Posted on 06/27/2017 7:05:12 AM PDT by rktman
Jason Riley of the Manhattan Institute, whom you may recognize as a frequent panelist on Fox News's Special Report, has written an elegant short book that makes a powerful case on the solution to race relations in the United States. As the title indicates, Riley believes that America's African-American community has been badly served by the emphasis on achieving political power as a means to advance. Much more important, in his view, are the "skills, habits, and values" (p.43) necessary for personal ambition and achievement.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Derogatory comments about the 'freedom movements' sacred cows.
If one claims to be African-American, he is neither. Start there.
That kind of nomenclature of itself does not HAVE to mean a problem. We have had “Irish-Americans” for decades without this kind of trouble resulting. Also good luck enforcing any kind of speech code.
The problem lies elsewhere, with human wickedness.
Not true....some are. My business partner is from South Africa. All his children were born in Africa. The family are now all American citizens, legally naturalized.
I submit that "they" are legitimately "African-American" (and white ones, at that).
I don’t think we have a nomenclature problem nearly as much as we have a hate problem. Your friend probably is glad and grateful to have immigrated.
As Christians or at least Christianized, we “white bread” Americans wonder how the descendants of black slaves can still be sore about the abuses of generations ago, and even more ironic, run almost exclusively into the arms of the very political party that stood for those abuses. They have been whipsawed from hate to faux love. They are as owned in spirit by that party as they were once owned in body by it. Christian ideas hardly enter into this picture. Perhaps, though it may be too late for them to save themselves, this party will realize that it sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind. That it has captives that are rebelling too badly for its own good.
Anyone classified as "white" in South Africa is grateful to have left. And anyone in that category who is still there "should" be leaving.
It would be hard for me to blame them given the current tensions.
Is Africa going back to that old time voodoo?
My paternal grandfather was a successful black entrepreneur who was born in Northern Mississippi in 1906. His generation instinctively knew the wisdom of the above statement. Fortunately, that common sense passed down to myself and my generation. .
Most blacks who've adopted that label, are merely sheeple who follow the herd. They don't actually think of themselves as Africans, and very few have ever stopped to analyze the implications of hyphenated identity. Same goes for other racial minorities who've jumped on that bandwagon.
Every day of my life.
I've grown to greatly appreciate the core grounding my parents and grandparents gave me as a child. It's the root of the conservative ideals I believe in today.
Yup. Me too. More thankful some days than others but always thankful.
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