Now that they’ve fixed Whitey by burning down all the minority-owned businesses they could get their hands on, the Ferguson protestors have popped up all over the country.
They want “racial justice,” whatever the blazes that is. A protestor in New York City, on Thanksgiving Day, carried a sign that offered a definition: “Abolish the Prison, Abolish the Police.”
They ought to get together with the flatworms at Occupy Wall Street, who want to abolish work. No police, no jails, no work. That ought to be a nice society to live in. Apparently “racial justice” consists of being allowed to be a predator upon your neighbor–take his stuff, take his life, no one will interfere. Although if no one is working, soon there won’t be any stuff worth taking.
But before we plunk the Race twanger too many times, let us consider the permanent under-class in Britain. Except for their skin color, and their own unique speech patterns, their behavior and culture is virtually identical to that of the inner-city under-class here in America. The low-class Brits are white, and they’re horrible.
It’s not race that turns people into animals, but government–in particular, government by socialists that promotes socialism. These poor wretched people come out of fatherless homes–I won’t call them “families”–and neighborhoods where no one works, they just sit around on the dole, and the socialization of the young males consists of joining a gang, getting high, committing various crimes, and getting girls pregnant. The socialization of the young females is not much different. This whole destructive pseudo-culture is heavily subsidized by the government so that it will go on forever, the dregs of humanity being a key part of any leftist voting base.
So Dr. Ben Carson is right–it has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with growing up fatherless, without learning any respect for authority, without learning the necessity of work, etc.
And as long as the Democrat Party remains in business; as long as it desires a permanent under-class as a mine of votes or instant storm-troopers for those occasions upon which leftists feel the need to stir up violence; as long as the under-class is encouraged to believe that every man’s hand is raised against it, and its only protection comes from the liberal plantation-owners and their well-paid black overseers–as long as these things are done in America, there will be Fergusons.
And again, if you think it’s racial, just look across the Atlantic. You may wish to read Life at the Bottom, by Theodore Dalrymple, a former prison doctor and psychiatrist, to discover how close to identical, except for their skin color, are the under-classes at either end of the ocean.
Just Excellent logic. . . Thanks
If you give it a moment’s thought, the people that should be most insulted by this are people of color (I don’t particularly like that phrase, but I can’t think of anything else on short notice). When people tie poor behavior to ethnic origin, they are suggesting that all people of that ethnicity are more prone to criminal or anti-social behavior.
Poverty is a terrible problem. There is plenty of it in my area and it crosses all ethnic lines. Poverty does not bring out the best in people. I have said this many times and I will say it again, if I could wish anything for others, it would be opportunity. That having been said, when opportunity arrives, all of us, without exception, have to rise to the challenge. It can be done.
I have had some great opportunities in my day, and I’ve had to put forth effort in order to make the best of these. I’ve also had some serious setbacks along the way and have had to drive myself forward against discouragement and some unfair circumstances. It wasn’t easy, but I stayed the course and I’m still out there, slogging away.
Was it “White Privileged”? Well, for one thing, I am not entirely “white”, I have some Asian blood as well. Secondly, I worked hard to find the opportunities which came my way. I applied for countless jobs and was turned down for many more than I was ever hired for, in fact I was turned down for one yesterday. That’s ok, I’ll rise above it.
I’ve been told I was too young, too old, walked too fast, talked too fast, was too stupid and was too smart. I’ve had my physical appearance insulted and been groundlessly accused of lying. So what?!?! I’ve also outlived many of the people that insulted me, and living well is the best revenge.
Whatever opportunities come our way, it is up to each of us to make the best of it.
Anyone who wants discouragement ought to try getting a book or story published.
But, as Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama have said, “You didn’t build that.”
This will blow you away! Please listen everyone!
I love Denzel Washington! And I hope I still do, after I play this. Supper first.
So do I, Lee, and you’ve probably seen the movie “The Book Of Eli” but if you haven’t – it’s fantastic!
You bet we saw that movie–and loved it. It sort of faltered in the last few minutes, but that certainly wasn’t Denzel’s fault.
Yeah! That was good!
Very informative. On Rush Limbaugh this week he told how regulation of the internet (Net Neutrality) is simply gov’t regulation. Then he went on to tell how cellular communication was developed in the 1940’s but no one could get a license to sell it – same with FM radio waves (it took 40 years to get it licensed). Socialism sucks! Captitalism’s free market rocks!
That Denzel Washington video was about as good as it gets.