Since Leftist efforts to breed stupidity in the tax-payer funded political incubators we call “Public Schools” have been largely successful, it has been forgotten by most that the Democrats were the party that supported slavery from their founding under Thomas Jefferson, all the way up to where they had to be strongarmed by one of their own–LBJ–in the 1960’s into supporting the Civil Rights Act. McClellan, a Democrat, was accused by some of intentional incompetence in the Civil War, since he sided with the South.
For the record, according to this website, in the House 61% of Democrats and 80% of Republicans voted for the bill; in the Senate 69% of the Democrats, and 82% of the Republicans voted for the bill. And to the extent of my understanding, even the ardent Democratic segregationists like Strom Thurmond never left the party. It took the ludicrous ruling in Roe v. Wade to begin to coalesce the social conservatism that converted most of the South to being Republican.
To the point, though, I would argue that what we have in the ghettoes today–to be clear, what 30-40 years of Democratic policies have wrought in places like Detroit and South Chicago–is STILL a plantation, in which many, many people RELY on the Democrats to pay their bills, and keep getting them “stuff” (“cargo”, as I have called it elsewhere, in a reference that will be familiar to some).
AND THIS IS HOW THE DEMOCRATS WANT IT. They want to be the party that gets poor people stuff (not opportunities, note, but stuff), and they want to be able to portray the Republicans in perpetuity as racist since they don’t agree with the idea that you can help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should be doing for themselves.
It is not at all a difficult case to make that this is itself a racist position, since it aims not at actually materially and morally improving people’s lives, but rather in permanently denigrating the capacities of African American communities for self improvement, so that their votes can be depended upon.
I won’t dispute many ghettoes are hell. Yet, if they are so, they have become such under the eye and control of generations of Democrats. Incompetent or cynical and powermongering: these are the choices. Well intentioned and competent–MANIFESTLY–is not.