Posted on 09/13/2011 4:59:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
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This is getting on fifty years since the big civil rights days of the sixties, and you still have black pols acting as is George Wallace is still the governor of Alabama standing in the doorway and the Klan is terrorizing black citizens. Until we get responsible black pols, a doubtful proposition even with Allen West getting elected, we'll be getting 90% plus Black Americans voting for the party that keeps them mired in poverty and hopelessness.
The author is absolutely correct the above problems are all linked directly to Jonsons war on poverty.
Johnsons war on poverty required that those women receiving ADC not have a father living in the home.
You get more of what you pay for. So what do expect when you pay for fatherless households? More fatherless households.
Fatherless household are a direct cause of all of the other problems. And the length and breadth of these problems increase with each succeeding generation.
The real problem with getting Blacks out of this crippling cycle is human nature.
People stay where they are comfortable. It is human nature. Where are people comfortable? Generally where they grew up.
So here we are about 4 generations in to the War On Poverty and every day another batche of kids are born in to the ADC program and another batch of young girls graduate from being a child of the ADC program to being a Female Head of House Hold receiving ADC benefits for her fatherless child. Female Head of House Hold will also be recruited to be a loyal Democrat voter so that can vote her self interest.
It is a hard nut to crack. How do we break in to the comfort zone of this demographic? How do we convince these people that it is in their self interest to wean themselves from the government teat get off the dole and work for their own self interest when their family has lived this way for generations?
Ultimately it is easier for their own community to convince them that they need to change. Hearing these words from an outsider is less convincing. Leaders in their own community will have to convince them that there is a way out and that life is better in the free world.
While I tend to agree with you on this point, I'd still like to see the GOP Presidential candidate walk into a black church and state these 5 points. Ask people to actually face reality, question the folks they're blindly following. Chances are he'd get boo'd out the building, but it may get a few people thinking. Every war has a first shot.
Kharis13
However if they were smart, they would
When freed, a good number of former slaves refused to leave the farm.
Good point.
I didnt mean physical comfort in post 23 but emotional/psychological comfort and your post brings that point to a sharp point. (Not to say that most welfare recipients do not live comfortably)
You may live in squalor but you know that your basic needs are covered. Knowing that your day to day existence is ensured by the master; this is the comfort of a slave. It is a perfect analog for the welfare recipient.
The nanny state is a kind master. It does not ask much of its slaves. All it ask is that you vote for the Democrats every two years. If you show up at a demonstration once in a while so much the better.
I will bet there are 30 - 40 % NOT making over $30,000.00
Considering all the self-destructive activity, it’s amazing they haven’t wiped themselves out.
...had rolled up with 15 white, country boys from school. The girl's father told them that they could come in if they wanted. They politely refused and said if their friend wasn't welcome, then they weren't going to go in either... the girl who was throwing the party was horrified and incredibly embarrassed that her father had done that and the party broke up and ended within a few minutes time. As someone who was born in the seventies in North Carolina and grew up admiring people like Muhammad Ali, Satchel Paige, and even Malcolm X (Yes, really) that was a pretty good example of the world I grew up in. Sure, there were a few diehard racists around, but amongst people of my generation, they were few and far between. We didn't grow up with separate water fountains, segregation, or Jim Crow laws. The KKK was considered a joke, even back then, and few people ever dropped the N-bomb in conversation unless they were reciting rap lyrics.Thanks Kaslin.
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