Posted on 07/12/2015 8:59:07 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
Nothing says “I’m stupid” like protesting violence while wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt.
“3. Long-Acting Reproductive Contraceptives should be given free to poor black women”
Well, let’s make it good for at least 50 years and mandatory. Problem solved./s
Black Americans need to stop waiting for Whitey to save them and just work to save themselves. Look at how many minority groups have come to America and in a couple of generations blended right in and achieved the American dream. I grew up in South Florida and saw first-hand what the Cubans did. Until blacks stop making excuses for their failures, nothing will change. I guess it is easier to blame and complain than to work to achieve something.
I tried to read this yesterday and just found it so rambling I gave up. But I’m glad I looked at this thread. I still didn’t read the whole piece, but I did read his suggestions at the end.
2 and 4 are excellent and should be realized and adopted by everyone, not just black people.
The failure to educate poor and working class children is a great failure on the part of unionized public schools. It’s a three generation (at least) disgrace. That whole system needs to be torn out root & branch. OK, you can keep the buildings but everything, and every one, else needs to go.
It won’t happen
It’s gotten FAR WORSE just the last 7 years. Look at the militancy coming out of the young people. Race riots redux. The incompetence and racism of elected officials, and the kool-aid drinkers in white academia and politics.
Nothing’s going to change for the better. It will continue to worsen until TSHTF, either a wake up call from a 9/11 or a pandemic. Then they’ll coming cryin to Whitey to fix things.
It’s a given.
Drugs, education, consequence-free sex, and education. Interesting list. I’d revise it slightly, personally.
Damn you beat me to it lol, but you knocked it out of the park when talking about the collective mentality that is far worse in these “hoods” then in the ignorant parts of the Appalachia, it has really become like the Borg in some these Inner City “hoods”.
I too have reservations anything will change in their community....and in fact may get worse as we have seen already.
However I do think that repeating to them that the ball is in their court needs to be repeated. I for one am not open to excuses anymore.
I cut hims more slack than many black/liberal commentators, as he has been very reasonable in the past. He seems to have drifted left, though, which is disturbing.
John McWhorter's NOT clueless... he's right about it being a waste of time waiting for white people to 'get racism' as defined by black extremist. It's not gonna happen.
Equal before the law is as good as it's gonna get...
Refugees from Vietnam didn't expect Americans to 'understand' their pain... they settled in, built business, and earned their way into American society. Same with Cuban refugees,Koreans, Mexicans who came here legally, and all the rest of us.... Same path...
Democrats gin up black anger and feelings of entitlement because it works for them - it keeps blacks on the Democrat Plantation. It also separates blacks from being acceptable. Democrats are attempting to do the same with Hispanics - but Hispanics aren't falling for it. This morning a Hispanic women on CNN talked about how horrible 'Sanctuary Cities' were - and how they should be shut down. She didn't buy into being pitted against Americans who want secure borders. She wasn't willing to be played...
Democrats know the stuff they're pushing blacks to demand isn't acceptable to the rest of us. That's part of the strategy. Democrats don't want blacks assimilated. They don't want Hispanics assimilated either... but Hispanics aren't falling for it...
And factory jobs within a bus ride? If industrial jobs come back democrats have lined up millions of illegals to take those jobs. Blacks are only going to get government jobs (those mostly to black women) because those jobs HELP democrats. It's another way democrats pit blacks against the rest of the racial groups in the United States.
Again, John McWhorter's NOT clueless... he's even right on some of the 'education' issues. Thanks for the post Second...
John McWhorter's NOT clueless... he's right about it being a waste of time waiting for white people to 'get racism' as defined by black extremists. It's not gonna happen.
Equal before the law is as good as it's gonna get...
Refugees from Vietnam didn't expect Americans to 'understand' their pain... they settled in, built business, and earned their way into American society. Same with Cuban refugees,Koreans, Mexicans who came here legally, and all the rest of us.... Same path...
