5 Reasons Black Americans Should Give Up On The Democratic Party

I predict next year the number of Black Americans voting for Obama will undergo a severe drop from 96% all the way down to 95%. Black Americans are in a virtual mental hostage situation with the Dem Party. The Dems have convinced them that government is the source of all good. Look at the ridiculous comments by Black legislators about Republicans virtually all being Klan members wanting to hang Black Americans from trees or bring back slavery. Sane people don't talk that way.

This is getting on fifty years since the big civil rights days of the sixties, and you still have black pols acting as is George Wallace is still the governor of Alabama standing in the doorway and the Klan is terrorizing black citizens. Until we get responsible black pols, a doubtful proposition even with Allen West getting elected, we'll be getting 90% plus Black Americans voting for the party that keeps them mired in poverty and hopelessness.

What has the Democratic Party's "help" over the last 40 years achieved for black Americans? The Democratic Party's line is that black Americans need their "help" to get by in a racist world. Here's an alternate theory: Buying into the Democratic Party's philosophy and accepting "help" has been one of the biggest reasons that black Americans lag behind white Americans. Black males are 6 times as likely to be in prison as white males and black Americans make up 49% of the homicide victims in America. 71.6% of all black Americans are born out of wedlock and black Americans are almost twice as likely to drop out of high school as white Americans, both of which help explain why the black poverty rate is almost 2 1/2 times the white poverty rate.

The author is absolutely correct the above problems are all linked directly to Jonson’s war on poverty.

Johnson’s war on poverty required that those women receiving ADC not have a father living in the home.

You get more of what you pay for. So what do expect when you pay for fatherless households? More fatherless households.

Fatherless household are a direct cause of all of the other problems. And the length and breadth of these problems increase with each succeeding generation.

The real problem with getting Blacks out of this crippling cycle is human nature.

People stay where they are comfortable. It is human nature. Where are people comfortable? Generally where they grew up.

So here we are about 4 generations in to the War On Poverty and every day another batche of kids are born in to the ADC program and another batch of young girls graduate from being a child of the ADC program to being a Female Head of House Hold receiving ADC benefits for her fatherless child. Female Head of House Hold will also be recruited to be a loyal Democrat voter so that can vote her self interest.

It is a hard nut to crack. How do we break in to the comfort zone of this demographic? How do we convince these people that it is in their self interest to wean themselves from the government teat get off the dole and work for their own self interest when their family has lived this way for generations?

Ultimately it is easier for their own community to convince them that they need to change. Hearing these words from an outsider is less convincing. Leaders in their own community will have to convince them that there is a way out and that life is better in the free world.

If I was running for office I would do what everyone before me had done. I would ignore the black voter because there's nothing I can do or say to even have a chance of getting their vote.

While I tend to agree with you on this point, I'd still like to see the GOP Presidential candidate walk into a black church and state these 5 points. Ask people to actually face reality, question the folks they're blindly following. Chances are he'd get boo'd out the building, but it may get a few people thinking. Every war has a first shot.

Kharis13

And two overwhelming reason why they won't.

0 is black - doesn't matter how incompetent he is or how much worse off they are with his communist ideas. Doesn't matter because the ONLY criteria that matters to the majority of them is race.
The Democrats promise them more of other peoples' money without having to work for it. The majority don't want to work, but would rather get paid to pop out illegitimate offspring, get high, get drunk and buy scratch off lotto tickets. If you rob Peter to pay Paul (and this is what the government does), you can count n the unqualified support of Paul.

The majority of blacks are not going to run away from the Democratis plantation. They're too interested in being unchallenged irresponsible slaves rather than free with it's concomitant uncertainties and hard work.

When freed, a good number of former slaves refused to leave the farm.

Good point.

I didn’t mean physical comfort in post 23 but emotional/psychological comfort and your post brings that point to a sharp point. (Not to say that most welfare recipients do not live comfortably)

You may live in squalor but you know that your basic needs are covered. Knowing that your day to day existence is ensured by the master; this is the comfort of a slave. It is a perfect analog for the welfare recipient.

The nanny state is a kind master. It does not ask much of its slaves. All it ask is that you vote for the Democrats every two years. If you show up at a demonstration once in a while so much the better.

...had rolled up with 15 white, country boys from school. The girl's father told them that they could come in if they wanted. They politely refused and said if their friend wasn't welcome, then they weren't going to go in either... the girl who was throwing the party was horrified and incredibly embarrassed that her father had done that and the party broke up and ended within a few minutes time. As someone who was born in the seventies in North Carolina and grew up admiring people like Muhammad Ali, Satchel Paige, and even Malcolm X (Yes, really) that was a pretty good example of the world I grew up in. Sure, there were a few diehard racists around, but amongst people of my generation, they were few and far between. We didn't grow up with separate water fountains, segregation, or Jim Crow laws. The KKK was considered a joke, even back then, and few people ever dropped the N-bomb in conversation unless they were reciting rap lyrics.

Thanks Kaslin.

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