Why liberals should stop trying to ‘help’ black Americans

[theworldismine13]

Why liberals should stop trying to ‘help’ black Americans

http://nypost.com/2014/06/28/how-liberals-make-it-harder-for-blacks-to-succeed

The civil-rights struggles of the mid-20th century were liberalism at its best. The efforts culminated in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed racial discrimination in employment and education and ensured the ability of blacks to register and vote.

But what about the social policy and thinking that arose from the ruins of Jim Crow? Good intentions aside, which efforts have facilitated black advancement, and which efforts have impeded it?

Many liberals today don’t seem particularly interested in asking this question, even though 50 years into the war on poverty the picture isn’t pretty.

While gains have been made, significant racial disparities persist in some areas and black retrogression has occurred in others.

The black-white poverty gap has widened over the last decade and the poverty rate among blacks is no longer declining. The black-white disparity in incarceration rates today is larger than it was in 1960.

And the black unemployment rate has, on average, been twice as high as the white rate for five decades. In fact, black America has long been stuck in a severe recession. Between 1963 and 2012, annual black unemployment averaged 11.6%, while the average annual national unemployment rate during recessions over the same period was only 6.7%.

Confronted with these statistics, liberals continue to push for the same “solutions” that clearly haven’t worked before.

Earlier this year, President Obama announced yet another federal initiative aimed at helping blacks. He called for more preschool education, even though studies — like the one on Head Start released by his administration in 2012 — have found “no significant impacts” in education from such programs.

Obama said that he wants to increase reading proficiency and graduation rates for minority students, yet he opposes school voucher programs that are doing both. And he called for more of the same job-training programs that liberal politicians have been pushing for decades despite scant evidence of their effectiveness.

“The gains from participation are, at best, very modest, even three to four years after entry,” reads a report prepared for the Labor Department on the benefits of the federal government’s biggest job-training program. “Overall, it appears possible that ultimate gains from participation are small or nonexistent.”

That report was released by the Obama administration in 2009.

The president continues to blame the past.
Faced with these failures, the president continues to blame the past. Take his statements after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Obama explained the black response to the verdict in this way: “They understand that some of the violence that takes place in poor black neighborhoods around the country is born out of a very violent past in this country, and that the poverty and dysfunction that we see in those communities can be traced to a very difficult history.”
Obama was doing exactly what liberals have been conditioning blacks to do since the 1960s, which is to blame black pathology on the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow laws. And the president is conditioning the next generation of blacks to do the same.

This is a dodge. Those legacies are not holding down blacks half as much as the legacy of efforts to help them “overcome.” The left’s sentimental support has turned underprivileged blacks into playthings for liberal intellectuals and politicians who care more about clearing their conscience or winning votes than advocating behaviors and attitudes that have allowed other groups to get ahead.

Meanwhile, the civil-rights movement of King has become an industry that does little more than monetize white guilt. King and his contemporaries demanded black self-improvement despite the abundant and overt racism of his day.

King’s successors, living in an era when public policy bends over backward to accommodate blacks, nevertheless insist that blacks cannot be held responsible for their plight so long as someone somewhere in white America is still using the N-word.

Liberalism has also succeeded, tragically, in convincing blacks to see themselves first and foremost as victims.
Liberalism has also succeeded, tragically, in convincing blacks to see themselves first and foremost as victims. Today there is no greater impediment to black advancement than the self-pitying mindset that permeates black culture.

White liberals think they are helping blacks by romanticizing miscreants. And black liberals are all too happy to hustle guilty whites. The result, manifest in everything from black studies programs to black media to black politics, is an obsession with racial slights real or imagined.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas touched on this phenomenon when he told an audience recently that America seems more color conscious than when he was growing up in the segregated South.

“My sadness is that we are probably today more race- and difference-conscious than I was in the 1960s when I went to school. To my knowledge, I was the first black kid in Savannah, Georgia, to go to a white school. Rarely did the issue of race come up,” Thomas said. “Now, name a day it doesn’t come up. Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah. Every person in this room has endured a slight. Every person. Somebody has said something that has hurt their feelings or did something to them — left them out.”

