From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today QUOTES

1 " Since neither black animosity nor the Left’s falsehood of “racial tensions” is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America can do will affect the perceptions of many black Americans or of the leftist libel. "

― , From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

2 " Why then does the civil rights establishment avoid addressing the real problems causing black suffering? Because deep down, they are more angry at white people than they are in love with black people. "

― , From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

3 " The truth is, as an adult, I’ve experienced more racism from other black people than I have from white people. I’ve been hated because, as a black man, I love America, and am reluctant to criticize it. Since blacks are taught by their leaders and communities to hate whites and be angry at the United States, anything except the typical condemnations of whites and this country is offensive to them. "

― , From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

4 " The truly masculine man is one who loves what is right. The masculine man loves truth more than anything else. He is not ego-driven, he is driven by what is right. He is not ruled by his desire for sex, but he is ruled by his desire to honor God. He looks to God to guide him, and to the true knowledge he has about himself. He does not rely on women for approval and satisfaction. "

― , From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

5 " New York state senator David Paterson pointed out the fruitlessness of Khalid Muhammad’s hate: “How does denying that there was a Holocaust get black kids job opportunities? How does advocating the killing of South African whites help black kids to get an education? "

― , From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

6 " The logic against them could not be more elementary. First, the unborn entity is an actual being, it is alive. If this were not so, there would be no need for an abortion. The very purpose of the abortion is to kill that which is alive. Second, this being is human. What else could it be? Feline? Canine? Bovine? As Congressman Henry Hyde once quipped, “No woman has ever given birth to a Golden Retriever.” Human beings give birth to human beings. "

― , From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

7 " It is disingenuous to claim that a fetus is not a definite, living human being. Those who have seen ultrasound images of pre-born babies have eyewitness, empirical evidence of the unborns’ living humanity. "

― , From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

8 " But most blacks are prevented from this self-examination and self-criticism, because they don’t think for themselves as individuals first; they instead willingly accept the opinions they know they are supposed to have as racial victims. They embrace the attitudes cued to them by black politicians and racial professionals. "

― , From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

9 " But when you see yourself as an individual first, you are freed to think for yourself, and you become internally self-sufficient. You start to break free from the bonds of racial conformity, and you start to see the good and bad in everyone, irrespective of their color. You start to be less angry, and as you let go of anger you are empowered to love God, your family, and your country. "

― , From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

10 " I realized that I could think for myself, and that “The Black Experience” was a myth used to control black people. "

― , From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

11 " As Michael Bauman of Hillsdale College frankly comments: We hide the fetal holocaust that surrounds us every day just as effectively as the Nazis hid their extermination of the Jews. And we do it the same way. We cannot bring ourselves to utter the “M” word, though we commit the “M” act. That is, we do not murder unborn children, we “abort fetuses”…. Some of the more squeamish among us are unable even to say the “A” word. Though by aborting fetuses rather than murdering babies our linguistic sleight of hand has hidden the real nature of our action (murder) and the real identity of our victim (baby), some people require a still heavier dose of verbal opium. We must tell them they are merely “terminating a pregnancy,” which eliminates overt reference to any living thing…. If “terminating pregnancies” is still too overt a verbal description because the word pregnant tends to evoke unfortunate images of happy women large with child, we can hide the crime behind an even more impersonal wall of words. We can say that the murdering of unborn children is nothing more than the voluntary extraction of the “product of conception,” or, as nearly all abortion clinics have it, “removing the POC.” What could be more innocent.20 "

― , From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

12 " As much as some people hate to admit it, and as angry as it makes many black people, the undeniable fact is that the greatest enemies to black progress today are within the black community itself, not in American society at large. "

― , From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

13 " As black people, we must recognize that our real battle is with ourselves, not with society. It is not racism but the civil rights establishment, with its victim-centered mentality and irrational fury at white America that mentally cripples blacks, teaching them to find the means of success outside of themselves in government programs, and urging them to find the origin of their greatest problems in white society. "

― , From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

14 " But the politically-incorrect truth is that racism today is a state of mind, more than a social reality. "

― , From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

15 " Oh yes, it exists, and the news media is always quick to highlight examples of anti-black racial hostility, but it is not the all-powerful, institutional beast so many say it is. But once people believe racism is their main problem, they become subject to that idea, and it prevents them from progressing. "

― , From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

16 " It is one of the great ironies of our time that those who pass for “black leaders” are so vocal about every perceived racial slight, and yet are not only silent—but even supportive—of the most overt and destructive attack on black Americans: abortion on demand. "

― , From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

17 " Black conservative Peter Kirsanow has noted the striking parallels between the way blacks were treated under slavery, and the way the pre-born are today. He writes, The primary tactic in the systematic abuse of any class of people is to dehumanize them. Thus, it cannot be admitted that the unborn child is a person, and it cannot be granted that the unborn child has inalienable rights, including the right to life. A concession that the unborn child is a person would destroy the psychology of denial that makes the decision to abort easier. The identical constructs were used to support slavery. Every attempt was made to deny that blacks were fully human. They didn’t look like “us,” so they must not be “us.” Their humanity could not be allowed to become a public reality. Masters in some colonies were even prohibited from freeing slaves, since to do so might suggest a moral problem with slavery, and somehow communicate the humanity of the enslaved.42 "

― , From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

18 " But, in fact, because of so many black peoples’ unthinking allegiance to the Democratic Party (which is absolutist on abortion and does not permit serious expressions of pro-life sentiment), black people fail to recognize the clear similarity between their history and the plight of the pre-born today, and are some of the most ardent supporters of abortion on demand. "

― , From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

19 " The great irony, rarely recognized, is that abortion in America was initially conceived and advocated for the purpose of reducing the black population. Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood and one of the champions of the abortion rights movement, was an unapologetic eugenicist and a racist, and wanted minorities and the poor to have abortions. "

― , From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

20 " Abortion was seen by her as a way of “improving” the population. She did not intend its widespread use among whites, and is famous for her slogan “More [children] from the fit, and less from the unfit.” Who are the unfit? The black poor. "

― , From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today