“[T]he relevant political issue is getting a realistic perspective on what the government can do to improve anyone’s personal economic reality. Too many blacks still don’t get the fact that the only thing government can do for them is get out of the way so that they can take care of themselves. This means government needs to keep taxes, inflation and interest rates low. Politicians can steal what you have, but they certainly can’t create wealth for anyone... Democratic palliatives like the minimum wage, redistribution schemes and social engineering schemes are sad illusions that far too many blacks still buy into. If these things actually worked, blacks wouldn’t be in the state they are in today. The extent to which blacks do indeed still buy into this stuff, and clearly they do, simply tells us the extent to which they are still dreaming rather than working.”

—Star Parker