Posted on 07/02/2020 7:56:45 AM PDT by SJackson
The damage the Left is perpetrating may be mortal.
According to the make-believe world of the left, we are experiencing a great moment in American racial history. For the first time, the story goes, more whites than ever are coming to realize how racist America is, how racist cops are and how systemically racist everything in America is. Only now do many Americans understand just how racist Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemima, Ulysses Grant, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, "whitening" agents, meritocracy, Western culture, Christianity, jailing Blacks and the NFL are. The bestselling book in America is about alleged "white fragility" — the term for any rational response to the irrational charge that all whites are racist.
All this is supposed to be good for America's blacks.
But none of it is. In fact, it is all destructive.
Take the movement to defund police departments and the incessant charges of "police brutality" and "racist police." Only those who don't care about Blacks other than using them to advance their power — Democrats and the rest of the left, both black and white — argue this war against the police is good for blacks. Already the increase in the number of blacks murdered, not to mention injured, is reaching levels unseen in decades. And there is every reason to assume, as police pull back from high-crime areas, it will get worse.
Take the left-wing mantra that all whites are racist. If I wanted to obstruct black progress, and especially damage black children, I couldn't come up with a more effective idea. To believe from early childhood that you walk through life held in contempt by all of your fellow citizens who are white is to walk through life with much more than a chip on your shoulder. It is more like a heavy boulder.
It means that you will walk through life with two paralyzing burdens: anger and victimhood. Either one is enough to ruin your life. Combined they're devastating. It gives one an idea of how cynical the left is that it would want to cultivate both of these life-ruining emotions in as many blacks as possible.
Anger and victimhood not only ruin the individual's life but also destroy one's relationships with others. Everyone who has an angry individual in their family knows not only how unhappy that person is but also how much havoc they wreak on the rest of the family. The same holds true for the relative who sees him or herself as a perpetual victim. Such people are both miserable and miserable to be around. And since victimhood is a major cause of evil — people who see themselves as victims usually think they are not nearly as bound by moral rules as others are — they are more likely to hurt others.
In a report yesterday on a police shooting of a robber who resisted arrest and reached for an object in his waistband, the San Diego Union-Tribune quoted a protest organizer: "If this young man was robbing, that means his state and his government failed to provide him with the resources he needs." When you feel you are a victim, you are allowed to rob.
Take the constant, often absurd, charges of racism at the most benign comments. If you say, for example, that you see nothing wrong with the picture of Uncle Ben on a box of rice, you will be accused of racism. As a result, most whites understand they can no longer speak truthfully or from the heart in the presence of a black American. It is hard to imagine a worse recipe for genuine relationships between the races. Whereas the great majority of whites, and even most blacks, thought white-black relations were good and improving when Barack Obama assumed office, a minority of both groups think so today.
Take the assault on merit-based advancement in the name of racial equality. Will this help or hinder blacks? It will obviously help some blacks in the short run. But over the long term, telling any group they needn't meet a universal standard of excellence can only harm that group — not to mention harm the way their success will be viewed by others. Moreover, it is difficult to imagine a more condescending view of a group than to argue that standards must be lowered for them to succeed.
The damage the left is doing to America may be mortal. When it is widely deemed OK to destroy statues of Abraham Lincoln, society is experiencing a moral earthquake which may eventually destroy it. But the damage the left is doing to so many blacks — to their moral compass, to their happiness and to their relations with their white fellow citizens — is not in the realm of "may do." It is done.
Indeed.
Exactly right. And if posted anywhere but here, it would be disappeared in a heartbeat.
Barry moved us back 25 years. These Commie organized riots shoved us back another 25, so ya.. 50 is about right.
American minorities who disagree with the protestors (I’m certain there are many), need to step up.
Nothing and no one is stopping them. We’re waiting...
I think it is creating, in all races, racism against blacks and black culture in the US. And people are becoming more vocal about it. It’s not a groundswell, but I am seeing it. And I suspect what I’m seeing is just the tip of the iceberg because people are very careful in this environment to share publicly how they really feel about this.
No Soros, Obama, the media and the Globalists have done this.
Yes indeed it has.
When will the media start analyzing a significant root of the problems, the breakdown of the family and the absence of fathers in the family? Why can’t we subsidize stable, two parent families and not subsidize single parent families?
try about 150 years
I think it has been extremely damaging to black communities, and I place is squarely on the head of the Community Organizer who brought it all about: Barack Obama.
Remember, he is a devotee of Alinsky (one of his idols) and Alinsky stated that their job as community organizers is not to fix issues.
Their job as Community Organizers is to poke open sores, exacerbate situations until people cry out for change...change which will come at the hands of scum like Obama and Alinsky.
People like Alinsky and Obama don’t give a crap about the people suffering, they want to rip of bandages and scabs of people with open sores in a naked quest for political power.
Cherryl Taggart? Dagney maybe?
I think welfare payments for a family should maximize if the family includes a married couple and up to 2 children. Unmarried couples get less. Single parent gets even less. Additional children does not increase the monthly amount, it decreases the monthly amount.
We should be paying for what we want.
I think it’s a reference to Cheryl Brooks who married James Taggart (brother of Dagny Taggart). Cheryl is a hard-working girl from a poor background. She is determined to make something of herself and admires James Taggart. She is slow to realize that James is a louse, a looter, and a big part of the world’s problem. Cheryl Taggart eventually commits suicide after she loses all hope that the world can be fixed.
‘When it is widely deemed OK to destroy statues of Abraham Lincoln, society is experiencing a moral earthquake which may eventually destroy it.’
does that go for those on this forum that would love to tear Lincoln down as well...?
It is intended to be mortal.
Similar to one of my all time favorite movies Our Man Flint.
The James Coburn lead character destroys the world government controlled plans of the self-appointed ruling board. They know they are defeated and say to Flint, this could have been a perfect world. Why did you do this?
Because it’s your idea of perfection, gentlemen - not mine! Derek Flint
I had no problem interacting with anyone of African decent before but now I have to know them to be conservative before initiating a conversation. That’s probably wrong for me to feel that way but they brought this on, not me.
Well said!!
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