Posted on 07/22/2013 3:48:29 AM PDT by markomalley
And how is that to be accomplished electorally? Shifting demographics, which will take a seismic shift upon passage of the alien amnesty bill, likely will likely saddle us with race-based, Obama-type presidents into the unforeseeable future.
Blood is thicker than almost anything - except, perhaps, the Liberal mind.
I have always wondered if the blacks were a trojan horse delivered by the muslim slavers and wether iur response shoulde be “get off our lawn”. Or sometinhg else.
And their present calamitous situation is not a matter of black color, African origins, slave culture, or the risks of exobiology. It's something else.
How about a special legislative committee to study the “continuing effects of a culture of perpetual grievance, loss of father-headed families, and degrading welfare dependency” on African-Americans?
At the time of the Harlem Renaissance --- a wonderful outpouring of creativity in poetry, drama, dance, music, philosophy, literature, political and religious thought in the 1920's and 1930's --- 90% of the Black children in Harlem were living in households headed by their own married fathers and mothers.
Something catastrophically destructive happened to the Black community, not just before 1865, or between Reconstruction and the Great Depression, but between the 1930's and now. It wasn't some kind of exotic-afro-alienism. And it wasn't slavery.
Think, think.
Yes, the Shelby Steele article - it was excellent and I hope somebody posts it today.
One of the things that happened was the Great Society. Many blacks in NYC were fairly poor, but they were in the position of any immigrant group, in the sense that most of them actually were immigrants from the South and were trying to make their way into a different, more economically advantageous culture.
The black crime rate was always higher, but it was not the sort of blatant, callous crime that it reflects now. However, it wasn’t impossible for whites, whether Anglo or Hispanic, native-born or immigrant, to live in a black area because there was a large black working class who wanted the same things for their kids as everybody else.
When I was a child (1950s), the projects in Harlem were mixed, and families could only get in if the parents of the children were married and if one of them had a job. Then suddenly in the mid-60s, they dropped both of those requirements (and also started permitting unmarried mothers), and within no time at all the projects were all black and had become seething hotbeds of crime and destruction.
Decent black people did not like this at all, btw. I was a waitress when I was in college and one of my fellow waitresses was a black woman in her 40s or so who had several children (and a husband, of course) and lived in the projects. She was furious and said this was going to give all the wrong messages to black children. And sure enough, it did, even to her kids: a year later, her 16 year old daughter was pregnant and applying for her “own” apartment in the projects. She felt she had failed and she was very, very upset - but it was the times, and it was the message coming out in a very powerful way, with financial incentives, from the federal government, the city government and all of the media.
If journalists back then were what they are now, I’d want to see the birth certificate, the autopsy, and all the other things I had to hunt down on my own to get THIS story sorted out. But I hope you are right, and back then journalists really were objective and thorough and honest.
Although we lived just 3 blocks from St James A.M.E., we weren't much familiar with it except for one weekend every summer, when they had their Food & Faith Festival, blocked off the street, and sold sweet potato pies, fried catfish and hush puppies. And, dare I mention it, slabs of cold watermelon. White kids like my brother and I could freely wander over for catfish and stay for the music, early in the day it was Gospel, and later Old Timey and Blues.
There was a sense of "Ethnic Neighborhoods," but there was not race hatred. Black or white, you could get a good job right out of high school, because we had industries: a paper mill, a big G.E. plant, Westinghouse aluminum, Bucyrus-Erie, National Forge & Steel.
So lots of young adults got pretty good-paying jobs right out of high school,got married, got mortgages on houses, got families started. There was a lot of teenage childbearing, but it wasn't a problem because it was married teenagers at 18 and 19.
That's all long gone. We were first redeveloped (which devastated the parish neighborhoods and the Black churches as well), then de-industrialized, then de-populated.
I wouldn't go back there now. It's not Detroit, but it's just one more flake of Rust Belt corrosion.
In retrospect, its decline has the overall appearance of having been deliberate. From Redevelopment on down.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.