There is an assumption there that whites are under an obligation to care.
I don’t care. The only thing I care about is that my family is safe from violence, which disproportionally comes from the black underclass. If making blacks happy and productive citizens accomplishes that, at reasonable cost, then fine. Otherwise, if staying far away from the underclass accomplishes that, then that is fine too.
If neither of the above can be accomplished, then I will be willing to support other options — without regard to what the black community thinks of those options.
That 4 point plan sounds great to me. I am not up-to-speed on the pedagogy in point 2, but “reading is fundamental” to any success in life, so whatever works works in that regard.
I hate to have to tell the Left wing racial fanatics but white people don’t wake up every morning and look in the mirror and feel bad about it. They don’t go around obsessing about race or what lousy thing they can do to a black person today. No they have to go to work and make money to pay for their lives. They have little or no time to think about blacks at all.
Most Americans today are wondering what the heck the race baiters are talking about.
Below are the actions called for:
“1. The War on Drugs must be eliminated. It creates a black market economy that tempts underserved black men from finishing school or seeking legal employment and imprisons them for long periods, removing them from their children and all but assuring them of lowly existences afterward.”
Translation: Black men cannot resist selling drugs to make easy money, or buying drugs to get high. So we must let them take and sell drugs so they wont be criminals.
“2. We have known for decades how to teach poor black children to read: phonics-based approaches called Direct Instruction, solidly proven to work in the ’60s by Siegfried Engelmann’s Project Follow Through study. School districts claiming that poor black children be taught to read via the whole-word method, or a combination of this and phonics, should be considered perpetrators of a kind of child abuse. Children with shaky reading skills are incapable of engaging any other school subject meaningfully, with predictable life results.”
Translation: After arguing for generations that blacks and whites are the same, and calling anyone who said differently racists, we now admit that Black people are wired differently than whites so they do not learn the same way. This is just another of the endless rationales used to explain the poor performance of blacks in school.
“3. Long-Acting Reproductive Contraceptives should be given free to poor black women (and other poor ones too). It is well known that people who finish high school, hold a job, and do not have children until they are 21 and have a steady partner are almost never poor. We must make it so that more poor black women have the opportunity to follow that path. The data is in: Studies in St. Louis and Colorado have shown that these devices sharply reduce unplanned pregnancies. Also, to reject this approach as “sterilizing” these women flies in the face of the fact that the women themselves rate these devices quite favorably.”
Translation: Black women need more free stuff because they cant be expected to keep their legs closed when informed that a simple behavior change will solve a huge problem.
“4. We must revise the notion that attending a four-year college is the mark of being a legitimate American, and return to truly valuing working-class jobs. Attending four years of college is a tough, expensive, and even unappealing proposition for many poor people (as well as middle-class and rich ones). Yet poor people can, with up to two years’ training at a vocational institution, make solid livings as electricians, plumbers, hospital technicians, cable television installers, and many other jobs. Across America, we must instill a sense that vocational school—not “college” in the traditional sense—is a valued option for people who want to get beyond what they grew up in.”
Translation: Blacks cannot be expected to meet society’s standards for academic success so they must be revised.
The recipe for black success in the US is remarkably simple. 1. work hard in school and at work. 2. Stay out of trouble (no drugs, violence or arrests). Companies will beat a path to your door.
That is correct Mr. McWhorter. My sympathy card is overdrawn and expired. Yet, I do feel for blacks who have moved on and now have a middle-class lifestyle or better. Some are here on FR!
Can we ask, "What did they do to achieve such a position in life?" Let us hold them up in the light of day and say Here is another question to ask: What has the first Black here is an example.
President done for the black communities? I can tell you that he is attempting to legalize MILLIONS of alien invaders who will gladly take jobs away from...blacks. You think he would do the opposite, if he really cared.
And where are the school vouchers?
Enough for now.
Well, it's an odd title.
Blacks should be GLAD white America hasn't "woken up" to racism, but *when* it does, when it can no longer ignore it...there will be some hell to pay. It won't be pretty.
Their twisted logic is that whites have to make perpetual amends to blacks. That's their idea of racism acknowledgement.
The really frightening reality of racism acknowledgement is this: When whites finally do wake up, they'll do so by no longer ignoring black-on-white crimes. No longer ignoring the statistics. And they'll finally fight back and tolerate being bullied no longer.
I've had a board broken over my head, and stitches, a useless police report, the whole thing, when I was attacked by behind by two black thugs. I had been raised to trust, but Reality intervened. Glad I'm not dead, and lived and learned.
Yes, the title of the original post must never come to pass, because *when* whites "wake up to racism" they'll realize they're the real victims, and will stop playing the part of the Punching Bag. Woe to the real racists, then!
The people pushing this (liberals & black race hustlers) basically require people (whites) who are not objectively, or subjectively from their point of view, racist believe that somehow, through no fault of their own, they are BAD PEOPLE.
This is simply not going to happen. Even casual anti-black racial comments are simply not tolerated in polite white or mixed society. These same (white) people, who are being told that they are secretly BAD PEOPLE, see overtly vile statements and despicably violent actions of anti-white racism which are never condemned by the very same (liberal) people who think that whites are secret racists.
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
John McWhorter seems to have “gone native” lately, mouthing foolish progressive catch-phrases as if they were undeniable truths.
I think we’ve discovered who the worst racists are. And it isn’t white conservatives.
” It was one thing to convince America that legalized segregation and disfranchisement were wrong. However, convincing America that black people now need the dismantling of “white privilege” is too enlightened a lesson to expect a vast, heterogeneous and modestly educated populace to ever accept. “
Now that’s how you win white people over to your way of thinking.
Isn’t he that Boondocks hate cartoon author?
War on Poverty and 50 yrs of chaining blacks to government...no dads in household...no nuclear family...black male’s only positive strokes are from gang bangers or getting some girl pregnant...that’s the cause.
“What we really need to be talking about” is, say, psychological tests showing that whites have racist biases they aren’t aware of”
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Mandatory tests, for all white people. Better yet, just declare all white people racist. Wait a minute, that’s already been done.
Most blacks have no iea how fed up sensible people are with whining about racism from blacks and self hating whites.
Accusations of racism and liberal theories like ‘White Privlege’ and ‘Micro-Aggression have become meaningless jokes.
Whining about racism is like the whining of tires on the nearby interstates - it never stops but no one really hears it anymore.
Sense from Daily Beast? That’s unusual.