Posted on 04/09/2013 2:52:48 PM PDT by Graybeard58
Apartheid, as practiced in South Africa from the late 1940s until the early 1990s, was a body of law that ensured the supremacy of the white minority and deprived generations of black Africans of the most fundamental rights and government protections. Using this term to describe current practices in the United States and other Western nations is tantamount to applying the "Nazi" label to anyone with whom one disagrees on matters of policy. Deploying such a loaded term discredits the speaker.
Consider the NAACP's New Haven branch discredited.
The branch got a bit of news-media buzz last week upon releasing a 25-page report entitled "Urban Apartheid," which asserts that "low-income people of color in America's urban areas, including the Greater New Haven metropolitan area, continue to be separated from the country's social and economic mainstream in part as a direct result of current local, regional, state, and national policies."
The report contains a long list of disadvantages suffered by minority residents of New Haven. Their neighborhoods aren't as nice, their schools of lower quality, their physical health poorer, their housing and employment opportunities less promising, than those enjoyed by white residents.
Two points are missing from the analysis, which addresses education, economic equity, neighborhoods, health, and civic engagement:
Single-parent families. By every measure, children fare better if they are raised by a mother and father who are married; and married couples fare better economically than singles. "Twenty-nine percent of white children, 53 percent of Hispanics and 73 percent of black children are born to unmarried women," economist and syndicated columnist Walter Williams wrote in February. "The absence of a husband and father from the home is a strong contributing factor to poverty, school failure, crime, drug abuse, emotional disturbance and a host of other social problems." This problem, central to the woes of inner-city minorities, goes unmentioned.
Anti-discrimination law. Far from keeping minorities "in their place," as evil institutions like slavery, Jim Crow and apartheid did in their time, today's regulatory regime in the United States and in Connecticut goes to great lengths to bar discrimination on the basis of race. Nowhere in the report is an explanation given for why these laws have proved inadequate, given the manifestly poor results.
For all its slick presentation and extensive bibliography, this report exposes what has been wrong with the NAACP for too many years. The document does not call upon minorities to put their children first; to place a high priority on education; to emphasize religious faith and community; or to reject the self-destructive culture of drugs, promiscuous sex and government dependency. In other words, it doesn't call for "Advancement" by anyone; it merely bashes the supposed beneficiaries of "Urban Apartheid."
More than a century ago, Booker T. Washington wrote, "It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself." Such sentiments are not merely absent in "Urban Apartheid;" they're pointedly ignored by an NAACP that has strayed too far from its roots to be of much use to any aggrieved group, especially the one it claims to represent.
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People in the “White” neighborhoods do not tolerate trash, grafitti, and are more likely to keep their yards up. Perhaps, that is why they are nicer.
There is a current separation between blacks and whites. The separation is due to the whites voluntary rejection of the blacks attitudes and behavior.
“low-income people of color in America’s urban areas, including the Greater New Haven metropolitan area, continue to be separated from the country’s social and economic mainstream in part as a direct result of current local, regional, state, and national policies.”
This is absolutely a true statement. However, the policies in question are mostly liberal social welfare policies!
Yup, and if some guy tries to sell drugs on the street, he gets the cops called on him, every 10-20 minutes, until they make him go away. And we’ll testify in court to keep him away.
How’s that “No Snitchin’” movement working out in the Black communities?
Bingo, boogieman. Bingo.
The whole premise of their argument and even our responses are all patently absurd.
We shouldn’t even have to point out the extremely obvious reasons for what they are “noticing”or saying is the result of discrimination.
This world is so f#’d it isn’t even funny anymore. I find it hard to even muster the will to post replies on FR, because I’m devastated we even have to reply or rebut/refute/counter this utterly tripe insanity.
UGGG
NAACP, time for you to send a Thank You Card to LBJ’s Grave.
They're free to move to the garden spots of Africa, where "racism and discrimination" against blacks does not exist.
But of course does exist relentlessly against whites, to the extent of genocide in Zimbabwe, for example.
But then there wouldn't be anyone to blame for all the social failures, or extort for the goodies that you didn't make for yourself.
And gosh, can't let that happen.
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