Anyone have a good link for Cain’s 9-9-9 plan? I’ve heard it bandied about, but I’m not familiar with it.
It's about work ethics...
My grandparents came here for WORK and they worked their butts off...and they were the example for the next generations.
This is probably the first time Crowley has ever heard the truth about what is holding blacks back...and to hear it from a successful black man must shake her to her boots.
One stat that puts the lie to the “racism is the cause of the economic gap” is that,
for the same income rate, blacks have a much lower net worth than whites, and whites less than asians,
showing that it is a spending problem associated with cultural values.
Taxes?
BS!
Not owed; not needed!!!!!
http://www.devvy.com/notax.html
Maybe...let ‘em have a bake sale now and then...but watch ‘em verrrry closely!
Just Plain Dick
Semper Watching!
Remember what Cong David Crockettsaid...
Liking Cain more every day.
He edged toward a point which I think should be made. Large cities like Detroit, Newark, Chicago, Oakland, etc. contain many blacks. These cities tend to have economic troubles and high unemployment. That means lots and lots of blacks are out of work because they live in these troubled cities.
Why are the cities suffering? Their economic policies are all screwed up. And why is that? Well, they've been run by Democrats for 30 years or more. The economic policies of the Democrats (for whom the blacks always vote) are hurting the blacks. That explains a good part of the gap.
Cain hinted at this, but he wasn't as explicit as I think he should have been.
At least Cain isn’t a flip-flopping wet noodle like Mittens.
One thing that really hit me this year is this: I’ve worked with a LOT of successful black people in my career path. As far as I can remeber, with the exception of one man and one woman, ALL of them were born outside the US. They were immigrants.
I think there is a story there.
He's right of course.
Our grandparents came from E. Europe. We didn't LOOK like everyone else here in the US (still don't) but we stood on our head to assimilate and did so in one generation. Once in a while, I still run into a kind of ‘die hard’ bourgeois xenophobia that is, though limited, very apparent.
Just because I am not ‘Rebbecca from Sunnybrook Farm’, I don't go around whining about being singled out for ill treatment and I didn't let it get in my way at school or work.
To some extent, I was always aware of it and worked extra hard at school and work.... THAT was how I dealt with it.
Of course, socially, I have NO control over that kind of BS, but who cares????? This is America and CAPITALIST America by the way!!! No matter what color you are or what you LOOK like, the red carpet will be rolled out for you if you can make money for management or if you can give them an edge the competitor does not have!!!!
“loving family”?????
I’m thinking it could be a major issue in the lack of success for many blacks. They have not been part of families -—only part of government welfare checks since the government has done it’s level best to dissolve the family.
You know, despite his misstep (IMO) re that Perry/Rock thing, Cain is really starting to grow on me again...
It is ABSOLUTELY vital for Liberals to retain racism to maintain their hold on power and control. Liberals refuse to let racism go. Without maintaining racism Liberals lose the power over the lives of many in this country.
In fact, Liberals enslave as many as possible to the bindings of racism so that they can maintain power and control. Liberals are, in fact, the most racist people among us. Liberals like racisim. Racism helps Liberals.
The excerpt didn’t include the part the title referred to:
CROWLEY: And I would say to you an unemployment rate for blacks that is far higher–almost six percent higher, seven percent higher than for whites; a percentage of black incarceration in the nation’s prison systems that is far greater; a lack of–and for all of your skills, is there not some luck in that, I want to ask you that–but, you know, there–I would tell you that minorities, especially African-Americans, can name a lot of things that speak to a certain amount of racism that they can still complain about. And so I wonder if you are taking your good fortune and superimposing it over everyone else, when it doesn’t really apply?
CAIN: Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. That’s what I’ve done all my career. Secondly, I don’t believe racism, in this country today, holds anybody back in a big way. Is there some, are there some elements of racism? Yes. It gets back to if we don’t grow this economy, that is a ripple effect for every economic level. And because blacks are more disproportionately unemployed, they get hit the worst when economic policies don’t work. That’s where it starts. Grow this economy and it’s going to help everybody to get jobs and get back in the workforce.
CROWLEY: But at this very moment, the black jobless rate is sixteen percent–
CAIN: Yes.
CROWLEY: –for everyone it’s 9.1 percent. The black teen unemployment [rate] is 44.2 percent. That can’t just be random luck, can it?
CAIN: It’s not random luck!
CROWLEY: Or bad luck.
CAIN: Or bad luck. It’s failed economic policy!
CROWLEY: But what accounts for the gap?
CAIN: The gap is due to a number of factors. One is a differential in education. Two is a concentration of a lot of blacks in certain areas, like the city of Detroit, where the unemployment rate there is fourteen percent versus the 9.1 percent we have nationally. So if you have a city like Detroit, where they have lost twenty five percent of their population, economically they’ve done nothing but go down, down, down–if we do not boost this national economy, you’re never going to be able to close that gap. So there are a number of factors that cause that differential. But we must start with feeding this economic engine, which is why I have proposed the bold “9-9-9” plan. And, in addition to that, we are developing an empowerment zone feature off of the 9-9-9 platform that I will be announcing shortly.
CROWLEY: But can you be surprised if African-Americans look at you saying, I am, you know, became the CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, you know, I, the–you know didn’t have any advantage, you grew up poor but you had a loving family, it sounds like to me–
CAIN: Yes.
CROWLEY: –others are not so lucky, and they need help. You’ve been critical of the entitlement society, Who–what do you think Americans–black Americans, white Americans, Latino Americans–what are we entitled to, as a society?
CAIN: We are all entitled to an opportunity to be able to go after our definition of the American dream. Everybody’s definition of the American dream is different. You’re owed the opportunity for a level playing field.
CROWLEY: And do blacks have a level playing field right now with whites?
CAIN: Many of them do! Many of them do have a level playing field. I absolutely believe that. Because–not only because of the businesses that I have run, which has had a combination of whites, blacks, Hispanics–you know, we had a total diversity!–but also because of the corporations whose board I’ve served on for the last twenty years. I have seen blacks in middle management move up to top management of some of the biggest corporations in America. They–they were’t held back because of racism. No. People sometimes hold themselves back, because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.
These white-guilt, condescending patronizing, lily-white, gated-community, MSM TV libs make me want to puke chunks up of last night’s dinner, I’ll tell ya what. They are just like the Kennedys and LBJ. Want to throw a lot of other people’s money at the black community from a distance to “string it out” on government largesse and lifelong plantation dependence, but would not be caught dead with one of their own relatives marrying an African American nor driving around “the hood” by themselves at night alone.
bump.
One thing he didn’t say was that many blacks hold THEMSELVES back because they feel that getting a good, marketable education means you’re “going white” or are becoming an “Uncle Tom.” Funny, no one thinks of Zero as an Uncle Tom.
Makes ya' hot just looking at this...SSSSS/////OFFOFFOFFOFF
Love that!
How insulting of her to say there was luck involved in his success!