Rather, the politically surreal isolation self-imposed by "the black leadership," with which they have for the last decades continued to try and convince black people of the futility of daring to entertain [law-abiding] opportunities, has now proven to be the chain for securing real isolation.
All these years during which especially young black men could have been studying instead of feted at the altar of Jesse Jackson's "You have a right to be perpetually down 'n in the 'hood."
It's incredible; all of a sudden about ten years ago, there appeared around here hundreds of illegal aliens from "south of the border."
They found jobs which supposedly did not exist --- er, that is, they found jobs, instead of waiting around for something extorted from Jesse Jacksonian Democrat-cy (or The Reverend Al's Creative Workship, or Harry Bull 'n Fount o' Pain).
We could have right now, a few thousand young black men who had instead studied and become doctors and scientists and engineers, and they could be contributing to the cures of various ills of the little kids over at Children's Hospital.
But no, because The Party of Closure wants none of it ... that is, they want nothing by virtue of employing what is in each of us, the restless energy to do something.
The hardest part of work, is the self-discipline and expectations of oneself, from which come productivity greater than the needs of yourself; and when working as a team, sometimes twice as productive.
It's nature's way of growing; God's design.
Something the Reverend Al could do so much more to explain and see much more in the fruit of our labors.
Jesse has always tended toward shameless tall tales, yet he used to get away with it because in small numbers, he would tell young black children to study, to work on their education; but he, has long since stopped explaining to kids how they must prepare themselves for law-abiding opportunity.
If you look at the LAPD Most Wanted lists, you'll see relatively few blacks, they are far far outnumbered by those "hard-working, hard-studying" immigrants. Much of our crime is now imported.
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, during her recent ill-fated Maryland gubernatorial campaign asserted that ‘Slavery was based on race; lynching was based on race; discrimination was based on race; affirmative action should be based on race.’
She was (with uncharacteristic candor) repeating the democrat mantra that black people must be kept in their place (i.e., dependent on the largesse of the democrat power brokers). Slavery, lynching, and discrimination are no longer socially acceptable ways to keep blacks from achieving (and anyway, in order to be implemented they don’t involve the essential ingredient: government largesse). But affirmative action (the acceptance of the belief that blacks cannot make it on their own, and must receive special consideration in order to do so) is (socially acceptable, among leftists, that is) -- simply because it involves the implementation of patronizing federal programs, and the maintenance of a system of social dependence.
Leftists have pinned all manner of labels on blacks who achieve (without the help of government power brokers, that is). Harry Belafonte called Colin Powell ‘akin to a slave.’ Alicia Banks called Clarence Thomas ‘an inept, unqualified Supreme Court n*gg*r.’ (She also used the same offensive ‘n word’ in describing Powell.) The list of derogatory epithets is endless ….
Over the past forty years, the democrat party (most notably, and most recently, the likes of Al Sharpton, Jesses Jackson, Kwesei Mfume, et al) have used American blacks for the party’s ends. They have sent a clear (and, unfortunately, generally embraced) message that they (and their social pandering/handouts) are the answer to what is seen as black underachievement.
The fact that many blacks have continued to underachieve because they have followed the teachings (and unsubstantiated rantings) of these duplicitous pipers is sad enough. But another sickening outcome of the self-serving leftist lies is that genuine achievers (Condoleeza Rice, Michael Anderson, Walter Williams, Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Alan Keyes ….) are often seen as traitors to their race.
Booker T. Washington warned, ‘There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.’