Posted on 04/19/2017 4:43:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
As a group, black Americans have made the greatest gains -- over some of the highest hurdles and in a very short span of time -- of any racial group in mankind's history. What's the evidence? If one totaled up the earnings of black Americans and considered us as a separate nation with our own gross domestic product, we would rank among the 20 richest nations. It was a black American, Gen. Colin Powell, who once headed the world's mightiest military. Black Americans are among the world's most famous personalities, and a few are among the world's richest people.
The significance of these and other achievements is that at the end of the Civil War, neither a slave nor a slave owner would have believed such progress would be possible in a little over a century -- if ever. As such, it speaks to the intestinal fortitude of a people. Just as importantly, it speaks to the greatness of a nation in which such gains were possible. Nowhere else on the face of the earth would such progress be possible except in the United States of America. The big and thorny issue that confronts our nation is how these gains can be extended to the one-third or more of the black population for whom they have proved elusive.
A major part of the solution should be the elimination of public and private policy that rewards inferiority and irresponsibility. Chief among the policies that reward inferiority and irresponsibility is the welfare state. When some people know that they can have children out of wedlock, drop out of school and refuse employment and suffer little consequence, one should not be surprised to see the growth of such behavior. The poverty rate among blacks is about 30 percent. It's seen as politically correct to blame today's poverty on racial discrimination, but that's nonsense. Why? The poverty rate among black intact husband-and-wife families has been in the single digits for more than two decades. Does one want to argue that racists discriminate against female-headed families but not husband-and-wife families?
As a group, black Americans have made the greatest gains -- over some of the highest hurdles and in a very short span of time -- of any racial group in mankind's history. What's the evidence? If one totaled up the earnings of black Americans and considered us as a separate nation with our own gross domestic product, we would rank among the 20 richest nations. It was a black American, Gen. Colin Powell, who once headed the world's mightiest military. Black Americans are among the world's most famous personalities, and a few are among the world's richest people.
The significance of these and other achievements is that at the end of the Civil War, neither a slave nor a slave owner would have believed such progress would be possible in a little over a century -- if ever. As such, it speaks to the intestinal fortitude of a people. Just as importantly, it speaks to the greatness of a nation in which such gains were possible. Nowhere else on the face of the earth would such progress be possible except in the United States of America. The big and thorny issue that confronts our nation is how these gains can be extended to the one-third or more of the black population for whom they have proved elusive.
A major part of the solution should be the elimination of public and private policy that rewards inferiority and irresponsibility. Chief among the policies that reward inferiority and irresponsibility is the welfare state. When some people know that they can have children out of wedlock, drop out of school and refuse employment and suffer little consequence, one should not be surprised to see the growth of such behavior. The poverty rate among blacks is about 30 percent. It's seen as politically correct to blame today's poverty on racial discrimination, but that's nonsense. Why? The poverty rate among black intact husband-and-wife families has been in the single digits for more than two decades. Does one want to argue that racists discriminate against female-headed families but not husband-and-wife families?
It appears that what has held them back in Africa is tribalism and islam...not race.
“some people know that they can have children out of wedlock, drop out of school and refuse employment and suffer little consequence, one should not be surprised to see the growth of such behavior”
IMO it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to call that a form of reparations.
I’ll give the blacks in America credit for one thing...they stick together like nobody’s business.
The Civil Rights Movement was spawned under Dwight Eisenhower and only carried forward and taken credit for by those Democrats who saw the writing on the wall and realized they could put blacks back in a sort of bondage (with voting rights as long as they punched the "D" cards) masked with the falsely benign face of "Welfare". But his points are correct. Not that very many if any people with whom he shares an African heritage will listen.
AND for long-lived american historians———since the mid 60s the bar has been lowered and black s, women and Indians and mexicans have been given special priveledges enabling them to go where more qualified white males are by-passed.-——(EX:—new york recently lowered and/or eliminated qualifying tests for educators because blacks and hispanics could not pass them!!——our country today (after 8yrs of a Black PRESident) has been left in a horrible and unsecure state. perhaps beyond repair.-—white male built, sustained and gave this country everything needed to make itthe greatest country EVER on this earth!!——IF you disagree and are unhappy —PLEASE LEAVE—QUIETLY!!
They seem to kill each other too like nobody’s business.
***The poverty rate among blacks is about 30 percent.***
But, but Democrat Lyndon Johnson declared WAR on POVERTY back in 1964! What happened!
I saw an old Arkan-saw cartoon in 1964.
Hillbilly Woman: “Paw, the President said he is going to declare war on Poverty!”
Hillbilly man setting on the porch: “Well, if he wants me in his war on Poverty he is going to have to draft me!”
In certain localities, true.
Not exactly...
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