Fellow South Carolinian and, as I have told her, closet paleoconservative La Shawn Barber wonders today what many bloggers, writers, doers and thinkers wonder - why am I not heard?
If you do not know, La Shawn is well-spoken, succinct writer who also happens to be a black, southern, Christian woman. I say also happens to be but that is inaccurate, she was many of the later before she was the former but I think you get my point. Oh yeah, she also went to law school but don't hold that against her.
La Shawn does not fit the mold, in here own words she calls a spade a spade and pulls no punches on the racial aspect of issues that other folks simply could not touch without getting on Morris Dee's hall of fame list.
I actually think very seldom about issues in racial terms other than to acknowledge that some segments of the population are hell-bent toward looking at every issue in those terms. I suppose I just write all of that sort of people off entirely. Narrow minds of that sort are dangerous and they are plentiful but there is nothing I can do about it.
La Shawn is exactly the sort of person that people in the world ought to listen to. She has obviously had success, her site receives a lot of hits, she appears on MSM outlets from time to time but ultimately, in the big scheme of things, she is a failure.
She has failed to sway the blogsphere in the smallest measurable degree toward a right perspective in relation to important issues. Oh you say she is but one woman and the blogsphere is filled with many voices. That is true, many unenlightened and delusional voices fill our ranks - probably a solid representation of the world around us. There are however, a few opinion-leaders out there - folks that flunkies flock to for their latest ideological azimuth checks.
Why has La Shawn failed? She proposes three scenarios and leans toward the possibility that perhaps, she is just not as good as she believes herself to be. None of her scenarios hold water.
She fails because her message is not what people want to hear. It is as simple as that. If we lived in a better society, with better people that truly understood the relationship between individual liberty and responsibility and the importance of family La Shawn would probably be THE opinion maker on the blogsphere.
La Shawn's story is a cautionary tale for all of us lesser bloggers with ideas that do not fit the mainstream. Do we dare expect to succeed where she has failed? In a name drop world such as ours she has achieved what should amount to success, i.e. links in the right places, name recognition and face time with the MSM. Yet, she still fails to truly change the momentum of wrong ideas.
Faced with such a circumstance some would ask if perhaps their ideas are out of touch because they are simply wrong. Of course we all know principles never change, people do (Stephens). This fact is still true today, and will forever remain true.
La Shawn, there is nothing wrong with you, it is the world around you that is upside down.
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