Posted on 11/26/2003 11:25:55 AM PST by Luke Skyfreeper
I see it around me in the place where I work. I see intelligent and talented but lazy and sullen black people who think there is racism everywhere, and blame racism for their failures instead of taking responsibility for their unwillingness to focus and work hard. There are also some more thoughtful young black people who have made a rather painful decision to move forward and leave their friends and family in the ghetto culture behind while they achieve success. I feel sorry for them as I watch them struggle with one of the big ethical questions of life.
It's time for blacks to reject liberal plantation solutions. Those liberal solutions don't work. Look at the fruit of the tree... Liberal "programs" have taught blacks to fail. It's very sad.
This article really hits the nail. I've grown up near black neighborhoods and I notice more and more Asians control all the retail locations. They barely speak English but they work hard, save money, work harder, save money, and eventually buy a business and prosper. Most Asians in these communities all drive luxury cars and send their kids to a good college. The black people I know generally don't have business sense. They think the only way to make money is to be an entertainer, athlete, lottery or by suing someone. I know some of you will say I'm racist. But I'm also a minority (Hispanic) and only white men can be racist remember?
This is a general statement. I'm sure there are a few unique cases where black people move up through hard work and saving, (I know a few) but I'm afraid that's becoming increasingly rare.
Maybe that's the only way Democrats can keep blacks in their party, by keeping them poor. Rich blacks (or those on their way) eventually leave the party, don't care about politics or become repubs.
Arnold's never held elected office either, until last week.
Rice's list of non-elected-office accomplishments is impressive, and speaks for itself.
And as Schwarzenegger has demonstrated, electability does not necessarily depend on prior elected experience.
Having said all that, I definitely agree she would need to get some elected-office experience first if she wanted to be President. Executive is better. In other words, if she wants to be President, she really ought to run for governor.
However, I could visualize her serving as VP and then possibly running for POTUS. Again, if she wanted to, and the available indications are that she doesn't.
Had Booker T. Washington "won out" over W.E.B. DuBois, the world would be a much different...and much better...place.
Yes. I heard Rev. Jackson saying much the same thing just the other night ... NOT!
One help found the NAACP and died an American-hating communist.
The other was a good guy.
Although I know few facts about Ms. Rice's personal politics, it would be reasonable to assume that anyone with her level of experience in government with a conservative administration, her magnificent level of intelligence and fortitude, and her lack of an amoral personality (a la both Klintons) would be excellent Presidential material. Plus Bush like her and I respect George Bush's judgement any day!
Sure there are many who could be presidential material, but would Dr Walter Williams run and win? Just because there may always be someone equal or better doesn't disqualify her ability.
Being an elected official would add no more relevant experience (except maybe how to lie in a campaign) than she already has in her federal post.
After having read the autobiography of Frederick Douglass (an early 19th century slave), I concur.
This was a man that, through clever tactics, taught himself how to read at age of 8 behind his master's back.
If anyone tells you that they can't succeed or are disadvantaged because of the color of their skin, give them a copy of Frederick Douglass's autobiography...and then tell them to stop whining!
Black folks did that in Tulsa, OK in 1921. The dollar circulated in the community 26 times before leaving. Blacks owned and operated every conceivable legitimate business imaginable. The community was highly prosperous until white envious rednecks burned the community down, killing hundreds. Anyone else know about this story? I saw a documentary about it on TV. You can do a google search and read about it. Extremely interesting.
Also, I read this book some years ago. I think it was called "The Blue Book". I can't seem to find it anywhere now. But it was amazing. It was written in 1907. In it were biographies of Black folks in every endeavor you can think of it: banking, science, education, inventions, entertaiment, sports, business, agriculture, oil business, you name it. The book profiled highly successul blacks in these fields. There was one picture of a family of black bankers standing in front of their bank. They looked awesome. The book was full of success stories.
There were a lot of "black Tulsas" across America in the earlier 1900s to 1920s. When President Roosevelt came into office and introduced the "New Deal", seems like black folks haven't been the same since. Now the "black leaders" march down the streets arm in arm shouting "jobs, justice and peace".
My mother grew up on a farm in Fredericksburg, Virginia during the depression. Her father was a blacksmith and farmer. They were poor, but her father would never have considered accepting welfare. He worked hard to support his large family and they were happy, and NEVER without food. They just didn't have much money, but they helped feed the city folks in Richmond. My mother vividly remembers their yard being packed with the cars of the city folks who came to get something to eat on Sundays. My mother's father was a hard-working man who had a strong work ethic. They were poor and black, but believed that no one owed them anything.
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