I’m dismayed.
I am dismayed that 50 years and more past the passage of a Civil Rights Act vociferously OPPOSED BY DEMOCRATS, that THIS sad sack is what the black community permits an even more pernicious breed of Democrats to fob off on them as “a leader” in a city of the size and stature of Washington D.C.
I’m dismayed that, decades past the gates of public education being thrown open to the black community — decades past the roads to the schools being paved to their very doorsteps with incentives — DECADES later I can identify the subject as a black man just by reading his grammar.
I’m dismayed that wide-open access to the full range of educational institutions in this country has not resulted in greater numbers of erudite representatives from the black community.
I’m dismayed that the curiosity, intellect, and capacity of millions of bright-eyed black boys and girls is being crushed under the oppressive sociopathy of a community of people that habitually — nay, ritually — exalt excuse-making, appeals to tough circumstances, and endemic “woe is me-ism,” as legitimate reasons why scores of their brilliant minds grow to adulthood with no higher functional capacity than this dubious example, here.
As a white man, I WANT the black community learning, speaking, growing, developing, advancing right along with me; they are part and parcel of what this country IS, and they need to STEP UP under their own power — power that has been repeatedly, intentionally, and prominently placed into their very hands — and DO WITH IT what everyone around them has done with it since the shackles of British rule were thrown off 240 years ago. I have met SCORES of FAR better examples of accomplishment and human achievement in the black community than this sorry specimen; I KNOW they can attain great heights WHENEVER THEY WANT TO CONNECT EFFORT WITH DESIRE.
I am utterly dismayed — NOT that they HAVE NOT, NOR that the CANNOT — I am dismayed that they so VERY REGULARLY *DO* NOT; that they embrace EXTRINSIC impediments as INTRINSIC to themselves, and then blame them for their lack of success.
Why should Condolezza Rice be such a standout in the black community? Why are there not tens of thousands of black women with credentials on par with hers?
Why should Justice Clarence Thomas be such a standout in the black community? Why are there not tens of thousands of black men with credentials on par with his?
Why is Dr. Ban Carson such a high-profile figure? Why are there not thousands of equally-accomplished black surgeons around this country?
Yes, those questions are rhetorical, because the answer is clear in the biographies of these individuals: their families DID NOT BUY INTO THE LIES that permeate the black community about lack of opportunity, about being “kept down,” about not having access being insurmountable barriers to individual success. They DIDN’T BELIEVE ANY of it. And in NOT believing, they lived different, and personally proved through their own resultant success that what they had disbelieved was, in fact, never true to begin with.
IS THERE a lack of opportunity? NOT Total; no.
IS THE black community being “kept down”? In some degree; yes. But not by those they’re being told are doing it.
IS THERE really no access? Not NO access; only reduced access.
Are these barriers to black achievement? Yes, but nowhere near “insurmountable.”
Consequently, I am dismayed that the black community so seemingly intentionally remains such a negative manifestation of the proverb “As man thins in his heart; so is he,” and such a negative manifestation of the maxim, “Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.”
To see how the brass ring has been placed into their very hands, and to watch them — as if intentionally — allow it to slide through their fingers and fall to the ground, and then to hear them cry out that they cannot reach it, and to see them point the fingers of blame at the white community...
I am utterly dismayed.
/rant off
Well said.