Dec 10 2007
Pushing Victimhood On Minorities Makes Their Self Doubt A Barrier To Minority Leaders
Democrat pollster Peter Hart did some work on a focus group of Democrat supporters and learned a harsh lesson about the politics of victimhood and racism. If you push people to believe they can never get ahead in America due to their race, they will never have the confidence to get ahead – and therefore can never be relied on to support their own candidates!
When Hart pushed the group during a two-hour conversation about the strengths and weaknesses of the two candidates, a different picture emerged.
Obama, they worried, can’t win the nomination; voters aren’t ready for an African-American president (a point expressed most directly by the two black women participants), and he may not be sufficiently experienced.
The country is more than ready for a black leader – it will just have to come from the middle-right of the political spectrum to get elected. For too many on the conservative side liberalism is too dangerous a mindset (note the core belief of defeatism and the need for government to help out) to elect despite any racial factors. But a conservative of any kind can be elected easily.
The lesson is clear. Promote the idea your base cannot do it on their own and they will fold every time it is time for them to stand up. Because that is what the PR has been drilling into them for their entire life.
Over the years, the Liberal Democrat mindset and activity has so rigged the system against Blacks with a victimhood mentality that things are being done to Blacks that would be fought tooth and nail if they were attempted by the Klan.
Take education, for instance. Social promotion and self esteem have destroyed what was once the finest public educational system in the world for average citizens. Thomas Sowell writes eloquently that even under segregation, his Harlem high school education was the equal of many White schools of the day. In addition, the Black family structure was incredibly strong with very low out of wedlock rates.
We are producing too many kids who can’t enter the mainstream because they are dropping out, can’t speak proper English, aren’t learning a trade, aren’t going to college and can’t qualify for decent jobs. So what’s left? Is it a life of criminal activity, astronomical incarceration rates, relegation to low-income housing (ghettos) and dependence on welfare. Is the cycle being repeated ad infinitum by having high rates of single parent babies.
It is sad to ask, but is the MOST EFFECTIVE group for keeping the Black Man down, the Klan or misguided Liberal Democrats?
Effective education is the way out of the cycle but it is being undermined by attitudes. Let me go back to the early 1960s, to when I first heard the expression: “Acting White”. Back then it was a mean racist taunt directed toward any Black who dared to speak unaccented English and/or who sought a better education or life for him/herself. Its purpose was to sabotage the target of the slur.
In schools and colleges across America today some Black kids are now saying the exact same thing to other Black kids for the exact same reasons. It’s incredible how far the wheel has turned with many Blacks becoming defacto white supremacists by doing the Klan’s work for them. Amazing!
Regards,