Posted on 06/22/2021 3:59:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
If America is systemically racist, why have millions of blacks from Africa and the Caribbean come to this country over the past 50 years? Why would they and many millions more want to move from all-black societies to a white-dominated, racist one?
This is a question every black and white leftist should be asked. After all, no Jews moved to Germany in the 1930s. And why didn't any? After all, many Jews were suffering terrible persecution and poverty in Russia and in Eastern Europe. Why didn't any of them move to Germany after 1933?
We all know the answer: Because Germany was systemically antisemitic.
Even leftists know that answer.
So, one can only conclude that, in the view of America's leftists, non-German Jews of the 1930s had the wisdom not to move to Germany, but present-day non-American blacks have no wisdom. In the view of America's leftists, then, the millions of blacks who have moved here and the many millions who want to move here must be fools.
How else could leftists regard blacks who willingly move to America? Any black person who decides to leave a black country for America -- a place the left claims was founded by racists to perpetuate racism, built and sustained by racism, to this day composed largely of whites, every one of whom is racist and many of whom are white supremacists, and therefore remains systemically racist -- must be either be a fool, an ignoramus or both.
If so-called black "leaders" and other blacks on the left and white progressives believe what they say about America, why aren't they doing everything they can to dissuade blacks in Africa and the Caribbean from coming to America? Why aren't they regularly visiting African and Caribbean countries to warn Africans away from the black-hating country they are thinking of emigrating to?
To this question there is only one possible answer: They do not believe what they say about America.
Whether leftists believe their lies is a question I have pondered for years. And I have concluded that in general, they do. Most leftists believe that Russia colluded with the Trump campaign; that men menstruate and give birth; that Shakespeare and Beethoven are revered not because they are great but because they are white; that global warming is an "existential" threat; that the events of Jan. 6 were an "insurrection"; that voter IDs are a form of voter suppression; and that people who had COVID-19 need to be vaccinated.
But with regard to their believing America is systemically racist and so persecutes blacks -- LeBron James tweets that, like all blacks, "We're literally hunted EVERYDAY/EVERYTIME we step foot outside the comfort of our homes!" and Oprah Winfrey likens present-day America to "the days of Jim Crow when black men would be lynched and dragged through the town as an example for other people to see" -- their not making any attempt to dissuade blacks from coming to America makes no sense. It only makes sense if they don't believe what they say about America.
Truth has never been a left-wing value. Truth is a liberal value and it is a conservative value. But it has never been a left-wing value. Truth is nothing more than whatever the left says it is at any given moment. That is why Lenin, the father of modern leftism, named the Soviet Communist Party newspaper "Pravda," the Russian word for "truth" -- truth was what the Soviet Communist Party said it was. For Lenin, then, as for Rep. Adam Schiff, The New York Times, Yale University, and CNN today, truth is what they say it is.
Their pravda is that America is a systemically racist country. Their pravda is that all whites are racist. Their pravda is that Donald Trump is a white supremacist and that everyone who voted for any Republican is a racist.
Yet, there is a reality that Schiff and these others cannot deny: Vast numbers of blacks yearn to come to America. They do so because they have not been influenced by the pravda of Schiff and his fellow Democrats, The New York Times and the rest of the left-wing media, or by Yale and the rest of America's left-wing universities. They do so because they have been influenced not by pravda, but by actual truth: America is the least racist multi-ethnic, multi-racial country in world history, and any black who seeks to improve his life and that of his family has a better chance of doing so in America than anywhere else. In fact, within one generation of emigrating to America, Africans from sub-Saharan African countries attain higher levels of educational attainment than the U.S. population as a whole and are more likely to have earned a degree in a science, technology, engineering, and math (Pew Research).
That's why it is not Africans who are foolish for wanting to come to America; it is America's left for thinking they are fools.
Stop making sense, Prager. Common Sense is not too common these days.
Maybe because they’re not obsessed with race.
When Africans think about their countries, they see a handful of ethnic groups who are generally hostile to each other. The fact that they are all black is not too relevant. By comparison, the low level of racism in this county is a relief.
It’s because of the generous welfare in America.
All parasites will move to the host that offers the most freebies. Why else do illegal aliens skip through multiple countries to claim asylum in the USA? It’s for the cash welfare payments. And we are the suckers that give it to them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-LGxOll2zc
Declaration of Independence or declaration of dependence?
https://www.ushistory.org/declaration//document/index.html
https://news.yahoo.com/mike-pence-called-traitor-by-hecklers-in-florida-192753694.html
HOORAY hecklers. A1
Simple: the goodies.
