Blackonomics: What Would We do Without White Folks?

Black Press USA ^ | November 12, 2002 | James Clingman

[antaresequity]

I have to say that this article sickened me.

I agree with you that the demarcation of society via skin color is rupugnent and un-American...but I found the authors comments actually encouraging...

If this fellow would pursue this philosophy to conclusion, he would find he has more in allignment with republicans than democrats...The truth is coming out about the rat party...even racists like this are figuring it out...democrats are about suppression and division...republicans don't care what your skin color is: for good or bad...

"Your black: get over it...above it...and pursue your own self interest and determination..."

[Billthedrill]

FReepin' idiots. Our means of dealing with such things as food supply, finance, housing, clothing, are - mirabile dictu! - not race-dependent. Attempting to mold these into a pattern dictated by the color of one's epidermis is doomed to futility - you don't borrow money from somebody who looks like you, you borrow it from somebody who has it. You don't purchase clothing or food from someone who resembles what you see in the mirror every morning, you purchase it from someone who stocks it or makes it. This has not changed since antiquity and it won't change just because some people with odd hangups attempt to view the world through race-colored glasses.

The very attempt to do so is a luxury impossible to anyone who isn't living in a land of incredible plenty. And the surest way to end that plenty is to attempt to force society to behave in this unnatural and dogmatic fashion. If there is so much clothing and food and shelter and entertainment around that you are able to choose it by such an irrelevant and ancillary factor as skin color then you are a very lucky person living in an opulent age.

[wardaddy]

No whites, and blacks would have to confront their own hand in their demise. That would be refreshing.

Actually no whites, and blacks would still be living stone age existence in subSaharan Africa....perhaps that would be the ideal of noble savagery to some.

[BobFromNJ]

I agree with your view-- He is bright but "one-sided" to a fault. Nice job.

[lelio]

The author appears to be making a case--or at least a plea--for black separatism.
I thought it was the opposite: that the author was complaining that the last 30 years of white liberal Great Society hasn't done anything for blacks but put them on welfare. I wish the author wrote about the current situation where fully qualified, if not more qualified, blacks are overlooked in political races, in particular Ford of Tennesse. I love watching liberals squirm when faced with their hypocricacy.

[RLK]

I notice the author is a member of a useless black studies department who has produced no food, started no industries, worked in no productive capacity in his lifetime. He is essentially a parasite living off white overtolerance and stupidity.

[sauropod]

Now, you have known for a long time that I am not PC.....

Even if I am a tolerant, sensitive, in touch with my feminine side, 90s kind of guy, feeble in body, poor in spirit, with a limited, and public, education.....

BTW, BIG prayers for KLT today. Her son is undergoing a major operation as we speak.....

HRP

[sauropod]

Follow the Gourd! Follow the Gourd!

Frow him to the floo very roughly! 'Pod

[mhking]

"Your black: get over it...above it...and pursue your own self interest and determination..."

It's not even that. I'm not about to "get over" being black. But I'm damn sure not about to apologize for it either. Life goes on and I will survive and succeed. I don't have the time to wallow in my own self pity; unfortunately, this writer, and those who subscribe to the same view, are limited by their own expectations.

What's even more sad is that when I say what I just did, I'm the one that's vilified for having a different mindset.

[WaveThatFlag]

Did any of the posters even bother to read the article? The majority of the responses here seem to be fixated on policies embraced by the liberal left. The writer is clearly looking for a different way.

Mr. Clingman may be a bit dense, but he appears to have a grasp of the crucial theories of black conservative self-determination. Good luck to you Mr. Clingman. Black Americans would be much better off listening to you than to Al Sharpton.

"You know, sometimes I wish it were so. Maybe if White folks stopped doing what they are doing for us, we’d be more inclined to do more for ourselves. Maybe if they would back off a bit and we would step up a bit, better relationships would exist between the two groups, because there would be more reciprocity, more leverage available to Black people, and a greater likelihood of positive responses from White folks when we really do need their support. Maybe, if Black people get our economic act together by recycling our dollars, supporting our own businesses, and building income-producing infrastructure, maybe Whites would be knocking on our doors asking to play ball with us. "

[hellinahandcart]

Even if I am a tolerant, sensitive, in touch with my feminine side, 90s kind of guy, feeble in body, poor in spirit, with a limited, and public, education.....

You are a bad liar, 'Pod. LOL

BTW, BIG prayers for KLT today. Her son is undergoing a major operation as we speak.....

Yes, and there's even a prayer thread for her son. He should be just about halfway through surgery right now.

[mhking]

Even if I am a tolerant,

Huh?

sensitive,

Yeah, in that itch-scratching sort of way...

in touch with my feminine side,

How 'bout those legs!?

90s kind of guy,

Only about 10 years too late

feeble in body,

You got that one right...

poor in spirit,

I don't think anyone here would accuse you of being unspirited!

with a limited, and public, education.....

Well, that kind of describes most of us, doesn't it?!? [g]

BTW - God bless you and yours, KLT, may your son continue to do well with the Lord's guiding hand alongside yours.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Limited education, sure. I don't know about all that other stuff.

[antidisestablishment]

This is one of the most ignorant statements I have seen you post. (And that's saying a lot.)

He is calling for self sufficiency. It is an uncommon trait, so you might have a hard time recognizing it.

[Tacis]

Of course, if Clingman's ancestors hadn't been rescued by the white southerners who bought them from the black and arab slave traders, Clingman would still be in Africa, assuming that all his ancestors would have survived. The blacks in Africa have it so good today that, but for the white man, all US blacks would qualify for that standard of living.

Our concern should be for the claims of reparations from that blacks whose ancestors were not rescued and brought to the new world. Clingman is just another race baiting black jerk who, if he hadn't been black, probably would never have been given a terminal degree and ceratinly would never have been given a job in a real teaching disciplne.

[sauropod]

Guess the gig's up, huh?

[hellinahandcart]

Yeah, you only have a master's...

[hosepipe]

Its funny how every black ghetto in the US looks exactely alike. Thats what America would look like, eventually...

[Mike Darancette]

The author appears to be making a case--or at least a plea--for black separatism.

The author seems to long for the day when there were "Black Communities" where there were black doctors, lawyers, pharmacies, shoemakers .... in short they did for themselves.

Liberals, of course, could not let this stand.

[hellinahandcart]

I don't believe that. It's dependency that creates that particular "look". Not race.

In that I agree with the author, even if he does shoot his own foot off with his attitude.