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"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 that the Democrats would ever win the White House or Congress again."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1410055/posts
Other than Grand Kleegle (or was that Beagle?) Robert Byrd, who taxes productive folks to build buildings, roads, and bridges in West Virginia, all named after him. Folks, of all races, who would otherwise provide jobs for the blacks in those neighborhoods.
"Only 30 to 40 percent of black males graduate from high school."
Those are pretty good numbers. It shows they're making inroads.
I thought it was about 10%.
Love Walter Williams.
He's the only fill in that when I hear come on, am not disappointed Rush isn't on.
His jokes about his wife make me LMAO.
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There's your reparations.
Too bad that the people who need to be reading this, aren't.
The democrats have done far more harm than good to blacks.
This drumbeat has baffled me all my life, mainly the last 30 years. What exactly is the mechanism that was supposed to actually accomplish these reversals?
Even the forced "blindness" in society, to pretend that blacks were every bit as educated, ambitious, competent, and responsible as non-blacks only made things worse. What's the explanation?
Are non-blacks to blame for the refusal of individuals to accept the fiction, while "society" collectively was forced to pretend that the sham was working? How can the social manipulators sweep total and persistent failure under the rug? How can they continue to justify more of the same?
I think that a good part of the answer is there were no welfare and Great Society programs.
Well... not exactly. those are the total cause of the exponentially worsened problem. I think it was Walter Williams himself who, a number of years ago made the accurate observation that "if society rewards pathological behavior, we will keep getting more of it", yet he stopped short of the obvious response, as he does in this article.
Making legal pets of the incompetent, by law, merely bred a lot more of them, and not only blacks. Equal opportunity devolution, at an ever increasing cost, both in money and resentment.
Politics has degenerated to keep pace, pretending further that "democracy" legitimizes both the fiction, and the extortionate taxation to keep up the illusion. It surely will fail, it's only a matter of when.
I fear the only bloodless solution is the emancipation of the productive and the restored slavery of the pets. The new rules are clear. You want to not only survive, but improve. The tools are there for you to use, just as the rest of us do. Pay for what you eat, for the shelter you enjoy, the "loaded" pants, the entertainment you have, but pay for it yourself. Any way you can, within the limits of the effort you have put out educationally and as adults. When and how you leave your new self-imposed slavery is entirely up to you.
But free my people from this economic bondage. We want to choose our own pets, not have pandering self-serving politicians do it for me. I may choose not to have any pets at all. Then I will feel truly free.
For those rationally challenged who will indignantly shout that charity is "the right thing", I need only remind them that they are free to exercise their charitable inclinations with no limit, so long as they do it with their own work, sweat and wealth. When it is imposed under any kind of penalty, it is no longer charity, but merely a different version of the slavery they feel so guilty about.
When Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell team up, it's not fair to the rest of the world. Too much humor, wisdom, and--especially--common sense for the rest of us to compete with!
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I once had a black female employee who was angry that our then governor George W Bush had vetoed hate crimes legislation. I explained to her that he had vetoed it because the state already had hate crimes legislation and he was angry that the legislature was wasting time on an issue like that.
She insisted Texas had no hate crimes legislation.
I found the legislation, copied it, and gave it to her. She refused to read it and continued to insist it didn't exist, even with the document literally in her hand.
I'll have to disagree with WW on this one. His reasoning is similar to that articulated by Bill Cosby.
http://www.neoperspectives.com/billcosby.htm
"Bill is saying let's fight the right fight, let's level the playing field," Jackson said. "Drunk people can't do that. Illiterate people can't do that." (214)
If we didn't know either of them, we might think that Bill Cosby is wrong and that Jesse Jackson is right. The playing field is not level. Even with Welfare Reform, too many African Americans are still relying, on one form or another, on government assistance. The scars of welfare run deep and 8 years is not enough time to wash them away.
In reality both are wrong. Jesse Jackson, in trying to 'clarify' what Cosby said, is really just trying to add his own spin on it. "Leveling the playing field", is not referring to getting rid of government programs and continuing Welfare Reform; it is implying more government assistance, or something like affirmative action, is needed to level the playing field. Conservative news outlets, which have been hailing the comments and many of the African Americans who applauded or heard and agreed with what Cosby said are wrong too. True, it can't hurt for African Americans to look in the mirror and take personal responsibility for some of their problems, but this is just generally helpful in any community. My main point is that African Americans should not "have to turn the mirror around", because the problems they are facing do not come from within. Their problems do come, in part, from the 'white man', although it (unfortunately) isn't considered racism. Their problems do come from the Federal government. More accurately, their problems stem directly from the policies and programs of Liberal Democrats. The hard truth is that for the last 60 years Liberal Democrats have taken the place of the Southern farmers and Northern industrialists in keeping the African American subjugated and impoverished, but instead of gaining cheap labor, they gain cheap votes. Even worse, most Liberal Democrats and African American leaders are completely oblivious to this analogy and desperately fight to keep the present system in place.
Walter Williams is right on target.