Posted on 05/11/2014 11:08:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Than do it, damn it and quit pi$$ing and moaning about *whitey* like you did in most of the above paragraphs.
It pi$$es me off, to no end, when some loudmouth black thinks and spreads the word that whites had it all handed to them on a silver platter.
Myself and my friends never got hold of a silver platter, all we got hold of was 30-40 years of seriously busting ass at a job to get some measure of success and security.
That's the life lived by folks I know and myself.
That the author is a doctor sort of answers most of the questions that he asked.
It seems that black people’s destinies are controlled by not wanting to be associated with other black people.
No good deed goes unpunished though, this "Doctor" is the exception to the CPUSA mantra that the American black is oppressed!.
Actually, it appears that the American WASP is oppressed by the godless CPUSA and the Negro!
The communists, baby killers, and homosexuals are on the march.
Who will stand against this evil?
I believe this manifests his self-fulfilling prophecy of racism.
Black people are in charge of their own destiny ... just like other races. I wish they knew how much power they have over their success and failure.
Blaming whitey isn’t going to cut it.
Dr. Boyce Watkins has very narrow view on life and reality. It happens when you’re infected with the liberal disease.
Experience has shown me that when someone uses the word "but" in this fashion, you can use it to divide a statement into two halves, and ignore everything BEFORE the word "but".
I didn’t read all of this but what jumped out at me is the lack of any need for personal responsibility.
What an idiot. He’s upset that the Democrats aren’t championing causes for blacks. Why should they? The Democrats own something like 90% of their vote because the blacks believe what they are told and are too damn stupid to inform themselves. And to top it off, they have the biggest racist ever to come along in the White House. I believe the “man” is the Democrat party.
I’ve surely read a stupid, uninformed, vapid, racist article such as this before, but I can’t recall when.
I’ve read similar stuff by Watkins or people (other deluded fools) like him over the decades. The narrative never changes....white people are always doing these racist, nasty things to black people, but black people should still forge on ahead. This is in line with the similar thought by many angry Blacks that things have never changed, and any problems in the black community are still the fault of racist whites.
“We fill up the prisons for things that white guys get away with all the time, we are overrun with poverty as white families enjoy the wealth that was stolen from our ancestors, and black kids are blowing each other’s brains out with guns that politicians and wealthy people are allowing to be sold in black neighbhorhoods rather than their own.”
Despite the rambling nature of the piece, this sentence pretty much encapsulates the premises from which it starts. The fact that it is BS should be an indicator of the content of the rest of the piece.
The man clearly lives in another world. The comment he made, “I speak about racism all the time,” is indicative of that. It must be sheer torture to be thinking all the time of the burdens he and others suffer from being of a minority race, many—if not most—of their own making. Too bad...for him.
The south was built on cotton, but the north was not. At the time of the Civil War there were only nine million southerners and over twenty million northerners. Three million southerners were black. Only a very tiny pct. of northerners were black, and none were slaves. The industrial revolution had progressed so fast since 1850 that by the time of the Civil War about ten years later, the gross domestic product of the state of New York by itself was greater than the total product of the rebellious southern states combined.
The industrial revolution was taking place mostly in northern states with very few blacks participating. But that doesn't stop millions of blacks today who believe that they are owed reparations for what happened to their ancestors in the south.
Really? Is there a black-funded black history museum to Malcolm X? I'm not talking about a corner of some militant's living room or church, but a bona fide museum? If not, maybe you ought to ask what he ever accomplished to deserve one.
“The south was built on cotton, but the north was not.”
The New York and Boston bankers and insurance companies made millions financing slavery and the cotton trade that supported it. Northern companies provided working capital funding for the expansion of plantations. Northern textile companies turned the southern grown cotton into cloth. Northern merchants and their ships transported the cotton to factories in Massachusetts as well as European factories. Northern insurance companies insured crops and slaves.
Profits from the the slavery based cotton trade allowed the north to build an industrial base and diversify its economy. It is also telling the regional bias for the industrial investments of the northern banks was the north and west, not the south. Northern industrialists and their politicians wanted to keep the south’s economy agricultural and completely dependent on northern banks for financing and northern industry for its customer base. Many of the political battles leading up to the Civil War were over tariff policy with the south favoring low tariffs and the north imposing protectionist tariffs in order to force the south to buy from the expanding northern factories.
Had high tariffs not existed, the south would have bought cheaper European manufactured goods and the growth of manufacturing in the north would have been delayed or stifled. In 1860, the New York bankers would have been more dependent on southern agriculture and much less inclined to support a war targeted at their large agricultural customers.
Those who advocate low tariffs today should look at American economic history and the role high tariffs played, both before and after the Civil War, in allowing the US to build its industrial base and become a world power. Those who proclaim the moral superiority of the north should also look at the evolution of economic history. The north could “afford” to be anti slavery only after it had exploited the profits from slavery to diversify its economy while maintaining a chokehold on investment capital and tariff structure that would not permit the economy of the south to evolve.
He's trying to wrap his black on white racism up in a pretty package, in order to appeal to the very people he blames for the plight of the black community.
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