Posted on 05/10/2015 3:41:26 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“Blackwards” is the condition created by racial hucksters who want to divide us. And tragically, they’re having a field day.
I’m worried about my country today. I’m worried because a fear I’ve spoken of for several years now is coming to fruition in a way that threatens to rip apart the fabric of our American society.
In 2012 I published Blackwards: How Black Leadership Is Returning America to the Days of Separate But Equal, in which I warned that our country was headed on a dangerous course marked by race and ethnic identification at the expense of the positive attributes we ascribe as being American citizens. In short I wrote: ”I believe this phenomenon is most pervasive in the black, dare I say African American, community. I believe that calls of racism and unequal treatment in the era of Obama has helped create a toxic climate that will spread unless we stop the stain that is spreading through our schools, offices, communities of worship and political discourse.”
The essence of heading blackwards has manifested itself in the events that have unfolded in Baltimore over the past few weeks. We still don’t know what happened to Freddie Gray while in police custody or the tragic events that led to the young man’s death. We’ve been told over and over again on television and on the radio that racism is the culprit at play for Gray’s death. Unfortunately facts no longer matter in our society today—slogans and efforts by those seeking “justice” for wrongs real or imagined are more important than a clearheaded and dispassionate search for the truth.
Consider the statement given by the Baltimore State’s Attorney late last week in charging six police officers with Gray’s death. Rather than disclose facts and assure the people of Baltimore she would proceed with prosecution based on solid evidence, Marilyn Mosby instead offered: “To the people of Baltimore and the demonstrators across America, I heard your call for ‘No justice, no peace,’” she said. “Your peace is seriously needed as I seek to deliver justice to this young man.” “No Justice, No Peace” is a political statement to be used at a rally, not a comment that ought to be made by someone heading an impartial search for evidence to provide the basis for a conviction in a court of law.
As America heads blackwards, it is more important for those rallying under the banner of “justice” to provide separate rules and special treatment when the victim is black, rather than seek equal treatment under the color of law. We’ve been told incessantly that those who are aggrieved in Baltimore are victims of a racist society. In a majority black city run by a black mayor and a black city council that presides over a police department where more than 40 percent of its officers are black and under the supervision of a black police commissioner, the popular meme is that racism is the root cause for all that ails the community. And for those who decry that Baltimore is in dire need of funding for its schools, the city ranks second nationwide in per capita spending.
For all the talk of how Baltimore has been ignored by all levels of government, consider that the city received $1.8 billion from President Obama’s stimulus package—including $467.1 million in education funding and $26.5 million in crime prevention. Something else is at play here.
The notion that blacks are always victims at the hands of a racist society excuses poor choices and poor behavior. Where are the fathers in Baltimore who bring children into the world and abandon them to be overwhelmingly raised in a single-parent household? It is not racism to question the judgment of people who do so but common sense instead.
Yet prominent social commentators such as Michael Eric Dyson lament that Baltimore’s problems are social protests against racism, the riots that took place must be placed in proper context and that there is currently no future for young black men in the city. In Dyson’s telling, when talking of poor blacks in Baltimore, he says: “It’s easy to point a gun of analysis and shoot them with the bullets of our condemnation instead of saying we have to together find a way out of this.”
I have a different view. The critical lesson we must learn from calls of racial solidarity by some on the left in Baltimore is that such talk undermines our society and exacerbates the problem of racial and political polarization. In an intelligent, developed society such as ours there is no excuse for racial balkanization and a political system that falls along party lines. Democrats who pander to blacks based on the color of their skin and Republicans receiving single-digit support from African Americans are both inexcusable.
My conclusion from Blackwards nearly four years ago is prescient today as we seek to put events in Baltimore in proper context. “We don’t need a black agenda, a white agenda, or a Latino agenda to fulfill our destiny…We must not form racial and/or ethnic enclaves that, whatever they contribute to multiculturalism, promote isolated and segregated communities. The pioneers of the civil rights era would be appalled that the legacy of their brave work to eliminate segregation in the United States was instead used as a wedge to demand special, rather than equal, rights based solely on race or ethnicity from their fellow citizens.” We can and must do better.
I have complete confidence this is deliberate. It’s all part of 0bama’s plan to transform America into something less than what it has been.
He seeks to destroy us as a nation and culture and make us just another humdrum player in the world community. The concept of a nation is an anachronism to him.
Just another elite, socialist, globalist.
Wait a minute! I thought we were all supposed to be gay, now? Now we have to be black, too?
*SNORT*
Commie O’bommie is happy...
It started with O.J., and has accelerated under the Teleprompter Messiah.
Dividing minorities into subcultures that conflict with primary American values will inevitably destroy said groups by denying them the ability to work within the confines of the American capitalist system. It will generate decades of poverty and ignorance leaving them incapable of providing for themselves. Oh wait - this has been the democrat platform since the 1960’s...
Diversity=diverse=division=many different parts.
The FERAL Government came up with this.
The sheep followed it.
Backwards, when society only cares about weed and trim.
“I have complete confidence this is deliberate. It’s all part of 0bama’s plan to transform America into something less than what it has been.”
It was the PRESIDENT, not our side, that used the word ‘transform’. Perhaps has (mostly) honkies should have LISTENED to his words.
...and perhaps it’s time that we stop acting like this is a 2-party country anymore for white voters. IT IS NOT. The DEMOCRATS have had the president’s back from the start and have not budged an inch - even now in the face of a looming race war. Even in Texas, our severely watered-down Open Carry bill got virtually no Democrat support from state reps and Senators. The rot is goes VERY DEEP now. It’s time Republican candidates start to SERIOUSLY TARGET the white vote and stop thinking they also have to pander to blacks and Hispanics to win. THEY DO NOT. Read my FR home page for specifics. In short, if Republicans act CONSERVATIVE they will clean up with the white vote and even pull-in a good number of like-minded Hispanics. They can’t lose with that...and even the Democrats know it, which is why they’re so TERRIFIED of Cruz.
Or the "corrupt, evil, capitalist system" that keeps poor i.e. black people down is blamed. The fact that most people in America succeed or fail in life on their merits has to be ignored or ridiculed.
“Post-Baltimore, America Is Heading Blackwards”........
Well, they elected odumbo not once but twice didn’t they? What did we expect would happen?
How soon will we be split by tribal lords fighting one another like is happening in some third world countries?
Yep. The “person to be” now is a black lesbian. The model citizen of the Left...
LOL..how soon ?
Dude we are here...
Blood and Crips
M13
Here's a link for the gangs of LA...too big to post an image...
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zMC7tfcRop6s.koD9cCcyHJ_0
Well, if we get another Dem president who encourages a certain demographic to riot and kill, it might be very shortly. If Her Royal Heinous gets elected, we can expect more dead cops killed by thugs who should have been behind bars or hanging at the end of a rope.
LOOK magazine described the discipline-busting "my teacher is a racist" racket black boys (not girls) were using successfully in the 60's, to make the New Rochelle school system's ACT and SAT scores fall off a table, as the miscreant "black boys" (sound familiar) ruined the learning environment for everybody.
The reason nothing has been done about this (and why Bill Cosby is getting The Treatment) is that the identity-politics grift is what has worked for the Democrat RICO ever since the days of Tammany Hall.
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