Posted on 08/17/2014 5:18:21 PM PDT by SkyPilot
Ferguson is not just about systemic racism—it's about class warfare, and how America's poor are held back
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Okay, time to buy more ammo. I’m running low on 5.56
it’s a play on ebonics. Half Popeye and half nonsensical moron.
Racial inequality is the direct result of racial laziness.
There are several subcultures that compose the black community and one of the most populous lacks the initiative to be effective members of society. The several successful elements belie the whines of those that chose not to coompete
I have plenty of ammo.
SHAMEFUL.
Letter to hospital president on what you witnessed.
Next time take a photo of it. DISGRACEFUL!
I hope there's a real warm eternal place for those who make the helpless suffer.
It's more accurate to say that the premises of what you call the "civil rights movement", once they were widely accepted by whites, created an opportunity for the communists that had not existed before.
No white people that I knew (though I was and I am a damn yankee) believed that, if the goals expressed by the CRM were enacted into law, that the condition of black America (expressed as a collective) would be radically worse in 2014 than they were in 1964. "Civil rights" has had FIFTY YEARS to work its magic, and the results are all around you.
Communists have obviously successfully exploited those results, but they did not create them.
I grew up in the propaganda of “slavery is the reason” for the black’s plight. I see now that is not the case. It’s their own fault and I will not let myself or my kids take part in any guilt because of it.
The original goal of the Civil Rights movement was equality of opportunity, regardless of skin color.
It became equality of outcome regardless of culture.
“Civil rights” has had FIFTY YEARS to work its magic, and the results are all around you.
So true. One thing for certain is that the system is broken.
History agrees with you.
It was not until the mid-seventies that the domestic Communist movement (Weathermen, SDS, etc.) concluded that violent action was getting them nowhere. A national conclave was called (in Chicago) and they agreed to pursue a different strategy of attacking from within the system. Infiltration of the education establishment, the media and the civil rights movement became paramount objectives.
Using the civil rights movement allowed them to employ disaffected blacks as surrogates for any violent action.
LBJ's War On Poverty created the conditions that allowed this strategy to flourish.
It’s a filthy koranimal too.
I don't know how much of a choice it is.
There is not a single choice
There are a series of choices beginning at a very early age.
Some choose to take a path away from failure while others lazily just go with the disastrous flow.
The fact there are many that succeed belies the fact that all are doomed to fate
Yes, that at least is true. W.E.B. Dubois' "talented tenth" were horribly disadvantaged and unfairly held back by legal segregation.
But it is also true that, in a high school where the average IQ is 80-85 (and there are many of them) mandating an academic curriculum including Algebra II and algebraic geometry, with outcomes measured by external validators, is cruel and unusual. That those subjected to "competition" in a system designed for an IQ range of 100-110 don't do well, and develop antisocial behaviors (aggression in males, pregnancy in females) is no surprise.
An otherwise fit 16 year old boy with an IQ of 80 does not "choose not to compete" in Algebra II, and telling him that he's "free" to engage in such a competition is a lie, and what's worse is, he knows it.
The dysfunctional "urban" culture doesn't "cause" school failure, but rather is caused BY school failure. Certainly you would agree that the emergence of this culture AFTER African-American students were made "free" suggests cause and effect.
And there is no evidence that African-American boys and young men abhor competition - far from it.
If you took the top 10% of white high school math students and sent them into a pre-NBA basketball teen league to compete, and you made them stay even after they wanted to leave (by law), and then you judged and scored them in one-on-one drills against the top African-American athletes, and when they didn't win you called them "failures", they would, I imagine, be angry.
What’s with the yellow box?
Is that a poor attempt at a SpongeBob costume?
The media are the top-priority targets.
They are FIRST.
You can’t achieve peace and unity by preaching hatred and division. Reap, sow and all that.
“equality” is part of the problem. “leaders” preaching that it’s ok to hate someone who has more than you, that taking from someone who has more than you is righteous, is another part of it.
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