“The Free Exchange”
Conservatism’s strength emanates from its penchant for robust debate. “The Free Exchange” is a series of articles aimed at highlighting and broadening the debate at Black and Red. When you comment on essays you read at this site, I will respond to you via this blog series. Hopefully, the free exchange of ideas will prove beneficial to readers and participants. Thank you for reading and thank you so much for commenting.
-J. Thomas Hunter
This week, Greg Ponder Photography addresses: “Misreading Mandates,” and Anonymous comments on “Our Lost Generation.”
Greg Ponder’s comments are in white. Mine are in green.
I look forward to a more lengthy exploration of the Supreme Court's recent ruling. You cite it as a victory, but i cram to understand how this will not be exploited to the detriment of the idea of one man one vote...
Greg, thank you for giving me the opportunity to expound on this subject.
The Supreme Court struck down campaign finance restrictions on corporations and unions. This ruling does nothing to violate “one man one vote” because neither corporations nor unions can vote. What the ruling does is allow corporations and unions to fund campaigns in accordance with the First Amendment.
When you and I donate to campaigns we are expressing ourselves politically. Our donations are public and are therefore public statements that we support a politician and his/her views. We do so because the politician’s policies are aligned with ours. Corporations and unions, too, have interests and thus should be allowed to support candidates with whom they agree.
In other words, should a company be forbidden to support a candidate that supports lower taxes and other policies that would benefit it? Should a union be precluded from financially supporting candidates that honor the secret ballot? If you think so, then you not only disagree with the Bill of Rights’ decree that “Congress shall make no law…prohibiting the free exercise…or abridging the freedom of speech,” but you also disagree with the concept that a company or union should be allowed to support workers’ political interests. Save this ruling, a tax-happy politician (most likely a Democrat) can sweep into office, raise taxes on corporations and force them to lay off workers in order to stay profitable.
The key to appreciating this ruling is to remember that corporations and unions are just conglomerates of people who are interested in exchanging goods and services for a profit with a community. This exchange provides the community with not only goods and services, but also with jobs and social order.
The Supreme Court decision supports that aim and supports the U.S. Constitution.
Anonymous’ comments are in lavender. Mine are in green.
Abortion does affect African Americans and the reason is that it is a eugenically targeted effort to lower the Black population. Abortion is wrong on any unborn child and I am glad that you pointed that out. But the fact that there is a very racist component to abortion needs to be exposed. Check out the 2.5 hour film: Maafa21 Black Genocide in 21st Century America to really expose this in the most direct way possible: http://www.maafa21.com. PS- Thanks for the pics- they tell the truth about this holocaust!
Anonymous, you are definitely correct about the negative impact that abortion has on the black community. Cumulative statistics from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention note that abortion claimed more than 10,000,000 more black lives than did the next big killer of blacks—heart disease—since 1973. The numbers are simply staggering.
I do plan to write about the racist component of abortion. I will talk about Margaret Sanger and the eugenics movement. However, I will also do everything I can to keep the racial aspect of abortion from overshadowing the corrosion abortion does to humanity and to America’s very soul.
Abortion is the callous murder of the most innocent people in the world. Defenseless babies, blighted only by Original Sin, long only to trust and to feel love. It is a horrific deed to mutilate and kill these people, and it is shameful that people are willing to provide refuge for perpetrators of this evil.
Thank you, also, for the link to the movie. I will watch it at my earliest convenience.
