In one way I agree with him. Black people and families should pull together just like Jewish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, etc families have in America. Part of why blacks haven’t done as well as these other groups is that they haven’t pulled together economically like other groups have. The same is true to lesser extent with Latinos.
But Mr. Sherrod seems to go far beyond that in his exhortations. I’d like to see the whole video and other speeches and writings of his.
That's liberal illogic, Lori. Don't fall for it.
I'm black, and I own a business. Everyone's money is welcome, and it all spends the same. If I tried to narrow my focus to the black community only, I'd be out of business. Same for any other person who tries that.
But Mr. Sherrod seems to go far beyond that in his exhortations. I’d like to see the whole video and other speeches and writings of his.
I note there are no offense terms, insulting name-calling in your post. It is possible to outline ideas without doing it in a racist manner.
“In one way I agree with him. Black people and families should pull together just like Jewish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, etc families have in America. Part of why blacks haven’t done as well as these other groups is that they haven’t pulled together economically like other groups have. The same is true to lesser extent with Latinos.”
You are proposing black separatism. Other groups have been successful because of hard work, risk taking, and clean living. They have not succeeded because of separatism. These groups have some sense of community but they generally do not seek to isolate themselves from others. Beyond the first generation, the sense of community has broken down. It is family discipline that has made these groups successful, not group economic separatism.
In the late 60’s the full weight of the Federal Government came down on our heads and destroyed black and white families:
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs proposed or enacted in the United States on the initiative of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
The centerpiece of the War on Poverty was the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, which created an Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) to oversee a variety of community-based antipoverty programs.
Job Corps, Neighborhood Youth Corps, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), Model Cities Program, Upward Bound
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. It ended a long-standing political taboo by providing significant federal aid to public education/
The Higher Education Act of 1965 increased federal money given to universities, created scholarships and low-interest loans for students, and established a national Teacher Corps to provide teachers to poverty-stricken areas of the United States. The Act also began a transition from federally funded institutional assistance to individual student aid.
The Social Security Act of 1965 authorized Medicare and provided federal funding for many of the medical costs of older Americans.
In 1966 welfare recipients of all ages received medical care through the Medicaid program.
In September 1965, Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act into law, creating both the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities as separate, independent agencies. Lobbying for federally funded arts and humanities support began during the Kennedy Administration.