Sharpton and Jackson
Posted on 10/01/2014 1:03:45 PM PDT by Chuckmorse
Racism is caused when the liberal mostly white establishment anoints left-wing radicals as black leaders. The truth is that most blacks in America are conservative patriotic religious people. Black radicals such as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and historic figures such as Malcolm X and the Black Panthers are turned into cultural icons by left-wingers with ulterior motives.
No wonder there is racism in America. The establishment left plucks radicals out of obscurity, grooms them, lavishes them with money and fame and holds them up as representing all black people. We don’t hear much from the majority of blacks who go to work every day and who are business owners, academics, entrepreneurs and inventors, who are accomplished full participants in the American dream. It’s almost as if they are invisible.
While propped up corrupt left-wing stooges fan the flames of racism, cadres of well-paid liberal professionals offer solutions to the problems they created. They offer taxpayer funded government programs that damage the black faith and family. Johnson Administration under Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan was right when he predicted in 1965 that these programs would hurt the black family and create a permanent under-class. Labor Department statistics show poverty rates amongst American blacks were falling each year until these programs were implemented in the late 1960’s. At that time, and in the midst of economic growth, poverty rates for black families became static for the first time and they remain so.
The racist agenda of the left serves their ideological and practical ends. Ideologically Socialism is advanced by a dependent and demoralized underclass manipulated by resentment and a sense of entitlement. Practical ends are achieved by the cottage industry of liberal professionals addressing the social ills that emanate from dependency including the breakdown of the family, crime, violence and drug use. We all pay a steep price with destroyed lives, squandered taxpayer dollars and the perpetration of racial divisiveness and tension.
A similar phenomenon took place in the early 20th Century when a small cadre of left-wing Communist Jews was held up by the left establishment as representing all Jews. Apostate former Jews participated in the most bloodthirsty totalitarian regime known to modern man, one that murdered 3-4 million people by 1920, a year before the Nazi Party was formed.
It would be naive to think that this association in the mind of Europeans of Jews with Communism was not a factor in the rise of Nazi antisemitism and the Holocaust. Like American blacks, the majority of Jews were conservative religious people who were loyal citizens of their respective nations. Like American blacks, the conservative Jews were not heard from much thanks to suppression by the left which cast the Jews in a false light similar to the way blacks are perceived. The left fanned the flames of antisemitism then like they fan the flames of racism today and for the same essential reasons.
Fail. No point in reading further
Government causes racism.
They’re the only ones who consistently require the use of race in decision making.
Is this problem black and white or is there some gray in the middle?
Not fail; over half of the black community is middle class and above. The thugs and the underclass, along with the rent-a-mobs and the race baiters, get all the press. The conservatives don't know they're conservatives, but Obama is teaching them.
Then why do they vote 90% for the most godless Marxists - every time?
New World Order.
It’s been very useful to them over the centuries.
Experience causes racism.
I thought racism was caused by climate change (see previous post).
Thug Culture, Drugs and the Gangsta Rap and lifestyle causes this—I think Welfare may well have a factor in it—Given free stuff causes people to hate the folks giving out the dole.
Yep, that strong conservatism is why 70% of their young’uns are born to single women and they have no problem being on the dole.
When I was growing up his false statement was more correct, but that was before LBJ.
Point taken.
I don't buy it, either, but even if they were , it wouldn't make any difference. They still vote overwhelmingly Democrat, especially if the Dem is black. Race and freebies trump everything else.
I have a friend in New Jersey who is a nurse. She recently did a home nursing stint, where she would go into some of the worst neighborhoods up there. She said she was sick of seeing actual shrines to Obama in the living rooms of her black patients.
Main cause of Racism in America — liberals!
They would, if they're useful idiots. If blacks voted their social views, they would be evenly split GOP/Dem; if they voted their foreign policy views, they would be slightly weighted Dem. They all vote Dem because they have been taught to drink the koolaid of all the racist stereotypes about Republicans and conservatives, that we're all old white men who channel our inner Bull Connor. Break that spell, and the voting patterns would change almost overnight.
That’s the answer, right there.
The root cause of continued racism is the existence of people that make a lot of bank off of it.
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