Worth a full read.
There’s the expected “snarky” injection [they just can’t admit they’re responsible for creating this mess] about Republicans and racial politics, but these asides only serve as minor “speed bumps” to the author’s realization that Big Government doesn’t work.
If that is not a racist statement, I don't know what it.
Let’s face it, like everything else it was LIBERALISM that ruined racial integration.
The no consequences, if it feels good do it, soft on crime attitude of the left gave black people a license to commit crime. A license that they still hold to this day as even a cursory glance at this website shows.
This made, and continues to make, the idea of living in close proximity to blacks anathema to most non-black people.
Of course, the criminal underclass has now been expanded to include many Hispanics also, who are also given a get out of jail free card by liberal elites.
The sixties was pretty much the worst thing that ever happened to America. Without all that bogus “liberation” things might be very different today and we might have true integration.
But unless and until we get rid of the group-identity obsessed Left, or at least get their paws off the levers of power, we’ll all continue to muddle on. People, as my Irish grandmother used to say, set against one and other by those in power to serve the powerful’s own ends.
That's a ironic statement considering all this diversity and multicultural push of the last 50+ years is causing a balkanization from which untold damage is being done and we will never recover. Of course the preceding sentence is the heart of what is trying to be accomplished. They will force by law and gun integration at all levels from housing to schools to even churches and anything else that is deemed too white. I wouldn't be surprised at some point that they would try to force integration into families.
There is only one thing that can stop this destruction.
Does this fella really want to go down that path and compare BOTH the parties on this account ? The Democrats will lose, and BIG time.
White Guilt, thy name is FOOL
When my daughters were in elementary school they had friends of all races and invited them to sleepovers. When listening to them they all sounded the same.
Somewhere around the 8th grade one of them came home crying. She said she had asked one of her black friends why she didn’t hang out with her any more. The girl replied with “You’re not black enough.”
By the time they graduated most blacks had self segregated themselves and they spoke the ghetto talk.
I couldn’t read the whole thing for once but I did see where he said that Republicans... Well here’s his own words.
“Even when Republicans have a legitimate point to make about the shortcomings of some government program, it’s almost as if they can’t help blowing their own argument. They’ll start off talking sensibly enough about educational outcome disparities and within seconds they’re rambling incoherently about how black men don’t take care of their babies. It’s really astonishing to watch.”
And how about this:
” At this point, the GOP’s rap sheet of racial offenses is almost too long to recount. Pushing undemocratic voter ID laws, trotting out candidates like Herman Cain, calling Barack Obama the “food stamp president” … if it has to do with race, you can count on Republicans being wrong early and often.”
Hmmm, Racial Offenses? The few he mentions don’t seem like offenses to me. Unless of course he means that the republican are wrong to try and stop vote fraud and that only democrats can have Black politicians.
And under Obama food stamp usage has increased and even there it’s in the white population because they are the ones most impacted by his economic policies. Sadly the black population was pretty much already saturated welfare and food stamp wise.
Other than the three he mentioned I would like to see his list of racial offenses.
Now I will give him credit that he’s trying to be fair and point the finger at both political parties but his earlier prejudices and near-automatic assumption of ‘If a Republican proposed it there must be something wrong with it’, is very irritating yet illuminating of his inner conflicts.
The so-called help provided by liberals has hamstrung multiple generations of blacks and stunted their economic growth.
Sadly, until blacks reject the baby bottle being shoved down their throats by gov they'll never progress.
I practice the outmoded and abhorrent habit of treating people as individuals, rather than as the embodiment of racial, ethnic, gender and class stereotypes. I know that it is wrong, but I can't help it, it's the way I was raised.
The writer admitted to not knowing many black people. He/she obviously knows NO Republicans or conservatives.
No surprise , unavoidably most of my friends and acquaintances are Democrat Progressive/Liberal (I live near Albany NY) and, aside from politics, almost none of the these Democrats know or socialize with Blacks. These Democrats are fleeing Albany City for the suburbs where their children attend lily white schools with other children with like minded parents. If anyone should suggest bussing to end the “Segregation” the suburban Democrats would fight it tooth and nail, after all, that sort of self interest is understandable to them, (not like those “Southern school districts”)..... but they certainly don’t acknowledge it.
If they live in Albany City, they send their children to Upscale Private schools which “surprisingly” is generous with their athletic scholarships to Blacks.
Liberal policies certainly exacerbated things, but conservative ideas won't work with this group either. It's beyond help. If conservatives think free-market ideas and independence from gov. can appeal to a class of people who love to be victims and sponge off the gov. teat, they're dead wrong.
Tanner wants to talk about race? And blame Republicans?
Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. Does Tanner know what Lincoln did?
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. Does Tanner know what King did?
Democrats started the KKK to frighten blacks away from voting booths. Does Tanner know what the KKK did?
Silly article written by a superfluous person.
What liberals never get is that segregation itself is a result of big government. Jim Crow laws are the proof. Just the fact that governments in the South had to pass these laws proves that at many levels integration was happening organically. There would have been no need to pass these laws if people were not interacting in a voluntary manner. No government passes laws to prevent something that is not happening. As for today, big government has crippled such a vast number of minority people economically that only a few have the resources to move to more integrated situation.
And he won't list them.
I, for one, would like to see this so-called rap sheet. WE didn't create the KKK. WE didn't stand in the way of the Civil Rights Act. Who did all that? Guess which party!