Williams urges blacks to rely on themselves ("Enough": diatribe against Jesse Jackson, etc.)

The Baltimore Sun ^ | Sep 2, 2006 | Gregory Kane

[Mrs. Don-o]

Enter Juan Williams, a senior correspondent for National Public Radio and a political analyst for Fox News...[it's] his latest book that's creating quite a buzz.

Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America - and What We Can Do About It is Williams' diatribe against black "leaders" of the Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton model: the self-serving, race-hustling type. Williams also takes to task reparations advocates, black criminals and rappers who are responsible for the most viciously stereotypical images of black people...

..."Overall, about 35 percent of the city's black population lives in poverty," Williams writes of New Orleans. In another passage, he notes that "one-third of black people in the city never finished high school."

...Williams seemed genuinely surprised - and not in a good way - when I told him about how Baltimore's leaders are crowing about our town's stellar 60 percent graduation rate, which would put us some 7 percentage points below New Orleans, one of the poorest cities in the poorest region of the country.

"Yet, it seems to me to be a moment in contemporary American life where people could deal with serious issues of poverty," Williams [said].

Williams gave the details on how we missed that opportunity in the book. Liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, Williams said, "never got around to [talking about] steps the poor could take to help themselves."

The one man Williams praises is Bill Cosby. Williams still remembers the controversial remarks Cosby made two years ago in Washington on the 50th anniversary remembrance of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Williams said, "What I remember most about his speech was his question 'What the hell good is Brown if nobody wants it?' That really resonated with me."

[Mrs. Don-o]

Juan Williams: the Black community could advance as solidly as any othe "disadvantaged" group if they weren't crippled by the victimologists, cultural pimps and race hustlers in their midst.

[trashcanbred]

Juan Williams better watch out or he will be silenced like the did Cosby. They found dirt on him and then used it to silence him.

[Pharmboy]

After hearing Juan in the last week, I have a whole new respect for him, and I am willing to erase the past. We need more black intellectuals like Juan to come clean and accept the truth.

[AGreatPer]

It seems to me that one of the culprets in keeping them down on the farm are the black Ministers preaching the same hate as their leaders.

[imintrouble]

John McWhorter has been writing about black repression by the leaders of "racist victimization" for quite a number of years.

He isn't "made much of" in the media perhaps because he is academically gifted and raised by TWO farsighted parents.

[imintrouble]

John McWhorter has been writing about black repression by the leaders of "racist victimization" for quite a number of years.

He isn't "made much of" in the media perhaps because he is academically gifted and raised by TWO farsighted parents.

[TASMANIANRED]

There is not worse curse for an individual than to be convinced they are a victim.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

I'm truly shocked radical, rabid, racist, liberal-demokkkRAT JW has written such a book. I'm still not sure he's the same one I used to watch on FOX-TV...

Maybe a *parallel personality*, like Kirk's on that b/w episode Star Trek?

Just kidding. I'm still amazed. Watch yer back, Juannie. Jesse Hi-Jackson holds grudges, I hear.

[IronJack]

I get the feeling that Juan Williams is one of a growing number of enfranchised Blacks who are shunning the plantation mentality of the past. People like Cosby, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Herman Cain, and Clarence Thomas are reversing the stale, threadbare stereotypes propagated by the hustlers like Sharpton, Jackson, et. al., stereotypes that bind not only Blacks, but Whites as well and perpetuate a cycle of misery that is feed for the bone-pickers.

[Fee]

Blacks must be the most unlucky ethnic group in the US. Now when they are just about to figure out how to climb out of poverty and on to the lower rung of the economic ladder, Hispanics are flooding into the US to compete against them for the same jobs. Black males are just trying to develop good work habits (destroyed by generations on welfare and never seeing an adult work before) now comes the Hispanics (legal and illegal) who are willing to work hard, work cheap and rarely complains. In the inner city these two groups are going to end up fighting with each other. Wonder who the Dems will support???

[truth_seeker]

Looks like Cosby got two supporters this week; Charles Barkley, and Juan Williams.

Credit those that figure out the truth on this sad issue.

[hnj_00]

if only more would take up the cause....what would happen to the naacp?

[gcruse]

"It seems to me that one of the culprits in keeping them down on the farm are the black Ministers preaching the same hate as their leaders pie in the sky by and by."

There's a reason religion is called the opiate of the masses. It takes believers' minds off what they need to be doing to better themselves. But Jesus isn't going to fix it for them.

[NavySEAL F-16]

I heard Juan's son interviewed last week (I think on Laura's show). His son is a Republican/conservative. His first internship was with Strom Thurmond.

What came through in the interview was that his father has conservative values and that's how he raised his children. Going to church, education, etc. Sounded like he couldn't understand why his Dad was still a Dem. (I could be projecting. LOL)

No Democrat would give him an internship (He was a Democrat at the time, I think he said he was 15). The Dems told him that they'd had enough of Washington D. C. black interns because they really didn't have a vote.

That was his first confrontation with black racism against blacks.

He said that Thurmond's office really took him under their wing and showed him the ropes.

[kvanbrunt2]

His son is running as a republican for a committee seat in DC. worked for Strom Thurmond

[truth_seeker]

"People like Cosby, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Herman Cain, and Clarence Thomas..."

Condoliza Rice, Larry Elder, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Shelby Steele, and many others less well known.

[Mrs. Don-o]

You wrote: "There's a reason religion is called the opiate of the masses. It takes believers' minds off what they need to be doing to better themselves."

Read the history of religion in general; the history of Christianity in particular; or the history of Christianity in America in double-dyed-in-the-wool particular. It has been a major factor in informing and inspiring people to personal and political action.

[Eagle9]

It seems to me that one of the culprits in keeping them down on the farm are the black Ministers preaching the same hate as their leaders.

 

Mel Reynolds

Jesse Jackson added former Chicago Democrat Congressman Mel Reynolds
to Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's payroll. Reynolds was among the 176 criminals
excused in President Clinton's last-minute forgiveness spree. Reynolds
received a commutation of his six-and-a-half-year federal sentence for 15
convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud, and lies to the Federal Election
Commission. He is more notorious, however, for concurrently serving five
years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer.

This is a first in American politics: An ex-congressman who had sex with a
subordinate...won clemency from a president who had sex with a
subordinate...then was hired by a clergyman who had sex with a subordinate!

His new job?

 

Youth Counselor

[wintertime]

Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America - and What We Can Do About It

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Unfortunately, far too many blacks are so ill-educated by their compulsory government schools that they can not read the title, let alone the contents of the book itself.

[wintertime]

There's a reason religion is called the opiate of the masses. It takes believers' minds off what they need to be doing to better themselves. But Jesus isn't going to fix it for them.

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Those who keep the Ten Commandments are far less likely to be poor and so are their families. They, and their kids, are less likely to:

1)to be an unwed teen
2)to take drugs
3) go to prison
4) be lazy on the job, because this would be stealing from their employer
5) abandon their families
6) be the father of multiple children of multiple unwed moms.
7) take welfare unnecessarily because that would be stealing from their neighbors.
8) be disrespectful to their teachers, friends, or neighbors, because they are children of God as well.
9) drop out of school.
10) abuse their children