The time for complaints is over. We need action to fix black America. The status quo is unacceptable, and worse, blacks are being manipulated by others to further stoke division. Increasingly, we do not identify as Americans first, but black or white or brown.
The time for white complaints is over. Hours spent complaining and pointing at black-on-black violence is not productive. Nothing changes. Harping on black foibles and stereotypes only serves to frustrate and enrage both sides. Further, many of the reasons black culture has suffered is due to white “solutions.” Soft bigotry at best, outright chattel slavery at worst. I’ll address that below. Suffice it to say: being angry with black Americans isn’t changing anything for the better.
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The time for black complaints is over. Slavery happened in America like it has happened in every culture around the world since the beginning of time. Slavery has been prohibited in the West, and apart from communist China and parts of Egypt, most of the East. Moreover, as recent studies have shown, racial police brutality has declined to the point of statistical insignificance. The raison d’etre for the Black Lives Matter organization is a rounding error. Recent spikes in crime aside, broadly speaking, America has never been safer.
So why does everything feel worse? For one, media and technology. Mainstream media, citizen journalism, and nonstop social media all contribute to the sense that our racial divide is at the root of all evil. Foreign and domestic agitators also, to be sure. George Soros, the billion dollar Black Lives Matter organization (which funds Democratic candidates through for-profit ActBlue), the DNC, ACLU and SPLC–in short, the usual suspects, propagandizing and profiteering off the pain of an imperfect history, an evolution that, for all its growing pains, resulted in the greatest nation on Earth.
A brief disclaimer: This is not to disparage black America. To the contrary, I share these ideas here out of a profound frustration and deep hope for a peaceful future. I’m not sure Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of a “colorblind” society is possible, but race should never be used as a cudgel.
There exists a burgeoning black community that recognizes the ruse, the ugly bargain of welfare for Democrat votes. Yes, blacks are the most loyal voting bloc in the country. Roughly 90% vote blue, but that’s slowly changing due to the work of patriots like Thomas Sowell, Candace Owens, CJ Pearson, Terrence Williams, and many others.
Still, none of the ideas to fix our latest race-based nation-spasm are worth a damn. Worse, they divide us further. Reparations? Statistically and legally impossible, not to mention morally fraught. Defund police? Ha. Address police reform thoughtfully and proportionately when departments accrue too many violations, yes. Defund? That’s illogical and dangerous to all–especially blacks, who oppose the idea! Abolish the “carceral state”? Absurd. Look what happened in New York City when a few thousand prisoners were released, allegedly due to COVID concerns. Violent crime has skyrocketed. Prisons exist for a reason.
First, America must abolish welfare. It’s not a new idea. Charles Murray, an academician, discussed it in the early ’90s. Conservative ears pricked up. Tim Worstall of Forbes discussed it a decade ago. Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) made it part of his winning platform in 2014, when he noted the following:
“A single parent with a couple kids can easily get $35,000 a year in total benefits between the health care and the earned income credit and the FoodShare and the low-income housing and what have you…That’s after taxes,” Grothman stated, noting the welfare arrangement is “in essence a bribe not to work that hard, or a bribe not to marry somebody with a full-time job,”
And that’s the ugly truth: welfare acts as an impediment to marriage. It’s also a drain on the economy. In 2019, welfare programs–not including Medicare–cost taxpayers $364 billion. Divided by roughly 144 million taxpayers in the US, that’s over $2,500 per taxpayer on average.
Lost cause. Sorry.
Abolish welfare. Reward building a family. yeah right, this is just welfare by another name. Abolish welfare entirely. Most of these uneducated lazy individuals will never work a day in their lives. however banish welfare and force them to work. it’s not charity! they are more then happy to keep the current system in place, no responisbility for their actions! always playing the victim or racist card! Never look in the mirror! keep pumping out kids and refuse to raise them to live in a civil society, so they become feral animals to continue the gravy train, means more money, benefits etc. It’s a sin and I wont sugar coat it and pretend different. They have been given every opportunity, everything and still cant get out of their own way? Please explain how black, brown immigrants from other countries can come here and make it, but black americans can’t? it’s the culture! All Ghetto all the time! always has to be because of white priviledge, whitey holdin me back, the man keeping me down. it’s called life choices, make poor choices pay for it! I call BS!
Excellent!!! Well said!!!