Democrats gin up black anger and feelings of entitlement because it works for them - it keeps blacks on the Democrat Plantation. It also separates blacks from being acceptable. Democrats are attempting to do the same with Hispanics - but Hispanics aren't falling for it. This morning a Hispanic women on CNN talked about how horrible 'Sanctuary Cities' were - and how they should be shut down. She didn't buy into being pitted against Americans who want secure borders. She wasn't willing to be played...
Democrats know the stuff they're pushing blacks to demand isn't acceptable to the rest of the racial groups living in the United States. That's part of the strategy. Democrats don't want blacks assimilated. They don't want Hispanics assimilated either... but Hispanics are catching on...
And factory jobs within a bus ride? If industrial jobs come back democrats have lined up millions of illegals to take those jobs. Blacks are only going to get government jobs (those mostly to black women) because blacks in government jobs HELPS democrats. It's another way democrats pit blacks against the rest of the racial groups in the United States.
Again, John McWhorter's NOT clueless... he's even right on some of the 'education' issues. Thanks for the post Second...
So attacking whites randomly in packs and gangs is just an attempt to wake us up to racism ? Who’s racism ?
He’s right that there’s a second shoe left to drop. The first shoe was whites shedding their racism, which has already happened. The second is for blacks to rise to the occasion and get their act together. “Structural racism” does not exist. What does exist is a recognition by whites and other races that blacks haven’t gotten their act together yet. The instant they do get it together is the instant they will be perceived the way they want to be perceived. It also will be the end of the Democrat party as we know it.
Funny how that “structural” racism he alludes to in his article hasn’t kept the other two major non-White ethnic groups, Asians and Hispanics, from succeeding in this country.
My experience also. Living in the inner city was like having the Jerry Springer show in my front yard. Every. Single. Day.
Moved to a tiny town 10 years ago. Haven’t seen a fight, a stabbing, a shooting, or heard any rap music since. Not even once.
On Fridays sometimes I go to the fish fry at a local black church. We sit down and eat together and it’s all good. The operative word here is “church.”
There is an assumption there that whites are under an obligation to care.
I don’t care. The only thing I care about is that my family is safe from violence, which disproportionally comes from the black underclass. If making blacks happy and productive citizens accomplishes that, at reasonable cost, then fine. Otherwise, if staying far away from the underclass accomplishes that, then that is fine too.
If neither of the above can be accomplished, then I will be willing to support other options — without regard to what the black community thinks of those options.
There’s tis from “Knuckledraggin’ my life away” blog. I’ve cleaned it up a bit:
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Posted on 07/10/2015 by Wirecutter
So yeah, that Confederate flag thing – I was walking past a group of black guys, all of who I’m on friendly terms with, at work today and they were talking/hollering about the Confederate flag deal. I was hearing s**t like ‘slavery’ and ‘oppression’ and ‘Jim Crow’ and ‘segregation’ but they were joking and clowning while they were doing it. I believe the proper term would be ‘shuckin’ and jivin”. Then Sam seen me and grinned and said “Hey Ken, what you think about this?”
I said ” Y’all want to make it about slavery, you go right on ahead. Nothing I can say will change your mind. But let me ask you this: Do you enjoy your standard of living today? A job, quality food and housing? And except for you divorced f****rs, a decent ride?”
They all started nodding and laughing because they were waiting for something to happen, they just didn’t know what, but they know my sense of humor. But they all pretty much agreed with me.
“Good. I’m truly happy for you.” Much eye rolling on their part. “Because if it wasn’t for slavery, 90% of you mother*****s would still be living in mud huts smearing cows**t in your hair, herding bony-ass cattle and getting mauled by lions.” Then I smiled real big at them and went on my way.
"... the slave dreams not of being free, but of being master."
They've just about achieved that in what is now Black Run America. Jesse Jackson claimed only whites are racist because they "have all the power and control". Well who has the power now? BLACKS ARE RACIST by his own (stupid) definition.
(Many Blacks are racist by the true definition, Jesse.)
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