Our culture allowed respect for a lunatic atheist, rebellios woman and 8 of 9 justices turned over a century and a half of common sense, denying the princoples of their swearing in ceremonies.
Now any media clown and a communist lawyer can help Satan infiltrate schools and families.
Preschoolers hearing languge that they should not here, seeing media they should not see. If America doesn’t repent soon; she is lost.
The simple answer is economics. America is rich most of Africa and the Caribbean is poor.
A better comparison than Jews under the Nazis would be the history of Chinese immigration to America. Large numbers were still eager to come to America despite blatantly discriminatory laws in place a century ago.
Communists perverting our own system against us.
A lot of Jews moved to Germany between 1880 and 1933.
The CRT people will tell you that the colonial powers damaged the traditional economies and self-governance of the African people, and that they are only migrating to escape the destruction we caused, and that we are obligated to rectify the injury we inflicted.
Sort of like black Americans leaving 1950s Mississippi for Illinois. Illinois was still racist but better than Mississippi.
Certainly the West purchased kidnapped people from Africa, then colonized and imposed unnatural borders, played one group against another, sold arms, sometimes committed atrocities (Belgian Congo), profiteered baby formula and starved babies (Nestle) but the roads and factories disappear when the West leaves. I think the most disruptive and lasting influence has been modern medicine.
If all white people are racist..then I suppose it’s not a leap to claim our system is racist.
However, the Biden family,the Clinton family,and the pelosi family are excluded.
Osama is only racist on his mom’s side of the family.
And hating white people..and attempting to cancel them out doesn’t count and is in no way a systemic effort to make them less than everyone else.
Well kind of. There was plenty of movement, yes.
But the borders and empire structure also moved while people stayed out.
My grandfather was effectively Polish, fought for the Germans in WWI, and then made it out by the skin of his teeth never having left the same billiard except to see service in France.
Many Jews served in the Great War. It didn’t help them much or at all later on.
The Jews went to Germany, because it appeared better than Communism.
The irony is that when Poland was divided between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia, the best area for the Jews to be in was the German part.
Why do white doctors, nurses, teachers go to Africa to help the people there and blacks don’t?
One could also ask why blacks, who have the means to do so, don’t move to other countries, as did my father’s family which abandoned Berlin and Germany in 1938.
ML/NJ
Something else conveniently ignored: Nigerians are among the most successful of all immigrant groups in the United States. But how can that be? They’re black, in a nation that is (supposedly) racist to the core. Maybe it has something to do with parents and families who insist their children be achievers, and not self-described victims:
Personal anecdote: In a previous higher ed job, I made several visits a year to the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, the schoolhouse for Army special forces personnel; Green Berets, psyop specialists and civil affairs troops.
During a break on one visit, I struck up a conversation with two black men, going through the civil affairs course. Both were E-4s (Specialists). When I asked about education plans, both said they were taking a “break” from their studies; one had completed an MBA from Purdue before joining the Army; the other had earned a bachelor’s in business admin from another Big 10 school. Both were Nigerian immigrants.
As our conversation continued, I decided to ask them a pointed question: why did they come to a country that is routinely labeled as “racist,” and volunteer to serve in an Army that—supposedly—reflects those views? Both smiled an one of them began to chuckle.
“Racist?” the former MBA student replied. “America gave me a chance to study at one of your great universities and earn my MBA. Now, I’m in the Army because it will give me a fast-track to citizenship. Then, I can live my dreams as an American citizen and make the best of the opportunities available to me.” His friend nodded in agreement.
“But African-Americans born in this country would disagree,” I continued, wondering what he would say.
“First, they are not African. We were born there; many of them came to this country before white immigrants. They know nothing of the culture, the language, the tribe they once belonged to. It would be like me calling myself Italian because I like pasta.”
What about slavery? I continued?
“What about it,” the SPC replied. “It was a horrible, evil institution, but your country ended it, through a civil war. There are no more slaves in America, there is no more segregation, and very little racism. The only people still in bondage are those who put themselves in that position. And many blacks in this country forget that Africans played a prominent role in the slave trade, and slavery still continues in parts of the continent to this day. But I don’t hear any cries of protest about that.”
With that, the conversation ended; break was over and the two prospective civil affairs specialists headed back to class. That conversation took place over a decade ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday. Many Americans—of all backgrounds—could learn a lot by talking to young men like those two Nigerian soldiers, serving in the US Army.
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