The single largest example of “The Politics of Victimhood” in the history of the world...
Black American males with at least some public school education can't find jobs, yet 20 million English illiterate illegals can. What's wrong with this story?
One of these irresponsibles lived next door to us for a time. Unemployed and living off his girlfriend. He impregnated his live in. This was the third woman he had shared his seed with. Well, I’m sure it was more than three, but only three that took root. Little baby comes along and he is out the door two months later.
*sigh*
At least reparations wasn’t brought up. You just know that if they only had a big, fat check they would rush right home and start supporting their kids, just ask the proponents of it.
Two black people came into my business and started causing problems yesterday. I had to call the police to eject them.
And yes, they played the race card.
Not disagreeing with most of the author's points. In fact, I agree with most of them 100%.
But on this point I have to say that monetarily, the taxpayers have been substituting for the fathers in alot of these "families".
When youve committed a felony its hard to get a job. That and you talk english so poorly no one understands, and your pants hang to your knees.
You made some very good points, all of which are causing Jesse and Al huge discomfort. These two, and many others who attempt to speak for the black community, try to use racism to offload their own guilt, lack of responsibility, and effort. There are simply too many minorities in this county who have “made it” to take the “I’m a victim” drivel seriously any more.
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Per Walter Williams
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams110304.asp
To: Black America
Keep playing the race card. Each time you do, you are alienating White, Mexican and Asian Americans more and more. And, you are not helping your candidate, B. Hussein Obama. We are sick and tired of being called racist every time we turn around and that frustration will be reflected in the voting booth.
While I generally agree with Prelutsky’s arguments, I can also see some validity for the black caller’s perspectives. Let’s examine some of the reasons he thinks what he thinks -
1) Pandering by the government and the DBM to the race-baiters. Non-stop pandering to race-baiters like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan and myriad others gives them legitimacy in the eyes of those who believe their brand of racism.
2) “Black Liberation Theology” as taught by the likes of Rev. Wright.
3) Stereotypes of blacks in movies/television. Mass media entertainment is a major part of the way that blacks perceive themselves. Today, it is virtually impossible to see any film or TV show in which blacks are positively portrayed as anything but drug sellers, thugs and criminals. Too many of them have no view of life outside their little corner of the world and believe this is what they are supposed to be.
All of these influences speak volumes about the way that blacks perceive themselves. Within that perception, black men are almost never portrayed as caring, responsible husbands and fathers. Whether we want to agree with it or not, the images that blacks see about themselves influence what they believe about themselves, much the same way that Madison Avenue portrays various groups in their advertising. Too many targeted groups or individuals allow the image of their targeted group in the media to influence the way that they see themselves.
While the caller’s complaint laid the blame on whites for the poor choices too many black men make in their lives, the fact is that the influences are valid, they just don’t stem from white people trying to oppress blacks. Blacks like Jackson, Obama and Sharpton are much more adept at that than whites are. At the end of the day, it is both telling and unfortunate that the caller honestly believes what he believes about blacks and whites. His view of the world is largely incorrect and corrupted by the racists in his own ethnic group.
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Good Point.
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Allow me to paraphrase a southern white boy: "...you believe what you want to believe...everybody's had to fight to be free...you don't have to live like a refugee...."
It's amazing how much grace comes to a person who humbles himself and joins the human race.
Millions of single black women somehow manage to support their babies by collecting welfare supplied by the American taxpayers.
The black caller is almost correct. The current black family crisis is the result of “whitey”. A white man named Lyndon Johnson created a welfare state that encouraged poor men to move out so their wife’s/lovers/baby mommas could get welfare. The caller just needs to connect the dots and realize it was liberalism, not racism.
I wonder if it was the Michael Medved show. Medved consistently employs an affirmative action approach to his black callers. They can spout the most ridiculous nonsense and he’ll agree with almost all of it so as not to seem mean or racist.
“It’s obvious that millions of black men simply prefer shirking their responsibilities, while simultaneously insisting that they’re the victims of white society. They make a huge deal of demanding respect, of insisting they’re men and not boys, but all the while millions of them do precious little to earn anybody’s respect or to prove that they are anything but irresponsible brats”
This is the obvious and natural result of a culture of affirmative action and 40+ years of being told that whites are “racists” and “oppressors” who conspire to “keep the black man down”.
What OTHER result could have been possible from such a scheme?
We now have something like 13% or so of our entire population that believes that whites are racists, as a matter of course.
Did we really, REALLY expect “racial harmony” to come from this?
I laugh when I hear EuroAmericans chant about “how far we’ve come” in terms of race relations in America. We’ve come nowhere. If anything, white and black culture, mores, and general perceptions are _more_ apart today than they were in the 1960’s.
The EuroAmericans have been fools, thinking they could “fix” racial problems with tokens and restrictions upon whites (i.e., “affirmative action”). Nothing has been fixed, and indeed, great damage has been done.
The truth is that - at the deepest levels of human behavior - race is one of the most uniting, and also the most divisive, factors. For decades we have tried to sweept that under the American rug, but it keeps creeping back out at us.
Fortunately, there are a lot of EuroAmericans who are finally going to be awakened to such truths by the course of this election, and by it’s aftermath....
- John
Of course, any successful Black American person has done so because of either demonrat political efforts or because Black Americans Uncle Tomed themselves, not on the basis of their spirit, desire, hard work and dedication.
Affirmative action isn't going to fix this belief system, only perpetuate it.