Posted on 08/16/2014 11:59:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
If liberals truly cared about the plight of today’s black community, they wouldn’t be “standing in solidarity” with a bunch of outraged looters in Ferguson, Missouri… They would be denouncing the party of the KKK, Jim Crow, and segregation. They would be burning the homes of gang members. They would be fighting for the single black mother who is facing up to three years in prison for deciding to defend her life with a firearm.
In short… They would be rampaging against the morally bankrupt hustlers of victimhood and dependency. Or, to put it another way, they would be voting Republican.
I mean, let’s face it: The riots, rallies, and violence in Ferguson are not about empowerment, justice or even indignation. Heck, where are the rallies for the more than 400 people killed in Chicago last year? Where is the outrage over governments systematically making it impossible for poverty-stricken inner cities to defend themselves?
Yet, there is a left-wing groundswell of support for the lawlessness that has followed a questionable police shooting just outside of St Louis. The truth is, this story isn’t really about racism, police brutality, or even tragedy… This story is about the failure of Liberalism. It is an indictment of the liberal culture of victimhood, and oppression. The riots, the violence, and the anti-police actions of the Black Panthers, "Anonymous", and average thugs in Ferguson is the result of being told for years that victimhood is a permanent state of being; rather than a temporary state of mind.
It is a tactic that the left has imposed on minority groups for half a century. To the American left, African Americans are in a perpetual position of subjugation. After all, heroes are only found when they are perceived to be needed, right? … Without a class of victims to champion, Sharpton/ Holder & Company would be exposed as the quixotic hustlers they truly are. These hollow heroes of the modern “Civil Rights” movement are, essentially, portraying themselves as the emancipators from a truly fictitious reality.
After more than a century of civil liberty battles and triumphs, African Americans have flocked to the Party that opposed every measurable Civil Rights initiative since the Emancipation Proclamation. It should stun historians that the party of the Ku Klux Klan and segregation now has an undeniable stranglehold on black America.
Today’s Party of Barack Obama and Eric Holder, willfully ignore FDR’s history of opposing anti-lynching laws. They ignore John F Kennedy’s vote, as a Senator, against the 1950’s era Civil Rights laws. They even ignore the egregious violence and lawlessness that plague some of America’s most Democrat cities. (Such as Detroit, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.)
In a raging display that resembles the clinical definition of “denial”, the American left claims that Republicans have abandoned their civil-rights-minded past. They assert that the right wing of America is nothing more than racist, backward thinking rednecks who “cling to their guns, religion, and an antipathy toward people not like them.” But nothing could be further from the truth.
“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they are not judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
And yet we live instead in a nation where the liberally-inclined media uses the term “white-police-officer” in their racially sensationalized news coverage of Ferguson. We also live in a nation where dozens of black children are shot every week in the war zone of Chicago without so much as a whisper on the nightly national news, or from the first black (and half white) President in American history.
Most of America has a dream as well. It is the same Dream that King articulated so emotionally 50 years ago on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. And the progressive brand of Obama’s Democrat Party has spent the last fifty years suffocating this dream under empty promises and government programs. Just like the plantation owners of the pre-war south, the Modern Democrat Party promises black America a roof, food, and protection from the risks of freedom. . . And the brave few who dare to champion the forgotten cause of individualism are ridiculed among the Left; called traitors to their race; and are said to not know their proper place – as voters in the Democrat plantation.
This suffocation of empowerment has been perpetuated by leftist “heroes” who have sold the idea of permanent victimhood to minorities in America. The progressive message has infected the African American community with a sense of hopelessness and despair, not hope and empowerment. And what we’re seeing in Ferguson is the exact thing that can be expected from people who have no faith in the dream of American equality.
The Left’s message that African Americans are incapable, hopeless, and persecuted – without a heavy-handed government of benevolent masters – is more than tragic… As we see in Ferguson, it’s also dangerous.
Since symbolism is so very important to these people, if they really cared about justice and rights, they wouldn’t touch the rat party with a ten-foot pole. But since it’s not really about justice, rights, or any of those other cover stories but about redistribution, reparations and revenge, they will naturally flock to the party of panderers.
It is all about keeping the voters “on the plantation”.
I agree with everything the author said, BUT!?
Yes “the left” SOLD victimhood to the blacks but I don’t see the part “where they bought it!”
I mean, if I buy into something I can’t then logically blame someone else (the left) when the deal goes south!
No, the blacks have to, for the first time ever, man up and take responsibility for their actions and decisions, most particularly voting democratic.
It sure is
They “bought” it because the plantation owners kept the STUPID from their crappy education tolerated for them. ? Don’t know how to change that, because education seems to be venerated by only a few Blacks, but it was Liberalism that tolerated the bad behavior that led to the dumbing down of the curriculum, not wanting to hurt feelings, be “harsh” teachers or whatever.
Kept them stupid, not the. Didn’t proofread :-)
“They would be rampaging against the morally bankrupt hustlers of victimhood and dependency.”
victimhood hustlers = victimhoodlums
It's funny that this is what I base all of my personal relationship decisions on, but it's the furthest thing from most minorities minds. I mean, it was meant for blacks too and they are the least likely to live by such a simple ethic.
It's hilarious that they're so uninformed that they're taking their revenge out on the wrong party.
I have to disagree with you on the second part if you mean that victims are hoodlums. I hope I misread you
Nope, not the victims, but the victimhood hustlers.
Libdems hiss at MLK’s emphsis on character.
Bingo...Michael Schaus 'gets it'...
Ever wonder what the black community would be like today if they stayed Republican?
We know they’d be responsible and productive.
Makes a pretty good case for defunding the Left NGO networks and pulling their parasitic haustoria out of the public treasury.
Defund the Left!
LBJ was EVIL INCARNATE!!! He knew EXACTLY how this would turn out for blacks......horribly.
Exactly. People keep missing the part where blacks are complicit in their own “victimhood”, cynically so, because being a “victim” no matter what, means the other party/person/society/culture/you name it is always to blame, not them, no matter what they do. Don’t think that they don’t know this. If they don’t, they’re too stupid to take part in civilisation.
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