
Originally Posted by
tattedupboy
I myself am a Black man and nothing is more distressing than seeing my people dying violently at such a high rate. Something not mentioned above, however, was the fact that most shootings of Blacks are done by other Blacks. In an age where Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are quick to protest every shooting of a Black person by a non Black person or the police, neither can be seen protesting the real problem, which is the issue of Black on Black crime, as well as the no-snitching code that protects the killers. Everything that ails the Black community, whether it's the high out-of-wedlock birthrate, low standardized test scores, or the high Black-on-Black crime rate, points to a cultural deficiency, in this Black man's opinion. If we want to change the results, then we need to change our culture, not our society.
In my heart of hearts, I truly believe that this was Lyndon Baines Johnson's real intent with "The Great Society". How could a man be a vehement racist one day, and "a champion of civil rights" the next? It is obvious to me that the real intentions of The Great Society and the "war on poverty" was to create racial integration from a different perspective, and continue the tradition of making the black race an underclass, now dependent on the American government for its survival. Or to be more precise, dependent on the Democratic party for its survival.
This has purposely created the cultural deficiency of which you speak. I won't go into detail of the how and why, but I assure you that Dr. Martin Luther King is rolling over in his grave right now....THIS WAS NOT THE COUNTRY OF HIS DREAM!!!!! Yet some who marched beside him, and others who saw an opportunity, have gotten rich from this modern form of enslavement of the black people. (Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Rep. Elijah Cummings, Rep. Charles Rangel, Rep. Maxine Waters, Rep. James Clyburn, Rep. John Conyers Jr., Rep. John Lewis (a freedom marcher), etc, etc, etc)
From 1964 to 2012, the War on Poverty has cost the American taxpayer a little over 17 trillion dollars. To put that amount of money in perspective, ALL wars from the Revolution to the Global War on Terror has cost America around 7 trillion dollars.
Yet the percentage of Americans "living in poverty" is exactly the same as it was in 1964. The only thing that the War on Poverty has accomplished is to slightly increase the standard of living of those living in poverty. It has done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to get them out of poverty. Any American black who has left the ranks of the poor in the past 50 years has done so on his/her own volition, with no thanks to LBJ, or any other Democrat for that matter.
Why does no one address the REAL gun problem, and the issue of "black-on-black" crime? Because they are pretty happy with it, I'd imagine, as long as it generally stays within the confines of the inner cities. If it moved out to the 'burbs, THEN it would be a problem.
The biggest problem is that this is a conversation that is not allowed to be addressed. Most all on the left would say that I am a racist for even mentioning this, being a white man, and a Southerner to boot.
"I don't think that a society that encourages over a million abortions a year....a society that kills out of convenience, i.e., Jack Kevorkian, can not have consequences." --Rush Limbaugh