Well, this conservative never thought I’d be quoting a rapper but Azealia Banks is one smart cookie. Even though she has tweeted insults about Donald Trump she now tweets that she will vote for him because Hillary “talks to black people as if we’re children or pets.” She also tweeted that, “Right, black folk having been voting democrat for the last 70 years and we don’t have s**t to show for it.”
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, a black man, accused the Democratic Party of “bigotry” because their programs have “decimated the black family.” On a Fox News program he responded to a question about Hillary Clinton’s statement that a Trump presidency would put “more kids at risk of violence and bigotry.” “If black kids are at risk from anybody, it’s from other black kids in black-on-black crime. The bigotry that she’s talking about stems from her party that has decimated the black family. It has kids shackled — black kids shackled — to failing K-12 public schools in urban centers. And it’s where black men in these urban centers can’t find meaningful work.”
Why aren’t the leaders in the black community ranting about how the Obama Administration is spending millions to find summer jobs for refugees? Obama’s brought thousands of immigrants here who will take away the jobs from Americans of all colors. The racial hucksters have fomented race riots with lies like the ones in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore that destroyed black neighborhoods and plunged them into further residential despair. Facts were ignored by a complicit media that did whatever it could to continue the blatant false reports that made victims out of the unworthy.
When will the black community recognize that their biggest enemies are the ones who treat it like Ms. Banks asserts-like children and pets?
This November, it’s time for the Black community and the whole country to grow up.
I will add that I got the chance to listen last night to a short talk from a man I’ll call the Anti-Sharpton–the Anti-Jackson, if you prefer–named Christopher 2X. He was wearing a t-shirt saying “We all we got”, which is a beautiful motto. Whenever some young black kid gets killed, he is one of the first people who gets called. He comforts the mothers and grandmothers–please note, this seems to be the reality–not with vapid soporifics and platitudes, but by saying “this will hurt the rest of your life, but if you help me work to try and prevent the next one you will be able to manage the pain, possibly. I am here for you, whatever you need.” He offers, as he said, strength.
That is hard, ballsy work. His goal is to teach young kids that there are better ways, alternatives to crime and violence. The goal is not to give up your self, not to stop caring, not to stop having balls and principles, but to direct them more productively.
And I was sitting there wondering how much energy, how much drive it must take to confront the endemic hopelessness, sense of uselessness, that he faces every day. He is clearly doing it the right way, but it is a hard way. He tells young kids they matter, that they were born for a purpose, and he has found that if he can convince themselves of that, that they care more, do more, become more.
His message needs to be amplified. Blacks have been told by self interested and self satisfied Democrats–the overwhelming majority of whom live in mansions and send their kids to private schools, like Obama, like Jesse Jackson and Jesse Jackson Jr.–that their way out is the voting booth. This is a lie congenial to their ambitions, and apparently not insufferable to their absent or dormant consciences.
I live alone. It is rare that I interact with people. I am not incapable of social interaction–I’m actually quite good at it. What I have difficulty with is trust and openness. I probably should have talked with him, but I chose not to. I am working my way back into the world, slowly.
Be that as it may, I am glad to see good people out there, doing tough work in the face of considerable resistance.