Posted on 07/18/2020 10:19:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
By preserving culture and supporting children, the nuclear family consequently becomes the highest and most effective form of empowerment.
By now, people are realizing that Black Lives Matter (BLM) is less an organization committed to improving the black community, and more a Marxist group exploiting racial tensions to push its agenda. According to a recent poll, “70 percent of respondents think that the movement has not improved race relations, with 38 percent saying Black Lives Matter has made race relations worse.” After so much agitation and protest, BLM has little to show for itself besides fomenting chaos in urban America and coaxing millions of dollars from white elites hoping to expiate feelings of guilt.
Besides the lackluster outcome of its campaign, what has bothered people most about BLM is its core beliefs, which often stray from the concerns of many black Americans. In particular, BLM opposes the nuclear family: “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.”
The logic of this statement suggests that children do better without parents and outside the home. Rather, the “village” will raise them. More than any other belief of BLM, this one against the nuclear family threatens the most harm to Americans of all races. Dismantling it leaves children extremely vulnerable to social ills.
As former NFL athlete Marcellus Wiley brilliantly explains, children in broken homes “are 5 times more likely to commit suicide, 6 times more likely to be in poverty, 9 times more likely to drop out of high school, 10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances, 14 times more likely to commit rape, 20 times more likely to end up in prison, 32 times more likely to run away from home.” Far from taking responsibility for the children, BLM’s proverbial village usually swallows them whole.
So why does BLM include this claim in its creed? When all evidence suggests that eliminating the nuclear family immeasurably harms minorities, how does an organization advocating on their behalf justify this stance? Answering these questions is worthwhile not only because it highlights the essential virtues of the nuclear family, but it also offers a way to address the great decline in family life already happening.
First and foremost, the nuclear family is a civilization’s primary means of cultural transmission. Parents pass on their values, faith, and traditions to their children, who then do the same for the next generation. A person’s politics, religious beliefs, and life goals are largely determined by his parents, who set the expectations. Whatever a school might teach or church might preach, parents usually have the final say for a child growing up, even after they become teenagers.
This is why BLM and progressive activists in general detest the family. They rightly see it as the main obstacle to their cultural revolution. Sure, they will start with toppling statues, painting ugly murals, rewriting history, and canceling dissenting views, but the keystone of culture is the family. A loving home will stubbornly continue to thwart the leftist propaganda projected everywhere. A self-sufficient unit, a nuclear family can preserve its way of life and insulate from damaging outside forces.
Acknowledging this, leftists will defend their hostility by contending that families continue to nurture prejudice and backward views. According to many leftists, the only thing the toxic home passes on to future generations is intolerance and ignorance. This is the stated reason for many pivotal leftists’ desire, such as John Dewey, to separate children from parents.
On the contrary, the nuclear family teaches tolerance and empathy. One can choose his friends, but he cannot choose his family. Respecting the dignity of others regardless of their merits arises from continual interaction with imperfect, unchosen family members.
As Rusty Reno wrote in the American Mind, “The family is a school of loyalty.” Without family, people might never learn to trust others, especially strangers with a different background. They might become intolerant, fearful, and ultimately lonely — perfect candidates for radicalization.
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By preserving culture and supporting children, the nuclear family consequently becomes the highest and most effective form of empowerment. Unfortunately, one person’s empowerment is another person’s privilege. Thus, in the name of social justice, BLM would rather deny all people this privilege than extend it to the less fortunate.
To its credit, BLM understands the real importance of the nuclear family, which is why activists explicitly attack it. For far too long, however, the majority of Americans have not understood this and have allowed the family to disintegrate. It wasn’t Plato’s “Republic,” Hobbes’ “Leviathan,” or Marx’s “State” taking children from their parents so they could be indoctrinated and assigned a role in the system. It was a culture that permitted abortion and no-fault divorce, redefined marriage and sex, and replaced fathers with the welfare state. And it was parents who outsourced their children to mediocre schools and mind-numbing screens.
What was once the apex of human experience is now seen as a terrible burden. Unsurprisingly, millennials don’t want to marry or become parents, nor does Gen Z, which accounts for the below-replacement U.S. fertility rates the last few years. Inundated with leftist narratives through popular culture, many young adults would prefer to cohabitate, own a dog, and binge-watch “The Office.” If they yearn for something more meaningful, they can engage in slacktivism and support causes such as BLM.
