Posted on 11/26/2014 8:59:42 AM PST by Republicanprofessor
As we see rioters destroying downtown Ferguson and demonstrating in other cities, it occurs to me that the time is ripe for Republicans to offer their solutions to inner city problems. Black Americans have been beholden to Democrats since the 1960s, and has their lot improved? I do not have the statistics handy; I’ll let others work those up. But it is my impression that most inner city Americans are worse off in terms of lower incomes, higher unemployment, poorer education, greater dependence upon food stamps, etc. As I try to defend Republican policies on social media, my Democratic friends are skeptical that the “evil” Republicans can offer improvements. Thus it is the ideal time for vocal and coherent policies to be offered and debated by Republicans.
Even liberals like Fox’s Bob Beckel agree that the Democrats have been primarily responsible for the disaster of our inner cities, with their welfare/no workfare programs, the lack of responsibility in terms of fatherhood, the astronomical abortion rates, etc. Young men seem to have few alternatives to gangs and criminal pursuits. Let’s offer ideas to turn this around. We need to increase opportunities and responsibility. Welfare should require work, even volunteer hours, for those physically capable. We need to reduce benefits, ease people off welfare and move them into jobs. We need to encourage fathers to stay with the mothers they bed and the children that result. Young black fathers need to feel the joy of the birth of their offspring, not the frustration of being cut off from these families so the governmental benefits continue.
In the past, I remember Republicans offering policies to improve education, school choice and competition. We need to eliminate the farce that is Common Core. We need to return the power and choices of education to local schools and local families. We need to rework assessment so that there is less dependence upon test scores and more upon critical thinking. We need to brainstorm across the aisle to improve the challenge and excitement of education.
We need to make the inner cities prosperous again. We need to reinstate enterprise zones and to reduce bureaucracy and paperwork for new businesses. We need to encourage single mothers and others to begin their own businesses. We need to study the impediments and frustrations of new businesses and propose solutions that work.
We need to make higher education more affordable, with loans offered at very low interest and with business and entrepreneurship courses. We need to spark interest in success and to make it possible. We need to show how hard work can be a reward in and of itself. Almost a third of the millennial generation show no interest in working for a living. We need to turn this around.
These are just a few ideas; I know that our rising Republican stars can come up with many more ideas. But now is the time to act, while the issues are fresh and Republicans are on the rise. Show the country that we can make a difference. And as Republicans make such suggestions and then their policies, we need also to listen to and respect Democratic ideas. When we disagree, we need to do so rationally, pointing up the deficits of programs like Common Core. We need to avoid the pitfalls of calling those we disagree with by names (which is, of course, a favorite Democratic ploy). We are above that. We need to encourage critical thinking just by how we debate the issues.
The time is ripe to appeal to those people who are frustrated with Democratic policies and who have never considered Republican alternatives. We need to show that the Republican approach to smaller government and more local control, with greater competition and individual responsibility, is the way to go.
Here’s one: Grow up.
The pubbies should pass a regulation that all buildings in inner cities must be constructed of fireproof materials...
To revise education, we need to get rid of ethnic studies courses and revisionist history. We need to return courses like, civics, or problems of Democracy, without the lie of social justice, to the required curriculum. Get young people truly involved in government, not just entitlements.
Not my problem.
>> ending the free stuff will force the gibsmedats to change or starve
... and the nation would be surprised just how QUICKLY things would change for the better if the free-stuff firehose were to be shut off.
It’s time for the world to say Black Man, the problem is YOU. YOUR thinking, YOUR culture, YOUR idle nihilism, YOUR self-created and self-propagating ignorance. Stop the blaming, stop the burning, stop the killing, stop YOUR own self-destruction.
“Now is the time for Republicans to propose inner city solutions”
What the hell does this mean?
Republicans have proposed MANY “solutions”, but the Dems don’t seem to have any interest in any of them, such as:
1) Putting felons in jail and executing as needed
2) School Choice
3) Work for Welfare
4) Loosen regulations
It’s actually a pretty long list. The Dems are the ones that seem to imply everything is JUST FINE as is...ok, maybe up Food Stamp funding yet again.
It can’t all be chalked up to ignorance, they are rioting on our college campuses over Ferguson and Hillary Clinton was in tight with the Black Panthers when she went to college.
