Trying to ignore the obvious by being race-neutral is extremely harmful in the long run. Races do exist. People are helped and hindered by their race, not just in their personal and family lives, but in their community, at the academic level, in employment, incarceration, health care and many other things.
And don’t for a minute think that this argument is from a liberal perspective.
Slave-descended black Americans are suffering terribly today, mostly from “self-inflicted wounds”. Skin color has nothing to do with it, either, as even African immigrant blacks recognize that s-d blacks have a horribly toxic culture, and they want nothing to do with it or them.
It is indeed a “race problem”, but from within, not people of other races oppressing them. And yet s-d blacks and everybody else, for that matter, are not *permitted* to see the truth, because of the MSM *embargo* on the truth.
And it has gone far beyond the MSM. Many governments and police departments absolutely refuse to state the obvious, omitting the racial factor when it is inherent to a situation, or even boldly lying and denying it when confronted by the truth.
It is insane that when s-d blacks go on a racist, mob rampage, that it is not reported as such. Or *prosecuted* as such! What in heaven’s name do they imagine they are accomplishing?
Look at what is happening right now to s-d black Americans:
1) A 70% illegitimacy rate.
2) 30,000 or so abortions every year in NYC alone.
3) 25% of black men are either in prison or on parole.
4) Perpetual sky high unemployment.
5) Very high homicide rate, 95% of which are black-on-black.
6) The list goes on and on.
Here is an online news website that just reports some of what is happening around the urban US. Is anyone bettered by pretending this is not happening? (They even apologize because so many of their stories are about blacks.)
1) A 70% illegitimacy rate.
2) 30,000 or so abortions every year in NYC alone.
3) 25% of black men are either in prison or on parole.
4) Perpetual sky high unemployment.
5) Very high homicide rate, 95% of which are black-on-black.
6) The list goes on and on.
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Coming soon the rest of America. Blacks are merely the canaries in the coal mine.
So?...What’s the solution. ( I have my ideas and opinions.)
I believe the breakdown of the family is our nation’s most severe and pressing problem, yet no one will expound on it because it’s “racist” to do so.
Heather McDonald covers the consequences of the breakdown of the Hispanic family:
http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_4_hispanic_family_values.html
You make good points.
Races do exist, but as you correctly point out it’s fundamentally a cultural crisis within predominantly Black communities, and it should be approached as such instead of directly cast as a ‘race issue’ per se. Like instead of the “plight of Black people in America” it should be construed more along the lines of “plight of inner-city Americans” or “Americans in Black communities” or hell, even “Black Americans” makes a big difference in contrast to “Blacks”.
Subtle distinctions, but I think these are important in modulating how people mentally conceive these issues, because too many go braindead and effectively stop thinking once their minds are pivoting around it directly as being a race issue by itself.
I think some of the ideas Herman Cain had come up in concert with Alveda King during the primaries, were reasonable conservative-minded approaches towards addressing problems faced within Black American communities.
Google- “Color of Crime” and see the “startling” statistics re: Black on White crime, vs White on Black