Posted on 03/19/2011 8:56:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Leading black conservatives lay blame for black America's rampant poverty and other ills squarely at the feet of the socialist orientation of black leaders such as Al Sharpton.
They say the black intelligentsia’s rhetoric has created a defeatist and demoralizing climate that has robbed millions of black Americans of hope and has sentenced them to an impoverished existence.
“One of the tenets of the socialist ideology is to create a welfare state, and that’s exactly what has happened in the black community,” says Florida Rep. Allen West, the only Republican member of the Congressional Black Caucus. “I like to say we have sort of a reverse plantation going on here where you have people like Sharpton and [Jesse] Jackson trying to make themselves into overseers.”
Niger Innis, national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality, says Marxists have worked hard to exploit blacks for the past century and divide them from the rest of society.
Socialism has been deeply ingrained in the black community since the NAACP’s founding in 1909 according to the Socialist Party USA.
And NAACP founder W.E.B. DuBois later developed an admiration for Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin and even continued to apologize for him even after many other black intellectuals such as Ralph Ellison had repudiated their support for the dictator. DuBois even received the 1959 "Lenin Peace Prize" and formally joined the Communist Party USA two years later in 1961.
An affection for socialism also permeated black American culture during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1930s when artists such as Langston Hughes and Paul Robeson flirted with Stalinism. Robeson won the 1952 "Stalin Peace Prize" and remained an unapologetic defender of the Soviet dictator throughout his life.
Not even legendary civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. escaped being infected by the socialist virus, as evidenced by speeches he gave toward the end of his life. And the Black Panthers, including now-Congressman Bobby Rush looked to Mao for inspiration.
“The biggest tragedy in all of this is that the blacks did not know the poison of socialism and communism,” Innis says. “And they were led to believe it was the only alternative for fighting Jim Crow and pushing back against segregation.”
The black elites’ Marxist dialectic has pit white versus black and rich versus poor, and has disempowered countless black Americans in the process by promoting collective hatred and jealousy.
“It has really hurt the black community because the real uplift in this country is through individual initiative, activity and entrepreneurship,” says Bishop E.W. Jackson Sr., a prominent conservative black minister and Tea Partier. “This mindset that you are owed something and everything has to be the same for everybody is a very dangerous and insidious attitude that has crept into the black community.”
Barack Obama’s 1995 book “Dreams from My Father" illustrates this collectivistic and conformist mindset because the president relates that he chose to associate with “Marxist professors” and discuss the ideas of Marxist thinker Frantz Fanon to “avoid being mistaken for a sellout” while he was at Columbia University in the early 1980s.
Black individualists who resist the Marxist black intelligentsia’s demand for ideological purity face the sort of denunciations recently visited on potential GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain who recently was denounced by blogger Chauncey DeVega on AlterNet as "a monkey in a window".
Marxist dogma says blacks cannot be racists because they lack power; consequently, Sharpton, Jackson and others need to maintain a perception in the black community that they are powerless and and level the charge of racism against opponents because it enhances their power, according to Innis.
“The Marxists are guilty of the charge they often level against capitalists, pro-free market economies and countries, which is divide and conquer,” Innis says. “They are the dividers because through their philosophy and rhetoric they seek to segregate a particular group … and certainly throughout the 20th century, in our country, it was the African-Americans.
“The communists … took a movement that had its roots in pro-free market, free labor … capitalism and totally corrupted it and co-opted it into a communist agenda.”
Innis contends black Americans will find a way out of their current predicament by returning to the individualistic, pro-free market spirit of self-determination exemplified by abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and non-Marxist black intellectuals like Booker T. Washington.
“Socialist Thought Has Crippled America”
fixed it
And "social justice" demands that the rest of us get kneecapped in the interest of "fairness".
Liberation Theology is a home for Marxism and is taught to many inner city people as Christianity. It’s theological roots appear to be that either all are saved, or none are saved. Although there are many more steps in the argument, for brevity sake, all must live by the same rules, have the same opportunities and share equally in the bounty the Lord has blessed us with. Moral of the story: Bad theology, bad result.
Thanks, Larry. My thoughts exactly.
Then why is Africa not like Europe or America or Japan even China or at least like Russia.
