Posted on 11/30/2014 6:06:20 AM PST by Kaslin
I get why Blacks turned out in force to elect Barack Obama president. He was their guy – the first Black man (half Black to be accurate) to have a shot at the position of most powerful person in the world. Someone who could really speak for them and understood their lives. Bill Clinton may have been called the “First Black President,” but he was not really a “brother.” I can see Blacks turning out for Obama the second time because their guy losing reelection would have been a horrible ending. Unfortunately, Obama has not helped the Blacks just like every other liberal politician neither hasn’t over the years. Just ask Jason Reilly, author of Please Stop Helping Us.
Reilly, a member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, weaved his own life experiences growing up in Buffalo, New York, with the facts about the black culture in the United States. Included is the harm done to the black community since the Great Society programs of Lyndon Johnson’s full-term presidency from 1965-1969. Reilly takes you back to before our government attempted to help his community to the time they deluged it with money and commitment. His analysis makes one question whether they would have been better off without these self-righteous attempts at providing a helping hand.
One area that Reilly emphasizes is how the black elected officials have not served the black community. He first delineates how other communities (the Irish) suffered from their community progressing in the political arena prior to advancements economically and how that actually harmed the progress of the community. He then tells of how badly the elected and self-anointed officials have served the black community. He refers to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. (famous for the Beer Summit) describing the disconnect between the community and the elected officials. Gates wrote “A 1985 survey found that most blacks favored the death penalty and prayer in public school while black leaders oppose these things. Most blacks opposed school busing, while most black leaders favor it. Three times as many blacks opposed abortion rights as their leaders did. Indeed, on many key social issues blacks are more conservative than whites.” Opinions have not changed much since then.
Yet blacks keep on voting for these ‘off the boards’ liberal leaders. Leftist liberal leaders like Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee and Barbara Lee get 75 percent or more of the vote to reelect them to Congress. Between 1970 and 2001, the number of black elected officials increased from 1,500 to over 9,000. When you get done reading the entirety of Reilly’s analysis of the current state of the community, you really question whether those officials are doing anything other than advancing the well-being of their own existence at the expense of the harm done to the remainder of the community by their actions.
A perfect example is the avid support of unions that the black elected officials exhibit to the detriment of the community. It was not always that way. Reilly cites W.E.B. Du Bois stating that trade unions were “the greatest enemy of the black working man.” Booker T. Washington also questioned their value. Current black leaders consistently support unions which Reilly shows regularly work against the interest of blacks. Whether it be black leaders fighting against Wal-Mart going into poor neighborhoods in parts of New York City where they can provide jobs, lower prices and greater product selection, or defending teachers’ union against the interest of black students, black elected officials work for the unions against their community members’ well-being. The trade unions have historically excluded blacks which Reilly tells about chapter and verse. These are prime examples of elected black officials serving their own needs and not those of their constituents.
Reilly fittingly ends his book quoting one of America’s top commentators on urban society today, Fred Siegel. In his book Revolt Against the Masses, Siegel observes how liberalism has deserted blacks. Reilly states “Liberals naively sought to improve conditions for blacks without passing judgment on antisocial black culture.” He then quotes Siegel saying “Like devout Christians trying to get right with Jesus, liberals tried to get right with racism. They wanted to help blacks in the worst way, and that’s just what they did.”
Solving the challenges that face American-born blacks today is a complex matrix that defies simple analysis. Reilly in his relatively short, readable book answers some of those questions. The main one is maybe why some people are trying so hard – liberal guilt.
Are there no editors?
The Democratic Party will begin to crumble if as few as 40% of Blacks finally realize that their leaders have been bought and paid, that there is a reason the liberals situate most abortion clinics in their neighborhoods, and while liberals get to “choose” good schools for their children, blacks are forcefully herded into urban union controlled cesspools that pretend to be schools but are indoctrination centers for the ignorant.
A thought just came to me. Perhaps we need a third party in this country: a party composed, at first, entirely of right-of-center blacks, which, at first, would only contest elections in majority black Congressional districts.
Never happen in this environment.
Too many still fall under the idea that working with the system or not supporting their current leaders is becoming too “white” and they would be hammered by their own communities. Look at the preachers who even try to touch this stuff and see how they are sidelined by their own communities.
Reality is that, blacks being “controlled” by liberals, is the new “slavery”.
Slave owners used slaves to work for them. Then they would be fed and clothed given shelter. They would even be allowed to breed. But, in the end, they were still under the “rule” of the slave owner.
The only difference now is that, the “slaves” can go anywhere they wish, and can even have their own careers, but, those slaves are now “useful idiots” controlled by the liberals who purport to have their best interests at heart. Yet, the social and economic conditions for blacks have not progressed that much for most of the last 100 years. They are willing “slaves” to the democrats, who use blacks as their “political property”.
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False premise.
Can't get to the right answer with bad inputs.
Unfortunately, conservatives talk about reaching out to blacks but have little real interest in actually looking for a way to do so.
I post about the vast changes in Detroit and its people and its met with a string of FReepers lining up to be the first to kick them in the teeth with idiotic comments. The MI GOP is driving everything good in the city but the national GOP is happy to sit back and hand those gains to the democrats.
The day before the election Obama was in Detroit claiming credit for a falling black unemployment rate. The still high but declining rate has nothing to do with Obama. It was driven by GOP policies here in Michigan but not one republican from outside the state did anything but bash Detroit.
After 30 years of trying Rick Snyder finally managed to get the deal of a lifetime for a new bridge over the Detroit river. Canada is paying the total cost of construction of the bridge but Obama refuses to approve a customs plaza or release the $250 million needed to build it unless Rick Snyder promises to give $100 million of it to Detroit municipal union pension funds. A customs plaza is federal infrastructure so we can’t legally do it ourselves but Rick Snyder has started anyway.
To be honest, I missed the extraneous “neither” in the first paragraph myself.
Speed reading has its drawbacks < BG >
The progressive puppeteer’s blank-slate, halffrikken-American, neo-marxist, demagogic mover of mind-numbed masses. Barry! Barry! Barry!
6+ years of words (lies) and dirty deeds (actions supporting lies), is wearing thin on the believers of the deceiver.
“Reality is that, blacks being “controlled” by liberals, is the new “slavery”.”
The reality should be white conservative candidates going into the black communities and saying this, without fear of the MSM calling them racists.
In truth, until the black liberation Theologists and the 60’s marxist radicals are gone, this will continue.
I suspect that the reason can be summed up in the phrase "One bitten, twice shy."
Nothing but an excuse.
No worries there. They’d still turn out in full force for a third, and fourth obama term.
Not an excuse, an explanation.
Your earlier statement was correct. Unfortunately, most people, after getting the hand of friendship bitten off, don’t want to risk it again. So what can be done about it?
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