Posted on 05/25/2022 7:59:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
I am so pleased and proud that the first annual edition of the "State of Black America" (Encounter Books), published by my organization, CURE, Center for Urban Renewal and Education, in conjunction with the Claremont Institute has just been released.
CURE was founded to provide a platform for an alternative vision of what "Black America" is about and what the real challenges are of our citizens of color.
Heretofore, the left has dominated the discussion concerning Black Americans. The left has dominated the discussion to such an extent that too many Americans of all backgrounds believe that the view from the left captures all chapter and verse of who Black Americans are and what ideas and policies will best serve them.
Too few understand and appreciate that even the term "Black America" is no more an accurate depiction of the realities of individual Black Americans than the term "white America" captures the realities of individual white Americans.
The politicization of race, and the formal incorporation of racial and ethnic labels in American government and law, is itself a victory of the left.
Reducing any human being to a racial and ethnic label, even under the guise of helping, results in the treatment of a disease amounting to a continuation of the disease itself.
Now, with the publication of CURE's first annual edition of "The State of Black America," conservatives push back and move to recapture the high ground in the policy discussion regarding Black Americans, who they are and what they need.
This collection of essays and analyses, compiled and edited by Dr. William B. Allen, resident scholar at CURE, professor emeritus of political philosophy at Michigan State University and emeritus dean of James Madison College at Michigan State University, starts with ideas and moves on to data that strike at the heart of left-wing conventional wisdom about Black Americans and their role in and relation to our nation's history.
There are few of any political orientation who do not agree that problems of race continue to plague us.
Where left and right part company is defining what those problems are and how best to address them.
Most fundamentally, concerning our nation, the difference of opinion is whether our nation is a vessel in need of repair, or whether the vessel itself is fundamentally flawed and needs to be replaced.
And left and right part company on the question about the extent to which the vessel, the nation, is even relevant and whether today the issues lie with individuals taking responsibility for their own lives.
In CURE's "State of Black America," leading scholars from academia and policy institutes take on these hard questions regarding our nation's history and examine with rigor the struggles from a nation founded on the ideals of freedom that permitted slavery to the Civil War and the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution -- dealing with equal protection and forbidding of slavery -- to the welfare state and today's attacks on our culture and policing.
The annual surveys from organizations of the left, like the National Urban League's "State of Black America," seek more government in every area of the lives of Black Americans as the answer to what will improve their lives.
As conservatives, we see the secret and success of America in its founding as a free nation under God and see the ongoing task as perfecting this ideal rather than departing from it.
Fix our national institutions to conform to our ideals of freedom, and appreciate that eternal truths -- the responsibility of every individual for their personal choices and the sanctity of life, family and property -- transcend race and ethnicity.
This is the important bottom line of CURE's first annual "State of Black America." Get the full story and details; it is recommended reading.
The simple fact that we now have “The State of Black America” book(s) explains to me most of what is wrong with the United States.
The ‘salad bowl’ has trumped the ‘melting pot’.
Wonder what a black state would look like?
Chicago times 100?
Would they have laws and or law enforcement.
Plan Parenthood would do a lot of business.
What would the job market look like?
How would they induce businesses to want to build?
Look to Africa for your answer.
Why isn't the book titled "People Of Color"?
And her use of "Black" instead of "black" shows that she is still dominated by the left.
1) I don’t give a crap what color you are.
2) IF you vote for liberals, you are the problem and are either stupid or ignorant or both.
3)IF you don’t vote at all, then you have no say, so shut up. 4)IF you care what color you are, then that is your problem, not mine.
5)IF you listen to evil people who care what color you are, then you are letting them make your color your problem, see #4 above.
Recommend everyone watch the Newsmax special called “Systematic Deception”. It exposes how the democrat party created the racial mess we now find ourselves in. This special is done by black men and women that figured this out and it is excellent.
Quite frankly, I don’t give a RAT’s rear end.
Thank you for that suggestion, I will check it out.
Yep....that’s where I’m at. They can talk all they want about black america and I really don’t care at all anymore. Blacks won’t address their own issues so why should anyone else.
“...concerning our nation, the difference of opinion is whether our nation is a vessel in need of repair, or whether the vessel itself is fundamentally flawed and needs to be replaced...”
She forgot one possibility:
Maybe it’s the captain and crew running it that are the problem thus the answer cannot be put into practice until they learn that. Our early leadership determined in time we were people, not race, not religion, not rich or poor, not even bad until we decided to be. Maybe the ship’s fine and the crew needs to be replaced with people trying to help the ship and not themselves.
wy69
“...concerning our nation, the difference of opinion is whether our nation is a vessel in need of repair, or whether the vessel itself is fundamentally flawed and needs to be replaced...”
She forgot one possibility:
Maybe it’s the captain and crew running it that are the problem thus the answer cannot be put into practice until they learn that. Our early leadership determined in time we were people, not race, not religion, not rich or poor, not even bad until we decided to be. Maybe the ship’s fine and the crew needs to be replaced with people trying to help the ship and not themselves.
wy69
She may or may not have capitalized; the editors are the ones who follow the newer style book.
A handy link would be helpful and seriously increase the number of those following your suggestion.
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