The core reason the black community is failing–and it IS failing, with educational, job, and other performances on average far below the overall American averages–is that they have trusted the Democrats to fix their problems for far too long. Roughly 25 elections, if we count the House elections.
Every time, the Dem’s promise free stuff. Manna from the sky. Success without responsibility, success without work, attainment without education. The world owes the blacks something, and they are going to get it by God. All you have to do is vote for them.
As I have said from time to time, my own racism is rooted in the observation that you have to be really fucking stupid to keep falling for the same tricks for 50 years. It’s Charlie Brown and Lucy, every two years, across two thirds of a reasonably long lifetime.
I’m willing to give any individual a chance. I’m willing to judge anyone by their actions, and not their birth. That is the most anyone can reasonably be expected to offer. It’s all Frederick Douglass asked for, and all MLK Jr. asked for. And those were just demands.
But my God, the government is not the fucking lottery, and most people don’t win. And even for those few who DO get manna from the sky–who, for example, manage to get themselves hit by a car and then successfully sue someone with money–their lives are not improved that much. Character and purpose are what create happy lives, not ease and unearned affluence.
Yes, those are white values. They are also the values of every decent culture which has ever existed, including no doubt hundreds and probably thousands of tribes in Africa itself.