Re: Trump’s Vision of Black America Is a White Supremacist Fantasy
Politicians keep promising what they will do for the black communities. Do they ever ask the black community what they really want?
Do the black communities want change? If so what would they like to see happen in the future?
Or are they satisfied to collect welfare, hang onto their culture, live in the past with their distrust and hatred of white people?
FGS! Most of them are still blaming slavery for their poor circumstances! Somebody ought to tell them that every race has been enslaved at some point in history. Others got over it and moved on.
How are the black communities reaching out to mainstream society?
Why do they live in their isolated communities and bitch and whine?
How have so many black people made something better for themselves while others just join gangs, have babies and live on welfare?
I would like to see the answers the black communities have for those questions.
See, that's the problem with making judgments from far away, relying only on national and international news services.
Here's the reality. . .
Every day, in every city and county in America, mayors, city councilors, county councilors, and chiefs of police are meeting with clergy, businesspeople, educators, activists, and other leaders of the "black community." They work closely and cooperatively on various strategies to keep black youth in school and off the streets. And the community leaders beg, plead, and scream for more jobs, better infrastructure, more money, and yes, more police.
And then some rightwing jerk comes in and grabs a headline or two by calling a police-sponsored "midnight basketball" program a "waste of taxpayer money." So people start writing to the mayor, and there goes the program. And the kids who were playing basketball with the off-duty, volunteer cops are now back on the streets, because the basketball courts are chained and locked.
The inner cities are in trouble, mostly for economic reasons having to do with the decline in labor-intensive manufacturing.
But guess what? If you want to see real, hardcore, multi-generational welfare dependency (and fraud), you need to go out to Appalachia or the deep South, where it is endemic, long term, and white as Queen Elizabeth. You know why? Because up until the 1960s, most public assistance programs weren't available to blacks.
It's a difficult problem that will require time, money, planning, and effort to cure. And you know what we don't need? Some uninformed Canadian rightwinger who has no stake and no interest in the problem sniping away with racist comments.
