I think we would be better served by spending less time reminding blacks of slavery and more time teaching them the positive history of blacks in America prior to the civil war.
No need to remind, it’s lurking right below the surface in any political conversation involving black and white in this country. It’s the reason for the alienation and isn’t going away no matter how much wealth is transferred or how much “positive discrimination” is applied, to use the more accurate, European euphemism for affirmative action.
Marxists saw festering, lingering resentments, fed by legally enforced segregation, jumped on the backs of well-meaning, long suffering black people, rode their righteous anger into power and are still piling on. They’re living rent-free in the heads of most as a result, and every attempt to assuage is viewed as a proletarian “victory” in the marxist sense, leading to demands for more rather than a sense of acceptance and justice served.
The best country in the world for Europeans who didn’t have anything prior to coming here, the oppressed religious groups, the races deemed somehow inferior elsewhere who prospered by comparison here, is being dismantled piece by piece and disgruntled black people are serving as the vanguard.
How do you undo that? We don’t believe in the de facto seizing of children in order to indoctrinate as they do. We don’t believe in breaking down the moral structure of the people with unfettered sex and making a fashion statement out of substance abuse in order to undermine, eventually destroy and replace what went before as they do.
The only common ground I see is Christianity, and the answer therefore has to arise from there, as our Constitution did.
The observations of Booker T. Washington explain why this is not the case.
Booker T. Washington, who rose from slavery to become the nation’s first widely recognized black leader, once warned against what he called "problem profiteers" among our nation’s black community.
"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public," observed Washington. "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."
Whose names immediately come to mind after reading Booker T. Washington’s observation?