That’s Right Nate

Liberal media has jumped on the Center for Diseas Control’s report that shows Mississippi has become the number one state in the union for teen pregnancy.  You see, it makes the liberals feel good about themselves to point out that with abstinence only education Missisippi’s teen pregnancy rate is 60 percent higher than the national average.  However instead of looking at the 6.8% of teen girls in Misissippi who were pregnant, why not look at the 93.2% of the state’s teens who weren’t.

The reason that Mississipi has such problems with abstinence only education is pretty obvious–its teacher’s unions.  Lazy teachers who are union protected do a half ass job of teaching abstinence because they know that every teen who gets pregnant is another student who will need teaching.  This is blatant conflict of interest.  If they really want somebody to make a case for abstinence bring religious leaders or even parent volunteers into a classroom.  Boys are hopeless at this age, but we can reach the girls.   I can tell you if you let me talk about sex for half an hour with a room full of high school girls they will choose to remain virgins for a very long time.

As I’ve mentioned before, I didn’t appreciate it at the time, but I was very lucky that I grew up in the 1980s when nobody had premarital sex.  Oh it wasn’t from lack of trying on the guys’ part, but the girls always said no.   I worry about my daughter growing up in this era where morals have gone to pot, but I know that I have instilled good values in her and I know that when she starts dating I will watch her like a hawk.

After the Presidential Debate last night, I expected the media to be talking about the way that John McCain knocked it out of the park.  You can imagine my surprise when the media instead seemed to dwell on a gesture made by Maverick and totally misinterpret it.

What anybody with any knowledge of history would know is that Barack Obama is not the first black person from Chicago to come down to Mississippi.  In August of 1955, a 14 year old black boy named Emmett Till went down to stay with an uncle in Money, Mississippi.  A week later he was murdered.  His crime was staring at a white storekeeper and whistling at her.  At that time in the South, black people were not permitted to look a white person in the eye and risked a beating or worse if they did.

Last night John McCain attempted to use the debate as an opportunity to offer his apologies to black people who lived in the era before the Civil Rights movement.  He did this by humbling himself and not looking at Obama in the eye.  I was choked up when I saw a great man like John McCain nearly prostrating himself to make a point about his belief in inclusion an equality.  This is a man who doesn’t see color.  His nominating convention was the most diverse Republican convention ever with 36 (Wow!) of the 2380 delegates being people of color.

Uninformed people saw a Republican candidate who wouldn’t make eye contact because of the supposedly false attack ads he’s launched against Obama or because of a hatred of the man.  I saw a brave war hero who took his chance on a grand stage to make ammends for the horrible lynchings of the pre-civil rights era.