All Rise!
This mornings lesson.
There is a reason Blacks Don't Listen to Sellouts.
“I think one of the cruelest things a society can do is to take the best and the brightest young black Americans and basically say to them you simply cannot compete with the best and brightest of other races. We won’t allow you to do that. You can’t do it. You have to depend on our paternalism.”
Shelby Steele, Is White Guilt Destroying the Promise of Civil Rights?
When a black person makes a comment like this you must ask if they are participating in the use of crack. Steele is a man who lived his first 19 years of life during legalized Jim Crow. He went to a small mostly white college in Iowa as an undergrad. He did his doctorate at Utah. He opposes Affirmative Action today. I wonder did it ever cross his mind that maybe, just maybe, that he was admitted into any of those schools thanks to Affirmative Action? It is said when you are living in history a person is not aware of the impact because people are too busy with the day to day. Was Steele oblivious to everything that was going on around him? Did Steele miss how whites could not compete without rigging the system in their favor?
I would like those like Steele to explain to me how it is wrong to ask government to fix a problem created by government at every level? Did he miss all the group preferences whites were getting from the government before he decided that blacks were betrayed by so called group preferences mandated by the government? Whites were getting them all around him and they didn’t seem to have any problems. It has been this type of thinking that has been the problem.
The late Walter Williams was another favorite black to the white racist crowd. Besides from his work as an “educator”, William served as a guest host for Rush Limbaugh. That alone rescinds his credibility to call have considered himself a representative speaker about issues in the black community. I am sure there are black conservatives and white racists who will declare how I refuse to accept anything from blacks outside of some mystical line blacks are supposed to be toeing upon command of white liberals. That is not what I am doing. Toe or line aside, there are some realities that blacks and other non-whites face that cannot be denied. Williams denial of reality is evident in 2 articles he posted at Townhall.com, one dated Jun 13, 2018, the second dated June 27, 2018 titled “Diversity and Inclusion Harm Pt. 1 and 2”.
“In conversations with most college officials, many CEOs, many politicians and race hustlers, it's not long before the magical words "diversity" and "inclusiveness" drop from their lips. Racial minorities are the intended targets of this sociological largesse, but women are included, as well. This obsession with diversity and inclusion is in the process of leading the nation to decline in a number of areas..”
Williams was a black man who served as a professor at a private majority white university. Without a program of diversity and inclusion he probably would not have been hired for that job. Certainly, my grades or formal academic record does not compare to Williams. Yet when you read his writings and look at his situation, the man’s intelligence must be critically assessed. One thing I have learned is that in America we are blessed with great freedom, meaning you are free to be dumb. Brother Williams is not with us anymore. May he rest in peace, but the thinking he put out there during his time in this existence must be challenged and erased.
The book,
"Republicans and The Black Vote" details the relationship between blacks and the Republican party from the Emancipation Proclamation until at least the 2008 election. It is an indepth study of what republicans have and have not done for black support. Chapter 4 details a strategy by conservatives to find blacks who could counter civil rights leaders.
“Conservative philanthropy-the network of right wing foundations- has had a two sided relationship with black America. On one hand, conservatives have poured millions of dollars into efforts to win over conservative Africa Americans, particularly on issues such as school vouchers, charter schools and gay marriage. On the other hand conservatives have funded think tanks and have supported black and other scholars who produce research that often takes anti-black positions.”
Michael K. Fauntroy
So what we see is that conservatives were trying to create a divide in the black community in order to nullify any additional gains via civil rights. These foundations paid blacks to produce anti black research. During Walter Williams life, he was paid at least 1.9 million in grants by various conservative organizations. Thomas Sowell is another millionaire grant recipient from various conservative foundations. Shelby Steele is another ivory tower black conservative funded by right wing foundation to research and create silly anti-black position while claiming everything that helped him rise to the place has has is somehow bad, demeaning, unfair and creates a victim mentality on black people. These blacks have done great harm to the black community. There is no sense of victimhood when you man and woman up to stand for your rightful place in any society. The black victims are those like Sowell and Steele who have chosen to adopt the beliefs about those looking like them by whites. While white right wing extremists tell these so called intellectuals that it is wrong for blacks to depend on the government, they fight for every government dollar and program there is. In many casess the letters P H and d should be respected because they are credentials that are evidence of great acquired knowledge. But sometimes it only means the waste material is
Piled
Higher and
deeper.