Blacks have simply traded one plantation only to now be slaves to another - The Federal Government Plantation.
“Blacks have simply traded one plantation only to now be slaves to another - The Federal Government Plantation.”
Yep unless or until we dismantle the welfare state things are never going to change. IMO
Actually these folks are completely wrong....All of the welfare programs, food stamps, public housing, Section 8, SSI,,,on and on were designed and implemented by WHITE Americans. Many of these by Repbublicans (such as Section 8 housing). Blacks never had the power to create these programs.
If one was to design a socialist system that could absolutely destroy low income families one could not have done better than what we have today.
WHITE Congressmen (Reublican (socialists) and Democrats(communists) did this.
Black leaders may have gone along with it, but they didn’t implement them.
The closest a Black legislator did was Senator Brooks from Taxatusheets when he created the income based rent for public housing...but the system was already there.
These systems created by WHITE Americans coupled with abortion has pretty much destoryed any semblence of black survival and net positive social contribution.
Senator Monynihan knew this when he suggested benighn neglict would be a relief.
Welfare has destoyed the black family and WHITE Republicans (socialists) and Democrats (communists) are completely at fault.
The Big Boo
Can only be found on conservative blogs.
https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbwssl.cgi?Gw=”we+have+sort+of+a+reverse+plantation";
I like to post stuff like this to my politically agnostic friends, but I prefer not to post an overtly conservative source. Daily Caller seems OK
1. Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood. Millions of black babies aborted.
2. The "Great (Welfare) Society". Made millions of blacks victims on welfare.
3. Aid to Dependent Children. The welfare bonanza.
4. Racial Quotas.
5. Racial Set-Asides.
6. Busing.
7. Midnight Basketball. Nuff said.
8. Black race pimps, extortionists and hustlers.
Should I keep going? I'm tired!
Socialism is incompatible with a free society and a just government, and life proper to a rational being. If blacks truly want freedom rather than being parasites they would reject socialism. Finally some of them are waking up.
I grew up in a black neighborhood back in the 50s.
The people were merchants, professionals, small business owners and tradesmen. They were my scoutmasters, den mothers, schoolteachers, and neighborhood pals.
The civil rights movement, orchestrated by the left wing, convinced most of them that their only hope in this world was with the protection of big government programs and government jobs.
The result has been the destruction of the black family, an abandonment of traditional Christianity, and an education system that fails most and encourages its best and brightest to seek jobs with government instead of the private sector.
It’s sad to see the old-timers in the barber shops today trying to tell the younger generations what it was like when they were free men and the youngsters dismissing them as old fools and uncle Toms who don’t know their own history because that’s not what their college instructors have told them what it was like back in the day when “the man” held them back.
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The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. - Malcolm X
The minister’s work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members - Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood)
These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. - Senator Lyndon B Johnson
Interesting quote from Jesse before he completely sold his race out:
What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and what kind of a society will we have 20 years hence if life can be taken so casually? It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth. - Jesse Jackson
Contrast the state of the Black nation with these quotes from Booker T. Washington:
My experience in getting money for Tuskegee has taught me to have no patience with those people who are always condemning the rich because they are rich, and because they do not give more to objects of charity. In the first place, those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much suffering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises - Booker T. Washington
I tried to emphasize the fact that while the Negro should not be
deprived by unfair means of the franchise, political agitation alone
would not save him, and that back of the ballot he must have property,
industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character, and that no
race without these elements could permanently succeed. I said that in
granting the appropriation Congress could do something that would
prove to be of real and lasting value to both races, and that it was
the first great opportunity of the kind that had been presented since
the close of the Civil War. - Booker T. Washington
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts. - Booker T. Washington
paging Pastor David Manning.
“Then why is Africa not like Europe or America or Japan even China or at least like Russia.”
American economists interviewed shantytown residents in Pretoria back in 2003. The pollsters asked what they wanted most. The answer:
1) Private property
2) The rule of law (contracts)
The answers speak for themselves and tell why these Africans can’t create a country based on liberty and free enterprise.
Communism/Stalinism/Marxism always requires a victim or victims to fuel the “revolution.”
Unfortunately, many Blacks have bought into this victimhood, thinking it’s the way to freedom.
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