All Cultures Are Equal™
Posted on 01/06/2015 6:15:37 AM PST by C19fan
In the Mississippi Delta town of Tchula, there’s a fading columned mansion that once belonged to Sara Virginia Jones, the daughter of a local plantation dynasty. Its walls were lined with nearly 400 works by artists as prominent as Paul Cezanne, Marc Chagall, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Salvador Dali, and Andy Warhol.
Then, in the 1990s, the house changed hands. Today, it is filled with framed photos of the current owner—Tchula’s controversial first black mayor, Eddie Carthan, who was in office from 1977 to 1981—posing with U.S. presidents Carter, Clinton, and Obama and the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Funny how the whites that left are part of the problem, and the whites who stayed are the rest of the problem.
And anyone who disagrees with that racist depiction of the problem is, of course, racist.
It couldn’t possibly be that blacks share even the smallest amount of responsibility for their predicament.
“If whitey is around, he’s an oppressor. If whitey leaves, it’s his fault for abandoning them.”
Perhaps Kipling was on to something.
Notice how they hide this way down in the story.
It also seems that the “why” of it is an inexplicable mystery.
This collective guilt is nonsense, but if you were to buy into it, the only “whiteys” to blame for the poverty of the Mississippi Delta would be the Democrats who enforced oppressive Jim Crow segregation and disenfranchisement policies in the area to keep Democrats in power.
And DemoCRAPS
It’s Productive Flight, the skin color is just a small part of the equation.
Thi article is tacitly asserting that blacks, left to themselves, cannot organize a functioning, stable community.
“.... it’s a seething cauldron of poverty, unemployment, and illegitimacy, somewhat spawned by America’s exit from”.
I have traveled all across this country and see similar things happening to small towns all over. It has NOTHING to do with whites or blacks, it has to do with lack of employment for the young people living in rural areas. I live near a town with similar issues. The lack of jobs for young people is a pandemic all across this nation. Kids graduate from school with NO HOPE of finding employment in their home areas and hence, leave to make their fortune somewhere else, thus leaving the “older folks” to keep the home fires burning. As these older folks pass on, the towns gradually begin to die, stores close, etc. Unless businesses build and/or startup, provide opportunities, etc. in these small towns, the eventual will happen.
Well, they got what they asked for, right?
Let me try that again with better proofreading:
This article tacitly asserts that blacks, left to themselves, cannot organize a functioning, stable community; that they depend on the white man to make things work.
Bingo.
I currently live in a “changing” neighborhood. Years ago, it was a quiet, sleepy piece of the country on the edge of the city limits. Crime rate = 0.
Then, the powers that be decided this would be a good place to plop two sprawling subsidized apartment complexes — the result: instant ghetto.
The good schools became overrun with fatherless kids with no respect for authority. A friend who taught in one told me “No teaching happens here.” Her job became keeping the little angels from hurting each other or burning the school down.
And, oh yes, the crime rate has predictably increased. The liquor store that sprung up next to the apartments is always jammed and is a traffic hazard. Many of the other businesses have shut down.
There are still enough legacy folks out here to make this part of town livable, and my neighborhood is still tucked away from the ghetto, but the writing is on the wall.
I share custody of my young daughter and her safety is the most important thing. So, I am selling my home and moving to a better part of town. I guess I’m a one man “white flight.” The reasons I am getting out of Dodge are the same as thousands of others.
For those who cherish their children, their safety is paramount.
“Carthan’s detractors often say that the town’s troubles are directly linked to his tenure as mayor, but he claims that white residents launched an elaborate campaign against him. “I stayed in court the entire time I was in office. They were accustomed to blacks who’d bow, say ‘yes-sir, boss,’ that sort of thing.”
I’m not buying what he is selling. However, this is something I would buy:
“And new businesses didn’t want to fill the void: “People don’t want to come where there’s division and conflict and animosity.”
Why would I want to move a business into a town where the mayor has been accused of trying to kill opponents, and where ‘white flight’ is considered proof that evil whites want to keep the black man down? If I want racial division and hatred, I could move to Washington DC and live under Obama & Holder...
I would suggest a ride through the Mississippi Delta on Routes 49 and 61. It is like driving through a third world country. The poverty is overwhelming. I lived in Greenwood as a child and have an uncle buried in Clarksdale, two of the towns named in the article. In both the “git even with’em” attitude is destroying or has destroyed any hope of becoming a thriving city. Both towns look as if the downtown area has not had the streets swept in 50 years. Filthy, nasty places.
A good contrast to both is Tupelo, a very progressive (in the classic sense) city in northeast Mississippi. Less than a 100 miles away via automobile and eons away in attitude.
No wonder whitey split the scene. Pretty obvious their mayor chummed up with people who did not want white folks around.
I have traveled all across this country and see similar things happening to small towns all over. It has NOTHING to do with whites or blacks, it has to do with lack of employment for the young people living in rural areas. I live near a town with similar issues. The lack of jobs for young people is a pandemic all across this nation. Kids graduate from school with NO HOPE of finding employment in their home areas and hence, leave to make their fortune somewhere else, thus leaving the “older folks” to keep the home fires burning. As these older folks pass on, the towns gradually begin to die, stores close, etc. Unless businesses build and/or startup, provide opportunities, etc. in these small towns, the eventual will happen
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The long-term plan in this country is to empty the small towns and villages and to concentrate people in cities where they will be manageable...leaving the rural life to the elites. Think 1850’s England.
People in the cities will be virtual slaves of their political masters, for by hyper regulation there will be no opportunity and only payola and influence will provide food and growth.
Funny thing is that now they’re starting to complain about “gentrification” of Detroit neighborhoods.
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