Cedra Crenshaw vs King Samir Shabazz: The hand that rocks the cradle?

"I am up against the same machine that put Barack Obama
in office. The machine came in, they wiped all of his competitors
off the ballot, just like they're trying to do to me," grassroots
Illinois state senate candidate Cedra Crenshaw told an Independence Day
audience Saturday," drawing her secret weapon: "They can't call me a 
racist, white, evil man." You can donate
to her legal defense fund here.

By Sissy Willis of sisu

"You hear so much about conservative women leading this conservative
movement in this country, and I really believe that conservative women
are the most persecuted figures in politics right now," says Dana Loesch
in a refreshingly candid Dana Show radio interview — crossposted at BreitbartTV — with "mama grizzly"
Cedra Crenshaw. Does the
hand that rocks the cradle still rule the world? More about that in a
moment, but first a few excerpts from the interview:

She's a wife, she's a stay-at-home mom, she's an
education reformer, she's an accountant, and she was fed up, and so she
threw her hat in the ring.

She has enormous support from the grassroots movement, and she has
terrified the Chicago Machine, who is trying to move
heaven and earth to get her off the ticket.

The Tea Partiers love her. Listen to the Dana Show interview and her Independence Day speech, and you will understand
the smart, common-sense appeal of this authentic American voice. Fellow
Illinois Republican Adam Andrzejewski at Big Government has more:

Why is the machine afraid? Because a new class of
leadership is starting to develop. These new leaders threaten to end the
shell game of taxes, politics, and patronage. Cedra Crenshaw is one of
those new leaders, and she’s is
running for state senate against one of the Chicago Machine’s
rubber-stamp apparatchiks.

She’s an accountant who wants to spearhead a forensic audit of
Illinois state government. A former auditor at Deloitte and Touche,
Cedra supports an audit of the half a trillion dollars of
Democrat-controlled state spending during the
blow-off historic corruption of Blagojevich/Quinn. The Democrat Machine —
contractors, politicians, and patronage army — stand in naked fear of
the result that such an audit would bring.

"The mainstream media is completely ignoring you," Loesch
notes,
"because you defy their narrative of what conservatism is." Crenshaw
agrees, but with new-media avenues like the Dana Show itself, Andrew
Breitbart's Big Government, fire-breathing bloggers and twitterers and Tea Party energizers, she's been able to disintermediate the media powers-that-be to get her
narrative across loud and clear:

People in this state, they want jobs. They want
economic growth. They're not interested in more handouts and more
promises … My opponent, he's got no solutions except more tax increases.

While uniters like Cedra
Crenshaw are pursuing the American Dream, dividers like New Black Panther Party Philadelphia
chapter leader "King Samir Shabazz"
(at 2009 street festival above) pursue the nightmare part of Myron Magnet's The Dream
and the Nightmare: "I hate white people. All of them! Every last
iota of a cracker, I hate him! You want freedom? You're going to have to
kill some crackers! You're going to have to kill some of their babies."
Whatever gets you on the evening
news. Shabazz was caught
on tape intimidating voters at the polls in November of 2008, but
in his infinite and inscrutable wisdom, Attorney General Eric Holder is dropping charges.

Contrasting the public faces of Cedra Crenshaw and King Samir Shabazz, the words of William Blake's The Tyger" come to mind: Did he who made the Lamb make thee? We found a
timely interpretation of the riddle in Juliette Akinye's provocative and
insightful blogpost "Scarred Souls: More About Abortion" (h/t twitter
buddy King
Shamus of Blog de KingShamus), where the blogger AKA
Baldilocks casts the old-fashioned notion of women
as civilizers of men in a contemporary light:

There
might be a little preaching. That's an essential part of me. He's a
part of me…

All women should stop creating the exterior and — more
importantly — the interior conditions under which abortion is an option.
And by that I mean that all women should stop giving themselves to men
who they are not sure will love, cherish and protect them and any
prospective offspring they may create by having sex with each other …

You see, there’s this thing about women, a thing that makes
us different from men, aside from the physical aspects. When we lie down
with a man, we are giving him more than physical pleasure and doing
more than gaining physical pleasure for ourselves.

When a woman has sex with a man, she joins her soul with him
[For those of a more scientific bent, it's a matter of chemistry — oxytocin, the "cuddle hormone"] …

Think about all the illegitimate black children there are in
America and think about the fact that black women have the highest rate
of abortion of any women in America. That statistic says that there are
very many black women who are giving
themselves to men who don’t care about them.

Here's the kicker that illuminates the disjunct between Cedra
Crenshaw's and King Samir Shabazz's American dreams:

And, on top of that, we can take these effects and mirror
them onto black men, too many of whom are angry at the world, angry at
black women, and angry at themselves (black-on-black crime). That anger
almost always stems from observing or experiencing the spiritual, moral
and worldly failure of their mothers.

It's the nanny state, stupid! The unintended consequences of the
debilitating dependency fostered by those handouts Cedra Crenshaw's
supporters want no more of.

Update: Related thoughts and video from Ed Morrissey:

“Mama grizzlies” actually fits better in the Tea Party movement, which I’ve argued is driven in the main by activist women. These are women with families who aren’t focused on what government can do for them, but what government should
be doing, period. They’re defending their turf rather than looking for
handouts, and defending their children from expansionist government and
the massive spending that their children’s children will have to repay.
It’s a good brand to stake out for Palin, but she’s been doing that all
along with the Tea Party movement (as has Michele Bachmann). This just
puts a label on it, and one that sounds much more assertive than “soccer
moms” did.

Crossposted at sisu, Cloven
Not Crested
and Liberty Pundits.

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