George H. Smith: The Philosophy of Independence

Source:Libertarianism.Org with a look at our Founding Liberals.

Source:The New Democrat

“We hold these truths to self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed but their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Al men are created equal and I know today’s so-called Progressives, who are really Social Democrats, or just pure Socialists, are going to say that our Founding Fathers, our Founding Liberals didn’t mean for that to apply to all Americans and everyone. But all men, they’re not talking about Englishmen, who were probably the dominant population in America back then, at least ethnically. They said all men, which has been interpreted and correctly so to apply to all women as well.

The United States, is the oldest liberal democracy in the world. We have the most liberal and the oldest liberal Constitution in the world. Even if our Founding Liberals, only meant our basic human rights to apply to Englishmen, European men and Caucasian men, the fact that they said all men means it applies to everyone. They wanted to escape from a big centralized dictatorial big government rule, that was coming from Britain and create their own liberal democracy. That was built around individual freedom and equality. A limited responsible government to do for the people what we can’t and the states can’t do for us.

That is why we have the Constitution and Bill of Rights. That is why we have Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Assemble, Freedom of Religion, to practice, or not practice the religion of our choice, the Right to Self Defense, Right to Privacy, our property rights, the Right to Life and the Pursuit of Happiness, Equal Protection Under Law for all Americans. We wouldn’t have gotten these things had we stayed part of the United Kingdom. The fact that we broke away from them and created this Federal Republic called America and this great liberal democracy with all the freedom that we have, is how we have all the individual freedom that we have.

Lew Rockwell: Walter E. Williams- ‘Are We Equal?’

Source:Walter E. Williams- with one of his best quotes.

“Are women equal to men? Are Jews equal to gentiles? Are blacks equal to Italians, Irish, Polish and other white people? The answer is probably a big fat no, and the pretense or assumption that we are equal – or should be equal – is foolhardy and creates mischief. Let’s look at it.

Male geniuses outnumber female geniuses 7-to-1. Female intelligence is packed much closer to the middle of the bell curve, whereas men’s intelligence has far greater variability. That means that though there are many more male geniuses, there are also many more male idiots. The latter might partially explain why more men are in jail than women.

Watch any Saturday afternoon college basketball game and ask yourself the question fixated in the minds of liberals everywhere: “Does this look like America?” Among the 10 players on the court, at best there might be two white players. If you want to see the team’s white players, you must look at the bench. A Japanese or Chinese player is close to being totally out of the picture, even on the bench. Professional basketball isn’t much better, with 80 percent of the players being black, but at least there’s a Chinese player. Professional football isn’t much better, with blacks being 65 percent. In both sports, blacks are among the highest-paid players and have the highest number of awards for excellence. Blacks who trace their ancestry to West Africa, including black Americans, hold more than 95 percent of the top times in sprinting.”

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I think what Walter Williams point here is if you look at the racial and ethnic statistics in America, European-Americans (from all ethnicities) are better at some things than African and Asian-Americans and African-Americans are better than European and Asian-Americans at other things. That Asian and European-Americans are better at academically, statistically at least and that African-Americans tend to be better than their counterparts at American sports like basketball and football. I agree with him there.

My point is that race and ethnicity doesn’t determine how well someone does in America. We all start off equal to everyone else racially and ethnically when we are born. Being European or Asian doesn’t automatically mean you’ll be better than African-Americans academically simply because of you race. And being African-American doesn’t automatically mean you’ll be better at sports than European and Asian-Americans.

Success and freedom in American is mostly determined by how we’re raised by our parents. And if we are raised by both our biological parents, we have a much chance at being successful in America, as opposed to just being raised by our mother or father. Single-parent households tend to be headed by women in America, not men. And what we do with the opportunities that we are given in life and how we apply our own intelligence and abilities determines how well we’ll do in America. Not our race or ethnicity.

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