Posted on 02/28/2015 12:28:12 PM PST by Second Amendment First
PARIS — AT dinner last summer with my brother-in-law, a grandson of Jews who fled Algeria for France, the conversation turned to the rash of anti-Semitic incidents plaguing the country. At such times, the question inevitably arises in the minds of many Jews: “Where could we go?” He mentioned Tel Aviv, London and New York, but the location mattered less than the reassurance that departure remained an option. He’s not alone in this thinking: 7,000 French Jews emigrated in 2014.
Over the past year, as I watched with outrage at the dizzying spate of unpunished extrajudicial police killings of black men and women across America, I’ve wondered why more black Americans don’t think similarly. Why shouldn’t more of us weigh expatriation, even if only temporary, as a viable means of securing those lofty yet elusive ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
Blacks leaving America in search of equality is not new. The practice dates from at least antebellum Louisiana, when free mulattoes in New Orleans sent their children to France to live in accordance with their means and not their color. It continued after World War II, when a number of black G.I.s, artists and jazzmen shared Richard Wright’s sentiment that there is “more freedom in one square block of Paris than there is in the entire United States of America.”
Today, that might sound hyperbolic — enormous gains have been made in America at every social level, and many blacks live as well as one can reasonably hope to anywhere. Yet we are consistently reminded of how tenuous this progress can be; how possible it still is to be humiliated on the front porch or cut down in Walmart by an officer who will never be held to account.
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Considering their voting proclivities, most American Blacks probably think the Castro brothers are reactionaries.
Some years ago, a black co-worker once happily related to me what a great time he had growing up in Mississippi in the late 1940s. Another black co-worker said he had never been outside the United States, and he did not ever intend to go outside the United States. I can’t post what he said about situations outside the United States.
You would some of these thugs would volunteer to go bashing white farmers in Zimbabwe and South Africa
Apparently the woman who plays “Michonne” on the Walking Dead on AMC had parents who moved to Africa when she was a kid. Zimbabwe, I think. I find it telling that she came back here.
Besides, blacks living 'in the community' know young black men are being killed in large numbers by other black men not by cops.
Williams' solution is depressing - it's calling for black people to give up and leave - and for white people to acknowledge they failed to assimilate a group brought here against their will. There's got to be another way...
And then what? Pull your own weight? Ha! Not likely bub.
Black Africa’s a cesspool...
Agreed.
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