Sarah Palin has made some additional endorsements today, one of which was of Star Parker. Ms. Parker is running for congress in the California 37th.
Star is a former welfare mom, author of White Ghetto, Pimps, Whores, and Welfare Brats, and Uncle Sam's Plantation, and the founder of CURE (Center for Urban Renewal and Education). A non profit that is working to address the issues of poverty through conservatives values and limited government.
Star has an amazing life story of succeeded against the odds and realizing that the welfare system in this country does more to hurt the poor than to help them. Here is taste:
Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal & Education, a 501(c)3 non-profit think tank that provides a national voice of reason on issues of race and poverty in the media, inner city neighborhoods, and public policy.
Prior to her involvement in social activism, Star Parker was a single welfare mother in Los Angeles, California. After receiving Christ, Star returned to college, received a BS degree in marketing and launched an urban Christian magazine. The 1992 Los Angeles riots destroyed her business, yet served as a springboard for her focus on faith and market-based alternatives to empower the lives of the poor.
As a social policy consultant, Star Parker gives regular testimony before the United States Congress, and is a national expert on major television and radio shows across the country. Currently, Star is a regular commentator on CNN, CNBC, CBN, FOX News, and the United Kingdom's BBC. She has debated Jesse Jackson on BET; fought for school choice on Larry King Live; defended welfare reform on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and spoke at the 1996 Republican National Convention.
Star Parker’s personal transformation from welfare fraud to conservative crusader has been chronicled by ABC’s 20/20; Rush Limbaugh; Readers Digest; Dr. James Dobson; The 700 Club; Dr. George Grant; the Washington Times; Christianity Today; Charisma, and World Magazine. Articles and quotes by Star have appeared in major publications including the Washington Post and the New York Times.
Star has written three books. Her autobiography "Pimps, Whores & Welfare Brats" was released in 1997 by Pocket Books, "Uncle Sam's Plantation" is released by Thomas Nelson in the fall of 2003, and "White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay" was released in 2006.
Today, in addition to heading CURE, Star is a syndicated columnist for Scripps Howard News Service, offering weekly op-eds to more than 400 newspapers worldwide, including the Boston Herald, the Dallas Morning News, The Orange County Register, San Diego Union, Arkansas Democrat Gazette, the Washington Times, and the Star and Stripes, the largest paper serving the men and women of our Armed Forces
She is a person our government sorely in need of.
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in my opinion, Star Parker has an identity problem... she seems to hate being African American and her perception of the African American experience is based on her past dysfuntional lifestyle. as a result, she seems as though she has a lot of hatred for her race and wants to be accepted by whites by agreeing with their perceptions of Afrian Americans. in some ways her views remind me of the "uncle Ruckus" character on Boondocks.
Star Parker is perfect, I'm in love.
Any human, regardless of race, that views life so simply & clearly is a treasure to behold.
If a liberal ever wonders why their own life hasn't turned out the way they hoped, the reason is in the mirror, and so is the solution for their own future.
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