Well, 35% (a minority) of Black people are in poverty, so that means that 65% (a MAJORITY) ARE NOT IN POVERTY. Why do some "folks" like to make the MINORITY of "the Blacks" the face of the MAJORITY of Blacks who are NOT in poverty? The unemployment rate for Blacks is 14.4% so that mean that 85.6% of "the Blacks" are NOT unemployed! Again, why do some of you "folks" want to make that 14.4% represent the 85.6% who are working?
Too "funny"!
Poverty is one measure, the number receiving welfare is another measure. I believe a part of the issue is that the black population is twice as likely as non-black population to be living in poverty and collecting welfare. Given that the black population almost entirely votes democrat, one can assume a correlation between voting and collecting welfare, thus leading to abuse of the system and generations staying in poverty. Welfare reform through duration limits was an improvement that coincidentally coincided with a boom in American production. Obama threw out welfare reform, thus giving moochers a reason to stay on welfare and/or jump onto disability so they might become a part of the permanent moocher class. Change you can believe in.
The cost of welfare is not just the dollars spent on the hand-outs, but also the loss of production the people would otherwise engage in if they were not forced to not work to continue receiving said hand-outs.
I am willing to bet the a minority of Black people are on welfare and the majority of Black people are not on welfare. So that leads me back to this question; why are some people here trying to make the minority of the Black people who are not doing well as the
face of the majority of Black people who are employed and not on welfare? Why do some people who state that they belong to an ideology that "focuses on the INDIVIDUAL and not GROUPS", now the main perpetrators of stating that "the Blacks are on the Democrat plantation", and again trying to basically smear the majority of the Black people who are not on welfare and employed?
Do these people think that insulting "the Blacks" in that manner will make them want to join the same party that makes blanket insults and inaccurate generalizations about them? Do those same people state that "The Jews" who vote democrat are in the Democrat Concentration camp? I don't care if these republican conservative bigots keep up with the insults, hopefully that will encourage the Libertarian party to court Black people who are successful, working, and others who want to do the aforementioned without throwing that Democrat Plantation BULLSHIT out there along with the other insults that not a few republican conservative bigots throw out there.
That's a lot of good questions and statements.
I am willing to bet the a minority of Black people are on welfare and the majority of Black people are not on welfare.
Google says it's pretty close to half. It was about 40/60 when Obama took over. I think the tension, isn't that it's 40/60 or worse, the tension is that it's more than it should be. Asians were poor immigrants too, but they don't seem to have the same victim mentality, nor do they seem to seek out asian only leadership, asian only communities, and asian only solutions. But of course, it's not the race that is the issue, IMO, it's the culture espoused by media and leaders. In short Asian cultures appear to be more compatible with free market capitalism than the current victim and gang banger cultures prevalent in groups that appear to be stagnating wrt progress over poverty.
So that leads me back to this question; why are some people here trying to make the minority of the Black people who are not doing well as the face of the majority of Black people who are employed and not on welfare?
Bigotry and racism play a part with many of over fifty crowd, as they grew up when said bias was the norm. It's also still an issue with smaller groups of younger people, that grew up in hate groups. But mostly I think it's a matter of mind over cultural influence. It's really easy to place blame for all the bad in the world, much harder to come to the personal realization that some of your own personal biases are grossly incorrect.
Why do some people who state that they belong to an ideology that "focuses on the INDIVIDUAL and not GROUPS", now the main perpetrators of stating that "the Blacks are on the Democrat plantation", and again trying to basically smear the majority of the Black people who are not on welfare and employed?
Authoritarians of the left and right both say they are for the individual, but really what they mean is they are for the individuals in their circle of friends. They don't really believe in liberty, they are neo-con authoritarians and socialist authoritarians who strive for authority over the bad guys. The bad guys being the republicans in the democrat case, and the bad guys being the democrats in the republican case.
Most Libertarians and some independents recognize the fallacy of siding with one or the other sets of bigots and racists of the two authoritarian parties.
Do these people think that insulting "the Blacks" in that manner will make them want to join the same party that makes blanket insults and inaccurate generalizations about them?
Neither side of this two headed snake insults the other side for the purpose of getting them to switch sides. The purpose of insulting the other side is to dehumanize them. This is to justify the authority of their group over the other.
Do those same people state that "The Jews" who vote democrat are in the Democrat Concentration camp?
Same people? Some folks hate both blacks and jews. There are anti-semites who side with neo-con republican party, they also form ranks as brown shirts supporting the democrat party.
I don't care if these republican conservative bigots keep up with the insults, hopefully that will encourage the Libertarian party to court Black people who are successful, working, and others who want to do the aforementioned without throwing that Democrat Plantation BULLSHIT out there along with the other insults that not a few republican conservative bigots throw out there.
Yes, this is one of the reasons I left the republican party. I will not support a party that picks bigots, racists, and homophobes as it's leaders. That goes for the democrats as well. My politics are about 98% with in line with the libertarian party planks. To bad our voting system is designed to fail by only allowing two dominant parties at a time. Also to bad that we let the authoritarians take over the republican party.