MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry made a bold statement for abortion rights when she ditched her regular earrings for a pair made from tampons on her nationally televised show on Sunday. …read more
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Should Our Children Belong To The Collective?
Just when we think the secular assaults against the nuclear family unit can’t get any worse, we disturbingly learn that they can. Now, a host on a minor cable news network claims that we have to get over the idea that our children are ours and accept the fact that they belong “collectively” to all of us.
Melissa Harris-Perry, a host for a weekend show on scarcely watched MSNBC, was taped in a “lean forward” (euphemism for “lean more left”) promo for the network, saying that children don’t belong to their families and that they belong to the collective.
The host declared: “We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had kind of a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven’t had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”
The context seems innocuous enough: continue to engage in insanity (doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results) by throwing more money toward education. The answer to our educational inadequacies and failings is always more funding, to some. Heaven forbid that we should consider using what resources we have more efficiently and effectively and focus on teaching content that increases academic performance, instead of all the social engineering and politically correct indoctrination that is so pervasively “taught” in our public schools.
Some don’t even think her terminology, referring to collective ownership of our kids, in the promo is controversial. The New York Times and other media and extremist organizations have leapt to her defense. What should not be lost on us is that such entities are ideological compatriots to the host and are firmly predisposed to the collectivist ideals of the left.
I’m sure the folks over at NAMBLA would rejoice over such a concept of collectivist ownership of our kids! And what about all those unborn children who are never given a chance to take their first breath? Should that not likewise be a grave concern to the collective?
In free societies, as America was originally founded to be, private property ownership is sacrosanct. The second line in our Declaration of Independence states “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” The Lockean Creed, upon which that statement is based, equates private property with pursuit of happiness.
While children are not considered property and are not “owned,” the responsibility for rearing, teaching, and nurturing them is a private one, owned by the parents who brought them into the world. For those who lack the temporal means to support those children, there are safety nets that allow for community support of such disadvantaged children. Even that,
From: http://www.westernjournalism.com/should-our-children-belong-to-the-collective/
It Doesn’t Take A Village To Raise Black Kids
By capblack
Sigh, some Black folks (it’s ok- I’m Black too) really take this “It takes a village to raise a child” stuff too far.
Recently, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry famously said in this much quoted excerpt:
…we’ve always had a private notion of children, your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven’t had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.
Hmm, so when Thomas Jefferson (yes, I know he owned slaves) promoted universal public education for American youth, was this the act of someone with a “private notion of children?”
When people’s houses are held hostage by county property taxes that often fund local public schools, is this another instance of private notions of children?
Are local option sales tax increases to upgrade public school infrastructure signs that the public plays no substantive role in young lives, especially when every state and the federal government have departments of education toward this end?
20th century visions of armed American troops and deputy US marshals fighting rabid mobs over public school desegregation dance through my mind’s eye as I type this.
A nation committed to a “private notion of children” would have spared itself such destabilizing drama and simply let educational Jim Crow stand until such time, if ever, that states wearied of it.
I find the good doctor’s perspective interesting since negation of parental control has dogged Black parents since our involuntary importation to these shores.
Slavery and Jim Crow aside, Dr. Harris-Perry’s side of the aisle seems hellbent on undermining Black parents by stripping them of school choice, an opportunity taken for granted by wealthier, often Whiter Americans; disarming them legislatively within Hoods overrun by chocolate Klansmen; demonizing our use of corporal punishment; and supporting a welfare system separating low-income parents to keep benefits flowing and a popular culture/public education complex at war with values traditional parents try to raise their children with.
If this is what the 21st century “village” offers, Black parents’ only hope rests in taking a “private notion” of their children to its exponential limit.
Otherwise, today’s vile “village” will own their children, body and soul.
I respectfully disagree with Dr. Harris-Perry and ask her to look no further than the ruins of New Orleans’ Black community as stark proof supporting my argument.
It doesn’t take a village to raise our kids- it takes united mothers and fathers raising them long before the rest of society enters the picture.
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Janet Mock Talks ‘Scandal,’ Black Women In Media With Melissa Harris-Perry
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Transgender advocate and writer Janet Mock joined Andrea Plaid, Heather McGhee, and Joy-Ann Reid on MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” for a “Scandal” April 6 “watch party.”
Mock chimed in and discussed Kerry Washington‘s role as “Oliva Pope,” Shonda Rhimes’ work and the representations of black women in media.
“It’s an exhibition in the fact that trans people do have other interests than just being trans or having transitioned,” Mock wrote on her Tumblr page. “It was a pleasure to return to my giddy pop culture editor roots (with a touch of depth, right?!) and do it on such a powerful platform with one of my sheroes, Melissa Harris Perry.”
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Huffington Post
Conservative ‘Media Watchdog’ Thinks MSNBC Anchor’s Skin Is Too Light To Be Called African-American
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Former Democratic strategist Karen Finney, who was once the first African-American spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee, was revealed today to be the new host of a 4 p.m. weekend show on MSNBC. Good for her, and good for MSNBC, which adds Finney, pictured at left, to an already diverse roster of talking heads that includes Chris Hayes, Melissa Harris-Perry, and Al Sharpton.
Video: MSNBC Panel Tells Race Jokes On The Air
By Daniel Noe
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry told her panel to tell their “favorite race joke” or “best punch line on it” on her Sunday show…