@maporsche,
maporsche wrote:
Gosh, I was really hoping to have a discussion about this...
No one believes that you're actually "looking for a discussion," Ma. I've posted a number of viewpoints, coming from blacks themselves, which raises issues worthy of dicussion, but they have all been ignored by you, and all of your cheese-eating homeys.
Lyndon Johnson said, as I pointed out, that the threat from blacks was getting serious, since they now had the some political power, and that he felt it was necessary to give them something, to "quiet them down," but not enough to make a difference.
He boasted that his strategy would "have the niggers voting democratic for the next 200 years."
To date, this "plan" has worked out well for the Democrats. Johnson was indeed a masterful political strategist.
The problem is that way too many blacks are now getting wise to this con game. Way too many have become dependent on government hand-outs to maintain a subsistence-level existence. Too many are living in inner city hellholes where, due to government neglect of the real problems, they have lost all hope. They have been kept "on the reservation" by Democrats, who pretend to be their benefactors, and always vote Democratic because they have been fooled. There are now 3rd and 4th generational blacks whose only "business" is playing the welfare system for all they can extract by hook or crook, because that's all they have. Just as Johnson had planned.
This is certainly not to say that black people themselves don't bear a lot of responsibilty for their often miserable living conditions and circumstances. And many of them realize that too. Their culture has degenerated badly. I'm quoting from memory, but I think that in 1960, something like 80% of black families were two-parent families, as opposed to maybe 20-25% today. A lot of this stems from the old welfare insistence that any household with a man capable of working in it would be ineligible for benefits. That's one reason why blacks like Williams Owens believe that the Democrats were active participants in a calculated plan to destroy black family values.
Black need to re-establish more self-respect and pursue an active role in shaping their own fate. For far too long they have been played as "house-niggers" serving the plantation-owning white Massa--the democratic Party-- which has ignored their real plight and needs.