What is ironic and infuriating about all this is that IT WAS WHITE PEOPLE THAT TAUGHT THEM THIS.
The riots of the 1960’s were inspired by white people, just like the recent ones, which are looking to do more or less the same thing those did, which is inspire white flight, lost jobs, blighted neighborhoods, and more poverty and pain, none of it suffered by the people who instigated it, who will long since have moved on.
Those same white people bent over backwards to teach black people that it wasn’t their fault they were poor, and that they didn’t and couldn’t do anything on their own to make it better. It was the “system’s” fault, and the only fix was to trust white leftists with their vote, until they could make it better for them. “Voting for us will be just like winning the lottery”, they were taught. You don’t need no damned books, or book learnin’.
There is no precedent in black history for the denigration of education until white Communists started agitating in black communities . All of the slaves, who had been forbidden–sometimes on pain of death–from learning how to read, sought out education the moment they were freed. This is when schools like Howard University and Morehead College were founded.
It is really not too general a principle, I don’t think, to state that with respect to substantially ALL the actual, real (not invented) problems in our country, it is the Communists fault. Their agents worked to build and use racial divisions. They taught blacks self defeating behaviors, which allowed them both to claim to work on their behalf and simultaneously to know that their outcomes would be unchanged decade after decade.
Even now, Democrats–who black people have been voting for since the late 1960’s or so–are trying to blame Republicans for problems in places THEY HAVE CONTROLLED FOR 50 YEARS.
I repeat: these people are masters of illusion. They are the Royalty of Lies.
And they will attack Barkley, as sure as night follows day, as sure as dark follows light in any place they exist.