Posted on 08/26/2014 8:42:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The final problem for all political and religious movements is what to do after you get to the Promised Land. You've defeated the enemy, you've conquered the land flowing with milk and honey. What next?
What's next is that the soldiers of the revolution should get a job, get married, and start a family. And forget all about millennial hope.
But usually they don't. Instead they get angry.
That's why blacks rioted in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Finally, they'd got to the Promised Land, and nothing had changed.
Fast forward to 2012 in Florida and 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. We've elected the First Black President and nothing has changed.
Wouldn't you be just a teeny bit upset?
But that's life in the Promised Land. The prophet dies, the revolutionaries fall out amongst themselves, and ordinary politics resumes.
Then people get angry and riot like they did in the 1960s....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“Finally, they’d got to the Promised Land”,
and
find they have to work for a living that is not what they expected or wanted
‘...and here in Seattle there’s Planned Parenthood just down the street from the Mount Zion Baptist Church helping to reduce black family size.’
As an aside, Seattle is among the whitest of major cities. The black population is less than 8%. 8%!. The City has more than 650,000 and 70% are white. That is just amazing for a major city!
We just can’t win anymore; the only thing most Americans want is to go about their business and enjoy life and spend time with friends and families and spend much of their time having a life. A real genuine life. Not some kind of constant drama. The whole point of coming to the US was because people just wanted to be left to their business and privacy. Then the idiot ‘good’ Southern families wanted free labor, so they brought in blacks, the North loses half a million fighting for their freedom, and the South loses half a million defending the Confederacy and system of slavery and go figure, apparently that wasn’t enough. Freedom wasn’t enough.
So now even our troops who go through Hades in the Middle East to defend them aren’t safe from them.
This riot in Ferguson has obviously been orchestrated too. For one thing, look at the professional made signs that magically appeared with the same message and all of the out of towners encouraging bad behavior.
History is full of angry people scapegoating others and blaming them for all their problems. Hitler blamed the Jews. Powerful voices including politicians, the press, and others find it quite useful to blame white people - especially a white LEO.
They would rather blame someone, than take the actions needed to solve their problems, because that might cause them to have to admit their culpability, put forth an effort, get a job, show up for work - etc. etc.
Nothing has changed since the ‘60s? Only an idiot a liar or someone born yesterday would say that.
Go to any mass urban area (Memphis, St Louis, New Orleans, Birmingham, Atlanta, etc). You could measure the urban decay and stagnant job situation in 1969...and basically find the same basic numbers today.
Sure, everyone has a 52-inch TV on their wall and carries a smart phone on themselves. But getting a real job and getting ahead in life...is basically the same structure and stumbles that existed in 1969. Nothing really changed.
In the county that I grew up in the mid-60s to late-70s....there used to be around twenty-five potential employers with a decent career path. Today? There’s maybe six employers. The rest went away as NAFTA came into effect. The last potential $15-an-hour company shut down this year. You will have to drive at least fifty miles to find any company hiring, and accept marginal salaries as the norm.
I’m one of the lucky ones that signed up and did two decades of service with the Air Force. I’m in a favorable lifestyle today because of that. That’s the only way you can find some promised land in existence when you live in a stagnant area.
Blacks should view the injustice of slavery as a huge sacrifice made by their ancestors which brought them to a better place. Would they really rather be back in Africa?
Not unlike the slaughtering of millions of innocent Jews paving the way for the birth of Israel.
“They would rather blame someone, than take the actions needed to solve their problems”....
Who does that describe, surely not the “first black president” (who is NOT black, he’s part black. Yes, his “dark side”).
The blacks will continue to vote for the demodummies because the demodummies provide all that “free sh&t”. Why would the blacks want a job when they can sleep all day and “party” all night, collect their “free sh*t” and breed more takers? Life is good!
The biggest change since the 60's is that men have been pushed out of the work force, black men more than other men http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LRAC25MAUSQ156S
rules are for the whites...
morals are for the whites...
what they really want is just access to plenty of white women....that is really what is at the bottom of all this....they want to control the whole kingdom and all the women....
look.... cut through the BS... when all the phoney excuses for FAILURE are removed and you are still a FAILURE... then the recognition sets in that it is NOT SOCIETY’s FAULT.... it’s your own damn fault.... EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY IS THERE, JOBS ARE THERE, the American Dream is there and many racial minorities reap and enjoy the benefits.... THOSE WHO DONT.... LOOK IN THE MORROR...but it’s much easier to listen to race hustlers who say ITS NOT YOUR FAULT ITS THEIR FAULT....lets riot....
Correct me if I’m wrong but joining the Air Force is a choice not a matter of random luck isn’t it?
Nice rants, both of you, but I was thinking of race relations not the economy. Everyone can use the economy for an excuse to fail.
Under Washington's leadership, the social structure of the Black communities in the South was clearly improving. The diversion to the grievance model--as old as the fall of Adam & Eve in Genesis--is a clear example of what does not now, and never has, worked to human betterment.
William Flax
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