2008 Woodie Awards
Activist discusses life experiences, welfare reform
By: Amelia Hill
Issue date: 2/15/08 Section: News
Star Parker, African-American author and activist, visited campus Wednesday, Feb. 13 and gave a speech titled "From Entitlement to Empowerment: Leaving the Poverty Plantation."
Parker has written three books on her life as an unemployed mother receiving welfare, the first of which is titled Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats: From Welfare Cheat to Conservative Messenger. Her first book caught the attention and interest of Kramer Rice, DePauw senior and president of College Republicans.
"I read the book and enjoyed it," Rice said. "We used her speaker bureau for another speaker last year and contacted them again for another speaker, and they mentioned her name."
Parker opened her speech with information about her life as a single, welfare mother in Los Angeles. She informed the audience that she has had four abortions and explained how she would manipulate the government, as most people do, to get welfare for her baby. She would keep the baby and get her welfare check on the first and fifteenth of each month, and then, after she got the money she would abort the child. After her fourth abortion, she knew that her opinion had changed on abortion: she knew it was wrong.
"That's all welfare is: taking other people's money to pay for your problems," Parker said. "That's how I paid for my abortions."
Growing up, she was involved in criminal, drug and sexual activity. She said she watched her life go into a dark hole. She attributes the turning point in her life to religion and attending church.
"I went to church, and my life changed," Parker said, "I was living off welfare until the priest asked 'Why?'"
Parker said she turned her life around from that moment on, and began working on federal welfare reform. She said many people asked why somebody with her background would become a Republican Conservative. She began to focus her actions and thoughts on helping those living in poverty and trying to get them out of poverty.
Parker has written three books on her life as an unemployed mother receiving welfare, the first of which is titled Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats: From Welfare Cheat to Conservative Messenger. Her first book caught the attention and interest of Kramer Rice, DePauw senior and president of College Republicans.
"I read the book and enjoyed it," Rice said. "We used her speaker bureau for another speaker last year and contacted them again for another speaker, and they mentioned her name."
Parker opened her speech with information about her life as a single, welfare mother in Los Angeles. She informed the audience that she has had four abortions and explained how she would manipulate the government, as most people do, to get welfare for her baby. She would keep the baby and get her welfare check on the first and fifteenth of each month, and then, after she got the money she would abort the child. After her fourth abortion, she knew that her opinion had changed on abortion: she knew it was wrong.
"That's all welfare is: taking other people's money to pay for your problems," Parker said. "That's how I paid for my abortions."
Growing up, she was involved in criminal, drug and sexual activity. She said she watched her life go into a dark hole. She attributes the turning point in her life to religion and attending church.
"I went to church, and my life changed," Parker said, "I was living off welfare until the priest asked 'Why?'"
Parker said she turned her life around from that moment on, and began working on federal welfare reform. She said many people asked why somebody with her background would become a Republican Conservative. She began to focus her actions and thoughts on helping those living in poverty and trying to get them out of poverty.
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posted 2/16/08 @ 2:26 PM EST
At a recent Values Voter Summit, Ms. Parker stated her desire for the forced quarantine of all "sodomites."
Video here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/theocracy-now_b_70314. (Continued…)
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