Comments on: Pushing Victimhood On Minorities Makes Their Self Doubt A Barrier To Minority Leaders http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4771 High Flying Political Debate Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:18:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: VA Voter http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4771/comment-page-1#comment-248473 VA Voter Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:31:26 +0000 http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/4771#comment-248473 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, 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,

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