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Conservatism & Multiculturalism

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Conservatism is often associated with nostalgia.  We are a nation of immigrants.  Even our First Nation's people crossed the Bearing Sea/land bridge to North America.  Our nation owes our rich culture to immigrants from around the world.  In one respect all of our immigrants saw America as an opportunity the be free and free to carve a new stamp of culture and entrepreneurship that enabled America to be forward looking and not bound by centuries of "conserving' the cultures of the past.  It is the mistaken "conservative" view of culture that has impeded the success of people not considered to be Americans that has left some cultures behind and unable to generate generational wealth. It's easy for the majority population to blame poverty on the people living in poverty.  Only targeted groups in our population follow this pattern, while other immigrants continue to succeed and add to our economy (the richest in the world).   "Conservatives" object to

The Nuclear Family

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  Representative Byron Donalds speaks to the black Nuclear Family/ Rep. Byron Donalds, a prominent supporter of former President Donald Trump, recently made controversial remarks comparing today’s Black culture with that of the Jim Crow era . During a June 4 event in Philadelphia, Donalds stated, “You see, during Jim Crow, the Black family was together.” He also claimed that more Black people were conservative during that time and voted conservatively. However, his comments drew criticism from Democrats and the Congressional Black Caucus. They argued that lionizing the Jim Crow era was factually inaccurate and outrageous. Vice President Kamala Harris also weighed in, emphasizing the importance of acknowledging true history rather than rewriting it 1 . Donalds later defended his comments on MSNBC, clarifying that he was not being nostalgic about Jim Crow. Instead, he was trying to highlight the higher marriage rates of Black Americans during that period compared to today, which have sin