The average African-American family is poorer than the average family in India.
By Kevin Williamson
The phrase “waving the bloody shirt”
grew popular in the South as a description of Republicans’ alleged exaggeration
of the crimes of the Ku Klux Klan, the paramilitary division of the Democratic
party. It is an irony of history that waving the bloody shirt has in the Age of
Obama become the Democrats’ primary mode of discourse. Oppose the Affordable
Care Act? Racism. Like the Second Amendment? Racism. Black Barbie is on sale for half off, but
white Barbie is full price? Racism. Black holes sucking the energy out of
your quadrant? Why single out the black ones? Racism!
Waving the bloody shirt is not only
about making an emotional appeal — it’s a strategy for distraction. It became a
bitter joke in the Soviet Union — whether the issue was the crimes of Stalin or
the fact that the Lada was a piece of junk, the answer was always the same: A
u vas negrov linchuyut. The same principle is at work in today’s Democratic
commentariat: As Americans start to notice what a fiasco Obamacare is . . . Oh,
look! A Confederate flag! There is really nothing more satisfying to liberals
than a Confederate flag sighting, though I wonder what they’d make of the fact
that in my corner of Texas it is not unheard-of to see black men wearing Dixie
belt buckles or T-shirts. (All of our necks are just different shades of red.)
When Brad Paisley sings about the Confederate flag, it’s like Christmas morning
for Touré. Yet, despite the daft insistence of Joan Walsh and the Affiliated
Suburban Pearl-Clutchers of America, there is no neo-Confederate revanche just
around the corner. The idea is, however, a useful distraction. But a
distraction from what?
From $4,955.
Fifty years into the Democrats’
declaration of a war on poverty and President Kennedy’s first executive order
for affirmative action, while spending $300 million a year on worthless diversity workshops and singing endless
verses of “We Shall Overcome,” after enduring endless posturing from Barack
Obama and the moral preening of his admirers, that is what black American
families have to show for themselves: an average household net worth of $4,955.
The average white household in these United States has a net worth of $110,729. Black Americans’ median
net worth is less than 5 percent that of white Americans.
By way of comparison, black South
Africans under apartheid had a median net worth about 6.8 percent that
of white South Africans. Repeating: Black Americans are worse off
relative to their white countrymen than black South Africans under apartheid
were to theirs, a fact to which former Washington Post reporter Jon
Jeter has drawn attention and from which he has drawn all the wrong
conclusions. (Muppet News Flash: Washington Post straight-news reporter
turns out to be a garden-variety liberal.) Philadelphia mayor John Street used
to brag that “the brothers and sisters are running the city,” which would be
more of a boast in a city with less criminal governance. Mayor Ray Nagin, whose
fraud/conspiracy/money-laundering/bribery/tax-evasion trial should be getting
under way any moment now, liked to promise that New Orleans would remain a
“chocolate city.” A generation of one-party rule based on racial politics was
enough to doom Detroit. Outside of the womb, the most dangerous place for
a black American to be is in a city run by Democrats.
But somebody, somewhere, is flying a
rebel flag.
And black Americans still have a
median household net worth of less than half the price of a 2011 Ford Fiesta with 28,000 miles on it. The
median black American household is poorer than the average household in India,
which has a net worth of about $5,500, according to the Economic Times.
Forty acres and a mule? Have you
checked the price of a good mule lately?
Everywhere it has been tried, the
Democrats’ dependency agenda has been a social and economic catastrophe for
black Americans — and a full-employment program for Democratic apparatchiks.
This is not a conspiracy — it’s right out there in the open, every time a
Democratic politician knows that he can count on 90 percent of the black vote
without lifting a finger, winning the opportunity to add four more years to the
50 years of broken promises Democrats have made to black Americans, who lag
their fellow countrymen on practically every social indicator. “These Negroes,”
said alleged civil-rights hero Lyndon Baines Johnson, “they’re getting pretty
uppity these days, and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now
they never had before: the political pull to back up their uppity-ness. We’ve
got to give them a little something — just enough to quiet them down, not
enough to make a difference.”
So far, the LBJ plan seems to be
working perfectly.
Black Americans did not leave the
party of Lincoln for the party of Joe Biden; they left the party of Herbert
Hoover for the party of Franklin Roosevelt. Or at least they thought they did.
