Posted on 08/09/2020 3:53:31 AM PDT by karpov
Taxpayer-funded institutions are now adding their voices to the movement against “systemic racism”—the invisible legacy of slavery and discrimination that supposedly determines the destiny of black Americans. The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture last month posted a graphic on its website outlining the “Aspects and Assumptions of Whiteness & White Culture in the United States.” The document maintained that “white people and their traditions, attitudes and ways of life have been normalized over time” and “we have all internalized some aspects of white culture—including people of color.”
From the sounds of it, these “assumptions” are the types of things that would be debilitating and deleterious to minorities should they adopt and practice them in their lives. Assumptions such as “hard work is the key to success,” “the nuclear family . . . is the ideal social unit” and “plan for [the] future” are offered as examples of “white dominant culture.” In fact, the qualities attributed to “whiteness” are the same principles and values that have empowered blacks in America to succeed despite lingering discrimination and bigotry. The museum removed the graphic after a public outcry, saying “it’s not working in the way we intended.”
The whiteness graphic is merely one of hundreds of capitulations to the demeaning and disabling message of racial grievance merchants, who claim that any and all failures of black Americans are attributable to so-called systemic racism. Institutions that had once been trusted to provide steppingstones to achievement have jettisoned the principles of personal responsibility and self-determination.
The stories of men and women for whom oppression triggered resilience and success have been redacted from politically correct, grievance-based histories such as “The 1619 Project.”
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They are right. Knocking a girl up at 16 and then disappearing on her is best for the mother and father and child. Not wanting to work at all is fantastic. And whatever you do make sure you don’t have a single penny saved for a rainy day.
****** morons
And they have taken on white attitudes and characteristics. Yeah that’s a bad thing. /s
when my father and grandparents came over here they got a choice to make. They could hold on to their old culture or they could adapt to the new world.
They adapted and three generations later everyone is doing quite well.
True the kids think a tarantella is a kind of spider and that makes me a little sad.
but adapting others’ ways when they are much better ways is a smart thing to do.
and at the time and even now America’s ways are much better than the vast majority of other countries.
Blacks and Hispanics should be thrilled to have the chance to assimilate to our attitudes and characteristics.
They should take advantage of it and they just might end up being successful in life
Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays.
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
- Booker T. Washington, historical black educator and Presidential advisor
The inability or the refusal of black America to see that the real enemy for them is the democratic party who are once again throwing out excuse after excuse with their paid black plantation peddlers to re direct their frustrations and anger now at white people. If all of black America would turn around on them they would be finished in a flash and they know it
This class is the democrat party.
Well the terantella is a kind of dance, but tarantula are in the Therephosidae family. Despite the hairs controversy it seems most include them in the spider family.
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