Posted on 08/23/2013 7:55:15 AM PDT by chessplayer
As our dear friends at Twitchy observed, Neblett on Wednesday had some things to say about the black unemployment rate both nationally and in specific parts of the country.
Follower MojoMoe retweeted one saying "Blame slavery."
Neblett - who's actually a co-host of a nationally televised, weekday program on a so-called cable "news" network! - retweeted MojoMoe's pathetic comment and added, "That's obviously part of it."
Never mind that the 13th Amendment abolished slavery on December 6, 1865 almost 150 years ago.
Did I mention that this genius is a host on a nationally televised cable "news" network?
Blacks have had a hundred and fifty years to develop a culture. And they have: the Culture of Failure.
I thought, if you are a slave, you have a job.
Toure’s ignorance isn’t too surprising; he wants to be Sharpton II
The systematic corruption started in the "Reconstruction" era, with promises of Government provided "equality"--and in promises of "forty acres & a mule." At the end of the War (1865) a majority of those employed in the skilled building trades in the deep South were Black artisans. Over the next generation, this fell off sharply, to small minorities remaining. It was in this disastrous situation that Booker T. Washington--the great self-taught educator stepped up, and tried to reverse the trend.
Washington advocated learning a trade, and becoming an indispensable part of the economy. But while his efforts initially did a lot of good; and his appeal to the White employer class (Booker T. Washington Address) was heralded across America, the positive thrust forward was again derailed by the antics of the NAACP and others who renewed the efforts to make the Negro dependent upon Government.
The idea that Slavery is somehow magically preventing people from mastering skills that their forebears had already mastered during the slave era, is patently absurd--the grossest possible (and deliberate) confusion of cause & effect.
Those who parrot this nonsense are the enemies of the race--as truly the enemies of the race, as the demagogue now demanding "immigration reform" so as to fill the jobs that trained native American Blacks could fill, with imported folk from South of an unsecured Southern Border.
William Flax
The needless quasi racism of this post is quite annoying.
I agree kad the founders had the good sense not to impose such a morally bankrupt notion as slavery, especially the form used in the N.America. I think Sparta’s treatment of Laconia and Messenia being the closest western equivalent and even that not being all that close.
Slavery is the one of the 2 great sins of the American People, the treatment of the Native Nations the other, especially AFTER treaties had been signed
Lincoln’s second inaugural I believe is most eloquent on the subject.
“Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
This all being true, this generation of Americans will feel ripples and echoes of that earlier era both for the good and ill but we must accept that its our decisions that effect us most.
Again I turn to Lincoln for he said it far better than I may.
“We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.”
What would help the black population the most is all applicants for welfare agreeing to immediate sterilization. If you destroy the incentive to have out-of-wedlock children, you can destroy the whole cycle of dependency and feral children.
That's what my uncle said when he formed a co-op and brought the first cotton picking machine into the San Joaquin Valley. He found that if he paid labor on a Friday, they spent it all in the bars and never came back until they were broke again. Not a penny went to the wives and children. My uncle said, "Screw it," or words to that effect, and organized fellow farmers to purchase a cotton picking mchine and to stop dealing with itinerant labor.
Ah eugenics it has worked so well in the past.
The safety net has often now become just a net, it is true but such ludicrous concepts as forced or near forced sterilization is of no aid to the cause of making a better America.
To extend the nightmare of unintended consequences your suggestion would create, lets posit the requirement for ALL people at say age 14 to have long term internal birth control implanted and only when the have proven to be able to with out assistance of the people to have and raise children could it be legally removed. That is the road down which your post may lead.
I agree that encouraging people to have children when they can provide for them is good policy, but doing so with a carrot is far better than with a stick
Blame slavery????....Go f yourself!!!!!
They want reparations because they say this family got rich from slavery, so I assume just because someone is black that qualifies them for these reparations.
It is said that, in China, chows were bred to be slow and stupid because it was too much trouble to chase after a smart, fast dinner. Is this guy’s rationale similar? How insulting. Additionally, my best friend in college was an ed major who had a social-work type course, and she told me that one man who went to work as a janitor was ridiculed by his neighbors for being so stupid as to do actual labor when he could scam the system and collect money for doing nothing.
Had there not been slavery, I believe that the industrial revolution, in America would have been far more evenly distrusted and your uncles solution of morally neutral technology would have solved the agricultural needs of the world that much quicker.
“Toure Neblett: Slavery Is Partly to Blame for High Black Unemployment Rate” yes and partly to blame for us having to see him on tv blame us for Black unemplyment.
Actually, the blame should be put on the Democratic slaver Party.
Most Blacks complain about slavery and are participants by their own choice in the slaver Party. The Democrat Party has had and still has this evil slavery mentality which it has not turned away from before the Civil War; and has changed for the worse - it is worse now than before. We would do better to remind people of the Democrat slaver Party’s history of not only slavery, but of their racism, their KKK, their Progressive to socialists, communism, their hatred for god and Bible, their holocaust of babies, etc. They may now claim that they abhor the likes of the slavery of old, but in reality they just use different methods for the same means; some more ruthless then that of the 1800’s. The Democrat slaver Party as a whole is evil and indefensible, the whole being how they were and how they are (worse) today. Why would anyone want to defend the Democrat slavers of then and now?
I agree. I had to let some of mine go just yesterday. I have no idea where they'll find work.
Bush’s fault...
So then the relatives of every black person who has committed a crime against someone of another color must either pay the relatives of the offended or suffer punishment. An intriguing thought....
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