What they got instead was the party of sky-high crime, dangerous and
dysfunctional schools, a joblessness rate for black men that is more than twice
the rate for white men at 14 percent and rising. Twice the unemployment,
twice the high-school dropouts, four times the abortions, four times the HIV,
seven times the prison sentences, twelve times the babies born with congenital
syphilis, fourteen times the murder victims, and nineteen times the gonorrhea.
All that and $4,955.
SoRo:
We have almost as many Americans on welfare as the entire populations of Sweden and Norway.
We have more people on food stamps than the entire country of Spain has people.
And, look at that last part. Look at the number of states that make it more profitable to be on welfare than to work!
For all of the Left's faux outrage over one confederate flag at the WWII protest on Sunday and their screams that the Tea Party and associates want to return to slavery, they refuse to recognise one simple reality: We already have slavery. Just look at what happened when the EBT system went down. The dependent slaves were lost when the massa prevented them from using their cheesecards. Only a few were 'saved' by the 'evil' Wal-Mart.
Of all demographic groups, African-Americans should realise this the most considering their horrific history. Sure, maybe a white slaveowner isn’t beating them anymore, but they are still slaves if they’ve allowed themselves to become so dependent that they cannot even feed themselves without the plantation owner. No one even needs to beat them any longer. They are killing each other. And, as even Tavis Smiley acknowledges, when Barack Obama leaves the White House, African-Americans will have lost ground in every economic indicator.
Of course, it is racist, bigoted, and a sign of no compassion to point this out. To the Left, ‘compassion’ equals slavery and slavery is freedom. Orwell only began to describe it.
It is so depressing and to try to talk people out of slavery only leads to charges of racism.
Welfare is bribery by the wealthy Left to keep the ‘weeds’ from moving into their guarded gardens. At the same time, it’s a form of extortion by those that receive it. Either pay us or we will soooo crab-grass your lawn that you’ll be praying to the Round-Up God for help.
The idea that welfare is 'compassion' and 'charity' is a destructive lie.
We have more people on food stamps than the entire country of Spain has people.
And, look at that last part. Look at the number of states that make it more profitable to be on welfare than to work!
For all of the Left's faux outrage over one confederate flag at the WWII protest on Sunday and their screams that the Tea Party and associates want to return to slavery, they refuse to recognise one simple reality: We already have slavery. Just look at what happened when the EBT system went down. The dependent slaves were lost when the massa prevented them from using their cheesecards. Only a few were 'saved' by the 'evil' Wal-Mart.
Of all demographic groups, African-Americans should realise this the most considering their horrific history. Sure, maybe a white slaveowner isn’t beating them anymore, but they are still slaves if they’ve allowed themselves to become so dependent that they cannot even feed themselves without the plantation owner. No one even needs to beat them any longer. They are killing each other. And, as even Tavis Smiley acknowledges, when Barack Obama leaves the White House, African-Americans will have lost ground in every economic indicator.
Of course, it is racist, bigoted, and a sign of no compassion to point this out. To the Left, ‘compassion’ equals slavery and slavery is freedom. Orwell only began to describe it.
It is so depressing and to try to talk people out of slavery only leads to charges of racism.
Welfare is bribery by the wealthy Left to keep the ‘weeds’ from moving into their guarded gardens. At the same time, it’s a form of extortion by those that receive it. Either pay us or we will soooo crab-grass your lawn that you’ll be praying to the Round-Up God for help.
The idea that welfare is 'compassion' and 'charity' is a destructive lie.
‘Um, yes, y’all come to get the car. The car is not here. The car is in the shop and one part is at another shop. If y’all want it that bad, y’all can go pay that man to get it out and then pay the person to get the other part out.
I mean, cause y’all act like y’all couldn’t be patient. Y’all know that we was gonna get it taken care of so, if y’all want it that bad, y’all can go get it and pay the man and pay the other man and we can leave it as that. Cause we ain’t owing that much on the car. Y’all wanna trip on it now. Their, we’re only owing a thousand, two thousand on it. So you know what? God bless y’all. Y’all can go pick up the car. So, you know what? Give me a call back (inaudible) and I will let him know that y’all are gonna to be paying him to get it out because y’all don’t be patient.
- Obama voter, 2008
I wonder how ‘rich’ she is today. Bet she would vote to reelect Barack Obama to a third term if she could and even if it meant she would be even worse off.
As Sinetta Jackson (Jesse’s daughter) says:
‘Too many blacks put pride over policy and end up hurting themselves in the process.’
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