How liberal policies have killed black communities: Clarence Thomas

NY Post ^ | 06/22/2022 | Clarence Thomas

[DFG]

In this excerpt from the just-published “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words” by Michael Pack and Mark Paoletta, the Supreme Court justice reflects on changes in his hometown, Savannah, Ga. The book is based on more than 30 hours of interviews Pack conducted with Thomas and his wife Ginni for the film of the same name; 95% of the book’s material is new, including this excerpt.

Michael Pack: You have talked a little today about how life in the black community has not been improved by many well-intentioned social programs. Do you think, in some sense, it is worse than when you grew up?

Clarence Thomas: It’s a disaster. When I grew up, you had family, you didn’t have drugs, you didn’t have gang-banging. You could walk down the street.

There was a change in our society. I think that these programs certainly had an impact. Just go back to Savannah and take a look around you. Our worst fears were realized. We didn’t want to be right; we wanted to be wrong. It wasn’t about winning an argument. No, we wanted to lose the argument. We did not want the damage to occur; that’s why we were involved. I don’t particularly like public life; I never wanted to be in public life. I’d like to go to football games. I’d like not to make decisions about other people’s lives, but what drags you into it is when you see these principles being undermined, which leads to such destruction. The policies destroy people, and, ultimately, I think, we’re going to destroy the very thing that allows us to have liberty and to have a free society.

[Nifster]

The soft rack am of low expectations

[ConservativeInPA]

Clarence Thomas is going to take over for Larry Elders as the face of white supremacy.

[Ann Archy]

IF the BLACKS EVER wake up out of their WELFARE STUPOR, and realize what the Democrats have done to them and their schools, families and communities, there will be DEMOCRAT BLOOD IN THE STREETS!!

You BLACKS have been USED, ABUSED and RUINED by DEMOCRATS for a FEW BUCKS they threw at you so you would VOTE for them.....stop being DUMBASSES!

[Bonemaker]

Hell, give ‘em all the “liberal policies” they vote for.

[fuente]

Yeah, but Republican betrayal will enslave us all.

[Savage Beast]

"well-intentioned social programs"

"The Road to Hell is paved with good intentions."

[Chgogal]

BTTT

[Rurudyne]

When, decades after the last time an angry mob of white Democrats burned down a black community, angry black radicals began burning down their own communities any reasonable observer could predict that they might as well start proverbially rolling up the streets.

The race baiting and race baited Left created black poverty and hopelessness in the wake of those riots. But race grievance hustlers don’t really get paid when folks are happy, successful and content ... do they?

[rlmorel]

Clarence Thomas is a real man.

His new book is next on my reading list.

[EEGator]

I disagree, as people have free will.
Blacks have no one to blame but the person in the mirror.

[atc23]

Pop culture / Mainstream media (Tik Tok, Instagram) encourages their young people, especially the women. to speak and act like violent circus clowns

[MinorityRepublican]

Clarence Thomas is a real man.

Clarence Thomas is an old school black man. African immigrants are like him. If you got to a major university, you'll meet African immigrants studying. They are hard working and they have goals for their future. Nothing like a typical Black American born in this country.

[JustTheTruth]

Love this guy…! So few truth-tellers anymore.

[sauropod]

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[daniel1212]

insofar as working immigrants are seduced by the liberal victim entitlement mentality, and by liberal morality and forsake spiritual and family values, of God, marriage and family, then they gravitate toward socialism. Which worked with the black American culture:

In 2012 The U.S Census Bureau released a report that studied the history of marriage in the United States. They discovered some startling statistics when calculating marriage by race. They found that African Americans age 35 and older were more likely to be married than White Americans from 1890 until sometime around the 1960s. Not only did they swap places during the 60s but in 1980 the number of NEVER married African Americans began a staggering climb from about 10% to more than 25% by 2010 while the percentage for White women remained under 10% and just over 10% for White men. The first two charts below are charts included in the report only the headings have been altered by BlackDemographics.com to outline these findings.

- https://blackdemographics.com/households/marriage-in-black-america/ Which is a result of culture, not color. . Which a non-PC Berkeley study published in 2007 of the attitude and treatment of recent African immigrants by American blacks serves to illustrate this (FR thread). Excerpt:

"Growing up in Africa . . ., the culture of White racism and prejudice was not part of the African upbringing . . . . [w]e were aware of the history of slavery but, in all cases, we were wil ling to forget and forgive. It never occurred to us that we would be the targets of hate simply because of the color of our skin. Interestingly, ou r Black and brown skins did not open the doors wide for us in the African American community either. We were, and remain to many African Americans, outsiders or beneficiaries of their struggle against a racist society. If we are too successful and live in a nice White neighborhood, then we are accused of betraying our race, being "Black Bourgeois" and wanting to be White. To White neighbors, we are safe because we are Blacks from Africa . . ., not from the South or Brooklyn and, to their stereotypical way of thinking, we do not do drugs or alcohol or have big late night parties."

Just as alcohol abuse can be expected among certain cultures (in this case being much higher among non-black,non-Hispanics) then so behavioral issues can be, and which not must be unreasonably discounted in order to blame disciplinary actions all on racism. Rather, the higher rates of violence in American black culture is related to the decline of the traditional black family which liberal policies fostered.

[1] Data from U.S. Census reports reveal that between 1880-1960, married households consisting of two-parent homes were the most widespread form of African-American family structures. Although the most popular, married households decreased over this time period. Single-parent homes, on the other hand, remained relatively stable until 1960; when they rose dramatically. A study of 1880 family structures in Philadelphia, showed that three-quarters of Black families were nuclear families, composed of two parents and children. In New York City in 1925, 85% of kin-related Black households had two parents. In 1991, 68% of Black children were born outside of marriage. In 2011, 72% of Black babies were born to unmarried mothers. In 2015, 77% of Black babies were born to unmarried mothers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_family_structure

[2] From 1980 thru 2008 93% of black victims were killed by blacks. (https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf)

[3] By almost every measure African Americans socioeconomic conditions were better in 1970 than in 1940....Despite these economic and social advances black crime began to escalate markedly in the late 1960s and continued to play a major role in the multi-decade crime boom that followed. (https://www.hoplofobia.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2018-African-American-Crime-Rates.pdf)

[4] homicide-victimization rates for black men were 3.9 times the national average and that 52 percent of all known homicide victims were black (2017 data)In 2018, where the homicide victim was black, the suspected killer also was 88 percent of the time. From 1976 to 2005, 94 percent of black victims were killed by other African Americans...From 2000 to 2015, the mean African-American homicide-victimization rate, adjusted for age, was 20.1 per 100,000. That’s more than three times the Hispanic rate of 6.4 (despite disadvantages comparable to those of blacks) and over seven times the average white rate, 2.7. Moreover, as already noted, from 1976 to 2005, 94 percent of the killers of black murder victims were other African Americans. (https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/12/22/the-need-to-discuss-black-on-black-crime/)

[Blood of Tyrants]

I think you mean the soft bigotry of low expectations.

[lightman]

Amazing what can happen when you reward irresponsible behavior.

No /s tag because I am deadly serious.

[momincombatboots]

It certainly got us in masks, lockdowns, unprecedented mail in ballots. There are many here who would hand trump every last round and call it 4d chess.

[SunkenCiv]