never heard of it
Posted on 10/14/2017 7:45:40 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
So it’s entirely self inflicted, correct? 80% divorce rate, 7% of population commits 55% of violent crimes, etc.
So he’s hoping for a French Revolution that destroys white people.
He really just a hard core racist and pseudo intellectual. But the media tries to puff him up into some kind of intellectual giant.
No, not entirely; but, a big problem with the remainder is the view that being affected is being afflicted and THAT, as part of an ideology, is entirely self-inflicted.
When you accept some myth that whatever happens to someone of your description, past or present, is also somehow magically transferred to you, you do yourself little good and indeed will do yourself much harm (even if it doesn’t seem like it is presently harming you it’s really only a matter of time before it harms you or your posterity). This victimhood birthright taints everything, excludes any facts to the contrary and latches on to any “evidence”, no matter how spurious, to support itself.
Everyone is affected by stuff and it isn’t on the human level some grand conspiracy against them.
>”Every nickel of wealth the average black family has, the average white family has a dollar. What is the world in which that wealth gap is closed? What happens? What makes that possible? What does that look like? What is the process?”<
Oh, I don’t know. Actually paying attention in class, then doing assignments, not spending every penny you earn on junk food, cigarettes and soda pop might be a help.
Coates doesn't grate on me. He has no effect on me. Just another race hustler and a lousy writer to boot.
I lost interest as soon as Coates was described as a “thinker”. He’s an insignificant polemicist stewing in racism and hatred. Clearly what he wanted out of an 0bama government was a dictator throwing down lightning bolts of retribution against anyone with a white skin. It’s the politics of small children or genocidal lunatics.
Values and Effort inequality?
Where is the movement to close the gap on those issues?
[Intro]
Uh, uh-huh, yeah
Uh, uh-huh, yeah
It’s all about the Benjamins, baby
It’s all about the Benjamins, baby
It’s not enough that we’re paying to raise their (feral) kids, they want a cash jackpot. Then it will never be enough.
He has the answer. Maybe he doesn't realize it ... yet. Maybe we don't realize it ... yet.
Individual FReepers and individual lefities and individual centrists acting voluntarily in the private sector to provide jobs ... to acting voluntarily in the private sector to help other individuals prepare for and find those jobs... that is the solution.
The government is not the solution..not Obama, not Trump.
>>Ta-Nehisi Coates began his book tour for We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
It failed because of your Just Us approach to governing. You don’t win an election and tell half the people that their input is no longer valid in a Republic.
Your racism doomed the Obama agenda.
The Government has a role.
To have policies that promote a healthy economy with lots of jobs. It also needs to enforce equality of opportunity and equality before the law.
But certain communities need to adopt better values. If they were to focus on family values and education, they would make more progress in 10 years than they have in the past 50.
Instead people like Coats promote hatred. They are more interested in pulling down white people than in improving their own communities.
never heard of it
This ‘gap’ will never be closed, as long as:
1. They keep taking money from those who earn it, and count the person’s GROSS as how much money he/she makes, and use it to call the person “rich.”
2. They keep giving that money to those who don’t earn it, and DON’T count that money in their income, causing them to be continued to be called “poor.”
The “poor” can rake in $40,000 a year in welfare, and still be called poor because they didn’t earn it.
What he misses, is that the ENTIRETY of black progress in the United States, has been due to the good will of the white majority. The white majority has spent a HUGE amount to effort and money to try to achieve a successful black community.
What Obama, “Black Lives Matter”, and the rest have been doing over the last few decades, is to erode all that good will. They will not like it when they have finished the process.
Coates is a putrid racist who deifies blackness and villifies anything white.
He’s hired solely because of his race even though his writing style is more bombastic than focused and informative.
He owes every shred of his career to his race.
So...you're looking to government to balance racial economics, Mr. Coates? How silly. No wonder you're depressed.
Regardless of what the race pimps are telling you, the primary problem blacks in America face is not whites in America.
In fact, what the race pimps are telling you is nothing but mental malware and your believing and following that malware IS the major source of ALL of your problems.
The economic part of your problem flows freely from that malware, is embarrassingly obvious and has NOTHING to do with race whatsoever, so why not listen to what simple economics has been screaming at you and the rest of US decade after decade.
Intact, two-parent families are far better off financially and also raise healthier, more mature children than single parents do.
Did you hear that, Mr. Coates? Children having children with one child attempting to raise those babies to be adults all by herself isn't working and no amount of Government is going to fix that for you.
Instead of listening to and then following those who divide family and nation, and they come in all colors, btw, all of US would do better for ourselves and our families by listening to our Pastors, just as you told Colbert, and following the advice and examples the Bible teaches everyone.
Without those solid, immovable Truths and Standards to rely upon, you're easily mislead into mental and emotional bondage, to then dance by the strings of your puppet masters whom you follow without question or suspicion.
At least in the old days, your ancestors knew who the slavemasters were.
Nowadays, they are your "friends" in high places who promise the same solutions year after year and hand out treats to those they've trained to speak and do their tricks.
Your modern slavemasters are the false prophets of your politics promising the false profits of progressivism.
They have purchased the shining city on the hill and built a tower of babble in its place, surrounded by an Alinsky moat of protection.
Look around you with eyes that see, Mr. Coates.
If you truly want to be free, then it's time to storm that malignant tower of malware and knock it down!
Therefore, intense peer pressure is brought to bear to keep the blacks down. Not by white people but from their fellow blacks!
Only rappers and athletes are the accepted routes out of the ghetto. Otherwise, blacks are ostracized by their own. It's a tragedy. Until that changes, their lot will never improve.
Compare their plight to Asians, who were also heavily discriminated against when they came to this country. But they educated themselves, worked hard, and now they are, as a race, equal and even superior to whites in many ways. They did not allow themselves to be victims who needed "reparations" and "affirmative action." They went out there and obtained knowledge and wealth for themselves, without the help of the white man, and on their own terms.
Apparently the Black Community’s 74% illegitimacy rate has nothing to do with any of these problems, so let’s just keep redistributing wealth until everyone in Funkytown has a free Escalade.
Teensy is a moron among morons. What a despicable piece of filth.
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