Posted on 06/23/2021 4:10:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Sort of a proverb: If you look for something hard enough, you'll eventually find it — even if it's not really there.
During our current moment, public discourse is obsessed with racism. In a population in excess of 300 million, there have to be some particularly hateful people. But racism is not the reason for the lower standard of living endured by the descendants of slaves who were freed by the Civil War.
One of the smartest of the 300 million is a descendant of those slaves, Thomas Sowell. Dr. Sowell has written several books, one of which is titled Ethnic America. In it, he describes the history of every significant ethnic group in our midst...including those whose ancestors came from Africa. He breaks those into three groups: 1) Free persons "of color." Prior to the Civil War, some Blacks had already achieved their freedom, Frederick Douglass being one of the most famous, and Crispus Attucks had come about a century earlier, and was killed at the Boston Massacre. 2) African and West Indian immigrants...such as Vice President Harris's father (Jamaican). And 3) the descendants of slaves freed by the Civil War.
The last group is certainly the most numerous. The first two groups, early freedmen and immigrants, are mostly identical to the "white" population as far as educational achievement and income, thus blowing up the use of racism as a cause for the disparity — since, to the typical hateful "Cracker," they all look alike.
Dr. Sowell proffers an explanation for this phenomenon. The early freedmen had been integrated into American society long before slavery in the South was abolished. Slavery in the West Indies was particularly harsh (compared to that in the U.S.), so the ultimate survivors of that practice had finely honed survival skills.
When I was growing up in Florida (in a town that was maybe 40% black) I saw that if a black kid did well in school, the other black kids would attack them for “sucking up to whitey”. To me this seems to be the root of the self perpetuating problem.
Charles Patne from Fox Busines had exactly the same childhood. He mentioned it once.
As you point out, a toxic black culture has taken hold, and Leftist teachers bear some responsibility for its perpetuation.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/06/swastikas_in_the_brickwork.html
Link to the rest of this.
Black racism is itself rooted in the low expectation of oneself, not as an individual but rather as part of a group of underachievers.
My experience, too.
“When I was growing up in Florida (in a town that was maybe 40% black) I saw that if a black kid did well in school, the other black kids would attack them for “sucking up to whitey”. To me this seems to be the root of the self perpetuating problem.”
I does not change. My daughter’s best friend is black. She’s also a medical student on her last semester before becoming an MD. Her family calls her “white girl”.
“When I was growing up in Florida (in a town that was maybe 40% black) I saw that if a black kid did well in school, the other black kids would attack them for “sucking up to whitey”. To me this seems to be the root of the self perpetuating problem.”
It does not change. My daughter’s best friend is black. She’s also a medical student on her last semester before becoming an MD. Her family calls her “white girl”.
The parents need to be responsible and break the chain. There are few role models and too many drug addicted single mothers raising children who will be just like them. I had a coworker who had worked a short time in his youth as a census worker in rural Alabama. We were talking about how the fatherless black children tended to become wild, feral youths. He recalled filling out forms with a single black mother with many children. She pointed to one of her children proudly and said "He know who his daddy is".
When I was in the Army my promotion from e4 to e5 was delayed a couple of months because the Army came up with some mandate that they had to promote blacks. The CO of our company (who was also black) would pick the worst ones because he know he would have to bust them for something in the next month. He came up through the ranks when blacks had to really be better than everyone else to make rank.
“...When I was growing up in Florida (in a town that was maybe 40% black) I saw that if a black kid did well in school, the other black kids would attack them for “sucking up to whitey”. To me this seems to be the root of the self perpetuating problem...”
One (or both) of two different sociological terms fit here:
(1) Crabs in the bucket
(2) Tall poppy syndrome
“My daughter’s best friend is black. She’s also a medical student on her last semester before becoming an MD. Her family calls her “white girl”.”
So she goes and betters herself and becomes a doctor, and rather than hail her achievements, her family trashes her.
This whole thing is perpetuated by modern education, and black’s attitudes towards anyone that does well. It’s prevalent all over the US. I haven’t noticed that here in Canada, at least not in western Canada. We don’t have that many either, but the ones I know, their families all encouraged them to succeed.
There’s a sickness amongst the blacks in the US, and it’s not a civil war or racism.
Many blacks feel their whole purpose in life is to make white people feel uncomfortable.
I’ve worked with a bunch of immigrants from central African nations. Almost all of them think American Blacks are spoiled and lazy.
CC
NS San Diego CA.
That seems counterproductive.
I don’t get uncomfortable around them.
When I was in the US running a job in Nashville, I was walking back to my hotel and I saw a group walking towards me. I simply crossed the road, hopped a retaining wall and cut through a commercial property back to my hotel. They were indignant that I would do that. I wasn’t uncomfortable at all, I just took appropriate self defensive measures.
Uncomfortable?? It has moved way beyond that. they are taught that all their problems in life is because of Whitey and CRT is nothing more than propaganda to get Whitey. When the Whites are gone, the world will be milk and honey, although milk is white so there is that.
The Hotel Alex Johnson in Rapid City had revered swastikas in its tile work.
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