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| Black Americans: The Organized Left's Expendable Shock Troops |
| 2017-08-20 |
| [Juliette Ochieng's Baldilocks Blog] Black Americans are, for the most part, a tribe. Some will take offense to that opinion, but if we consider the specifics of our existence as Americans since the practice of enslaving imported Africans became widespread in this hemisphere, we see that there is nothing else that we can be called. Remember, our ancestors, of various West African tribes, were brought here, sold, and forcibly stripped of their various names, languages, cultures, and religions. That conditioning created a new tribe: The Negro. And even after the abolition of slavery and the extension of legal citizenship to former slaves, Americans of African descent were confined under a societal barrier. A few managed to break through the barrier, but the clear majority remained in the legal, economic, educational social and tribal space into which the US Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson allowed state and local governments to pen them. But along came the Civil Rights Era, really beginning in the 1940s and reaching its apex in the 1970s. The Civil Rights and the Voting Rights Acts heralded the end of our status as an insulated tribe within a nation and they harkened back to the objective ideals on which this nation was founded. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 They have been rolled by the dems for many decades---for what? You either learn or you do not. Burn down a city or kill who you want to kill? It is your choice, but there are unintended consequences. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2017-08-20 20:58 |
| #3 They choose to be shock troops in a classic "rational but wrong" calcultion that they benefit from this. And true be told, there some near term benefits, even if it leads to long term misery. There's been plenty of time to figure this out but they choose this path again and again. I'm all out of sympathy for the poor dears. |
| Posted by: charger 2017-08-20 18:47 |
| #2 Good quote Besoeker. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-08-20 09:40 |
| #1 "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” ~ C.S. Lewis |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-08-20 07:52 |