An anti-poverty billboard campaign in Milwaukee’s inner city is sparking controversy.
At least one billboard at North 39th Street and West Villard Avenue was removed Wednesday afternoon.
Star Parker[/caption]But the woman who paid to put the billboards up said there was nothing controversial about the message.
It read “Tired of poverty? Finish School, Take Any Job, Get Married, Save & Invest, Give Back To Your Neighborhood.”
They were called racist and sexist on social media.
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The sign is considered racist by the communists, because the sign tells the truth!
Star Parker, the black “racist.” The left is shameless.
TRUTH is racist to the leftists. So of course they’d be offended.
Star Parker tells the truth about those in poverty. Those who are elderly, infirm and cannot work should be looked after by those of us who pay taxes to help them, but the first duty is given to the children to make certain their parents are cared for. All siblings have that responsibility.
It only makes them angry for the truth is very hard to face, for it requires one to get their educations, prepare themselves for their lives and make a nest for their children. We are to care for our own and work. God requires this and He said, “If a man doesn’t work neither should he eat.” It is not up to the government to hand the sweat equity of those who will work at honest labor and provide for their own, and give it to those who refuse to work. The taxpayer is the government. It is a government of the people, by the people, for the people. The government never paid any thing. “We the people” pay their wages and to run our nation, but it has become a social organization handing money over to every Tom, Dick and Harry that comes around with their hands out. Enough of this nonsense.
Get up off your lazy rear and improve yourself. Start taking responsibility for your lives. Star Parker was exactly right and may her legion increase.
By taking the sign down, It shows how they want to suppress the lives and keep them under control.
They can’t have just anybody telling the truth out there.
More people who can afford the cost of putting up a billboard should do so. That message should be on every available billboard in the town and across the country. Conservatives should be heard from!
Those messages certainly are MORE valuable, than the constant ads we get for yet more useless products..
I see nothing wrong, only good. its empowering for poverty stricken citizens to hear a good message. Shame on democrats for making this sound bad. what do they consider better? welfare?
OF course. That way they can keep the blacks on the ‘welfare plantation’…
Facts and common sense is a bitter pill to swallow when it is so easy to blame it on someone else, when you are constantly told by leftist democrats that it is those nasty old racist white people keeping you down. Although, it is those nasty old racist white leftists who are keeping you down.
Absolutely! It is the Democrats that want to keep the “minorities” enslaved to the government. “Finish School, Take Any Job, Get Married, Save & Invest, Give Back To Your Neighborhood.” is the recipe to break the bonds of slavery.
Sadly, many blacks do not understand they have willingly put themselves back in slavery.
Star Parker is one of those influential people who, along with Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Larry Elder, Alan West, and others, need to be marginalized by the radicals for not toting the load of victimhood! Each and every one has an inspiring story of getting up and doing and becoming instead of waiting to be given or taking from others who have achieved. Thihs is the antithesis of what BLM is preaching and offering! The interviews that accompany the news story are telling because they agree with the advice on the sign even as it was being removed so as not to influence the minds of the not yet ‘woke’!
ANd what do all those folk have in common. THEY ARE SMART< articulate blacks… The antithesis of what the dems want.
Yeah, God forbid we tell people the truth and tell them how to improve their lives by taking personal responsibility (which has been dead for at least a generation). This country can only tear people down to sewer level these days, instead of trying to lift them all up. I guess people must like living in the sewers (because they are determined to stay there) so they can do all the immoral acts they wish and that they continue to believe there will be no retribution for.
Have the people Calling it don’t realize it’s her saying it and the other have half want to keep the victim mentality.
Half the people calling the sign racist don’t realize it’s her on the billboard. The other half are happy being “victims”.
The truth is the truth regardless of however many liberals whine and cry about it.
A BLM billboard would read “Tired of poverty? Tired of getting welfare that only allows basic survival? Then join a mob run by Antifa and funded by Soros. Break into businesses and steal what ever you want. Burn down the police station. Spray paint $#@% you all over buildings. Then go into suburban neighborhoods and demand the home owners give up their homes so you can live in them. And you’ll even get paid $50.00 cash and a ham & cheese sandwich for every riot you attend. HEIL DAS FUEHER SOROS!!
