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“Until LBJ’s “Great Society,” black unemployment was way down...”

Actually that’s not true.

“The unemployment rate for African Americans in 2017 (the last full year of data) was 7.5 percent, 0.8 percentage points higher than it was in 1968 (6.7 percent). The unemployment rate for whites was 3.8 percent in 2017 and 3.2 percent in 1968.3

The unemployment data for these two years, almost 50 years apart, demonstrate a longstanding and unfortunate economic regularity: the unemployment rate for black workers is consistently about twice as high as it is for white workers.”

Also...

“Poverty rates. The share of African Americans living in poverty has declined substantially in the last five decades. Using the official federal poverty measure as a benchmark, over one-third (34.7 percent) of African Americans were in poverty in 1968. Today, the share in poverty is just over one in five (21.4 percent). For whites, the decline in the poverty rate was much smaller, from 10.0 percent in 1968 to 8.8 percent in 2016. In the most recent data, African Americans are about 2.5 times as likely to be in poverty as whites. (In 1968, they were 3.5 times as likely to be in poverty.)6”

From https://www.epi.org/publication/50-years-after-the-kerner-commission/

I don’t disagree that the “Not So Great Society” has done way more harm than good for everyone concerned, and more so for blacks because they were targeted more. But that doesn’t negate the significant AVERAGE correlation between race and quality of behavior (which in my view, is heavily correlated to AVERAGE IQ).

Your assertion begs the question that if blacks were doing so good prior to LBJ, what was the rationale behind the Great Society?

You see there is a synergistic relationship between the left and blacks (or any other minority that’s perceived to be aggrieved). The left sense of justice is animated by the idea of “equality of existence”. The leftist elitists simply cannot abide the reality that some people do better than others, are smarter than other, are more successful than others. To them this is patently unfair and it insults their sense of justice to no end, and are on the warpath to eradicate it.

And blacks are their perfect object for their crusades, the most in need of that “egalitarian justice”, the reason being that they are easily recognized AND because they have struggled everywhere in the world pretty much throughout history and continue to do so - they can be their PERMANENT victim object group to save from the oppressors. They are much target of their “affection” than what the left used to aim their “justice” at, the “working class”, for two reasons. First because they’re easily identifiable and second because unlike the working class which was very mobile in the economic ladder, blacks on the AVERAGE have always tended to occupy the lower rungs, and most likely will continued to do so for the reason I mentioned above.

Listen, I realize that what I’m saying is considered blasphemous in polite society conditioned by decades of indoctrination that all races are the same and that the only reason blacks don’t do as well is because of white racism (which is the only valid conclusion you can reach if you start with that false premise), but if you open your eyes and look all over the world and disabuse yourself of all the propaganda that we have been subjected to (tough to do, I know) and instead start believing your lying eyes, you will reach similar conclusions that I have.

And this is not through any sense of malice, but only as a result of being brutally honest with oneself and the acceptance of reality, unpleasant as it might be. Only after you get to that point can you constructively and rationally address the problem and set up conditions that allow everyone to do their best.