Racially-Based, Academic Nonsense

15 October 2005 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[Congressman Billybob]

Latest article for Newsbusters.org Think y'all will find it interesting.

John / Billybob

[ncountylee]

But the reporter and his editor feel much better. With leftists it always is about them and their feelings.

Facts are to a liberal, what salt is to a garden snail - death.

[Mike Darancette]

Are they saying that after the Civil War it would have been kinder to send all ex-slaves and their relatives back to Africa so that their ancestors would not have to be reminded?

[wizardoz]

I guess "slave syndrome" sounded better than "welfare syndrome."

[Ninian Dryhope]

This is being discussed here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1503038/posts

[The Cuban]

I do not deny that there might be something like a post-slavery syndrome. There has to be. No other group of people, even Africans from other nations who immigrate here, don't act in the same way. It is clearly not biological but sociological. That being said, the solution to the problem is not with more "programs" hand-outs, western civilization bashing re-education, but with internal change in the black community itself. No one except them can change it. However, this appears unlikely given the "keeping it real" crowd. This explains why most of us, almost all of us who have had family members who were slaves (think Rome) got over it. Because we did not want to "keep it real", not because we had a government program help us. (To date, Rome has not asked for forgivness or paid reparations for their conquest and subjugaton of Spanish peoples after the Punic Wars).

[Jim_Curtis]

What do you think of this quote?

That poverty has roots in a history of racial discrimination, which cut off generations from the opportunity of America. We have a duty to confront this poverty with bold action. So let us restore all that we have cherished from yesterday, and let us rise above the legacy of inequality.

George W. Bush ( Katrina aftermath address to America )

[BamaGirl]

I do not deny that there might be something like a post-slavery syndrome. There has to be. No other group of people, even Africans from other nations who immigrate here, don't act in the same way.
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Actually Thomas Sowell in his book "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" gives a pretty compelling alternative explanation. The blacks in the South inherited their backwards behavior from the local whites, who were overwhelmingly immigrants from the borderlands between England & Scotland. The "culture" of these rednecks was quite degenerate, including a lack of respect for life, wanton sex, inclinations to violence, no work ethic etc. Sound familiar?

[Ninian Dryhope]

You bring up some interesting points. Japan is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, even though it is poor in natural resources. They are masters of high technology of all sorts and generous donors to worldwide charities, while the Japanese in America do better than the average American in terms of income and educational attainment. On the other hand, blacks in America have a rough time of it, while the countries in Sub-Sahara Africa have a hard time feeding themselves even though they have been the recipients of billions of dollars in aid over the past fifty years and have tremendous natural resources.

I wonder if there is some sort of connection that could be inferred?

[nothingnew]

‘All Katrina did was reveal what was already there. I wasn't confused, wasn't surprised,’ she said....because I'm an anal retentive dope who gets paid big bucks to write and drool such drivel. Only in America, which I hate but enjoy the freedoms and money fools pay me..."

FMCDH(BITS)

[Ninian Dryhope]

I think it is a good quote by a good politician, especially given the circumstances under which it was given. It may surprise you to learn that politicians do not always speak the exact truth all the time. It comes with the territory.

[Congressman Billybob]

That quote from Bush bothers me for the same reason as his repeated promises to "bring the terrorists to justice." The correct statement would be, "shoot them dead."

In poverty, the correct quote would be, "give everyone a fair opportunity, encourage everyone to take advantage of it." As my all-so-brief article notes, failure is not a racial matter. It is a matter of family, and commitment, and hard work.

John / Billybob

[BamaGirl]

Great article Congressman!

Although I must say the whole agenda was given away by the first sentence::

DeGruy-Leary, an assistant professor in Portland State University's Graduate School of Social Work, will discuss her theory

There's no way an assistant professor in the "graduate" field of "social work," with the foresight to hyphenate her name, in Portland (of all places!) is going to produce anything scholarly. Maybe scatological, but certainly nothing of intellectual substance.

[paulat]

Why didn't you respond to my post of the article...and your views more important than anyone else's?

[paulat]

...and did you do a search to see if it was posted???

[RobbyS]

Well, it is true that the "hillbillys " of Appalachia exhibit much the same behavior. My wife's sister-in-law , who is from West Virginia, has very little contact with her family, who are caught in the same cycle of poverty as urban blacks. But one can see still see the same lethargy in white families who migrated to the iindustrial areas of the north. A culture can be a prison.

[BamaGirl]

But one can see still see the same lethargy in white families who migrated to the iindustrial areas of the north.

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Yeah and unfortunately these poor whites aren't given the same assistance such as affirmative action, business loans, etc. because their skin isn't the right color.

It's not race, it's culture, stupid. I wish this dirty little secret would get out so we could stop hearing about racism. And maybe even fix the problem.

[The Cuban]

That coul also go a long way in explaining it, I agree.

[RobbyS]

Black people are oblivious to the problems of the white poor.