Welcome to Booker Rising! This is a news site and media watchdog for black moderates and conservatives, regardless of party affiliation. It's particularly geared to those ages 50 and under, the post-Civil Rights Movement generations.
Booker Rising was begun to counteract negativity, victimology, and defeatism, which is too often thrust upon black Americans by schools, the media, and so-called leaders. We're concerned about eroded values, hopes, and dreams, even though overall we're living better than ever. Booker Rising wants to help stop the sacrilegious assault of our grandparents' (and ancestors') legacy, as if little to no progress has been made and the civil rights movement was almost for naught.
Inspired by Booker T. Washington's work, this website will promote self-help, education, enterprise, democracy, and society as the seeds for Black America's future. We won the civil rights movement. It's now time for Stage II: further propelling black American success in this increasingly globalized era, via our "seeds."
Booker Rising will provide commentary, highlight our progress and achievements, and discuss moderate and conservative solutions to our communities' challenges. We have love for and faith in black folks. We deserve better, our ancestors deserve better!
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Posted by Shay Riley at 5/11/2004
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I just have been reading some of the articles and I must say that it is GREAT! I am also a big fan of Booker T as well as Frederick Douglass. These guys were true leaders in their own right.
Hey thanks for the posts. I am just starting out with all of this. Your site is one of a few that I try to check out on a daily basis. Good way to start my day!
I'm navigating myself around and I'm very much new to this blog site but not to blogging. As I get familiar with my surrounding I will be more proactive.
I just started navigating your site and I really do like it. I must pread the word and get more like minded African-American to llok at this site. Being an Tuskegee graduate myself, I like that this site is called Bookerrising, if he was alive today he would be a conservative.
I am on board. It is about time. Love this site.
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I got to your site through researching resolution 194 and like the idea of the site.
You impressed me with three things (negativity, victimology, and defeatism) which I'm hoping you have more info on, as far as statistics, or who are the subject matter experts that I can get in touch with. I'll even be happy with some good books on the subject.
I'm in Memphis and I love conducting research on this type of information. I'm at the start of analyzing the impact of (negativity, victimology, and defeatism) these things on Memphis and could use all the help I can get.
The question that rings out in my mind is how do we effectively change this mode that has hit our young people. As a nation of people (displaced though we may be) how do we effectively change this and rescue the ones that can be rescued and educate the ones that can be educate.
What is the future for the generation coming up.
Great Site Shay-BOOKERISING ROCKS!!
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Hi Shay,
Been reading your Booker Rising blog a while; so I started my own blog to contribute -
http://rainbowrydersinsky.blogspot.com/
I put in an article by Tom Sowell, one of my favorite columnists. Take a look.
My regular website is dedicated to another topic that may also be of interest -
http://www.sspi.gatech.edu
Cheers,
Darel Preble
I read this page and realized that my community has similar grievances. Our educational system teaches conformity and equality without competition. Also victimology and reliance on the government.
What we want is to have more freedom and enterprise, no not be hobbled by a collectivist educational system that discourages individualism risk taking. To be allowed to seek timely medical care legally. Our taxes are outrageous and everything costs more that in the USA.
However, we are not black, well, there are a few blacks, but we are Canadian conservatives living in a socialist welfare state just north of your border.
We are living Obama's dream. We have national 'free but not available' health care. Life is still not as bad here as it will be in the USA. We are a small population with vast resources. In short, there is still enough to go around.
My point: I admire your efforts on this site. You want to raise your lot in life. We do too. It makes me imagine what we could do to force our leaders to get our of our way if we could one day work together. We seem to have common goals.
Regards,
John V
BC Canada.
I found your site after a search for gun control info.
I like what I have read here. Race is so 20th century! ;-)
Keep at it. Your voices MUST be heard.
Great site! Glad to know that some young people are interested in continuing on the legacy and leaving this world a better place for our children as our ancestors sis for us.
Hey Wayne, I did not know this existed....Great way to open minds. Excellent my friend, simply excellent.
How come you did not mention this site to me?
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I was so happy to find your site. I love it. What a Godsend! I am not black but I am in process of adopting two girls from Haiti and am dedicated to finding resources for them as they grow older. I do not wish for them to default to the 'victim mentality'...there needs to be alternatives!
I must say I've tried blackplanet and africanamerican.org, everytime I expressed any point of view contrary to the echo chamber I got blasted. It's nice to see someone is thinking outside of the box. Keep up the good work! We need more voices like yours.
I want to commend you for your Web site. I am a Cuban-American (actually born in Communist Cuba) whose family came to this country in search of freedom and the American Dream. Though I'm not African-American, I have studied your history. Having grown up in Atlanta, I spent a lot of time reading about Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement. And watching what's happening in this country today, I agree that what's happening to all Americans, and particularly minorities, most notably the African-American community, is disgraceful... the left continually prays on our sensibilities to use us as pawns in their game for power and control over our lives, under the guise that it's for a "greater cause." I'm glad to see so many sites popping up with conservative values. We've been quite for far too long. Keep up the good work.
David Walker wrote The Appeal in 1829 before he was assasinated at is printing press in North Carolina. His life needs to be further studied, as he was one of the most important Black freedom fighters of his generation.
First time at your site. After reading your about page. . . I must say I have yet to see or read much of anything that reflect values of Black conservatives or moderates for that matter. Maybe I haven't browsed enough of your site? to be fair.
Shay: I think that your site is only time-stamping with time, and not also with date. Your site is gaining interest, and thus I believe it important that you document properly.
Fabulous post about the D.C. school vouchers! It costs half the money, approximately 7000. to 14,000. for those children to attend private school versus failing public school. Shay, what could be simpler?
Janelle
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