Well into the Obama presidency, and in light of the Ferguson madness, is it time yet to suggest that Black people scr*w up everything they touch?
Not a lot of signs in B’ham IIRC.
Just marchers.
Stop having kids without fathers married to their mothers!
It’s a flash-in-the-pan cause because it’s totally BS. Notice still absolute quiet as to any information about what the officer was actually doing or what is happening now. All we hear of is the myth of the “Gentle Giant,” in fact a nasty gangbanger who had just knocked over a liquor store.
It’s not a matter of lack of opportunity and money that causes Black athletes and entertainers to fail.
I’d like to hear a black empowerment organization endorse individual career and family planning? Taking control of one’s life and building a plan for the future? Working diligently and exercising self-control to implement that plan?
Accumulation of wealth is usually not an accident. Adverse conditions can impede a good plan, (usually in a temporary and limited fashion). But a bad plan (or no plan) will guarantee the adverse outcome.
An elegantly written piece for sure. Only a black man could put these points out there.
With only 6% of black eligible voters bothering to vote, in a 2/3 black community entirely discredits their main gripe— that gripe being a practically all white, (and racist), police force and practically all white city commission, and district attorney.
That fact makes their sudden outrage all the more ridiculous. But who could so inform them of such an inconsistency but for a black man?
The writer gives the boobs a tutorial on advancing a cause, IF IT’S REAL. It’s been done, already! He rightly fingers goofy Al Sharpton and reminds the boobs that change comes from the bottom up, not the top down, from the fortune seekers with names and TV shows of their own.
No, I believe these Ferguson blacks are victims of public education and the Marxist slant for perpetuating victim status, and for benefitting Party apparatus, all beloved by Harry Belafonte and like minded misery hounds.
Charles Cobb was probably much better educated in his day than this current crop of intellectual rubes blowing up Ferguson.
I wish he had addressed that.
Name a community that has improved once Blacks became the majority.
Waiting...............
The had the power all the time. Self-control, self-discipline, hard work, and a positive, appreciative grateful attitude. All sorely lacking in some quarters.
Black people need to get a grip. The problem is not that the police force is overwhelmingly white. Its not that only 6% of the blacks voted. Before the Brown incident were the people feeling oppressed? No. The vast majority of the people there were happy with their neighborhood. Perhaps that is why they didnt feel the need to vote or to encourage more blacks to join the police. The problem started due to an isolated incident and a “witness” testimony that the autopsy shows was wrong. The people in the town jumped to a conclusion and this was picked up by outside agitators who were brought in by un-named groups to fan the flames and encourage unrest.
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Until the black population begins looking internally; to judge a man upon the content of his character, and to uphold their own character; nothing will change.
As long as the blame whitey mentality pervades, NOTHING will change. The culture won’t change, the prison population won’t change, the welfare queens won’t change; nothing will change until people stand up on their hind legs and change themselves!
Read the article. Looks like he’s simply advocating for the older generation of race baiters to move aside for the younger group of race baiters. Yes, like opera and other endangered cultural events, gotta create a money-generating future.
It’s all about voting the “unrepresentative” White people out and voting the Black people in. Because....it worked so well for Detroit.
Author states: “As an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi during the ’60s, “ etc.
Southern black people really hated this organization back in the 60s. Nobody asked them to come, but they would show up in some poverty-stricken town, stir things up, organize protests etc., then take off leaving the local people to clean up after them and mend fences with white neighbors and the police.
The people of Ferguson basically told race-baiters and agitators like Sharpton to get out of town before history repeated itself.
The author also never gets around to stating what exactly should be done. He says more black people should vote and new faces should emerge, but nothing about what they should change to solve problems in the black community.
I guess it’s taboo to actually talk about solutions, but voices like Bill Cosby, Alveda King, Niger Innis and Don Lemon have gotten it right. But nobody feels like listening.
He had me all the way up until he stated naming the ‘new leaders’ who should be listened to... that’s top down.
And the people in Ferguson? There’s a reason blacks in Ferguson are electing whites... it’s not that they don’t understand how to vote. They do. What the black community is saying - by their ACTIONS - is there’s something uncomfortable going on...
The old SNCC would work to figure it out.
SNCC was street level - and if this was 1964 Snick would know why the people of Ferguson were saying one thing and acting differently. They would talk it out, listen, and - as a group - come up with ideas and plans.
I suspect college educated blacks coming out of white liberal colleges aren’t connecting with the real black community...
“Black people had the power to fix the problems in Ferguson before the Brown shooting. They failed.”
That’s racist.
There are ten thousand Fergusons in America that you’ve never heard of. They’re all run by Democrats.
That’s the common thread.
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