Posted on 05/11/2016 5:14:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
Most black politicians, ministers, civil rights advocates and professionals support Hillary Clinton's quest for the presidency. Whoever becomes the next president, whether it's a Democrat or Republican, will mean little or nothing in terms of solutions to major problems that confront many black people. We've already seen that even a black president means little or nothing. Politics and political power cannot significantly improve the lives of most black people and may even be impediments.
Blacks hold high offices and dominate the political arenas in Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore and other cities. Yet these are the very cities with the nation's poorest educational outcomes, highest crime rates, high illegitimacy rates and other forms of social pathology. Let's look at this pattern, focusing just on Philadelphia, Detroit and Baltimore, cities with large black populations and black-held political power for nearly a half-century.
In Philadelphia, only 19 percent of eighth-graders score proficient in math and 16 percent in reading. In Detroit, there is only a 4 percent proficiency level in math and 7 percent in reading. In Baltimore, it's a 12 percent proficiency in math and 13 percent in reading. These results are even more depressing when one tallies the percentages of students scoring "below basic" on the National Assessment of Education Progress test, often referred to as "the nation's report card." Below basic means that a student is unable to demonstrate even partial mastery of knowledge and skills fundamental for proficient work at his grade level. In Philadelphia, 47 percent scored below basic in math and 42 percent in reading. In Baltimore, it was respectively 59 and 49 percent. In Detroit, 73 percent scored below basic in math and 56 percent in reading.
In terms of murders, shootings and other kinds of criminal behavior, these three cities are at or near the top. They also experience high rates of illegitimacy and single-parent households. Let me be absolutely clear about what I am saying. I am not saying that blacks having political power is the cause of these problems. What I am saying is that the solution to the problems confronting black people will not be found in the political arena. I am also saying that blacks working to secure the presidency of Hillary Clinton or Sen. Bernie Sanders are wasting resources that could be better spent trying to reverse the tragic destinies of so many black youths.
The Obama administration, as well as black and white liberals, expresses concern with disproportionate numbers of black students suspended or expelled. They have created a practice called "restorative justice," where students are called on to repair the harm caused by their bad behavior. Under this regime, cursing a teacher or assaulting a teacher is no cause for traditional discipline. Instead, there's talking and pleas. But I'll bet the rent money that the black and white liberal elite would never send their own children to schools where teachers are routinely assaulted and cursed. They would never send their children to schools so unsafe that students must enter through metal detectors so as to prevent the introduction of guns, knives and other weapons.
The disgraceful academic performance by black students is not preordained. In other words, it just doesn't have to be that way. The Washington, D.C., Opportunity Scholarship Program, a school-choice voucher program, has an excellent record, with 91 percent of its "at-risk" students graduating. But the Obama administration, doing the bidding of teacher's unions, has attacked the program. U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., questioned Secretary of Education John King Jr. about the D.C. scholarship program during confirmation hearings. King replied, "I do not personally believe that vouchers are a scalable solution to the equity and excellence challenge and prefer the route of public school choice." I would have asked Mr. King how that position differs from a position that says: "No black children shall be saved unless and until all black children can be saved." I don't think black people can afford such a policy perspective.
What Dr. Williams is not asking, but I am;
Name me one (1), just one successful sub Saharan African nation.
Then when you find that none,
name me one (1) successful black led or black majority city in the United States.
By now, one should have happened by accident.
Africans have always expected someone else to pay their way, to fix their Their irresponsible behavior, to change their African culture. You just can’t fix stupid.
The answer is Zero. Reality is not what homowood says it is. Look at the destruction BO is leaving in his wake.
KCMO? Not maybe successful but functional and getting better.
Your first question has an easy answer: Botswana, which has had a functioning, peaceful, Westminster style representative government (routine, peaceful elections and transfers of power, no dictators or “Presidents for Life”) since 1966. They routinely have steady economic growth and incomes there are roughly equivalent to Turkey.
As for your second question, it is more the fact that all current and recent Black city mayors are a subset of liberal democrat mayors, who have excelled at screwing up major cities regardless of race. It is just another example of how corrupt socialist ideology can enslave nominally free peoples to the false god of government.
