"Almost every post on this subject ends up with the same worthless, tired, approach: what do old mean white guys have to do to fix things for the weak-minded, loser blacks. I know, let's shovel more welfare at them. And let's put more of them in good jobs, for which they're not qualified.
What is almost NEVER asked is: what should blacks be doing for themselves? And, what changes can blacks make in their own culture to help young blacks have a better chance to succeed? YES, blacks are NOT perfect, and they are not helpless."
First, Ghost Rider is completely wrong. So now let me address your stupidity.
ALL RISE!
This mornings lesson:
400 Years OF White Government Handouts Pt.1
Per Merriam Webster, the full definition of entitlement is
A State or condition of being entitled. A right to benefits specified by law or contract. A government program providing benefits to a specific group. The belief that one is deserving of or entitled to certain privileges.
The second part of the definition is: A right to benefits specified by law or contract. I will continue to say whites who do so have no room to talk about how others have an entitlement mentality. Whenever the conversation is about race, inevitably we have to listen to a lecture about how whites were never given anything. I have been told how blacks should do things more like whites. They tell us blacks need to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps. History shows us that anyone making such a comment needs to do an honest assessment of how whites accomplished what they have. I am not sure they want us to do things the same way. Doing so would include creating laws to confiscate all property and money whites have, creating laws making it illegal for whites to educate themselves, and pass laws making whites chattel. Just a few things to consider because there are many more and none of them are good. Some folks might want to slow down on the lectures. Let us look at a few examples of how benefits were granted as specified by law or policy.
In 1618, the Virginia colony passed "the Great Charter of privileges, orders, and laws." Among these laws was a provision that any person who settled in Virginia or paid for the transportation of another person to settle in Virginia would get fifty acres of land for each immigrant. The right to receive fifty acres per person, or per head, was called a headright. It got even better for colonists as those who paid for slaves also got 50 acres per slave. The practice was continued by the government of Virginia remaining in effect for 161 years until May 1779. Headrights were not only limited to Virginia. The
headright system was used in Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Headrights were just the first of many government handouts of free stuff or guarantees providing whites with economic development assistance.
A right to benefits specified by law or contract. The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of this land. Included in the constitution is the 3/5th’s compromise. The Three-Fifths Compromise is found in Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 of the
United States Constitution. It says:
“Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other Persons.”
On March 26, 1790, the United States of America decided who could be a citizen of this country for the first time. This was a congressional decision named The Naturalization Act of 1790. The act states:
“any alien, being a free white person,” could apply for citizenship, so long as he or she lived in the United States for at least two years, and in the state where the application was filed for a minimum of one year. This law also provided that
“children of citizens of the United States that may be born … out of the limits of the United States shall be considered as natural-born citizens.” Please notice the first 7 words. Only whites were entitled to be citizens of this country. Never mind the Native American nations already here. Blacks could forget about it. But hey “we’ve never been given anything because of our race.”
One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in this nation’s history was a direct rebuttal to the claim of all men are created equal called Dred Scott v. Sandford. I am not going into all the particulars of this case. I am not a law professional or legal expert. The court’s opinion says all you need to know. “A black man has no rights a white man is bound to respect.” Just think about that one. Can anyone say special rights or extra rights? Because that is the result of Dred Scott v. Sandford. Whites were given additional rights and special status while blacks had no rights and no constitutional protection by law.
During the Homestead Act, 1.5 million families were given 246 million acres of land. Research shows that 99.73 percent of that land went to white families.
24 million white immigrants were able to become landowners upon entering this country due to this program.
The program provided white immigrants with land worth between 740 billion to 1.6 trillion dollars, or approximately 500,000(min) dollars per each white family in todays dollars that blacks were excluded from
Source: "The Black Tax," pg.49
40 percent of the white population today, 93 million, are living on free land that blacks could not get during the homestead act.
Also, several government programs were created to help whites in this westward expansion.
For those who do not understand the reality of how the past extends into today, I present you with the Morrill Act of 1862. Early American society was based on agriculture. By the mid-1800s, the U.S. population was more than 80 percent rural. So as Dr. King so eloquently described, the government saw the need to provide education and services to assist whites moving west to help them survive on the free land the government provided. Because of that, the United States Congress passed the Morrill Act of 1862, better known as the Land Grant Act. The act gave each state 30,000 acres of land per senator that was to be used to provide education in agriculture, home economics, mechanical arts, or any other profession available during that time in America. They used the grants of land to build colleges, thus Land Grant colleges are one result of the Morrill Act.
A government program providing benefits to a specific group. Whites in America have benefitted from a series of consistent affirmative action programs starting on July 4th, 1776. Yet many whites have not seen it that way. It is difficult to review the history of this country and not come to that conclusion, but that is all part of the madness. When all the laws provide for your advancement based on race from the beginning of this country, there is no sane argument to be made by whites about the unfairness of considering race as a qualification for anything. It is just that simple.
The National Housing Act was a law passed by Congress and signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934. This law created the
Federal Housing Administration or the FHA. The National Housing Act is probably the policy that has provided the greatest impact on individual wealth accumulation in modern America. Unfortunately, the formation of the FHA and its guaranteed loan program only worked to increase white advantage. This law expanded the power of the federal government which helped it more effectively monitor the American economy. Many of today’s republicans complaining about how government expansion is wrong, benefitted from this government expansion. I say this because the FHA was able to create a guaranteed home loan program whereby potential homebuyers could get bank loans guaranteed against default by the government. But the government had standards and most of those standards were based on racist beliefs.
Between 1934 and 1968, the FHA implemented and put into practice a policy that still negatively impacts communities today. It began by publishing
The Underwriting Manual which set the guidelines real estate agents used to assess the value and creditworthiness of different homes and neighborhoods. This manual promoted racist real estate practices by defending racially restrictive covenants and segregated communities. Due to this manual, the FHA was able to establish a neighborhood grading system based purely on false racist perceptions.
Redlining was the name of that grading system.
End of part 1.