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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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
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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?
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After watching Glenn Beck tonight,I just to find a place to weigh in.It was a wonderful show with all black consevatives.I have been wondering where the hard working capitolist,God believing,constitutionist,freedom believing folks hung out.I am white but our government has been stealing our future for many years.Thank you guys for standing up.See you at next tea party.
A superb blog, without question.
Your site is refreshing and encouraging in many ways.
I have belonged to the same non-denominational Christian church in Nashville for 17 years. It is a closely knit church family of about 400 adults, 200 kids. For a church in Tennessee, it is unusual -- Biblically conservative, evangelical, AND racially diverse -- from 80-year-old white, southern grandmothers who make the best potluck dishes ever to 17-year-old urban black men who like rap (well, they write and perform their own now and then at church. I prefer bluegrass gospel and I cringe at rap, but I care for the young men who like it and try to cheer for the hearts behind the words -- when I can understand them over the obnoxious beatboxing -- but I digress). It's about 60% European American (I hate saying white), maybe 30% African American, and the rest are a mix of Asian,Hispanic, and other.
For 17 years I have deeply loved and admired so many the men and women in my church. We don't just get together on Sunday mornings. We are in each other's lives. I thought we were above politics. I thought we were above racism. I thought our loyalty was to Jesus alone, and that we stood hand-in-hand on the Word of God as our standard of truth in ALL areas. Then Obama came on the scene and I realized I had been naive.
We had a Wednesday night service as usual after the election. I saw joy on the faces of so many of my brothers and sisters of color. I was devastated. (I was not a fan of McCain. I actually cast my vote for a Libertarian candidate with a fiscally conservative platform) How could so many of my brothers and sisters -- not just African American, I might add -- support a president who advocated enlarging the national debt, welfare, socialism, abortion, homosexual "marriage"? I thought we were above color, that we stood on Scripture to guide our decisions.
I found myself questioning everything. The leaders in our church advocated that we maintain a complete separation from politics and the political process. "Politics divide," they preached. Politics reveal, I thought.
I disagree with them vehemently with their position. I believe God institutes all governments, both the best and worst. I was born into a democracy. I am a PART of THIS particular government. I have a responsibilty to participate.
But I have felt very separated from men and women who had helped me to raise my kids, who had helped me in my marriage, people with whom I'd gone to Bogota for missions trips, in short, separated from people I KNEW loved Jesus and their neighbors.
Your site has helped me to see it's time to get back in there, to talk, to have those deep discussions, risk hurt feelings -- and that I'm probably misjudging them and giving way to racial stereotypes that I only THOUGHT I was above. I need to trust what I've seen in their lives for the last 17 years, and find a way to get close again -- and not be afraid to hash things out. It's time to get real again and quit pretending nothing's changed. I need to trust their love for me and Our Lord.
Thanks for exposing my stereotyping tendencies.
a reader in TN
Thank you for your thoughtful comments. I googled black conservative blogs after listening to a call in on the Bill Bennett morning talk show and I found your site. Will be a regular reader.
I read some of the entries to this blog and thought, "Wow, this is great." I then read the Welcome message and found that this blog is "particularly geared to those ages 50 and under, the post-Civil Rights Movement generations." I processed that comment as an over 50 member of one of the Civil Rights Movement generations and found it condescending. It goes back to the same old misconception that African Americans are monolithic in our thoughts, beliefs and behaviors. How sad.
I read the post from anonymous in TN. I am white and I have a friend I love (platonically)who is black. When we can discuss so-called racially sensitive subjects honestly without rancor, I am thankful. It creates an understanding that is difficult to describe. When the discussion is from love, openness, and a genuine desire to understand, it is very good.
Taviaz-I too am over 50 and white so I guess this site was not built for me. However, I did not take the description in the same way you did. I thought it was an honest comment to inform people of the need this site was attempting to fill. Not a comment on people who do not fit in the targeted audience.
I just found this website and its very interesting. Im excited to see its traffic grow. Ive always wondered why the African-American people in the United States vote 90% Democrat (when it seems most have such conservative values)?
I just discovered this website. It is refreshing. Keep up th egood work.
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I too just found this website. It is fantastic! I too am white, and I am thrilled that black, conservative thinking people are getting out there and speaking their minds too. We can't save America unless we do it together. :)
This is a great site! I am so glad that I found this, and it's for such a great cause.
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Now, I have just found your blog and i do intend to come back and monitor what is on here. I am a Tuskegee graduate and I don't like when people try that notion of what great Americans of the past would feel about today. We don't know because we weren't MEANT to know, otherwise they would still be here. So, as stated already, I will be coming back from time to time, just to monitor and I would also be interested in finding out how many members of the Tuskegee University administration know about this website...
I think, though I may be wrong, that blacks WILL vote 60/40 liberal this time. I don't think we will vote a democrat ticket anymore. Too many of us are out of work
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There has to be a lot of work done in this area. The history has not been on your side. This can be done with a lot of hard of work. Only time will tell.
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Who owns this site? Quite a few suposedly black blogs and sites are owned by white folks.
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Sorry, but I find this site to be ill-conceived. The whole notion of Black conservatism is absurd. Just what is it that we should be conserving? Would you have us return to picking cotton and living in the smokehouse?
If you think the civil rights movement has been won, then you are out of touch with the vast majority of Black folks in this country. You need a serious reality check. Please, do yourself a favor and go visit the Black side of town.
Mr. Jenkins,
Instead of asking black conservatives to "visit" the Black side of town you should encourage people to find investment opportunities to create wealth for everyone. Black conservatives do not believe in wallowing in misery and having "the world done me wrong attitude." What makes you think black conservatives don't live in the Black side of town already...and why do they aspire to get out?
Liberals/Progressives/Socialists have put blindfolders on the people living in the Black side of town for generations...were is the fruits of their agenda. Open up your eyes and man up! Join real leaders and contibute to the work needed to be done...not knock down people working to make a difference!
Mr. Jenkins,
Instead of asking black conservatives to "visit" the Black side of town you should encourage people to find investment opportunities to create wealth for everyone. Black conservatives do not believe in wallowing in misery and having "the world done me wrong attitude." What makes you think black conservatives don't live in the Black side of town already...and why do they aspire to get out?
Liberals/Progressives/Socialists have put blindfolders on the people living in the Black side of town for generations...were is the fruits of their agenda. Open up your eyes and man up! Join real leaders and contibute to the work needed to be done...not knock down people working to make a difference!
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Even though I'm not black, I hope you will indulge me a moment to let you know how much difference is made when "conservative" whites like myself read the thoughts of sensible, conservative , loyal American blacks! I'm sure that black conservatives realize the damage done every day when other Americans witness the outrageous racist and socialist diatribes put out by so-called representatives of blacks like Sharpton, Jackson , and the "black panthers! Keep up the great work, and hopefully the intelligent, thoughtful highlighting of folks like Sowell, Williams, and other loyal American blacks will help undo a lot of the fear and distrust that is generated by "hate mongers" of all persuasions!
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