Black Americans are a hopeless, hapless, and oppressed race who need pity and handouts to succeed.”
I never used to believe that but when presented with the evidence….
And to think they’ll still vote for the party of slavery, Jim Crow and the KKK! Shame!
Conditioned community members reject “white values” (according to the Smithsonian) that would get them ahead like timeliness, independence, the Protestant work ethic, and delayed gratification because it is taught that it is too much for them to handle but also acting white, that those things aren’t for them and won’t work for them anyway because they are sabotaged by systemic discrimination.
The community rejects the lessons of what generally leads to success in the mainstream culture with many turning to scheming, looking for side hustles, exploiting one another, becoming dependent on government and rejecting two parent households. The biggest system of racism is within the community itself. It’s a self-harming feedback loop. I suspect a fair number of community leaders know this but they exploit it for political power and financial reasons. It’s that exploitation I mentioned above. Politicians know it. Some activists are true believers and their faith in the narrative is used to distract from a lack of accountability.
The mentality of racism is alive and well but it’s kept alive by woke agitators and self-appointed community leaders. Self-reflection is hard work. Rejection of the lies that you have heard all your life about how you can’t get ahead because of the system is not easy to overcome. It’s like deprogramming cult members.
Democrats love misery and love legalization because it softens minds. If the black community called them on their lack of results with decades of failure, the black community would turn the corner almost overnight. They don’t believe in themselves. They don’t feel empowered to change their lives. It’s a horrendous thing to witness. They are still trained to see themselves as less than human, often treat one another the same. They are kept on mental plantations with lies.
They are afraid to leave because it’s their whole identity as African Americans. Reparations would do nothing but transfer wealth they would vanish overnight and be skimmed by fraudsters. Like Covid cash. The answer is for them to join mainstream America, see themselves in the red, white and blue rather than the Woke finesse of victimization, grievance and separatism.
“Black Americans are a hopeless, hapless, and oppressed race who need pity and handouts to succeed.”
Not hopeless, but hoping for too much in the form of handouts and too little self-awareness and self-improvement.