Black Self-Sabotage

[CG6468]

Black Self-Sabotage
   
If we put ourselves into the shoes of racists who seek to sabotage black upward mobility, we couldn't develop a more effective agenda than that followed by civil rights organizations, black politicians, academics, liberals and the news media. Let's look at it.

First, weaken the black family, but don't blame it on individual choices. You have to preach that today's weak black family is a legacy of slavery, Jim Crow and racism. The truth is that black female-headed households were just 18 percent of households in 1950, as opposed to about 68 percent today. In fact, from 1890 to 1940, the black marriage rate was slightly higher than that of whites. Even during slavery, when marriage was forbidden for blacks, most black children lived in biological two-parent families. In New York City, in 1925, 85 percent of black households were two-parent households. A study of 1880 family structure in Philadelphia shows that three-quarters of black families were two-parent households.

During the 1960s, devastating nonsense emerged, exemplified by a Johns Hopkins University sociology professor who argued, "It has yet to be shown that the absence of a father was directly responsible for any of the supposed deficiencies of broken homes." The real issue, he went on to say, "is not the lack of male presence but the lack of male income." That suggests marriage and fatherhood can be replaced by a welfare check.

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Disgustingly, black politicians, civil rights leaders, liberals and the president are talking nonsense about "having a conversation about race." That's beyond useless. Tell me how a conversation with white people is going to stop black predators from preying on blacks. How is such a conversation going to eliminate the 75 percent illegitimacy rate? What will such a conversation do about the breakdown of the black family (though "breakdown" is not the correct word, as the family doesn't form in the first place)? Only black people can solve our problems.

I admire Walter Williams and enjoy reading his articles.

Walter Williams' article

[marv]

Williams' entire article should be posted over at DU. 'Course that won't happen because it contradicts their fantasies.

[Dori]

There are a lot of black conservatives saying the same thing.  They get labeled as "Uncle Toms" etc.

O'Reilly has stirred up a hornets nest on this issue.  He has taken on the race baiters and Sharpton is livid.  Hannity too, he has had a lot of audience participation shows about the black community.

I think if FOX, radio and conservative web sites keep talking about this it will get through. 

[obumazombie]

Blacks get a lot of help with their self sabotage from the DNC as well as the dem party., and to a much lesser degree the GOP.

[J P Sousa]

This quote says all;

  "There is a class
of colored people
who make a business
of keeping the troubles,
the wrongs and the
hardships of the Negro race
before the public.

Some of these people
do not want the Negro
to lose his grievances
because they do not want
to lose their jobs.

There is a certain class
of race-problem solvers
who don't want the patient
to get well. " Booker t. Washington 

http://www.btwsociety.org/library/misc/quotes.php

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[Dori]

This quote says all;


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Wow ......great quotes

http://www.btwsociety.org/library/misc/quotes.php

[Eupher]

Wow ......great quotes

http://www.btwsociety.org/library/misc/quotes.php

Yep, I agree, and h5 for Mr. J.P. 

[obumazombie]

Yep, I agree, and h5 for Mr. J.P. 

You are so right, and correct.