All my heros are black men

by Kenn Gividen

Well, maybe not all. But those I respect the most are invididuals willing to choose truth and suffer the consequences of contradicting the common rheteroric of political correctness, peer acceptance and (seemingly) common sense.

Such as the stuff that compelled America's founders to launch a war of rebellion against the insane King George. Among those I admire most are black men (and women) willing to vocally oppose the mindlessness of the minority-group victim cult.

So who are those heroes?

Hint. None are named Jackson, Sharpton or King.

In no particular order, I would place Larry Elder at the top of the list. Elder expresses his commitment to his community, not by pandering to baser patronization, but through blunt honesty. Yesterday I noted Elder's Top Ten Things You Can't Say In America. Among those are that blacks are more racists than whites and white condescension is as real as black racism. Both run against the tidal wave of political correctness. Perched atop that wave is Elder on his surfboard, high above the nonsense of the black left.

Another black man I admire is not a man at all. What's more, she is (contrary to the previous hint) Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In a blunt and forthright evaluation of reality, King offered this observation: Hopeless in the black community is being fed by abortion. "If African-Americans feel that life will not get better, I have to believe that abortion is feeding into that hopelessness," she said. King was referring to a recent Pew Research poll high levels of 'hopelessness' in black communities across the United States.

King's pro-life views are largely ignored by the mainstream media, but not by Alan Keyes, another figurehead on my mental Mt. Rushmore. Keyes features King's views on his web site.

A committed Roman Catholic, Keyes had the nerve in 2006 to challenge the Holy Father's view that "nothing justifies the spilling of innocent blood."

"If this is so," Keyes reasoned, "how could there ever be a just war, e.g., a battle fought by good and decent people to defend their lives and homes from the violent depredations of the wicked?"

He has a point. Were it not for the spilling of innocent blood, the American revolution never could have transpired.

Thomas Sowell deserves a place at the head table. In a recent column he lamented the lame phraseology bantered about by liberals. Specifically he noted that "'making a difference' and 'giving back' irritate me like chalk screeching across a blackboard." He then added, "...we are not 'giving back' anything to those people because we never took anything from them in the first place."

Writing of government schools, Sowell observed, "They are not giving back anything except condemnation, often depicting sins common to the human race around the world as peculiar evils of 'our society.'"

There are few observable things about Sowell that I don't like. The corny photo to the left is one of those exceptions.

Not everyone knows La Shawn Barber. They should.

Googling her name will take you to her blog and bits of unreserved conservative insight. Recently Barber fumed over the notion that gun restriction laws could make Washington DC a more habitable place to live by cutting violent crime rate.

"Wrong, wrong, wrong," she wrote.

Barber notes "...violent crime, particularly murder, went up. The ban deprived law-abiding citizens of the constitutional right to bear arms and to protect themselves, while thugs ran free and killed without conscience."

Add Barber to my list of heroes. And, again, she's (obviously) not a man. But she is black.