`The Black Dilemma (per The Baltimore Sun)
A good article well worth a few minutes to read.
A liberal paper spelling out the facts for a change!
The English came and they were poor and now they are rich.
The Scots came and they were poor and now they are rich.
The Germans came and they were poor and now they are rich.
The Irish came and they were poor and now they are rich.
The Poles came and they were poor and now they are rich.
The Hungarians came and they were poor and now they are rich
The Cubans came and they were poor and now they are rich.
The Viets came and they were poor and now they are rich.
The Latins came and they were poor but they have worked hard and
now they are rich.
The Africans came and they were poor and now they continue to be
poor. WHY? read the below.
"The Baltimore Sun" is definitely not known as a Conservative
newspaper, so this very well written assessment of the situation in
USA comes as something of a surprise..
The Black Dilemma" For almost 150 years the United States has been
conducting an interesting experiment. The subjects of the experiment:
black people and working-class whites. The hypothesis to be tested:
Can a people taken from the jungles of Africa and forced into slavery
be fully integrated as citizens in a majority white population?
The whites were descendants of Europeans who had created a
majestic civilization. The former slaves had been tribal peoples with
no written language and virtually no intellectual achievements.
Acting on a policy that was not fair to either group, the government
released newly freed black people into a white society that saw them
as inferiors. America has struggled with racial discord ever since.
Decade after decade the problems persisted but the experimenters
never gave up. They insisted that, if they could find the right
formula, the experiment would work, and concocted program after
program to get the result they wanted. They created the Freedmans
Bureau, passed civil rights laws, tried to build the Great Society,
declared a War on Poverty, ordered race preferences, built housing
projects, and tried midnight basketball. Their new laws intruded into
people's lives in ways that would have been otherwise unthinkable.
They called National Guard troops to enforce school integration.
They outlawed freedom of association. Over the protests of parents,
they put white children on buses and sent them to black schools and
vice-versa. They tried with money, special programs, relaxed stand-
ards, and endless hand wringing to close the achievement gap. To keep
white backlash in check they began punishing public and even private
statements on race. They hung Orwellian public banners that commanded
whites to Celebrate Diversity! and Say No to Racism. Nothing was off
limits if it might salvage the experiment.
Some thought that what W.E.B. DuBois called the Talented Tenth
would lead the way for black people. A group of elite educated blacks
would knock down doors of opportunity and show the world what blacks
were capable of. There is a Talented Tenth. They are the black Ameri-
cans who have become entrepreneurs, lawyers, doctors, and scientists.
But ten percent is not enough.
For the experiment to work, the ten percent has to be followed by
a critical mass of people who can hold middle-class jobs and promote
social stability. That is what is missing.
Through the years, too many black people continue to show an
inability to function and prosper in a culture unsuited to them.
Detroit is bankrupt, the south side of Chicago is a war zone, and the
vast majority of black cities across America are beset by degeneracy
and violence and blacks never take responsibility for their failures.
Instead, they lash out in anger and resentment.
Across the generations and across the country, as we have seen in
Detroit, Watts, Newark, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and Ferguson, riot-
ing and looting are just one racial incident away. The white elite
would tell us that this doesn't mean the experiment has failed. We
just have to try harder. We need more money, more time, more under-
standing, more programs, and more opportunities.
But nothing changes no matter how much money is spent, no matter
how many laws are passed, no matter how many black geniuses are por-
trayed on TV, and no matter who is president. Some argue its a pro-
blem of culture, as if culture creates people's behavior instead of
the other way around. Others blame white privilege.
But since 1965, when the elites opened America's doors to the
Third World, immigrants from Asia and India people who are not white,
not rich, and not connected have quietly succeeded. While the chil-
dren of these people are winning spelling bees and getting top scores
on the SAT, black youths are committing half the country's violent
crimes, which includes viciously punching random white people on the
street for the thrill of it that has nothing to do with poverty.
The experiment has failed. Not because of white culture, or white
privilege, or white racism. The fundamental problem is that American
black culture has evolved into an un-fixable and crime ridden mess.
They do not want to change their culture or society and expect others
to tolerate their violence and amoral behavior. They have become
socially incompatible with other races by their own design, not be-
cause of the racism of others -but by their own hatred of non-blacks.
Our leaders don't seem to understand just how tired their white
subjects are with this experiment. They don't understand that white
people aren't out to get black people; they are just exhausted with
them. They are exhausted by the social pathologies, the violence,
the endless complaints, and the blind racial solidarity, the bottom-
less pit of grievances, the excuses, and the reflexive animosity.
The elites explain everything with racism and refuse to believe that
white frustration could soon reach the boiling point."
Ian Duncan ..The Baltimore Sun
This is so direct and to the point that maybe it is time for a
different more compassionate approach and see where it goes.
This is an ALL American's problem.
God is an important part of many African-Americans. We need to
include Him in our efforts.
Conservatively,
John
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