Posted on 07/08/2013 10:36:15 AM PDT by jazusamo
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
Apparently other Americans also recognize that the sources of racism are different today from what they were in the past. According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 31 percent of blacks think that most blacks are racists, while 24 percent of blacks think that most whites are racist.
The difference between these percentages is not great, but it is remarkable nevertheless. After all, generations of blacks fought the white racism from which they suffered for so long. If many blacks themselves now think that most other blacks are racist, that is startling.
The moral claims advanced by generations of black leaders — claims that eventually touched the conscience of the nation and turned the tide toward civil rights for all — have now been cheapened by today's generation of black "leaders," who act as if it is all just a matter of whose ox is gored.
Even in legal cases involving terrible crimes — the O.J. Simpson murder trial or the charges of gang rape against Duke University students — many black "leaders" and their followers have not waited for facts about who was guilty and who was not, but have immediately taken sides, based on who was black and who was white.
Among whites, according to the same Rasmussen poll, 38 percent consider most blacks racist and 10 percent consider most whites racist.
Broken down by politics, the same poll showed that 49 percent of Republicans consider most blacks racist, as do 36 percent of independents and 29 percent of Democrats.
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Me too.
“The difference between these percentages is not great, but it is remarkable nevertheless.”
Actually, 31 is almost 30% greater than 24. That’s a pretty significant percentage difference.
How many blacks vote for someone based on skin color? Seems like far too many.
I’m white of Italian decent. I’d happily vote for a black, yellow, brown or purple conservative. I would never vote for a liberal white Italian.
The false claims of racism allow some people to blame their self-inflicted pathologies on Whitey and escape having to face their own failures.
Also, it allows the leftist politicians to cultivate a permanent underclass, feeding them lies about why they can’t get out of their situation.
Thomas Sowell is a national treasure.
Thomas Sowell, I love your clear mind which cuts right to the core of the issue!
“Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having racial or ethnic leaders. While most Americans can easily name a number of black leaders, current or past, how many can name Asian American ethnic leaders or Jewish ethnic leaders?”
Right on, right on, right on!
If these random attacks on whites continue, white flight will no longer be from the city to the suburbs, but to predominately white states.
I would think that people will take being victims for only so long, but I could be wrong. Looking at Europe, it seems that people are more afraid of not being PC than they are in protecting their families. Sad state of affairs.
IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
‘ Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And - which is more - you’ll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling
The civil rights movement in 20th century America attracted many people who put everything on the line for the sake of fighting against racial oppression. But the eventual success of that movement attracted opportunists, and even turned some idealists into opportunists.
I can't disagree with a word of that; I doubt, however, it's more than a portion of the whole story.
I believe much of the racial and political turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s was deliberately worsened by communists, both American and foreign, whose goal was to weaken and tear down America. Much as we now know the Franklin Roosevelt regime was heavily infested with communists of every stripe, kind, and degree, so, I believe, will it turn out communists were hard at work behind the scenes in racial and anti-Viet Nam war circles.
>>> Much as we now know the Franklin Roosevelt regime was heavily infested with communists of every stripe, kind, and degree, so, I believe, will it turn out communists were hard at work behind the scenes in racial and anti-Viet Nam war circles.<<<<
I love you like a brother, Standing Wolf, but this revelation took place at the time when those in the racial and anti-Vietnam War movements proclaimed themselves to be communists. It’s no secret. Our real problem is not turning away from the truth that was spoken loudly by its supporters.
Well....I’m so old schoolkids think I’m a science project.
Another good one from Dr. Sowell. Thanks for the ping jaz.
Me too, my FRiend. :-)
How about to a different country? Color me gone.
Those are fascinating statistics about the estimation of who is racist by the blacks, whites, republicans, and democrats.
Also, the change from white to black in those who are racist.
Can you say, “Race-baiting poverty pimps?” I knew you could!
Thank you for the post and ping, Jaz. [smiles]
What has happened over the years is that certain persons have learned how to make a great deal of money and how to obtain practial power by using racism.
A scam that has arisen both in the discrimination field and the environmental field is that a protestor will come to a company and say that they are violating an environmental law or a discrimination law and that they will report it UNLESS THEY ARE GIVEN A LARGE CONTRIBUTION. Uncle Sam doesn’t appear to dislike this type of extortion.
Starting with Tom Sowell, and Nancy Pelosi, respectively.
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