Long before Americans see the effect of the upcoming demographic winter, wherein adult diapers outsell children’s diapers and every social entitlement goes bankrupt, they will see a collapse in the culture. Without family acting as a cultural bulwark preserving American ideals in the face of ubiquitous leftist messaging, society will slip into dysfunction and chaos.
To put America first, one must put family first. It’s not enough to simply disagree and prove organizations like BLM wrong. Conservatives and patriotic Americans must support the nuclear family. Without family, the community becomes the mass, a collection of people without ideals to hold them together. With family, the community and its members become stronger, and Americans can finally attain and experience the kind of social harmony and justice they so desire.
Amen!
How should we treat the *misguided*? Words fail me.
They are NOT simply Marxists. They are Marxist tribalists.
And if you are white, you are NOT in their tribe.
“In particular, BLM opposes the nuclear family”
Finally - SOMEBODY read the BLM manifesto and discovered that the dominant express goal is destruction of the traditional family as a unit.
Been wondering when someone would figure this out. Evil will usually state their plans in clear terms; Good is usually too stupid to listen.
l8r
BLM (Burn, Loot, Murder) wants to legitimize marxist state production of fatherless feral pavement primates.
yes but ‘modern’ society govt and programs do not support the nuclear family, and instead rewards and supports single moms, dads are disposable, men are just atm’s
society told men to phuck off, you aren’t important, you have no say in any decisions, but we’ll make you pay
and collectively men pay for all single women via taxes so you’re not escaping it if you aren’t married
no kidding
blm is socialist/marxist
they dont want family units intact thats authority outside the government
Society has a unique vested interest in promoting traditional marriage and it is for this very reason that the civil/secular aspect of marriage actually is primarily to create a contract between the marrying couple and their community. Society agrees to provide the couple with official recognition and support, including monies that are taken from the general tax-paying population and given over to the couple and their children in the form of tax breaks, school funding and other benefits. For their part, the couple make an implicit good faith agreement to remain bound in matrimony and to attempt to produce and responsibly raise any ensuing children.
Sadly, as part of the ongoing assault on our way of life as free and sovereign citizens under our Constitution, the forces of the "progressive" left have been attempting to diminish or kill the nuclear family and replace it with the nanny state. They denigrate and trivialize traditional marriage by attempting to reduce it to simply one of many "equally valid" hedonistic comme ci comme ça relationships (if ghey marriage, why not plural marriage, sibling marriage or even parents marrying their own grown children?).
Ghey couples are fundamentally different from traditional married couples. Only traditional married couples can create and raise the next generation of civil society so it is factually wrong to equate ghey unions with marriage. Gheys are just being used by the left as a wedge to trivialize traditional marriage.
However, these fake marriages are mere pimples on the face of society compared to the cancer that is the out-of-wedlock production of children. Fatherless feral pavement people produced and raised outside of marriage are a bane to civil society. Society has a strong interest in promoting procreation only within the bonds of traditional enduring marriage.
Much more important than a child's birth status is how the child is raised. The key is being raised from a toddler to adulthood with both their biological father and mother in the home (sometimes an adoptive parents can be nearly as good). However, being raised by a baby momma with a string of feral kids all with different sperm donor dads is a recipe for disaster. Dem policies encourage this. Dems are evil.
You cannot convince me, that anyone if given the choice, would not choose to grow up in a stable Two-Parent Household.
But since many of them don’t, they feel that getting rid of it is the best way to ‘level the playing field’.
What they call “White Privilege”, in most cases, is just having the advantage of growing up with a stable household with two parents.
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You cannot convince me, that anyone if given the choice, would not choose to grow up in a stable Two-Parent Household.
But since many of them don’t, they feel that getting rid of it is the best way to ‘level the playing field’.
What they call “White Privilege”, in most cases, is just having the advantage of growing up with a stable household with two parents.
Exactly so.
Working alongside destruction of the nuclear family is abortion.
The "right" to abort means one generation can 'off the next and with it, the American republic.
Roe not only stands athwart Natural Law, it violates the very purpose We the People came together under a Constitution of our own: "to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity",
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