Perhaps it’s the growl of the cynic inside me, that lurches out as I contemplate the day – thirty, fifty years from now – when Black Americans with PhDs, or Black millionaires are on television, still discussing the need for solutions to Black America’s cultural struggle. No, wait, that was this morning, and, well, every day.
In just over a week, America will have its first Black president. Even the cynic takes pause. Not only is this is a first for a Western nation, but it just so happens that it will be accomplished by the Western hegemony: leader of the free world, among the last of the West to kick African slavery off its heals, yet still the first to break the boundary. I agree with president-elect Obama on absolutely nothing. Let me rephrase that: he has said absolutely nothing, thus I haven’t had the chance yet to agree with him on anything. In all honesty, there is much appeal in his grandiloquent rhetoric: improved race relations, cultural rejuvenation, peace, hope, integrity and bright futures. It isn’t sheer cynicism that gives me doubt about his upcoming administration. It’s just that, well, fool me once…. Eh, um… ya… you just ain’t gonna fool me again!
I am not so cynical as to have no hope. Black illegitimacy is above 50%; Blacks account for 13% of the population, yet nearly 50% of the incarcerated, and well over a third of the abortions. In heavily Black-populated cities crime is sky-high, with Oakland, California shattering every crime statistic across the board, nationally. Barak Obama is a Columbia and Harvard educated Black man; a senator; a gift speaker; a best-selling author; and now president. Setting aside what I consider his misguided legal, economic and political ideology, may he at least be a model of excellence to the Black community.
The latter part of this sentiment was proclaimed on Meet the Press this morning with a round table of Black commentators, including Bill Cosby, Congresswoman Maxine Waters and Dr. Alvin Poussaint. They all agreed that parenting was a central issue in the Black community, given illegitimacy, and the typical absence of Black fathers and male role models. On the Chris Matthews show, the discussion was again about racial problems in America. According to the host, the Roland Burris story was at first about the Blagojevich scandal and Burris’ ties, now it is about race: why? Asked Matthews.
The Black community triumphant, positive and looking forward to the person of Barak Obama, I can not only take, but can indeed be enthusiastic about. But four years of mind-numbing therapy sessions about white guilt and tiptoeing on racial egg shells where the solutions to cultural problems are obvious, I cannot.
First, to answer Matthews’ idiot question: because you’re a noodle-spined white bleeding heart who took the bait from Blagojevich. There is no constitutional mandate for there to be ‘at least one Black senator.’ Blow my brains out. He should be seated because he was rightfully and legally appointed by the governor of Illinois and the U.S. senate has no right and no grounds on which to refuse him. Period. Its just the totalitarian-regime of radical political correctness that has called us all to reflect on the senate’s refusal to seat a Black man. Even though, the Black man who is going to the White house next week, himself, said not to seat him.
(Note that the phrase “radical political correctness” officially makes me an oxymoron.)
As to the serious issues of illegitimacy and parenthood, I have endless respect and admiration for the fact that the president-elect has decided to address these problems. The problem is that he would need to go to war with his own world-view in order to solve them. For decades, his party has relied on the Black community as a substantial voting bloc: typically 90% of Blacks go Democrat. The same party has offered up welfare and abortion on demand as the solution to socio-economic strife. It is precisely the radically-left policies of welfarism, abortion on demand, and no-fault divorce that has helped the increase in illegitimacy across the board in this country.
The radicals also fought a ‘sexual revolution’ that has relaxed all culture taboos and mores to the point where sex is recreation, pregnancy is a disease (a “punishment” to quote Barak Obama directly), and the dangers of STDs are taught to eleven year olds (Obama HAS said the age should be lower.). It is a legal worldview that has fought for the protection of all the violent, sexually explicit, sexually degrading, morally depraved, and repulsive forms of media scum in the name of First Amendment rights that is bringing our culture to its knees.
Though cultural decay is not a singularly Black issue, it would be foolish to deny who is being hit hardest in America. Last September, when Clarence Thomas spoke at Pepperdine Law School, he talked about the neighborhood he grew up in, and the strife and suffering of the segregation era. Still, they lived in an otherwise peaceful and wholesome American neighborhood where kids played outside and neighbors could be trusted. Today, such neighborhoods have been attacked and, in most cases, destroyed by drugs, crime, and illegitimacy (which fosters the drug use and criminal behavior.).
Here, I make no hypothesis as to why the cultural denigration of American society has more dramatically hit the Black community; though its pretty well settled that when the factor of illegitimacy is removed, racial differences in incarceration nearly vanish. It is a fact that the disproportionate majority of Planned Parenthood locations are in Black communities, and more than 1,800 Black abortions are performed daily in the U.S.: 36% of all abortions among a population that comprises 12% of the whole.
Prior to the age of welfarism (the ‘daddy state’ which eliminates economic motivations and the role of the father), no-fault divorce and abortion on demand, divorce rates were nearly equal among racial groups. Population increases, unencumbered by abortion on demand, were nearly the same.
Prior to the media-age beginning in the fifties, drug crimes, rape, murder, robbery, vandalism, and other crimes were nil compared with today: again, among all communities and racial groups, with Black communities feeling the worst of it.
These increases in abortion, crime and illegitimacy are a direct result of nearly fifty years of radical legal, economic and social policies pushed by the far left wing of Obama’s party. Obama has personally addressed serious issues afflicting Black Americans. He talks about hope and integrity and fostering a better, stronger, prouder America. Good for him. But given his history of supporting radical legal and social policies, I have no confidence that he’ll ever understand the solutions, no matter how good the speeches are. I guess hope really is all we have.
http://www.blackgenocide.org/black.html