Owens, Candace - Blackout by Owens Candace

Author:Owens, Candace [Owens, Candace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Published: 2020-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

THE BURDEN OF FREEDOM

The fundamental issue is that after sixty years of Democrat allegiance, black America has been led to believe that we are exceptions to every rule. But we cannot be excused from hard work, studying, and good decision-making and then feign appalling surprise when we fail next to our peers. We cannot except ourselves from diligence and claim injustice over our varied results.

Holding us hostage in insufficient elementary, middle, and high schools is not enough. The education system, in tandem with the Left, grants us entitlements that do nothing but paint an illusion of accomplishment—an illusion that collapses at the first tremor of competition. And today’s black culture—the residue of earlier racist misgivings about our capabilities, further alienates and limits our progress.

We so often hear the expression “freedom is not free,” but what exactly does that mean? It means that freedom isn’t a young woman in an open field with her head tilted toward the sun. It’s more likely a young woman sitting at home, studying, even though she’d much rather be out with her friends. It’s a young man, getting accepted into a highly ranked university on the basis of his outstanding academic performance. Freedom is personal responsibility. It’s the sacrifices we make personally so that we may afford our lives certain privileges. Ronald Reagan famously said, “Freedom is never more than a generation away from extinction. We don’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

Though fought for, true black freedom was never achieved and protected. It’s time for a new generation of blacks to take up the fight for it once again.

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