OLD SCHOOLING Thomas Sowell spanks Vasar moonbat.

[Pete7469]

It took me all afternoon to watch this. I had to pause it several times in between reloading operations and a changing my daughter's diapers, but I also took pause to think about what these people discussed.

This video is from 1981, and the subject hasn't changed. The problem of black unemployment of course has worsened from the era of the 90's, but everything else discussed in the video is being discussed presently.

Except that the people discussing it don't have the dignity of Mr Buckley or Mr Sowell or even that of Harriet F. Pilpel whom I think had enough character to be disgusted by modern leftist whores in spite of the moonbat she was. She at least had the sack to stand up for her asinine beliefs and question Mr Sowell.





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[TheOldSchool]

Not gonna lie Pete I came into this thread with all manner of cynicism and only clicked because I felt obliged because of your title.

But so far I've found your video profoundly interesting and I thank you for posting it. You commented that people who discuss this issue today don't have the dignity of Sowell and Buckley and I completely agree. I don't know that this type of conversation is possible in today's ultra-polarized society but I wish that someone would step up to the challenge!

I've seen specials that I think attempted this kind of dialogue but fell completely short. Some examples I can think of off-hand are a special I saw hosted by Sean Hannity, with an all Black audience, and an episode by Al Sharpton with all black guests and both ended up being partisan attacks against the other party.

You found a great video man. I didn't think I'd ever see the day where I'd rep ya but I have to here.

 

[hipeter924]

The problem of black unemployment of course has worsened from the era of the 90's, but everything else discussed in the video is being discussed presently.

Drugs and crime I would say have been the biggest reasons for social-economic stagnation of African Americans. Slavery ended, but then you ended up with millions of barely educated emancipated slaves, and largely hostile employers. Segregation policies then kept them out of the top schools, and denied them opportunities to get ahead. Most African Americans then turned to crime and drugs, and whole generations of them were brought up in poverty by bad parental role models. The civil rights movement's main aim, which was some degree of social-economic equality with other Americans was not achieved, and everyone is still paying the price for that today.

 

[Pete7469]

The problem of black unemployment of course has worsened from the era of the 90's, but everything else discussed in the video is being discussed presently.

Drugs and crime I would say have been the biggest reasons for social-economic stagnation of African Americans. Slavery ended, but then you ended up with millions of barely educated emancipated slaves, and largely hostile employers. Segregation policies then kept them out of the top schools, and denied them opportunities to get ahead. Most African Americans then turned to crime and drugs, and whole generations of them were brought up in poverty by bad parental role models. The civil rights movement's main aim, which was some degree of social-economic equality with other Americans was not achieved, and everyone is still paying the price for that today.

I disagree with some of your post, while you make good points I think you're generalizing too much and not accurate in your assessment of faults.

Most black people didn't turn to crime post emancipation. From my perception most blacks turned to any enterprise that would keep them fed, including share cropping which was designed to keep them underpaid and without the sort of assets a family would need to build capital on.

From the perception I have of the 1960's civil rights movement, judging from the pictures I've seen, blacks of that day were wearing their best sunday clothes knowing they had a chance of being beaten, bitten by police dogs, and hit with high pressure water from fire hoses. They displayed a dignity I have not seen among the lower class black people for most of my life. Black people that carried themselves in that manner in the present would be reviled for "acting white".

I also don't believe the aim of the CRM was "some degree of social-economic equality". The aim was being allowed the equal opportunity to achieve a better standard of living. DR King did not demand reparations, welfare, affirmative action or any government programs that have failed so far. He asked us as individuals to "not judge people by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character". I have always tried to do that since I became a mature adult.

Liberalism and the entertainment industry has tarnished black society in my perspective by ridiculing and marginalizing morality, good character and virtue especially in the black community. The bed wetters are always puffy about "education", which is useless if you're being taught bullshit, and even counterproductive if you're being taught that you're a victim and can not achieve anything on your own without government assistance.

There are also documented links between soviet influence in the CRM, and liberalism in general that need to be kept in mind. The soviets wanted this nation, as it's main enemy to be at least weakened if not destroyed. Even after the fall of the USSR, people dedicated to international communist philosophy did not simply give up their ambitions. They spread themselves around the world and are hell bent on getting revenge for the fall of their soviet empire.

As liberal as Ronald Reagan was, or even Joe McCarthy, they will be reviled by bed wetter historians as fascists, like the "lion of socialism" Benito Mussolini.