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The Real Reason John Lewis and Company Boycott the Inauguration
When people "act out," it's often because a particularly raw nerve has been touched, some basic fear triggered.And acting out is clearly what John Lewis and the umpteen (as of now 58) other Democrats are doing in refusing to attend the inauguration (Lewis apparently not for the first time). They claim this is because Donald Trump is a racist, sexist, etc., etc., anathema to everything an "inclusive" America should be, and therefore unfit for the office. Not only that, Vladimir Putin put him there. But that's the surface of what's really upsetting them, what the shrinks call the "presenting complaint." Deep down it's something else, something far more potent. They're afraid Donald Trump might actually succeed. The liberal-progressivism espoused by Lewis and those following him has been a failure for decades in many areas, but especially for large numbers of African-Americans. Nothing has demonstrated this more clearly than the Obama administration during which we have seen a rise in unchecked violence, largely black-on-black, in many African-American communities (notably Chicago and Baltimore), substantially diminished labor participation rates, particularly among the young, the tragic continued disappearance of the black middle class family, and the rise of what are essentially reactionary, separatist groups like Black Lives Matter. MLK's dream of integration inherent in the civil rights movement of Lewis' time has been and is being trampled. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-01-18 |
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