Posted on 08/17/2014 3:19:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The events in Missouri spring from America's deeply embedded segregation and black economic deprivation.
I spent my very early years in New York, living a very multiracial Sesame Street life, a big swinging bellbottom of a childhood. And then our family moved to Baltimore and the iron curtain of the "colour line" fell. I felt that I had moved from the 1970s through a time warp where black and white were the only two colours and never the twain shall socially meet.
I grew to understand what the 50s were actually like in Baltimore, when my mother, for example, was permitted to buy clothes from the major department store but not try them on. (Heaven forfend some black lady should be in the dressing room, right? You know they leave a residue of blackness on the clothes.)
America has never had one racial reality, but a series of them strung together from San Antonio to Pittsburgh to Appalachia. What we are seeing in Ferguson, Missouri, is the result of life in a specific type of heavily racialised zone. Yes, a city such as New York, where a black man was recently choked to death by police officers, has its own very clear forms of racialisation and it's a national issue. But the police killing, last week, of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen in Ferguson has sparked national protests because it represents a specific type of racialisation. This is of the majority black city, big or small, with a white economic and political power structure.
I grew up with mayor William Donald Schaefer, who presided over Baltimore from 1971-1987, an unusually long stretch....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
“Looking at the incarcerated, these are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake! Then we all run out and are outraged: “The cops shouldn’t have shot him.” What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand? I wanted a piece of pound cake just as bad as anybody else. And I looked at it and I had no money. And something called parenting said if you get caught with it you’re going to embarrass your mother.” Not, “You’re going to get your butt kicked.” No. “You’re going to embarrass your mother.” “You’re going to embarrass your family.” If you knock that girl up, you’re going to have to run away because it’s going to be too embarrassing for your family...
...Ladies and gentlemen, listen to these people. They are showing you what’s wrong. People putting their clothes on backwards. Isn’t that a sign of something going on wrong? Are you not paying attention? People with their hat on backwards, pants down around the crack. Isn’t that a sign of something or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up? ...
...Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person’s problem. We’ve got to take the neighborhood back. We’ve got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It’s right around the corner. It’s standing on the corner. It can’t speak English. It doesn’t want to speak English. I can’t even talk the way these people talk: “Why you ain’t where you is go ra?” I don’t know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English.
Everybody knows it’s important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can’t land a plane with, “Why you ain’t…” You can’t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they’re moving ahead on this. Well, they know they’re not; they’re just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you’re just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out.
Now, look, I’m telling you. It’s not what they’re doing to us. It’s what we’re not doing. 50 percent drop out. Look, we’re raising our own ingrown immigrants. These people are fighting hard to be ignorant. There’s no English being spoken, and they’re walking and they’re angry. Oh God, they’re angry and they have pistols and they shoot and they do stupid things. And after they kill somebody, they don’t have a plan. Just murder somebody. Boom. Over what? A pizza?...”
Bill Cosby, Address at the NAACP’ on the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/billcosbypoundcakespeech.htm
In my career as a sales rep, Black doctors and nurses were among the people I sold to. And I'm sure they have race-dar to pick up vibes from people, who don't like blacks. I developed many friendships and relationships over the years.
I've been hired by a black manager, who then had to let me go and then hired me back when he could. I work today with black people as customers, colleagues and admin support.
I've never had a problem with these productive, friendly and full of good humor Americans. I'm called a brother from another mother by one of my colleagues, who not coincidentally is an active believing Christian.
The black underclass is a creation of the Democrat Party (with zero pushback by the GOP) and is a catastrophe mostly for Black Americans, but for the entire country.
This is not a racial issue. Thomas Sowell wrote about this in his book Black Rednecks and White Liberals, about how black urban culture is very similar to white redneck culture back in the Hatfield and McCoys days.
Theodore Dalrymple wrote about the White Underclass in the UK, whose culture is practically indistinguishable to Black urban cultur in 'Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass'.
Socialism in both countries is creating this culture and this catastrophe.
I think it will be very limted at best.
The article is wrong. America has gone too far on race. Affirmative action and 70+ welfare programs have given minorities a sense of entitlement. We have told them they do not need to work, they do not need to study, there there we will take care of you.
Stop.
Cut the umbilical cord. The best thing this country can do is to push people back out to the work force. No more preferential treatment. No more coddling in the schools.
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You do the crime you do the time.
Maybe once they start taking care of themselves instead of expecting more and more from everybody else, they will EARN something to be proud of.
Cosby got in trouble for saying the truth. Especially at the NAACP, which has outlived its usefulness, and now exists solely to maintain a victim mentality and enslavement to a culture of entitlement.
Thanks!
Farai is a fat ass, loud mouth bigot. If she thinks America has far to go she’d love anywhere else in the world. Western Europe, Russia(Russians HATE blacks) Asia, South America. She wouldn’t last a day in any of these countries, not with her attitude.
So that’s the cue to riot all over the place. Blacks rioting. The first person to defend themselves against these animals will be labeled a racist or something ....
Wasn’t the NAACP created by the New York Republican Party in 1908 to protest lynching in the South?
Horse puckie... black people are in jail for the same reason that they find themselves alone in neighborhoods that once had a diverse population... "DRUGS AND VIOLANCE.!"
But...that's ok....its just their "culture".
Days after the first serious tax revolt, when America cannot avoid defaulting on its debt, the “race problem” will largely solve itself.
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To me it looks like she is gravitationally challenged as well.
To me it looks like she is gravitationally challenged as well.
Blacks still think they should be allowed to commit violent crimes with no consequences.
It's ok....like I said in an earlier post...it's just their culture.. It's all that they expect of themselves... And there ain't a damned thing whitey can do about it..!
exactly
Look at all the money we have tossed at miniorities in this nation. I’d defy another nation to stand up and prove they have paid more the help their lower class citizens.
None the less society in the U. S. is seen as a racially motivated. Why it’s guilty of all sorts of stuff. It’s even guilty of killing an eighteen year old 260 pound 6’4” kid charging and officer, after he had already proven his wanted to take his gun.
Isn’t it amazing how the U. S. is the focus of all sorts of searches for evil, and beheadings, stonings for having been raped, child marriage sub 10 years old, the ownership of wives, the forcing of women to hid themselves from public view and much more goes unaddressed almost universally?
Folks, the U. S. isn’t perfect. We’ll all attest to that. It sure is a lot better than most places. Evidently those places are very jealous, and plenty willing attack it to level the playing field.
Those that do, screw ‘em. Who needs ‘em anyway?
The place ain’t perfect, but there are plenty of places to escape to, and nobody is stopping anyone from voting with their feet.
People below the poverty line, go anywhere you like, that you think is better. Loud mouth nations around the world, take these people and treat them better than we do.
I double dog dare you.
Your affirmative action tax dollars at work.
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