The Farrakhan-Wright vision is fundamentally evil: it tells people from disadvantaged circumstances that they are not true Americans, merely “victims of Americanism.” It tells those without money or power that they will always be without money or power, always dependent upon government largesse for their daily bread. It teaches people to hate this country and the majority of its citizens. The Farrakhan-Wright social vision is a cancer that must be removed—by any means necessary.
Leftism is simply cynicism about endeavor and accomplishment. Since journalists don't do anything, the easy way for them to promote their own significance is to criticize those who do attempt to accomplish things, which means working to a bottom line. For journalists there is no true bottom line, because when things don't go the way they predicted, journalists merely change the subject. In fact the whole system of journalism, and of leftism, is to divert attention away from the big picture, which is the accomplishments of personal responsibility and initiative, and to focus on the individual failures to which we are all subject as if they were all of the story.John Maynard Keynes famously asserted, "In the long run we are all dead." In the long run, certainly, each of us will be dead - but that is not quite the same as to say the we - the human race - are all dead. And indeed, life expectancy of individuals has been increasing, to such an extent that speculation has been raised about "escape velocity" - the possibility that our children's life expectancy might increase by ten years with each passing decade, so that death becomes less certain than taxes. In such a context we have even less excuse than Keynes' contemporaries to avert our eyes from the long-run perspective - the perspective in which personal responsibility and individual initiative are dominant.
The evil of the Farrakhan-Wright vision is fundamentally that it is a dishonest attack on the individual initiative and personal responsibility which has produced a geometrically increasing standard of living for Americans. An attack, that is, on what has made the modern American secretary so well situated that she would be ill advised to trade her circumstances for those of the fabulously wealthy Queen Victoria (1819-1901) of Great Britain.
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“The Farrakhan-Wright vision is fundamentally evil: it tells people from disadvantaged circumstances that they are not true Americans, merely “victims of Americanism.” It tells those without money or power that they will always be without money or power, always dependent upon government largesse for their daily bread. It teaches people to hate this country and the majority of its citizens. The Farrakhan-Wright social vision is a cancer that must be removed—by any means necessary”
Good post.
For no less than four decades - two full generations - blacks have been preached a rhetoric of “division” and “apartness” by their leadership.
This has transmogrified American blacks into “dark-skinned Palestinians” on United States soil. The lines of divisiveness have been drawn in such a manner that rational dialogue has become almost impossible between blacks and whites. No matter what whites may say, if it is critical of black behavior, it is “racist”. On the other hand, because blacks are “powerless” (so say their leadership, and our light-skinned apolgetic elites), they can say ANYthing they wish about whites, because those who are powerless cannot be racist.
It is blacks - NOT whites - who have succeeded in creating a “new apartied” in America. This is no longer merely an matter of economic division or Jim Crow water fountains, but a cultural apartied that is evident in the ever-declining standards of black behavior (witness their rate of crimes and imprisonment) and a system of values (idealized in such things as rap music) that is repugnant when viewed by any standard of white culture.
The upbeat theme - even amongst conservatives - is that these widening divisions could be healed if only there were frank dialogue between the races.
That will come just after we begin seeing frank, open and reconciliatory “dialogue” between the Palestinians and the Jews. Don’t hold your breath.
- John
“Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky” - Reverend Wright
Far away from the rhetoric and generalities are the individuals that make the rhetoric and generalities possible. When you name names (give individual examples) you are getting to the root cause of what is troubling your mind.
Preach it brother!
Vast Wright-Wing Conspiracy? /sarcasm
Why is it that the 1 truthful statement is not being amplified by the DBM or NEW MEDIA?
Run Hillaryous Run!
Interesting article. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for the ping, c_I_c.