Mark Bednar, former comms director for Speaker McCarthy, joined 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss how the Trump administration is investing in America's future with 'Trump Accounts' and how Nicki Minaj is stepping in to support the effort.

As I make my way from Alabama into Mississippi on my Walk Across America, I’ve been thinking a lot about the chains that bind us. I’m not thinking of the visible chains of poverty, drugs and violence, but the invisible ones that shackle our minds. Just as great ideas set our minds free, there are destructive notions that keep us imprisoned. It seems far too many of us prefer this imprisoned mindset — and why?

What got me thinking about this was the recent attacks on Nicki Minaj. This Trinidad-born rapper, who rose from the streets of Queens to worldwide fame and wealth, dared to step outside the identity politics script by publicly supporting President Donald Trump. 

Predictably, the left unleashed a torrent of attacks with the explicit aim of "canceling" her. All for what? An individual expressing her opinion? Or, more accurately put, a Black individual expressing her own opinion?

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Is this politics, or something deeper — like White guilt manifesting as control over Black thought? It’s a tired pattern we’ve seen before, from the vilification of thinkers like Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele. Even I was vilified when I came out in Chicago as a Black conservative. I lost more than half of my church, and my family had to go into hiding due to death threats.

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