Prior to LBJ's "great society" (and that's really worked well hasn't it) Blacks were striving to get ahead on their own and makes a pretty good job of it, but for the last three generations (five in the hood) blacks have been repeatedly told that they're victims and need to be compensated for their victimhood. As a result many of them believe it and have a bone deep sense of entitlement totally unearned that they feel excuses them from working to get ahead. (Kind of like millennials in that regard)
There’s an assumption that black people are equally intelligent to white people. They aren’t and that explains a lot of black failure.
Botswana is basically run by DeBeers diamonds.
There’s a black futures market? I thought slavery was illegal.
To bad, throughout history the words of wise men have fallen on deaf ears. Imagine, had Obama been like Frederick Douglass, then America may have become better, not only for Americans with African ancestry, but everyone else as well.
Dr. Williams record of political failure and bad outcomes for blacks matches the record of political failure and bad personal outcomes for whites, Asians, Arabs, Latin Americans ... EVERYONE who lives under a leftist government and believes in the leftist program of zero personal responsibility.
So here you have the “first black president” in BHO...who campaigned on “hope and change” and did not deliver on what I believe most thought he meant by “hope and change.”
He literally took the one opportunity that he had and instead of encouraging the black community to lift each other up, to hold each other accountable and expect higher moral, ethical, and spiritual standards of each other, he fumbled, and kept fumbling leading only to a series of sad and pathetic failure after failure after failure each every time backing the wrong voices.
In my opinion, BHO has set the black lives matter community BACK at least two decades.
He should have been front and center with successful black males and females (NOT CELEBRITES) championing “excellence” and “achievement” in the black lives matter community, instead he pandered to lowest form of mankind, “look at what they have, and you don’t have that,” therefore the system must rigged and black lives matter need to start shouting and burning their communities to the ground to show their disdain for the perceived inequality — That is unfortunate, he missed the greatest opportunity to have a long lasting positive impact on the black lives matter community and will leave them much worse off than when he came into office, his legacy will be forever imprinted with countless “wrong” statements that he made with regard to Baltimore, Ferguson, Travon Martin, and countless others.
It is because he went for the cheap cotton candy approach to try and feed the black lives matter community instead of forcing them to eat their broccoli and honestly examine just how destabilized the black lives matter community has become, sorry BHO, you failed.
Too bad the first black president will be remembered as such a failure for having missed such a golden opportunity to lift the black lives matter community up, I hope it wasn’t because he didn’t believe that the community wouldn’t even try to succeed and he would have rather have his legacy be as an instigator because that is the only way that community would support/follow him, rather than one of failing to get the black lives matter to follow him to greater achievement and higher standards, but I guess we will never know since he NEVER tried. Sad!
About 8 years ago, during the Kwame Kilpatrick debacle in Detroit, a political strategist named Sam Riddle said about Detroit politics: “The only difference between Detroit and third world nations — where corruption is concerned — is goats in the street.”
He got caught up in the corruption and went to jail, along with his boss Monica Conyers.
Riddle’s comment could be made about any of the cities Dr. Williams mentions.
I live near Baltimore. The day I moved here, the Mayor pled guilty to stealing gift cards meant for poor children to buy toys for herself. She copped a plea deal AFTER conviction and stayed out of jail. She ran again for Mayor and just barely lost in the primary. She may still ask for a recall. The candidate who came in third place sounded highly intelligent and competent, so she had no chance.
If Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. was mayor of Detroit the city WOULD change for the better...
There is a black girl of Nigerian parents who was accepted to all Ivy League colleges on her own academic merits. Yet Obama raises up Jay Z and Trayvon Martin as black role models. The democrats depend on black dysfunction.
Also sub-saharan africa has 4 different races - the black Negroid race, the pygmies (who, interestingly are kept as slaves by many Black africans), the Khoi-san (Bushmen/hottentots) and the Austronesians (related to Malay-Indonesian-Filippino-Maori) people in Madagascar
2. Their borders -- with the exception of Botswana which has 80% of its population as Tswana - but even these Tswana are spread across SA and Botswana. The borders in Africa don't make sense -- tribes are split across nations. Kind of like the Balkans in the late 1800s with nations split between Ottomans, Austro-Hungarians etc. etc. - recipe for chaos.
That idiot doesn’t know real priorities
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