Posted on 09/06/2014 1:53:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
We need a chief executive who can artfully make the compelling case to the country that we continue to be unfairly and unconstitutionally subjugated.
Every so often, an incident symptomatic of deeper issues triggers a release valve for collective despair. The killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., sparked a movement much larger than concerns about the aggressive policing of black men. The marches and protests are a larger commentary about the economic and societal disenfranchisement of black people and the response to Brown’s death is a coalescing event, sounding the latest clarion call for America to revisit her unresolved original sin.
But movements need leaders. And while this one certainly has organizers doing important work, it is missing the critical element that black America has not produced for some time: a national, unifying figure. Black America needs its own presidential figurehead—a chief executive who can artfully make the compelling case to the country that we are unfairly and unconstitutionally subjugated. A case that needs to have a face and voice with which the nation can interact, associate and, in theory, negotiate.
Though familiar faces take the mantle in times of uncertainty or calamity, none are the embodiment of the larger, enduring and unrelenting cause. In a survey last year, a plurality of black Americans (40 percent) said there is no leader who speaks (pdf) for them. Even when familiar names were presented, such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson or current Congressional Black Caucus members, only 1 in 10 felt these leaders were adequately giving voice to their issues. The most popular name was the Rev. Al Sharpton, but there is a growing sentiment that his vision and approach lack currency....
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The reason the laws that give them favor are not good for them is because the law is to let YOU, the tax payer, buy the demonrats the welfare vote, not to actually improve any “come-yet”.
One way to stop that dem vote buy would be to temporarily terminate any right to vote if drawing any welfare and for 2 years minimum afterward. The only exception would be those that are truly handicapped.
This is an euridite response. The Black repatriation movement had significant momentum with many leading abolitionist and even Lincoln supporting it. Obviously, Liberia was founded by freed slaves. Ideas of repatriating blacks dated all the way back to the Founding Fathers who almost all were in favor of migrating blacks away from American soil. Jefferson, Monroe, etc. were very vocal about this.
Frederick Douglas stonewalled the effort and, in my opinion, almost single-handedly killed this movement. He certainly greatly influenced Lincoln’s thinking and moved him away form repatriation. One of the greatest tragedies to befall America is not returning the kidnapped and enslaved blacks back to their homeland.
The rest of your post about 2016 being the last change is spot on too.
Blacks should blame themselves for slavery. It was blacks who imprisoned other blacks and sold them to the Arabs. In this country there were thousands of blacks who were slave owners.
Why don’t these racist bums move to Liberia? Who gives a rat’s a** how they feel or what they think? Enough of this BS.
” A case that needs to have a face and voice with which the nation can interact, associate and, in theory, negotiate. “
Negotiate, Mr. Johnson? Well, let me tell you life isn’t fair. We’ve done our best to ‘level the playing field’ by tilting it to lowered minority expectations. This action hasn’t caused you to improve your culture. It has given you excuses to blame others for continued degradation of your conditions.
Our civilization is engaged in a vicious spiraling that does nothing to elevate anyone. The tipping point is coming when the realization occurs that nothing more can be done. What will you do then?
“PROPERTY REQUIREMENT FOR VOTING”
Vaquero, I can’t agree with you there. What about young couples saving to buy a home but forced to live in apartments until they have sufficient money? Or an elderly person who can no longer afford the upkeep of a home but has voted all his/her life. Should such people lose their right to vote?
In negotiations, if everything you are willing to offer will still not be enough, you might as well not offer anything. The other side will be pissed, but they would be pissed ANYWAY, and you still retain what you were going to offer in a futile attempt to appease them.
the property requirement does not have to be Real Property.
a bank account with sufficient funds (your young couple saving for that house). I have 2 boys grown, saving for houses and putting money away. they have enough for a crap house in a crummy area, so they are still saving, but they do have enough for me to consider them making the property requirement.
people who live like gypsies and/or p!$$ away every dollar every paycheck, does not have a stake in the country. they are the vermin who voted for zer0.
GREAT DOCUMENTARY. it is so close to true to be very scary.
I tend to agree and while I am not sure what form it would/will take I do know that we are fools if we think we can continue down this path of multiculturalism and pretending race doesn’t matter all the while having political race groups. As bad as things are now it will get progressively worse no matter who is in the White House.
Why would whites willingly dilute themselves with no specific representation or political power yet allow unbridled non white growth and give them race specific political power? How does that not end in disaster?
So this guy in office isn’t working out for them? The black community is destroying this country with their I wants and needs and we continue to do back flips for them. Possibly instead of their own president, maybe they should consider their own country. They could become American-Africans, after the Ebola thing is over, of course.
Barf, they need to stop blaming others for their own choices and circumstances.
Raise your hand if you are just sick of 13% of the population running the show.
Your’s was an interesting post. It is interesting that countries ruled by blacks have not been successful in a modern sense of the word.
Still for those blacks who choose to become educated and are willing to work alongside others, they can be very successful.
In the western hemisphere, we can look to Haiti as an example of failure to educate and work hard as the problem why this tropical island is so poverty stricken.
I have a friend whose husband is often on missions to central America and Africa to help install stoves and water purification systems. Recently he found a friend who is an inventor, and together they plan to install lots of new water purification systems. This inventor told my friend’s husband that he has been to lots of countries south of the USA. In most of the areas the population chipped in with helping them do the labor - but in Haiti, no one offered to help them with digging or other preparation work for installing the stoves or water systems. His friend says he will never go to Haiti again.
This may sound harsh, but honestly, I wonder why he would bother. Even in a formerly productive city like Detroit in the US, copper and other saleable materials are stripped from homes and systems for a quick buck. The place has been just looted on a grand scale, as if an army of locusts passed through. And that’s an old, old story in majority-black and black-run areas.
“Oh and if Ben Carson runs expect the poison to rise up from the sheeple tribals. Sick of ‘em.”
Not sure what you are implying. If Dr. Ben Carson ran for President, some of them might vote for him - but only after being subjected to what an idiot Carson is to be a Republican, Conservative, whatever. Ben Carson is acting like a ‘cracka’, and all that garbage. Sharpton, Holder, JJackson, Obama, and the Cong. Black Caucus would go bananas if Carson ran as a Conservative. They would crucify him for being off the reservation. Still, it might be an interesting experiment - if only our country had the strength and time to survive such an experiment.
My admiration for conservative back Americans is very high.
Perhaps from the USA to Liberia. I hear the medical care there is special....
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