Star Parker on the "Millions More Movement"

I first heard Star Parker speak in an interview with James Dobson on "Focus on the Family." This African American Woman has an unbelievable life story that includes recovering from drug addiction. Here she addresses the effects of the current liberal black leadership:

Do poor blacks really need to hear "millions more" excuses why black men can't be faithful to one woman and be responsible for the children they bear? Or why they can't get an education because white people hate us?

Do poor blacks really need another venue for hip-hop multimillionaires to explain, in four-letter epithets, that blacks suffer because George W. Bush doesn't care about them? This while these moguls get richer by the day peddling black booty on BET, inspiring black kids to live the life that guarantees to keep them poor?

Despite Farrakhan's supposed objective to "empower" poor folks, he should understand, as more and more blacks are beginning to understand, that he, and other long-standing traditional black leaders, really promote quite the opposite.

Poor blacks do not need to be "mobilized" to turn even more responsibility for their lives over to others. They need to go to school and take care of their families. The place where this needs to take place is within a couple-mile radius of where they live. It certainly won't take place on the National Mall in Washington.

Am I suggesting that blacks in America today do not have to contend with the burden of racism? Of course I am not. What I do claim is that the most damaging racism in our community is what it hears from its own leaders. It is the message that black citizens cannot and should not be treated as free and personally responsible individuals.
http://www.townhall.com/print/print_story.php?sid=171486&loc=/opinion/columns/StarParker/2005/10/17/171486.html

I have never been black or poor, so I have no relevant conception of the difficulties facing this minority group. But I can recognize that Jesse and Louis are preaching racism and hatred, and Star is preaching personal responsibility. One sermon is a prescription for losers and the other points the way towards success.

Read about Star Parker's life and conversion here:http://www.christianitytoday.com/tcw/7w4/7w4022.html