So it’s been 158 years since slavery was abolished in the U.S. We’ve had 58 years of affirmative action. It’s time to stop playing the victimhood game. It’s time to stop playing the race card. There’s only so long a pity party can last. Those African Americans who are successful, contributing members of society are sick of the entitlements to which some of their brethren feel they are still entitled. Hard working black businesspeople have seen their shops burned and looted, their businesses forced to close. Black and brown neighborhoods are suffering as stores are moving out of their neighborhoods while those in the name of the BLM corporation (yes, corporation) destroy their cities all in the name of some sort of retaliation or reparations. And as police departments are increasingly defunded, black children have become disproportionately the targets of murder, as black on black crime rises exponentially.
Where is the Asian outrage over the internment of 125,285 of their Japanese ancestors during World War II? Their properties and businesses were seized by the U.S. government. They were forced to work without compensation (slavery), with inadequate medical care and poor nutrition, leading to the death of 1,862 internees. After the war, many were discriminated and excluded from jobs. Where is the outcry from the Japanese American community? Where are their victim cards? Where are their reparations? And now, Asians are the target of hate crimes, up 339% in 2021. As Asian-American commentator, Michelle Malkin, pointed out, the perpetrators are mostly “of color.”
Look, we get what we put into this world. It’s time to go back to a society based on meritocracy, not race, gender or sexual preference.
I was referring to the leadership of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. I've written elsewhere about the social distortions that slavery imposed on black people, creating a Culture of Poverty that has resulted in splintered families, crime, drug use and a host of other problems. This is something that liberals, in particular, don't want to talk about. It's something I deal with regularly here at Sanity Clause. And as for the 6 O'clock news, I live in a mixed race community. Most of my black neighbors hate crime and work hard at middle class and professional jobs. They represent the vast majority of black people. You just don't see them interviewed very often on the evening news.
Despite the decades of affirmative action, the lowering of scores on exams for college and job admissions, SNAP benefits, AFDC, Section 8 housing and quota systems for hiring, African Americans, who make up 13.5% of the population, commit 50+% of the violent crimes in the U.S. I know many successful, hard working black people who are insulted and personally offended by these quotas and handouts which make them appear to be lesser. I HAVE heard these middle class black people, whom you reference, interviewed on the news, perhaps because I read/watch a wide variety of news media, and these people are outraged and offended.
And all those government programs have brought progress. And, as I argued in a recent Sanity Clause--hope you saw it--it's time to end race-based affirmative action programs. As it stands now, black women graduate from college at a greater rate than white men. Half of black families have incomes of $50000 or higher. 70% of blacks say crime is a major issue in their lives (only 23% of white liberals do). It's amazing to me that both liberals and conservatives want to dismiss the amazing progress that's been made over the past 60 years; it works against their propaganda (i.e. that blacks are terminally "oppressed" or, on the right, that they're hopelessly violent and inferior. This issue, more than any other, is what divides this country. It always has.
Thank you for the light, clarity, and sanity of your writing. I have friends in the South, and I lived in Fort Worth a while, and I'm trying to not hate the South, and I understand what you are saying. I'm going to copy this essay into my calendar and read it once every month until my hate is gone.
Spoken like an arrogant, know-it-all Northerner. Well done, Joe.
So it’s been 158 years since slavery was abolished in the U.S. We’ve had 58 years of affirmative action. It’s time to stop playing the victimhood game. It’s time to stop playing the race card. There’s only so long a pity party can last. Those African Americans who are successful, contributing members of society are sick of the entitlements to which some of their brethren feel they are still entitled. Hard working black businesspeople have seen their shops burned and looted, their businesses forced to close. Black and brown neighborhoods are suffering as stores are moving out of their neighborhoods while those in the name of the BLM corporation (yes, corporation) destroy their cities all in the name of some sort of retaliation or reparations. And as police departments are increasingly defunded, black children have become disproportionately the targets of murder, as black on black crime rises exponentially.
Where is the Asian outrage over the internment of 125,285 of their Japanese ancestors during World War II? Their properties and businesses were seized by the U.S. government. They were forced to work without compensation (slavery), with inadequate medical care and poor nutrition, leading to the death of 1,862 internees. After the war, many were discriminated and excluded from jobs. Where is the outcry from the Japanese American community? Where are their victim cards? Where are their reparations? And now, Asians are the target of hate crimes, up 339% in 2021. As Asian-American commentator, Michelle Malkin, pointed out, the perpetrators are mostly “of color.”
Look, we get what we put into this world. It’s time to go back to a society based on meritocracy, not race, gender or sexual preference.
You think blacks are morally superior to whites?
Perhaps you should watch the 6:00 news on any given night.
I was referring to the leadership of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. I've written elsewhere about the social distortions that slavery imposed on black people, creating a Culture of Poverty that has resulted in splintered families, crime, drug use and a host of other problems. This is something that liberals, in particular, don't want to talk about. It's something I deal with regularly here at Sanity Clause. And as for the 6 O'clock news, I live in a mixed race community. Most of my black neighbors hate crime and work hard at middle class and professional jobs. They represent the vast majority of black people. You just don't see them interviewed very often on the evening news.
I call bull on your bull.
Despite the decades of affirmative action, the lowering of scores on exams for college and job admissions, SNAP benefits, AFDC, Section 8 housing and quota systems for hiring, African Americans, who make up 13.5% of the population, commit 50+% of the violent crimes in the U.S. I know many successful, hard working black people who are insulted and personally offended by these quotas and handouts which make them appear to be lesser. I HAVE heard these middle class black people, whom you reference, interviewed on the news, perhaps because I read/watch a wide variety of news media, and these people are outraged and offended.
And all those government programs have brought progress. And, as I argued in a recent Sanity Clause--hope you saw it--it's time to end race-based affirmative action programs. As it stands now, black women graduate from college at a greater rate than white men. Half of black families have incomes of $50000 or higher. 70% of blacks say crime is a major issue in their lives (only 23% of white liberals do). It's amazing to me that both liberals and conservatives want to dismiss the amazing progress that's been made over the past 60 years; it works against their propaganda (i.e. that blacks are terminally "oppressed" or, on the right, that they're hopelessly violent and inferior. This issue, more than any other, is what divides this country. It always has.
Thank you for the light, clarity, and sanity of your writing. I have friends in the South, and I lived in Fort Worth a while, and I'm trying to not hate the South, and I understand what you are saying. I'm going to copy this essay into my calendar and read it once every month until my hate is gone.