Liberals immediately went about setting Thomas straight. Charles Blow, a black New York Times columnist, informed the associate justice that “the racial reality of blacks in the South in the 1960s was that race- and difference-consciousness was virtually inescapable, and often stifling.”



Never mind that Blow was born in 1970, while Thomas was born in 1948. “It’s unclear to me,” continued Blow, “whether Thomas is being amnesiac in his recollections or if he was contemporaneously oblivious. Either way, being unable to acknowledge and articulate the basic fact that race was — and remains — a concern for others is disturbing.”

Much more disturbing is that half a century after the civil rights battles were fought and won, liberalism remains much more interested in making excuses for blacks than in reevaluating efforts to help them.

 

[Serious]

Ok.....

 

[DEAD7]

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

I THINK THAT HAS A LOT MORE TO DO WITH PUTTING WORKING CLASS PEOPLE IN PRISON FOR USING OR TRADING MARIJUANA, COCAINE, AND HEROIN WHILE THE PLUTOCRATS SMOKE THEIR CIGARS AND GULP DOWN LIQUOR, BROTHER!

ALSO I SHOULD MENTION THAT THE WELFARE STATE HAS BEEN SCALED BACK BY THE REPUBLICANS FOR THE LAST THIRTY YEARS AND YOU ALREADY DAPPED MY POST AND IT WOULD BE UNSPORSTSMANLIKE CONDUCT FOR YOU TO UNDAP IT NOW, DUDE!

 

[No_bammer_weed]

Thats an extremist article if there ever was one. That column was a razor-thin abstraction from what you would read from hardcore underground racist newsletters from back in the day, i.e the stuff Ron Paul used to write: "black pathology", "public policy bends over backward to accommodate blacks", "Liberalism has also succeeded, tragically, in convincing blacks to see themselves first and foremost as victims" (blacks are incapable of basic cognition, thinking for themselves, and goal orientated thinking). All it was missing was an exasperated "when are we just going to finally admit the blacks are a backwards race?" battle cry at the end.

Okay, so these pieces always reduce blacks to crude caricatures and simply draws out from there. But what about the "good blacks". The talented 10th as it were? How do they fare?

Even for those who enter the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, areas where grads are the most needed and paid the highest, African-Americans still have a 10 percent unemployment rate and a 32 percent underemployment rate.

So how does America's cherished bigoted ruminations about the pathological black help us to explain the above quote? Stem degrees are the most coveted degrees going, and yet the unemployment rate for black stem grads is almost double the national average for those who couldnt even dream of attaining such credentials. What gives? If a Black Stem graduate is destined for a life of a security guard at best, what chances does the average black kid have in America?

We can show disinterest in true solutions, but the problem is readily available to anyone who doesnt see the world through an antebellum paradigm, and thats the breathtaking bias blacks face from the womb to the tomb.

 

[theworldismine13]

Thats an extremist article if there ever was one. That column was a razor-thin abstraction from what you would read from hardcore underground racist newsletters from back in the day, i.e the stuff Ron Paul used to write: "black pathology", "public policy bends over backward to accommodate blacks", "Liberalism has also succeeded, tragically, in convincing blacks to see themselves first and foremost as victims" (blacks are incapable of basic cognition, thinking for themselves, and goal orientated thinking). All it was missing was an exasperated "when are we just going to finally admit the blacks are a backwards race?" battle cry at the end.

Okay, so these pieces always reduce blacks to crude caricatures and simply draws out from there. But what about the "good blacks". The talented 10th as it were? How do they fare?



So how does America's cherished bigoted ruminations about the pathological black help us to explain the above quote? Stem degrees are the most coveted degrees going, and yet the unemployment rate for black stem grads is almost double the national average for those who couldnt even dream of attaining such credentials. What gives? If a Black Stem graduate is destined for a life of a security guard at best, what chances does average black kid have in America?

We can show disinterest in true solutions, but the problem is readily available to anyone who doesnt see the world through an antebellum paradigm, and thats the breathtaking bias blacks face from the womb to the tomb.

nobody is saying there arent problems, but for example the black unemployment rate has stayed the same despite affirmative action, so why are liberals pushing affirmative action when we know for a fact it has zero impact on the unemployment rate

why cant black people solve the issue of black unemployment ourselves?