And if you ain’t down with dat, you ain’t black enough.
Just one more proof, as if we needed it, that the leftist elite want to keep everyone they can in poverty to give themselves more power.
Antebellum slave owners didn’t allow blacks to learn to read, to be educated, to be married, to have money, or to get too chummy with other slaves. It was considered risky to the keeping of slaves to have them do any of those things.
If someone living in 2020 believes that this billboard (put up by a black woman no less) is racist and sexist and should come down they are no different than those slave owners of long ago. Star is absolutely right in what she is saying. I applaud her!
Obama with his vast study & knowledge in the biological & genetic sciences informed the world that all white people have immutable racism in their DNA.
What a relief it is to know how to tell which “people of color” are also anti black racists.
Now we know you are a damn racist if you answer yes to the following:
1. Did you or do you plan to study & graduate HS with good grades? *And can you write & speak basic English without using obscenities or ghetto slang?
2. Did you or do you plan to get some type of legal employment after HS?
3. Did you or do you plan to get married &/or plan ahead for supporting yourself & any children you may have?
4. Did you or do you plan to save & invest to ensure your independence & self sufficiency?
5. Did you or do you plan to take an interest in the well being & safety of your neighborhood?
If you are a person of color & answered yes then not only are you a racist dog but you are not a loyal Democrat or left wing liberal.
Yes I agree truth equals racism to the radical left. However I believe their is more to it, anything they have no answer to or don’t want to answer also equals racism.
In this case they know it is true and are unable to answer this charge, so they go to their default…. Racism.
Actually, more and more white kids need to be given the same message these days. But if a billboard with white faces on it went up, the wokemeisters would call it racist for addressing only whites. And if blacks and whites were on the poster, the wokemeisters would find some other objection. Cultural appropriation? Excluding Asians / Native Americans / drag queens / etc.? Too binary? There’d always be something. Because the real objection on the left is to people being strong and independent.
True dat. The left would be peeved, no matter WHO was on that billboard.
It is those libturd communists / nazi’s that ARE the real racists, and sexits. But they try and push their anti-American propaganda on the rest of us, and it is not working.
Take down Ms Parker’s signs and replace them with signs that say, “GET BACK ON THE PLANTATION!“
“YOU ain’t black enough, unless you vote for me!”
Star Parker , truth teller and very brave lady. No wonder the left hates her. She is the antithesis of what they are.
SHe is a strong, Proud and WISE black lady.. ALL THE THINGS the left hates.
OK, just a deep thought/vision. Would never suggest or do anything like this because I am a sane and law abiding citizen.
But…
Line up the politicians, pundits, BLM’ers, Antifa-ites, etc..
Have the billboard, full size, right in front of them, cameras rolling…
Ask each one, one at a time, “do you believe this? Yes or no.”
No == click, bang
Yes === walk
Would not take long to adjust attitudes.
And yes, … I would start with Pelosi.
Followed by AOC, then Schumer, Witchmer, Deblasio, Cuomo… and so on.
Ah the hard cold truth. Feared and rejected by the left.
While still in grade school, mow lawns for the elderly.
In high school, help farmers with haying plus run a newspaper route.
Find summer jobs between school sessions to pay for college out of your own pocket. (No grants, no loans.)
Choose a college major that actually prepares you for a career, not just a useless piece of paper.
Work hard; even if you have to take a low pay and endure terrible bosses.
Only work for companies that are honest and decent and thus be proud of its products &/or services.
Go back for night classes to keep your skills up to date and highly marketable.
Find the volunteer work that God made you to do and love the people with which you associate.
I did this. I retired knowing the good I did and that gives me joy…but I still do my volunteer work.
AND go to WORK for a year or two, BEFORE you go to college..
The leftists don’t want this they don’t want something that might help America !!!!!
Star you are a true Star for helping our country thank you !
Star for President !
I’d certainly vote for her..
The billboard says nothing about race. The only racism in this story is the Left’s projection of its own racism; e.g., “Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”