It has to be their belief in entitlements due to slavery in the U.S., it’s either that or they are just not wired right.
In any case, slavery should be taught in schools, starting with the article below:
Inconvenient Truths about Race & Slavery
FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE ^ | May 15, 2014 | Jack Kerwick
For instance, the very word “slave” stems from “Slav,” i.e. a reference to the experience of millions of (white) Slavish people who endured centuries of slavery at the hands of African Muslims. This, of course, is a most inconvenient truth, for it is a most Politically Incorrect truth. But it is the truth.
Yet the Slavish aren’t the only whites who spent centuries in captivity: Europeans of various backgrounds were enslaved by African Muslims as well. All of this is heavily documented in such neglected pieces of scholarship as Robert Davis’s Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 and Paul Baepler’s White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives.
Common Core is intended to even the educational outcome by making math equally difficult for a White students as Minority students. Common Core teaches math, using methods that are used for students with math disabilities.
At the back to school meeting at my grandson’s school, the teachers said that they have to teach the Common Core, but that they would also teach the regular math in the lower grades. They said that private tutoring services would be popping up all over the place to teach regular math at the higher levels and that they encouraged parents to take advantage of them. They said that Common Core would be gone in ten years because parents wouldn’t put up with it.
People hold onto what they know, if that’s all they know. Only by engaging them can you show them a better way.
Once they become aware and see that it works, they change.
But if you’re to wait until they are willing to change, how do they change?
Didn’t forget it, just didn’t mention it.
For years, I’ve pointed out here and elsewhere that NO ONE has addressed the root of the take-over of the Marxist mindset in our nation. Rush has finally begun mentioning it, but even he has never proposed a solution.
It all began with taking over our educational system, first higher ed, then brain-washing all educators, taking over lower ed. Also taking over all media as a result.
So now we have a voting population of 3 generations of people brain-washed with a Marxist world-view.
Show me a plan to capture the higher educational system and I’ll show you a plan to recover our nation. Only it will take more than 50 years.
In reality, there is a core issue greater than the Marxist educational system: our nation has rejected God. And most who call themselves Christians are nominally so at best, and just want to play church while living just like the unbelieving world.........
PS: Former public school teachers, we home-shooled 8 kids before it was cool. All successful adults now.......
It would require developing in each individual an inner locus of control, when they are taught from day one to have an external locus of control. It’s an intergenerational trait that will not be overcome until it is first acknowledged.
1. Outlaw abortion
2. Eliminate no-fault divorce
3. Eliminate welfare and child support for unmarried mothers (you want support, get a ring first)
4. Close the borders and deport the illegal immigrants
There would be a painful transition, but in the long run, those policies would help black communities greatly.
It's the unwillingness of decent people in those threatened neighborhoods to speak out; the "don't snitch mentality".
What happened in Cleveland yesterday? (at least one of the TV reporters really got in there). It started with a few hundred stupid mostly white college kids being manipulated by organizers, virtually none of the originals from Cleveland. The kids thought when interviewed that they were helping by speaking for others. When it got going, and the (rather deranged, I thought) police chief let them march down the major south-north street, then on to a busy commuter highway, there began to be more local blacks. Did they defend their city's police for doing the best they can in trying circumstances? No. Did they say the protests that disrupt traffic and cause difficulties downtown only hurt the city? No. Some locals joined in to the heated rhetoric.
It disbanded, with no destruction or violence. But they got away with closing a four lane major highway for hours and calling that peaceful! And the attitude from at least those speaking for the decision makers seemed to be "we did the right thing because it was peaceful". That's the "logic" of saying that just because nothing happened, nothing could happen and it won't cause worse problems in the future.
Had to type that out while it's coming together in my mind. I do not like the maneuvers which could radicalize stupid white suburban college kids, which is what happened in the 1960s. As a person who remembers the 1960s, I worry about where this could lead.
It's a noble thought but not possible. We have transferred billions, maybe trillions, of our dollars towards this mess and it only gets worse.
A dependency society exists until the borrowed money runs out and the “protected” class is destroyed by “assistance”. We’ve arrived at that time.
Neutron bombs
The time for that has long passed. It cannot be done unless the AA’s change themselves.
Why? Every single one of these “protestors” added up would equal about 1/5th of a single Tea Party Rally in Iowa.
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