreds of people who are only signing on to my page because I am somebody's wife.
There are times when people are on their death beds, holding on for dear life, that someone has to tell them to 'go on...let go...go on...we'll be fine...just go on...let go'.
So for those of you who disagree with me, or loathe me, or find me offensive, but who I personally consider to be on the 'death beds of Statist, Democrat, and Liberal thought'...I encourage you to 'go on...I'll be just fine...just go on...and let go.'
2010 is the Year of the Conservative - whether you like it or not. Maybe, just maybe, we can rescue America from its total economic demise! And maybe, ust maybe we can pump up our National Security Defense again, and America can become as safe for the next three years, as it had been since 2001 under the Bush Administration. Maybe, just maybe, we can resume the War on Terror, and take the fight to the enemy, instead of responding to the attacks from the enemy, and the loss of American lives.
I'm suiting up, clinging to my Bible and my weapons of warfare...and as a woman of mixed American heritage, I'm ready to rumble. I've never been as ready in all of my 60 years, as I am now!
Let's get it on!"
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I just asked her if she has ever heard of Dale Robertson? She said no. I guess I have a rather Diverse set of friends eh?
