Walter E. Williams : Politically motivated fear holds back blacks

the Sun News ^ | 5/9/05 | WALTER E. WILLIAMS

[bitt]

If you listened to the rhetoric of black politicians and civil rights leaders, dating back to the Reagan years, you would have been convinced that surely by now black Americans would be back on the plantation. According to them, President Reagan and later Presidents Bush I and II would turn back the clock on civil rights. They'd appoint "new racists" in three-piece suits to act through the courts and administrative agencies to reverse black civil rights and economic gains. We can now recognize this rhetoric as the political equivalent of the "rope-a-dope."

As my colleague Tom Sowell pointed out in a recent column, "Liberals, Race and History," if the Democratic Party's share of the black vote ever fell to even 70 percent, it's not likely the Democrats would ever win the White House or Congress again. The strategy liberal Democrats have chosen, to prevent loss of the black vote, is to keep blacks paranoid and in a constant state of fear.

Only 30 percent to 40 percent of black males graduate from high school. Many who do graduate emerge with reading and math skills of a white seventh- or eighth- grader. This is true in cities where a black is mayor, a black is superintendent of schools and the majority of principals and teachers are black.

[bitt]

...........'Because black politicians and the civil rights establishment preach victimhood to blacks, I'd prefer that they be more explicit when they appear in public forums. Were they to be so, saying racists are responsible for black illegitimacy, blacks preying on other blacks and black family breakdown, their victimhood message would be revealed as idiotic. But being so explicit is not as far-fetched as one might think. In a campaign speech, in reference to so many blacks in prison, presidential candidate John Kerry said, "That's unacceptable, but it's not their fault."'

[bitt]

good read ping

[mikeus_maximus]

They are back on the plantation-- but the Dem black leaders just don't see it yet. The Big House of the DNC is run by white elitist bosses (mostly male), while the blacks are left to work out in the fields.

[derheimwill]

bump

[bitt]

In re: the latest news about C.O.R.E. and their lesser heard voice in the media, see this:

http://www.core-online.org/features/media/protest.htm

[Monterrosa-24]

That Walter Williams is the maverick's maverick! To me, his personality type would be perfect for a presidential candidate. He has sorta a laid back chairman of the board type style. He would be like Ronald Reagan in that he would not micromanage but make appointments and referee intra-administration squabbles.

What I like most is that he is a hardcore conservative, proud of America, defender of the South, and comes across as just one of the fellas.

[Unam Sanctam]

The strategy liberal Democrats have chosen, to prevent loss of the black vote, is to keep blacks paranoid and in a constant state of fear.

This is exactly right. Democrats aren't interested in resolving issues of race relations in this country -- they're interested in fomenting racial strife!

[newgeezer]

As my colleague Tom Sowell pointed out in a recent column, "Liberals, Race and History,"

Liberals, Race and History

HumanEvents ^ | May 25, 2005 | Thomas Sowell
Posted on 05/25/2005 12:04:31 PM GMT by Nasty McPhilthy

[newgeezer]

Across the United States, black males represent up to 70 percent of prison populations. Are they in prison for crimes against whites? To the contrary, their victims are primarily other blacks.

What about the decline of the black family? In 1960, only 28 percent of black females between the ages of 15 and 44 were never married. Today, it's 56 percent. In 1940, the illegitimacy rate among blacks was 19 percent, in 1960, 22 percent, and today, it's 70 percent.

W.E.W. ping

[biblewonk]

70 percent bastards!!!!!!!!!