Posted on 09/07/2012 10:18:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
The truth is that equality is a death sentence.
I have lived in a number of black inner city ghetto communities. The majority of my neighbors were aspiring middle class people. Most of them worked to move out of the ghetto and into open housing communities, so called white communities.
Upwardly mobile blacks are a substantial portion of blacks in the US. They are not categorized as black because they do not identify with black inner city ghettos. The 90% figure is based on that increasingly narrow segment of the black demographic. I am confident from personal experience that 25% of blacks never show up in black demographics and vote Republican.
Watch the TOAY SHOW in the morning as the camera scans the crowd- I didn`t see one black person there except Al Roker and Lester.
Watch the TODAY SHOW in the morning as the camera scans the crowd- I didn`t see one black person there except Al Roker and Lester.
This year, at every Republican convention I attended, from my own BPOU to the Minnesota Fifth District to the Minnesota State Republican Party Convention, there were noticibly more black people attending than at any time in my recollection that goes back to the early 1990's.
The media. If you think that the mainstream white media and entertainments in leftists, get a gander of Black TV, Radio, and internet sites. Obama is mainstream for them.
MLK Jr was a Republican in the 1950s, who sold himself to the Democrat party in 1960 and 1964. He called Goldwater a fascist, and repudiated the “I have a Dream Speech” by supporting affirmative action.
Grievance politics unites disparate minorities in unthinking opposition to the majority, even against rational self interest. The politics of grievance is an unthinking ersatz ethnic loyalty, wherein one defines oneself in opposition, rather than in being. It leads black leaders to support immigration, liberal social politics, and objectively failing education and social models. And this doesn’t just apply to minorities in the West. Grievance politics in the form of anti-colonialism allows the South African regime to support Mugabe’s starvation of fellow Africans in the once prosperous Zimbabwe. This minority nihilism will go on as long as the white West allows it to. We must stand up against it not only for our own survival, but also to save those afflicted with this illness. At its core, grievance politics is adolescent behavior. It is a mixture of finding virtue in being oppressed or having been oppressed, certitude in current virtue, a desire for unquestioned compensation and revenge. Prior to the 1950s, when faced with this, the West considered it sophomoric or the self-justifications of criminals. For instance few in the West fell for the Japanese claims of anti-colonialism in their push for the Great East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. Perhaps some Communists, libertarians, and antediluvian conservatives allowed themselves to be taken in, if only because they needed to assign blame to FDR and virtue to the Japanese.
Sometime around the 1960s this died. Snotty teenagers, hippies, Black Panther, American Indian activist, MECHA, etc. were viewed as virtuous because of their anger and indignation. Accountability became a fault, and unthinking generosity and even enabling became the virtue. If the majority in America or the West does so, it will allow the rational loyal members of minorities to be heard. But first the civilization AIDS of liberalism with its control of the media must be destroyed. Imagine if the media went to Thomas Sowell instead of Jesse Jackson, or Don Feder instead of Abe Foxman.
“...the willingness for some blacks who come into the workplace to succumb to the thinking that any failure, any setback, is not due to their own performance, but to some form of discrimination on the part of those judging their work.”
Very true.
The company I work for used to be (ethnically) very white. Over the last five years, they have made an effort to hire more blacks. I have heard, anectodally, that some of these hires were chosen over more qualieif white candidates. Whether that’s actually true or not - well, I’m not sure.
But I have noticed (in the department I work in) that when a black employee doesn’t do as well in their job review, the race card is pulled out and waved around.
It’s highly irritating. I wish it would stop. When blacks stop, look around, and tell themselves “Maybe it isn’t whitey’s fault. Maybe I’m the one to blame for where I am”, then, maybe we they can start going places.
While in Tampa for the convention, I needed a taxi to get from one event to another one evening and the taxi driver was not native born.
This was my third taxi driver that was not born in America (I knew this because these men were not Hispanic either as many of them who are born in the U.S. still speak with accents.)
As I did with every other driver, I asked where he came from. In this case, the driver said he was from Turkey.
I asked how long he had been in the U.S. (6 yrs),if had family here (no) and did he miss his home (at first and sometimes still.)
I then inquired how the was doing (great, working hard and seeing himself getting ahead.)
My next question was, what do think ish best thing and the most disappointing you have found about America. Again, he said that he thought the idea of being able to "make something of yourself is really good" and what he found disappointing is that so many people sit around complaining what they don't have, while refusing to get up off their backsides and work
Who cares?
When Romney wins, Black America is just gonna have to put on their big boy pants and help America recover from Obama just like everyone else will.
That might be true for some blacks if their “leaders” weren’t labeling those black Republicans as “Uncle Toms”, sellouts, and Oreos.
I hope you are right, because I see zero squeaking by with the win. Of course I hope I am wrong, because if zero gets four more years, its four more years of race baiting from this Marxist kenyan.
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