@Debra Law,
Debra Law wrote:
Have you gone mad?
That right wing nut, Cliven Bundy, once told us about the Negro, and how the Negro was better off picking cotton . . . . and I'm still waiting for you to explain your reference to benign aspects of plantations. If you want to meander away from the topic of Trump's charitable foundation and his philanthropist claims, why don't you meander back to your prior plantation diversion. That would be good.
Who is Cliven Bundey? I don't think "the negro" has any more meaning than "non college educated white men" - both are merely word groups identifying huge groups of individuals whose abilities and characters likely span the whole human spectrum. Those concepts are for racists and progressive social engineers, not wise, rational people.
Im not sure exactly what it is you are referencing with respect to plantations. Are you proposing yet another "diversion fallacy"? I do recall noting that the progressive "War on poverty" and most of the associated programs nomionally focused on lifting African Americans economically have had few of the beneficial effects promised for them but a large number of very adverse side effects, incliding, as Pat Moynihan eloquently argued a few decades ago, the breakdown of Black families as indicated by an explosion of out of wedlock births, fatherless homes and increased rates of public dependency - and, of course, the emergence of self-serving exploiters as leaders and "spokesmen". The clear beneficiaries are the growing cadre of bureaucrats and academics who administer the programs, rationalize their continuance and otherwise make money be telling others how they should live their lives and thiose same black "spokesmen" who serve as their highly paid overseers.
A few months ago spent some intersting time with and heard heard a talk by Jason Riley who discussed these matters at some length. He's a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a member of the WSJ editorial board. His book "Please Stop Helping Us " addresses this subject very well. I recommend it
