Black Leadership: A New Generation of Pragmatists or More Socialist?

In response to the article written by Ron Rice Jr. published by Fox News in Nov, 2005

Mr. Rice,

After reading you bio on your website, I can see that you are a man of hard work and self reliance. But I can't understand the socialistic ideology coming from that kind of background.

You write:
"So, my younger generation proposes new ideas: Like Harold Ford Jr.'s "Call to Service" plan and his stakeholder account idea, in which the federal government, in return for community service, establishes accounts for low-income children that will be invested until they reach 18 and can take full control of the account.

We support Jackson Jr.'s strategy of calling for constitutional amendments that would guarantee health care, full employment and education as fundamental rights."

What part did the federal government play in you life growing up? Is not government hand-out's spoiling "your people" relying on the government instead of themselves? Isn't hard work and self reliance a more worthy mantra than government reliance?

How can you call these ideas "A New Generation of Pragmatists" if all you are doing is regurgitating the same socialist ideas that Democrats have been keeping "your people" enslaved with for decades?

Original article - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,175965,00.html
Website - www.ron-rice.com