Excellent article.
Michelle Obama is from a generation that has not the slightest understanding of the difficulties faced by her grandmother’s generation. She is one of the black, YOUNG, majority that sees discrimination monsters under every bed even as she has never experienced true discrimination from ordinary Americans. Any contempt she may have felt at Princeton is the same contempt these elitists feel for EVERY person who is not one of “them”- the leftist, privileged few who just know, better than the rest of us, everything- how to live, how to think and how our hard earned money should be spent. Do these self-promoting elitists think only THEY can see to it that we all live right? Absolutely. Does Michelle believe it is ony a contempt saved for blacks? I’m sure. I would hasten to assure her- stop spending so much time contemplating your navel and look around. That contempt is for anyone who is not “them”.
But here is a little truth- The end of slavery, the dawn of civil rights and the level playing field only happened because the overwhelming majority of WHITE Americans agreed that it was the right thing to do and would not have happened without us. Once the ball was rolling, blacks were invited and the rest of us went about our business and expected that THEY would as well. “Equality” is not about US carrying THEM because “we owe them”. She needs to learn that. The black community is a mess, no doubt. But it is of their own doing and can only be fixed by THEM now. More money, more programs won’t work. Applying blame everywhere but on those responsible won’t work.
The problem with Obama, like most Dems, is a refusal to pinpoint the most important SINGLE cause of the cultural degradation in much of the black community. That cause is the destruction of the 2 parent black family. The precipitate cause of this tragedy was the welfare state created by LBJ and (mostly) the DemocRAT Party. But since Barack He who must not be middle named Obama wants to extend and expand the welfare state to all of America, he is careful to avoid pinpointing the correct conclusion.
When you point out that the Democratic Party’s entire history and policies have been antithetical to the best interests of the black community, and that to the extent that a major political party is responsible for any political and civil liberty that black people have, they owe it to the Republican Party, and even when you can prove that historically and factually the most amazing case of political cognitive dissonance then occurs.
The common response is, well that may be true but only the Democrats are “for us”. They usually go on to recite an entirely erroneous understanding of Nixon’s Southern strategy, a distortion of Berry Goldwater’s principled opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and completely ignore the fact that the Democratic Party was founded amongst other things, to extend slavery into the territory’s. Every Democrat antebellum platform espoused support for slavery. The Democratic Party opposed the 13, 14, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution, Reconstruction, every bit of foundational civil rights legislation from 1866 to 1968, instituted Jim Crow in the Southern states, refused to enact antilynching laws, and most importantly destroyed the two-parent black family with Lyndon Johnson’s welfare state, “The Great Society.” When you point out the fact that the modern-day Democratic Party is home to the pro-abortion forces that has enhanced the wildly disproportionate abortion rate in the black community, that doesn’t seem to register either.
The black community is in the throes of the worst political brainwashing outside of the Soviet Union and I just don’t know what can be done about it. I constantly engage in debates with people in my community and they are determined to vote for Democrats despite the clear and present evidence of their utterly destructive policies and history. The staggeringly high level of political cognitive dissonance amongst my people is frightening.