[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 )

[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)

[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?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Good analogy, better comparison.

But you're mistaken in thinking that liberals can think.

(Scheme? Lie? Propagandize? Cheat? Fraud? Certainly!

But think rationally and logically and from facts?

On a parallel note; I'd offer instead that a submissive, quiet, "accept authority", fear freedom, fear economic risk, live silently and passively tolerate ANYTHING that the government does IS an in-bred trait in societies like Soviet Russia, an perhaps, by extension, to the slave trade beginnings in Africa and Muslim Sahara.

A passive, non-rebellious figure survives. Has the potential for children, even if under slavery or socialism. A rebellious, or freedom-seeking, or ANY individual who stands out gets sent to Siberia, killed, outright, or forced into poverty and prison. Loss of jobs, food, travel, education means less (or no) breeding.

So, over the years beginning in Czarist Russia in the 1600's, rather than a Renaissance and explosion of economic freedom, the Soviet people get bred into submissive, passive, freedom-fearing people.

And slave descendent's (those who were survivors of slaves in taken from Africa to the US) are the ones who were NOT killed, actively resisting, or who were taking slaves themselves in Africa.

[stylin19a]

Plus...the Jews adapted after they were enslaved by the Africans.
but...the oriental ( i know, un-PC) internees received "reparations" from the US....and that's where this is ultimately going.

[MindBender26]

This reporter is so very close to the truth, but very far away as well.

Blacks in New Orleans were and are predisposed to be victims in this type of calamity. They suffered more, proportionally, than Whites or Orientals. They are more likely to lose a larger percentage of their goods and suffer the effects of a calamity such as this for a longer period of time than other racial groups.

But the reason isn't slavery, at least not the kind the author is referring to.

No, this slavery is imposed on 21st Century Black Americans by their so-called leadership that spends billions of taxpayer dollars each year convincing them that they can not take care of themselves without government help.

The message of the Black leadership to their racial brethren is simple: You are incompetent. You cannot take care of your own needs, in normal times or calamities.

Since many Blacks buy this big lie, then when the storm suspended government services for everyone, those who depended on it the the most, Blacks, suffered the most.

The Big Lie is an attractive one. It comes with the addictive appeal of "Free Money." But it has a horrible price; self-imposed slavery.

Black America will cease to be victims when they cease to believe the big lie about themselves, the lie that says they need special help. Tiger Woods doesn't get Mulligans. JC didn't get any extra votes at the ballot box. No Black ever became an astronaut without superb skills and dedication.

The commitment to that level of skill and dedication is available to every American, regardless of their color.

Blacks are capable of being as competent as any race, but until they throw off the yoke of slavery fostered upon them by the lies their "leaders" tell them, and so-called "social welfare" programs that only foster increased dependency on government, then unfortunately, Blacks will continue to live in a form of self-imposed slavery no government program can ever cure.

[SAJ]

Naughty, naughty, John -- you're being rational again. Tch, tch.

Nice column!

[popdonnelly]

The problem is that people accept this notion that the whole World is against them. The World is neutral. Unless a person achieves fame or notoriety, the World isn't taking notice of what anyone does.

[GSlob]

A good and learned non-PC summary could be found in Rushton, J. P., & Jensen, A. R. (2005). Thirty years of research on race differences in cognitive ability. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 11, 235-294.
(the article is available in pdf from http://www.ssc.uwo.ca/psychology/faculty/rushton_pubs.htm)

[Mark was here]

read latter.

[Jaysun]

Do you know why black Americans aren't as successful as they could be? The conventional explanation is that a substantial amount of racism still exists in America and that bigots conspire to keep blacks from succeeding. Indeed, the majority of blacks are told this all of their lives. This nonsense is a self-fulfilling prophecy! It gives blacks a ready-made reason not to persevere. After all, what's the point in playing the game if the deck is stacked against you?

I needn't waste your time with endless examples of famously successful men that failed countless times before finally reaching their goals. The key advantage that whites have is that we're not told that the world is against us. Consider John Creasey, the famous English author of more than 600 mystery, crime, suspense, and detective novels. Would he have continued trying to get his work published (after being rejected hundreds of times) if he had been black? If he had been black it would have been understandable for him to come to the conclusion that the world really was against him and that further efforts were futile.

Yes, there are a few bigots (and they come in all colors) conspiring to see others fail. What is the good in allowing them to do so? If someone does encounter racism the law is on their side. But black Americans must continue towards their goals even after such an encounter.

Blacks will continue to do poorly until they come to the realization that life presents hurdles for everyone. Instead of fighting for the removal of those hurdles - which is an impossible task - they have to do what everyone else does. Start jumping. Those that tell them otherwise are doing them a great disservice.

[Thombo2]

This is along the same lines of the so called "black rage" defence.Remember the man who killed white pasangers on a bus(?)several yrs ago?His attorney claimed an uncontrolable rage against whites(because he felt opressed)drove him to kill.I don't think the jury bought it.IMO,people who believe this tripe simply want to believe it.As far as Katrina is concerned,the press went out of their way to MAKE Katrina a racial issue.They propagated the unfounded rumors of wholesale rape and murder.

[El Gato]

Also not considered is the fact that in most places a "separate and almost equal" black middle class of businessmen, doctors, lawyers, pharmacists, as well as skilled tradesmen, existed prior to the Great Depression. While the depression hurt all races, it hurt those on the bottom the most. Afterwords, their were few black businessmen, although there continued to be the professionals, the skilled craftsmen mostly became employees, rather than businesses owners as they had been before. And far too many of the unskilled workers never became workers again.