Posted on 07/07/2009 12:09:10 PM PDT by vaper69
Readers of Needs of the Many know I haven’t been on the racial guilt bandwagon … ever. If you’re an ass, you’re an ass. If you’re a success, you’re as success … that should be applauded. I recently wrote a very popular post about how I reject the term “reverse racism.”
The simple fact is that a major portion of the black community uses their race to get away with mediocrity, and it is an insult to the great successes of the black community … which are numerous. It’s also in direct contradiction to what Dr. King advocated. Bill Cosby, Walter Williams, William Owens, and Juan Williams are just a few of the prominent members of the black community trying to point out this nonsense to their peers while at the same time trying to get black people to live up to their true potential.
I recently ran across a tremendous article illustrating a social worker’s ordeal in working with a black woman who was a victim simply because she was black. Whether you read it now or later … read it.
Modern blacks aren’t victims of society. In most cases modern whites are … as a matter of policy no less. That doesn’t mean that blacks, and other minorities, don’t face racism in their lives. However, whites experience racism as well. Often it is government instituted racism. Any member of any race will likely face racism towards their race at some point in life. All occurrences should be shunned equally. Just like we should all be treated equally … at least based on our race.
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Excellent!
EXCELLENT article. I attend a small private college down south, and cannot even begin to tell you how disillusioned I am ( even this late in the game) with how race dependent academic standards are. I’ve fought and clawed my way through what I thought to be pretty tough classes, only to find out later on that the college fully supports a “two tier” system. One standard for whites and another one for non whites. And don’t get me started on the “Financial Aid” aspect.
I come from one of those old-fashioned black families where the core values of personal integrity, hard work, self reliance, and American citizenship were passed down as a matter of course.
It’s been disheartening for me to watch so many black people succumb to the invitation to victim status, and race identification these last few decades.
Ever since the liberal element in this country captured and brain-washed the bulk of the black community, that subset of America has been sliding downhill into ever deeper debasement.
The ONLY hope for black people to reverse their horrid situation, is to discover, then embrace traditional conservative ideals. They need to rejoin America.
Umm. According to Charles Murray and other social scientists, the average IQ of African Americans is one standard deviation below those of everybody else; roughly 85.
In a purely meritocratic society their standard of living on average will be below "the average ".
Therein lies the problem; which will be exploited by race hustlers and leftists everywhere.
But many are victimhoodlums!
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You sound like you would make a better President than the one we now have.
A friend of mine (speaking about the events of the last year) put it very succinctly;
"97% of blacks voted for 0bama. If they knew what he was about then they are communists. If they voted for him because he is black then they are racists. I don't have anything to do with communists or racists. Why should I go to the trouble of figuring out whether a black person is one of the 3 out of 100 that is worth a f#$k?"
Both of us were raised to judge people by their character. American blacks have shown us their character. Our feelings about it aren't really about skin color. If I met an African black I wouldn't even think about it. But American blacks have shown that they want no part of America. They are not interested in being a part of American society. This last year has completely exposed that. I no longer suffer from the delusion that they are being held back because it is abundantly clear that American blacks haven't been trying to get anywhere.
You sound like you would make a better President than the one we now have.
Is there any doubt? I don't even need to know what Windflier's life experiences are. That one post makes the difference clear as crystal. Windflier has the mind of a mature adult. The President has the mind of a deficient adolescent as all racists do. Also true of communists which the President also is.
I think any FReeper would make a better President than the one we have now. Thanks for the kind words.
Back for later.
There’s a lot to what you say, but there are also multi-generational broken spirits still to be healed: it’s tough for kids to grow up with alcoholism, depression, and other dysfunction that until about the ‘70s fairly could be tied to racism. Since then, of course, the Great Society has pulled many of particularly the less able black families into broken families and a perpetual government servitude.
The tricky part is that though both these factors are real and significant, giving in to them is a less successful strategy than tough self-love taking on of responsibility, hard work, and lifting oneself up. That is, there are still legitimate situational excuses and explanations, but giving into the victimization is the worst path to be taken.
Obama's election ended forever the era of white guilt. The world should celebrate the fact that the United States of America’s experiment with slavery was short lived. America became a nation after declaring independence from England and wining a Revolutionary War forcefully asserting that declaration.
Less than twenty years after the Constitution created the United States of America in 1789 an act of Congress outlawed the importation of slaves. Slavery was already illegal in Vermont, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, and Ohio at that time in 1808.
In 1820, the Missouri Compromise forever prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase. In 1849, Congress prohibited slavery in the Minnesota Territory and California ratified a Constitution prohibiting slavery. In 1850, New Mexico formed its own government and banned slavery when they applied for statehood. The District of Columbia abolished slavery.
In 1863, President Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. By December 18th, 1865, ratification of the 13th amendment prohibits slavery in all of the United States.
Slavery existed in the world thousands of years before America’s Constitution and slavery still exist in the world today. In a scant 76 years since ratifying a Constitution that allowed slavery, America abolished slavery everywhere in the United States. Why is that feat not celebrated by America’s Negro population with at least as much fanfare as Kwanzaa?
America’s era of white guilt ended with the election of Barrack Hussein Obama.
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I think the author needs to tale a few college courses as well. Actually, maybe just a 2nd grade English class.
On the other hand, it was a good read.
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