Bad For Blacks

This is for Jagwio, who thinks I don't know what Affirmative Action is:

It was racial integration and government welfare that CAUSED today's diseased and dysfunctional inner-cities.

Not Slavery.

Between the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil Rights Act, Blacks had families, a work ethic, personal responsibility, hope, ambition, religion and community.

With integration, competent, talented, educated Blacks moved away from their neighborhoods to the suburbs, to the "nice" parts of the city. They were no longer prevented from full participation in all the benefits of society.

By doing so, they withdrew all their talent, businesses, services and skills from the old neighborhood. And those old neighborhoods began to fail as a result.

Because many of those left behind didn't have those same talents, or work ethic, or ambition, or education, or money.

But rather than institute education and work training, and jobs, our "War on Poverty" government, paid these undereducated, unskilled people not to work and not to learn. They discouraged marriage, by refusing payments to women with children who lived with the fathers of their children.

Government programs taught these people to stay unemployed to keep the "free" money coming in. They taught them to remain unmarried to keep the "free" money coming in.

They taught them that the government would house them, feed them, clothe them, pay for all their fatherless children, which encouraged fathers not to claim their children (which would stop the payments) and encouraged women to have more children to get more money.

The misery, helplessness, ignorance, shiftlessness, crime, illegitimacy, generation after generation is the direct result of control and conditioning by short-sighted, stupid, socialist government programs intended to "help".

Slavery had NOTHING to do with it.

Stupid, short-sighted socialist government programs intended to "help" had EVERYTHING to do with it.

And the situation continues to deteriorate because the same old programs are still creating the same old results. And every year it gets worse. Because socialists have a stake in maintaining the status quo. As long as the people are poor and ignorant, they will continue to vote for the socialists who continue to promise more unearned money and benefits, while blaming slavery and white racism for their misery. And the cycle of irresponsibility and failure continues.

Now, 75% of black children are without fathers. More black men are in jail. More blacks have AIDS. More blacks are addicted to crack and other insidious drugs. More black teenage girls have sexually transmitted diseases. More blacks are murdered by other blacks than by all the generations of White Racist lynch mobs combined.

Martin Luther King wanted people to be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. But stupid, short-sighted socialist government programs, intended to "help" have destroyed the character of generations of poor, inner-city blacks, and have most particularly, specifically and purposefully based every single thing on the color of their skin.

Before Integration & the War on Poverty, which really was a War on Black People—-even with the "legacy of slavery"—-black families were strong, most black kids had dads, and both parents taught their children to work hard, be honest, value education, and how to be good men and women. Black urban neighborhoods were strong, respectable and cohesive; everybody went to church. Gangs, drugs, prostitution, disease, illiteracy and illegitimacy were NOT the defining characteristics of Black urban communities.

My, how government "help" changed things. And is still keeping the poor urban blacks uneducated, dependent, unmotivated, fatherless, criminal, drug addicted, imprisoned.

That's what's wrong here.

Affirmative Action is just another stupid short-sighted socialist government program, intended to "help", but does irreparable harm by creating a sense of entitlement which in most average people undermines motivation, excellence, striving, and pride in accomplishment.

"Self-respect", so necessary for happiness, success, and uplifting the human spirit is precisely the thing you can never get from unearned entitlements.

I know exactly what Affirmative Action is. It is part of a legacy of failure, broken spirits and under-achievement. It is a shadow of doubt cast on the true merit of every Black's apparent success.

And I am not sufficiently racist to wish that on Black people.

The Gunslinger