I go to a Tea Party Rally

Heard at tonight's TEA PARTY meeting, and YES VIRGINIA there were many black conservatives there. They spoke to the assembled and said, come to our communities, make friends, start to form alliances, let people know you care, get our of your box, become a part of what matters. I am trying to do that.

Then one woman, Babette Holder, who directs the Fredrick Douglass foundation spoke and quoted the great man:

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass

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Pastor Corey Brooks was there and spoke as well. I talked to him afterwards and mentioned my friendship with Apostle David A. Rodgers. He at once recognized and said he knew Apostle Rogers was doing great things to create opportunity.

I have been to several of these meetings and this time it looked more like the racial profile of Illinois at large. Hispanic, White, Black, Asian... but no Native Americans.. not yet.

All in all a hopeful night. 114 former government officials were removed from office and replaced with tea party members in the last election in Illinois. It's not useful to protest, we have to take over the Republican part and remove the corrupt politicians replacing them with right thinking people.

Then this Speech ending from John Galt:
In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title.

Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.

But to win it requires your total dedication and a total break with the world of your past, with the doctrine that man is a sacrificial animal who exists for the pleasure of others. Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth.

You will win when you are ready to pronounce the oath I have taken at the start of my battle—and for those who wish to know the day of my return, I shall now repeat it to the hearing of the world:

" I swear—by my life and my love of it—that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."