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Off The New Plantations
Townhall.com ^ | May 6, 2015 | John Warren

Posted on 05/06/2015 4:14:30 PM PDT by Kaslin

Reflecting upon Ferguson and Baltimore—along with Detroit and other cities—reveals what they all have in common: most of their African-American residents are captives on what some might call the new plantations—urban islands of poverty surrounded by the fetid waters of political disinterest.

The new plantations aren’t so new, created as they were by The Great Society, when Lyndon Johnson wrapped himself in the mantle of the brave new world, and despite presumably noble instincts, laid the foundations for a social slavery he would never have imagined.

It’s debatable, of course, but when one peruses the photographic journals compiled by Pittsburgh’s illustrious Charles Teenie Harris, one might conclude that by the 1960s, many African-Americans in northern cities were working their way to middle class status but for one major component: their basic civil rights, which would have encouraged even greater economic and social freedoms. This is borne out by US Census data showing some 25 million people in official poverty in 1970, down from 40 million in 1958; those numbers equate to about 13% of the population in poverty at the same time, down from 23% in 1958.

Since 1965, estimates vary greatly, but the all-in, conservative spending number for the War on Poverty is 15-17 trillion dollars. One Democratic Administration after another—occasionally abetted by Republicans—regulated family life amongst welfare clients in such a way as to encourage the disintegration of the core social unit: a two-parent household raising their children responsibly. And now, as we approach the Great Society’s 50th anniversary, what have we wrought? We have supported and at times glorified a culture without parents, and have produced millions of children, who through no fault of their own, have been forced to trade good parental insight and guidance for support payments, if that. Ignorance always breeds poverty, then violence in any neighborhood, but most visibly, where African-Americans live.

Whatever the real dollars spent, little has happened since the “War” began with vast parades of well-meaning ideologues determining for others how the poor should live and under what circumstances they might thrive. Where are we now, after all the demagoguery, social engineering, and spending? As of 2011, we have over 46 million people classified in poverty, and that’s 15% of our total population. Just over 28% of that group is black, or about 13.1 million people, and what has this Administration done for the poor? Little.

There it is for all to see. USA Social Democrats displaced real shackles for the addiction of government subsistence, and for some, perpetual poverty on the new plantations. For 50 years we have thrown trillions at a problem and have demanded nothing in return, and those low expectations have produced the violence that has become a newsday commonplace. Every solution requires first steps. If research by the Cato Institute is correct, there are three key changes in the prevailing poverty culture that must occur:

1. Education: In one State of the Union, the president vowed to raise the mandatory education attendance level from age 16 to a high school education for everyone. Require a HS diploma.

2. Get a job, any job: Instead of creating jobs, entry level or otherwise, this Administration wants us to believe raising the minimum wage will solve everything. Will it not simply make cheeseburgers more expensive? Create good, entry-level jobs.

3. Do not have children without a mate: Without a committed partner, a single parent is practically guaranteed a life of poverty for herself and her child. Make the system work to create incentives for change.

If there’s ever been an opportunity to undo the bonds of the new slavery, to release the poor from their new plantations, this is one election season vow worth keeping.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: baltimore; blackcommunity; poverty; welfarestate

1 posted on 05/06/2015 4:14:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
They are welfare slaves.

Democrats are their welfare slave owners.

All large cities are the reincarnations of Democrat owned black slave plantations.

It's not white privilege, it's a universal spirit of non-dependence.

2 posted on 05/06/2015 4:18:42 PM PDT by conservativeimage (Own your challenges without blaming others for them. Bide your time and hold out hope.)
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To: Kaslin

Socialism will work. They just need a little more money to make it work. /s


3 posted on 05/06/2015 4:26:22 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Kaslin
Before the Democrats "Great Society", their "War On Poverty", and abortion on demand, the cultures and life styles of most blacks and most whites were cloes to being one and the same in the most important aspects.

Blacks and whites basically dressed the same, gave their kids the same normal names, struggled to earn a living in the same ways in the jobs in the same factories.

In fact, blacks had an even higher rate of marriage and lower rate of illegitimate births than whites.

But in the last 50 years liberals have convinced blacks that everything in their lives happens, or doesn't happen because of their skin color and the racism of whites, but only whites who aren't democrats.

This has led to blacks gradually departing from mainstream culture and developing their alternate culture where people call themselves African-American, speak differently, have low marriage rates but high out of wedlock birth rates, where women have 6 or 10 kids by different sperm donors all living on government handouts, where they give their children the most horrible, made up "black" names and where they ridicule other blacks for "acting white".

But the most important change has been the liberals success in convincing a large majority of blacks that the central aspect of their existence is their black skin. And that because of their black skin they are being victimized by whites and society in general.

Now we have a huge black population that is obsessed with skin color and think of themselves as "black" above all else.
They have almost become a separate nation within America. They see their lives as a constant battle and struggle because of their skin color.

In general a white person will almost never think of their skin color when asked "who are you?" - Whites are likely to identify themselves as an American, a mother, a father, a homemaker, a Baptist, a Marine, a truck driver, an engineer, a doctor, etc. The same holds true for many other ethnic groups like Asians.

But, thanks to fifty years of liberal brainwashing most blacks are obsessed with the color of their skins to the degree that they place that at the top of the list when they self identify.

Until the race pimps are run off or thrown in jail and everyday blacks go back to thinking of themselves as something other than black skinned victims the racial tension in America will never lessen.


4 posted on 05/06/2015 4:28:54 PM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: Kaslin

Like in the movie the matrix, the black population is bred for the political machines to harvest votes.


5 posted on 05/06/2015 4:33:10 PM PDT by DaveyB (Live free or die!)
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To: Kaslin

Good article. I’ve been saying this for years, but have also offered a few literary terms to describe this “plantation” situation.

“Mental slavery”
“The new economic slavery”
“New slave-masters, same old slavery”
“The New Plantation Mentality”
“The Welfare Plantation” (an old concept, not mine)


6 posted on 05/06/2015 6:03:37 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (madmax)
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To: conservativeimage.com

You are absolutely 100% correct!


7 posted on 05/06/2015 6:21:22 PM PDT by vpintheak (Call the left what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: Kaslin

Oh, Lyndon imagined it. He said, “These nigg*** will be voting Democrat for a hundred years!”. Looks like he was right.


8 posted on 05/06/2015 7:21:54 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Kaslin

Well, they have done it to themselves. Nobody is forcing them to fall in line with the Democrat welfare state. I’m tired of the excuses for people who won’t help themselves.

If white America is so unjust, then it’s time for separate nations. Let them be responsible for their own country. It will soon look like Africa.


9 posted on 05/06/2015 7:24:07 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: conservativeimage.com

Lets not forget the RepublCrat plantation and it`s “Lesser of Two Evils” ploy, all done in the name of the DC uni-party.


10 posted on 05/06/2015 7:30:31 PM PDT by nomad
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To: Kaslin

That is why we blew up the old city housing projects and changed to a voucher system of housing aid.


11 posted on 05/07/2015 10:22:00 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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