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.
Sorry, not to belabor my point, but we see this line about how black Americans "really are" trotted out all the time. I won't believe it until I see proof at the polls. Until then, it is no more true than "Islam is a peaceful religion."
Yeah, there are lies and there are damn lies. That there is a damn lie.
My father was a WWII GI, center-right on all the issues of the day. He was a Sam Nunn/Scoop Jackson Democrat, but he would never ever have voted GOP: to him it was the party of the Potters (as in It's a Wonderful Life), the rich Rockefellers, and most importantly, Tricky Dick, whom he hated with a passion from before the time I was born ('54). He thought of himself as poor even when he was middle-class professional, because he had grown up poor in OK in the Depression, and only the Democrats cared about the poor. Like many of his generation, he agreed with Reagan on everything, but he still couldn't make himself vote anything but straight-down-the-line Democrat, all the way until he died in '96.
That's exactly how non-thug, non-welfare blacks are. They think they know "black history" but they don't know squat, and there is no well-funded organization (there's the John Langston forum, but who's ever heard of them) to get past the progressive DuBoisian drivel that passes for "black history" in every community, black or white. They think only Democrats care about black people, and Barack Obama was their JFK--except that unlike JFK, who got martyred before his shine turned to rust, Obama is still rusting, and it is getting to the point that even the average non-thug non-welfare black is beginning to cringe at the Obama name.
It will take a generation of blacks not educated in what passes for public schools to break the spell, but it can be done, and as the public schools collapse, it will be done. I was born the day the Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education; I hope I live long enough to see it, but if I don't, my children will. I have the same dream as someone else once did, and I'm a whitey.
I was born in 39 and raised in upstate NY in an Irish Catholic family and ‘all’ would probably have been considered ‘good’ Democrats.
Not sure if they would be in line with today’s Liberals but they were definitely ‘D’ to the core with my Grandfather (mailcarrier for 45+ years) ‘complaining’ of my going in the Navy while that SOB Ike (R) was in office.
And Ike could just as easily have run as a D if he thought that was where he was needed.
I was Right leaning all along and I guess us ‘young Catholics in late 50’s and early 60’s’ that leaned toward R’s were much the same as the Blacks of today that lean towards Conservatism.
My take on the manufacturing flight out of New England to the South was it was a result of taxes, Unions and the such.
The D’s and Unions had people convinced it was the Rich Republicans that moved their business South as a matter of greed.
In some ways the moving of manufacturing out of the country is no different that the move from the North - with the main exception being the tax money stayed here.
You can imagine the ostracization I was put through when I wasn’t a JFK backer, guess the only saving grace I had was I spent most of my time out of the Country during his tenure.
Wrong. Most of the black "Middle Class" is a chimera created by Affirmative Action either with government jobs or via laws that dictate to corporations who they must hire.
Most of these supposed middle class blacks are placed in jobs they are not qualified for or in jobs created just for blacks to make quotas while the rest of the workforce must compensate.
These blacks hold no real middle class values as seen by their children being allowed to become thugs. I live in the DC area and watched how this has drawn out over the past few decades as I worked within and outside of the government and corporations in this area.
I agree with you that things can change -- over time. For me, the proof that "change" has occured, definitively, for black Americans is when it's reflected in the vote. Otherwise, for all practical purposes, it doesn't matter how "conservative, patriotic and religious" they are. I.e., if they keep it to themselves, it's wasted. I would also argue that the socialists' agenda of overwhelming us with Mexicans and South Americans is going to make black Americans' political voice rendered moot in very short order.
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