Ouch. Tragic, and true.
Posted on 12/05/2005 8:51:56 PM PST by Nasty McPhilthy
Due in part to the cyclical nature of news and in part to the news media’s objectives, we’ve been exposed to a great deal lately concerning pre-war intelligence, the border with Mexico, Supreme Court nominees, outed intelligence operatives and secret CIA dungeons. Something that’s still rather fresh in my mind is Hurricane Katrina, and I’ll tell you why: It was a quintessential stratagem, a two-pronged (the media and politicos on the Left) attack reflecting the Left’s agenda with respect to Black Americans (institutional undereducation, propagandization, and the culture of victimhood being among these) and other designs to alienate Blacks from mainstream America and traditional values. The fact that a natural disaster was used to further estrange Blacks from their fellow countrymen and their government was mind-boggling. Had not the Left’s propaganda been so effective over the last few decades, those who suggested that the Bush administration “left Blacks to drown” or even generated the storm itself with clandestine technology would have been laughed off of podiums, cameras, and microphones across America.
Occasionally it escapes the reader’s notice that I am a person of color, specifically Black. With regard to most issues it usually doesn’t matter, but when I speak with authority on race politics and someone makes the assumption that I’m White, of course - they freak.
I grew up in the metropolitan New York area during ‘Sixties, and (as I’ve indicated elsewhere) lived down the street from Betty Shabazz (Malcolm X's widow) and her children, so of course we knew them well. Not to name drop, the point is that I’ve been conscious of race politics for a long time.
In the ‘Sixties, I recall having Black neighbors who, despite the inequities in our society at that time, owned businesses, rental property and portfolios and were retiring with money in the bank. Within a very short span of years, however, their sons and grandsons were dropping out of school, shooting dope and impregnating underage girls. I was witnessing a microcosm of what was happening throughout Black society in America. It made me wonder: Why, after all of the struggles, were Black Americans choosing this juncture to self-destruct en masse, when the greatest strides for equality were just being made?
I could say I’ve no idea how that happened, but here’s exactly how it happened:
Throughout the first half of the 20th century, one political party had a reputation as being possessed of an imperious mien, and this was the Democrat Party. It was also widely known as the party of segregation. When civil rights concerns came to the fore during the latter half of the century, they began to sell themselves as champions of civil rights, despite the fact that Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in higher percentages than Democrats (House: 80% Republicans, 63% Democrats; Senate: 82% Republicans, 69% Democrats).
Riding on the coattails of the affinity Blacks had for Jack and Bobby Kennedy (who were perceived as champions of civil rights), Democrats courted Blacks via corruption of their clergy. Blacks were actually among the most socially conservative groups in America, and their leaders, rather than political icons, had been their clergymen. Thus, the ranks of Black leadership emerged from within this body, which was won over either through altruistic con jobs or the promise of personal aggrandizement. Those who gained fame became embroiled in the political machinery: blinded by greed and self-importance, they were groomed as foremen for the White international socialist overseers in the Democrat Party.
Fast-forward to 2005: Although a minority of the minority have begun to wake up to the fact that they’ve been whored out politically for 40 years (to the teeth-gnashing ire of the overseers), the Left has gotten richer, its machine more efficient, and - much the worse – now has representation among professional Black activists and amoral young Black entrepreneurs who have no problem whatsoever in becoming fabulously wealthy selling Black kids spirit poison and libertine secular-socialism.
In his article “It Takes More Than A Village”, Christopher Schrimpf, a research associate with the black leadership network Project 21, shreds the proposal cited in Hillary Clinton’s book “It Takes a Village”, which perverted that African proverb to assert that community is the most important factor for proper child development. Diminishing the importance of the family is right out of Lenin’s playbook, of course, as are the vast majority of machinations used by the Left over the years with regard to Blacks in America.
It’s been said that if there’s anything the Left hates more than a conservative it’s a conservative of color, and this has been borne out time and again in their racist rhetoric against high-profile (and some not so high-profile) conservatives of color.
It is an imperative that conservatives of color be poised to strike back at left-leaning media outlets and politicians – White or otherwise – hard and fast when they capitalize on the double standard of racist rhetoric being accepted on their part, and when they proffer their divisive, bizarre and unbalanced arguments in the arena of race politics. We must be vigilant, remembering that their propaganda machine is indeed efficient, practiced, and well-entrenched.
As I said in my recent column “Whose Will be Done?”: “We must make war upon the far Left power brokers and their acolytes; the intimidators, the character assassins, the invective – all must be ignored, and failure is not an option.”
And the more people of color we have in our ranks, the better.
Erik Rush
I believe there is hope for us yet.
In the Sixties my grandfather enjoyed Charlie Pride until
he saw him on TV. I found out in his eyes it was worse
than his just being black, because Charlie Pride was able
to pass and had fooled him.
Oh, by the way my grandfather was a "New Deal" Democrat
that thought FDR was Christ. Thank Heaven my grandmother
was Republican and my parents valued my ability to reason
things for myself.
Thanks for the post. Definitely hits the nail on the head.
We'll survive our race differences, but I'm not so sure about the political situation. I detect more real anger, even hatred, in the country than at anytime in my 68 years. I'm not speaking of anger and hatred among blacks and whites, but between the left and the right. It is rather frightening to me, as my race nears the finish line, to realize how much potential we have squandered during my lifetime.
Ouch. Tragic, and true.
WRONG!
FDR!
Kennedy only built on it...and made it an institution rather than a war time / personality cult phenomena.
Well, it sounds like some wheels are in motion at long last. This feels like more than just words, it sounds like it's got some teeth. Or better yet, some bite.
Keep it coming.
I've never been a proponent of abandoning the youth of America that would remain in public schools if I pull mine out. Sure doesn't mean I want to leave mine in, or fight for 39 collective years, but I will not abandon the other children.
Thank you for the ping.
You have alternatives. Pull out of public schools and take a few of your neighbors with you.
Another alternative is to copy the left in Chicago which has an "alternative school network". These are taxpayer funded private schools run by leftist political organizations. They are so private that a taxpayer funded Maoist Puerto Rican Independence Political Party school is separate from the Stalinist Puerto Rican Independence Political Party School, which is sepatate from the Totskyite Puerto Rican Independence School.
Another alternative used by the left is to start a "school within a school". These are special classes, special curriculum, special teachers that don't meet normal standards, all within the public school building.
Maybe our problem is we lack creativity.
ping
BTTT!
Thank you, no. I will not abandon the kids. I will work at reform for ALL of them, not just mine. I've got one eye on the left- my other eye, my hands and my heart on the kids.
Blackwell for Governor in '06!
That's because the media is liberal.
Thanks for the ping. Great article.
Great article. Hammer head? Meet nail.
The author nails some important points, such as the fact that even in a time of inequality, there were tons of black Americans who were living the American dream, but thanks to a change in values, the children of many of those did not live that same dream, as they should have.
Luckily, folks like the author should steer the community straight again. ;)
I think this is an appropriate time to say:
Bill Cosby in '08!
There is a old stereotypical joke running in the black community
If you want to hide something from a black man, put it in a book
I have been enjoying the works of Dr Sowell for years. Not so sound like a book shill but his works are like a crash PhD course in economics and political thought. But since Dr Sowell does not make rap videos or show half nekkid wimen he will be duly ignored by the MSM.
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