 

[No_bammer_weed]

nobody is saying there arent problems, but for example the black unemployment rate has stayed the same despite affirmative action, so why are liberals pushing affirmative action when we know for a fact it has zero impact on the unemployment rate

why cant black people solve the issue of black unemployment ourselves?

Why arent black people able to overcome incredible suppression of opportunity and rights that has been asked of no other group in modern history??? Its your right to retreat into your own self-constructed universe of your own making and reality, but it doesnt mean I have to join you and engage with your non-sensical, empty calorie ideas.

 

[theworldismine13]

Why arent black people able to overcome incredible suppression of opportunity and rights that has been asked of no other group in modern history??? Its your right to retreat into your own self-constructed universe of your own making and reality, but it doesnt mean I have to join you and engage with your non-sensical, empty calorie ideas.

the issue isnt whether black people have been oppressed, the issue is whether liberalism represents the best way to address the issues

 

[Robbie3000]

Articles like this are so fukking stupid it's hard to know where to start. To people like the author, history and context has little meaning in their analysis..... Everything happens in a fukking vacuum.

 

[theworldismine13]

Articles like this are so fukking stupid it's hard to know where to start. To people like the author, history and context has little meaning in their analysis..... Everything happens in a fukking vacuum.

why is the history and effectiveness of liberal programs not included in "history"

does the history of black people make any effort by white liberals to "help" black people an unquestionable good?

 

[Robbie3000]

why is the history and effectiveness of liberal programs not included in "history"

does the history of black people make any effort by white liberals to "help" black people an unquestionable good?

These guy said

This is a dodge. Those legacies are not holding down blacks half as much as the legacy of efforts to help them “overcome.” The left’s sentimental support has turned underprivileged blacks into playthings for liberal intellectuals and politicians who care more about clearing their conscience or winning votes than advocating behaviors and attitudes that have allowed other groups to get ahead.

This is just incredibly insulting to black people and to the intelligence of the reader. If you take a look at the history of black people in this country as one 24 hour day:

1. Hours 1 - 15 Blacks are considered property.
2. Hours 16 - 21 Blacks face Jim Crow laws and inequality in enforcement of basic civil rights.
3. Hours 22-24 Blacks finally get full civil rights at hour 22 and by hour 24 are expected to have solved all the issues in their community, despite still facing discrimination.

It's a reason why the more black ancestry you have in the western hemisphere, the more likely you are to be at the bottom of the social economic ladder. It's due to the legacy of systematic racism over the last 400 years. It doesn't matter if the country communist or socialist state like Cuba or Venezuela or a capitalistic society like the US. The way society is ordered is almost always the same. Descendants of the slave masters and those who belong to that racial group are almost always at the top of the society and descendants of African slaves are almost always at the bottom. This has little to do with Liberal efforts to address issues of inequality, rather it has to do with legacy of a brutal and oppressive past.

 

[DEAD7]

1. Hours 1 - 15 Blacks are considered property.
2. Hours 16 - 21 Blacks face Jim Crow laws and inequality in enforcement of basic civil rights.
3. Hours 22-24 Blacks finally get full civil rights at hour 22 and by hour 24 are expected to have solved all the issues in their community, despite still facing discrimination.

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

These guy said



This is just incredibly insulting to black people and to the intelligence of the reader. If you take a look at the history of black people in this country as one 24 hour day:

1. Hours 1 - 15 Blacks are considered property.
2. Hours 16 - 21 Blacks face Jim Crow laws and inequality in enforcement of basic civil rights.
3. Hours 22-24 Blacks finally get full civil rights at hour 22 and by hour 24 are expected to have solved all the issues in their community, despite still facing discrimination.

that's a nice breakdown

 

[Shogun]

As long as they continue to get the minority vote, Democrats will continue to "help".

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Articles like this are so fukking stupid it's hard to know where to start. To people like the author, history and context has little meaning in their analysis..... Everything happens in a fukking vacuum.

Lol...shyt is stupid. Just look at how these simplistic ass "it's black peoples' fault for being depraved" arguments are always framed: It's white liberals trying to "help" black people--as opposed to Americans, of various races, who see certain public policies as pragmatic, ethically justified and beneficial to American people as a whole.