Consider, with respect to my previous post, that for the Left “Black Lives Matter”–that is their official story, and they are sticking to it–but “All Lives” do NOT matter. That sentiment and idea is racist.
The fundamental illiberality of objecting to the saying “All Lives Matter” is instinctively obvious to people steeped in the AUTHENTIC American tradition. It is obvious to genuine Liberals, which is to say to people possessing genuine goodwill; to people capable of articulating a principle and applying it honestly even to people different from themselves.
And BLM at its root, is just a ploy. A propaganda meme. One more means of dividing the country into Us and Them to create usable political will on the one side, animated into an ugly anger against the other side, understood to be sub-human, if human at all.
As I have said often, black lives IN REALITY do not matter to the Left. They are not trying to HELP them. On the contrary, vegan white fem-boys from the suburbs helped burn down black neighborhoods last year, then left, seemingly without regret, or realizing or thinking or caring in any way about what they had done.
Breonna Taylor’s mother eventually called such people out, saying in effect “most of you don’t even know who the fuck I am, or care”. The protests in Louisville kind of fizzled after that, or so I read.
And as I keep saying, if you CARE about someone, you THINK about them. You make honest and sincere efforts to help them.
Has the Left done this with respect to blacks? Perhaps in the 1950’s and 1960’s. But even in the 60’s, encouraging riots–which left wing agitators DID DO–was counterproductive. It created white flight and created most of the blighted zones in inner cities which continue to this very day. As I have pointed out often, in 1960 or so, Detroit had the highest per capita income of any city in the WORLD.
Many factors changed this. Global competition and union intransigence certainly played a role too. But to my mind the CORE problem was crime, and the white perception that black people were dangerous. You can call this racist–and certainly it is applying perceptions to all which are true of only a few–but they all saw the footage of buildings burning, and were well aware of the crime rate.
Are black people intrinsically dangerous? Of course not. They were, then, reacting in emotionally understandable ways to distressing and terribly unfair situations. They are, however, NOW reacting in ways which have been programmed by the Left and which serve NOW to impoverish, not enrich, their lives. Most of them are stuck in prisons–mental prisons–they can’t see.
People who CARE would work to alleviate real problems. Black folks do not really have a problem with “systemic racism”. This is a propaganda meme created by white people to use as a club mainly against other white people. As I have pointed out, it is culturally solipsistic, in that it shuts ACTUAL black folks out, really doesn’t want or value their input, and has not even a remote ambition of intelligent policy, or policy analysis. They simply stipulate as true whatever feels momentarily right to them, refuse to debate it–since questioning the Apostles of the Holy Church of Sanctimonious if also Insincere Anti-Racism, is itself racist.–and move on.
That their policies have made black lives WORSE for 40 years is a matter of indifference to them. Making black lives better is really not a concern of theirs. Feeling morally superior is. Also, most of them are effectively on the take, and even if they could honestly say they are not engaging in outright graft, the System, writ large, provides many benefits, including political office–which is to say power and attention–and money. None of us truly objects to more money and all it will buy.
From my perspective–and as an honest liberal I am open to feedback, and certainly willing to change my views as needed–what the black community mostly needs is schools which provide ACTUAL educations, better jobs, and some means of increasing the number of two parent homes.
As I have pointed out often over the years, with regard to two parent homes, the outcomes of white kids and black kids (and for all I know all kids of all races) are equal when it comes to being raised by single parents. Such kids are at higher demographic risk of all the bad stuff, and are less likely to do all the good stuff. They are at higher risk of being incarcerated, of getting a woman pregnant in their teens/being a woman impregnated in her teens, of dropping out of school, of abusing drugs/alcohol, and of being unemployed.
Now, the issue of abortion specifically touches black lives more than white lives. Vastly more black babies are aborted, proportionately, than white babies. As I understand the data, it is not unreasonable to view abortion as a means of birth control. If you get pregnant, why would it matter? You can get that thing cut out of you for free.
And of course reducing black birth rates was a key Eugenic goal–and stated clearly as such–by the founder of Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger.
[I should try and reconcile my post on abortion with the patent fact that more black babies will be born, many of them into poverty, many of them to young single mothers.
This seems likely. All I can say is that the FACT of this law needs to be broadcast, and we can hope it changes behavior. Most people act mostly rationally when there are real consequences.]
To to me Charter Schools are an OBVIOUS and long overdue first step. These increase educational outcomes exponentially. And longer term, smarter people make smarter decisions, don’t they? Is helping people make smarter decisions not SUPPOSED to be a key goal of education? You educate people to help them do better in life.
And economically, President Trump showed clearly that the best way to reduce black unemployment rates, and increase their overall prosperity, was to increase prosperity across the board through intelligent policies of the sort Democrats reliably oppose.
And with regard to two parent homes, they are vastly easier to maintain when times are good, and money readily available.
All our problems have solutions. Our MAIN problem is that we have many people in our midst who BENEFIT from the problems of the many, and particularly the problems of black folks. They have every reason to resent and resist actual black advancement.
And ponder how ludicrous it is in California that the white guy is supposed to be the one who protects and cares about black folks–even though he just locked them in their homes for a year, and is trying to get rid of their police protection even in a time of increasing crime; and the guy who is ACTUALLY BLACK is the face of the KKK.
For those with eyes, the landscape is covered with a thick fog of lies which, like most lies, are not intended to help anyone but those telling them.