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Interesting Newspaper Article

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This was written by a writer at the Baltimore Sun Newspaper. Interesting read, seems to be generating lots of controversy

The article is as follows:

The Truth Shall Set You Free
 
"The Baltimore Sun” is definitely not known as a Conservative newspaper, so this very well written assessment of the situation in USA comes as something of a huge surprise..
 

The Black Dilemma
 
"For almost 150 years the United States has been conducting an interesting experiment.  The subjects of the experiment:  black people and working-class whites.
 
The hypothesis to be tested: Can a people taken from the jungles of Africa and forced into slavery be fully integrated as citizens in a majority white population?
 
The whites were descendants of Europeans who had created a majestic civilization.  The former slaves had been tribal peoples with no written language and virtually no intellectual achievements.  Acting on a policy that was not fair to either group, the government released newly freed black people into a white society that saw them as inferiors.  America has struggled with racial discord ever since.
 
Decade after decade the problems persisted but the experimenters never gave up.  They insisted that if they could find the right formula the experiment would work, and concocted program after program to get the result they wanted.  They created the Freedmans Bureau, passed civil rights laws, tried to build the Great Society, declared War on Poverty, ordered race preferences, built housing projects, and tried midnight basketball.
 
Their new laws intruded into peoples lives in ways that would have been otherwise unthinkable.  They called in National Guard troops to enforce school integration.  They outlawed freedom of association.  Over the protests of parents, they put white children on buses and sent them to black schools and vice-versa.  They tried with money, special programs, relaxed standards, and endless hand wringing to close the achievement gap.  To keep white backlash in check they began punishing public and even private statements on race.  They hung up Orwellian public banners that commanded whites to Celebrate Diversity! and Say No to Racism.  Nothing was off limits if it might salvage the experiment.
 
Some thought that what W.E.B. DuBois called the Talented Tenth would lead the way for black people.  A group of elite, educated blacks would knock down doors of opportunity and show the world what blacks were capable of.
 
There is a Talented Tenth.  They are the black Americans who have become entrepreneurs, lawyers, doctors and scientists.  But ten percent is not enough.  For the experiment to work, the ten percent has to be followed by a critical mass of people who can hold middle-class jobs and promote social stability.  That is what is missing.
 
Through the years, too many black people continue to show an inability to function and prosper in a culture unsuited to them.  Detroit is bankrupt, the south side of Chicago is a war zone, and the vast majority of black cities all over America are beset by degeneracy and violence.  And blacks never take responsibility for their failures.  Instead, they lash out in anger and resentment.
 
Across the generations and across the country, as we have seen in Detroit, Watts, Newark, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and now Ferguson, rioting and looting are just one racial incident away.  The white elite would tell us that this doesn't mean the experiment has failed. We just have to try harder.  We need more money, more time, more understanding, more programs, and more opportunities.
 
But nothing changes no matter how much money is spent, no matter how many laws are passed, no matter how many black geniuses are portrayed on TV, and no matter who is president.  Some argue its a problem of culture, as if culture creates peoples behavior instead of the other way around. Others blame white privilege.
 
But since 1965, when the elites opened Americas doors to the Third World, immigrants from Asia and India, people who are not white, not rich, and not connected have quietly succeeded.  While the children of these people are winning spelling bees and getting top scores on the SAT, black youths are committing half the country's violent crime, which includes viciously punching random white people on the street for the thrill of it that has nothing to do with poverty.
 
The experiment has failed.  Not because of white culture, or white privilege, or white racism.  The fundamental problem is that American black culture has evolved into an un-fixable and crime ridden mess. *They do not want to change their culture or society, and expect others to tolerate their violence and amoral behavior.  They have become socially incompatible with other races by their own design, not because of the racism of others - but by their own hatred of non-blacks.*
 
Our leaders don't seem to understand just how tired their white subjects are with this experiment.  *They don't understand that white people aren't out to get black people; they are just exhausted with them.  They are exhausted by the social pathologies, the violence, the endless complaints, and the blind racial solidarity, the bottomless pit of grievances, the excuses, and the reflexive animosity* The elites explain everything with racism, and refuse to believe that white frustration could soon reach the boiling point."---
 
"You can't legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.  What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.  The government can't give to anybody anything that the government doesn't first take from somebody else.  When half of the people get the idea that they don't have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
 
Ian Duncan
The Baltimore Sun


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I can well imagine that it has caused some controversy. The problem with any such article is that a good majority would agree with it as it condenses what most people would see as being the problem. Unfortunately a lot of what is being said is true with regards to attitude in particular a culture of being oppressed. However the problems are more deep rooted and in the case of black Americans some case can be made of them never being fully assimilated at an early stage of their emancipation into the predominantly white society that has created this culture of persecution and reliance. Many societies have or are making a similar mistake and the UK is one of them by not insisting upon full integration of peoples from other cultures that settle here and instead pander to minority demands that actually cause more divisions than they heal.
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We have the same with First Nations/Native Americans/Aboriginals or whatever the moniker of the day is. They have full legal legislation to stay apart from larger society and I've always been of a mixed mind if that is good or not. They, as a group, do see themselves as victimized and our Gov't regularly throws out "millions" in reparations for actions that happened literally decades if not over a hundred years ago. Wasn't right but ? That was THEN and THIS IS NOW so again I can only offer out a question mark (?) as to what really needs to be done as there are as many opinions as there are people.

What the writer points out BRAVELY, as saying anything these days re: race is apt to get you vehemently erroneously labeled with nasty nasty words that don't really apply, is his observations. I do see they are his observations, IMO have some merit and I do agree with you H that if one group is essentially 'moving in' they MUST assimilate.

Personally I think the first and foremost obligation is to learn the language. None of this where "I" am going to have absolutely everything translated verbally & hard copy for you after you've been here decades. Shouldn't happen. If I went to live in Luxor I WOULD be speaking Arabic. No hesitation and not a doubt in my mind at all I'd be understanding what is going on around me.

Anyway - it was a BOLD article given the PC & political climate of today and interesting observations to think about.
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