GDF I understand what you mean but think MEAUX has a point. If you pay attention to the MSN news coverage of the protests and riots, CHAZ/CHAD and the wave of “right thinking “ happening there is something amiss.
@tirk has been doing an excellent job of pointing it out. ALL OF THIS IS EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL BY THE LEFT. It’s also the fruition of 40+ years of liberal activism in education and the media.
If a rational view was taken it would show there are a thousand fathers of the problems faced by the black underclass. First we have to admit there is racism in the world and at one time in the country and the south especially it was systemic. We know about the segregation laws in the south, but why are there so many black ghettos in NYC, Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC etcetera? Why were some of the longest lasting and most difficult desegregation battles fought in Boston? The south is a convenient target and punching bag but the KKK had klavens in every city and state. However that was then and this is now. In fact the Jim Crow laws are gone, we’re more desegregated than ever....hell there’re black trumpers. Yet the ghettos remain and overall blacks are in a much poorer state, maybe even worse than 40 years ago. Why?
In 1964 Pat Moynihan then a professor at Harvard wrote a study on the impact of well fare on poor communities. Do you know much of the well fare effort started on the poor whites in Appalachia? What he found was that outside support with NO effort to change the basic ways of life to develop self sufficiency and acceptance of responsibility the well fare recipients develop a dependence of support and lose even more. His conclusion was that well fare alone is destructive to people. That’s pretty much proven true.
The liberal experiment with the welfare state has created the despair and poverty and social breakdown that leads to these murder statistics. This is something the liberals either don’t understand (the most charitable explanation) or willfully mask. This leaves what may be legitimate outrage overcome and masked by theses productions.
@Kikicaca is right if media, liberals, democrats et al really cared about black lives they would separate the legitimate grievances from the anarchists, the poor blacks who are upset their neighbors are being killed and business destroyed by thugs and for political purposes. They would demand the black mayors of these majority black cities actually help their citizens rather than use them for points.
If we are compassionate humans want to end this cycle of poverty and violence we’d invest in making real change. Education, safety, responsibility opportunity can be had but we have to admit there’s work....not on racism or racial justice but on teaching and bringing people who have been isolated from what we know to be possible by false promises. It’s possible. Look at the many who have lifted themselves out of the morass by dint of effort and self reliance.
That’s what make this latest round so damaging...it’s hurting those who have been hurt the most and at best providing them another false hope.
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