Posted by The African American experience is one of great tragedy and immense triumph. But, for more than half a century, far too many journalists, priests, preachers, television and radio personalities, public school teachers, columnists and many more, have focused more on the tragedy and have all too often ignored the triumph.
The Origins of the “Black Agenda”
“Losing the Race: Self-sabotage in Black America” author, Dr, John McWhoter writes, “when the process of bringing blacks to equality with whites began, the concept of blacks as a race of victims was logical and appropriate, for the simple reason that it corresponded with reality.” Contextually put, in fact, this was a time wherein many blacks were poor, undereducated, and underemployed and had to live with and often times accept brutal racism and segregation from most public services, in many parts of America almost exclusively because of the shade of their skin.
The harsh realities of that turbulent time period, reluctant societal transformations, all coupled with a legislatively mandated and culturally susceptible moral authority shift, created a uniquely human dichotomy during and after the civil rights era. As Dr. Shelby Steele, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, at Stanford University has written:
“Whites in America (during the 60’s and 70’s) were fearful of being considered racists in one hand and in the other hand, blacks were fearful of being considered inferior.”
These dueling de facto and de jure conflicts generated outgrowths that have helped shaped the political, economic and social paradigm of our generation.
Here are the two most visible catalysts.
We Whites Are Guilty, Equals the Welfare State
As public tensions over the civil rights movement began to dissipate and more blacks began to take full advantage of job and educational opportunities, while saving their money, raising their families and owning more and more homes and businesses, there was also a growing body of blacks accepting more and more government assistance.
Landon B. Johnson and the Great Society established Aid to Families with Dependent Children for “women unwilling to get jobs”, Medicaid, for doctors bills that “weighed too heavily”, Rent Supplement Programs for those “having trouble paying the landlord”, and the first permanent Food Stamps Programs for “people unwilling to buy their own groceries.” Eventually though, as “WWI ended Woodrow Wilson’s “New Freedom” and WWII brought FDR’s “New Deal” to a close, “the Vietnam War crushed the loftiest ambitions of the Great Society” but not before it successfully turned Aid to Families with Dependent Children recipients from 3 million in 1960 to 8.4 million in 1970; when Uncle Sam in effect, became the ‘babies’ daddy.’
These and other innumerable statistics are a direct affront to the many who marched, died, bled, and sacrificed for blacks to have the opportunity to lift themselves out of poverty.
But the do-gooders who suffer from “White Guilt,” (which is also the title of Dr. Steels 2006 publication), and must “make things right” through the “power of government,” would soon receive some help from an emerging industry of “poverty pimps.”
Whitie Owes Me, Equals the Industry of the Victimhood Vendor
Decades after the ink had dried on the pieces of much needed civil rights acts; legislation which helped produce a culture where even the most subtle instances of racial discrimination ended in class action law suits, we still don’t have to go far to find a “civil rights activist” fighting tirelessly for the “little man.”
For years the good Rev. Jackson and Sharpton, Julian Bond, Maxine Waters and the ‘crew’ have all cashed in greatly from political usury and are all CEO’s of the Liberal Exploitation Political Action Group.”
Their mission: “To keep 90 percent of blacks voting Democratic, thereby rolling up huge wins for the liberal exploitation agenda.” What’s more, “if you vote for ‘us’ we will supply you with more cookies, cake and ice cream than you can handle.”
Simply put, many blacks fell for the lines pushed by theses race hustlers who constantly reminded America that “the white man owes us and we won’t stop reminding him of that until his debt is paid.”
The sad irony and the political paradox behind the unholy alliance between the race baiters and the Democratic Party—in which I can’t wait to chronicle in future posts—is that; why after more than four decades of voting 90 percent Democratic, do we still need a…well, “Black Agenda?”
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Jerome,
Well said! Just wish the progressives would stop living in the 60′s . . . Oops, I guess they can’t, since those were the days when they were young and thought they knew it all — too bad they still think the same way — guess all that nip, tuck, and botox has them reliving their “rebel without a cause” days.
I’ve been saying for quite some time that the Democrats are an army without a legitimate war so they have to create one so they stay relevent. We can all see what they have devolved into. They did manage to keep the minorities and in particular the black voting block pretty much “on the plantation” by their policies that made sure they survived by the politicians’ good graces and not by their own God-given abilities. My “fantasy” so to speak is that the black communities rise up and tell the Democrats “we gave you fifty years of rule with our loyalty and you’ve done nothing but destroy our family institutions, you have kept us in poverty, you have destroyed our will, our religion, and our belief in ourselves.” I wish they would say “you’ve made us hate people that did nothing to us, blame others for everything, you’ve treated us like children waiting for candy, and we will no longer tolerate your racist condescension that treats us like dogs that must be fed and watered and not as equals.” Finally, in my “fantasy” I wish the black community would stand up and tell their Democrat owners “you’ve poisoned every good thing we’ve accomplished or done by your “special” treatment of us. Now we are judged as products of ‘affirmative action’ and not by our merits. You’ve created an environment where we can openly spew hatred in God’s house without fear of being reprimanded, where we can treat criminals like they’re heroes because they are black, and by doing so you have profitted greatly from our pain and we’re not going to do it anymore.”
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Racially motivated shootings in Connecticut, my brother America still have a race problem… I wish the next time, CNN decide to have a race forum, they should allow viable white (Republican) politicians lead the conversation??? lol
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