The Black Dilemma - From the Baltimore Sun
As always, the Black Dilemma is the White Problem.
Subject: Fwd: The Black Dilemma - .FROM THE BALTIMORE SUN
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 War on Poverty, ordered race preferences, built housing projects, and tried midnight basketball.
Their new laws intruded into peoples lives in ways that would have been otherwise unthinkable. They called in 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 standards, 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 up 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 Americans 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 all over 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 now Ferguson, rioting 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 understanding, 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 portrayed on TV, and no matter who is president. Some argue its a problem of culture, as if culture creates peoples behavior instead of the other way around. Others blame white privilege.
But since 1965, when the elites opened Americas 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 children of these people are winning spelling bees and getting top scores on the SAT, black youths are committing half the country's violent crime, 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 because 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 bottomless 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."---
"You can't legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government doesn't first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they don't have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
Ian Duncan
The Baltimore Sun , May 30, 2015
Good to hear someone say what everyone knows is true, but most are afraid to say out loud.
Hope the writer has some good personal security.
Perfect definition. 100% agree.
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Apparently nobody knows how this common error got to be so widely taught and used. What a dilemna!
I enjoyed swimming at the city Natatorium in South Bend when I was a kid there. I didn't think much about the fact that there were no black kids also swimming there at the time. There were also none going to my junior high school, or living in my neighborhood, so their absence from the pool didn't register as something strange to me.
That was in the mid-1950's, not quite "150 years ago", and it wasn't until I read (much later) about the city shutting down the 'Nat' rather than integrating it a few years after I had been there that I even realized it had been segregated. Not officially, of course, but just as effectively.
A decade later, I was working in a defense plant in Indianapolis and became acquainted with another skilled tradesman who had, a couple of decades before that time, led a wildcat strike in the plant when the company placed the first black employee in a machine operating position. "They" had been there, as janitors, chip haulers, and a few other positions, but were unofficially but effectively prevented form attaining positions as machine operators and other skilled positions.
"40 acres and a mule" is not the equivalent of "full integration" into a society.
Does that mean that I am a fan of government force and coercion to implement integration? Not necessarily. Changes such as that take time and a change in the hearts and minds of a people, and the heavy hand of government creates an added resistance to the needed change that is taking place. It is often hard to say whether the change would have happened more quickly without the "help". It would almost surely still have happened, and probably more smoothly. None of us appreciate having anything "shoved down our throats".
Did Major League Baseball integrate because of a government mandate or because there were some players playing in the Negro leagues that could help some teams win games? It did happen, and it did have resistance both within and out in the stands....and it came about anyway.
Maybe the only way for the change in society to really happen is for it to come about in the public mind first. We may be fooling ourselves with the forced tolerance.
But the article feeds on the the false superiority complex of the bigots and "tells 'em what they want to hear". It's a tired argument that should sound as false to us now as when it was used against the Jews or the Irish or the Indians or the hillbillies. If you must compare people looking for some inherent fault or inferiority, at least try to compare those who started at the same starting gate and who carry jockeys of the same weight. I suspect you'll find little evidence that holds up in support of the one implied therein.
Your ringing rendition of "we are all created equal if given the same chance" may soothe the ailing political heart but is a social myth.
Asians far and away out perform all races in academics no matter the horse jockey or starting position. This is fact.
The tendency of Asians to secure the best jobs and secure the highest salaries out of college is unquestioned and undeniable. This is not luck.
Government propaganda and front loaded studies to promote social harmony aside, is it not possible this race is just biologically gifted and talented in this regard? Coupled with family valued skills that discount over saturated American recreation this race is over before it started.
The Rock
The Rock
As the old saying goes... GET OVER IT!
So I won't.
"GET OVER IT!" Let's go with that.
Did I mistakenly tune in to MSNBC?
In fact the article carries MORE credence because it did not appear in the Baltimore rag.
"Could the bar get any lower???"
If you mean the bar for applying for Affirmative Action programs, it is extremely doubtful that it could.
Take out the word "black" and you've just described a growing (fully diverse) portion in our society that finds increased comfort in poverty. The disconnect is, IMO, between those who earn and those who take, color is not the issue.
But poverty cannot be fixed with more free stuff
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From the link: A high school student with perfect SAT scores and nine Advanced Placement courses under his belt should have his pick of colleges, right? If the student in question is Asian, not necessarily. Take the Asian-American dynamo with these very credentials denied admission to Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT.
Can you name one nation that is primarily black and has democracy and prosperity?
HA/KS's Link
This looks better.
"Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966.Since then, it has maintained a strong tradition of stable representative democracy, with a consistent record of uninterrupted democratic elections."
"Formerly one of the poorest countries in the world—with a GDP per capita of about US$70 per year in the late 1960s—Botswana has since transformed itself into one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, now boasting a GDP (purchasing power parity) per capita of about $18,825 per year as of 2015"
"The population of Botswana is divided into the main ethnic groups of Tswana people (79%), Kalanga people (11%), and Basarwa (or Bushmen) (3%). The remaining 7% consist of other peoples, including some speaking the Kgalagadi language, and 1% of non-African people."
HA/KS's Link
What is your point about Korea? The Korean people have no chance in the north due to their government. Koreans in the south do very well and contribute much to the world. It currently may be the world's best example of how government keeps people from succeeding.
You may interpret the link I shared however you want. I neither said nor implied that I think Asians are superior. The fact is that they do very well in the American education system compared to other ethnic groups. The reasons are many, but probably have very little to do with genetics.
The "black" culture in America right now is dysfunctional to put it kindly. And I see little to no attempt to change it, in fact any attempts to even criticize it are attacked, violently in cases. It's a self destructive culture that needs to do a 180.... but the only efforts visible are those to call critics racists and the demand is to ignore actions, behaviors and results that are destroying it.
Not only can you not criticize it, it is demanded you take no action against it..... behavior rewarded and in many cases celebrated.
"White" cultures in places face the same degradation of values, morals and ethics. But criticism is certainly not objected to (or called racist) and there are real efforts within the culture to correct it IMO. How effective the efforts vary from place to place.
We are living in a time where a police officer is assaulted, defends himself against a person who had just robbed a store, and the RACE of each is the issue, to the point of burning down parts of a city. The actions leading to the incident,the behavior, etc. mean nothing. In fact had the races been reversed or changed in any way actually... it would have simply made the local news. Possibly not even the front page.
Tell me again who are the racists?
TD's Link
Again, you mistake race for culture. Were I live it's much more racially mixed in a much smaller community than anywhere you will see on the mainland. I've been in the minority most of my life. Yet "racist" is flippantly tossed around with ignorance. Race means little to nothing.
Culture. Asian is a race. Asians as cultures can 180 degrees apart in their beliefs, actions and behaviors. See: Japanese culture vs Korean. Or Vietnamese. Filipino. China is so vast it has many many separate cultures... all "Chinese".
Check the link to see what this racist has to say about cultures.... just a sample...
"The bottom line is that even if white people were to become angels tomorrow, it would do nothing for the problems plaguing a large segment of the black community. Illegitimacy, family breakdown, crime and fraudulent education are devastating problems, but they are not civil rights problems. There is little or nothing that government or white people can do to solve these problems. The solution lies with black people."
The racist bastage....